complex langs/scripts in abiword

2009-10-05 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, I've been working on various bugs related to Nepali/Sanskrit text in AbiWord which likely fall over to other languages too. There were several pretty big bugs before, and now it is much more usable. I'd be interested to know if this solves any problems for other deployments. Here's a

Re: complex langs/scripts in abiword

2009-10-05 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/10/5 Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org: Hi, I've been working on various bugs related to Nepali/Sanskrit text in AbiWord which likely fall over to other languages too. There were several pretty big bugs before, and now it is much more usable. I'd be interested to know if this solves any

Quick notes from a lazy smoketest of os30

2009-10-05 Thread Martin Langhoff
Got my 1.5-B2 prototype in the mail last week. (Yay! Toys!) I used it a bit over the week (it is nice and fast), and then yesterday I had a bit of downtime, so I updated it to cjb's os30. Overall, lots of things work (wohoo!). Also, lots of things don't work, to a puzzling extent: the F11-based

Re: Quick notes from a lazy smoketest of os30

2009-10-05 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/10/5 Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com: Got my 1.5-B2 prototype in the mail last week. (Yay! Toys!) I used it a bit over the week (it is nice and fast), and then yesterday I had a bit of downtime, so I updated it to cjb's os30. Overall, lots of things work (wohoo!). Also, lots of

Re: Quick notes from a lazy smoketest of os30

2009-10-05 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: That's strange. Is it just the 2 issues you listed (pippy, recording sound) or are there more? That's all, but it's 2 of 4 activities explored :-/ - I didn't get much time. I plan to go through a full smoketest later. Bugs

client to exercise an XS

2009-10-05 Thread Tim Moody
I am looking for a good environment to use to exercise/test an XS install, given that I don't have an xo. I prefer emulation rather than soas because I hope to run multiple clients on one host os, and I also prefer windows as the host os. I'm not clear whether I should I try to emulate an xo

Re: client to exercise an XS

2009-10-05 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Tim Moody timmo...@sympatico.ca wrote: I am looking for a good environment to use to exercise/test an XS install, given that I don't have an xo.  I prefer emulation rather than soas because I hope to run multiple clients on one host os, and I also prefer windows

Re: [Server-devel] Name server operation

2009-10-05 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 11:24 +0200, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: dnsmasq on lo only and point bind to the use lo as the forwarder. This requires dnsmasq to listen on 127.0.0.1 and bind on 172.18.0.1. The resolv.conf.in file wound

Re: [Server-devel] Student Information System

2009-10-05 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hello Nicolas, and welcome! Sorry about the delay in answering... On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 3:26 AM, Nicolas Ganivet nico...@centresis.org wrote: Centre SIS (http://www.centresis.org) is an Open Source Student Information System deployed in hundreds of schools worldwide. Yep! I've reviewed it a

Re: My view of OS7 on XO-1

2009-10-05 Thread Paul Fox
hal wrote: smparr...@gmail.com said: These builds now use powerd for power management. What you described is normal for when the system sleeps. To wake it up just press the power button. Thanks. right. the biggest behavioral difference with powerd is that the sleep state

Re: [Sugar-devel] Quick notes from a lazy smoketest of os30

2009-10-05 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Art Hunkins abhun...@uncg.edu wrote: Just wondering: Is sound (csound) working in any of the activities? TamTamMini works a charm :-) cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't

Re: Woodhouse on flash storage

2009-10-05 Thread Martin Dengler
On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 01:59:29PM -0400, Chris Ball wrote: http://www.advogato.org/person/dwmw2/diary/211.html Thanks for the links - it's nice to keep up with what's going on in the flash-expert world. How might the outcome of these debates affect the use of the microSD internal storage on

Re: Woodhouse on flash storage

2009-10-05 Thread Chris Ball
Hi Martin, How might the outcome of these debates affect the use of the microSD internal storage on the XO-1.5? I don't think there's much we can use Dave's advice for given the choice of microSD. If a microSD card that had a passthrough mode to access the raw flash existed, his

Re: Woodhouse on flash storage

2009-10-05 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote: I don't think there's much we can use Dave's advice for given the choice of microSD.  If a microSD card that had a passthrough mode to access the raw flash existed, his argument would be that we should consider using that mode.

Re: Woodhouse on flash storage

2009-10-05 Thread Peter Robinson
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote: I don't think there's much we can use Dave's advice for given the choice of microSD.  If a microSD card that had a passthrough mode to access the

Re: Woodhouse on flash storage

2009-10-05 Thread John Watlington
On Oct 5, 2009, at 11:56 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote: I don't think there's much we can use Dave's advice for given the choice of microSD. The fact

Re: Woodhouse on flash storage

2009-10-05 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, http://www.advogato.org/person/dwmw2/diary/211.html Ah, and now cscott has written a post in reply: http://cananian.livejournal.com/58238.html - Chris, your personal RSS reader. -- Chris Ball c...@laptop.org One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel

Re: Woodhouse on flash storage

2009-10-05 Thread Mitch Bradley
David might be right in principle, but when component price matters, you have to buy the hardware that the mass market offers. Right now the sweet spot is smart devices with embedded Flash Translation Layer firmware. I'd place my bet on that trend continuing. Linux does not drive the mass

Re: OLPC XO 1.5 overheating problems

2009-10-05 Thread John Watlington
On Oct 3, 2009, at 12:16 PM, Tiago Marques wrote: On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Ed McNierney e...@laptop.org wrote: Tiago - Well, everyone gets to contribute something to thermal problems :-) Actually, the average heat sources are (in descending order): the companion chip (graphics

Re: [Server-devel] Name server operation

2009-10-05 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: dnsmasq on lo only and point bind to the use lo as the forwarder. This requires dnsmasq to listen on 127.0.0.1 and bind on 172.18.0.1. The resolv.conf.in file wound need to be removed from git, so the OS could manage resolv.conf

Re: [Server-devel] Name server operation

2009-10-05 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Rodolfo D. rodolfo.arc...@gmail.com wrote: I vote in favor of dnsmasq.. We all do. But I am leaning seriously towards F11. speaking of F11.. we read some issues regarding F9, and the whole infrastructure needed to build it.. I must admit that i understood less

[Server-devel] wlan0 as your WAN port

2009-10-05 Thread Martin Langhoff
Only good for development and testing, but good nonetheless. Anyway, quick notes on... http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Techniques_and_Configuration#Using_a_wireless_NIC_for_WAN cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions -

[Server-devel] Howto: Segregating presence by course groups

2009-10-05 Thread Martin Langhoff
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Techniques_and_Configuration#Segregating_presence_by_course_groups from earlier discussion on this list... m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff -

Re: [Server-devel] Student Information System

2009-10-05 Thread Nicolas Ganivet
Martin, We do have integration with Moodle on our roadmap for 2010, but the logical way to integrate would be to manage all students into Centre, and have Moodle only address eLearning for those students. We already have done a similar integration with OpenBiblio to manage school libraries and