Sprint Projects/Resources for PyCon 2008 Sprints

2008-02-22 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
Hi all,

We'll being doing an Activities sprint after PyCon2008, March 17th 
(evening) to the afternoon of the 20th.  We'll likely have 8-10 Python 
programmers of various skill levels available.  Given the compressed 
time-frame, we should be able to either complete very small projects or 
work on existing projects.  We've got a pretty good set of small 
project tasks outlined in the OLPC Austria wiki and the main OLPC wiki, 
but new programmers will likely be looking for projects they can join as 
well.

I'm intending to spend any coding time I have (when I'm not helping the 
teams) working on Productive and/or the OLPCGames wrapper it uses.  I 
can readily absorb about 3-4 programmers into those projects, but I 
expect there will be people would would rather work on something else, 
but who don't feel comfortable starting their own project or joining a 
new project.

So if you:

* are a project lead for an Activity
  o something where you already have code and can make use of
(junior) collaborators
* will be available on IRC during the sprint time-frame to act as a
  mentor for new coders
  o particularly in the evening on Sunday the 17th and then
Monday daytime to get people started
  o right through until Wednesday would be useful
* have some set of tasks that you feel a new coder could work on as
  a starting point for joining your project
  o if you have reasonably self-contained tickets in the tracker
that's probably the best approach

let me know so I can suggest your project to participants as a 
mentored introductory projects.  I'll try to familiarize myself with 
your code-base before the sprints so that I can help out if people get 
stuck.

Thanks all,
Mike
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Re: Suspended time vs Resumed time in an idle XO

2008-02-22 Thread Giannis Galanis
in case you need it, i am resending the script because it was blocked

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Giannis Galanis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I have noticed that an idle machine will resume for some time, and suspend
 again, several times for no reason.

 I wrote a simple script that checks every 1sec whether the machine is
 suspended on not.
 It gives a timeline of Suspended times and Resumed times.


 A left an XO completely idle overnight for 12h.

 The results were:

 It resumed about 80 times
 It was resuming every 1m to 10min
 The total suspended time percentage was 90%

 Do these numbers seem normal?

 Chris was mentioning the other day about the additional power consumed to
 resume the XO.
 I can assume that resuming/suspending at a regular basis is not very power
 efficient.


 Also, this script made it easy to examine what happens to timeouts that
 are interrupted with suspends.

 The result is that the suspended time extends the timeout. The timeout
 does not expire relative to the absolute time, but the time the CPU is
 alive.
 So if a 10min timeout is interrupted by a 2min suspend, the timeout will
 expire 12min after the point it was executed.
 Scott, does this agree with what you expected?



suspendtime
Description: Binary data
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Re: Alternative power/recharging source?

2008-02-22 Thread Ed Montgomery
Came across this rather amazing item the other day,
and instantly thought this might be a very, very
useful power/recharging mechanism for the XO...

A lamp powered by gravity producing 40 watts over 4
hours...using gravity! :-) (Consider the XO using
about 2 watts...)
Not affected by weather/season/time of day (e.g.
solar/wind) or behaviour (animal/cow) or location,
etc.  An unlimited power source available anywhere
anytime!

Could this mechanism (which apparently is more durable
than the LEDs in the lamp!) be modified to power
and/or recharge the XO batteries, etc.?

A preliminary article about the gravity lamp can be
found here (from Virginia Tech):
http://www.vtnews.vt.edu/story.php?relyear=2008itemno=111


  

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Re: The XO and email

2008-02-22 Thread Jameson Chema Quinn
I don't have anything too useful to contribute, I just wanted to say that it
would be great if you could make a new activity. I looked into making one
based on Tinymail as my initial get-to-know-sugar exercise, but I have ended
up working on Develop. I only saw enough to see that tinymail is really a
large set of useful components, you have to glue everything together
yourself. Therefore, if you are creating an innovative interface, and if
you're up to it, it may be just as effective to shop around for the
components you really need (such as Dovecot) and then do more in your own
application, rather than learning all the bits of tinymail. Reduce the
surface area of contact between your code and foreign code, as it were.

