On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 1:14 AM, Bryan Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I know that you guys are super crushed w/ Peru's deployment. We really
> need cryptographically signed custom XO images for Nepal.
Please see http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Customization_key which is our
supported mechanism for
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 10:46 PM, Build Announcer v2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> http://pilgrim.laptop.org/~pilgrim/olpc/streams/update.1/build696
> Changes in build 696 from build: 695
> -sugar-presence-service 0.75.2-1.olpc2
> +sugar-presence-service 0.75.1-1.olpc2
Don't we need the school-se
2008/3/3 Eben Eliason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I now see that this was never given a ticket, but has been hidden in the HIG
> since the early days. I've opened ticket #6634 on the subject, generalizing
> it as a way for content providers to tag any bundle as appropriate.
While we're talking about me
On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> broadcast, and they were all able to see and join a shared chat session
> with each other. The workload on the spectrum analyzer increased from
> 18% (no-one connected) to 26% (all connected). The chat session is
> consis
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 7:02 PM, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> http://lyme.media.mit.edu/cerebro/images/Cerebro-24-1.olpc2.noarch.rpm
Could you describe this a little better? What is this intended to do?
Just provide the Space activity, or replace our existing presence
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:57 AM, Morgan Collett
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Michael Stone wrote:
> >>* Minimize size of announced services (i.e. drop unnecessary data from
> TXT)
> >> - The biggest item in the TXT of contacts is the key (which is BIG).
> But
> >>this key is
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 11:45 AM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Rather than invent a new 'friend' URI scheme, an alternative is to use
> the standard XMPP scheme:
> xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED];name=Full%20Name
> (see http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-
Rather than invent a new 'friend' URI scheme, an alternative is to use
the standard XMPP scheme:
xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED];name=Full%20Name
(see http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0147.html ) (Thanks, Robert McQueen.)
The xmpp server on the laptop responds to roster and chat requests at
that addre
On Feb 19, 2008 7:57 PM, Robert McQueen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> Currently we use the buddy key as this unifying key, but I very much
> like the idea of providing extra information to open up the prospect of
> communicating between schools, and a
On Feb 19, 2008 5:47 PM, Robert McQueen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A similar, but more standards-compliant[1][2] proposal might look more like:
> xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
The key part of my original proposal is that it also works in the
(possibly temporary) absence of a school school or of networ
I propose installing a handler for a new URI type in our browse
application. The links will look like:
friend:name.xxx.school.country.xs.laptop.org
where:
name is a Punycode encoding of the XO nickname. Technically, the
IDN ToASCII mapping operation is performed on the nickname, truncated
on
the firefox / whatwg already have a fleshed out model for how
'offline' mode should work for a web browser, including local document
storage, etc. have you looked at that (before we invent our own ways
to write web apps)?
--scott
On 2/16/08, Samuel Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Moving this
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Walter Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Has anyone used a USB bar code scanner on the XO? Any recommendations
> as to a model we could use for an inventory project?
Any barcode scanner which advertises itself as an USB HID device
(read, keyboard) would work fin
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 3:26 AM, Albert Cahalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> doesn't work. Heck, it won't send/receive packets and it knows nothing
> of this "USB" thing. However, we have a blinkenlight. Ship it!
>
> BTW, what is killing my blinkenlight? I realize that it wouldn't do
> to hang
Here's a brain dump of functionality for deployments (like, perhaps,
Peru) which would like to customize their builds on a large scale.
I'm assuming that the cheapest way to do this in the extremely short
term is by inserting a USB key into each machine and have some things
happen:
a) autoinstall
On Feb 11, 2008 11:16 PM, Ivan Krstić <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Feb 11, 2008, at 11:04 PM, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> > I emailed Ivan this morning to try to get a
> > recent Quanta dump so that I can sort this out.
>
> I don't have that e-mail. I have a qu
On Feb 11, 2008 10:11 PM, Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6377
I added code for this exact case this morning after seeing the failure
in the logs. (Django emails you whenever it fails with a server
error.) Future attempts will state clearly that the problem i
For the archives and those interested, the scripts Uruguay used for
their deployment are in git at:
http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=projects/ceibal-scripts;a=tree
I hope to actually get a complete build image at some point. (Thanks
for cjb for pointing these out to me.)
