Re: Speak activity and speech synthesisor

2008-01-29 Thread Hilaire Fernandes
Yes, very easy to use within Squeak, I have used it in the iStoa project (http://www.istoa.net). You however need to install the Squeak OSProcess package then you can call as a normal command the speak software as mentioned by Joshua in his email. See with the Etoys folks if it is installed by

Re: New joyride build 1591

2008-01-29 Thread Reinier Heeres
Bernardo Innocenti wrote: Build Announcer v2 wrote: http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1591 Changes in build 1591 from build: 1590 Size delta: 1M Could we keep the decimals for this figure? Maybe I'm too being picky :-) Added that :) -sugar-evince-python

q2d10a test firmware

2008-01-29 Thread Richard A. Smith
http://dev.laptop.org/~rsmith/q2d10a.rom md5: b1613b15a8dd089d1b460524951b3bfa q2d10a.rom - Fixes the flashing red abnormal 9 error. - Restores the battery state machine processing back to 1s per iteration. This should fix the Stays yellow problem. If this holds up then I'll move it into a

Re: huge init footprint

2008-01-29 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Jan 29, 2008 11:20 AM, Bernardo Innocenti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW: a similar issue is that olpc-hardware-manager costs about 4MB. All it does is being a dbus service for writing a few sysfs files. It could be rewritten in C very quickly and even folded into ohm.

Re: huge init footprint

2008-01-29 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
James Cameron wrote: I'm at a conference where anyone with an XO gets urgently questioned about their version management, so I've not got one with me right now ... what does lsof(1) say this init process has open, and what does /proc/1/stat* say about the memory cost? It has no open

Re: New joyride build 1591

2008-01-29 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 09:15 +0100, Reinier Heeres wrote: -sugar-evince-python 2.20.1.1-1.olpc2 +sugar-evince-python 2.20.1.1-2.olpc2 -bootfw q2d09-3.olpc2.unsigned +bootfw q2d10-1.olpc2.unsigned +desktop-file-utils 0.12-4.fc7 +djvulibre 3.5.18-2.olpc2 -sugar-evince 2.20.1.1-1.olpc2

Re: New joyride build 1605

2008-01-29 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
Build Announcer v2 wrote: http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1605 Changes in build 1605 from build: 1604 Size delta: -1M -bash 3.2-19.fc7 +bash 3.2-20.fc7 --- Changes for bash 3.2-20.fc7 from 3.2-19.fc7 --- + fix cursor position when prompt has one

Re: [Fwd: [PyCON-Organizers] OLPC Booth]

2008-01-29 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
Noah Kantrowitz wrote: Anyone know the status on this? It wasn't me that requested it. Take care, Mike Subject: [PyCON-Organizers] OLPC Booth From: VanL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 06:00:47 -0600 To:

New joyride build 1606

2008-01-29 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1606 Changes in build 1606 from build: 1605 Size delta: 0M -kernel 2.6.22-20080118.2.olpc.a985ba6d19d39cc +kernel 2.6.22-20080129.1.olpc.8842a09250ff229 --- Changes for kernel 2.6.22-20080129.1.olpc.8842a09250ff229 from

Re: New joyride build 1606

2008-01-29 Thread Reinier Heeres
Hi, This changelog is of course not right, sorry for the noise. I'm looking into fixing it properly. Reinier Build Announcer v2 wrote: http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1606 Changes in build 1606 from build: 1605 Size delta: 0M -kernel

Re: Battery charging and display intensity in joyride-1594

2008-01-29 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, I guess we could fix it by not undimming the display if we wake up just because of network activity? That's a very interesting idea. Maybe I should throw a version of OHM that does this into Joyride to see how it goes. I also find it annoying, and I guess we could make the idle

Re: New joyride build 1605

2008-01-29 Thread Reinier Heeres
Hi, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: Build Announcer v2 wrote: snip --- Changes for bash 3.2-20.fc7 from 3.2-19.fc7 --- snip Wow! One would never expect so many changes for such an insignificant 3.2-19 - 3.2-20 upgrade :-) One would be right not to expect that... Fixed, and should be: ---

Re: New joyride build 1606

2008-01-29 Thread Andres Salomon
Holy crap, I've apparently been busy. :) On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:30:39 +0100 Reinier Heeres [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, This changelog is of course not right, sorry for the noise. I'm looking into fixing it properly. Reinier Build Announcer v2 wrote:

[Fwd: [PyCON-Organizers] OLPC Booth]

2008-01-29 Thread Noah Kantrowitz
Anyone know the status on this? ---BeginMessage--- Hello, We are holding open an OLPC booth, as someone had mentioned that they wanted one. Can anyone confirm this? Thanks, Van ___ Pycon-organizers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Machines for the tutorial at PyCon

2008-01-29 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
Seems we'll have plenty of machines available for the Sprints after PyCon. That's great. I'd like to have a number available on the tutorial day as well (the day before the conference starts). I have a B4 and can likely get a B2 back from one of my local developers for a few days, but I'd

Re: Project submission - FiftyTwo

2008-01-29 Thread Ivan Krstić
On Dec 18, 2007, at 10:21 PM, kawk wrote: 1. Project name : FiftyTwo Done, your tree is: git+ssh://dev.laptop.org/git/activities/fiftytwo Instructions: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Importing_your_project -- Ivan Krstić [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://radian.org

Re: Machines for the tutorial at PyCon

2008-01-29 Thread Edward Cherlin
I can bring at least three. On Jan 29, 2008 9:35 AM, Mike C. Fletcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seems we'll have plenty of machines available for the Sprints after PyCon. That's great. I'd like to have a number available on the tutorial day as well (the day before the conference starts). I

New joyride build 1607

2008-01-29 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1607 Changes in build 1607 from build: 1606 Size delta: 0.00M -fontconfig 2.4.2-4.olpc2 +fontconfig 2.4.2-4olpc.fc7 --- Changes for fontconfig 2.4.2-4olpc.fc7 from 2.4.2-4.olpc2 --- + fix trac #1525, fontconfig cache is invalidated

3 activities with system-name maze

2008-01-29 Thread Chris Hager
Hey all, I just wanted to inform you, that we have 3 Activities with the system name maze (specified in activity.info). They are: 1. Maze 2. Jigsaw Puzzle 3. GCompris-Maze I'm not sure what impact it may have on Journal, Sugar or removing the bundles, there are some issues with xo-get, as it

Re: New joyride build 1606

2008-01-29 Thread Marcus Leech
Build Announcer v2 wrote: http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1606 Changes in build 1606 from build: 1605 Size delta: 0M -kernel 2.6.22-20080118.2.olpc.a985ba6d19d39cc +kernel 2.6.22-20080129.1.olpc.8842a09250ff229 So, with this build, the battery light keeps

New joyride build 1608

2008-01-29 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1608 Changes in build 1608 from build: 1607 Size delta: 0.13M -kernel 2.6.22-20080129.1.olpc.8842a09250ff229 +kernel 2.6.22-20080129.2.olpc.1b84a9e4bedcd66 -olpcupdate 2.2-0 +olpcupdate 2.3-0 -fontconfig 2.4.2-4olpc.fc7 +fontconfig

DC connector for G1G1 people

2008-01-29 Thread Arjun Sarwal
John, Even mouser catalog doesn't have the exact size we require. The ideal would be 1.7mm(inner) and 5.5mm(outer) Out of these two dimensions I think conforming to the inner one would be a better bet, if we can't match both, because the spring contact that touches the outer barrel has more

RE: DC connector for G1G1 people

2008-01-29 Thread Joshua Seal
I agree with Arjun. I've tested many connectors and the 1.7mm x 4.8mm is the best one commercially available. It does the job, but it just doesn't feel very solid. Kind regards, Josh -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Arjun Sarwal Sent:

Re: New joyride build 1606

2008-01-29 Thread Ricardo Carrano
Isn't it an firmware issue? Quoting Richard Smith: http://dev.laptop.org/~rsmith/q2d10a.romhttp://dev.laptop.org/%7Ersmith/q2d10a.rom md5: b1613b15a8dd089d1b460524951b3bfa q2d10a.rom - Fixes the flashing red abnormal 9 error. - Restores the battery state machine processing back to 1s per

Re: tcp/ip assumptions

2008-01-29 Thread James Cameron
On 29/01/2008, at 6:23 PM, Hal Murray wrote: A proxy is a box that listens on one side and processes packets at the application (web/HTTP) level and replays the requests out another side. Sometimes those sides are two different ethernet interfaces. Yes, Mikus' configuration description

Re: tcp/ip assumptions

2008-01-29 Thread Bennett Todd
2008-01-29T05:18:00 Mikus Grinbergs: I may be mistaken, but I believe I've read Linux descriptions of NTP which allowed the server URL to be prepended with a proxy-URL. I doubt it; NTP is a protocol that takes things like packet latency very seriously, and rather depends on symmetric delays in

splitting djvulibre

2008-01-29 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 09:15 +0100, Reinier Heeres wrote: What's dragging in djvulibre, desktop-file-utils and xdg-utils? djvulibre is dragged in by Read, which in the current joyride also supports reading djvu files. Don't know about the other two... xdg-utils is

flash usb drives not on journal

2008-01-29 Thread Ricardo Carrano
I apologize if this is intended and I missed the news, but usb sticks are not displaying in the journal anymore (joyride 1608). ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

New joyride build 1609

2008-01-29 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1609 Changes in build 1609 from build: 1608 Size delta: -1.84M -SliderPuzzle 4 -MaMaMediaMenu 2 -LearningCenter 3 -JigsawPuzzle 2 -- This mail was automatically generated See http://dev.laptop.org/~rwh/announcer/joyride-pkgs.html

Re: Update.1 690 poweroffs?

