Re: Serious side effect of #6299 (silencing salut so gabble can connect)

2008-02-17 Thread David Woodhouse
On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 17:56 -0200, Ricardo Carrano wrote: If you don't turn many XOs on at the same time, you won't have salut preventing gabble to work. My fear is that we are complicating things unnecessarily. But we _do_ turn on many XOs at the same time. Hell, we've seen one teacher

Re: Serious side effect of #6299 (silencing salut so gabble can connect)

2008-02-17 Thread Ricardo Carrano
On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 17:56 -0200, Ricardo Carrano wrote: If you don't turn many XOs on at the same time, you won't have salut preventing gabble to work. My fear is that we are complicating things unnecessarily. But we _do_ turn on many XOs at the same time. Hell, we've seen one teacher

Re: using the browser as an activity platform : pyxpcom / hulahop / Gears

2008-02-17 Thread ffm
On Feb 16, 2008 6:21 PM, Samuel Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The core use here is being able to use the browser as activity platform -- letting web developers good at JS code and test on most any platform, and develop something that can be a first-class activity within Sugar. One example

Semi-successful Bayer-mode capture from internal camera

2008-02-17 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have created a stepwise procedure for experimenting with Bayer mode capture: 1. su - 2. yum install python-imaging 3. wget http://dev.laptop.org/~bemasc/bayertest.tar.gz 4. tar xzvf bayertest.tar.gz 5. cd bayertest 6. python bayertest.py

Re: Semi-successful Bayer-mode capture from internal camera

2008-02-17 Thread Carol Lerche
From this resource: http://www.quickcamteam.net/documentation/how-to/how-to-enable-raw-streaming-on-logitech-webcams If Bayer images are captured in any resolution lower than the maximum resolution supported by the sensor, clipping occurs. For example, if the sensor supports 1280x960 and a

Re: bar code scanners on the XO

2008-02-17 Thread Ivan Krstić
On Feb 15, 2008, at 4:35 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: As you are probably aware, it is possible to read barcodes from the camera, using software analysis. We have code in git that encodes arbitrary (but size-constrained) data as a redundant datamatrix barcode and shows it on the screen,

Re: bar code scanners on the XO

2008-02-17 Thread Ivan Krstić
On Feb 15, 2008, at 4:24 PM, Walter Bender wrote: Has anyone used a USB bar code scanner on the XO? I've used several, both CCD- and laser-based. They register as normal keyboards, so no extra support is required; there's a CCD-based one in my office if you want to play with it. For

Re: bar code scanners on the XO

2008-02-17 Thread Ivan Krstić
On Feb 17, 2008, at 4:39 PM, Ivan Krstić wrote: For reference, Uruguay is using these: Once more, with the link unmangled: http://www.nationalbarcode.com/datalogic/DataLogic-Firescan-D131.htm -- Ivan Krstić [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://radian.org

Digital Introduction (was: bar code scanners on the XO)

2008-02-17 Thread ffm
On Feb 17, 2008 9:36 PM, Ivan Krstić [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 15, 2008, at 4:35 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: As you are probably aware, it is possible to read barcodes from the camera, using software analysis. We have code in git that encodes arbitrary (but size-constrained) data

Signal power level (eth0 and msh0)

2008-02-17 Thread Arjun Sarwal
* Why is the signal level indicated by iwconfig in eth0 and msh0 different ? There is one module which is tuned to one frequency, so I can't understand why it should be different ? * What does the noise power level indicate in physical terms ? The module is tuned to one particular frequency, how

Re: Signal power level (eth0 and msh0)

2008-02-17 Thread James Cameron
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 08:14:20PM -0500, Arjun Sarwal wrote: * Why is the signal level indicated by iwconfig in eth0 and msh0 different ? There is one module which is tuned to one frequency, so I can't understand why it should be different ? I don't know. But the signal level for managed

Re: Digital Introduction (was: bar code scanners on the XO)

2008-02-17 Thread Ivan Krstić
On Feb 17, 2008, at 7:47 PM, ffm wrote: Any reason it was scrapped? It wasn't scrapped; it's on the backburner because higher-priority issues needed to be dealt with first, and the subsystems that would most benefit from an out-of-band public key exchange (like Telepathy) can't deal with

Re: Serious side effect of #6299 (silencing salut so gabble can connect)

2008-02-17 Thread Morgan Collett
Ricardo Carrano wrote: Two premises (that need confirmation) 1 - It seems that running neither of two (salut and gabble) brings us some serious troubles (for now, at least). In case you missed some of the mails, it turned out only Pippy needed fixing in the short term, and that's now done as