This is great that somebody is doing this.

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Asheesh Laroia [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Shikhar wrote:

  Hi,
 
  I would like to get the general feeling about the XO and email. There is
  a Gmail activity but no possibility of composing and viewing emails
  offline, which I think is important.

 I think that might be nice also!

  - With Python, an email activity can be accomplished with the
  RFC-compliant email modules (for POP, SMTP, IMAP, MIME) and using sqlite
  for storage. So while building upon Tinymail
  (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Tinymail) is an idea, it makes sense to just
  go with Python email modules and sqlite if the next point is to be
  implemented :-)

 You suggest using sqlite for storage, and further, as I understand it,
 writing your own mail storage layer.  But on the other hand, you could use
 an existing top-notch Free Software mail store, like Dovecot.  Dovecot
 comes with full-text indexing for search of email, for example, and header
 caching to optimize common queries (Tell me all the From, Subject, To,
 and Date headers).

 That's my main contribution to this thread - I fear you won't re-use some
 already great software.  The rest of your suggestions could perhaps be
 implemented as Dovecot plugins to minimize wasted work; for the most part,
 I agree with them. (-:

 Once you start thinking of this in terms of interoperability with existing
 mail systems, I think you'll find you have way less work to do.  For
 example:

  - Email threading: there is some Python code at
  http://www.amk.ca/python/code/jwz, which could be adapted

 Built-into IMAP, which Dovecot implements.

  - Search using sql queries
 
  I have a good mental picture of what I want to do - maybe I am not
  communicating it too well, but I am willing to elaborate. I would really
  like your feedback especially on the fundamental idea of using Python
  email modules and sqlite in case I am thinking in the wrong direction,
  although this appears to me to be the best approach

 IMAP provides SEARCH TEXT, which Dovecot can now (as of 1.1.rc1) store an
 index for, and therefore return answers in split-second times in many
 cases.

 -- Asheesh.

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Suspended time vs Resumed time in an idle XO

2008-02-22 Thread Giannis Galanis
I have noticed that an idle machine will resume for some time, and suspend
again, several times for no reason.

I wrote a simple script that checks every 1sec whether the machine is
suspended on not.
It gives a timeline of Suspended times and Resumed times.


A left an XO completely idle overnight for 12h.

The results were:

It resumed about 80 times
It was resuming every 1m to 10min
The total suspended time percentage was 90%

Do these numbers seem normal?

Chris was mentioning the other day about the additional power consumed to
resume the XO.
I can assume that resuming/suspending at a regular basis is not very power
efficient.


Also, this script made it easy to examine what happens to timeouts that are
interrupted with suspends.

The result is that the suspended time extends the timeout. The timeout does
not expire relative to the absolute time, but the time the CPU is alive.
So if a 10min timeout is interrupted by a 2min suspend, the timeout will
expire 12min after the point it was executed.
Scott, does this agree with what you expected?


suspendtime.sh
Description: Bourne shell script
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Re: Alternative power/recharging source?

2008-02-22 Thread david
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Ed Montgomery wrote:

 Came across this rather amazing item the other day,
 and instantly thought this might be a very, very
 useful power/recharging mechanism for the XO...

 A lamp powered by gravity producing 40 watts over 4
 hours...using gravity! :-) (Consider the XO using
 about 2 watts...)

this isn't producing 40 watts of power, it's producing light roughly 
equivalent to a 40 watt light bulb. super high power LEDs are about 10x as 
efficiant, lower power LEDs are even more efficiant. so this is going to 
produce 4w, possibly as low as 2w

 Not affected by weather/season/time of day (e.g.
 solar/wind) or behaviour (animal/cow) or location,
 etc.  An unlimited power source available anywhere
 anytime!

 Could this mechanism (which apparently is more durable
 than the LEDs in the lamp!) be modified to power
 and/or recharge the XO batteries, etc.?

the durability of this mechanism is theoretical at this point. and while 
it avoids the problems you describe above it gains it's own set (lots of 
fine cut gears, the need for smooth surfaces for the weight to slide on, 
etc)

I'm not saying that this isn't a useful concept, but it's not perfect

 A preliminary article about the gravity lamp can be
 found here (from Virginia Tech):
 http://www.vtnews.vt.edu/story.php?relyear=2008itemno=111

an additional possible problem is the patent that they are trying to get 
on the mechanism.