2008-01-29 Thread Martin Dengler
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 02:25:18PM -0500, Kim Quirk wrote: Thanks for your info, Martin. Are you on Trac? Can you write up a bug for follow up? (Or if someone knows of a trac item that Martin can use to add his notes; that would be great). I didn't find a trac item that seemed like mine so I

Re: New joyride build 1606

2008-01-29 Thread ffm
So when's our RC2 coming out... 2008/1/29 Dwaine Garden [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm fine. No problem at all. I have booted the xo laptop about 8 times. The pull a/c power and battery worked for me. No problem since 1597 *Marcus Leech [EMAIL PROTECTED]* wrote: Build Announcer v2 wrote:

Re: New joyride build 1606

2008-01-29 Thread Dwaine Garden
I'm fine. No problem at all. I have booted the xo laptop about 8 times. The pull a/c power and battery worked for me. No problem since 1597 Marcus Leech [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Build Announcer v2 wrote: http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1606 Changes in build 1606

Re: Update.1 690 poweroffs?

2008-01-29 Thread Martin Dengler
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 02:43:58PM -0500, Richard A. Smith wrote: Martin Dengler wrote: and each time the power button did no good - I had to take out the battery and disconnet the power to start it up. Today the battery light was on (green) but no other lights were on (the other two times

Re: New joyride build 1606

2008-01-29 Thread Dwaine Garden
Oppss.. Forgot to mention that I'm at firmware version Q2D10. Marcus Leech [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Build Announcer v2 wrote: http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1606 Changes in build 1606 from build: 1605 Size delta: 0M -kernel

Re: New joyride build 1606

2008-01-29 Thread Dwaine Garden
I just tried joyride 1608 and 1609. Unplugged the a/c cord, reboot multiple times and did the hokey pokey dance. I did not let the battery die yet though. No problems. Marcus Leech [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Build Announcer v2 wrote:

Software status meeting on IRC (Wednesday, 14:00pm EST)

2008-01-29 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, We'll be having a software status meeting on irc.freenode.net / #olpc-meeting today (Wednesday) at 2pm EST. Agenda: * What needs to happen before we can ship/sign Update.1-RC1? - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list

Xulrunner

2008-01-29 Thread ankita prasad
From where can I get the olpc xulrunner 1.9 beta2 rpms and the hulahop rpms Thanks! Ankita ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Salut/avahi/meshview issues

2008-01-29 Thread Giannis Galanis
I understand that salut is not very popular lately since we are drifting mostly towards infra mode. Still, it is the preferable way for G1G1 laptops to talk to each other, since there is no SS, and the public jabber is not guaranteed, or in the future overcrowded. I have conducted several tests

Re: Animation/Python/PyGames vs battery charge

2008-01-29 Thread John Gilmore
I am trying to preserve as much battery energy as I can. So I am setting a specific frame rate and sleeping beyond what it takes to maintain that frame rate. Do you think this will actually reduce the drain on the XO battery? Sleeping for a small fraction of a second (e.g. 1/20th of a

Re: [OLPC library] MATLAB for OLPC?

2008-01-29 Thread Mel Chua
I happened to mention this email thread to a friend who works at Mathworks on MATLAB and related code. The part of the conversation that contains some notes on MATLAB and the possibility of a port or a release of the earlier version follows. The short version is that port/earlier-version-release

New joyride build 1610

2008-01-29 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1610 Changes in build 1610 from build: 1609 Size delta: 0.00M -kernel 2.6.22-20080129.2.olpc.1b84a9e4bedcd66 +kernel 2.6.22-20080129.3.olpc.13dc6cf365d32ae -- This mail was automatically generated See

Re: Xulrunner

2008-01-29 Thread Simon Schampijer
Hi Ankita, in latest builds we use, xulrunner: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=31145 hulahop: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=31185 Best, Simon ankita prasad wrote: From where can I get the olpc xulrunner 1.9 beta2 rpms and the hulahop rpms