Re: [Sugar-devel] I'm looking for a tree...

2009-06-07 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
hash chaining only approaches order n if the table is very full (because of collisions). On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 8:07 AM, Benjamin M. Schwartz bmsch...@fas.harvard.edu wrote: Lucian Branescu wrote: This http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0372/ might be interesting. Perhaps it could get

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSoC] SSB creator

2009-06-07 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
Also something new and related in Mozilla land: https://jetpack.mozillalabs.com/ On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: On 7 Jun 2009, at 18:18, Lucian Branescu wrote: 1. I don't really want to zip it if I can avoid it. If I do zip it and get an .xo,

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSoC] SSB creator

2009-06-07 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
related. It is in fact very similar to Chrome's extension API. 2009/6/7 Carol Farlow Lerche c...@msbit.com: Also something new and related in Mozilla land: https://jetpack.mozillalabs.com/ On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: On 7 Jun 2009

Re: [Sugar-devel] dumping datastore to another filesystem

2009-05-17 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
for months of programmer time are misguided. 2009/5/15 Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 5:14 AM, Carol Farlow Lerche c...@msbit.com wrote: Martin, the last disk we bought, a few days ago, was $100 and half a terabyte. I understand that you are trying to fit the XS

Re: [Sugar-devel] dumping datastore to another filesystem

2009-05-15 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
Martin, the last disk we bought, a few days ago, was $100 and half a terabyte. I understand that you are trying to fit the XS into the preexisting XO hardware, but realistically it is unlikely to be a configuration a real school could use by itself. The deployments we know about so far have

Re: [Sugar-devel] dumping datastore to another filesystem

2009-05-15 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
at 2:14 PM, Carol Farlow Lerche c...@msbit.com wrote: Martin, the last disk we bought, a few days ago, was $100 and half a terabyte. I understand that you are trying to fit the XS into the preexisting XO hardware, but realistically it is unlikely to be a configuration a real school could

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar on Ubuntu 9.04 will not start

2009-04-27 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
Since the problem of running Sugar native in Jaunty is xephyr dbus policy and hulahop inevitable out-of synchness with xpcom (as far as I can see from the reporting) is it possible for the Ubuntu packaging gurus to provide a ppa that can be added temporarily to the repository list and have fixed

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Resuming Snapshot Creation

2009-04-24 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
In general, as root use: # find / -type f -exec grep -nH 'SUGAR_SCALING' {} \; Supplant SUGAR_SCALING with any string you want to look for. One doesn't need the single quotes in this case, but if the string had shell sensitive characters it would alleviate the need to escape them. Also,

Re: [Sugar-devel] Print Support (journal vs activity)

2009-04-21 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
It's entirely unclear what this project has morphed to. Tomeu, what use is uploading arbitrary journal entries to Moodle? I thought creating pdf output in sugar and enabling uploading of the pdf to Moodle was the point of this project. That is useful in two ways. First, it is a path to

Re: [Sugar-devel] Feedback on SoaS

2009-04-17 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
Booted in VMWare 1.08 create new VM, pointing at the just-announced .iso. I am running VMWare in Ubuntu Intrepid. Sugar comes up, and I can use the built in activities that don't require networking or sound. However, the virtual ethernet connection is not properly configured. The dmesg says the

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC proposal: Speech Synthesis

2009-04-09 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
I like the idea. I would suggest that for (2), when the word is pronounced it should be sounded out first using the grapheme-phoneme correspondences for the language. Preferably highlight the graphemes as they are spoken. Thus bb ah ll - ball, in turn highlighting b, a, ll. This helps the child

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Call for Testers (New Snapshot!)

2009-04-05 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
One choice -- Newberry medal winning children's books by women authors: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/_collections/newbery/newbery.html I have converted these to epub format including the illustrations found at the website, very compact and accessible via fbreader. How should they be

Re: [Sugar-devel] Google summer of Code proposal: Speech Synthesis

2009-03-29 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
This feature doesn't seem solely intended solely as an assistive technology. But having a buttonless mode is a good idea. On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.orgwrote: On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:41:35AM +0530, chirag jain wrote: Hi!! I have created a rough

Re: [Sugar-devel] Still experience issues with SoaS on XO

2009-03-26 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
Check track bug 643. 2009/3/26 Dave Bauer d...@solutiongrove.com I checked two different sticks, both FAT16. (soas on the same stick works on my laptop) On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote: Dave - are you trying SoaS-1-0323 or SoaS-2-0325 ? I have

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [Marketing] Do not open a new window for menu link on sugarlabs.org

2009-03-26 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
Sean, Wouldn't it be ok to merge Bugs / Git / API / Buildbot into Develop, and expand them when you get to the Develop page? Also, the language on the wiki home page makes it sound like communication is done via the wiki. The Sugar Labs wiki is where the community comes together to develop and

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [Marketing] Do not open a new window for menu link on sugarlabs.org

2009-03-26 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
', but don't feel comfortable changing things. thanks david On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Carol Farlow Lerche c...@msbit.com wrote: Sean, Wouldn't it be ok to merge Bugs / Git / API / Buildbot into Develop, and expand them when you get to the Develop page? Also, the language

Re: [Sugar-devel] I made a bootable stick unbootable. What happened?

