Re: [UKids] [Announcement] Sugarizer v0.4 is available

2014-05-21 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
This is fantastic - well done! I've been out of the OLPC/Sugar world for a while now, but just yesterday I was extolling the virtues of Sugar at a meeting in the university where I work. Our vice-chancellor has challenged us to come up with innovative learning ideas, and I was using Sugar as an

Re: [OLPC New Zealand] Māori Macrons olpc keyboard

2013-06-25 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 24/06/2013 9:43 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: Which build are you running? In the latest Sugar builds, there is a keyboard settings control panel section. We could probably backport it to your build if it is reasonably recent. I remember that perhaps a year ago we had to

Moving on

2013-06-23 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Friends, You may already have heard the news, but I wanted to take a moment to let you know that I have just concluded my tenure as Engineering Manager at One Laptop per Child Australia. It's been a rewarding three and a half years. I joined the organisation as its first technical resource and

[Server-devel] Moving on

2013-06-23 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Friends, You may already have heard the news, but I wanted to take a moment to let you know that I have just concluded my tenure as Engineering Manager at One Laptop per Child Australia. It's been a rewarding three and a half years. I joined the organisation as its first technical resource and

Re: [support-gang] Customization Sticks fails on 13.1.0 12.1.0 for XO-1

2013-03-12 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
complement to OOB, not a replacement. If there's no interest at OLPCA to maintain it, what we to continue it? Sridhar Dhanapalan Engineering Manager One Laptop per Child Australia ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org

Playing video on Sugar startup with VMETA

2013-02-21 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
crash when loaded in a window, but there's so much chrome that it looks silly. Even a simpler gstreamer-based player, gst123, crashes soon after startup. I'm of the understanding that we need to be using a gstreamer player. Is there anything that we can do to improve our present situation? Sridhar

Lid switches tests confusing

2013-01-31 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
the screen and close it into ebook mode Sridhar Dhanapalan Engineering Manager One Laptop per Child Australia ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Lid switches tests confusing

2013-01-31 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 1 February 2013 12:06, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: When testing the XO hardware, users are frequently tripping up on the lid switches test. Right now, the text on the screen says this: Testing /switches Activate lid switch This is where our users get stumped

HDMI audio on XO-4

2012-12-05 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Does the micro-HDMI port on the XO-4 transmit audio? Thanks, Sridhar ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: gathering use cases

2012-11-08 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 9 November 2012 09:10, Tony Anderson t...@olenepal.org wrote: This is my greatest concern. The ability of a server to deliver content is central. It is my understanding that your Community XS does not support a LAMP stack or Moodle. Please do not refer to the Community XS as XO-0.8 until

Re: gathering use cases

2012-11-08 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 9 November 2012 10:19, Tony Anderson t...@olenepal.org wrote: Hi, Sridhar Thanks for the clarification. I guess I was mislead by statements such as: The platform for the One Network server is an ARMv7-based XO, running the One Education OS (based on OLPC OS). This makes development, and

Re: [OLPC New Zealand] [OLPC-AU] Auckland Testing Summary 29 September 2012

2012-10-08 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
installing is not compatible with the OS/Sugar version they have installed. Sridhar Sridhar Dhanapalan Engineering Manager One Laptop per Child Australia ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [Server-devel] [OLPC-AU] Registering an XO for the second time

2012-08-27 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
these questions on the server-devel list: http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel Regards, Sridhar Sridhar Dhanapalan Engineering Manager One Laptop per Child Australia ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http

Re: Migrating XO-1.75 to device tree - upgrade considerations

2012-08-22 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 23 August 2012 09:00, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 09:53 -0600, Daniel Drake wrote: Either way, I don't quite understand the situation involving the firmware here. (Maybe until now) there has been no driving need to upgrade firmware when upgrading OS releases - it

Re: [OLPC New Zealand] OLPC testing summary Auckland 18 August 2012

2012-08-18 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Thanks for testing the teacher training customisations. This allows us to modify the standard OLPC OS 10.1.3 into something that is similar to our 10.1.3-au series, and is hence compatible with our One Education programme. If you examine the Training Pack files, you'll see that we upgrade Browse,

