Re: "Noise" level on devel

2009-12-29 Thread Neil Graham
On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 09:26 -1000, Mitch Bradley wrote: > I regret that I must once again unsubscribe from devel, as the noise > level has gotten out of control. That 'noise' is engagement with the community. If you feel that olpc has the resources to provide a complete system through a cathedra

Re: "Noise" level on devel

2009-12-29 Thread Jeffrey Kesselman
32% of all noise on all mail lists is people announcing they are leaving due to the signal to noise ratio. (67% of all statistics are made up.) On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Mitch Bradley wrote: > I regret that I must once again unsubscribe from devel, as the noise > level has gotten out o

Inventing games in python

2009-12-29 Thread Tabitha Roder
Useful website: http://inventwithpython.com/ It was recommended by Nat Torkington so worthy of sharing the link. It has links for downloading Python installer for multiple operating systems as well as the book as .pdf or web page. Tabitha ___ Devel maili

Re: When debugging NetworkManager / wpa_supplicant -- fixing logs...

2009-12-29 Thread James Cameron
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 04:05:46PM +0100, Martin Langhoff wrote: > For people still looking at issues lurking in the > NM/wpa_supplicant/driver interactions, I have written this simple > script that helps correlate the wpa_supplicant logs (in > seconds-since-boot) with the NM logs (timestamped by s

Re: Android, OLPC, and native hosting

2009-12-29 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
NoiseEHC wrote: > What you do > not want to recognize is that you are excluding a lot of developers who > do not want to waste their time because of the lack of IDEs. We are trying to provide stepping stones. One of those steps is the Develop activity [1], which is a Sugar-oriented IDE for Acti

"Noise" level on devel

2009-12-29 Thread Mitch Bradley
I regret that I must once again unsubscribe from devel, as the noise level has gotten out of control. I need to get some actual OLPC-related work done, instead of listening to people giving free advice and telling others what they ought to be doing. If something that requires my attention shoul

Re: Android, OLPC, and native hosting

2009-12-29 Thread NoiseEHC
to do this you would have to declare one specific variation of these tools as the 'One True Way' and eliminate all the others. the advantage of a loosly coupled IDE is that one component can be replaced by something else without having to change/loose all the other things. and the advantag

NOW: Contributors Program Mtg! (#olpc-meeting, 2PM EST TUES)

2009-12-29 Thread Holt
Please all join NOW! Reviewing the latest OLPC/Sugar community projects over IRC Live Chat: http://forum.laptop.org/chat (2PM EST Boston Time TUESDAY) Then type at bottom: /join #olpc-meeting AGENDA: * Fast Review of the 4 latest (greatest!) HW/Project Proposals -- please join us advocat

Re: Android, OLPC, and native hosting

2009-12-29 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 7:15 PM, wrote: > the advantage of a loosly coupled IDE is that one component can be replaced > by something else without having to change/loose all the other things. Bingo! As soon as git was working, I switched fulltime to it (and dragged my team with me ;-) ). When val

Re: Android, OLPC, and native hosting

2009-12-29 Thread david
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009, NoiseEHC wrote: 2009/12/29 NoiseEHC : me. Another (optional) question is why did you left out gdb from the list? All sorts of things run on the 3/4 xterms i use. valgrind, gdb, python -m pdb, tail -f /path/to/log, ipython, ps_mem.py, psql, git commands... And if al

Re: User workflow sharing "Journal Entries" over USB sticks

2009-12-29 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 04:12:33PM +0100, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:26 AM, Aleksey Lim wrote: > > I've uploaded patch with minor fixes and delete fix > > (b0113bf67c31dbeaa08cf0f1710c1be8d02a9b25 should be cherry-picked) > > Excellent! thanks! Will be re-diffing it a bit

Re: User workflow sharing "Journal Entries" over USB sticks

2009-12-29 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:26 AM, Aleksey Lim wrote: > I've uploaded patch with minor fixes and delete fix > (b0113bf67c31dbeaa08cf0f1710c1be8d02a9b25 should be cherry-picked) Excellent! thanks! Will be re-diffing it a bit later today. > to last sucrose-0.84, was backported 0.86 patch > (f93c9de

When debugging NetworkManager / wpa_supplicant -- fixing logs...

