New joyride build 1597

2008-01-26 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1597 Changes in build 1597 from build: 1593 Size delta: 0M -libicu 3.6-18.fc7 +libicu 3.6-20.fc7 -vim-minimal 2:7.1.12-1.fc7 +vim-minimal 2:7.1.211-1.fc7 -- This mail was automatically generated See http://dev.laptop.org/~rwh/announ

Re: New update.1 build 690

2008-01-26 Thread Kim Quirk
I can't log into my simple WEP at home with this build...and I have had many builds where this has worked just fine, so I'm confident it is the build. Does anyone know why this is so broken in 690? Will we be able to get a fix? Trac item: 6123 Kim On Jan 26, 2008 10:29 AM, Bert Freudenberg <[

Re: Moodle for School Server and Content

2008-01-26 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi V.Nagarajan, On the technical side, there will be no problem getting Moodle on the XS. Well tuned, it can work very well on limited HW, and the XS won't have any problem with it. On the "good fit" aspect, see my other email -- the plan is to cut it down, simplify the UI and align it with Sugar

Re: What does 'Register' do for a G1G1 user?

2008-01-26 Thread ffm
On Jan 26, 2008 7:00 PM, Mikus Grinbergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The 'Register' that shows up on the drop-down menu on the Home view > - I always thought it was for a pupil to "register" with his school > server. But I have a G1G1, and __no__ school. [I don't have any > wireless, either.]

What does 'Register' do for a G1G1 user?

2008-01-26 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
The 'Register' that shows up on the drop-down menu on the Home view - I always thought it was for a pupil to "register" with his school server. But I have a G1G1, and __no__ school. [I don't have any wireless, either.] Is 'Register' supposed to do anything for me ? mikus p.s. [Looked on the

Re: school server and content

2008-01-26 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Jan 27, 2008 5:08 AM, sulochan acharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just want to add to Bryan's email about our plans for the school server in > Nepal, and how we might wanna manage content so that it is easier for kids > to use the XO with the server. Hi Sulo, I think your ideas match the o

Re: PDF reader not really user friendly...

2008-01-26 Thread david
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> after all the qwerty keyboard layout was designed to slow typing so that >> the mechanical typewriters could keep up. there are better layouts for >> typing (even some standardized ones like doevak) but the OLPC ships w

Re: PDF reader not really user friendly...

2008-01-26 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > after all the qwerty keyboard layout was designed to slow typing so that > the mechanical typewriters could keep up. there are better layouts for > typing (even some standardized ones like doevak) but the OLPC ships with >

Re: PDF reader not really user friendly...

2008-01-26 Thread linaccess
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 21:32:30 + (GMT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > in general, the OLPC software is and should be different. Maybe not in this > > case, if the solution is fine. If the current solution is not fine, the XO > > software should be better and due to that different. > > yokoy > >

Re: power management experiences with joyride-1572

2008-01-26 Thread david
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Richard A. Smith wrote: > Chris Ball wrote: > >> >> Can I wake up 10 seconds from now? Is there a timer in any of the >> >> hardware that is left running? >> >> > Yes, but the software does not support this yet. See bug #4606: >> > http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/4606 >

Re: PDF reader not really user friendly...

2008-01-26 Thread david
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 21:11:31 + (GMT) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> the OLPC software should not be any different. > > in general, the OLPC software is and should be different. Maybe not in this > case, if the solution is fine. If the current s

Multi-protocol (gtalk, yahoo, aim, msn, etc) chat

2008-01-26 Thread Oliver
Hi, i modified the latest version of the excellent InstantBird (www.instantbird.com) chat client to adjust the UI for the XO and it makes a pretty good chat client for AiM, GTalk, MSN and so on. It's based on libpurple for the IM connectivity and uses xulrunner for the UI. Check it out here: htt

firmware q2d10

2008-01-26 Thread david
> --- Changes for bootfw q2d10-1.olpc2.unsigned from q2d08a-1.olpc2 --- > + update to q2d10 this is an unsigned image > + OFW is rev 791 > + EC is pq2d10 > + OLPC keyboard selftest - Added game key display and timeout after > + OLPC keyboard selftest - Changed from scanset 2 to scanset 1, so >

Re: PDF reader not really user friendly...

2008-01-26 Thread linaccess
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 21:11:31 + (GMT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > the OLPC software should not be any different. in general, the OLPC software is and should be different. Maybe not in this case, if the solution is fine. If the current solution is not fine, the XO software should be better and

Re: PDF reader not really user friendly...

2008-01-26 Thread david
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008, Chas. Owens wrote: > On Jan 26, 2008 1:16 PM, Eben Eliason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Yes, the page-up (O) and page-down (X) buttons should move to the >>> start of the next and previous pages not scroll a fixed amount. >> >> Could you provide some justification for this a

Re: OLPC News 2008-01-26

2008-01-26 Thread linaccess
nice idea. the heater could be an add on, just for the extrem cold areas. yokoy On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 15:22:57 -0500 "Benjamin M. Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Walter Bender wrote: > > 5. Batteries: Carla Gomez Monroy reports from Mongol

Re: OLPC News 2008-01-26

2008-01-26 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Walter Bender wrote: > 5. Batteries: Carla Gomez Monroy reports from Mongolia that the > batteries are not lasting as long as expected. The extreme cold was > the first suspect. Richard had Carla collect data via olpc-logbat and > ran some tests of his

Re: OLPC wifi interrupts wireless internet connection of _other_ laptop

2008-01-26 Thread Oliver
> Because of you comment on router possibly not being able to deal with a > certain number of wireless clients, I get that you seem to have a lot of > wireless clients. Is that the case? If you have other clients are they > working ok when the XO is on? thought about that but it's not the problem

OLPC News 2008-01-26

2008-01-26 Thread Walter Bender
1. Davos, Switzerland: Nicholas reports that the World Economic Forum, usually a storm, was a hurricane this year, with gale winds of press and interest in OLPC. The Intel debacle dominated the debate far less than he anticipated. The sheer existence of OLPC was marveled. The traditional Saturday-m

Re: XOs B4 and USB-SVGA adapters

2008-01-26 Thread Dan Williams
On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 18:38 +0100, Florian Fainelli wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to use a USB-SVGA adapter based on the SiS 35x chips with a XO > Beta4. It seems like even with an external USB hub which is externally > powered, the SVGA adapter does not received enough power, which I find >

Re: PDF reader not really user friendly...

