On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Bill Bogstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Martin will probably hate me for this...
Oh, I won't! However implements this gets to say how it's done; good
to hear you have an opinion that you're willing to back with code :-)
If you can assume the existence of an XS
Ok - I had missed the whole thread in my earlier reply.
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 9:24 AM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
*But*, we should be able to:
* Print postscript (or pdf, or whatever, just pick *one*) to
school server via CUP (IPP?), and install a decent selection of
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Pia Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
They have the right ownership, and the ds-backup.py on my 767 image doesn't
look the same as in that trac log. I'll look into it some more.
The other thing to check is that ~/.sugar/default/owner.key in the XO
is mode 600 .
Il giorno lun, 20/10/2008 alle 16.55 -0700, Jim Gettys ha scritto:
Actually, teachers are the other people who have asked for printing
support (e.g. at Arahuay, when I visited). They don't have enough
conventional systems to do their test sheets.
Now on line tests may make some/most of that
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:31 AM, Raúl Gutiérrez Segalés
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I searched trac and googled a little for this, so sorry if this is a known
issue.
This is on build 765. When I try to download an attachment that has a
filename with accents Browse does nothing and I get this on
Hey there-
I was at a school yesterday and it seemed like the three major
problems they faced were:
1) computer freezing constantly
2) computers were missing their journal or the journal disappeared
3) slowness
I have asked for more details for each problem and will get back to you.
At another
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 10:53 AM, elana langer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey there-
I was at a school yesterday and it seemed like the three major
problems they faced were:
1) computer freezing constantly
2) computers were missing their journal or the journal disappeared
3) slowness
I
On 10/21/08, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 9:24 AM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
*But*, we should be able to:
* Print postscript (or pdf, or whatever, just pick *one*) to
school server via CUP (IPP?), and install a decent selection of
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 08:36, Bill Bogstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There are a number of XO deployments possible in the Boston metro
area sometime next spring. My understanding is that OLPC does NOT
want to run these deployments, but is interested in having them happen
so there are
c. scott ananian wrote:
On 10/21/08, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 9:24 AM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
*But*, we should be able to:
* Print postscript (or pdf, or whatever, just pick *one*) to
school server via CUP (IPP?),
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 12:03 AM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think we're on the same page here. For 9.1, what's the *least* work
we can do to get *something* done on the printing front?
Fantastic!
Once the
basics are out there, hopefully we'll have community motivated to
When I am asked about whether the XO handles printing, I present that
the fact it does not is a feature, not a bug.
And people understand.
It is not out of the ordinary that the life of school printers will be
the life of the first set of ink cartridges or toner, there being no
budget to
Because it is defective by design does not mean that it is a
feature and not a flaw.
I manage 5 school-labs in deepest, darkest, rural Africa; and
printing has never been much of a support issue.
Sure there are issues with CUPS. Especially with printers going
offline when they run out of
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 3:05 AM, Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please stop imagining that lowest-spec, cheapest hardware and crippleware is
the answer - or that 3'rd World countries will never progress towards a
reasonable standard. That attitude is patronizing and demeaning. And wrong.
Hey -
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 08:57 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
can's mdns/avahi help with discovery? it'd be a shame to have to
manually configure a server address or name.
Certainly; this is what Apple does; the HP printer I bought recently is
so advertising itself this way. I haven't seen
Tomeu,
On Mar, 21 de Octubre de 2008, 5:46 am, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:31 AM, Raúl Gutiérrez Segalés
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I searched trac and googled a little for this, so sorry if this is a
known
issue.
This is on build 765. When I try to download an attachment
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 04:53:53AM -0400, elana langer wrote:
Hey there-
I was at a school yesterday and it seemed like the three major
problems they faced were:
1) computer freezing constantly
Are the freezes 'hard'? Does the whole system lock up? Or can you
still move the mouse, or
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Raúl Gutiérrez Segalés
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tomeu,
On Mar, 21 de Octubre de 2008, 5:46 am, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:31 AM, Raúl Gutiérrez Segalés
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I searched trac and googled a little for this, so sorry if
On 21 Oct 2008, at 4:15 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote:
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 3:05 AM, Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please stop imagining that lowest-spec, cheapest hardware and
crippleware is
the answer - or that 3'rd World countries will never progress
towards a
reasonable standard. That
Hi Jeff,
If you will help develop with us, you can sign up here for a free XO:
http://projectdb.olpc.at/
BTW I'm a comic book fan myself. I give out Gyro Gearloose comic books
whenever a kid comes by the office :-)
Thanks,
Greg S
Jeff wrote:
On 21 Oct 2008, at 4:15 PM, Martin Langhoff
Mitch,
One of the LBA NAND test machines killed it's MBR.