--scott
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2008/2/8 Kim Quirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> We hope to have the final release candidate by the end of next week -- so I
> think that means we only want one more build.
The number of items still open (but approved) for the next rc
candidate is sufficiently large that I think we should plan for at
lea
Signed builds for update.1 rc2 (build 691) are now available at:
http://download.laptop.org/xo-1/os/candidate/691/jffs2/
You can also 'olpc-update candidate-691', which will get the signed build.
Release notes at:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Test_Group_Release_Notes#Build_691_Q2D13_.28RC2.29
There are a number of high risk changes which seem necessary to get
the performance we would like from our builds. In addition to
tomeu's recent rainbow patches, I could list: partitioning the root
filesystem, using logfs/jffs3/ufs instead of jffs2 for our
filesystems, starting X as early as poss
These changes seem appropriate for the 'faster' build (see next
message on devel@).
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2008/2/7 ffm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I take it this is RC2?
>
> Does WEP work yet?
This will be RC2; WEP/WPA are believed working but please test.
Technically, this may not actually be RC2 until it is signed, but I
expect we'll do that tomorrow, unless our early adopters find that it
breathes smok
On Feb 5, 2008 1:50 PM, Mitch Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> FYI, here is how the firmware team (i.e. Richard and I) implement the
> release-stabilization parts of the above. I do not address the formal
> testing here, just the special disciplines during run-up-to-release.
[...]
> d) As of t
On Feb 4, 2008 8:23 PM, John Gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It's easy to get confused about this -- the particular implementation
> strategy for update.1 has changed several times. (Indeed, I might
> have it wrong, but I rest assured that if so, someone will correct
> me.) See http://dev.la
On Feb 4, 2008 12:59 PM, Mikus Grinbergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I posted because there appeared to be a regression (regarding asking
> for passwords) in the OLPC behavior -- that exists regardless of how
> I described happening to notice it.
It is not a bug. Use 'passwd' to set a password.
On Feb 3, 2008 10:51 PM, John Gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> code. And perhaps Python facilities for specifying what version of
> the interpreter your code expects (and getting such an interpreter to
> execute it, regardless of which interpreter version is the default
> called "python") will
On Feb 4, 2008 11:50 AM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2008/2/4 Kim Quirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > I think this is way too much stuff for Update.1. We are in code freeze. We
> > have items 1 and 2 scheduled to go into RC2; I would suggest that we ONLY
> > pick up Spanish, where we
On Jan 31, 2008 10:11 PM, Jim Gettys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2 - q2d11 OFW - to fix battery problems
We'll need a q2d12 to fix #6291, or plan for a update.1.1 for
deployments like Mongolia where we need to multicast-update large
groups of machines.
> 4 - UI fix for registration with the sc
On Jan 28, 2008 5:24 PM, Ivan Krstić <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jan 28, 2008, at 8:04 PM, Cleve Moler wrote:
> > (I doubt that MATLAB runs in the OLPC, but I'm not sure.)
There are a number of open-source replacements for MATLAB, including
GNU Octave ( http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ ) an
2008/1/25 Bennett Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Does bootanim pull it's 60MB size freight? That's the only thing
> that struck my eye in a review of rpms by size.
Our filesystem is compressed. You are looking at uncompressed size.
The data in question is extremely compressible.
Otherwise -- have f
*In general* packages have 'olpc' in their titles because they are not
appropriate for non-XO machines. There are exceptions: olpc-contents
and olpc-evince (or is it called evince-sugar?) come to mind.
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2008/1/16 ffm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 1) Alice's teacher wants her to use a flash (non-gnash working) web site for
> her homework. Her teacher had set it up for her in class, but as she walked
> home, her XO was auto-updated to the new version. This undid all of the
> changes that installed non-free
On Jan 15, 2008 7:30 PM, Mikus Grinbergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ffm wrote:
> > then you have the old version
> > You need to be on update.1 or joyride to get the new one.
>
> That's why I posted here. I have (on G1G1) a very recent update.1
> and a very recent joyride. Yet BOTH have the 200
On Jan 14, 2008 7:10 PM, Asheesh Laroia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm happy to announce a beta release of the Creative Commons licensing
> activity for the XO.
