Re: Announcing OLPC OS 11.3.1 for XO-1, XO-1.5 and XO-1.75

2012-07-09 Thread S Page
/ The directories appear to be the same. I added [[Build number::885]] to http://wiki.laptop.org/go/11.3.1 so the lists in other pages like What release am I running? update. Congratulations! -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http

Re: compiled to .XO

2012-07-09 Thread S Page
and aggressively update http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Running_Linux_Applications_Under_Sugar -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

XO-1 disk space and 12.1 offline update

2012-06-18 Thread S Page
? Cheers and thanks, [1] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Olpc-update#Simple_offline_update [2] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Olpc-update#Purging_a_previous_OS -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: AFR: Sony's 2-screen Tablet P: a good idea gone wrong

2012-04-07 Thread S Page
screen space http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals/fragments.html No doubt Google has a long way to go to make fragments smart enough to handle dual screens like this or a smartphone with HDMI out to a huge TV. And then apps have to be updated to take advantage of fragments. -- =S

Re: 11.3.1 development build 31 for XO-1 and XO-1.5

2012-03-31 Thread S Page
://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10321 -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [OLPC Engineering] [Techteam] 11.3.1 build 11 released for XO-1.75

2011-11-17 Thread S Page
Sorry to butt in   What is the recommended way to identify the type/model of keyboard/trackpad? Good question.  This should be put on a Wiki page. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Support_FAQ/Mouse,_Touchpad ? -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel

Re: can't boot XO-1 from USB, doc needed

2011-11-11 Thread S Page
in years. -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: 12.1.0 devel build 1 released, for XO-1.5 and XO-1

2011-11-07 Thread S Page
that work for the current files. (And congratulations, technology advances inexorably!) -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

can't boot XO-1 from USB, doc needed

2011-11-07 Thread S Page
://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2011-August/033009.html [3] http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/11233 [4] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Installing_to_SD_Card Thanks, -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Sugar and GTK updates

2011-08-21 Thread S Page
These produce documentation that isn't shipped on the XOs. See https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8075 11.61mb evolution-data-server That's still there, but I think because gnome-panel-2.32 requires it, and some other Gnome packages need libs from its package. -- =S Page

Re: 11.2.0 successful XO-1 olpc-update, keyboard woes

2011-07-02 Thread S Page
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 07:26, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: On 30 June 2011 12:32, S Page skierp...@gmail.com wrote: Ctrl+Alt+Neighborhood to switch to console doesn't work, nor do other Ctrl+Alt+Fn combinations. Strange. Ctrl+Alt+F2 and F3 should take you to terminals, and F1 back

Re: [Sugar-devel] Packages size list 11.2.0 build 20

2011-06-30 Thread S Page
2011/6/29 S Page skierp...@gmail.com: 0.72mb totem-pl-parser It looks like the totem music player's playlist facility is still using some tiny piece of Perl I misremembered, its dependency was on evolution-data-server, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456113 . 11.61mb evolution

11.2.0 successful XO-1 olpc-update, keyboard woes

2011-06-30 Thread S Page
else in the frame it has no context menu on hover. I can file bugs for these... -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: 11.2.0 release candidate 1 (build 870) released

2011-06-29 Thread S Page
hard to free up enough space on an XO-1. The release notes Installation section should suggest backing up first. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/How_to_backup_your_XO says to back up an XO-1.5 you should boot up Tiny Core Linux, is that the only way to do it? -- =S Page

Re: [Sugar-devel] Packages size list 11.2.0 build 20

2011-06-29 Thread S Page
is the only thing that requires the wx toolkit. 0.32mb rarian 0.23mb rarian-compat These produce documentation that isn't shipped on the XOs. See https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8075 etc. Good luck! BTW, it's MB, not milli-bits :-) -- =S Page ___ Devel

Re: olpc-update works on XO-1!

