Re: Swap to SD cards: performance and burnout test

2009-12-08 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 01:41:13PM +1300, Neil Graham wrote: On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 19:16 +0100, Sascha Silbe wrote: On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 03:41:10PM -0200, Emiliano Pastorino wrote: Does anyone come out with a possible test? Compilation in general (e.g. Linux kernel or sugar-jhbuild) seems

Re: 1.5 - gnome-packagekit?

2009-12-08 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/12/8 Reuben K. Caron reu...@laptop.org: -Should we include gnome-packagekit to provide such functionality? -Or would including it increase the complexities of managing deployments? One disadvantage of doing this is that it would harm the use of olpc-update -- pristine updates would fail.

Re: Alternative to Create a new wireless network

2009-12-08 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/12/8 Reuben K. Caron reu...@laptop.org: -Create three faux Mesh Channel # icons in the Network view -When the child wants to join a mesh network they will select one of the networks -Upon selection: the XO will: 1. Scan to see if that ad-hoc network already exists and 2. if it does not

Re: Dis is panks , again

2009-12-08 Thread Walter Bender
I would recommend that you start by modifying an existing activity. Start with a simple change while you get used to the development process. See the Activity Team pages in our wiki as well: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Team -walter On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 2:44 AM,

Re: Swap to SD cards: performance and burnout test

2009-12-08 Thread Neil Graham
On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 10:18 +0100, Sascha Silbe wrote: I don't think it's terribly useful to test memory consuming non-interactive tasks. The problem is that the only way to get _comparable_, _repeatable_ numbers is to make the test non-interactive. Yup, but that's looking where you didn't

Re: Wanted: List of Sugar activities for the XO-1.5

2009-12-08 Thread Mohit Taneja
Hi, I just wanted to add that we released a new package for FoodForce2 (ver. 4). It would be great if you could add this one from http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4206 instead of the older one. In case you have already added an older version. Regards, Mohit Taneja On Mon, Dec

Re: 1.5 - gnome-packagekit?

2009-12-08 Thread Reuben K. Caron
On Dec 8, 2009, at 4:52 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: 2009/12/8 Reuben K. Caron reu...@laptop.org: -Should we include gnome-packagekit to provide such functionality? -Or would including it increase the complexities of managing deployments? One disadvantage of doing this is that it would harm the

Re: 1.5 - gnome-packagekit?

2009-12-08 Thread Reuben K. Caron
Neil, Thanks for bringing this up. It looks like this could be of some value to deployments and something they could easily add should they choose to customize their build image. Keep up the good work and let us know how development is going. Regards, Reuben On Dec 7, 2009, at 7:54 PM,

Re: Alternative to Create a new wireless network

2009-12-08 Thread Reuben K. Caron
On Dec 8, 2009, at 4:59 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: It's a good idea and is doable, although not for friday. You should put it in trac (and the SL one too). Done: http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1610 http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9845 ___ Devel mailing

Re: Alternative to Create a new wireless network

2009-12-08 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Reuben, Daniel, On 8 Dec 2009, at 09:59, Daniel Drake wrote: 2009/12/8 Reuben K. Caron reu...@laptop.org: -Create three faux Mesh Channel # icons in the Network view -When the child wants to join a mesh network they will select one of the networks -Upon selection: the XO will: 1. Scan to

Re: Swap to SD cards: performance and burnout test

2009-12-08 Thread Emiliano Pastorino
Thanks for all your replies. I'll show you the results when we're done. What's most important to the user is probably going to be the latency (pointer sluggishness, UI reaction time), though, and I don't have an idea how to test that (still keeping in mind that it needs to be comparable and

Re: 1.5 - gnome-packagekit?

2009-12-08 Thread John Gilmore
One disadvantage of doing this is that it would harm the use of olpc-update -- pristine updates would fail. And also the software would be silently lost when an olpc-update happens, which is now Good thing we reinvented the wheel here. RPM packaging was too complete and flexible for kids

Re: 8.2.2 Beta-1 test request

2009-12-08 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.comwrote: I also installed 802B1 on one of my XO-1s today and played around with it for about an hour... =Touchpad= Of the two XO-1s (both with the ALPS touchpad) I have around here I chose the one where the touchpad issues

Re: 1.5 - gnome-packagekit?

2009-12-08 Thread James Cameron
On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 02:17:10PM -0800, John Gilmore wrote: One disadvantage of doing this is that it would harm the use of olpc-update -- pristine updates would fail. And also the software would be silently lost when an olpc-update happens, which is now Good thing we reinvented the

Re: 1.5 - gnome-packagekit?

2009-12-08 Thread Walter Bender
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 5:17 PM, John Gilmore g...@toad.com wrote: One disadvantage of doing this is that it would harm the use of olpc-update -- pristine updates would fail. And also the software would be silently lost when an olpc-update happens, which is now Good thing we reinvented the