Do you have suggestions on integrating this with Pippy and (say)
Paint? For example, if you could copy the license choice to the
clipb
I'd strongly suggest incrementally extending Pippy (making a "Poppy")
to add functionality, instead of starting from scratch. That way, at
every point you will have a working application which is better than
what we have now, minimizing the chance that this will be Yet Another
Ambitious Develop Ef
I should have also noted that epydoc is configured to use
ReStructuredText by default for docstrings
(http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html) -- if you prefer to use a
different markup language set the global __docformat__ at the top
level of your module, as described here:
http://epydoc.source
On Dec 30, 2007 1:31 PM, Jeffrey Kesselman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In general it would be good if a docs could be made downloadable... I
> don't always have net access.
Good point. When I integrate this into the build process, I'll be
sure to .zip up the files as well.
In the interim: http:
The subject line of my previous message should have been 'updated API
documentation', not 'updates API documentation', sigh.
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I have run the python documentation tool 'epydoc' on the contents of
the joyride-1477 release. The results are here:
http://dev.laptop.org/~cscott/joyride-1477-api/
This is probably the most up-to-date documentation available now for
Sugar, the update and contents tools, rainbow, etc.
I plan to
On Dec 29, 2007 6:36 PM, Ivan KrstiÄ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Dec 28, 2007, at 9:32 PM, Mr frÿffe9dÿffe9ric
> pouchal wrote:
> > There is a file that ends with jffs2.usb
> > Does it mean that you can use jffs2 on usb ?
>
> No, and you don't want to be using JFFS2 on a USB
On Dec 28, 2007 12:30 PM, Bernardo Innocenti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I heard this also from C.Scott. It's not a problem for me
> because I can keep developming in my own xtest builds, but
> where are the other developers supposed to integrate their
> work and make it available for testing?
T
there's a bug filed in trac, assigned to the browse-activity
component, which discusses key mappings in handheld mode. I'm reading
mail on my cellphone, so I can't look it up for you know, but it
shouldn't be hard to find from http://dev.laptop.org/
--scott
On 12/27/07, Jake Beard <[EMAIL PROTE
If you're going to be fooling with your laptop in this way (and we
encourage you to do so) the very first thing you should do is get a
developer key. I hope you did so?
>From the OFW prompt, type 'more olpc.fth' to see the boot script. The
bit at the end is the business side; you can probably fi
On Dec 27, 2007 6:00 PM, ffm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just went from 1480 to latest joyride over ethernet, and it worked for me.
Yes, I've done it too. In a previous post:
http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2007-December/008880.html
mikus claimed that he had DNS problems with his wi
On Dec 27, 2007 11:47 AM, Mikus Grinbergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> FYI - finally managed to put an update.1 build on my G1G1. For my
> system, the solution was using an USB stick, instead of a SD card,
> to load in the build image. [With SD cards, the process would erase
> the nand contents,
On Dec 26, 2007 7:36 PM, Jim Oser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Do some images have the development tools already in the image?
> Why is http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/
> build1481/devel_ext3/data/ os.img 928 MB
> while other images at:
> http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olp
On Dec 26, 2007 1:56 PM, ffm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Even though it is unsupported to use the olpc-update method, for some it
> might be more important to get wifi than stability.
>
> Should we put in the support FAQ that if one *absolutely* needs WPA that
> they could try olpc-update ing unde
On Dec 26, 2007 12:27 PM, ffm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> According to the download page for ship.2, 653 is the latest signed stable,
> but according to OS images the latest image is 650. Since many issues that
> were in 650 have been fixed in 653, and 653 seems to run w/o issues, why the
> two di
Documentation on wiki at Olpc-update.
--scott
On Dec 25, 2007 5:15 PM, Bernardo Innocenti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello Scott,
>
> I'd like to use olpc-update with my custom xtest builds,
> so I don't have to download the 300MB of OS images every
> time.
>
> What should I do to set it up on
On Dec 25, 2007 6:49 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> the problem is that sudo is not installed on the Update.1 builds. By
> looking at the build log I see:
>
> >Parsing package install arguments
> >No package sudo available.
