Re: Animation/Python/PyGames vs battery charge

2008-01-30 Thread Rózsás Gödény
Hi I suspect that the best thing you can do to reduce power is to make sure that your game doesn't do anything when it isn't the frontmost thing on the screen. I.e. if the window that you're drawing in is totally obscured, then don't run ANYTHING -- no game animations, but also no

Re: splitting djvulibre

2008-01-30 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Jan 30, 2008 1:38 AM, Bernardo Innocenti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: flash usb drives not on journal

2008-01-30 Thread Simon Schampijer
Hi Ricardo, issues I have seen lately are http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6029 (which should be fixed since 1590). I just filed a bug about problems with devices indexed in certain images (so far tested with 670). 653 to 690 and the other way around works why I am not so worried about that for

Re: flash usb drives not on journal

2008-01-30 Thread Simon Schampijer
Sorry forgot to mention the bug: http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6269 Simon Schampijer wrote: Hi Ricardo, issues I have seen lately are http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6029 (which should be fixed since 1590). I just filed a bug about problems with devices indexed in certain images (so far

New joyride build 1611

2008-01-30 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1611 Changes in build 1611 from build: 1610 Size delta: 0.00M -bootfw q2d10-1.olpc2.unsigned +bootfw q2d11-1.olpc2.unsigned --- Changes for bootfw q2d11-1.olpc2.unsigned from q2d10-1.olpc2.unsigned --- + update to q2d11 this is an

Re: flash usb drives not on journal

2008-01-30 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 22:50 -0200, Ricardo Carrano wrote: I apologize if this is intended and I missed the news, but usb sticks are not displaying in the journal anymore (joyride 1608). In order for usb sticks to appear in the journal, several components need to cooperate: at least the kernel,

Re: Salut/avahi/meshview issues

2008-01-30 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 01:21:29AM -0500, Giannis Galanis wrote: The results were: 1. The xmas tree effect is still here. i.e. XOs occasionally vanish/reappear in differenent positions. This is because of the following: When the avahi cache includes several inactive/departed/(reported as

Re: Salut/avahi/meshview issues

2008-01-30 Thread Ricardo Carrano
Sjoerd, Could you please develop this? What do you mean by wireless firmware not being good enough to do actual multicast routing.? Thanks, Ricardo Carrano Well both avahi and salut are quite capable. I'm not sure why it has such a bad reputation with you. Probably because your only seeing it

Re: flash usb drives not on journal

2008-01-30 Thread Ricardo Carrano
Yes. Removing .olpc-store restored normal behavior. Thank you all! On Jan 30, 2008 9:29 AM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 22:50 -0200, Ricardo Carrano wrote: I apologize if this is intended and I missed the news, but usb sticks are not displaying in the

New joyride build 1612

2008-01-30 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1612 Changes in build 1612 from build: 1611 Size delta: -0.13M -djvulibre 3.5.18-2.olpc2 +djvulibre 3.5.18-3.olpc2 -desktop-file-utils 0.12-4.fc7 -xdg-utils 1.0.2-4.fc7 --- Changes for djvulibre 3.5.18-3.olpc2 from 3.5.18-2.olpc2 ---

Re: Salut/avahi/meshview issues

2008-01-30 Thread Michail Bletsas
Sjoerd Simons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/30/2008 06:45:48 AM: Well both avahi and salut are quite capable. I'm not sure why it hassuch a bad reputation with you. Probably because your only seeing it in a very very exterme network and because there seems to be a lot of FUD about mdns

Re: Salut/avahi/meshview issues

2008-01-30 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:27:06AM -0500, Michail Bletsas wrote: Sjoerd Simons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/30/2008 06:45:48 AM: Well both avahi and salut are quite capable. I'm not sure why it hassuch a bad reputation with you. Probably because your only seeing it in a very very

Re: Salut/avahi/meshview issues

2008-01-30 Thread Ivan Krstić
On Jan 30, 2008, at 5:12 PM, Michail Bletsas wrote: For completely serverless environments, what we have is invaluable. The fact that it doesn't scale to large numbers of nodes doesn't make it useless. I'm similarly confused about people's insistence on a rigid dichotomy between the

Re: Salut/avahi/meshview issues

2008-01-30 Thread Michail Bletsas
Sjoerd Simons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/30/2008 10:46:33 AM: I did some research into mesh routing protocols before starting the salut muc work. From the research papers i've seen, proper multicast routing seems entirely viable. Traffic and memory overhead depend on the exact

Re: Animation/Python/PyGames vs battery charge

2008-01-30 Thread Kent Loobey
The stuff I am writing is interactive animation. That is to say the activity responses are animated. There may be intentional delays while the child is given time to consider a response. If the delay is long the activity may give additional information or encouragement to facilitate the

Re: Salut/avahi/meshview issues

2008-01-30 Thread Ricardo Carrano
Allow me to offer a perspective. Last year I went to a trial school in Porto Alegre (South part of Brazil). We grabbed five XOs and went to the housing project where the children live. There, five kids could use the chat activity from their homes. Everyone was very excited. The possibilities of

Re: Salut/avahi/meshview issues

2008-01-30 Thread Ivan Krstić
On Jan 30, 2008, at 6:34 PM, Ricardo Carrano wrote: This is not a waste of our time. Your reply is addressed to me, so I'm not sure whether you understood me to be implying that the mesh is a waste of our time. I was trying to say exactly the opposite. -- Ivan Krstić [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: Salut/avahi/meshview issues

2008-01-30 Thread Ricardo Carrano
I got your point. I apologize if my message was unclear on that. 2008/1/30 Ivan Krstić [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Jan 30, 2008, at 6:34 PM, Ricardo Carrano wrote: This is not a waste of our time. Your reply is addressed to me, so I'm not sure whether you understood me to be implying that the

Re: Salut/avahi/meshview issues

2008-01-30 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 10:37:24AM -0200, Ricardo Carrano wrote: Sjoerd, Could you please develop this? What do you mean by wireless firmware not being good enough to do actual multicast routing.? Not good enough might be a bit harsh. What i mean is that as far as i know it doesn't implement

Re: [OLPC library] MATLAB for OLPC?

