Re: Incorrectly titled General Release Notes page on wiki

2008-09-01 Thread S Page
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While searching wiki.laptop.org I came across a build 650 Release Note page which is unfortunately named General Release Notes http://wiki.laptop.org/go/General_Release_Notes It would be more appropriately named Release Notes for Build 650 so the naive are not

[Server-devel] XS Splashscreen / logo

2008-09-01 Thread Jeff
I couldn't find any existing logo, so I came up with this concept: http://www.wildcoast.com/node/402 Comments, flames or suggestions welcome. Also, some clue as to what should go on a splashscreen, plz. -J ___ Server-devel mailing list [EMAIL

upgrading firmware ( Re: q2e15 released )

2008-09-01 Thread S Page
Hey firmware gods, a) Three latest firmwares b) Sorting out the firmware upgrade pages == Three latest firmwares == 1)Richard A. Smith wrote: Q2e15 is up. If you are running current joyride(s) and doing auto-suspend/resume you need to upgrade. 2)

Re: Survey of activity authors

2008-09-01 Thread Morgan Collett
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 13:21, Mikus Grinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I surveyed authors/maintainers of activities hosted in dev.laptop.org git over the past few weeks. The results are summarised at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Morgs/Activities_survey I wish that your list were more of a

Re: CSound server questions

2008-09-01 Thread John Maloney
Hi, Victor and Bert. I agree with Bert -- it would probably be most convenient for Scratch to use the MIDI option, if possible. Ideally, it would work the same as MIDI does on other versions of Linux, so we could just use the Squeak MIDI Plugin. That said, I have not explored how the MIDI

Re: [sugar] Survey of activity authors

2008-09-01 Thread Bastien
Morgan Collett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It would also help if there were a compendium of contact information available. As it is, one has to search in the Activity's wiki page. [For instance, what is the address of the Map activity maintainer?] In the interests of not increasing their

Re: upgrading firmware ( Re: q2e15 released )

2008-09-01 Thread Richard A. Smith
S Page wrote: == Three latest firmwares == 1)Richard A. Smith wrote: Q2e15 is up. If you are running current joyride(s) and doing auto-suspend/resume you need to upgrade. This is the latest release, but largely untested and not signed. 2)

New joyride build 2373

2008-09-01 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2373 Changes in build 2373 from build: 2372 Size delta: 0.00M -sugar-toolkit 0.82.4-1.olpc3 +sugar-toolkit 0.82.5-1.olpc3 -- This mail was automatically generated See http://dev.laptop.org/~rwh/announcer/joyride-pkgs.html for

Clock activity? Activities about time?

2008-09-01 Thread Bastien
Dear Chocolate Frosted Sugar Geeks, is there a Sugar activity displaying a simple clock? What activities can be used to teach things about time? (seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades, centuries...) Is there a simple calendar activity? Can we manipulate the earth and

Re: Clock activity? Activities about time?

2008-09-01 Thread Chris Ball
Hi Bastien, is there a Sugar activity displaying a simple clock? Yes; search for Clock on http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities. What activities can be used to teach things about time? (seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades, centuries...) I don't think there

Re: Clock activity? Activities about time?

2008-09-01 Thread Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
Hello Bastien On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Bastien [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Dear Chocolate Frosted Sugar Geeks, is there a Sugar activity displaying a simple clock? What activities can be used to teach things about time? (seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades,

Re: Clock activity? Activities about time?

2008-09-01 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
At Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:38:19 -0400, Chris Ball wrote: Hi Bastien, is there a Sugar activity displaying a simple clock? Yes; search for Clock on http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities. What activities can be used to teach things about time? (seconds, minutes, hours, days,

AC not present?

2008-09-01 Thread Bastien
Hi all, I just upgraded a XO from 656 to 711 using a USB key (fs.zip + os711.img + G1G1 activity pack). The upgrade went fine but the computer won't boot and bites like that: , | Got firmware version: CL1 Q2E12 Q2E | Checking integrity... | Updating firmware | AC not present ` Any

Re: AC not present?

2008-09-01 Thread Martin Langhoff
n Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Bastien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | AC not present Plug it to power to complete the firmware upgrade step... m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working

Re: AC not present?