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Re: Suspended time vs Resumed time in an idle XO

2008-02-22 Thread Ricardo Carrano
Yanni,
But we should note that, not everything that expires, does so because of a
timer.
A cache entry may have an associated timestamp and expire in timestamp +
ttl.


I have noticed that an idle machine will resume for some time, and suspend
 again, several times for no reaso
 The result is that the suspended time extends the timeout. The timeout
 does not expire relative to the absolute time, but the time the CPU is
 alive.
 So if a 10min timeout is interrupted by a 2min suspend, the timeout will
 expire 12min after the point it was executed.
 Scott, does this agree with what you expected?

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Re: Alternative power/recharging source?

2008-02-22 Thread Richard A. Smith
Ed Montgomery wrote:

 hours...using gravity! :-) (Consider the XO using
 about 2 watts...)

Where did you see that the XO uses only 2 Watts?  Thats only when suspended.

Suspended: 2W
Running:   5-7W
Charging the battery: 16W

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Re: Alternative power/recharging source?

2008-02-22 Thread Greg DeKoenigsberg
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Richard A. Smith wrote:

 Where did you see that the XO uses only 2 Watts?  Thats only when suspended.

 Suspended: 2W
 Running:   5-7W
 Charging the battery: 16W

Doesn't it only use 2W-ish when it's in monochrome, screen refresh-only 
mode?

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Re: Staffing of an OLPC Booth at PyCon, volunteers needed

2008-02-22 Thread Mel Chua
I'll be at PyCon after all (yay TOPP!). I'm not sure exactly when and where
and what I'm doing yet, but if someone keeps me in the loop, I'll gladly
help with OLPC stuff at PyCon as best as I'm able. I'm sure others will be
drifting around as well.

-Mel

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 2:19 AM, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 This makes three for the OLPC booth at PyCon.

 Ed Cherlin
 Mike Fletcher
 Karen Smith



 Others may put their hands up.


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Re: Alternative power/recharging source?

2008-02-22 Thread Richard A. Smith
Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
 On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Richard A. Smith wrote:
 
 Where did you see that the XO uses only 2 Watts?  Thats only when 
 suspended.

 Suspended: 2W
 Running:   5-7W
 Charging the battery: 16W
 
 Doesn't it only use 2W-ish when it's in monochrome, screen refresh-only 
 mode?

That would be suspended.  which is sort of a largeish category. There's 
backlight on/off, wlan on/off flavors of that that use various amounts 
of power. So I guess suspended really should be 1-2W.  If anything kicks 
in the CPU then its about 3.5W.

I've had a few people recently throw out this 2W number and I want to 
make user that its not published somewhere as the XO power draw cause 
its not that simple.

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Re: Alternative power/recharging source?

2008-02-22 Thread Richard A. Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 no, in that mode it's down around .2W-ish
 I think in color, screen only mode it's ~1w

Again whats your source for this info? Because its news to me.

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Re: Staffing of an OLPC Booth at PyCon, volunteers needed

2008-02-22 Thread david
just a word of warning, at SCALE the OLPCs were the hit of the show. you 
may end up finding that you spend a lot more time talking about them than 
you ever imagined. (depending on what else you are trying to do this may 
or may not be a problem)

one thing that will be extremely useful is if a FAQ can be put togeather 
with the correct answers for everyone to provide when asked. everyone does 
their best to answer the questions correctly, but there's pleanty of room 
for mistakes.

