external optical drives not showing up in the Journal

2007-10-16 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
Hey everyone, I was experimenting with an external optical drive connected via USB today and while it I had no trouble accessing it via the shell (well, at least after a friend helped me out) I was a bit surprised that it didn't show up in the Journal. When I connect my USB thumbdrive it shows

Re: external optical drives not showing up in the Journal

2007-10-16 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi Christoph, On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 14:45 +0200, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: Hey everyone, I was experimenting with an external optical drive connected via USB today and while it I had no trouble accessing it via the shell (well, at least after a friend helped me out) I was a bit

Re: slightly long and detailed proposal for documentation-translation workflow

2007-10-16 Thread Steve Fullerton
Good points. The OLPC is designed around collaboration. The model really works well where every child in a class has his/her own laptop, uses it in and out of school, and lives in close enough proximity to other class members to make the Mesh work. In class one kid discovers how to do something

Re: slightly long and detailed proposal for documentation-translation workflow

2007-10-16 Thread Mitch Bradley
At the current rate of XO software churn, any printed book will be obsolete/inaccurate before the ink is dry. Todd Kelsey wrote: I have been struggling with my literary agent and trying to knock someone over the head with a wet noodle into realizing that there *will* be a market for a book,

Re: slightly long and detailed proposal for documentation-translation workflow

2007-10-16 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
heh, I totally agree, but this doesn't mean that there isn't a market for a book like that (unfortunately!). Apart from the fact that some people feel disabled without a book, there still is *not* a user-friendly introduction on how to use the laptop (let alone how it works) and I doubt that

Re: slightly long and detailed proposal for documentation-translation workflow

2007-10-16 Thread Todd Kelsey
fyi val scarlata and i went back through material to try and make something more user friendly. she scanned through wiki and assembled various links as good cop, then I played bad cop to try and control scope, she had a documentation party with a couple of students to assemble material -- and now

Re: keyboard layout image license

2007-10-16 Thread Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves
On 10/15/07, Simon McVittie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debian's criticisms of the Creative Commons Attribution license (and derivatives) as a Free Software license can be found here: http://people.debian.org/~evan/ccsummary.html That's for version 2.0. Version's 3 and 2.5 have dealt a lot with

Re: Devel Digest, Vol 20, Issue 22

2007-10-16 Thread Micheal Cooper
From: Ed Trager [EMAIL PROTECTED] So while I have no objection to simple English which will be easily understood by younger learners of the language, we must also be sure that we do not proscribe an incorrect idea regarding the usage of the pronoun you in imperative sentences in English. I

Re: Devel Digest, Vol 20, Issue 22

2007-10-16 Thread Micheal Cooper
From: Steve Fullerton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: slightly long and detailed proposal for documentation-translation workflow I fully appreciate the detail. However, IMHO I think that there is some re-thinking required re: the traditional user documentation. The core of

Re: New lurker! :-)

2007-10-16 Thread Aaron Kaplan
Running activities in the jhbuild (sugar-emulator) environment on Ubuntu is going to be tough. We've not done much to support running Sugar on distros other than Fedora 7. That could be an interesting project, but certainly it would require you to upgrade at least to something like Feisty

Joyride package log

2007-10-16 Thread Bert Freudenberg
I made a little script to list package changes between joyride builds: http://dev.laptop.org/~bert/joyride-pkgs Enjoy! - Bert - ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Announcing firmware Q2D01

2007-10-16 Thread Mitch Bradley
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q2d01 This is the release for the mass production build. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [sugar] Joyride package log

2007-10-16 Thread Michael Stone
Go Bert! Can you please publish this script so we can see if we can include it directly in the build process? Thanks, Michael On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 02:01:23AM +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote: I made a little script to list package changes between joyride builds:

Test Process Sprint Details

2007-10-16 Thread Michael Stone
Dear @sugar and @devel, Our first Test Process Sprint is currently scheduled to start at 2:00 PM, EDT. The sprint will be conducted on IRC in #olpc-meeting and perhaps by conference call. Everything will be documented on http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Test_process_sprint and on pages linked to

Re: slightly long and detailed proposal for documentation-translation workflow

2007-10-16 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On 10/15/07, Ed Trager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: translate and easier for younger readers to understand. This will also help the writer avoid the passive construction, which is very difficult for some non-native English speakers to understand. I agree completely that the English passive

[Fwd: [msgs] Teach anything you want!]

2007-10-16 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
Not sure if this is relevant, but maybe someone would like to showcase the XO there? I may have an hour or two to spare on that weekend, but no more than that. Please forward freely and let me know. Pol Original Message Subject:[msgs] Teach anything you want! Date: