Browse Preferences

2008-03-18 Thread Jacob Haddon
I know people are busy with Update.1, so forgive the random question. I would like to set up and use Tiddlywiki as my homepage on the OLPC. It is a Javascript-only wiki program. I am writing to ask about preferences for Browse. Specifically the following:

Re: Browse Preferences

2008-03-18 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Jacob Haddon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know people are busy with Update.1, so forgive the random question. I would like to set up and use Tiddlywiki as my homepage on the OLPC. It is a Javascript-only wiki program. I am writing to ask about

Project name: Snakes and Ladders is set up

2008-03-18 Thread Henry Hardy
Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:07:38 -0400, James Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Project name : Snakes and Ladders Done. Your tree is here: git+ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/git/activities/snakeladder Please follow instructions here for importing your project:

Re: Browse Preferences

2008-03-18 Thread Jacob Haddon
I looked at about:config, but did not see the setting. admittedly i have never used about:config, so i, just now, read up on it. used a version of portable firefox here on my computer to test how to add in this preference and was successful. i went to try it on the OLPC. here is what happens.

Re: Browse Preferences

2008-03-18 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Jacob Haddon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I looked at about:config, but did not see the setting. admittedly i have never used about:config, so i, just now, read up on it. used a version of portable firefox here on my computer to test how to add in this preference

physic engines speed tests

2008-03-18 Thread Chris Hager
Hey all, Josh and I now made some speed tests with both 2D physics engines - Box2D and Chipmunk - and here are some results. One warning though: The tests were made with Python, and for Box2D there's a library compiled with swig, whereas Chipmunk's interface is done with ctypes. This may

Re: Browse Preferences

2008-03-18 Thread Simon Schampijer
This is what you can do on 656. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wifi_Connectivity#Proxy_Settings These are the instructions for the proxy settings - but you can easily adopt them to get your case working I hope. Simon Jacob Haddon wrote: ah. well, then perhaps tonight i will revert to the shipped

Detecting MIME type of a shared file

2008-03-18 Thread James Simmons
I am working on adding sharing code to the Read Etexts activity, mostly adapting existing code from the core Read activity. Read ETexts can open ascii text files and zip files that contain a single text file. I look at the suffix of the filename to tell what kind of file I'm dealing with.

Re: Browse Preferences

2008-03-18 Thread Jacob Haddon
I did find that page, actually. I used the user.js file with the preferences found in my first post. one of the lines (the first) appeared in the prefs.js file, but the others do not. i tried both #39;user_pref#39; and #39;pref#39; as the begining. Simon Schampijer wrote: This is what you

RedHat bugzilla and OLPC

2008-03-18 Thread Alexander Todorov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi folks, for some time now there's been an entry Fedora OLPC into RedHat Bugzilla. As I think it's not used anymore instead of dev.laptop.org I have a few questions: 1) Bug list at:

Sugar emulation on Ubuntu!

2008-03-18 Thread Kent Loobey
Jani Monoses is THE MAN!!! His Ubuntu package for the Sugar emulator is fantastic! http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_on_Ubuntu_Linux#Option_3_-_Deb_Packages_for_Gutsy Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org

Re: physic engines speed tests

2008-03-18 Thread Chris Hager
Hey, I've now done speed tests with rectangles instead of balls, and here box2d is performing even better. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Physic_Engines/Speed_Tests Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: Chris Hager wrote: Hey all, Josh and I now made some speed tests with both 2D physics engines -

Re: Switching between Arabic and French

2008-03-18 Thread K. K. Subramaniam
On Tuesday 18 March 2008 7:44:00 am Walter Bender wrote: While the laptop can readily switch between up to four keyboard mappings at a time, the physical keyboard is probably only capable of supporting two sets of glyphs. We've opted to date to put Latin and one other set per keyboard. Any

RE: Project name: Snakes and Ladders is set up

2008-03-18 Thread James
Henry Hardy wrote 1. Project name : Snakes and Ladders Done. Your tree is here: git+ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/git/activities/snakeladder Please follow instructions here for importing your project: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Importing_your_project Let us know if you have any problems with your

