I don't have one to measure, but the 1991 Psion series 3 has 13.5
keys per row on a 165mm-wide keyboard.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_3
Maltron's designs are a long way from simply being scaled Qwerty
keyboards, but they've been around since the late 1970s. They
might be helpful as an
Jan Buchal napsal(a):
HG Hi, What is the need for speech-dispatcher to run as root? Is it
HG possible to run it as non-root? We need to modify the
HG speechd.conf files from a non-root program and as such run the
HG speech-dispatcher daemon with non-root privileges.
Sure. SD
Henry is asking about localised images for the XO, and specifically
asking about a branded boot image (splash image).
2008/7/28 Henry Vélez [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Les pregunto.
¿como puedo poner una imagen personalizada en el inicio de la laptop?
Que cambios quieres hacer? Solo el splash? Parte
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 12:59:37AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
Here is a fun and amusing easy weekend project for an enterprising
activity author:
Implement a code sharing demo as follows:
1. stub out a collaborative RemoteControl activity (perhaps based on
Chat, Xavier, or
Hello everyone,
I need to get a screenshot of an activity and I am wondering what is
the best way:
1. using sugar-jhbuild on fedora: the only problem here is that the
widgets have all wrong sizes (how to fix this?)
2. using the XO: I have no idea how to print the screen.
Thanks!
Victor
Alt-1 will capture a screenshot within Sugar; the resulting image will
appear in the Journal.
- Eben
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Victor Lazzarini [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hello everyone,
I need to get a screenshot of an activity and I am wondering what is
the best way:
1. using
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 17:03, Victor Lazzarini
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello everyone,
I need to get a screenshot of an activity and I am wondering what is
the best way:
1. using sugar-jhbuild on fedora: the only problem here is that the
widgets have all wrong sizes (how to fix this?)
Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:41:12 -0500, Meli Kim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1. Project name : Language Learning with Larry
Done. Your tree is here:
git+ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/git/activities/larry
Please follow instructions here for importing your project:
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Morgan Collett
[EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 17:03, Victor Lazzarini
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello everyone,
I need to get a screenshot of an activity and I am wondering what is
the best way:
1. using sugar-jhbuild on fedora: the
Hello Victor,
Victor Lazzarini [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I need to get a screenshot of an activity and I am wondering what is
the best way:
1. using sugar-jhbuild on fedora: the only problem here is that the
widgets have all wrong sizes (how to fix this?)
Don't know...
2. using the XO:
Thanks everyone, I got the screenshot I needed using method 2.
Victor
At 16:12 28/07/2008, Bastien wrote:
Hello Victor,
Victor Lazzarini [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I need to get a screenshot of an activity and I am wondering what is
the best way:
1. using sugar-jhbuild on fedora: the
DSD --
This reminds me... your script for having screenshots automatically
scp'd to a remote server when they are taken is really cool/useful.
Is this available online yet?
Brian
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Victor Lazzarini
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks everyone, I got the screenshot
On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 11:44 -0400, Brian Jordan wrote:
DSD --
This reminds me... your script for having screenshots automatically
scp'd to a remote server when they are taken is really cool/useful.
Is this available online yet?
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar/Quick_screenshot_hack
Hi All,
I would like to do some power management testing on my G1G1 unit.
I heard that there is now a way to completely power down the radio
from the GUI or the command line without restarting the machine. Is
this correct?
I have 703 on my machine but that OS version seems nothing special in
I realize this is the Devel list but since this list was so helpful when I
had sound problems, I was wondering if anyone reading this could point me in
the direction of acquiring a new screen for one of my G1G1 XOs. The old
one's ribbon cable has stripped and now is unserviceable, naturally this
On Jul 26 2008, at 21:44, Ton van Overbeek was caught saying:
Deepak Saxena wrote:
Sigh++ Bought a 1G microSD with a usb adapter and it happens to be one
that OpenFirmware cannot talk to so I can't boot off it. Just wanted
to give you an update that this is still on my plate, just seems to be
Hi Chris,
Sorry to hear of your predicament.
There are a number of repair centers that have sprung up around the US. (
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Directory_of_repair_centers) All of them have
screens available, but the OLPC-recommended price point is seventy dollars.
Try contacting some repair
Hola
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 5:32 AM, Martin Langhoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Henry is asking about localised images for the XO, and specifically
asking about a branded boot image (splash image).
2008/7/28 Henry Vélez [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Les pregunto.
