Re: Devel Digest, Vol 132, Issue 2

2017-09-18 Thread Tony Anderson
ng is to locate the problem as exactly as possible. Tony On 09/18/2017 01:04 PM, Peter Robinson wrote: On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 10:57 AM, Tony Anderson wrote: Has anyone tested a current fedora release on an XO model? It would seem reasonable to install Fedora with the gnome desktop independen

Re: Devel Digest, Vol 132, Issue 2

2017-09-18 Thread Tony Anderson
Has anyone tested a current fedora release on an XO model? It would seem reasonable to install Fedora with the gnome desktop independent of Sugar as a starting point. Tony On 09/17/2017 05:00 PM, devel-requ...@lists.laptop.org wrote: Send Devel mailing list submissions to devel@lists.

Re: [IAEP] do OLPC browsers support WebRTC microphone audio, input? (Adam Holt)

2017-03-13 Thread Tony Anderson
See http://www.webrtcinwebkit.org/ Tony On 03/14/2017 12:00 AM, devel-requ...@lists.laptop.org wrote: Send Devel mailing list submissions to devel@lists.laptop.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel or, via email, se

Re: how to install essential codecs from rpmfusion to, gstreamer 1.0 comparable to current script for gstreamer0.1

2016-02-02 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, James Clearly installing codecs for mp3 and mp4 does not meet anyones standards for software freedom. I notice this issue did not impact OLPC's decision to support importing WIndows XP. I really have no idea now who this OLPC is that makes these interesting decisions. OS-builder is brill

how to install essential codecs from rpmfusion to gstreamer 1.0 comparable to current script for gstreamer0.1

2016-01-31 Thread Tony Anderson
Your question is how to abstract the filesystem changes made by install of non-free codecs from the rpmfusion repository on a Fedora 18 system. On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 11:42:57AM +0800, Tony Anderson wrote: Aside from my rants, this is the crux. If I could have a script which installs these

download.laptop.org

2015-11-19 Thread Tony Anderson
It appears that 13.2.5 is no longer accessible as download.laptop.org is not responding. Tony ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Devel Digest, Vol 109, Issue 19

2015-04-27 Thread Tony Anderson
I also believe based on some observations in Rwanda that the firmware was modified. Tony On 04/27/2015 06:00 PM, devel-requ...@lists.laptop.org wrote: Message: 5 Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 10:14:50 -0400 From: Ed McNierney To: Jhon Diaz Cc:devel@lists.laptop.org, John Watlington Subject: Re: Windo

Re: Devel Digest, Vol 100, Issue 8

2014-06-15 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, James Thanks for your response. I would conclude that the best approach at the moment is to use 13.2.0 on the XO-1. This fixes the issue with the firmware and the libertas problem. It also means working with only one build across the XO versions. In my experience, the children we are serv

Re: Announcing the development of OLPC OS 13.2.1

2014-06-13 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, James It would also be very helpful to have a release 12.2.0 for the XO-1. This release would incorporate the libertas patch and correct the firmware version. Perhaps the ds-backup.sh and ds-backup.py could be replaced with versions that correct the reported problems. If politically accept

restart by ctl+alt+bs

2014-05-12 Thread TONY ANDERSON
At some point, the ctl+alt+backspace signal to restart was dropped. This was a very handy way to get out of dead-ends caused by starting too many activities. What I would like to do is have this signal show a screen similar to the switch desktop screen but with a set of options: Start

Re: SharedActivity

2013-11-21 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, Hi, At Pycon 2008, Mike Fletcher gave a tutorial on implementation of tic-tac-toe as a shared activity (www.vrplumber.com/olpc/pycon2008-handout.odt). The idea is that two children play while others watch. At the end of the game, watchers can play (e.g. loser becomes watcher). Nim might

Re: Devil is in the details

2013-11-04 Thread Tony Anderson
On 11/04/2013 10:49 PM, devel-requ...@lists.laptop.org wrote: Message: 7 Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 19:50:52 -0800 From: Sameer Verma To: "Devel's in the Details", Sugar-dev Devel Subject: different perspectives Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Dear Communit

Re: [Server-devel] authentication method

2013-10-28 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, As usual, I am way behind the curve. The Moodle authentication is based on the serial_number of the XO. This is established by the 'registration' on the XO menu. Moodle, itself, supports authentication by virtually every mechanism you can think of since it is used by for-pay educational in

Re: Install Firefox

2013-05-30 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, I have found it unproductive to try to install Firefox by rebuilding. It is far easier to update the XO with a bash script from a usb drive. This also avoids the problem with using a signed release (the basic build is signed). I am currently using Firefox 20 on build 12.1.0. The install sc

Re: minimizing footprint

2013-03-24 Thread Tony Anderson
On 03/24/2013 09:38 AM, devel-requ...@lists.laptop.org wrote: It's true, we need learn new tricks, but does not have sense have a service not needed on every xo, if we can do it in a better way. Does this logic apply generally? 12.1.0 has a control panel entry 'Modem configuration'. How many X

Re: [Server-devel] Server-devel Digest, Vol 70, Issue 7

2013-02-26 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, I am not sure why you addressed the server-devel mailing list. I don't see any connection with what you are doing and a server. If there is, that could be part of the problem. With an XO as a standalone system, what you did should have worked. However, you might want to find out if the d

Re: OLPC OS on Zync Z930 Tablet

2012-11-22 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, As I understand it, Android is not a GNU Linux. My guess is that an XO-4 would be a quicker way to get there. Tony On 11/22/2012 05:00 PM, devel-requ...@lists.laptop.org wrote: Message: 3 Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 14:37:20 +0100 From: Christoph Derndorfer To: Sugar Devel, "OLPC Dev

Re: 12.1.0 on XO-1 customization stick

2012-11-15 Thread Tony Anderson
wrote: On Nov 15, 2012, at 8:44 PM, Tony Anderson wrote: Hi, If I understand this: 1. Get a developer key for each laptop in the school. 2. Use the developer key to unlock each laptop. 3. Do a normal install of the build image. 4. Relock the laptop by removing the developer key on the XO Once

Re: 12.1.0 on XO-1 customization stick

2012-11-15 Thread Tony Anderson
available, and I'm aware of more than one deployment using it. On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 07:16:04PM -0500, Tony Anderson wrote: Hi, As I understand it, if you make your own build, it cannot be installed on a 'locked' laptop unless you have local signing capability. It is also my understa

Re: 12.1.0 on XO-1 customization stick

2012-11-15 Thread Tony Anderson
hu, Nov 15, 2012 at 12:34:32PM -0500, Tony Anderson wrote: Hi, One alternative is to write a simple script to do this using sugar-install-bundle. I put the activities to be installed on the stick. An example, #run as olpc cd /run/media/olpc/xxx #so relative paths work #remove unwanted activ

Re: 12.1.0 on XO-1 customization stick

2012-11-15 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, One alternative is to write a simple script to do this using sugar-install-bundle. I put the activities to be installed on the stick. An example, #run as olpc cd /run/media/olpc/xxx #so relative paths work #remove unwanted activity rm -rf /home/olpc/Activities/someactivity.activity #rm a

Re: gathering use cases

2012-11-09 Thread Tony Anderson
palan mailto:srid...@laptop.org.au>> wrote: On 9 November 2012 10:19, Tony Anderson mailto:t...@olenepal.org>> wrote: > Hi, Sridhar > > Thanks for the clarification. I guess I was mislead by statements such as: > > The platform for the One Net

Re: gathering use cases

2012-11-08 Thread Tony Anderson
ommunity taking responsibility for the ongoing development and maintenance of the school server as neither Daniel Drake nor Martin Langhoff are likely to have adequate time for this in the foreseeable future. Tony Tony On 11/08/2012 05:59 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On 9 November 2012 09:10

Re: gathering use cases

2012-11-08 Thread Tony Anderson
Tony On 11/08/2012 05:25 PM, Jerry Vonau wrote: On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 17:10 -0500, Tony Anderson wrote: On 11/08/2012 05:01 PM, Jerry Vonau wrote: Hi Tony and all, On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 13:32 -0500, Tony Anderson wrote: Hi, Sridhar One of the important potential benefits from gathering use cas

Re: gathering use cases

2012-11-08 Thread Tony Anderson
On 11/08/2012 05:01 PM, Jerry Vonau wrote: Hi Tony and all, On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 13:32 -0500, Tony Anderson wrote: Hi, Sridhar One of the important potential benefits from gathering use cases is to clarify the roles of the Community XS project and XS-0.7. Why is that an issue at at all

Re: gathering use cases

2012-11-08 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, Sridhar One of the important potential benefits from gathering use cases is to clarify the roles of the Community XS project and XS-0.7. From my perspective, if you can afford to deploy a server with 2GB or more main memory and 500GB or more hard drive capacity, XS-0.7 serves well and ea

Re: Gnome in os9

2012-11-07 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, I get a similar error trying to run Firefox on an xo-1.75. I suspect the problem is that these are binaries that can not be run on an Arm system. Tony On 11/07/2012 12:00 PM, devel-requ...@lists.laptop.org wrote: Send Devel mailing list submissions to devel@lists.laptop.org To s