Ah, the old 'yum doesn't actually fail when there's
On Dec 24, 2007 8:11 PM, Mikus Grinbergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The procedure describes using 'wget' to fetch the key. Perhaps due
> to my physical connection setup (wired + proxy), the 'wget' would
> time out and say "Resolving activation.laptop.org ... failed".
> [Note: for me, wget on the
Bernie has the details to get a 1200x900 screen in the emulator on the
wiki somewhere (right?); since XOs may in the future have
differently-sized screens, Bernie's contention is that we are just
asking for trouble later if our applications don't scale to the
available space. Opinions differ on th
There is an automatic upgrade system. Your machine will automatically
upgrade to the latest stable version.
The various builds and branches are described at
http://dev.laptop.org/roadmap ; click 'see completed milestones' to
see the older ship.* branches.
--scott
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On Dec 24, 2007 11:50 AM, irwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The browser correctly identifies a certificate that doesn't match the URL.
> However, there needs to be a way to continue with the page regardless of the
> certificate's validity. In other words, it should be a warning, as in
> normal b
On Dec 24, 2007 11:04 AM, Kim Quirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Marco,
> If this is the same issue that I just encountered in Joyride, then the login
> is now 'olpc' instead of 'root'. No password. Sudo should work (i believe).
trac #5537 ; http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2007-December/0
On Dec 23, 2007 4:01 PM, Mr frÿffe9dÿffe9ric pouchal
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a G1G1 olpc and I need an activation key
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activation_and_Developer_Keys
You mean, "Developer Key". G1G1 machines are pre-activated from the factory.
> The first m
Pippy is a capable basic Python IDE. sshfs is a nice way to get
access to the XO's filesystem from a full-scale development machine.
The XO's flash is large enough to install emacs, git, and other such
tools; a full C development environment is a bit of a stretch, but you
can add an external SD ca
On Dec 23, 2007 4:55 PM, Bernardo Innocenti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jerry Van Baren wrote:
>
> > Hmmm, odd. After setting the hwclock with --utc, my /etc/adjtime has
> > "UTC" but, when I cycled power, my system clock was off by my timezone.
> > Ahh, my /etc/adjtime has "0" instead of "UTC" o
On Dec 22, 2007 10:06 PM, Hal Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It looks in /etc/sysconfig/clock for the UTC flag. It defaults to local.
>
> My XO doesn't have an /etc/sysconfig/clock
>
> All the Linux boxes I've ever worked with have run with the hardware clock
> set to UTC. I'm not sure why X
On Dec 22, 2007 7:39 AM, Emiliano Pastorino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there any procedure to upgrade JUST the firmware on activated laptops?
> Thanks!
A couple of ways:
a) get a developer key, and reflash from OFW
b) put a signed bootfw.zip of the desired firmware on a USB key, boot
with i
On Dec 22, 2007 3:07 AM, Bernardo Innocenti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Joshua Minor wrote:
> > Is it reasonable to assume that the XO's clock is set correctly?
> > Specifically I'd like to use python's time.time() to determine which
> > participant of an activity has been using it the longest.
>
>From looking at the build on updates.laptop.org, it looks to me like
there is no password set for root. In any case, the debian build is
rather old; you will get better results by repeating the steps at:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Installing_Debian_as_an_upgrade
This will ensure you get the lat
I think people misunderstand the core problem: if root does not have a
password, then *any activity on the system* can gain root privileges
by su'ing to root. By restricting 'root login' to the olpc user via
sudo, it becomes simple to restrict the activities which can gain root
privileges, because
> Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> > I also disapprove adding bulky packages to our builds just for sake of
> > debugging. In this case, this is said to be only temporary until we
> > have shaken the most serious networking problems.
As I've said before: normally you can say, "just download the
debugg
On Dec 19, 2007 9:50 AM, Jim Gettys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 11:57 +0100, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> > My understanding is that developers and testers can propose tickets
> > using the Update.1? keyword but it's up to Jim and Kim to actually
> > triage the ticket to a c
On Dec 19, 2007 4:00 PM, Build Announcer Script <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1450/
> --- Journal-82 ---
> * #2545 Correctly unmount the device from the DS when it is removed.
