Re: [OT] struggles installing builds

2008-01-05 Thread Mitch Bradley
I would like to debug these problems. Find me on IRC - /server irc.oftc.net /join #olpc-devel . Instances of devices that exhibit such problems are valuable for discovering where delays are needed. If would be nice if devices conformed to the published timing requirements, but alas, many

Re: New joyride build 1506

2008-01-05 Thread Bert Freudenberg
I have no idea. I only added squeak-vm-3.9-12olpc5.i386.rpm to my joyride repo. I double-checked the ChangeLog, don't know what's wrong. Oh, maybe two log entries must not have the same date? I'll change one, let's see if this unbreaks it. - Bert - On Jan 5, 2008, at 4:58 , Michael Stone

Re: loss of wireless after joyride-1496 update

2008-01-05 Thread David Woodhouse
On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 22:09 -0800, Dan Krejsa wrote: Attached are the output from 'iwlist scan' and dmesg. 'quibble' is the router I'm trying to connect to. It's a netgear WPN824v2. After collecting these logs, and making another unsuccessful attempt to connect to quibble (i.e. clicking on

New joyride build 1510

2008-01-05 Thread Build Announcer Script
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1510/ -Pippy-16.xo +Pippy-17.xo --- Pippy-17 --- * Spanish translation is fixed, thanks to Sayamindu! -- This email was automatically generated Aggregated logs at http://dev.laptop.org/~bert/joyride-pkgs.html

Re: New joyride build 1509

2008-01-05 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi, perhaps updates.l.o is without disk space again? -bash-3.2# olpc-update -rfvv joyride-1509 Downloading contents of build joyride-1509. @ERROR: unknown module 'build-joyride-1509': Command '['/usr/bin/fakeroot', '-i', '/home/upserv/builds/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/fakeroot.state', '-s',

Re: loss of wireless after joyride-1496 update

2008-01-05 Thread david
On Sat, 5 Jan 2008, David Woodhouse wrote: On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 22:09 -0800, Dan Krejsa wrote: Attached are the output from 'iwlist scan' and dmesg. 'quibble' is the router I'm trying to connect to. It's a netgear WPN824v2. After collecting these logs, and making another unsuccessful attempt

New joyride build 1511

2008-01-05 Thread Build Announcer Script
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1511/ -Etoys-60.xo +Etoys-74.xo +etoys.noarch 0:2.3.1870-1 +squeak-vm.i386 0:3.9-12olpc5 --- etoys.noarch 2.3.1870-1 --- * fixed QuickGuides * fix UTF8 path names * bigger font for text chat * fix kedama translations ---

Localization (translation) questions?

2008-01-05 Thread Kent Loobey
Where is the best place to ask localization questions? I am creating an activity for pre-literate children. Two questions come to mind. 1. I will have sound entries that will need to be translated. How do the translators want this to be laid out for them. 2. Since some images may not be

Re: Localization (translation) questions?

2008-01-05 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kent Loobey wrote: 1. I will have sound entries that will need to be translated. How do the translators want this to be laid out for them. Translators are not voice-actors. There is no infrastructure in place for recording speech in many

Re: Localization (translation) questions?

2008-01-05 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Hi Kent, The localization list would the place you are looking for http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/localization Cheers, Sayamindu On Jan 5, 2008 10:27 PM, Kent Loobey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where is the best place to ask localization questions? I am creating an activity for pre-literate

Battery capacity in screen hardstatus line hint

2008-01-05 Thread Martin Dengler
Hi, In case this is of use to anyone, I've put the battery capacity in my xo screen instance's hardstatus line with this tiny script screenrc change: -- /home/olpc/bin/olpc_screen_status.sh #!/bin/bash # Author: Martin Dengler [EMAIL PROTECTED] # idea from

Re: Localization (translation) questions?

2008-01-05 Thread Albert Cahalan
Kent Loobey writes: I am creating an activity for pre-literate children. Two questions come to mind. 1. I will have sound entries that will need to be translated. How do the translators want this to be laid out for them. 2. Since some images may not be meaningful/appropriate universally,

Re: loss of wireless after joyride-1496 update

2008-01-05 Thread Dan Krejsa
Hi David Richard, David, I'll try your debugging tips next time this occurs, thanks... Re. the IPv6 RADVD daemon, I don't think the Netgear router supports that, so I'd have to use another machine; I'll consider it. Richard, yes, the WPN824v2 is pre-N; the current firmware version is

A jabber hosting offer...

