Re: [OLPC library] OLPC-health

2008-02-04 Thread Seth Woodworth
I haven't used InDesign, but in my many years using FrameMaker I considered it fairly beta the whole time. Basic design errors, memory leaks, missing functions, display bugs,... Yes, Adobe's previous product PageMaker/FrameMaker was very beta as well. I have a pretty soft spot in my heart

Re: Resetting Journal

2008-02-04 Thread Ivan Krstić
On Feb 4, 2008, at 4:03 AM, karl wrote: Is there a way to zap the Journal and all the Journal entries and get a fresh new Journal. On builds 653 and later (G1G1 machines shipped with 650), you can open Terminal and do: $ echo /home/olpc/.sugar/default/datastore/store/index/config

Resetting Journal

2008-02-04 Thread karl
Is there a way to zap the Journal and all the Journal entries and get a fresh new Journal. Kind of what one do on a USB stick when one delete the .olpc.store file on it ? Or do I have to reflash the Nand ? Karl ___ Devel mailing list

Re: Resetting Journal

2008-02-04 Thread karl
Ivan Krstić wrote: On Feb 4, 2008, at 4:03 AM, karl wrote: Is there a way to zap the Journal and all the Journal entries and get a fresh new Journal. On builds 653 and later (G1G1 machines shipped with 650), you can open Terminal and do: $ echo

New joyride build 1636

2008-02-04 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1636 Changes in build 1636 from build: 1634 Size delta: -0.79M -FlipSticks 1 -CartoonBuilder 1 -- This mail was automatically generated See http://dev.laptop.org/~rwh/announcer/joyride-pkgs.html for aggregate logs See

Re: prevent data loss in running activities

2008-02-04 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
Looks like the new gnome-session is a good candidate: http://live.gnome.org/SessionManagement/NewGnomeSession http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gnome-session/branches/new-gnome-session/ We can use EggSMClient for activities, it's planned to go in gtk when it's ready. The dependencies of the server

Re: prevent data loss in running activities

2008-02-04 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 13:41 +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: Summarizing, I see three possibilities: - Adopt a full-fledged implementation of XSMP and ask activities to support just the save-on-shutdown part of it. (Giving a nice wrapper at least for python activities). - Implement a subset of

Re: Python 3.0 will be backward incompatible

2008-02-04 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Feb 3, 2008 10:51 PM, John Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: code. And perhaps Python facilities for specifying what version of the interpreter your code expects (and getting such an interpreter to execute it, regardless of which interpreter version is the default called python) will come

How to create a new MIME type for a Sugar activity?

2008-02-04 Thread James Simmons
I am writing a Sugar activity in Python. This activity will enable the user to navigate through a list of image files stored in a Zip file by using the arrow keys, and might support a slideshow feature too. There might be a hundred image files stored in the Zip file. Grouping the images in

Re: disabling root and olpc passwords

2008-02-04 Thread Mitch Bradley
Gary Oberbrunner wrote: subbukk wrote: sftp and scp both require receiver to share login password with sender. nc doesn't. It just reads/writes bytestreams from/to network sockets. E.g. You can transfer sub-directories across machines with : [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ nc -lp | tar xzvf

Re: disabling root and olpc passwords

2008-02-04 Thread Gary Oberbrunner
subbukk wrote: sftp and scp both require receiver to share login password with sender. nc doesn't. It just reads/writes bytestreams from/to network sockets. E.g. You can transfer sub-directories across machines with : [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ nc -lp | tar xzvf - ./src [EMAIL

Re: Activity hosting application: Time

2008-02-04 Thread Jason Rock
On Feb 4, 2008 12:59 AM, Yoshiki Ohshima [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Jason, I filed a ticket sometime ago (http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5255). I sure wish something like this will be incorporated. I think this should be covered in the dragability of each individual hand.

Re: What's left for Update.1

2008-02-04 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Feb 4, 2008 10:31 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 4, 2008 11:50 AM, Sayamindu Dasgupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/2/4 Kim Quirk [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ..snipped For translations, I would also probably push Mongolian in, along with Spanish. I am currently making

Re: What's left for Update.1

2008-02-04 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
2008/2/4 Kim Quirk [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Jim, I think this is way too much stuff for Update.1. We are in code freeze. We have items 1 and 2 scheduled to go into RC2; I would suggest that we ONLY pick up Spanish, where we really fell short in the current build; I don't agree with holding up this

Re: disabling root and olpc passwords

2008-02-04 Thread Chas. Owens
On Feb 4, 2008 11:37 AM, subbukk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 13 Jan 2008 4:48:08 am Mikus Grinbergs wrote: The 2008-1-12 OLPC News says ... so that we can finally disable the root and olpc passwords. The way I have my G1G1 system set up (I have no wireless) I *need* to ftp in.