simple start of FAQ list (just the questions for now)
system specs
expandibility
does it have wireless
where are they being deployed
how can someone (or some orginization) get them
price
various questions about the G1G1 program (how many were purchased, why was the 
program stopped, will it re-open, what about overseas, why haven't all of them 
been delivered)
battery life
what new technology is in it
why is this better than the EEPC/classmate/surplus PC/etc
can you run other software on it
how can you develop for it without getting one
how do you open the [EMAIL PROTECTED]@# thing (especially amusing when you hand 
them the open laptop, they close it and can't re-open it)
what are the two squares to the side of the touchpad
where is the crank (if OLPC can spare some sample chargers to display at the 
booth it would be wonderful)

things to demo
pippy
distance (if you can make it work reliably)
measure
camera
browser
network view
chat


decide if you are going to have the machines on a mesh with each other, or 
on an access point so they can connect to the Internet (I would say have 
them connect to the Internet unless there is some specific reason to not 
do so)

David Lang

  On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Mel Chua wrote:

 I'll be at PyCon after all (yay TOPP!). I'm not sure exactly when and where
 and what I'm doing yet, but if someone keeps me in the loop, I'll gladly
 help with OLPC stuff at PyCon as best as I'm able. I'm sure others will be
 drifting around as well.

 -Mel

 On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 2:19 AM, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 This makes three for the OLPC booth at PyCon.

 Ed Cherlin
 Mike Fletcher
 Karen Smith



 Others may put their hands up.



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Re: Alternative power/recharging source?

2008-02-22 Thread david
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Richard A. Smith wrote:

 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 no, in that mode it's down around .2W-ish
 I think in color, screen only mode it's ~1w

 Again whats your source for this info? Because its news to me.

http://laptop.org/en/laptop/hardware/specs.shtml
LCD power consumption: 0.1 Watt with backlight off; 0.2-1.0 Watt with 
backlight on;

in full e-book mode the display unit is the only thing getting power 
(radio off, cpu fully suspended)

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Re: Alternative power/recharging source?

2008-02-22 Thread Richard A. Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Again whats your source for this info? Because its news to me.
 
 http://laptop.org/en/laptop/hardware/specs.shtml
 LCD power consumption: 0.1 Watt with backlight off; 0.2-1.0 Watt with 
 backlight on;
 
  David Lang
 

You are misinterpreting that. That is the display _only_.  Not the 
system power.

 in full e-book mode the display unit is the only thing getting power 
 (radio off, cpu fully suspended)

And the EC, the memory, various pull up/down resistors, and few other 
suspend voltage regulators.  All these add up to a non-trivial amount.

Claiming that the power draw of the display unit in e-book is the system 
of draw of the laptop is inaccurate.  It will be close if you were to 
throw up a page and let it sit there and never touch it.  But the moment 
you engage the cpu to flip a page you draw 5-7x more power.  The average 
  draw then depends on how may pages you flip.  We do not yet have any 
metrics for what that will work out to be.

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Re: Alternative power/recharging source?

2008-02-22 Thread david
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:

 On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Richard A. Smith wrote:

 Where did you see that the XO uses only 2 Watts?  Thats only when suspended.

 Suspended: 2W
 Running:   5-7W
 Charging the battery: 16W

 Doesn't it only use 2W-ish when it's in monochrome, screen refresh-only
 mode?

no, in that mode it's down around .2W-ish
I think in color, screen only mode it's ~1w

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Re: Suspended time vs Resumed time in an idle XO

2008-02-22 Thread Giannis Galanis
It is possible indeed. We have to check.

I will try to test how it works with avahi.

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Ricardo Carrano [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 Yanni,
 But we should note that, not everything that expires, does so because of a
 timer.
 A cache entry may have an associated timestamp and expire in timestamp +
 ttl.


 I have noticed that an idle machine will resume for some time, and suspend
  again, several times for no reaso
  The result is that the suspended time extends the timeout. The timeout
  does not expire relative to the absolute time, but the time the CPU is
  alive.
  So if a 10min timeout is interrupted by a 2min suspend, the timeout will
  expire 12min after the point it was executed.
  Scott, does this agree with what you expected?
 


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Re: Alternative power/recharging source?

2008-02-22 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 22.02.2008 23:41, Ben Goetter wrote:
   hours...using gravity! :-) (Consider the XO using
   about 2 watts...)

 There seems little danger of this mechanism being useful on Earth for 
 the XO-1.  A 30kg human child who can move her own mass a meter 
 vertically (via a series of pulleys, or perhaps just climbing stairs 
 with a buddy riding piggyback etc.)