Re: [OLPC New Zealand] OLPC testing summary Auckland 18 August 2012

2012-08-18 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
I've written some release notes for the Training Pack: https://dev.laptop.org.au/projects/xo-au/wiki/XO-1_Training_Pack_release_notes On 18 August 2012 16:19, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: Thanks for testing the teacher training customisations. This allows us to modify

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Proposal: Contol-Panel packaging

2012-08-12 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
, to give deployments greater control over that they distribute and to keep updates sizes to a minimum. We're happy to help make that happen - we aren't just criticising from the sidelines. Sridhar [1] https://dev.laptop.org.au/issues/873 Sridhar Dhanapalan Engineering Manager One Laptop per

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Proposal: Contol-Panel packaging

2012-08-09 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
not :( Furthermore, the newer wireless networks treat every client as potentially hostile and hence prevent them from communicating with each other. This also means that no collaboration can take place. Sridhar Sridhar Dhanapalan Engineering Manager One Laptop per Child Australia M: +61 425 239

Re: [Server-devel] Is a Community Edition of XS happening? or should it?

2012-08-02 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
leverage some of the features (and features we'd like to add) of Sugar too If you'd like to participate, we're happy to have you. Our tracker and code repo are open. More to come... Sridhar Sridhar Dhanapalan Engineering Manager One Laptop per Child Australia On 30 July 2012 03:27, George Hunt

Re: [Server-devel] Is a Community Edition of XS happening? or should it?

2012-08-02 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
that is needed. I think that improvements can be made at a faster rate, and the user adoption rate increased, if the XS is a set of packages on top of Fedora (and, by extension, the OLPC OS). Sridhar On 2 August 2012 22:58, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: Hello everyone, Building upon

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Proposal: Contol-Panel packaging

2012-08-01 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
being downloaded, potentially at the same time. Sridhar Sridhar Dhanapalan Engineering Manager One Laptop per Child Australia ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Retina display

2012-07-27 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
://wiki.laptop.org/go/Display [3] http://www.andrewdaceyphotography.com/articles/dpi/ Sridhar Dhanapalan Engineering Manager One Laptop per Child Australia ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [OLPC-AU] Retina display

2012-07-27 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 28 July 2012 13:51, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 09:45:04PM -0400, Chris Leonard wrote: IANAL, but the term Retina in reference to computers and mobile devices is an Apple trademark, so any such use (referring to anything but an Apple device) would be

Re: On XO-1.5 with 11.3.0/11.3.1 -- hang during shutdown?

2012-07-16 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
the analysis, but it' is apparent that it is being done on rather poor data. Hands-on debugging wins. cheers, m On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 11:32 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: Thanks for your reply! On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 11:16:26AM +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On 21 June 2012 16

Re: On XO-1.5 with 11.3.0/11.3.1 -- hang during shutdown?

2012-06-24 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 21 June 2012 16:14, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 02:37:35PM +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On 16 June 2012 17:08, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: That means the hang should not exceed 15 seconds. ?Is this what you find? ?If not, then this casts

Re: On XO-1.5 with 11.3.0/11.3.1 -- hang during shutdown?

2012-06-20 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
, it can be *major* for us. I understand that it's not the most elegant solution, but from a deployment perspective we need a failsafe to protect the hardware. Sridhar Sridhar Dhanapalan Engineering Manager One Laptop per Child Australia ___ Devel

Re: olpc.fth question

2012-06-13 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Building upon Jerry's message, you may be interested in our One Education USB (formerly called XO-AU USB): https://dev.laptop.org.au/projects/xo-au-usb/ The idea is to have a single USB stick with many tools that may be needed in the field. It is designed for use by (non-technical) teachers to

Re: en_GB in OLPC OS 12.1.0

2012-05-24 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 25 May 2012 03:05, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 8:06 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: OLPC OS 12.1.0 is looking good! I noticed that en_US and en_AU are available. We have our language fallbacks set to en_AU;en_GB;en_US

Re: en_GB in OLPC OS 12.1.0

2012-05-24 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 25 May 2012 08:00, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On behalf of the kids that I test with ... I'd prefer that we not include en_AU at all if we can't also include en_GB, but I don't know if we have the ability to configure fallbacks in Sugar.  If we can't configure fallbacks, we

en_GB in OLPC OS 12.1.0

2012-05-23 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
OLPC OS 12.1.0 is looking good! I noticed that en_US and en_AU are available. We have our language fallbacks set to en_AU;en_GB;en_US to overcome the lack of strings in en_AU. Would it be possible to have en_GB included by default as well? Thanks, Sridhar Sridhar Dhanapalan Engineering Manager