Re: disabling root and olpc passwords

2008-02-04 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Just what exactly do you need ftp for? There are much better alternatives for transfering files. Works for me. I forget how long I have had my house LAN - must be over a decade. Back then, I decided upon the process I would use to communicate from the main (OS/2) system I work on, to the

Re: disabling root and olpc passwords

2008-02-04 Thread subbukk
On Monday 04 Feb 2008 10:11:02 pm Chas. Owens wrote: Or better yet, use sftp or scp. Your olpc user gets his/her own keys generated when you first start up. sftp and scp both require receiver to share login password with sender. nc doesn't. It just reads/writes bytestreams from/to network

Re: What's left for Update.1

2008-02-04 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Feb 4, 2008 11:50 AM, Sayamindu Dasgupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/2/4 Kim Quirk [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I think this is way too much stuff for Update.1. We are in code freeze. We have items 1 and 2 scheduled to go into RC2; I would suggest that we ONLY pick up Spanish, where we really

Re: disabling root and olpc passwords

2008-02-04 Thread subbukk
On Sunday 13 Jan 2008 4:48:08 am Mikus Grinbergs wrote: The 2008-1-12 OLPC News says ... so that we can finally disable the root and olpc passwords. The way I have my G1G1 system set up (I have no wireless) I *need* to ftp in. For that, I have set a password for olpc. It would be ok with

Re: What's left for Update.1

2008-02-04 Thread Kim Quirk
Jim, I think this is way too much stuff for Update.1. We are in code freeze. We have items 1 and 2 scheduled to go into RC2; I would suggest that we ONLY pick up Spanish, where we really fell short in the current build; I don't agree with holding up this build for either 4 or 5, as this feels like

Re: Activity hosting application: Time

2008-02-04 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Hi, Jason, Translating the 12 hour to 24 hour notation of the submission to whichever the other player is using shouldn't be a problem. Also the game isn't time zone dependent. Translating these isn't a big problem technically, yes. Again, I was just thinking that that wouldn't be the

Re: disabling root and olpc passwords

2008-02-04 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Feb 4, 2008 12:59 PM, Mikus Grinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I posted because there appeared to be a regression (regarding asking for passwords) in the OLPC behavior -- that exists regardless of how I described happening to notice it. It is not a bug. Use 'passwd' to set a password.

Re: Pen Tablet firmware test doesn't work on beta2 machine

2008-02-04 Thread Mitch Bradley
Patrick Dubroy wrote: I've got a beta2 machine, and access to a beta4 machine as well. On the B2, when I boot into the firmware tests and get to the Pen Tablet/Glide Sensor test, I get absolutely no response from the Pen Tablet. The Glide Sensor (touchpad) works fine. I've also tried running

New joyride build 1638

2008-02-04 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1638 Changes in build 1638 from build: 1636 Size delta: 0.00M -olpcsudo 1.2-0 +olpcsudo 1.3-0 -- This mail was automatically generated See http://dev.laptop.org/~rwh/announcer/joyride-pkgs.html for aggregate logs See

Re: Activity hosting application: Time

2008-02-04 Thread Jason Rock
On Feb 4, 2008 2:57 PM, Yoshiki Ohshima [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Jason, Translating the 12 hour to 24 hour notation of the submission to whichever the other player is using shouldn't be a problem. Also the game isn't time zone dependent. Translating these isn't a big problem

Re: SD card errors on resume after suspend, joyride 1634 firmware q2d12

2008-02-04 Thread Justin Gallardo
It may be possible that you could find others experiencing the same problem on the support forums. Check out http://forum.laptop.org/. Cheers. Justin On Feb 4, 2008 3:16 PM, Mark Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This happens maybe not every time, but at least 50% of the time, when I wake from

Re: Pen Tablet firmware test doesn't work on beta2 machine

2008-02-04 Thread John Watlington
Significant changes were made between a B2 XO and a mass production XO laptop. As a result, the B2 laptops are no longer supported by current software builds and not recommended for development work.While it seems a shame to abandon hardware in the field, all the B2 machines built number

Re: SD card errors on resume after suspend, joyride 1634 firmware q2d12

2008-02-04 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi, I think you have found http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/4013 . Thanks, Tomeu On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 17:16 -0600, Mark Bauer wrote: This happens maybe not every time, but at least 50% of the time, when I wake from suspend (or sleep), the SD card returns an error df: '/media/SD1':

Re: disabling root and olpc passwords

2008-02-04 Thread John Gilmore
I posted because there appeared to be a regression (regarding asking for passwords) in the OLPC behavior -- that exists regardless of how I described happening to notice it. The theory is that in update.1, the olpc and root accounts will come disabled (locked with a password that nobody can

Help for kick off!

2008-02-04 Thread ASWATHY PRASAD
Hi, How to get started with OLPC for developing a software? Is there any area which we require to know about in particular? How can we get to know more about the architecture of the OLPC? Also the OS of OLPC and the registers it use for various purposes. Is that all the activities developed

Fwd: [PyCON-Organizers] OLPC Sprint(s) at PyCon

2008-02-04 Thread Edward Cherlin
FYI. Will any of you be there? -- Forwarded message -- From: Facundo Batista [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Feb 4, 2008 10:32 AM Subject: Re: [PyCON-Organizers] OLPC Sprint(s) at PyCon To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Mel Chua [EMAIL PROTECTED], Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL