Sprint Projects/Resources for PyCon 2008 Sprints

2008-02-22 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
Hi all, We'll being doing an Activities sprint after PyCon2008, March 17th (evening) to the afternoon of the 20th. We'll likely have 8-10 Python programmers of various skill levels available. Given the compressed time-frame, we should be able to either complete very small projects or work

Re: GLX available?

2008-02-05 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
://dev.laptop.org/ticket/227 ... The Doom Activity includes OpenGL AFAICS. You should be able to crib the setup from there. HTH, Mike -- Mike C. Fletcher Designer, VR Plumber, Coder http://www.vrplumber.com http://blog.vrplumber.com

Re: GLX available?

2008-02-05 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That won't work - prboom (working) doesn't use OpenGL. Hmm, interesting... might be useful to drop the lib/libGL* files from the .xo file, then. Apologies for the confusion, Mike On Feb 5 2008, Mike C. Fletcher wrote: ... The Doom Activity includes OpenGL AFAICS. You

Re: I have an OLPCGames SVG problem

2008-02-02 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
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Re: I have an OLPCGames SVG problem

2008-02-02 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
Kent Loobey wrote: On Saturday 02 February 2008 06:51:39 Mike C. Fletcher wrote: ... At this point my problem seems to be one of color. I have since learned that the colors of my original images were not distinguishable. I seem to remember somewhere that you all are using a 16 bit

Staffing of an OLPC Booth at PyCon, volunteers needed

2008-01-31 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
Edward Cherlin wrote: 2008/1/29 Noah Kantrowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ... We are holding open an OLPC booth, as someone had mentioned that they wanted one. Can anyone confirm this? A number of OLPC volunteers will be at PyCon, myself included. Does that work? We're told by the

Re: [Fwd: [PyCON-Organizers] OLPC Booth]

2008-01-29 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, We are holding open an OLPC booth, as someone had mentioned that they wanted one. Can anyone confirm this? -- Mike C. Fletcher

Machines for the tutorial at PyCon

2008-01-29 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
Seems we'll have plenty of machines available for the Sprints after PyCon. That's great. I'd like to have a number available on the tutorial day as well (the day before the conference starts). I have a B4 and can likely get a B2 back from one of my local developers for a few days, but I'd

Re: Animation/Python/PyGames vs battery charge

2008-01-28 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
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Re: B2s and OFW

2008-01-17 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
Mike C. Fletcher wrote: ... I just upgraded a B2-2 machine that we're wanting to reassign to another developer. Seem to have bricked the machine. Used an auto-reinstallation image (machine appeared to have the original B2-2 firmware and OS image 216 to start), upgrade to Q2D07 seemed to go

Re: B2s and OFW

2008-01-16 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
). Anyway, if someone has advice on how to un-brick (or debug) it would be appreciated, Mike -- Mike C. Fletcher Designer, VR Plumber, Coder http://www.vrplumber.com http://blog.vrplumber.com

Controlling the Glide/Pressure sensor

2008-01-10 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
within the context of paint Obviously we would need to find a machine to work on to make the project feasible. I'll see if we can repurpose one that's local to the task. Discussions welcome, Mike -- Mike C. Fletcher Designer, VR Plumber

Re: Mounting a USB drive (windows format)

2007-12-21 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
Jeffrey Kesselman wrote: On Dec 21, 2007 5:00 PM, Mike C. Fletcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Side note: kqemu does work under 64-bit Linux (it's what I use to emulate on my AMD64 box). Do you run qemu or qemu-x86_64 ? qemu-x86_64, particularly I run: qemu-system-x86_64

Re: Project Hosting request: LiveBackup_XO-LiveCD

2007-12-16 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
for the project in order to have that happen). Take care, Mike -- Mike C. Fletcher Designer, VR Plumber, Coder http://www.vrplumber.com http://blog.vrplumber.com ___ Devel mailing list Devel

Re: clean installation of 643.

2007-12-04 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
something to do with timing or similar issues that prevented the initial attempt to read the file from USB. HTH, Mike -- Mike C. Fletcher Designer, VR Plumber, Coder http://www.vrplumber.com http://blog.vrplumber.com

Re: boot failed after updating MP to joyride-357 (activation?)

2007-12-04 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
(on my never-as-far-as-I-know-locked B4). I worked around it by starting the OFW prompt and manually telling the machine to boot u:\boot\OLPC.FTH which then completed the upgrade process. Your mileage may vary. HTH, Mike -- Mike C. Fletcher

Re: WSJ

2007-11-26 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
Edward Cherlin wrote: On Nov 25, 2007 10:57 PM, Albert Cahalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike C. Fletcher writes: If we are serious in our goal of educating children, we need to do a few things, and some of this requires a readjustment and a detachment from the question of which

Re: WSJ

2007-11-26 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
Mitch Bradley wrote: Mike C. Fletcher wrote: It's not About the Hardware: In principle, that is true. In practice, it is the hardware that has been responsible for all the attention. If the project had been just a software framework to support constructivist education, the worldwide

Re: WSJ

2007-11-26 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
Bernardo Innocenti wrote: On 11/25/07 18:58, Mike C. Fletcher wrote: * we should port to the other inexpensive laptops, if a country decides to go with EEEs or Classmates, we should be in there offering an EEE or Classmate-optimised Sugar + Activities

Re: WSJ

2007-11-25 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
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Re: Consistent sound

2007-11-23 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
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Re: [design] Lack of built-in serial and // port ?

