Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] A New Kind Of Hacking!
chris wrote: On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Bastien b...@laptop.org wrote: What was the rationale for stopping filtering incoming spam? Too many false positives? wad may be remembering something that i don't, but i don't think OLPC has made any changes to mailing list mail flow (or any laptop.org mail flow) in quite a long time (measured in years). i saw an increase in spam to my l.o account starting some time in the past year, so whatever is being seen now i don't is due to a very recent change. i also don't think caryl's recent hack is new at all. From addresses are trivially forged. I'm also curious. The level of spam has made list moderation essentially meaningless. I cannot possibly look at each moderated message as a potential genuine contribution, so I just delete them and let them time out of the list folder. Some spam filtering is important for RT as well, where I spend way too much time deleting spam. If OLPC can't maintain some basic infrastructure supoort, I need to know for my own decision-making. For instance, I might choose to move the L10n list to SugarLabs instead, and I may or may not continue contributing my time to RT cleaning if I'm just cleaning because a decision was made that my time is less valuable than some admin time to set up spam filtering. we have an acute shortage of admins, let alone admin time. almost all the folks that have played that role in the past have left. (i've never played an admin role at OLPC -- it's not really in my skillset -- and probably won't start now). paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] XO-4 Questions After Viewing CES video
bert wrote: On 10.01.2013, at 21:19, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: More recent versions of the XO-4 touchscreen firmware should allow a many-finger keyboard. I hope someone with an XO-4 is working on a demo! Oh, I must have missed the announcement. How is the raw touch data exposed? sorry! a few releases of the touchscreen firmware ago, the max number of touches quietly went from 2 to 4. full positioning is still only accurate with just 2, but the touchscreen will attempt to keep track of 4 if they're separable in at least one axis. so there's nothing special for a program to do (i.e., no raw data to fetch). i haven't experimented with the feature much, but gonzalo has the beginnings of a nice little piano playing activity floating around somewhere. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] XO-4 Questions After Viewing CES video
bert wrote: On 11.01.2013, at 05:22, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: bert wrote: On 10.01.2013, at 21:19, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: More recent versions of the XO-4 touchscreen firmware should allow a many-finger keyboard. I hope someone with an XO-4 is working on a demo! Oh, I must have missed the announcement. How is the raw touch data exposed? sorry! a few releases of the touchscreen firmware ago, the max number of touches quietly went from 2 to 4. full positioning is still only accurate with just 2, but the touchscreen will attempt to keep track of 4 if they're separable in at least one axis. so there's nothing special for a program to do (i.e., no raw data to fetch). i haven't experimented with the feature much, but gonzalo has the beginnings of a nice little piano playing activity floating around somewhere. Ah, it does work indeed, see screenshot at http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4611 for well-placed touches only. :-) (i'm actually a little surprised that that screenshot worked.) paul Thanks! - Bert - =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Names for new XO-3 (XO-4!)
caryl wrote: Hi Martin, Thanks for the correction! I was confused. Whatever the name, this new hybrid of laptop and tablet will be a giant leap forward in educational computers. I had the opportunity to see and play with Bert F's touchscreen XO-1.75 at our SCaLE booth this winter. While the screen will be entirely different (and superior) the combo idea is the same. Wonderful! to be clear, it won't be _that_ different from what you played with. the technology has changed, but you'll still be moving the cursor by poking a finger at the screen of something that's shaped identically to the other, uh, 2.5 million XO laptops in the world. :-) paul Caryl From: martin.langh...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 11:47:14 -0400 Subject: Re: [IAEP] Names for new XO-3 To: cbige...@hotmail.com CC: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; support-g...@laptop.org Hi Caryl, just to clarify -- the unit is XO-4. Two variants will be available -- XO-4 Laptop and XO-4 Touch (a laptop with multitouch screen). The XO-4 Laptop is in general terms externally similar to XO-1.75, but gruntier guts. XO-4 Touch adds multitouch, so the frame changes a bit. cheers, martin On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: OK... crazy idea time... since the new XO-3 will actually be a hybrid of laptop and tablet, maybe it should have a new device name to distinguish it from others that are merely one or the other. Here are a couple of ideas for device names that hit me this morning: LapLet TabTop Anyone else have an idea to share? Caryl ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff part 2 text/plain 150 ___ support-gang mailing list support-g...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] More 'human' voice synth (TTS)
sridhar wrote: I'm wondering if there's anything we can do to make TTS sound more 'human'. We'd like to be able to use the XOs to teach English literacy, but the espeak voices are very robotic. My understanding is that espeak is optimised for low-power devices (great for XOs) and clear (if robotic) speech. Would it be feasible to switch to something else, like festival? i've run festival as part of my home automation system for many many years, including the last 3 or so on an XO-1 (debxo) which acts as my current HA server. the first secret is to run it in client/server mode, to avoid the server startup latency on every enunciation. but even after that, i think the latency will be too high for your application. i just tested it: given a moderate english sentence, it took 3 seconds to produce output. (i hide this on my system by caching utterances -- that's more feasible in a menuing system than when teaching literacy.) http://dev.laptop.org/~pgf/junk/festival_out.wav (5 seconds on XO-1) flite is a lower cost version of festival that might be appropriate. it seems to reduce the conversion time to about half a second. but the quality suffers as well. http://dev.laptop.org/~pgf/junk/flite_out.wav (.5 seconds on XO-1) fyi, current festival server process footprint: root 999 0.0 9.4 26668 20004 ?Ss Jun06 10:03 /usr/bin/festival --server /usr/local/etc/nosil.scm i haven't used espeak -- i suspect there are API interfaces that are far richer than what i'm doing from the shell commandline. i don't know how one might access festival at that level. paul This is some food for thought: http://braille.uwo.ca/pipermail/speakup/2008-July/046755.html Sridhar Sridhar Dhanapalan Technical Manager One Laptop per Child Australia M: +61 425 239 701 E: srid...@laptop.org.au A: G.P.O. Box 731 Sydney, NSW 2001 W: www.laptop.org.au ___ Devel mailing list de...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Assorted Observations and Comments
caryl wrote: Hi James and others... I have seen some bug reports re 10.1.3. Is it ready for big time? I want the most stable build I can install to show the XOs to their best advantage at the expo. I have time to install 10.1.3 if it is decidedly better. I would like things to go as smoothly as possible as there will be times volunteers are running the booth while I do a presentation and/or help with Karsten Wade's hands-on workshop with XO-1s. 10.1.3 is as ready as the 10 series will ever be. :-) (and definitely ready for big time.) here's simon's announcement mail, which covers the (many!) new features the team got in: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2011-January/030826.html paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] !! in 10.1.3, setting languages property clears all activities
daniel wrote: Hi Tim, On 28 January 2011 15:36, Timothy Falconer tee...@waveplace.org wrote: sugar-control-panel -s languages Kreyol/Haiti And after restarting, ALL OF THE ACTIVITIES ARE GONE. Can anyone confirm this or give me guidance. How can I set the language in a bash script in 10.1.3? I imagine this is because the language is not included. What version why would this make the activities disappear? paul of the software did you last successfully run this on? The languages included in 10.1.x are: en_US,es,ar,pt,pt_BR,fr,ht,mn,mr_IN,am_ET,km_KH,ne_NP,ur_PK,rw,ps,fa_AF,si,zh_CN Reconstructing the image with another language added is as easy as having good bandwith and a Fedora 11 machine available (which is probably very difficult if you are in Haiti). The target XOs must all be unlocked (security disabled). I'd be happy to guide you through the build process if this is an option for you. Daniel ___ Devel mailing list de...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