2009-03-23 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
Unless there is a way to make SOAS2 reliable in the face of hasty insertion and deletion, I don't think it will work very well in a classroom setting. It shouldn't be the case that the stick becomes unbootable. Can a root partition on the stick be made read only? 2009/3/23 Caroline Meeks

Re: [Sugar-devel] Print Support proposal (need input) Beta

2009-03-19 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
Print queue management and quotas are key to this feature being usable in a classroom/school environment. Consumables are very expensive and kids love to hit print, often without thinking. So providing a way to place print jobs in a hold for review status is very important, IMHO, as well as

Re: [Sugar-devel] Full Licence field

2009-03-02 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
As long as it can be overridden (and I presume it could be.) I have a problem in SynPhony of having many contributers to the database content that are stored along with license details in a table within the database. Static info in the software packaging is insufficient. 2009/2/28 Bernie

Re: [Sugar-devel] Full Licence field

2009-02-28 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
, Feb 28, 2009 at 7:14 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: I suggest a palette attached to a button in the toolbar to show this info, or a modal alert similar to the object chooser. Regards, Tomeu On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 19:52, Carol Farlow Lerche c...@msbit.com wrote: This brings up

Re: [Sugar-devel] Future of Rainbow + Sugar?

2009-02-24 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
Bert, Are you satisfied with the number of activity developers? Are you satisfied with the number of developers within the deployments? Have you noticed the periodic questions on the developer-oriented lists about Rainbow security and whether it is causing mysterious symptoms? I'm not, and I

Re: [Sugar-devel] Future of Rainbow + Sugar?

2009-02-24 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
Michael, I'm happy to continue this discussion off-list if you or others feel it is inappropriate to carry it on here. However, to respond to your mail: Thanks you for this detailed critique of my documentation efforts to date. One thing that I've (obviously) struggled with is understanding

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fwd: Activity startup idea

2009-02-23 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
The pulsing doesn't prevent random clicking. On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: On 23 Feb 2009, at 20:46, Wade Brainerd wrote: Opening up a conversation with Eben about the activity startup animation. The pulsing, scaling icon appears to slow down

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fwd: Activity startup idea

2009-02-23 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
Spend a few hours in a kindergarten classroom. It doesn't work to prevent repeated launching of activities and ultimately a need to reboot. On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Luke Faraone l...@faraone.cc wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Carol Farlow Lerche c...@msbit.com wrote

Re: [Sugar-devel] Full Licence field

2009-02-20 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
This brings up an issue I have been thinking about, since the SynPhony database comprises several with attribution components. Would it make sense to have a common design element that was about activity or credits that would allow contributions to be acknowledged? Leaving aside whether it is a

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] addons.sugarlabs.org is starting to work

2009-02-19 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
How does the Mozilla add-on functionality decide if there is a version or platform conflict for browser add-ons? it must be a piece of the browser that does this via some interaction with data on the server. Shouldn't there be a similar process here? It is frustrating to download something

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] addons.sugarlabs.org is starting to work

2009-02-19 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
? On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 9:41 AM, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.orgwrote: On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Carol Farlow Lerche c...@msbit.com wrote: How does the Mozilla add-on functionality decide if there is a version or platform conflict for browser add-ons? it must be a piece

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] addons.sugarlabs.org is starting to work

2009-02-18 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
Why not provide a dependency declaration in the activity file which can be checked when the activity is installed? It could inform the user that a particular package or library was needed. I understand that different distros may package the dependencies differently, but it wouldn't be so bad if

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] What's going on with Text To Speech on the XO?

2009-02-17 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
Samuel -- I'd like to call your attention again to SynPhonyhttp://synphony.wiki.sourceforge.net/. We are close to a base release (probably this week) of a 44,000 word English word database that has a very rich array of information helpful to the teaching of English, especially reading. A 10,000

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] webactivity: seed the XS cookie at startup

2009-02-12 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
Martin, I want to understand what https traffic you are concerned will affect performance and caching. As far as I understand the need for https, it would only be used infrequently, when reauthenticating to the server. I.e..: 1. XO connects to Moodle without valid cookie and is redirected to

Re: [Sugar-devel] Auto-authentication for Browse -

2009-02-10 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
http://boblord.livejournal.com/18402.html On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 4:57 AM, Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.de wrote: Thoughts? Opinions? Code? cheers, I wonder if it would not be best to generate a

Re: [Sugar-devel] Auto-authentication for Browse -

2009-02-10 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
, Carol Farlow Lerche c...@msbit.com wrote: http://boblord.livejournal.com/18402.html On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 4:57 AM, Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.de wrote: Thoughts? Opinions? Code? cheers, I

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] activites known not to either work at all or not on certin platforms

2009-02-10 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
Caroline, I really don't think the problem is lack of testing in the case of Ubuntu. It is that so little works that activity testing is basically a smoke test (turn it on and see if it even comes up). And because the only status report is a bunch of individual bug reports, there is a high

Re: [Sugar-devel] Is it possible to disable sharing for an Activity?

2009-02-02 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
PM, Wade Brainerd wad...@gmail.com wrote: I think some simplistic automatic collaboration being built into Sugar, has been discussed, possibly even prototyped. Just a matter of engineering motivation/time perhaps. -Wade On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Carol Farlow Lerche c...@msbit.comwrote

Re: [Sugar-devel] Email client

2009-02-01 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
Works for me on Linux. On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 11:00 PM, Grant Bowman grant...@gmail.com wrote: I tried gears with gmail on my home Windows XP machine but it just freezes firefox so I have to force quit. -- -- Grant Bowman grant...@gmail.com On Sat, Jan