Re: [Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

2012-04-17 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 17 April 2012 23:39, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for your notes. On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 10:04 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: But you have some economies of scale :-) do once per school vs do it on every machine in the school. The school

Re: [Server-devel] Lesotho project network server: obstacles needs

2012-04-16 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
-education.org/ You can fill in the form at the bottom of that page if you want to know more. Sridhar Sridhar Dhanapalan Engineering Manager One Laptop per Child Australia ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org

Re: [Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

2012-04-16 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 14 April 2012 01:37, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 12:28 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: appliance runs nothing more than ejabberd. There's no moodle, dhcp, dns or other services. How does the appliance get a domain name? IP

Re: [Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

2012-04-12 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 12 April 2012 15:27, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 11:57 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: Why is it such a bad idea? The thought was to do away with registration, moodle and other unnecessary services and focus only on the XMPP

Re: Announcing Q3C05 for XO-1.5

2012-04-11 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
? Is this a replacement for http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Imaging_for_XO-1.5 ? Do we still need to manually mitigate the side effects? http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Imaging/Side_effects Thanks, Sridhar Sridhar Dhanapalan Engineering Manager One Laptop per Child Australia

XO still bootable with incomplete fs-update

2012-04-11 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
boot if the OS writing is allowed to complete? This applies to a NANDblaster receive as well. Thanks, Sridhar Sridhar Dhanapalan Engineering Manager One Laptop per Child Australia ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org

Re: [Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

2012-04-11 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 11 April 2012 22:59, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 5:29 AM, George Hunt georgejh...@gmail.com wrote: I think it was Sameer who was telling me that in Australia, they are thinking about one XS per classroom. In that setting, seems to me that XO1.75

Re: [Dextrose] latest test image for testing

2012-02-28 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Thanks to you and the rest of the team for your hard work on this. On 28 February 2012 21:22, Jerry Vonau je...@laptop.org.au wrote:   -- auto shutdown after five minutes I don't think this is a good idea - it can be very disruptive. Suspend is much better as it saves a lot of power and still

lid close while shutting down

2012-02-14 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
was shut. Sridhar Sridhar Dhanapalan Engineering Manager One Laptop per Child Australia M: +61 425 239 701 E: srid...@laptop.org.au A: G.P.O. Box 731      Sydney, NSW 2001 W: www.laptop.org.au ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http

Re: [OLPC-AU] lid close while shutting down

2012-02-14 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 14 February 2012 22:09, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: For example, because of an episode of damage that happened when a stack of laptops was left on and their lid sensors interacted, and because of the use of early prototypes with an incomplete heat spreader, no doubt a myth has

Re: [OLPC-AU] lid close while shutting down

2012-02-14 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 15 February 2012 02:30, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: What about if it's also charging in an XOP rack? Tell people your actual adventure, all details. The time of the OLPC team is valuable

Re: Impacts of disabling Automatic Power Management

2012-02-09 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 10 February 2012 10:56, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 17:47 -0600, Daniel Drake wrote: On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: Well, we're testing this combination, someone has to take the lead. Without doing anything the XOs will never

limits on ad-hoc connections

2012-02-08 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
session? Sridhar Sridhar Dhanapalan Engineering Manager One Laptop per Child Australia ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Impacts of disabling Automatic Power Management

2012-02-08 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 5 February 2012 10:12, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: On 5 February 2012 02:35, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Samuel Greenfeld greenf...@laptop.org wrote: Disabling suspend during collaboration was discussed a year ago

Re: limits on ad-hoc connections

2012-02-08 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 8 February 2012 23:23, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 6:16 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: Ad-hoc connections only scale to a limited number of participants before problems begin to occur. The technically correct answer

Re: limits on ad-hoc connections

2012-02-08 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 9 February 2012 14:59, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: More generally, when you have a central node (the AP) there's a node that can carry the accounting, and has the authority to say who's welcome and who's not. I don't know if 802.11a/b/g/n has a mechanism to reject

Re: Notes on touchpad testing @ wiki

2012-02-04 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 4 February 2012 20:16, Martin Langhoff mar...@laptop.org wrote: On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 2:21 AM, Martin Langhoff mar...@laptop.org wrote: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Touchpad_testing Looks like we have a final recommended configuration, known as 5F. Please this olpc-fsp-regs script:

