Re: "Home"

2008-09-12 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 12:02 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > mikus wrote: > > I notice that Joyride on the XO no longer has a /root directory - > > just a link to a nonexistent place. Is that an intentional security > > change ? > > no, just a bug. "Incomplete feature": http://dev.laptop.or

Re: Wellington test team vs Activities - 2008-09-13

2008-09-12 Thread Martin Langhoff
Forwarded as she's not on the list - -- Forwarded message -- From: Tabitha Roder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tabitha's notes: XO Build 8.2-759 Mini vMac-1 - ctrl F for full screen is great! played with excalibur, note pad, calculator, puzzle, all good, but it is hard to shut down Mini vM

Re: Wellington test team vs Activities - 2008-09-13

2008-09-12 Thread Martin Langhoff
Transcription of Paul's notes: Horse game - bottom half of screen is not filled with the same graphic (resolution problem?) and the horse leaves a track over it. No crash but visual nastiness. (tried to get screenshot hack going but failed) Success running these: - x2o - Wikipedia Spanish - M

Re: Wellington test team vs Activities - 2008-09-13

2008-09-12 Thread Martin Langhoff
My notes Today we did a lot more activity testing, while keeping an eye out for OOM behaviour. On several machines we captured the output of ps_mem.py in a bg process. It quickly got boring as we didn't see any mem usage spikes. General - We were distributing the activities on ext3 usb sticks --

Re: "Home"

2008-09-12 Thread pgf
mikus wrote: > I notice that Joyride on the XO no longer has a /root directory - > just a link to a nonexistent place. Is that an intentional security > change ? no, just a bug. paul =- paul fox, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel ma

Re: Outage Notification - 2008-09-13 01:00 UTC

2008-09-12 Thread Dennis Gilmore
On Wednesday 10 September 2008 12:11:07 pm Dennis Gilmore wrote: > There will be an outage starting at Y2008-09-13 01:00 UTC, which will > last approximately 1 hour. > > To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto > or run: > > date -d '

Re: [Server-devel] Libertas firmware on F9 for the XS

2008-09-12 Thread Ricardo Carrano
Martin, On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 2:18 AM, Martin Langhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Michail Bletsas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Where is that list? Who has it? Who coordinates bugtracking for the >>> libertas stuff? Can't be that much of a mistery. >>> >> If

New joyride build 2430

2008-09-12 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2430 Changes in build 2430 from build: 2429 Size delta: 0.00M -olpc-netutils 0.6-2.fc9 +olpc-netutils 0.7-1.fc9 --- Changes for olpc-netutils 0.7-1.fc9 from 0.6-2.fc9 --- + Michael Stone (1): -- This mail was automatically genera

Improved olpc-log; privacy considerations.

2008-09-12 Thread Michael Stone
Scott and devel@, In response to several requests, I have finally made olpc-log capture more information. (Caveat: I have only tested the new olpc-log under ideal circumstances; i.e. on a clean-installed joyride). In spite of this lack of widespread testing, I think we would stll be well advised

New joyride build 2429

2008-09-12 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2429 Changes in build 2429 from build: 2428 Size delta: 0.00M -kernel 2.6.25-20080909.3.olpc.850b087f7daf1b0 +kernel 2.6.25-20080912.1.olpc.fff47581179f48a -alsa-lib 1.0.16-3.fc9 +alsa-lib 1.0.17-2.fc9 -audit-libs 1.7.4-1.fc9 +audit-libs

Re: Libertas firmware on F9 for the XS

2008-09-12 Thread mbletsas
Deepak, You should also add the "thin firmware" driver to the XS build so that they can configure the active antennas as access points. M - Original Message - From: Deepak Saxena [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 09/12/2008 05:30 PM MST To: Martin Langhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTE

"Home"

2008-09-12 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
I notice that Joyride on the XO no longer has a /root directory - just a link to a nonexistent place. Is that an intentional security change ? mikus ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Libertas firmware on F9 for the XS

2008-09-12 Thread Deepak Saxena
On Sep 12 2008, at 17:08, Martin Langhoff was caught saying: > On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Deepak Saxena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sep 12 2008, at 14:12, Martin Langhoff was caught saying: > >> On this same thread, yesterday... Deepak Saxena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > For the XO