If the child has a mass of 30 kg, why should he/she carry anything else 
piggyback one meter upwards to gain 300 J of potential gravitational 
energy (assuming g=10 m/s^2)? The child already gets that potential 
enery if it climbs the stairs alone.

 can invoke only 300J of potential 
 gravitational energy, or enough to let an XO sleep for two and a half 
 minutes assuming a 100% efficient conversion from gravitational to 
 electrical potential.
   

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Re: Alternative power/recharging source?

2008-02-22 Thread david
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Richard A. Smith wrote:

 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Again whats your source for this info? Because its news to me.
 
 http://laptop.org/en/laptop/hardware/specs.shtml
 LCD power consumption: 0.1 Watt with backlight off; 0.2-1.0 Watt with 
 backlight on;

 David Lang


 You are misinterpreting that. That is the display _only_.  Not the system 
 power.

 in full e-book mode the display unit is the only thing getting power (radio 
 off, cpu fully suspended)

 And the EC, the memory, various pull up/down resistors, and few other suspend 
 voltage regulators.  All these add up to a non-trivial amount.

you are not nessasarily going to be powering the system memory

 Claiming that the power draw of the display unit in e-book is the system of 
 draw of the laptop is inaccurate.  It will be close if you were to throw up a 
 page and let it sit there and never touch it.  But the moment you engage the 
 cpu to flip a page you draw 5-7x more power.  The average  draw then depends 
 on how may pages you flip.  We do not yet have any metrics for what that will 
 work out to be.

if you flip one page every 5 seconds (a pretty fast reader) and for 1 
second the system eats 5x the power of the display you end up with 0.2w of 
power.

the rest of my quote that you clipped said that in full e-book mode the 
power consumption was ~0.2w.

however, the initial source of the data was a presentation by Mary Lou 
Jespin at Usenix last year. however I can't just cite my memory, so I went 
looking on the website and found that snippet of information.

however, it almost doesn't matter which of us is right. the mere fact that 
we are having this disagreement indicates a need for better documentation 
of this sort of info.

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Re: Alternative power/recharging source?

2008-02-22 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 22/02/08 17:12 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Richard A. Smith wrote:
 
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  Again whats your source for this info? Because its news to me.
  
  http://laptop.org/en/laptop/hardware/specs.shtml
  LCD power consumption: 0.1 Watt with backlight off; 0.2-1.0 Watt with 
  backlight on;
 
  David Lang
 
 
  You are misinterpreting that. That is the display _only_.  Not the system 
  power.
 
  in full e-book mode the display unit is the only thing getting power 
  (radio 
  off, cpu fully suspended)
 
  And the EC, the memory, various pull up/down resistors, and few other 
  suspend 
  voltage regulators.  All these add up to a non-trivial amount.
 
 you are not nessasarily going to be powering the system memory

Its very difficult to suspend to RAM when the RAM isn't there.  We've
tried.

Jordan

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Re: Salut and Suspend/Resume issues (MDNS and LLMNR multicast)

2008-02-22 Thread John Gilmore
I dropped a note to Bernard Aboba at Microsoft (a friend of a friend),
coauthor of that RFC, who brought some clarity to the situation.  His
note is appended.  What precedes it is my interpretation, and my
question to him.  Unfortunately, it appears to me to be an ugly situation.

 RFC 4795 does not cover mdns.

It's a subset, which was the best they could push through the IETF:

  https://datatracker.ietf.org/idtracker/draft-ietf-dnsext-mdns/

Turns out this appears to be Apple and Microsoft building a protocol
that isn't an IETF standard -- it's just in every Mac and many Windows
machines.  IETF documented it as Informational, with IESG commenters
noting, A solution to this problem is useful. IETF should manage to
provide a standards track approach to it. I do not believe that moving
this forward gets us closer to having that or helps the longer term
goals of having the IETF produce interoperable standards.  And this
is a result of a sub-optimal process. However, I think that it is
better to publish the document in order to document the protocol. I
agree with Ted that some sort of note would be appropriate, perhaps
along the lines that 'the working group was not able to reach full
consensus'.  Bill Fenner said, The development of this document is
something for the IETF to be ashamed of.