Re: Switching between Arabic and French

2008-03-18 Thread Khaled Hosny
Hi Ralph, On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 4:17 AM, Ralph A. Mack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Walter, This is wonderful to hear. I guess then, for development purposes, how do I do that from emulation, since I don't have a real XO at the moment? Once I've got that, I can start playing with

Re: physic engines speed tests

2008-03-18 Thread Chris Hager
Joshua Minor wrote: On Mar 18, 2008, at 9:48 AM, Chris Hager wrote: How do the physics models themselves compare? The only difference I noticed so far is that Box2D calculates in MKS (meter-kilo-seconds), and we have to do the translation to pixels by hand. I have noticed that Chipmunk

New project application

2008-03-18 Thread Urko Fernandez
1. Project name : Assimilate 2. Existing website, if any : http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Drill_and_test_software * *The wiki entry is a proposal I've used to develop the activity 3. One-line description : A flashcards based activity with a constructivist touch 4. Longer description

Confusing build names.

2008-03-18 Thread Aaron Konstam
I asked this question on the support list and did not get an answer I am comfortable with. Why is it necessary to have at least three unrelated methods of naming builds? To me that just confuses people. -- === Everyone complains

Interested in the Google Summer of Code

2008-03-18 Thread Bobby Powers
Hi, I'm a master's student at the University of Bergen and I'm interested in bringing System Dynamics to the XO. Before I start, if there is a better mailing list for this just let me know (I briefly looked through the other ones liked from the Wiki, and this seemed the most appropriate). System

Re: Confusing build names.

2008-03-18 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 02:31:32PM -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: Why is it necessary to have at least three unrelated methods of naming builds? To me that just confuses people. Our build names are structured as: branch-ordinal This structure is designed around the notion that builds occur

New joyride build 1778

2008-03-18 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1778 Changes in build 1778 from build: 1774 Size delta: 0.00M -kernel 2.6.22-20080316.1.olpc.92b01eaa1cc53ae +kernel 2.6.22-20080318.1.olpc.bd40014b4232921 -- This mail was automatically generated See

RE: Project name: Snakes and Ladders is set up

2008-03-18 Thread Henry Hardy
James, It appears that your public key had some linewraps in it. I have manually removed them, please try again and see if things are better now. thanks! [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org

Image Recognition

2008-03-18 Thread Chris Hager
Hey all, The webcam on the XO sure has a lot of potential for cool killer apps. For example things with - Motion Tracking - Gesture Recognition - Face Recognition - Object Identification - ... Recently I came in touch with OpenCV (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opencv) -- it's a open source

Re: Project name: Snakes and Ladders is set up

2008-03-18 Thread Gary C Martin
On 18 Mar 2008, at 17:12, James wrote: I'm assuming that I need to place my private SSH key somewhere specific, and I'm guessing from the above that it should be named id_dsa and placed in /root/.ssh/. Hi James, That should be in your home directory not root: ~/.ssh/id_dsa This

PlayGo

2008-03-18 Thread Edward Cherlin
I just now tried to git-clone PlayGo, and couldn't. Do you know what is wrong? https://dev.laptop.org/git?p=projects/PlayGo;a=tree is fine, but git clone git://dev.laptop.org/PlayGo Initialized empty Git repository in /home/mokurai/dev/OLPC/git/PlayGo/.git/ fatal: The remote end hung up

Re: PlayGo

2008-03-18 Thread Charles Merriam
Hello Ed, The error message could be better. The project is projects/PlayGo. I'll double check when I get back to my laptop, but try: git clone git://dev.laptop.org/projects/PlayGo It's a common problem. Add it to the wiki pls? Charles On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Edward Cherlin

State of Update.1 on the night of Mar. 18, 2008

2008-03-18 Thread Michael Stone
Folks, I went through the bugs Scott mentioned in his previous State of Update.1 mail and looked for status changes. I also surveyed the Trac Timeline looking for new gems. To make a long story short, no one has _reported_ changes to any of these bugs in the past 5 days. Michael Build to test:

Re: Image Recognition

2008-03-18 Thread Ixo X oxI
FYI, A few months back, Seth Woodworth (irc/isforinsects) and I did some brainstorming about stop motion and webcam ideas. But both of us got distracted on other projects here's the notes and comments that we gathered during our investigation...