New joyride build 2428

2008-09-12 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2428 Changes in build 2428 from build: 2426 Size delta: 0.39M -olpc-netutils 0.5-1.fc9 +olpc-netutils 0.6-2.fc9 +libpcap 14:0.9.8-2.fc9 +tcpdump 14:3.9.8-4.fc9 --- Changes for olpc-netutils 0.6-2.fc9 from 0.5-1.fc9 --- + Michael Stone

New joyride build 2426

2008-09-12 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2426 Changes in build 2426 from build: 2425 Size delta: 0.13M -olpc-netutils 0.4-2.fc9 +olpc-netutils 0.5-1.fc9 +dnsmasq 2.41-0.8.fc9 --- Changes for olpc-netutils 0.5-1.fc9 from 0.4-2.fc9 --- + Guillaume Desmottes (2): + Michael St

Re: Rainbow-daemon dialog in Browse?

2008-09-12 Thread S Page
Bert Freudenberg wrote: > I've never seen a "rainbow-daemon" dialog before, what is it supposed > to do? It doesn't work anyway, I filed a ticket with screenshot: > > http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8435 I filed http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7930 about another Browse pop-up window titled "rainbow-

Re: Date And Time control panel renamed to Timezones ?

2008-09-12 Thread Eben Eliason
That's true; It's not implemented in full. Changing the name would also require changing the icon. I hope that we have more complete settings modules for the next release, but if not, we should consider a rename then. - Eben On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 5:09 PM, karl ramberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

Date And Time control panel renamed to Timezones ?

2008-09-12 Thread karl ramberg
The control panel called Date and time could maybe be renamed Timezones as you really don't set or see either date or time with the current one. Karl ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Scratch Sensor Board needs access to TTYUSB*

2008-09-12 Thread Michael Stone
rainbow-0.7.22 should recognize a 'use-serial' permission which, when specified, will add the 'uucp' group to the specifying activity's list of auxiliary groups. Please test. Regards, Michael ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.la

Re: Speech to Text Support in OLPC

2008-09-12 Thread Assim Deodia
Oops.. I just made a fool of myself. Sorry i confused "speech-to-text" with "text-to-speech". On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 01:45, Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Assim, > > > Hi Satya, It great to see that you are interested in the > > development of TTS for OLPC. We already have inte

Re: Speech to Text Support in OLPC

2008-09-12 Thread Chris Ball
Hi Assim, > Hi Satya, It great to see that you are interested in the > development of TTS for OLPC. We already have integrated TTS engine > "espeak" shipped with XO which support many languages including > Hindi. It is pretty small and highly resource efficient. check this > out:

Re: Speech to Text Support in OLPC

2008-09-12 Thread Assim Deodia
Hi Satya, It great to see that you are interested in the development of TTS for OLPC. We already have integrated TTS engine "espeak" shipped with XO which support many languages including Hindi. It is pretty small and highly resource efficient. check this out: http://espeak.sourceforge.net/ As a

New joyride build 2425

2008-09-12 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2425 Changes in build 2425 from build: 2424 Size delta: 0.00M -rainbow 0.7.21-1.fc9 +rainbow 0.7.22-1.fc9 -- This mail was automatically generated See http://dev.laptop.org/~rwh/announcer/joyride-pkgs.html for aggregate logs See htt

Greg's Weekly report

2008-09-12 Thread Greg Smith
Hi All, Here's my weekly report below. BTW I would love help on any of these items. I am going to be squeezed by three releases all needing attention at the same time: - 8.2 finalize and launch - 8.2.1 kick off - 9.1 Strategy, process and top feature set definition I can find plenty of sub-tas

New joyride build 2424

2008-09-12 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2424 Changes in build 2424 from build: 2423 Size delta: 0.00M -sugar 0.82.4-1.olpc3 +sugar 0.82.5-1.olpc3 -sugar-datastore 0.82.0-1.fc9 +sugar-datastore 0.82.1-1.olpc3 --- Changes for sugar-datastore 0.82.1-1.olpc3 from 0.82.0-1.fc9 ---

New joyride build 2423

2008-09-12 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2423 Changes in build 2423 from build: 2422 Size delta: 0.00M -sugar-journal 98-1.fc9 +sugar-journal 99-4.olpc3 --- Changes for sugar-journal 99-4.olpc3 from 98-1.fc9 --- + Remove dependecy on git-core. We are using a tarball. + Obv