2011-06-27 Thread S Page
point I had 11MB free. Is there a way to tell which Record entries in the journal take up the most space? -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [Testing] Software update problems in OLPC 10.1.3

2011-01-12 Thread S Page
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com wrote: I install Activities manually, rather than with software install.  With Help-12 (from 'help-12.xo' gotten via activities.sugarlabs.org) on that system, My Settings - Software Update tells me all my software is up-to-date (and

Re: OLPC 10.1.2 Release Candidate 3

2010-08-26 Thread S Page
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 7:58 PM, S Page skierp...@gmail.com wrote: == Activity groups == I notice there's a new activity group,  url=http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/G1G1Lite I think this was in os851 as well, but I'm pretty sure that either olpc-update to os851 or the Software update

Re: OLPC 10.1.2 Release Candidate 3

2010-08-26 Thread S Page
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 1:26 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 07:58:37PM -0700, S Page wrote: olpc-update still said `sudo olpc-update 10.1.2_xo1-851` , I assume that's a typo and changed it and the .usb links to 852. I've usually avoided changing that until

Re: OLPC 10.1.2 Release Candidate 3

2010-08-25 Thread S Page
and congratulations! -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: OLPC 10.1.2 Release Candidate 3

2010-08-25 Thread S Page
Just updated my XO-1.5 to 852 and I now have the battery show up twice in the frame... I didn't notice this on my XO-1 after olpc-update --usb from 802 to os851, and not in my network olpc-update from os851 to os852. -- =S ___ Devel mailing list

Re: OLPC 10.1.2 Release Candidate 3

2010-08-25 Thread S Page
On my XO-1 after olpc-update --usb to os851 and then network olpc-update to os852, I notice almost all my system files are dated 2007-11-02 according to `ls -l`. Things like * /usr/bin/* * /etc/olpc-release * /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31xol-blah (but not the /boot/vmlinuz symlink) * /versions/sticky,

Software update in OLPC 10.1.2 Release Candidate 2, faster JavaScript

2010-08-15 Thread S Page
. On an unrelated pleasant note, I ran Sunspider on 8.2.1 and got a score of 55,109.6 ms. On 10.1.2, my score was 19941.6 ms, 2.76x as fast! XULRunner 1.9 to 1.9.1 was a big jump, it includes the TraceMonkey JavaScript engine from Firefox 3.5. -- =S Page ___ Devel

Re: olpc-update and 10.1.2

2010-08-14 Thread S Page
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 2:59 AM, S Page skierp...@gmail.com wrote: but the big problem I have is after Software update none of the new activities showed up in the Home screen in the Favorites ring or List view, and the List view shows the old versions for activities, e.g. Browse 102 not 110

Re: olpc-update and 10.1.2

2010-08-13 Thread S Page
activities showed up in the Home screen in the Favorites ring or List view, and the List view shows the old versions for activities, e.g. Browse 102 not 110. Is this a known issue? All the new versions are sitting in ~/Activities, so I'm not sure why the Home screen has stale info. Cheers, -- =S

Re: [Sugar-devel] backups

2010-08-12 Thread S Page
significant or large in my sporadic Journal use. (BTW, USB key, memory stick, pendrive, thumb drive etc. are all confusing pet names for the actual name which is USB flash drive.) -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org

Re: cairo has now 16bit surfaces (was Fwd: rendering-cleanup)

2010-08-06 Thread S Page
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 7:26 AM, Tomeu Vizoso tomeu.viz...@collabora.co.uk wrote: This means that graphic operations would be considerably faster on the XO-1 because to date we are rendering to 24bit surfaces that the X server has to convert to 16bit every time. This Cairo change is in 1.9.8

Images partitioned right? Good USB drives? (Re: Woodhouse on flash storage)

2009-10-09 Thread S Page
leaves it in a bizarre state and dosfsck reports hundreds of errors it can't repair. Weird.) Thanks for all you do! -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Building a kernel module (Re: Problems compiling bluetooth module)

2009-08-28 Thread S Page
I put your wisdom in a new section http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Rebuilding_OLPC_kernel#Building_a_kernel_module , please improve it. Thanks. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: New F11-for-XO1 build is available and needs testing

2009-08-02 Thread S Page
-XO is still relevant and if so copy it over (or let me know). I think that page can then be marked {{dated}} since http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/rawhide-xo/ isn't getting new builds. Thanks again, -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org

Wiki fixin' (Re: Windows on XO FUD (was: Re: is anyone actually doing Windows on XO work here?)