It started with a failed comparison of the commonly
written blocks, then stopped talking to the device at
all.
On reboot, fdisk showed no partition table.
dd of /dev/lba showed all FFs for the first 16K,
then 00 for the next 2K, then
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 12:22 -0400, John Watlington wrote:
Mitch,
One of the LBA NAND test machines killed it's MBR.
It started with a failed comparison of the commonly
written blocks, then stopped talking to the device at
all.
On reboot, fdisk showed no partition table.
dd of
David Woodhouse wrote:
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 12:22 -0400, John Watlington wrote:
Mitch,
One of the LBA NAND test machines killed it's MBR.
It started with a failed comparison of the commonly
written blocks, then stopped talking to the device at
all.
On reboot, fdisk showed no
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 08:41 -1000, Mitch Bradley wrote:
For example, consider yourself. When you worked for RH, OLPC
could get lots of your valuable attention because of the OLPC/RH
connection. But now that you are associated with Intel, what is the
situation? (Perhaps we could in fact
John Watlington wrote:
Mitch,
One of the LBA NAND test machines killed it's MBR.
It started with a failed comparison of the commonly
written blocks, then stopped talking to the device at
all.
On reboot, fdisk showed no partition table.
dd of /dev/lba showed all FFs for the first 16K,
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 09:35 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008, Martin Langhoff wrote:
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 9:24 AM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
*But*, we should be able to:
* Print postscript (or pdf, or whatever, just pick *one*) to
school server
1. Project name : BundleActivity
2. Existing website, if any :
3. One-line description : Extract or create bundles of objects in
various formats.
4. Longer description : Activity to extract files from downloaded zip
: or tar.gz archives. Create
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Aaron Konstam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Only in the sense that when the application runs that wants to print you
need to tell it which printer it is to use.However, if there is only one
printer and that is made the default,even that does not have to be done.
I also suspect that many of the G1G1 users will have a Linux machine
available.
Well, not this G1G1 user. Nor do I have access to a mac or a pc or a lan. I
figure when the day comes that I must print something from my xo, I'll have
to put it on a thumb drive and take it to a Kinko's or an
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008, genesee wrote:
I also suspect that many of the G1G1 users will have a Linux machine
available.
Well, not this G1G1 user. Nor do I have access to a mac or a pc or a lan. I
figure when the day comes that I must print something from my xo, I'll have
to put it on a thumb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
while since you also don't have a printer this doesn't apply to you (other
than the 'print to the journal/file' option)
truewhy would I buy a printer for my computer that does not support
printing? how about getting tivo without a teevee? or 'triple a'
This is interesting. Bill Kendrick ran code_swarm against CVS logs of
TuxPaint. Wonder what code_swarm of Sugar will look like...
Code Swarm: http://vis.cs.ucdavis.edu/~ogawa/codeswarm/
Sameer
--
Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Information Systems
San Francisco State University
Over at the OSL, we were able to get new printers showing in the MeshBox,
and had just started working on coming up with some interface for
configuration. We had some hang ups with some of the code used to detect
printers over avahi, but other than that things seem to work.
I've made a metalink for the software downloads on
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_Notes/8.2.0 ( filed a ticket
http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8866 ):
http://www.metalinker.org/samples/OLPC_8.2.0_gg-767-4.img.metalink
A metalink is an XML file that lists checksums, mirrors, signatures,
other
Ok - I had missed the whole thread in my earlier reply.
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 9:24 AM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
*But*, we should be able to:
* Print postscript (or pdf, or whatever, just pick *one*) to
school server via CUP (IPP?), and install a decent selection of
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Pia Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
They have the right ownership, and the ds-backup.py on my 767 image doesn't
look the same as in that trac log. I'll look into it some more.
The other thing to check is that ~/.sugar/default/owner.key in the XO
is mode 600 .
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