Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] webactivity: seed the XS cookie at startup

2009-02-13 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 7:07 AM, Carol Farlow Lerche c...@msbit.com wrote: Martin, I want to understand what https traffic you are concerned will affect performance and caching. As far as I understand the need for https, it would only be used infrequently, when reauthenticating to the server.

Re: Speech-dispatcher, etextRead activity and espeak

2009-02-13 Thread James Simmons
Tony, Last night I was able to do a yum install of speech-dispatcher and speech-dispatcher-python in Fedora 10, so there is a good chance that the same thing would work on the XO. I have not tried it. The install will bring in festival-lite, at about 7 megabytes, which you shouldn't need

Re: Guidance sought on collaboration techniques

2009-02-13 Thread Wade Brainerd
Hey James, FYI here is the collaboration code in Colors! http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/colors/repos/mainline/blobs/master/colors.py#line641 It's fairly well commented but let me know if you have any questions about how it works, or what you should do differently in Read Etexts. I totally

Re: Guidance sought on collaboration techniques

2009-02-13 Thread Gary C Martin
On 13 Feb 2009, at 16:16, Wade Brainerd wrote: Hey James, FYI here is the collaboration code in Colors! http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/colors/repos/mainline/blobs/master/colors.py#line641 It's fairly well commented but let me know if you have any questions about how it works, or what

XO BW mode (was Re: Guidance sought on collaboration techniques)

2009-02-13 Thread Wade Brainerd
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.comwrote: The below will switch to BW, but still leave the backlight on: su echo 1 /sys/devices/platform/dcon/output And to kill backlight and go to BW mode all at once: su echo 0

Re: [Server-devel] XS 0.5.1 RC - Last round of testing...

2009-02-13 Thread Sameer Verma
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 2:56 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: I've circumvented the realtek 8139 problem by appending irqpoll in grub.conf That seems to work, although I have to bring up eth0 manually and

Re: XO BW mode (was Re: Guidance sought on collaboration techniques)

2009-02-13 Thread Gary C Martin
On 13 Feb 2009, at 17:28, Wade Brainerd wrote: On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: The below will switch to BW, but still leave the backlight on: su echo 1 /sys/devices/platform/dcon/output And to kill backlight and go to BW mode

Re: XO BW mode (was Re: Guidance sought on collaboration techniques)

2009-02-13 Thread Wade Brainerd
Ohhh, gotcha. I have only tried turning the brightness to off in dark environments :) On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: On 13 Feb 2009, at 17:28, Wade Brainerd wrote: On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: The

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] webactivity: seed the XS cookie at startup

2009-02-13 Thread Simon Schampijer
Martin Langhoff wrote: On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 12:19 AM, Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.de wrote: When thinking about it a bit more - the big plus with your approach that it's only affects Browse - code wise, which is when back porting to 0.82 a big plus, actually maybe the only way.

[Server-devel] [xs-activity-server] Support .xol library bundles

2009-02-13 Thread Daniel Drake
Generalize into a a bundle superclass and create a Content subclass for content bundles. --- src/xs_activities.py | 250 +- 1 files changed, 146 insertions(+), 104 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/xs_activities.py b/src/xs_activities.py index

DebXO 0.5 release

2009-02-13 Thread Andres Salomon
Hi, I've just built and tagged DebXO 0.5. I had to put this out sooner than I'd anticipated due to an OFW upgrade that broke things. It doesn't have some of the features I'd wanted to have in 0.5, so they'll have to come later. DebXO is a version of Debian (testing) that is customized for the

Re: [Server-devel] XS 0.5.1 RC - Last round of testing...

2009-02-13 Thread Sameer Verma
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 10:19 -0800, Sameer Verma wrote: On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 2:57 AM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 23:30 -0800, Sameer Verma wrote: On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Sameer Verma

Re: [Server-devel] XS 0.5.1 RC - Last round of testing...

2009-02-13 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 23:30 -0800, Sameer Verma wrote: On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: was with eth0

Re: [Server-devel] XS 0.5.1 RC - Last round of testing...