2007-10-23 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
and probably do you have already talk about this matter ? Indeed, but doesn't hurt to re-iterate the conversation for those just joining in, Mike -- Mike C. Fletcher Designer, VR Plumber, Coder http://www.vrplumber.com http://blog.vrplumber.com

Could we get a feasibility assessment on this from hardware/production?

2007-10-18 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
to the runs. With thanks, Mike -- Mike C. Fletcher Designer, VR Plumber, Coder http://www.vrplumber.com http://blog.vrplumber.com ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org

Re: stderr/stdout msgs in sugar

2007-10-09 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
-activity YourActivityName and the console should be treated as stdin/out/err for your activity. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developers#How_do_I_test_a_Sugar_activity.3F HTH, Mike -- Mike C. Fletcher Designer, VR Plumber, Coder http

Re: Vmware image

2007-09-20 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
support USB 2.0. Good luck, and HTH, Mike -- Mike C. Fletcher Designer, VR Plumber, Coder http://www.vrplumber.com http://blog.vrplumber.com ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http

Re: Power envelope (was Re: radio off guarantee?)

2007-09-18 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
power to the interface. Just a thought, Mike -- Mike C. Fletcher Designer, VR Plumber, Coder http://www.vrplumber.com http://blog.vrplumber.com ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http

Re: Auto-building emulator downloads

2007-09-16 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
://dev.laptop.org/ticket/3112 [2] https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/3503 -- Mike C. Fletcher Designer, VR Plumber, Coder http://www.vrplumber.com http://blog.vrplumber.com ___ Devel mailing list Devel

API Reference and Tutorials please check/update your libraries

2007-09-02 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
./builddocs.py for those who want to make the pydoc-generated documentation their primary documentation format. It's not pretty, but at least it's automatic :) . Have fun all, Mike -- Mike C. Fletcher Designer, VR Plumber, Coder http

Re: Auto-building emulator downloads

2007-08-28 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
the developer/content-developer SDK overlay is composed of. Continuous-builds-are-good-for-iterative-development-ly yr's, Mike -- Mike C. Fletcher Designer, VR Plumber, Coder http://www.vrplumber.com http://blog.vrplumber.com

Auto-building emulator downloads

2007-08-26 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
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Re: Auto-building emulator downloads

2007-08-26 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
Bert Freudenberg wrote: On Aug 26, 2007, at 12:01 , Mike C. Fletcher wrote: We are getting very close to having fully-working VMWare and VirtualBox emulation. Very cool. Could you make a working VirtualBox image of the latest stable release available? That in itself would be incredibly

Re: Auto-building emulator downloads

2007-08-26 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
Ivan Krstić wrote: On Aug 26, 2007, at 6:28 PM, Mike C. Fletcher wrote: Which brings me back to the need for a server with a reasonable connection on which to run the conversion. I just gave you a shell on dev. Things you put into ~/public_html/virtualbox will appear at http

Re: Auto-building emulator downloads

2007-08-26 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
Ivan Krstić wrote: On Aug 26, 2007, at 7:07 PM, Mike C. Fletcher wrote: Still, building them somewhere not behind a cable modem would be a good idea. Right, I assumed giving you a shell on dev would let you convert the images right on that machine. Are there other requirements? There's

Anti-theft traceback on booting 553

2007-08-22 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
, producing the same traceback. Almost there, he thinks, Mike [1] http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/917 -- Mike C. Fletcher Designer, VR Plumber, Coder http://www.vrplumber.com http://blog.vrplumber.com

Re: Power manager specification... (request for comments).

2007-08-17 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
/git.do?p=hardware-manager;a=blob;f=hardwaremanager.py;h=3154b17553621cc41fa947cbff2756372e6e37ec;hb=HEAD [3] with allow-suspend happening automatically after a short-ish timeout if the activity doesn't re-assert the inhibition -- Mike C

Re: Power manager specification... (request for comments).

2007-08-16 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
;hb=HEAD [3] with allow-suspend happening automatically after a short-ish timeout if the activity doesn't re-assert the inhibition -- Mike C. Fletcher Designer, VR Plumber, Coder http://www.vrplumber.com http://blog.vrplumber.com

Re: Python pyc/pyo (Was: Inflation)

2007-07-04 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
the same effort required as a second import of the same module name. HTH, Mike -- Mike C. Fletcher Designer, VR Plumber, Coder http://www.vrplumber.com http://blog.vrplumber.com ___ Devel

Re: System update spec proposal

2007-06-30 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
Christopher Blizzard wrote: On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 12:39 -0400, Mike C. Fletcher wrote: Could we get a summary of what the problem is: The main objection to vserver from all the kernel hackers (and those of us that have to support them!) is that it's a huge patch Okay, so a set

Re: System update spec proposal

2007-06-27 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
Alexander Larsson wrote: On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 15:03 -0400, Mike C. Fletcher wrote: ... I'm not sure what you mean here exactly. Discovery is done using avahi, a well known protocol which we are already using in many places on the laptop. The actual downloading of file uses http, which

Re: Ivan's XO Field Upgrade Proposal

2007-06-26 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
) layers. The overlay manager could initiate an rsync service on the laptop in response to a tubes request (or whatever) in order to allow for XO-to-XO sharing at some point. Have fun, Mike -- Mike C. Fletcher Designer, VR Plumber, Coder

Re: Ivan's XO Field Upgrade Proposal

2007-06-26 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
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Re: System update spec proposal

2007-06-26 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
. We are all working to make a better world, and there should be no egos involved if we are doing things right. Anyway, just my thoughts, Mike -- Mike C. Fletcher Designer, VR Plumber, Coder http://www.vrplumber.com http