> (tomeu)
> * Implement ShowObject, #4909 (rwh)
>
> ---
On Dec 19, 2007 5:57 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> there is some disagreement in trac about how bugs triaging should
> work. See for example:
>
> http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5538#comment:5
>
> My understanding is that developers and testers can propose tickets
> using the U
I'd like to draw devel@'s attention to trac bug 5537, which might land
sometime soon:
http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5537
The upshot would be that, instead of logging in directly as root with
no password, you would log in directly as *olpc* with no password, and
then sudo to root (if you need root
On Dec 16, 2007 7:14 PM, Bernardo Innocenti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The new-kernel-pkg script is part of mkinitrd :-(
>
> Please, allow me some time to come up with a straightforward
> fix that doesn't require putting mkinitrd back in the builds.
Can you please do this in your private builds,
On Dec 15, 2007 11:52 AM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Scott has written very detailed instructions on how to do this but his
> documentation is currently located on the internalwiki in pursuit of, in
> my view, security by obscurity. Since I am not maintaining these
> servers, I do n
On Dec 15, 2007 10:38 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Dec 15, 2007 4:36 PM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The Roadmap lists activity isolation as a release criterion for
> > Update.1. Was there a public announcement that I missed explaining why
> > activity i
On Dec 15, 2007 10:26 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Dec 15, 2007 3:54 PM, Bernardo Innocenti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Moreover, I was very confused by the fact that we branched Update.1
> > from Ship.2 rather than from Joyride, which I still considered our
> > devel
On Dec 15, 2007 6:31 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> we need to enable security in the Update.1 images, since the plan is
> to ship with it enabled. Looks like it's turned off in pilgrim at the
> moment.
>
> 463 echo " - turning off security by default"
> 464 rm -f $INSTALL
On Dec 15, 2007 7:41 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The location of the Update.1 builds has changed:
>
> http://pilgrim.laptop.org/~pilgrim/olpc/streams/update.1/
>
> I'm not sure if it's the final location but it would be to update the
> Changelog to point to it.
>
> http://
On Dec 15, 2007 7:35 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Dec 14, 2007 11:01 PM, Jim Gettys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Declaring code freeze for Update.1 today would not see a rational
> > resolution of these issue. As promised, this is a release that is
> > driven by compl
On Dec 15, 2007 1:14 AM, Ivan Krstić <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> http://live.laptop.org/~krstic/lolpc.jpg
>
> It had to be done.
One Laptop Per Cat!
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On Dec 14, 2007 9:04 PM, ffm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Should we be doing testing on this build, or on the latest joyride?
>
> Will all the changes made here be merged back with joyride eventualy?
The other way round: all the changes made in joyride will eventually
make their way to a stable bu
On Dec 14, 2007 10:27 AM, Jim Gettys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Seems like we should leave compat-libstc+++ in for a release cycle
> more Fedora, for better or worse, tends to lead rather than follow
> in the glibc versioning (no great surprise since Cygnus was acquired by
> Red Hat).
>
> Le
A new official build 653 is now at:
http://download.laptop.org/xo-1/os/official/653/
As with all builds in the 'official' directory on download.laptop.org,
it is signed for installation on unactivated machines and machines
without developer keys.
This build is identical to ship.2-653, except f
On Dec 13, 2007 2:19 AM, Bernardo Innocenti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 12/13/07 00:58, Build Announcer Script wrote:
>
> > +compat-libstdc++-33.i386 0:3.2.3-61
>
> Why do we even need this?
I don't know, but it's explicitly listed in pilgrim as a package to
install. joyride has had it, but d
although full voip would be nice, simply adding voice to chat in a
push-to-talk fashion might be nice, too. i don't see why we shouldn't
do both, unless the exact same people are invoved.
--scott
On 12/12/07, Sjoerd Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 11:21:59AM -0500, Be
Incidentally, from my review of the bundlebuilder code, it appears
that one of the reasons why MANIFEST files have been disappearing from
bundles is that bundlebuilder has mechanisms to synthesize the
MANIFEST from the git or svn repo contents. So in most cases, the
developer does not need to expl
On Dec 11, 2007 6:52 PM, Walter Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The Sesame Street video that runs in the Helix player (RV encoded) is
> quite a good demo of full screen video on the laptop.
