This week in the life of CL1B

2009-08-04 Thread John Watlington
This week showed a steady progress toward a B1 motherboard. The layout process with a six layer motherboard is going good and being finalized. Gerbers should go out any day. I had a brief scare for a couple of days when an SD card used for testing developed errors (one in 1MB written, on

Re: Disk layout for XO-1.5 (LVM reliability)

2009-08-04 Thread John Gilmore
LVM has a level of appeal. But it caused me a lot of trouble once. I'd built a striped ext2 filesystem using it, so I could get enough disk bandwidth to record raw sampled HDTV radio signals in realtime, using Mandrake Linux and GNU Radio. When I upgraded that system to Fedora a few years later,

Re: kernel debugging

2009-08-04 Thread NoiseEHC
Somehow every time I asked about debugging in these forums I have got no answer at all. Now I have a weak feeling that Linux developers are real programmers who do not use debuggers. I hope it is not the case... :) 2. I looked into using the USB port with gadget support. I am attaching the

Re: [Sugar-devel] Can I use the keep or title_set_by_user key of metadata to store info about my activity

2009-08-04 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Sumit, On 4 Aug 2009, at 02:09, sumit singh wrote: Hi Tomeu, This is in continuation with our chat yesterday. The write/report activity would be having 3 states , I mean whether the user is working on a blank document , designing a new template or using a previously designed template.

Can I use the keep or title_set_by_user key of metadata to store info about my activity

2009-08-04 Thread sumit singh
Hi Tomeu, This is in continuation with our chat yesterday. The write/report activity would be having 3 states , I mean whether the user is working on a blank document , designing a new template or using a previously designed template. So, what I wanted was to save this state as well while saving

Re: Can I use the keep or title_set_by_user key of metadata to store info about my activity

2009-08-04 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 03:09, sumit singhsumit.co...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Tomeu, This is in continuation with our chat yesterday. The write/report activity would be having 3 states , I mean whether the user is working on a blank document , designing a new template or using a previously

Re: Disk layout for XO-1.5

2009-08-04 Thread Albert Cahalan
First partition: FAT16 with 4 KB clusters Second partition: LVM with ext4 In the LVM, filesystems should be 50% to 80% full. This leaves some extra space unused. As filesystems fill up, the filesystems can be expanded to use the extra space. Don't shrink filesystems unless they drop down to 15%

soas3 for X11

2009-08-04 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
[Disclaimer: I am not asking for help; just sharing my experience.] Tried the new SoaS3-200908021950.iso image (with Sugar 0.85) on my XO-1 - it works. Just about the first thing I do upon installing a build is to use Terminal. And Terminal opened __offset__ in the XO-1 screen (its upper

Re: soas3 for X11

2009-08-04 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Mikus, On 4 Aug 2009, at 14:18, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: [Disclaimer: I am not asking for help; just sharing my experience.] Tried the new SoaS3-200908021950.iso image (with Sugar 0.85) on my XO-1 - it works. Just about the first thing I do upon installing a build is to use Terminal.

Re: soas3 for X11

2009-08-04 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Hi, On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Mikus Grinbergsmi...@bga.com wrote: [Disclaimer:  I am not asking for help; just sharing my experience.] Tried the new SoaS3-200908021950.iso image (with Sugar 0.85) on my XO-1 - it works. Just about the first thing I do upon installing a build is to use

Re: kernel debugging

2009-08-04 Thread Richard A. Smith
NoiseEHC wrote: Somehow every time I asked about debugging in these forums I have got no answer at all. Now I have a weak feeling that Linux developers are real programmers who do not use debuggers. I hope it is not the case... :) 2. Or they are just busy... Another issue is that this

Re: Disk layout for XO-1.5

2009-08-04 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 4:42 AM, Albert Cahalanacaha...@gmail.com wrote: First partition: FAT16 with 4 KB clusters Second partition: LVM with ext4 Gentlemen, before LVM can be considered, we need - fs resize that is fail-safe in the face of powerloss, for the fs types we plan to use. - lvm

