Browse.xo performance resolution - Hulahop 200dpi vs Browse 134dpi

2009-05-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi OLPCistas, Sugaristas, Mihai (GSoC participant on the Moodle side of things) has been experimenting with Browse.xo and the performance of its canvas implementation. Out of the box, it is awfully slow (while other aspects of Browse are fairly optimised). He tells the story here, including

Re: [Sugar-devel] dumping datastore to another filesystem

2009-05-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 10:52 PM, torello tore...@torosoft.com wrote: the fuse module is published. You can find it here: http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/fsgateway/repos/mainline Surprise! It's written in Mono! I was wondering about whether I could use it on the XS to replace my PHP

Re: Browse.xo performance resolution - Hulahop 200dpi vs Browse 134dpi

2009-05-15 Thread Mihai Sucan
Hello everyone! Le Fri, 15 May 2009 10:56:20 +0300, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com a écrit: Hi OLPCistas, Sugaristas, Mihai (GSoC participant on the Moodle side of things) has been experimenting with Browse.xo and the performance of its canvas implementation. Out of the box,

Re: Browse.xo performance resolution - Hulahop 200dpi vs Browse 134dpi

2009-05-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: - I am intrigued, hulahop sources say it's hardcoded to 200dpi (and that jives with our screen) - why does it end up being 134? Should it be 200dpi? Would that hit the fast paths properly? (Mihai: does 200dpi

Re: [Sugar-devel] dumping datastore to another filesystem

2009-05-15 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
Martin, the last disk we bought, a few days ago, was $100 and half a terabyte. I understand that you are trying to fit the XS into the preexisting XO hardware, but realistically it is unlikely to be a configuration a real school could use by itself. The deployments we know about so far have

Re: [Sugar-devel] dumping datastore to another filesystem

2009-05-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Carol Farlow Lerche c...@msbit.com wrote: Martin, the last disk we bought, a few days ago, was $100 and half a terabyte.  I understand that you are trying to fit the XS into the preexisting XO hardware, but realistically it is unlikely to be a configuration a

Re: [Sugar-devel] Browse.xo performance resolution - Hulahop 200dpi vs Browse 134dpi

2009-05-15 Thread Mihai Sucan
Le Fri, 15 May 2009 15:26:42 +0300, Lucian Branescu lucian.brane...@gmail.com a écrit: This is very interesting, similar to the problem Qt used to have on Maemo. I was always surprised by report of canvas being slow on the XO, it's probably the fastest and the lowest overhead drawing

Re: [Sugar-devel] dumping datastore to another filesystem

2009-05-15 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
Since you grant my premise, the corollary is that it wouldn't hurt to have mono installed. See here http://www.mono-project.com/Small_footprintabout the mono footprint on disk and in memory. On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 5:34 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, May 15, 2009

Re: [Sugar-devel] dumping datastore to another filesystem

2009-05-15 Thread Torello Querci
Il giorno ven, 15/05/2009 alle 10.21 +0200, Martin Langhoff ha scritto: On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 10:52 PM, torello tore...@torosoft.com wrote: the fuse module is published. You can find it here: http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/fsgateway/repos/mainline Surprise! It's written in Mono!

Re: [Sugar-devel] dumping datastore to another filesystem

2009-05-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Carol Farlow Lerche c...@msbit.com wrote: Since you grant my premise, the corollary is that it wouldn't hurt to have mono installed.  See here about the mono footprint on disk and in memory. That's so simplified that is stupid. Let's avoid such simplifications

Re: [Sugar-devel] dumping datastore to another filesystem

2009-05-15 Thread Sameer Verma
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 5:14 AM, Carol Farlow Lerche c...@msbit.com wrote: Martin, the last disk we bought, a few days ago, was $100 and half a terabyte.  I understand that you are trying to fit the XS into the preexisting XO hardware, but realistically it is unlikely to be a configuration a

Re: [Sugar-devel] dumping datastore to another filesystem

2009-05-15 Thread Sameer Verma
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 5:54 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Carol Farlow Lerche c...@msbit.com wrote: Since you grant my premise, the corollary is that it wouldn't hurt to have mono installed.  See here about the mono footprint on disk and

The XO-1.5 software plan.

2009-05-15 Thread Chris Ball
We have some good news: OLPC has decided to base its software release for the new XO-1.5 laptop on Fedora 11. Unlike previous releases, we plan to use a full Fedora desktop build, booting into Sugar but giving users the option to switch into a standard GNOME install instead. (This will mostly be

Live from SugarCamp

2009-05-15 Thread LASKE, Lionel (C2S)
Thanks to Ubicast, the OLPC France/SugarLabs SugarCamp will be webcast with few delayed seconds on http://live.ubicast.eu/ubicast/live.html We'll try to exchange on the IRC channel: irc://irc.freenode.net/olpcfrance See you soon in Paris or on the web. Best regards from France.

Re: Live from SugarCamp

2009-05-15 Thread Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira
Hello my friends. How can I define groups in Sugar to share things? Can I share an activity only for a specified group of XOs ? -- Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira M.Sc. Student - COPPE/UFRJ Fedora Community Manager - Latin America Red Hat Community and Academy Relations

Re: Live from SugarCamp

2009-05-15 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira wrote: Hello my friends. How can I define groups in Sugar to share things? Can I share an activity only for a specified group of XOs ? Groups are a planned feature, but they have not yet been implemented. What is currently implemented is an invitations system.

Sharing to Groups

2009-05-15 Thread Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira
Hi Benjamin. Benjamin M. Schwartz escreveu: Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira wrote: Hello my friends. How can I define groups in Sugar to share things? Can I share an activity only for a specified group of XOs ? Groups are a planned feature, but they have not yet been implemented. What is

Re: [Testing] Final pre-release Candidate Release 8.2.1 incl Activities

2009-05-15 Thread Jerome Gotangco
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 6:00 AM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote: Hi,   Thanks, sounds like the build isn't signed properly.  I'll respin   it and test on a locked machine. Thanks for the testing, all.  The properly-signed build is in place now, so we're all set for release:

Re: Treatise on Formatting FLASH Storage Devices

2009-05-15 Thread Hal Murray
[Apologies for the delay. I typed most of this in a long time ago, then I got distracted.] Mitch: Many thanks for the heads up. I think I knew about most of the quirks, but I hadn't noticed the interactions of the alignment preferences before. Al Fazio is Intel's flash guru/evangelist. He

[Server-devel] [PATCH] pgsql-xs: Wait for postmaster to complete startup -- solves race w Moodle

2009-05-15 Thread martin . langhoff
From: Martin Langhoff mar...@laptop.org This is a function stolen from the old pg_ctl startup script taht shipped with postgres 7.4. It defers returning success until it can connect to the postmaster process and get it to list its DBs. With this, Moodle DB initialisation now works, even on slow

[Server-devel] admin on moodle

2009-05-15 Thread Sameer Verma
I am able to get a XO to register and become a student. It logs in seamlessly. Who gets to be admin on the moodle instance on XS? cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/

[Server-devel] ARM based XS ?

2009-05-15 Thread rihoward1
Martin, Looks like the Marvell OpenRd Client is finally shipping. http:// www.globalscaletechnologies.com/p-21-openrd-client.aspx I know Fedora now has a ARM branch. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ Architectures/ARMHow difficult would it to be to spin an XS build for ARM? Depending