Re: Impacts of disabling Automatic Power Management

2012-02-03 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 2 February 2012 09:09, Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org wrote: Sirdhar:  Unfortunately theres no way we can answer your question ( or even make a SWAG) without known how much idleness is in your normal workload.  Automatic Power Management only makes a big difference if there is a lot of

Re: Impacts of disabling Automatic Power Management

2012-02-03 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 2 February 2012 14:42, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 9:11 PM, Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org wrote: While I understand the frustration, this is going to wrong direction. We need to hunt down the problems and fix them. I think we have the root

Re: Impacts of disabling Automatic Power Management

2012-02-01 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 1 February 2012 16:09, Gary Martin garycmar...@googlemail.com wrote: On 1 Feb 2012, at 04:43, Paul Fox wrote: would it help to disable automatic power management only when specific Activities are running?  only when certain kinds of collaboration are in effect?  only when certain drivers

Impacts of disabling Automatic Power Management

2012-01-31 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
, but is there an average estimate? Thanks, Sridhar Sridhar Dhanapalan Engineering Manager One Laptop per Child Australia ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [IAEP] [x-post] GNU Project renews focus on free software in education

2012-01-31 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Brilliant! What can we do to have Sugar more formally recognised by the FSF? I think it should be their desktop of choice for primary school education. Sridhar Sridhar Dhanapalan Engineering Manager One Laptop per Child Australia On 31 January 2012 23:28, Anish Mangal

Re: Impacts of disabling Automatic Power Management

2012-01-31 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
be interesting to also tie this into Sugar's collaboration mechanism and disable power management when a session is active. Sridhar [1] https://dev.laptop.org.au/issues/1029 Sridhar Dhanapalan Engineering Manager One Laptop per Child Australia ___ Devel

optimal font rendering settings for XO display

2012-01-25 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
What are the optimal font rendering settings for the XO's display? More specifically, if I ran gnome-appearance-properties and clicked the Fonts tab, what should be in the Rendering section? Should I set subpixel smoothing and hinting? Sridhar Dhanapalan Engineering Manager One Laptop per

Re: Run OFW heat spreader test

2012-01-24 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 24 January 2012 02:36, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 7:54 AM, Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org wrote: Hmmm... Something else is the problem here.  You can't damage the processor via thermal overload because it has an automatic clock back off.  If

Run OFW heat spreader test

2012-01-22 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
and halt the OS flashing if the test fails? Sridhar Dhanapalan Engineering Manager One Laptop per Child Australia M: +61 425 239 701 E: srid...@laptop.org.au A: G.P.O. Box 731      Sydney, NSW 2001 W: www.laptop.org.au ___ Devel mailing list Devel

Re: Run OFW heat spreader test

2012-01-22 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 23 January 2012 17:20, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: I thought you were doing this test to detect early units that may have a failed heat spreader, and you were doing it at the time of reflashing because that's when you had some control. Yes, that's the primary reason. Our initial

Re: [OLPC Engineering] [Techteam] New F14-arm build os21

2011-12-21 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 22 December 2011 11:23, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: It's a recognition that no software is bug-free, and that users (especially children) will always find a way to make a system difficult

Re: [OLPC Engineering] [Techteam] New F14-arm build os21

2011-12-21 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 22 December 2011 11:32, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: On 22 December 2011 11:23, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: Do you have any other end-user use cases that have Ctrl-Alt-Erase as a solution? I'll check with our education team and get back to you

enabling tap-to-click

2011-12-20 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
kind of manual system configuration? In terms of hardware, most of our XO-1.5s have Synaptics pads but our most recent batch have the AVC ones. Sridhar Dhanapalan Engineering Manager One Laptop per Child Australia ___ Devel mailing list Devel

Re: [OLPC Engineering] [Techteam] New F14-arm build os21

2011-12-19 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
on occasion. The 'solution' is to quickly restart Sugar with a Ctrl+Alt+Erase. It solves most problems, and it's faster than rebooting. Sridhar Sridhar Dhanapalan Engineering Manager One Laptop per Child Australia ___ Devel mailing list Devel