Is there a URL that that can be downloaded from? Does Erik's
transcoding mechanism work to get it out o
We need a demo which shows off the full-screen video capabilities of
the XO. Unfortunately, Record compresses its input rather heavily, so
it's not a great demo for video playback. We bundle the Ogg Theora
codecs, and Browse can play media files full-screen, so the first step
is for someone to in
I have patched Pippy's examples to follow best practices for pygame,
so that the frame rate is limited to 20 FPS and games automatically
pause and suspend after 20 seconds of inactivity. (These defaults can
be overridden.)
The patch is pullable from:
http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/cscott/pippy
On Dec 8, 2007 7:18 PM, Christoph Derndorfer
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Daniel and me are again having another weekend-jam working on the
> activity handbook and we've just spent the past half hour looking at
> different .xo packages from the git-repository to see how the MANIFEST
> file inside t
On Dec 8, 2007 7:38 PM, Bert Freudenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Dec 9, 2007, at 1:18 , Christoph Derndorfer wrote:
>
> > So what I'm basically asking is what the exact requirements for the
> > MANIFEST file are as activities seem to work regardless of what it
> > contains.
>
> Currently,
On Dec 8, 2007 8:25 AM, ffm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Odd, I can not seem to use olpc-update. I am sure I have an Internet
> connection, I just don't think that it is published on the olpc binary diff
> update server.
Please file a trac bug with complete details on the command you typed,
the er
On Dec 6, 2007 1:26 PM, Chris Hager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 3. To update only new files inside the zip would require a new kind of
> MANIFEST's with hashes, which I doubt will be here soon, since people
> stopped using manifests even in the demos :-)
See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Contents_Man
On Dec 6, 2007 12:02 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Many thanks for everyones help. Mitch Bradly walked me through the
> process of fixing my B2.
>
> See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/No_serial_number
Um, I don't like those instructions at all. Why not just set the
serial number in SPI flash, and
On Dec 5, 2007 10:28 PM, Chris Hager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> just finished a little coding session inspired by our olpc-austria
> meeting, and thought to share some news:
>
> 1. xo-get.py
>
>http://www.olpcaustria.org/mediawiki/index.php/Xo-get
>
>A very simple, but functional .xo pack
On Dec 5, 2007 10:15 PM, Albert Cahalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Finally we have the problem of NO systems programming language
> being supplied. It's less than 9 MB for the whole C development
> environment, including a decent collection of *-devel packages.
> You even get a second language th
On Dec 5, 2007 11:16 AM, Stephen Reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That is interesting because I used olpc-update 650 from home this
> morning and it installed but I have to say the last message before the
> system prompt was "installing ." it did not give a warm fuzzy
> feeling that it insta
On Dec 5, 2007 9:14 AM, Morgan Collett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jim Gettys wrote:
> > -bash-3.2# olpc-update 650
> >
> > Downlaoding contents of build 650.
> > @Error unknown module 'build-650':md5 mismatch for build 650
>
> > On We
Official signed images for build 650 are now at:
http://download.laptop.org/xo-1/os/official/650/jffs2/
You can also use:
olpc-update 650
but be aware that build 650 fixes an open firmware bug which could
cause your machine to fail to boot after you upgrade. That said,
*please try using ol
On Dec 4, 2007 12:31 PM, Bert Freudenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Btw - why are there so many builds without package changes? Do they
> have any significance? See
>
> http://dev.laptop.org/~bert/joyride-pkgs.html
Two reasons:
a) often it's pilgrim (the build tool) which changes; your tool
d
On Dec 4, 2007 4:36 PM, Bert Freudenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What is the "Intel XO"?
It is a tentative version of the XO hardware using an Intel chipset.
Intel has engineers looking at this possibility; this was a result of
the OLPC/Intel agreement earlier this year. Timeframes, actual
p
On Dec 4, 2007 3:54 PM, Owen Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Why did news reader and those other activities get rolled back to older
> versions?
It appears that tomeu's public_rpms didn't get collected properly
(accounting for Journal and Write), nor did ywwg's (NewsReader) or
some other fol
On Dec 4, 2007 4:30 AM, Build Announcer Script <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- olpc-library-core.noarch 1-10 ---
> * Fixing intro to the XO, with Walter's new intro, and links.
> * Smaller for jg; will rebuild to larger in a few days.
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