I was unable to find any protocol description for the alleged power-
saving Sleep Proxy service that was in early drafts.  It appears in
multicastdns-04 and in the current multicastdns draft.  It has
disappeared from the LLMNR drafts and RFC 4795.  But a web search did
turn up US patents 7,246,225 and 7,107,442 issued Sept 12, 2006 and
July 17, 2007, to MulticastDNS Internet-Draft author Stuart Cheshire,
assignee Apple.  Both entitled Method and apparatus for implementing
a sleep proxy for services on a network.  Neither one mentions MDNS
or LLMNR (though Rendezvous is briefly mentioned).  Not only did Apple
patent the concept of answering for a sleeping device (printer),
they also bizarrely patent the concept of having instructions in a
computer memory device that could, if ever executed, answer for a
sleeping device!

I have a copy of draft-cheshire-dnsext-multicastdns-04.txt, dated 14th
February 2004 and submitted to an IETF working group (dnsext).  It
mentions the Sleep Proxy and refers readers to an unsubmitted separate
protocol description.  This obligated Mr. Cheshire to disclose his patents
and patent applications to the IETF Secretariat, according to Best
Current Practice 79 (RFC 3979) -- which he did not do:

  https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/search/?option=rfc_searchrfc_search=4795
  https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/search/?option=wg_searchwg_search=dnsext
  
https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/search/?option=patent_searchpatent_search=Apple

No IETF IPR submissions by Mr. Cheshire have appeared at all, though
Apple did make other IETF IPR submissions about other Zeroconf
patents.

Looks like the IETF has been foxed again, hosting a protocol that
awakens every computer on the LAN for every DNS query, designed
by a guy and company who secretly patented the concept of doing it
without burning up your battery.  He failed to notify the IETF of the
pending or issued patents.  And did you notice that Apple and Microsoft
have cross-licensed their entire patent portfolio to each other, but
not to the rest of us?

  http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/1997/Aug97/MSMACpr.mspx

  We are thrilled at the prospect of working more closely with
  Microsoft on applications and Internet software said Jobs. We are
  confident that this is the beginning of a much closer relationship
  between the two companies, which will greatly benefit our common
  customers.

 John


From: John Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 4:16 AM
To: Bernard Aboba; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: MDNS and power management

Hi Bernard,

Is it true that MDNS (RFC 4795) requires every host on an adhoc
network to listen to (and ignore) every DNS query that every other
host produces?

I would've expected that any serious protocol would have learned the
lesson that ARP taught IPv6 NDP: Hash the request into a multicast
address that will partition the set of listeners, so that only those
who actually have a high probability of responding will even see your
packet.  In the absence of this, every battery-powered device on the
local link would have to wake out of low power mode, look at every DNS
packet, and then go back to sleep.

Is MDNS in use in any products?  IETF lists it as Informational, not
standards-track.

Thanks...

John


From: Bernard Aboba [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: MDNS and power management
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:15:26 -0800

Some comments:

a. LLMNR (RFC 4795) is largely a subset of the MDNS protocol included in 
Bonjour. 
At this point both protocols are supported within Apple's MDNS responder, but 
they
behave slightly differently with respect to use of 

Preparing the XOs for next week's test

2008-02-22 Thread Giannis Galanis
A couple of stuff for the next week's test.

1. We have about 45 XOs in the conference room, and we can make it up to 80
by collecting other XOs in the office. Do you think this is enough?

2. I will try to update all of them with the build we will agree to
initially test with. This would be 693/D13?
There is a new version of telepathy-salut in 1721, which apparently only
fixes smth related to stream tube flush(which i dont know what it is). I
dont believe it important to our test. Other than that Update.1 i think
should be ok.

3. I can also disable suspend/resume in all of them in case we decide we
dont wanna have it enabled. It will save alot of time by doing it on monday.

If there is anything you think might be useful to prepare in advance, let me
know!
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