Re: 11.3.0 build 7 released, for XO-1.75, XO-1.5 and XO-1

2011-12-19 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
disabled for increased graphics stability How stable is RenderAccel on XO-1.5s? Is it worth activating? Sridhar Sridhar Dhanapalan Engineering Manager One Laptop per Child Australia ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org

Re: [OLPC Engineering] [Techteam] New F14-arm build os21

2011-12-16 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
-1.5s. This feature is used by teachers in the field, and by us in testing. Its removal is a regression for us. I've updated #11202. Sridhar Dhanapalan Engineering Manager One Laptop per Child Australia ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http

Re: [Server-devel] khan academy videos

2011-12-11 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
sizes. Sridhar Sridhar Dhanapalan Engineering Manager One Laptop per Child Australia ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel

Ad-hoc networking - automatically selecting the best channel

2011-12-01 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
My understanding is the Sugar's ad-hoc automatically defaults to channel 1. Would it be possible for the client (XO or otherwise) to automatically pick the best channel (1, 6 or 11) based on prevailing interference levels? Sridhar Dhanapalan Engineering Manager One Laptop per Child Australia

csound sources for XO-1.75

2011-11-28 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
://mock.laptop.org/cgit/koji.dist-f14-armv5tel-updates-11.3.0/tree/SRPMS http://mock.laptop.org/cgit/koji.dist-f14-armv5tel-updates-11.3.1/tree/SRPMS http://rpmdropbox.laptop.org/f14-arm/ http://rpmdropbox.laptop.org/f14-xo1.75/ Is csound yet to be ported to ARM? Sridhar Dhanapalan Engineering Manager One

Raspberry Pi as development platform for XO-1.75

2011-11-26 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
How useful could a Raspberry Pi be as a development platform for the XO-1.75? It looks like the Pi is ARM11 based (v6 arch) and the XO has a v7 arch. Sridhar Dhanapalan Engineering Manager One Laptop per Child Australia ___ Devel mailing list Devel

XO-1.75 relative performance

2011-11-01 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
I am trying to get some idea of the performance of the XO-1.75 relative to other devices on the market. For instance, how would it compare against an iPad 1/2 and iPhone 4/4S? My guess is that the Armada 610 SoC that we use would come out somewhere in between the A4 chip used in the original iPad

Re: Potential volunteer offering technical writing

2011-10-30 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 30 September 2011 19:51, Tabitha Roder tabi...@tabitha.net.nz wrote: Hi If we had a volunteer (English Native language) professional technical writer, what writing would be of most use to OLPC or Sugar that we can point her in the direction of? She currently works with developers to write

Re: Host AP on XO-1.75 and XO-3

2011-10-17 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 13 October 2011 02:03, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 3:51 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: Just wondering whether the XO-1.75 and XO-3 will be capable of hosting a wireless network. I'm asking because we are interested in using

Re: [Server-devel] Host AP on XO-1.75 and XO-3

2011-10-17 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 13 October 2011 02:03, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 3:51 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: Just wondering whether the XO-1.75 and XO-3 will be capable of hosting a wireless network. I'm asking because we are interested in using

serial numbers on new motherboards

2011-10-16 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
-boot setup and interactions with an XS are derived from the serial number. We have devised a method (using an olpc.fth script) to write the serial number of the XO chassis to the mfg-data on the board. What is the method used in other deployments? Thanks, Sridhar Sridhar Dhanapalan Engineering

Host AP on XO-1.75 and XO-3

2011-10-05 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Just wondering whether the XO-1.75 and XO-3 will be capable of hosting a wireless network. I'm asking because we are interested in using an XO as a lightweight XS server. Thanks, Sridhar Sridhar Dhanapalan Engineering Manager One Laptop per Child Australia M: +61 425 239 701 E: srid

ANNOUNCEMENT: XO-AU USB Upgrade 3

2011-08-04 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
your installed build and only proceed if it meets that criteria. For details, see the announcement[0]. The Upgrade Stick is a derivation of our XO-AU USB technology[1]. Sridhar [0] http://dev.laptop.org.au/news/20 [1] http://dev.laptop.org.au/projects/xo-au-usb Sridhar Dhanapalan Engineering

Re: XO-1.75 B1 units - this is how they look

2011-08-03 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
units -- :-) Improvements to the membrane keyboard would be greatly welcomed. The biggest problem that our teachers deal with are keyboards that have been ripped out. Is there anything being done to reduce the likelihood/impact of this? Thanks, Sridhar Sridhar Dhanapalan Engineering Manager One