2009-07-21 Thread S Page
the MS_FAQ and add the actual reality of dual-booting. * Cite and date Message from Nicholas to the community lists in AnnounceFAQ * Merge anything worth keeping from AnnounceFAQ to MS FAQ, maybe obsolete MS FAQ as well. etc. Cheers, -- =S Page ___ Devel

Re: Performance hit while working with screen depth 16

2009-07-13 Thread S Page
=491357 Staying 16bpp all the way should be a win for memory and performance, it's just a matter of getting all the layers lined up. Prepend AIUI in front of every paragraph I wrote 8-) -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http

Re: New kernel branch for XO-1 and XO-1.5 development

2009-07-09 Thread S Page
, the geode driver, the build scripts and a ton more l33t skillz would I be able to make my own XO-1 image? Regards, -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

ASLO vs. wiki.laptop.org activities (was Re: ASLO Suggestion)

2009-06-17 Thread S Page
://wiki.laptop.org/go/Maintaining_activity_web_information , and for many activities it isn't happening. Hope this helps, -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Current Stable OS Install

2009-06-17 Thread S Page
on Fedora 9. If you want something later, you'll have to run a development/beta build. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Future_releases tries to explain and link to the alternatives, if it doesn't make sense ask away (or edit yourself). -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing

Re: ASLO vs. wiki.laptop.org activities

2009-06-17 Thread S Page
any activity specifies it. I guess some users might have chosen Modify activity groups to point to Activities/All in order to download a huge set of activities. -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: new content bundle

2009-06-17 Thread S Page
languages. This feature doesn't work in Sugar Labs releases, http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/574 filed. (My understanding is Sugar Labs plans unification of library and Journal and/or a dedicated Library activity). Hope this helps, -- =S Page ___ Devel

Re: Development of XO-1.5 software release started

2009-06-12 Thread S Page
voyage,, -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Browse page with full-sized images crashes Browse and Firefox, it seems partly a wiki.laptop.org issue

2009-06-01 Thread S Page
for minutes? http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Memory_pressure references previous e-mail threads on this subject. Cheers, -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: wrong Activity versions for 8.2(.1) -- Etoys, Memorize, Terminal, Read, others

2009-05-27 Thread S Page
mostly transcludes Activities/G1G1/8.2). -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

the return of XO screen pulses after standby

2009-05-25 Thread S Page
display! Should I reopen http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8490 , or file a new bug? I captured dmesg log and shell.log. Shell.log has several Python tracebacks in Meshbox.py. It's hard to tell when they happened because of numeric timestamps, how do I convert these to a date time? -- =S Page

wrong Activity versions for 8.2(.1) -- Etoys, Memorize, Terminal, Read, others

2009-05-24 Thread S Page
/versions/4050 says version 15 is latest. Again, I think blanking it out and indicated the version for Sugar 0.82 on Activities.sugarlabs.org's See All Versions is the way to go. Cheers, -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http

Re: Problems with soas

2009-04-24 Thread S Page
I've never known a USB flash drive not to come partitioned, otherwise how would malware writers propagate their code? ;-) . Perhaps your USB flash drive had the evil U3 screw-up software installed? See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/USB_drive#USB_drives_and_firmware which has a link to remove it. You

problems (Re: Announcing Fedora 11 Beta for XO)

2009-04-13 Thread S Page
process bar appeared. Other than that the behavior was the same. Should I try the `zcat 2009403.bootable.gz /dev/sdX` approach instead of LiveUSB Creator? Cheers, -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo

Re: Announcing Fedora 11 Beta for XO

2009-04-13 Thread S Page
images. -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: 8.2.1 WPA testing

2009-03-07 Thread S Page
Javier Cardona wrote: In addition to this, there are two important wireless fixes in 8.2.1: #7825 and #9048. The first one is a failure to associate to fast Access Points when WPA is enabled. #7825 wasn't mentioned in http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/8.2.1#Bug_fixes , I added it.

Re: What to expect from developers, are there any left? (was Re: rotate button sucks on the XO)

2009-03-07 Thread S Page
for a password endlessly bug but unfortunately I do not know how to debug that thing. To tell you the truth I do not even know where to look for the code of NetworkManager I've seen useful output in /var/log/messages. -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list

Re: getting mp3 sound working w/ Gnash easily

2009-02-27 Thread S Page
can attempt rewriting them for dummies ;-) . If anyone gets a FOSS MP3 codec installed and working, the place to document it is http://wiki.laptop.org/go/GStreamer#MP3 . -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org

Re: Wireless test results

2009-02-27 Thread S Page
. My AP is a very old Linksys BEFW11 S4 router. I'm now running candidate-800 Q2E33, recently upgraded from Q2E30 Should I file a Trac ticket? The Friends in testing page asks us to test wireless, but doesn't say anything more than that, such as what logs to enable or look at. Cheers, -- =S

Re: OS/X11 support for XO-1 hardware?