2008-01-05 Thread Dave Belfer-Shevett
I've just received my, er, my son's XO, and he's ecstatic with it, enjoying fiddling with Python programs and other tidbits. I've heard that the Jabber 'chat' functions are disabled on the US XO's, mostly because the existing jabber hosts can't really take the load of all these machines

Copy-on-write for develop

2008-01-05 Thread Jameson Chema Quinn
I'm doing some initial thinking about how I want the Develop activity to work. I'd like it to start out with write access to a shallow (file-linked) copy of the activity's whole directory, and then if there are any writes, start up source control. I'm not an expert on file systems, though, so I

Re: Copy-on-write for develop

2008-01-05 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jameson Chema Quinn wrote: Does anyone know if it is possible for Sugar to support something like this? That is, if it there's any way - either file-system-native or through some strap-on - to safely hand a link to a process so that (either

Re: wiki is being spammed with huge numbers of new pages

2008-01-05 Thread ffm
User blocked, all articles created by user deleted. -ffm On Jan 5, 2008 3:58 PM, Tom Hannen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, The wiki is being spammed with huge numbers of new pages, made by user Star... Can someone go in and clear them quickly? Tom

Re: A jabber hosting offer...

2008-01-05 Thread Dave Belfer-Shevett
Walter Bender wrote: While we have ideas about how to scale up the jabber interface, it has also always been the idea that local communities (schools, neighborhoods), communities of interest (book clubs, chess clubs) etc., would run their own servers. The more the merrier at this stage. We

Re: A jabber hosting offer...

2008-01-05 Thread Walter Bender
While we have ideas about how to scale up the jabber interface, it has also always been the idea that local communities (schools, neighborhoods), communities of interest (book clubs, chess clubs) etc., would run their own servers. The more the merrier at this stage. We probably need a better forum

Re: New joyride build 1511

2008-01-05 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On Jan 5, 2008, at 23:28 , Marcus Leech wrote: Build Announcer Script wrote: http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1511/ -Etoys-60.xo +Etoys-74.xo +etoys.noarch 0:2.3.1870-1 +squeak-vm.i386 0:3.9-12olpc5 --- etoys.noarch 2.3.1870-1 --- * fixed QuickGuides *

Re: wiki is being spammed with huge numbers of new pages

2008-01-05 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
ffm wrote: User blocked, all articles created by user deleted. Don't they ever learn that vandalism is pointless with a wiki because it can be undone faster than it was done? Thank you for fixing it. -- \___/ |___| Bernardo Innocenti - http://www.codewiz.org/ \___\ One Laptop Per

Free OLPC for someone who needs it

2008-01-05 Thread Jesse Molina
I've got a free OLPC for someone who needs it. It works fine. I got it via the buy-one-get-one program. I'd prefer to give it to a developer or someone who can actually make use of it. Or, I could just send it back to the OLPC Project and let them reformat and redistribute it. Even better

Re: Free OLPC for someone who needs it

2008-01-05 Thread Jesse Molina
A couple of extra things... I won't decide for a couple of days, so until I've responded to the list, it's still available. I'll go through whatever replies I get on Monday or Tuesday my localtime. You don't need to give me your mailing address or anything until later. I've only got one.

Fwd: Free OLPC for someone who needs it

2008-01-05 Thread John Deneen
Re: Moodle.org http://moodle.org/, TrustInEducation.org, CroquetConsortium.org, and InSTEDD.org pilot testing, and community partnerships with my associate * Budd E. MacKenziehttp://www.trustineducation.org/budd.html * (1-925-299-2010) founder of TrustInEducation.org in Lafayette, CA Trust In

Re: A jabber hosting offer...

2008-01-05 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Dave Belfer-Shevett wrote: I've just received my, er, my son's XO, and he's ecstatic with it, enjoying fiddling with Python programs and other tidbits. I've heard that the Jabber 'chat' functions are disabled on the US XO's, mostly because the existing jabber hosts can't really take the

Re: wiki is being spammed with huge numbers of new pages

2008-01-05 Thread Iain (OLPC) Davidson
In the community spirit of wikis and controlling spam., some thoughts come to mind. If the wiki spam gets so bad, that it it takes important time from others How about the idea of turning on 'email confirmation required' on new accounts, and/or account required to make edits ? (or at least,

Re: A jabber hosting offer...

2008-01-05 Thread drew einhorn
If we are going to have small local communities instead of one big one, the we need to be able to contact multiple jabber servers, because there will be communities organized by: age groups language xo activity geographic region curriculum topic and many more the chances that