Re: Frame Decision (was [sugar] OLPC priorities for Sugar in the August release)

2008-05-18 Thread Karl Ramberg
John R. Hogerhuis wrote: On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 9:26 PM, Gary C Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Do the 'frame reveal corner arrows' only appear when you hit the corners, or when your mouse is over the corner area (discoverability)? What is the difference between hit the

pyc files in activity startup time (was Re: [sugar] OLPC priorities for Sugar in the August release)

2008-05-18 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Jameson Chema Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One low-hanging fruit for faster activity start is having activity install compile .pyc files, with (tiny) extra points if the .pyc gets hints to not use jffs2 compression. Hi Chema, do you know how much this could

Re: [sugar] Microsoft

2008-05-18 Thread Joel Rees
Very typical modus operandi for leviathan -- Convenient errors in the news. Convenient to leviathan, at any rate, not to the poor mucks whose work they intend to capitalize. Is someone who can claim more authority and give better information than I going to notify the NYTimes of the error?

Re: Sugar in LinuxTag 2008

2008-05-18 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Tuesday 13 May 2008 11:57, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: some (most) members of the Sugar team is discussing having a meeting at LinuxTag in Berlin from 29th May - 1st June. For now, looks like Simon Schampijer, Jim Gettys, Marco, Bert, Bernie, Holger Levsen (from OLPC Deutschland) and me will

Re: ssh key update IMPORTANT security advisory please read

2008-05-18 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 15 May 2008 15:40, Dennis Gilmore wrote: users only need to create new keys if you created your key using a debian based system. keys generated on Fedora or other linux's or unix's are not susceptible and don't need replacing. That's unfortunatly only true for RSA keys, not

Re: XP on OLPC - a contrarian view

2008-05-18 Thread Albert Cahalan
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 6:28 AM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Albert Cahalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Reason: it's not at all related to laptop computers Fact: it's not universally valued by teachers This *is* a project pushing the envelope.

Re: XP on OLPC - a contrarian view

2008-05-18 Thread Carol Lerche
Research of interest is cited here: http://www.cited.org/index.aspx?page_id=151 On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Albert Cahalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 6:28 AM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Albert Cahalan [EMAIL

Centralized Authentication (was Re: ssh key update security advisory)

2008-05-18 Thread Ixo X oxI
FYI, I put in a TRAC ticket on something similar... https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6506 Several months ago, not sure if it ever went anywhere... -iXo 2008/5/15 Dennis Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thursday 15 May 2008, Henry Hardy wrote: Debian has published a recent security

Re: [PATCH stable] Separate multicast configuration for mesh and wlan interfaces.

2008-05-18 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 15:38 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: On an SMP host, are you sure we can't end up setting the multicast list simultaneously on the two logical devices? (A: No.) Try it like this... completely untested and hence probably broken in some stupid and minor way, but testing

Re: XP on OLPC - a contrarian view

2008-05-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Albert Cahalan wrote: From what I can tell, constructionism (c13m) is a buzzword that vaguely refers to an age-old teaching practice: learning by doing. The idea appears to be extremely old, though not the norm. Ditching the buzzword would be appreciated; it only serves to obfuscate. From

Constructionism (was Re: XP on OLPC - a contrarian view)

2008-05-18 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Albert Cahalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 6:28 AM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Albert Cahalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Constructionism might be a great idea. I have doubts, particularly in a

Re: Constructionism (was Re: XP on OLPC - a contrarian view)

2008-05-18 Thread Albert Cahalan
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 5:38 PM, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Albert Cahalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 6:28 AM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stop here, and please _read_ on constructionism. (Hint: most of the

Re: Constructionism (was Re: XP on OLPC - a contrarian view)

2008-05-18 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Albert Cahalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 5:38 PM, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Albert Cahalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 6:28 AM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: View Source question

2008-05-18 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Indeed, that is one of the virtues of Squeak. Python was somewhat of a compromise in this respect, but it has the virtual that opens up ready access to most of the rest of the GNU/Linux world. I'm not sure if Python has that edge over Squeak, but probably it does. Alas, this is a feature

Re: XP on OLPC - a contrarian view

2008-05-18 Thread K. K. Subramaniam
On Monday 19 May 2008 12:16:40 am Albert Cahalan wrote: From what I can tell, constructionism (c13m) is a buzzword that vaguely refers to an age-old teaching practice: learning by doing. The idea appears to be extremely old, though not the norm. Ditching the buzzword would be appreciated; it

Sample large datastore

2008-05-18 Thread Martin Langhoff
Working on ds-backup, I am concerned about performance of extracting all of the datastore metadata. Both Tomeu and Ivan have warned me about performance and memory impact. I want to repro the problem asap. If a full metadata dump can be acceptably fast, a lot of complications and error conditions

Re: [Server-devel] Problems with mesh OLPC Sur list / problemas con la malla

2008-05-18 Thread Martin Langhoff
2008/5/16 Yama Ploskonka [EMAIL PROTECTED]: original message follows El problema al que hacía referencia es que conocemos el funcionamiento de la malla en sí, lo que no hemos podido lograr es realizar una actividad colaborativa tal como se supone que debería ser. Hasta donde entiendo,