¿como puedo poner una imagen
Deepak Saxena wrote:
On Jul 26 2008, at 21:44, Ton van Overbeek was caught saying:
Deepak Saxena wrote:
Sigh++ Bought a 1G microSD with a usb adapter and it happens to be one
that OpenFirmware cannot talk to so I can't boot off it. Just wanted
to give you an update that this is
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build
Changes in build from build: 2216
Size delta: 3.01M
-sugar-evince-python 2.20.1.1-2.olpc3
+sugar-evince-python 2.20.1.1-3.olpc3
-olpcsound 5.08.92-2.olpc3
+olpcsound 5.08.92-3.olpc3
-pygame 1.7.1-17.fc9
+pygame 1.8.0-1.olpc3.1
Please help test joyride-2200. We'll announce a new weekly joyride on
Wednesday afternoon on this list.
Thanks,
Michael
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Build Announcer v2 wrote:
| -python-numeric 24.2-11.fc9
Thanks to Daniel and Scott for their work getting rid of this dependency.
Anyone whose activities use Numerical arrays in Python should check that
they still work in +. If anything is
I have just updated the Read Etexts activity to version 6. This solves
the problems I was having with pausing and resuming speech in the
activity. The activity no longer hangs when you do this. Highlighting
still doesn't work perfectly; it tends to fall behind and catch up.
This is an
Build Announcer v2 wrote:
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build
Changes in build from build: 2216
Size delta: 3.01M
-sugar-evince-python 2.20.1.1-2.olpc3
+sugar-evince-python 2.20.1.1-3.olpc3
-olpcsound 5.08.92-2.olpc3
+olpcsound 5.08.92-3.olpc3
-pygame
On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 14:47 -0400, Ton van Overbeek wrote:
Why is cracklib (and pam 1.0.1-4.fc9) back?
It was removed in joyride-2200.
Just curious ...
See the discussion about PAM last week on this list. We decided not to
fork but instead just to replace big dictionaries with small/empty
We included a pygame update in this build to drop the dependency on
Numeric. It now uses numpy.
Testing reports from pygame-based activities appreciated. I already
tested Maze.
Thanks,
Daniel
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Chris,
I can't vouch for the company as I have never ordered anything from them,
but http://xoexplosion.com http://xoexplosion.com/ sell screens for $70
in their spare parts section. They seem to be out of stock at the moment
though.
Kind regards,
Josh
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From: [EMAIL
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 12:46:18PM -0400, Joseph A. Feinstein wrote:
Kim,
On the laptop where I installed Joyride 2200, I have OFW Q2D16. At this
time it's not known whether it came with the build or it's a leftover
from a previous (build 708) installation. Michael Stone will
The size increase suggests that maybe my pilgrim hack to zap the big
dictionaries did not work. I'll look later...
Noticed that sugar-evince 2.20.1.1-3.olpc3 brought in
poppler 0.6.2-5.olpc3, which is 3 MB.
mikus
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Tue, 06 May 2008 16:39:01 -0400, Mel Chua [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1. Project name : SimpleRPG
Done. Your tree is here:
git+ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/git/activities/simplerpg
Please follow instructions here for importing your project:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Importing_your_project
Let us know
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2223
Changes in build 2223 from build:
Size delta: 0.00M
-olpcupdate 2.11-1
+olpcupdate 2.12-1
--- Changes for olpcupdate 2.12-1 from 2.11-1 ---
+ Support 'low' priority updates (not applied automatically).
+ Add '--latest'
Trac default milestone is currently 8.2. Is that a good idea? We are
trying to punt down the Sugar 8.2 bugs, but with these default the
list keep growing. I'd prefer to go through the list of unassigned
bugs every few days and make 8.2 only those that really needs to be...
Marco
FYI - I am not writing a ticket at this time (until I can reproduce
consistent misbehavior). G1G1. Joyride manually updated to 2216.
My biggest confusion arises because I __cannot visually tell__ which
icon in the Frame top bar is associated with which running task.
I did not want
I can't confirm or deny this. After downgrading a machine to Q2D16,
reinstalling the build 708 and then installing the Joyride 2200, the
right firmware (Q2E11) appeared to be installed. I didn't run the
test without the external power supply because I'm (almost) sure that
the original
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2224
Changes in build 2224 from build: 2223
Size delta: 0.00M
-kernel 2.6.25-20080724.1.olpc.284cecf34b83fb0
+kernel 2.6.25-20080728.1.olpc.a3851e734bcee1b
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Anyone whose activities use Numerical arrays in Python should check that
they still work in +. If anything is broken, I'll be happy to help
fix it. The only Activity I am sure needs to be checked is Measure.