2008-09-01 Thread Bastien
Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: n Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Bastien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | AC not present Plug it to power to complete the firmware upgrade step... AArghh! Thanks. For me AC/DC has never meant anything else than classical music. -- Bastien

Re: joyride 2369 - yum fails with key error

2008-09-01 Thread genesee
The patch in Ticket 8125 works for joyride-2370. Would you alert us in which build yum will work without the workaround? -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/joyride-2369---yum-fails-with-key-error-tp796070p832780.html Sent from the OLPC Software development mailing list

OT: Anybody worked with robot and OLPC

2008-09-01 Thread Carlos mauro
Hello Friends. Someone made a robot using only the OLPC. There is a project to adapt to the OLPC iRobot of microsoft. I am going to bring the artificial intelligence. The teacher will use the robotic irobor and microsoft for the course. I wonder if you could use an OLPC to make a robot and

Re: [sugar] OT: Anybody worked with robot and OLPC

2008-09-01 Thread Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
Hi maybe this can be of interest, http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Peripherals/Robots this is planned with open hardware. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Open_Hardware. On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 6:42 PM, Carlos mauro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Friends. Someone made a robot using only the OLPC.

Re: CSound server questions

2008-09-01 Thread Victor . Lazzarini
yes, that is possible. I will provide an example as soon as Iam back at work in Ireland.Victor- Original Message -From: John Maloney [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: Monday, September 1, 2008 2:02 pmSubject: Re: CSound server questionsTo: victor [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: Bert Freudenberg [EMAIL

Re: [Server-devel] XS Splashscreen / logo

2008-09-01 Thread David Van Assche
Nice, except took me almost a minute to figure out that the central part of the X was an S... maybe I'm just slow I don't know David Van Assche 2008/9/1 Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I couldn't find any existing logo, so I came up with this concept: http://www.wildcoast.com/node/402 Comments,

Re: [Server-devel] RFH: Script to make installable USB stick

2008-09-01 Thread Jerry Vonau
Martin Langhoff wrote: On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Jerry Vonau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.archivum.info/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/2008-05/msg00016.html I'm around for a couple of hours, See the usb based install thread. I'm going to have to take some of that back, just checked anaconda's

Re: [Server-devel] Pungi minimal installer, comps.xml trick

2008-09-01 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 7:07 AM, Jerry Vonau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin Langhoff wrote: It is not clear to me how the anaconda team will support installs on embedded systems over serial port. And I have to keep that in mind for some of the HW options we have for the XS. Wouldn't a vnc

Re: [Server-devel] Pungi minimal installer, comps.xml trick

2008-09-01 Thread Jerry Vonau
Martin Langhoff wrote: On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 7:07 AM, Jerry Vonau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin Langhoff wrote: It is not clear to me how the anaconda team will support installs on embedded systems over serial port. And I have to keep that in mind for some of the HW options we have for the

Re: [Server-devel] XS Splashscreen / logo

2008-09-01 Thread Martin Langhoff
2008/9/1 Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I couldn't find any existing logo, so I came up with this concept: http://www.wildcoast.com/node/402 Cool. I had the same confusion as David - is that a slot and two arrows?. Perhaps something closer to the XO logo is easier to read...? I don't know myself - not

Re: [Server-devel] XS Splashscreen / logo

2008-09-01 Thread Robin Norwood
On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 6:36 PM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/9/1 Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I couldn't find any existing logo, so I came up with this concept: http://www.wildcoast.com/node/402 Cool. I had the same confusion as David - is that a slot and two arrows?. Perhaps

Re: [Server-devel] xs-config 4.1 - F9 networking is all go

2008-09-01 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After a ton of work, it looks like the xs-config package is in good shape -- at least good enough to ask people to look at it. You can grab it from http://xs-dev.laptop.org/xsrepos/testing/olpc/9/i386/ Or just look at

[Server-devel] new package: xs-activation

2008-09-01 Thread Douglas Bagnall
http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/dbagnall/xs-activation.git I've attached the README below. Douglas --- XS Activation Server This package allows the school server to activate laptops over the network, and

[Server-devel] xs-activation: why no IPv6 yet?

2008-09-01 Thread Douglas Bagnall
To preempt this FAQ, the F7 school server is quite inconsistent in its IPv6 support, and some work would have been necessary to get it to a state where I could test it. With the immanent jump to F9, and a new networking setup, this didn't seem very worthwhile. I'll revisit it again when IPv6 is

Re: [Server-devel] usb drive based installs.

2008-09-01 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 6:07 AM, Jerry Vonau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: grab: http://members.shaw.ca/jvonau/pub/mkusbinstall Wow, that's a good start! I'll play with it! Now that the network stuff is done (?) I'm