2009-02-26 Thread S Page
in the Terminal Activity section; its steps worked for me in Terminal v.18 on candidate 800. -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

getting the truth about future releases onto wiki.laptop.org

2009-02-23 Thread S Page
a waste of time better served by wholesale page deletions? Thanks for all you do, and I look forward to the next-generation Linux distributions with Sugar running on my XO. -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http

a Pippy equivalent for JavaScript + canvas

2009-02-23 Thread S Page
be replaced by XO collaboration and a pink pony. Interactive animation is slow on the XO, but if and when Browse gets updated to XULRunner 1.9.1 and picks up TraceMonkey, the JavaScript will get faster. Maybe newer cairo (8.2.1 has cairo 1.6.4) will speed up the graphics. Cheers, -- =S Page

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.84 Release Candidate 1 (0.83.5)

2009-02-17 Thread S Page
where to start.) -- =S Page P.S. belated Valentine's day: XO-1 3 XOXO @}-`-,-- ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: XOIRC migrated to Sugar Labs (as IRC Activity)

2009-02-17 Thread S Page
URLs. http://addons.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4029 That is awesome! -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: power consumption after shutdown

2009-02-16 Thread S Page
I made http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Troubleshooting_Battery#Tips but you folks can do a much better edit. In q2e32 I've pulled in some of my batman.fth stuff. I noted this in the same page's batman.fth section. -- =S ___ Devel mailing list

maintaining activity web information

2009-02-09 Thread S Page
(or git.sugarlabs.org)? -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Activities migration status

2009-02-09 Thread S Page
of it). Then http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Project_hosting is obsolete. What's the equivalent page on sugarlabs.org? Parts of http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Creating_an_activity are also out-of-date. -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http

Re: Interoperation with other non-sugar software

2009-02-08 Thread S Page
elsewhere, but http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Enabling_XO_features_on_other_distributions talks about the mix of key bindings and hardcoded key actions in Sugar. As always, add what you known and improve the wiki. -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel

optimized Geode code (was Re: OLPC upgrades)

2009-02-07 Thread S Page
://dev.laptop.org/ticket/118 is the tracking ticket, http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Geode_optimization_effort the page. Thanks for all you do, -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Video Playback

2009-02-07 Thread S Page
/Browse. If you try it, use the Talk:GStreamer page for your experience. (not enough hours in a weekend! ...) -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Notes from an impromptu 8.2.1 Release Mtg.

2009-02-05 Thread S Page
the Frame key), the very edge of the frame flickers white a few times. I didn't notice this before. Please please create Trac version Build 767 (8.2.0) (Trac bug 8904). Cheers, -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org

Re: OLPC upgrades

2009-02-03 Thread S Page
-/ Cheers, -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

keyboard handling (was Re: OLPC where to go development advice.)

2009-02-02 Thread S Page
Summary: I updated http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Enabling_XO_features_on_other_distributions http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Keyboard_shortcuts and several other pages, but mysteries remain. p...@laptop.org usefully responded: I have zero clue where to find the keymapping file or configuration utility.

Re: Notes from an impromptu 8.2.1 Release Mtg.

2009-01-26 Thread S Page
--latest=staging` gives Querying http://antitheft.laptop.org/antitheft/1/; (that's all) Is olpc-update possible, or are the instructions correct? :) -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: get developer key - gfx glitch on submit button

2009-01-17 Thread S Page
Carlos Nazareno wrote: On 2 XOs I tested, running 767, whenever I go to the request developer key page in the browse activity, the SUBMIT button has vertical stripes of randomly colored pixels running across 'em. You should have searched Trac for stripe or submit button :)

Re: Activities migration status

2009-01-14 Thread S Page
Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero wrote: Today I went through dev.laptop.org/git http://dev.laptop.org/git identifying those projects that contain Sugar activities. http://sugarlabs.org/go/ActivityTeam/ActivityStatus Still remaining is to go through Activities/All (and