I can confirm that Measure does NOT work.
Neither does PlayGo.
mikus
Also I'm not convinced not specified as default component is a good
idea, unless we have someone taking care of triaging that component.
Marco
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:38 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Trac default milestone is currently 8.2. Is that a good idea? We are
There was an earlier discussion of how to provide the right build
level for users out in the field, since now Builds can be installed
separately from Activities -- leading to the possibility that for
someone an Activity_version on his XO will find itself *mismatched*
with the Build_version on
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Jerry Williams wrote:
| Seems like this problem for linux was solved with RPM.
| With rpm if something is missing for something you want to install, it
| complains and won't let you install it.
That's not really the problem we're discussing. We're
There are people like me who like TuxPaint better than Oficina.
However, to run TuxPaint, users of current Joyride need to
re-install SDL_mixer and libmikmod. Also, TuxPaint is not being
checkpointed by Journal (and seems to start slower than it did on
build 65x).
I realize there is a
Benjamin M. Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jerry Williams wrote:
| Seems like this problem for linux was solved with RPM.
| With rpm if something is missing for something you want to install, it
| complains and won't let you install it.
That's not really the problem we're discussing.
Ton van Overbeek wrote:
Deepak Saxena wrote:
USB needs sd_mod which is still built into the kernel. Issue ended up
being
that we need to load ohci-hcd, not ehci-scd. Working ramdisk @:
http://dev.laptop.org/~dsaxena/olpcrd-2200-fixup.img
~Deepak
Thanks Deepak.
I am now at
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 08:56:47PM -0400, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
But should it be up to the Activity developers (or in this case, those
who first fitted the software to Sugar) to keep supporting their
submission as the Sugar/operating_system platform keeps evolving ?
Who else would you propose?
Hi Scott,
I am exploring what it will take to package the action lease server
for the XS, and what usage scenarios we can support. So I had an
initial look around act-server, which covers a much wider
functionality than I had in mind.
If we assume for a moment that the lease management is done
michael wrote:
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 08:56:47PM -0400, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
But should it be up to the Activity developers (or in this case, those
who first fitted the software to Sugar) to keep supporting their
submission as the Sugar/operating_system platform keeps evolving ?
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2225
Changes in build 2225 from build: 2224
Size delta: 0.00M
-bootfw q2e11-1.olpc2.unsigned
+bootfw q2e12-1.olpc2.unsigned
--- Changes for bootfw q2e12-1.olpc2.unsigned from q2e11-1.olpc2.unsigned ---
+ q2e12 this is an unsigned
Hi Scott,
I'm looking at the 'upgrade-server' project, considering packaging it
for the XS. After a read of the sources, I see that it does extend the
rsync protocol a bit, but the commands seem to not be needed for
updates: server is an rsync cmd, but clean and install are not, but I
don't
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:03 PM, Bastien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Benjamin M. Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jerry Williams wrote:
| Seems like this problem for linux was solved with RPM.
| With rpm if something is missing for something you want to install, it
| complains and won't let
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jerry Williams wrote:
| Seems like this problem for linux was solved with RPM.
| With rpm if something is missing for something you want to install, it
| complains and won't let you install it.
That's not really
Seems like this problem for linux was solved with RPM.
With rpm if something is missing for something you want to install, it
complains and won't let you install it.
It seems like a lot of the python code I have looked at assumes you have
stuff and just quietly dies and you have to look at the log
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:26:28PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the obvious answers are that we need to commit to some level of
continuing support for activities,
What notion of support would you suggest?
that we support the activities ourselves,
As above.
or that we need to provide an
Hi! If you are running or testing earluer versions of the XS image, I
need to ask you to test this one. It will become our 0.3 unless we get
new bug reports against it.
I will be working the next few weeks on
1 - system level admin and tools -
+ PAM SOTP
+ Installation fixups
+ RSSH
Hi Scott,
I am exploring what it will take to package the action lease server
for the XS, and what usage scenarios we can support. So I had an
initial look around act-server, which covers a much wider
functionality than I had in mind.
If we assume for a moment that the lease management is done
Bernie,
Have we configured Browse to display the Flash activities automatically?
Also, have we sugarized Firefox 3?
David, you can install firefox 3 as an rpm however we haven't completed
sugarizing it. Currently we are launching it from the command line. We
will sugarize it as we are using
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