2008-01-30 Thread Ian Bicking
Speaking of the free alternatives (of which I only know a bit -- I don't actually do any of this kind of work), I haven't noticed anyone mention RPy (http://rpy.sourceforge.net/) which provides some integration between R and Python. It would probably be very helpful for porting R to the XO,

Re: Salut/avahi/meshview issues

2008-01-30 Thread Ricardo Carrano
Sjoerd, I know the wikipedia list. Most papers (never implemented). And to my best knowledge none implemented at layer 2. On Jan 30, 2008 4:12 PM, Sjoerd Simons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 10:37:24AM -0200, Ricardo Carrano wrote: Sjoerd, Could you please develop

New joyride build 1614

2008-01-30 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1614 Changes in build 1614 from build: 1612 Size delta: 0.00M -fontconfig 2.4.2-3.fc7 +fontconfig 2.4.2-4.olpc2 -sugar-presence-service 0.65-0.31.20080103git76984f3f28 +sugar-presence-service 0.75.0-1 --- Changes for fontconfig

kernels in repository

2008-01-30 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
The announcement New joyride build 1610 says: -kernel 2.6.22-20080129.2.olpc.1b84a9e4bedcd66 +kernel 2.6.22-20080129.3.olpc.13dc6cf365d32ae Presumably the use of olpc in naming this kernel indicates that olpc-specific tweaks have been applied. To avoid needing to re-customize if I were to

Re: 3 activities with system-name maze

2008-01-30 Thread Walter Bender
I think that the JigSaw bundle linked to from the activity page is altogether wrong. It should be Jigsaw, not Maze. I'll try to find the proper link. -walter On 1/29/08, Chris Hager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, I just wanted to inform you, that we have 3 Activities with the system name

Re: New joyride build 1614

2008-01-30 Thread Jani Monoses
-sugar-presence-service 0.65-0.31.20080103git76984f3f28 +sugar-presence-service 0.75.0-1 The version number does not seem to have been bumped to 0.75.0 in git master. Where does it come from? I noticed the same with journal and web-activity a few weeks ago, the versions in configure.ac lag

XO Connectivity: Some Ideas

2008-01-30 Thread Ankur Verma
Hello, I found out that XO uses SoC Wireless Adapter for providing networking locally. In the present system 56k modem with fixed telephone line connection or WiFi connection is provided for network connectivity. One laptop connected via USB to a GSM/GPRS Modem could serve as a mesh portal

Re: New joyride build 1614

2008-01-30 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 23:22 +0200, Jani Monoses wrote: -sugar-presence-service 0.65-0.31.20080103git76984f3f28 +sugar-presence-service 0.75.0-1 The version number does not seem to have been bumped to 0.75.0 in git master. Where does it come from? I noticed the same with journal and

Re: Salut/avahi/meshview issues

2008-01-30 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
Like Michail and Ricardo said, going from a paper publication to an actual implementation and also _testing_ of that implementation is a very long way. The following factors need to be taken into account when comparing various approaches to routing and presence in MANETs: 1) scalability: I

Announcement: LiveBackup XO-LiveCD (build 689)

2008-01-30 Thread WolfgangRohrmoser
A new release of the Livebackup XO-LiveCD is available at: http://dev.laptop.org/pub/livebackupcd and mirrored at ftp://rohrmoser-engineering.de/pub/XO-LiveCD/ http://skolelinux.de/XO-LiveCD/ Main features and changes since the initial version: * the CD is based on OLPC

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

2008-01-30 Thread Edward Cherlin
2008/1/29 Noah Kantrowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Anyone know the status on this? Hello, We are holding open an OLPC booth, as someone had mentioned that they wanted one. Can anyone confirm this? A number of OLPC volunteers will be at PyCon, myself included. Does that work? Thanks, Van

Re: 3 activities with system-name maze

2008-01-30 Thread Joshua Minor
It looks like this has been fixed now. http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php? title=Activitiesdiff=103441oldid=103206 I went to look to see how this happened, for fear that I had somehow done this by mistake. It looks like someone named Golfscout checked in a new version of the

Re: XO Speech Server : speech-dispatcher

2008-01-30 Thread Duane King
I'm glad that is getting off the ground; I'm sure the speech-dispatcher people would love the extra attention. The core API is usable as it is; I dont see any reason to change the design of the software. - Duane On Sunday 27 January 2008 08:40:21 am Hemant Goyal wrote: Hi, We have been

New joyride build 1616

2008-01-30 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1616 Changes in build 1616 from build: 1614 Size delta: 0.00M -libertas-usb8388-firmware 2:5.110.20.p49-1.fc7 +libertas-usb8388-firmware 2:5.110.22.p1-1.fc7 -telepathy-salut 0.2.0-2.olpc2 +telepathy-salut 0.2.2-1.olpc2 --- Changes for