Re: HTML-based/Browser apps (was Re: anti-cheating)

2009-01-13 Thread S Page
://wiki.laptop.org/go/Image_file_formats before I noticed someone had already put it under List of objectionable formats on the talk page; I don't care deeply either way. -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org

Re: HTML-based/Browser apps (was Re: anti-cheating)

2009-01-12 Thread S Page
Sameer Verma wrote: E.g. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/FindTheCountry -- why bother with crappy static PDF atlases when interactive technology like that is available? And you can View Source it! This is one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time!!! This is definitely going down in

HTML-based/Browser apps (was Re: anti-cheating)

2009-01-11 Thread S Page
keeping the web stuck in 2004. E.g. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/FindTheCountry -- why bother with crappy static PDF atlases when interactive technology like that is available? And you can View Source it! Cheers, -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel

Re: automatic reminder of 'software update' when installing a new build

2009-01-10 Thread S Page
Daniel Drake wrote: On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com wrote: WHERE are they supposed to look to determine whether a newer version of an Activity is available for their (e.g., 657) builds ? [Their builds are __older__ than 8.2.] For 8.1,

Re: status of forks

2009-01-09 Thread S Page
Peter Robinson wrote: with the layoffs happening would it make sense to get a document listing what patches/forks are being maintained by OLPC. The best page is probably http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Distro_version_migration_nastiness any other pages should be in [[Category:Build system]] and

Re: automatic reminder of 'software update' when installing a new build

2009-01-09 Thread S Page
(latest) (v.NN) for both, presumably because they haven't forked yet. All the content collections are the same in both, though they are misleadingly described Collection Name (8.2). Cheers, -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http

what are the deployments' languages?

2009-01-04 Thread S Page
I'm trying to figure out the actual languages in use in deployments by looking at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployments , but several countries have a blank for Language. What are the actual primary languages in use on * Haiti's 13,000 laptops (Kreyol ?) * Afghanistan's 11,000 laptops (Pashto ?

Re: Installing Flash on the OLPC

2008-12-30 Thread S Page
Year's resolutions: edit the wiki page first. Anyway, why does this wiki page tell you to enter sudo su - commands when every other page I've seen says su - (or su -l) commands ? `sudo su -` seems redundant. Cheers, -- =S Page ___ Devel

Re: G1G1 updates, Lennon video and other vids

2008-12-27 Thread S Page
Samuel Klein wrote: The Lennon video that's been murmured about for weeks has been released. Well it's united Lennon fans, OLPC h8ters, the usual foul-mouthed losers, and the common reaction How are kids going to use laptops in the middle of the jungle? give them food! I responded to a few

Re: G1G1 updates, Lennon video and other vids

2008-12-27 Thread S Page
the common reaction How are kids going to use laptops in the middle of the jungle? give them food! I didn't know about OLPC Mission: Part 2 The XO Laptop , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMeX2D4AOjM That video is outstanding! I don't know how to suggest it as a stock response to the

Re: performance work

2008-12-21 Thread S Page
Wade Brainerd wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Neil Graham l...@screamingduck.com Is there a build of cairo that can produce a log of what calls are used in typical XO use? http://www.cairographics.org/FAQ/#performance_concerns says Cairo provides a cairo-trace utility

Re: VGA-output on your XO?

2008-12-10 Thread S Page
Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote: http://arstechnica.com/journals/hardware.ars/2008/12/09/acer-releases-b223-displaylink-lcd-in-europe From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisplayLink and http://www.displaylink.com/downloads/publicfaq.shtml DisplayLink does not currently support the Linux

Re: Bundling plugins with Browse

2008-12-09 Thread S Page
Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: There's a MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH which looks promising, but somehow it's not working for me. Strace should be able provide clues. I don't know if Browse uses MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH, but the Firefox activity definitely does, see

Re: Missing Man Pages and ASpell Dictionaries

2008-12-08 Thread S Page
that should allow you to install Spanish spelling dictionaries. -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: proposal for updating Activities/Joyride page

2008-12-08 Thread S Page
They are part of the G1G1 activity pack are simply incorrect. (Is there a new [[G1G1 activity pack]]?) Cheers, -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: proposal for updating Activities/Joyride page

2008-12-08 Thread S Page
activity pack are simply incorrect. (Is there a new [[G1G1 activity pack]]?) Cheers, -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

spell checking in activities (was Re: xo activity idea)

2008-12-06 Thread S Page
, we should keep in mind that the spell-checker should always suggest correct spellings, and never underline errors. I disagree. I think the standard red dots spell checking that AbiWord and Firefox do is extremely useful. Regards, -- =S Page ___ Devel

Re: Power Management plan for December.