2009-02-13 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 10:19 -0800, Sameer Verma wrote: On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 2:57 AM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 23:30 -0800, Sameer Verma wrote: On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Martin

Re: [Server-devel] XS 0.5.1 RC - Last round of testing...

2009-02-13 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: I'm seeing the same errors in the install log as Sameer while installing on an XO. openssl does not get installed, because uname returns as an i586 while there is no openssl.586 in the repo just .686. Just to backup my hunch

power consumption after shutdown

2009-02-13 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
As far as I can tell, the battery in the XO-1 retains its charge quite well when taken out of the case. But in my experience, when I specify 'Shutdown' to the software, and close the XO lid after all its lights (including 'power') are extinguished -- then when two days later I insert the AC

Re: power consumption after shutdown

2009-02-13 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mikus Grinbergs wrote: I take this to mean that *something* was draining some power for the two days the XO was sitting in its shut down state. All rechargeable batteries lose stored energy over time. The phenomenon is called self-discharge. It

Re: power consumption after shutdown

2009-02-13 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, I take this to mean that *something* was draining some power for the two days the XO was sitting in its shut down state. The embedded controller was. Something needs to be watching for a power button press in order to know when to turn on. - Chris. -- Chris Ball c...@laptop.org

Re: power consumption after shutdown

2009-02-13 Thread david
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Chris Ball wrote: Hi, I take this to mean that *something* was draining some power for the two days the XO was sitting in its shut down state. The embedded controller was. Something needs to be watching for a power button press in order to know when to turn on.

Re: power consumption after shutdown

2009-02-13 Thread quozl
Long ago I did some early measurements of the EC and it was consuming current while operating. The operating current has varied slightly according to the firmware version. There have been improvements, but I've not measured it recently. The symptom you describe is quite normal ... the battery

Re: [Server-devel] Install from NFS server

2009-02-13 Thread David Leeming
Jerry The USB install was prepared for me by someone else, loaded with version 0.5.0. It worked fine, but the install failed at the final stage due to some hardware issue which (I am told) is now fixed. When the 0.5.1 version became available, I replaced the XS image file in the /iso folder

Re: [Server-devel] Install from NFS server

2009-02-13 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 19:03 +1100, David Leeming wrote: Jerry The USB install was prepared for me by someone else, loaded with version 0.5.0. It worked fine, but the install failed at the final stage due to some hardware issue which (I am told) is now fixed. When the 0.5.1 version

Re: [Server-devel] XS 0.5.1 RC - Last round of testing...

2009-02-13 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 23:30 -0800, Sameer Verma wrote: On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: was with eth0

Re: [Server-devel] Install from NFS server

2009-02-13 Thread David Leeming
Hi Jerry All totally incomprehensible to me! David Leeming Technical Advisor, People First Network, Honiara, Solomon Islands Alternative email address: leemingda...@yahoo.com.au -Original Message- From: Jerry Vonau [mailto:jvo...@shaw.ca] Sent: Friday, 13 February 2009 9:31 p.m. To:

[Server-devel] [Fwd: Re: XS 0.5.1 RC - Last round of testing...]

2009-02-13 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 10:19 -0800, Sameer Verma wrote: On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 2:57 AM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 23:30 -0800, Sameer Verma wrote: On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Martin

Re: [Server-devel] [Fwd: Re: XS 0.5.1 RC - Last round of testing...]

2009-02-13 Thread Sameer Verma
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 10:19 -0800, Sameer Verma wrote: On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 2:57 AM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 23:30 -0800, Sameer Verma wrote: On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Sameer Verma

Re: [Server-devel] consequences of re-registering with XS

2009-02-13 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 2:25 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: To avoid this situation in future (should we ever run into it again, fingers crossed we won't), we are considering a small modification to the paraguay OS build which makes the Discard network history button also clear the XS

Re: [Server-devel] Install from NFS server

2009-02-13 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 9:03 PM, David Leeming leem...@pipolfastaem.gov.sb wrote: Thereafter I have the problem as below, no matter what image file I put in the /iso folder (including the one that the USB drive came with and which worked before): That's probably the problem. As Jerry