Author Archives: George Hunt

Silar’s orphanage in Port Au Prince, Haiti, usually has power once a day, often in the time between 12pm to 6 or 7am. In this context, it seemed necessary to have some sort of battery system, for the server, and … Continue reading →

Jerry Vonau and I accomplished a lot during this last week.  For me the high point was getting all the remote administration, client/server stuff stitched together. It was also really rewarding, when the software that we’ve been writing pretty much … Continue reading →

My strengths and weaknesses are now apparent in what we have been calling the School Server — Community Edition.  Let me explain: I’m pretty good at picking targets that are strategic, and starting to explore the paths that might lead … Continue reading →

Jerry Vonau, and I, worked on the new School Server software pretty steadily for a week. We ate and drank too much, got too little exercise, but had a fun week with Adam Holt, at his parents’ house, a few miles … Continue reading →

The fedora 17 XO software is now released.  I’m working on adding School Server functions on top of this base release for the XO-1.75. A 4 watt School Server is the target. The OLPC-Australia design document mentions breaking apart the … Continue reading →

I’ve recently been working on automating the RPM package generation for ARM processors.  The script takes as input the SOURCE packages for the School Server at http://fedora.laptop.org/xs/stable/olpc/xs-0.7/source/ and grinds out binary RPMs  on the local Trimslice ARM processor. To my … Continue reading →

I participated in a 90 minute skype call with a group of people working in the OLPC Australia deployment; Srindhar Dhanapalan, Jerry Vonau, and Andrew van der Stock. I woke up early this morning, all excited, as I tried to … Continue reading →

After returning from Europe 10 days ago, I’ve been thrashing around for a sense of direction.  When I posed the question, on the server-devel list, of what sort of integration of my changed code to shoot for as I continued … Continue reading →

Jess and I are taking off for a month or sightseeiing, bicycling, backpacking in Italy and southern France.  And the school server project is coming along for the ride. It turns out that the trimslice computer, and an XO, fit … Continue reading →

It was pretty satisfying to type “yum install xs-pkgs”, and have 236 packages load onto my Fedora 17 rootfs without an error. It seems like a small milestone. (That’s not to say that it all will function properly — that’s … Continue reading →