2008-11-28 Thread S Page
and requirements will help organize this. -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

installing fonts How To

2008-11-27 Thread S Page
improve http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Fonts#Installing_fonts , edit away. Thanks on behalf of XO users. -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: libertas firmware version query

2008-11-19 Thread S Page
on my 2007 G1G1 XO, yet olpc-netstatus -i says I have Libertas: 5.110.22.p18 (from August 2008). Does upgrading the OS image on your XO also install new Libertas firmware, the same way that it may update Open Firmware? If so, is there any way to tell it's happening? Thanks, -- =S Page

Re: G1G1-2008 US machines delivered with 8.1 build 708, not with 8.2 build 767

2008-11-19 Thread S Page
using the XO goes; I'm not sure what other places on the wiki new G1G1 users hit first. Ton, What's the model number of your new machine? (`olpc-netstatus -i`) ? -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo

garbled Education is our Mission page on Amazon.com/xo

2008-11-17 Thread S Page
Congrats on the amazon.com/xo relaunch! The XO picture at amazon.com/xo links to http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8node=1243369011 and that has several garbled characters in place of apostrophes and some other punctuation, e.g. Children are consigned to poverty and isolation[\0x1a]just like their

Re: New XO-LiveCD Version 8.2 available

2008-11-06 Thread S Page
page http://www.sugarlabs.org/go/Live_CD , which the sugarlabs #Starch section doesn't mention. I need to go to a trade show to get USB flash drives and SD cards for all these live CDs and Linux distros and SqueakNOS... :) -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-11-02 Thread S Page
needs are in the OLPC build of Fedora, either in olpc-specific packages or changes pushed upstream to Fedora. So something in http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/xo-1/streams/joyride/latest/devel_jffs2/build.log has the modifications? -- =S Page ___ Devel

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-11-02 Thread S Page
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you might start with this: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Xfce_keybindings which contains a few of the things you're looking for. Also , Screen Brightness/Rotation, Sound Volume, and Battery Status Control in http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XFCE references olpc-keybind and

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-11-01 Thread S Page
. Regards, -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Sucrose 0.83.1 Development Release

2008-10-31 Thread S Page
Simon Schampijer wrote: This is our first Development Release in the 0.84 cycle. The code base has seen many refactoring efforts to improve the platform. Will OLPC joyride builds pick up the new Sucrose? Furthermore the datastore has been rewritten, to simplify and improve maintainability.

Collection (.xol) glitches

2008-10-29 Thread S Page
. * Should the host_version be 2 these day? -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: 9.1 Proposal: Files

2008-10-29 Thread S Page
be the start of the unification of browsing the web and your local work that's surely coming. Thanks for all you do. -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Sugar unusable as an e-book reader

2008-10-27 Thread S Page
the future. But PDF is certainly an important legacy format. Regards, -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Browse can't browse USB flash drive

2008-10-27 Thread S Page
S Page wrote: Note that you could have entered file:///media in Browse and located the HTML files I spoke too soon. Browse shows my USB flash drive's label in /media, but my attempts to navigate to any file or directory within file:///media/MYDRIVE return error -2142109675 from XPCOM

Re: Read bug hit in Rwanda

2008-10-10 Thread S Page
in the browser potentially allows show/hide layers, interactive quizzes, easier localization, view source, etc. Respectfully, -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Signed candidate-765 and gg-765-2 builds available for testing.

2008-10-02 Thread S Page
, -- =S Page user:skierpage ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Stability and Memory Pressure in 8.2

2008-10-01 Thread S Page
Tomeu Vizoso wrote: Read has serious memory problems because renders whole pages into memory, regardless of what is the viewed area. Any chance the first pages of the PDF you opened contained big images? Nope, it's a saved Project Gutenberg PDF

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