2009-12-29 Thread Martin Langhoff
For people still looking at issues lurking in the NM/wpa_supplicant/driver interactions, I have written this simple script that helps correlate the wpa_supplicant logs (in seconds-since-boot) with the NM logs (timestamped by syslog).   log-secs-to-utc.py < log-in-secs.log > log-in-utc.log  - Yo

Re: Android, OLPC, and native hosting

2009-12-29 Thread NoiseEHC
2009/12/29 NoiseEHC : me. Another (optional) question is why did you left out gdb from the list? All sorts of things run on the 3/4 xterms i use. valgrind, gdb, python -m pdb, tail -f /path/to/log, ipython, ps_mem.py, psql, git commands... And if all those tools would be integrat

Re: Android, OLPC, and native hosting

2009-12-29 Thread Martin Langhoff
2009/12/29 NoiseEHC : > me. Another (optional) question is why did you left out gdb from the list? All sorts of things run on the 3/4 xterms i use. valgrind, gdb, python -m pdb, tail -f /path/to/log, ipython, ps_mem.py, psql, git commands... > All your code is perfect because you are a top-qualit

Re: Android, OLPC, and native hosting

2009-12-29 Thread NoiseEHC
For the other people talking about IDEs: an usable IDE is not a text editor. Of course. What I do (and most other productive programmers I know do) is use the window manager (gnome, kde, awesome...), xterms, a webbrowser, etc, to make a "LIDE": loosely integrated dev environment. I've le

Re: Android, OLPC, and native hosting

2009-12-29 Thread NoiseEHC
> Are you aware the XO ships a full Smalltalk IDE? You know, like VisualAge > which later became Eclipse? It's "hidden" in the Etoys activity, but > (surprise!) it's a kids laptop. Because someone will break your arms if you port Etoys to Android. Now I understand. > The software is designed

Re: [IAEP] Need Live CD to take to Argentina

2009-12-29 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 11:52, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >> You got some good replies already, but you may want to consider >> contacting Gustavo Ibarra or Gonzalo Odiard (cc'ed) who are pushing >> Sugar in Argentina. > > My thoughts exactly. >

Re: [IAEP] Need Live CD to take to Argentina

2009-12-29 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > You got some good replies already, but you may want to consider > contacting Gustavo Ibarra or Gonzalo Odiard (cc'ed) who are pushing > Sugar in Argentina. My thoughts exactly. Also -- if you're going to be in Buenos Aires, it is worthwhile

2PM EST TODAY/TUES: Contributors Program Mtg! (#olpc-meeting)

2009-12-29 Thread Holt
Please all join us reviewing the latest OLPC/Sugar community projects over IRC Live Chat: (2PM EST Boston Time Today/TUESDAY) http://forum.laptop.org/chat Then type at bottom: /join #olpc-meeting AGENDA: * Fast Review of the 4 latest (greatest!) HW/Project Proposals -- please join us advoca

Re: Android, OLPC, and native hosting

2009-12-29 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 1:47 AM, NoiseEHC wrote: > For the other people talking about IDEs: an usable IDE is not a text > editor. Of course. What I do (and most other productive programmers I know do) is use the window manager (gnome, kde, awesome...), xterms, a webbrowser, etc, to make a "LIDE":

Re: [IAEP] Need Live CD to take to Argentina

2009-12-29 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 00:47, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > H All i... > > Did this ever get implemented? If so where do I find it? Are there any > special instructions I need to make and use the live CD? Can a usb stick be > used for file storage? > > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.84/Sugar_LiveCD > >