Rapid DHCP

2011-07-29 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
in and the machines move in and out of AP range (or switch to a different AP). This is a disruptive process, and speeding it up would be welcome. Sridhar Sridhar Dhanapalan Engineering Manager One Laptop per Child Australia M: +61 425 239 701 E: srid...@laptop.org.au A: G.P.O. Box 731      Sydney

Reassembled XOs fail heat spreader test

2011-07-22 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
are changing the motherboards in these XOs because they have succumbed to overheating. I want to avoid that from happening again. Thanks, Sridhar Sridhar Dhanapalan Engineering Manager One Laptop per Child Australia M: +61 425 239 701 E: srid...@laptop.org.au A: G.P.O. Box 731      Sydney, NSW 2001 W

Re: Reassembled XOs fail heat spreader test

2011-07-22 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
with a quick explanation in the meantime. On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: All of the XOs I've seen have three screws on their heat spreaders. I've attached an annotated image. Hopefully the lists don't strip it out. There is an unanchored screw

Avoid losing your screws

2011-07-22 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
I've found that inverted side bumpers make nice little holding containers for your screws. Sridhar ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Melbourne testing group, RC4 (au868)

2011-07-20 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Thanks Tony. On 16 July 2011 18:09, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote:  * gtk-recordmysesktop in GNOME [#564] Unable to stop the recording session, the app disappears, maybe we are missing the obvious It's hard to spot - it becomes an icon in the notification area, next to the clock. In this

Re: OLPC-AU release candidate RC3 (au867)

2011-07-08 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
The Melbourne XO Club meets on 16 July, as part of the LUV Beginners' Workshop: http://lists.luv.asn.au/wws/arc/luv-announce/2011-07/msg1.html http://luv.asn.au/2011/07/16 We need to have a release out by 25 July, which is the start of Term 3 in Northern Territory schools. This release

Re: OLPC-AU release candidate RC3 (au867)

2011-07-07 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
the ZIP file to a USB drive 2. plug into the XO 3. turn on If you want the firmware to upgrade, you'll also need the XO plugged into mains power with a full battery. Enjoy, Sridhar Sridhar Dhanapalan Technical Manager One Laptop per Child Australia M: +61 425 239 701 E: srid...@laptop.org.au

Re: OLPC-AU release candidate RC3 (au867)

2011-07-07 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 8 July 2011 08:58, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 08:54:10AM +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: https://dev.laptop.org.au/projects/xo-au-usb/repository/revisions/delta/changes/key/delta.zip wget gives me an 8615 byte file.  That can't be right. My bad - thanks

Re: OLPC-AU

2011-06-30 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
activity [#654] * Speak activity with english_rp voice [#718] * Screencast activity [#692] * gnome-screenshot in GNOME [#563] * gtk-recordmysesktop in GNOME [#564] * camorama in GNOME [#558] * Firefox now loads with the OLPC Library as the home page [#555] Thanks, Sridhar Sridhar

Re: [OLPC-AU] Testing sprase file support for 10.1.3

2011-06-29 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Could this be due to http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10930 ? Sridhar On 24 June 2011 16:43, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: Thanks Tony. Logged at https://dev.laptop.org.au/issues/773 Sridhar On 12 June 2011 16:19,  fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: Thanks Jerry Testing au77

Re: Updates for OLPC English Keyboard mappings table

2011-06-28 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 27 June 2011 00:11, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: I have been consulting http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_English_Keyboard and performing some of my own tests with an external US-style keyboard (Logitech Internet 350) on an XO-1.5 running XO-AU OS 10.1.3-au2. So far I have

Updates for OLPC English Keyboard mappings table

2011-06-26 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
It looks to me that the function/modifier keys for frame, volume and grab are not mapped in the table on that wiki page. I didn't want to edit it unless I was sure about it. Can someone knowledgeable please confirm and/or update the page? Thanks, Sridhar Sridhar Dhanapalan Technical Manager One

Re: [OLPC-AU] Testing sprase file support for 10.1.3

2011-06-24 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Thanks Tony. Logged at https://dev.laptop.org.au/issues/773 Sridhar On 12 June 2011 16:19, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: Thanks Jerry Testing au77 ctrl v will not paste image to Write, no error logged, paste from tool bar works ok but does log a warning got plain filename ... in