Re: Disk layout for XO-1.5

2009-08-04 Thread NoiseEHC
Once BTRFS is mature, yum learns to snapshot-upgrade-or-revert and we switch to that combo, we will be able to retire olpc-update, the symlink trees and the fancy overlays. Do you have a prediction (I mean an educated guess) about when will BTRFS be mature? What I heard last time that

Re: Disk layout for XO-1.5

2009-08-04 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, Do you have a prediction (I mean an educated guess) about when will BTRFS be mature? The developers recently said in at least a year from now. For some particular features that we would need before adopting it: 2.6.31: hopefully ENOSPC bug will be fixed 2.6.32: ability to delete

Getting a gtk.image from the get_preview function

2009-08-04 Thread sumit singh
Hi all, I would like to ask what is the best way to get a gtk.Image from the data returned by get_preview function of activity.Activity fn of sugar. I want to make an image buttton using this data. Currently, I am doing it by saving the data in a temp file using the tempfile module of sugar and

Re: [Server-devel] K2 Content/Classroom Management System

2009-08-04 Thread Caroline Meeks
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 1:58 AM, r...@apc.edu.ph wrote: Hi, I am Ray Baquirin of Asia Pacific College in Makati, Philippines. We are looking to port to the XS the Classroom Management System that Caroline Meeks posted about here:

[Server-devel] errortoomanylogins

2009-08-04 Thread Joshua N Pritikin
I'm not sure how, but one of our students triggered errortoomanylogins. Restarting the browser did not seem to help. Therefore, I removed the check. Is this is sane thing to do? What is the point of this check anyway? If I was going to try to guess a password then I would create a fresh

Re: [Server-devel] skipping or automating anaconda during install

2009-08-04 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/8/3 Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca: Might be an anaconda bug, can't recall off the top of my head. Are you being prompted for language/keyboard/timezone info only? Try # out interactive in the ks.cfg file. That did it, thanks! ___ Server-devel

Re: [Server-devel] XS backup/restore feature

2009-08-04 Thread Daniel Drake
Here are new, tested versions of the backup/restore scripts. They are more robust (not using temporary disk space any more), which has a small speed penalty but should improve reliability and decrease disk space requirements. xs-backup now has a --uncompressed option which produces an un-gzipped

Re: [Server-devel] web filtering

2009-08-04 Thread Adrian Chadd
2009/8/1 Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com: On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:59 PM, Joshua N Pritikinjpriti...@pobox.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:46:33PM -0600, Martin Langhoff wrote:  - wiki material? Added, http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Installing_Software#Internet_Filtering

Re: [Server-devel] errortoomanylogins

2009-08-04 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 1:59 AM, Joshua N Pritikinjpriti...@pobox.com wrote: Is this is sane thing to do? Yup. What is the point of this check anyway? If I was going to try to guess a password then I would create a fresh cookie for every attempt. Most students trying to get into their mate's

Re: [Server-devel] K2 Content/Classroom Management System

2009-08-04 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 11:58 PM, r...@apc.edu.ph wrote: I am Ray Baquirin of Asia Pacific College in Makati, Philippines.  We are looking to port to the XS  the Classroom Management System that Caroline Meeks posted about here:

Re: [Server-devel] K2 Content/Classroom Management System

2009-08-04 Thread Caroline Meeks
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.comwrote: On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 11:58 PM, r...@apc.edu.ph wrote: I am Ray Baquirin of Asia Pacific College in Makati, Philippines. We are looking to port to the XS the Classroom Management System that Caroline Meeks

Re: [Server-devel] K2 Content/Classroom Management System

2009-08-04 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Caroline Meekscarol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: There are people on the Sugar Devel list working on making the games run on Sugar.  They are having some issues, but its probably not Flash vs Gnash at the root cause of them. The Teachermate hardware only uses

Re: [Server-devel] Fwd: Simple Digital Library Index System

2009-08-04 Thread Mike Dawson
Hi Martin, Apologies for the delay in getting back to you... I just did the training for this for our team here on the ground yesterday. So they will probably have the first library built early next week (about Monday). Then we can upload that as a demo. The way it's designed is that the Java