Speech to Text Support in OLPC

2008-09-12 Thread satya komaragiri
Hello I am interested in working on developing on the Indian prospects of OLPC. I understand there's some work going on in tts in OLPC. While going through the end user application software page [1], I came across this idea "Since space and power is a concern, a speech to text engine would need t

Re: Scratch Sensor Board needs access to TTYUSB*

2008-09-12 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 9:29 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > c. scott ananian wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 5:50 PM, John Maloney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > To use the Scratch Sensor Board or Pico Sensor Board > > > (http://scratch.wik.is/Support/Sensor_Boards), you must add a file

Re: XO power consumption under 8.2-759

2008-09-12 Thread Gary C Martin
On 12 Sep 2008, at 10:57, John Gilmore wrote: > I spent a few hours tonight testing the power consumption of a G1G1 XO > under 8.2-759. I didn't test any of the tricky autosuspend/resume > stuff -- just how much power can be saved by various user actions. > Both the answers, and how you can do me

Re: 8.2.0 Release Criteria & ECO Documentation (Michael Stone)

2008-09-12 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, > We need to pick the set of activities which we will include in the > factory G1G1 image. > Can you add that to the check list so we are fully ready to produce > this image when its done? I should get my proposal in early, then. :) I'd like us to consider shipping the WikiBrow

Re: recognizing a previous connection

2008-09-12 Thread Greg Smith
Hi All, I can't get to that link but I have another which you may find interesting. See: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Image:Site_Surveys-Example-ODP.odp This is a presentation on what is a site survey and an example of one done for a school in Colombia. I believe the survey and technical info wa

Re: Scratch Sensor Board needs access to TTYUSB*

2008-09-12 Thread pgf
c. scott ananian wrote: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 5:50 PM, John Maloney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > To use the Scratch Sensor Board or Pico Sensor Board > > (http://scratch.wik.is/Support/Sensor_Boards), you must add a file to the > > folder: > > > > /etc/udev/rules.d > > > > This file s

Re: 8.2.0 Release Criteria & ECO Documentation (Michael Stone)

2008-09-12 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Christoph, Not sure if the licensing thing will be a deal breaker for including activities in the manufactured image, but we should definitely get that right ASAP. All I'm saying is that we need to decide which activities to include in the image before they start manufacturing them for sale

XO power consumption under 8.2-759

2008-09-12 Thread John Gilmore
I spent a few hours tonight testing the power consumption of a G1G1 XO under 8.2-759. I didn't test any of the tricky autosuspend/resume stuff -- just how much power can be saved by various user actions. Both the answers, and how you can do measurements like this on your own XO (using the power-me

Re: [sugar] License your bundles, please!

2008-09-12 Thread Morgan Collett
2008/9/12 Christoph Derndorfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Wouldn't Morgan and his recent survey of activity authors be a valuable > resource to quickly and directly get in touch with as many activity authors > as possible? I'll send this info in my personal replies to them. The Peru activities at htt

Re: [sugar] License your bundles, please!

2008-09-12 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 5:41 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Gilmore has been pushing us to get our licensing ducks in a row. > The one remaining problem has been activities and content bundles: we > can't legally distribute bundles that don't have a clear statement of > lic

Re: 8.2.0 Release Criteria & ECO Documentation (Michael Stone)

2008-09-12 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 11:40 PM, Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hi Michael, > > I thought of one item we missed in making this checklist. > > We need to pick the set of activities which we will include in the > factory G1G1 image. > > Can you add that to the check list so we are fully rea

Re: Bundle activity

2008-09-12 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 10:40 PM, Erik Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Firstly, insofar as the hierarchical filesystem is a worldwide standard > for human-computer interface, it is something which is useful to teach > students. So it seems like a very useful activity. AFAIK, kids have been

Re: Libertas firmware on F9 for the XS

2008-09-12 Thread Martin Dengler
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 01:10:58AM -0400, Michail Bletsas wrote: > "Martin Langhoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 09/12/2008 12:50:50 > AM: > > Where is that list? Who has it? Who coordinates bugtracking for the > > libertas stuff? Can't be that much of a mistery. > > > If that's a mystery to you