More 'human' voice synth (TTS)

2011-06-21 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
. Would it be feasible to switch to something else, like festival? This is some food for thought: http://braille.uwo.ca/pipermail/speakup/2008-July/046755.html Sridhar Sridhar Dhanapalan Technical Manager One Laptop per Child Australia M: +61 425 239 701 E: srid...@laptop.org.au A: G.P.O. Box 731

Re: [Sugar-devel] Potential data loss problem in collaboration

2011-06-20 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
this in dev.l.o. The steps to repro are good, just add precise versions of the OS and the affected activities. cheers, m On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: We have found a problem that could lead to data loss in the field. General summary

Re: Journal files

2011-06-19 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 20 June 2011 00:30, Kevin Gordon kgordon...@gmail.com wrote: I presume this doesn't do what you are looking for?  Doesn't scale particulary elegantly, but I find it useful http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Copy_to_and_from_the_Journal It does the basic job of copying to/from the Journal. However,

Re: Journal files

2011-06-19 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 20 June 2011 03:27, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: On 20 June 2011 00:30, Kevin Gordon kgordon...@gmail.com wrote: I presume this doesn't do what you are looking for?  Doesn't scale particulary

Re: [Sugar-devel] FUSE for Journal?

2011-06-18 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
far. +1 This is a priority for us. We get requests from teachers all the time about being able to access a files server, and sharing files between Sugar and GNOME. Cheers, Sridhar Sridhar Dhanapalan Technical Manager One Laptop per Child Australia M: +61 425 239 701 E: srid...@laptop.org.au

Re: [Server-devel] e: Regarding my OLPC XS Wishlist (Abhishek Singh)

2011-06-09 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
server * Plan Ceibal server (Uruguay) * Sugar Server (Activity Central) I am keen to have some consolidation, to avoid parallel development and splintering of the community. I am open to discussion on how we can achieve this. Sridhar Sridhar Dhanapalan Technical Manager One Laptop per Child

Re: [Server-devel] [OLPC-AU] e: Regarding my OLPC XS Wishlist (Abhishek Singh)

2011-06-09 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 10 June 2011 00:49, Aleksey Lim alsr...@activitycentral.org wrote: On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 12:24:45AM +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: So far I have counted at least six school server types:   * OLPC XS   * XS-AU (Australia)   * NEXS (Nepal)   * Paraguay Educa server   * Plan Ceibal

[Server-devel] OLPC Australia XS concerns

2011-06-09 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
be the AP. If we need to connect to the school network, we can use a USB2Ethernet adapter. This will also allow the server to leverage the other APs in the school. What's important is that we need to be tolerant of multiple schoolservers on the network, potentially one per class. Sridhar Sridhar

Re: [Dextrose] Support for Firefox 3.5 is ending

2011-06-05 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 5 June 2011 17:02, Bernie Innocenti ber...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Fedora 14 is still shipping xulrunner 1.9.2, which is roughly equivalent to the version used by Firefox 3.6. Backporting things from Fedora 15 is going to be a royal pain in the ass, since they have switched everything to Gnome

Re: [Dextrose] Support for Firefox 3.5 is ending

2011-06-05 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 5 June 2011 12:07, David Farning dfarn...@activitycentral.com wrote: Would that mean that if we were to upgrade to FF4, we would have a disparity in rendering between GNOME and Sugar? The issues becomes one of cost benefit. What is the cost of OLPC, AC, or individual deployments

Support for Firefox 3.5 is ending

2011-06-04 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Firefox 4 in the OLPC/DX OS? Sridhar [0] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases/3.5_EOL [1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13639875 [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Firefox_4 Sridhar Dhanapalan Technical Manager One Laptop per Child Australia M: +61 425 239 701 E: srid...@laptop.org.au

Re: [Server-devel] Regarding my OLPC XS Wishlist

2011-06-02 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
/wiki/Install_on_an_existing_Fedora_installation Sridhar Dhanapalan Technical Manager One Laptop per Child Australia M: +61 425 239 701 E: srid...@laptop.org.au A: G.P.O. Box 731 Sydney, NSW 2001 W: www.laptop.org.au ___ Server-devel mailing list

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