2008-01-26 Thread Chas. Owens
On Jan 26, 2008 1:16 PM, Eben Eliason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, the page-up (O) and page-down (X) buttons should move to the > > start of the next and previous pages not scroll a fixed amount. > > Could you provide some justification for this approach? Paging > exactly one screen height

Re: PDF reader not really user friendly...

2008-01-26 Thread Karl
Eben Eliason wrote: >> Yes, the page-up (O) and page-down (X) buttons should move to the >> start of the next and previous pages not scroll a fixed amount. >> > > Could you provide some justification for this approach? Paging > exactly one screen height seems most logical to me, as there's no

Re: PDF reader not really user friendly...

2008-01-26 Thread Eben Eliason
> Yes, the page-up (O) and page-down (X) buttons should move to the > start of the next and previous pages not scroll a fixed amount. Could you provide some justification for this approach? Paging exactly one screen height seems most logical to me, as there's no guarantee that a full page fits on

Re: PDF reader not really user friendly...

2008-01-26 Thread Carol Lerche
On a related topic, I'd like to mention how beautifully a docbook formatted document looks (with a simple css) when read in browse. Given the prevalence of this format, I think it would be beneficial to special-case a mapping of the game keys to understand the links that are conventionally present

Re: PDF reader not really user friendly...

2008-01-26 Thread Chas. Owens
On Jan 26, 2008 4:00 AM, Hilaire Fernandes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not sure it has been reported. > I looks to me (from update.1) the PDF reader is not user friendly, > especially when one want to read book in portrait format, full screen > and navigate from page to page (pressing one button t

XOs B4 and USB-SVGA adapters

2008-01-26 Thread Florian Fainelli
Hi all, I am trying to use a USB-SVGA adapter based on the SiS 35x chips with a XO Beta4. It seems like even with an external USB hub which is externally powered, the SVGA adapter does not received enough power, which I find strange because it works on other laptops (IBM, Dell, Apple ...). Is

school server and content

2008-01-26 Thread sulochan acharya
I just want to add to Bryan's email about our plans for the school server in Nepal, and how we might wanna manage content so that it is easier for kids to use the XO with the server. On Moodle: > > I am just thinking out loud. These might be really bad ideas. > > 1. Authentication : Can we use a c

Develop version based on hacked-up Pippy

2008-01-26 Thread Paul Swartz
I hadn't seen any work in the Develop git repository, nor any other code except for the stuff in Pippy. But I found Pippy hard to deal with, since it's not really designed for application development. I hacked it up at bit, and out came something that I at least can use for further development on

Re: New update.1 build 690

2008-01-26 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On Jan 26, 2008, at 14:41 , Dennis Gilmore wrote: > On Friday 25 January 2008, Build Announcer v2 wrote: >> http://pilgrim.laptop.org/~pilgrim/olpc/streams/update.1/build690 >> >> Changes in build 690 from build: 689 >> >> Size delta: 0M >> >> -ohm 0.1.1-6.4.20080119git.fc7 >> +ohm 0.1.1-6.6.20080

Re: Rebuilding the Kernel

2008-01-26 Thread David Woodhouse
On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 15:14 -0500, Tom Hoffman wrote: > OK, not quite there... > > I installed the regular, devel and src RPM's for the kernel I've got on my XO. > > cd'ed to here: > /usr/src/kernels/2.6.22-20080118.2.olpc.a985ba6d19d39cc-i586/drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga > > Did: make -C /lib/mod

Re: 'development' et al.

2008-01-26 Thread Ed Montgomery
Re: see quoted below, etc. Ah, kids these days...young whippersnappers...;-) How about doing some work on DSLinux? ;-) (i.e. linux for the Nintendo DS...about 4 megs ram to work with, etc.) Now THERE'S a challenge! :-) You should be whipping bits around at light speed with 256 megs available...

Re: New update.1 build 690

2008-01-26 Thread Dennis Gilmore
On Friday 25 January 2008, Build Announcer v2 wrote: > http://pilgrim.laptop.org/~pilgrim/olpc/streams/update.1/build690 > > Changes in build 690 from build: 689 > > Size delta: 0M > > -ohm 0.1.1-6.4.20080119git.fc7 > +ohm 0.1.1-6.6.20080119git.fc7 > -bootfw q2d08a-1.olpc2 > +bootfw q2d10-1.olpc2.u

New joyride build 1593

2008-01-26 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1593 Changes in build 1593 from build: 1591 Size delta: 0M -xdg-utils 1.0.2-3.fc7 +xdg-utils 1.0.2-4.fc7 --- Changes for xdg-utils 1.0.2-4.fc7 from 1.0.2-3.fc7 --- + Fix for CVE-2008-0386 (#429513) -- This mail was automatically

PDF reader not really user friendly...

2008-01-26 Thread Hilaire Fernandes
Not sure it has been reported. I looks to me (from update.1) the PDF reader is not user friendly, especially when one want to read book in portrait format, full screen and navigate from page to page (pressing one button to move next/previous page). I found the operation to achieve to this not obvio