Re: Adobe Flash no longer compatible with XO-1

2012-10-17 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, OLE Nepal's EPaath includes a flash player. I am not sure about the distribution issue. Tony > Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:05:28 -0600 > From: Daniel Drake > To: Jerry Vonau > Cc: OLPC Devel > Subject: Re: Adobe Flash no longer compatible with XO-1 > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: tex

Re: Setting the time

2012-08-29 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, The primary need is for the XOs in the school to have the same time (to a few seonds, even a minute or so, is probably ok. The primary need is to have information from the XOs be somewhat consistent. The school server time should also be accurate to a few minutes, of course. At the momen

Re: Setting the time

2012-08-27 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, In a school deployment, it is desirable that all of the XOs have the same time. This time should be synchronized with/by the school server (even if the school server is wrong). It is not reasonable to base this capability on access to the internet. Casio sells 'atomic' watches that synch

Re: XO-1.75 relative performance

2011-11-07 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, I was referring, of course, to the need for a 1GB memory to support the 3D drivers which appear to be required by the future Fedora releases. That sound scary! Tony On 11/07/2011 09:10 AM, Walter Bender wrote: On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Tony Anderson wrote: It sounds like the

Re: XO-1.75 relative performance

2011-11-07 Thread Tony Anderson
It sounds like the XO-1.75 Sugar will not be operable on XO-1 (and possibly XO-1.5). I assume there is a clear commitment to continue support of Sugar for XO-1 and XO-1.5. Tony On 11/07/2011 03:26 AM, devel-requ...@lists.laptop.org wrote: Send Devel mailing list submissions to devel@l

Re: [Server-devel] Fwd: School server links

2011-11-01 Thread Tony Anderson
ool server list. -- Forwarded message ------ From: TONY ANDERSON Date: Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 11:47 AM Subject: School server links To: olpc-soc...@googlegroups.com As a follow-up to the school server session at OLPC SF Summit 2011, the following are links to documentation of OLE Nepal&#

Re: harvesting energy

2011-10-27 Thread Tony Anderson
Has anyone estimated the work required to charge an XO? Mike Lee gave a demo some time back at the Washington D.C. Learner's Club which seemed to show that it would be a difficult workload for an adult athlete to charge a laptop. Tony On 10/27/2011 12:00 PM, devel-requ...@lists.laptop.org wro

Re: DataManager version 1

2009-09-23 Thread Tony Anderson
has changed in recent Sugar versions. > > Looking forward to seeing how this progresses. Let us know how it > does in Nepal! > > Regards, > Wade > > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Tony Anderson <mailto:t...@olenepal.org>> wrote: > > Hi, > >

Re: Smile activity version 1

2009-09-03 Thread Tony Anderson
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 18:31, Tony Anderson wrote: > >> I posted version 1 of the Smile activity to activities.sugarlabs.org. It >> matches the code posted on gitorious. >> >> The Smile activity implements the open source Ambulant SMIL3 player. It >> plays a

Smile activity version 1

2009-09-02 Thread Tony Anderson
I posted version 1 of the Smile activity to activities.sugarlabs.org. It matches the code posted on gitorious. The Smile activity implements the open source Ambulant SMIL3 player. It plays a variety of media types. More importantly it can play a complex multimedia presentation including text, i

DataManager version 1

2009-08-28 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, I posted the DataManager activity to ASLO today. It matches the code currently on gitorious. The intent of the DataManager is to deal with a problem faced in Nepal which is the small size of the Nand. The current backup/restore feature does not provide a way for the user to remove entries f

Re: browse bug

2009-05-09 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, Curiouser and curiouser. I will try to see if I can reproduce the result. Essentially, I have a bundle .cpxo which is used by ClassroomPresenter. It returned 'document/unknown' on our schoolserver (our mix of XS-0.4). Tony Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 04:19,

[Server-devel] Journal and XS

2009-04-10 Thread Tony Anderson
Martin, The current journal is missing some critical capabilities. The DS backup and restore is working well in Nepal (our schoolserver is based on XS-0.4). I would like to propose the following for discussion. It may be that much of what I am describing is already available in code or the feat

[Server-devel] Offline Moodle

2009-04-10 Thread Tony Anderson
Martin, Nepal is not implementing Moodle (in the form of courses) for this year's deployment. As a result, the offline moodle project is currently dormant. I will be leaving Nepal mid-May and will be available to work on this project if it is still relevant. I would need your mentoring and nee

Re: anonymous gray activity circles

2009-01-03 Thread Tony Anderson
cles keep accumulating. I would > like to keep the number of circles equal > to the number of actual top level windows > and not the total number used across the > session. > > Thanks, > Chris > > Tony Anderson wrote: >> I believe that these circles result from the

anonymous gray activity circles

2008-12-31 Thread Tony Anderson
I believe that these circles result from the activity initiating a new top-level window. Sugar provides an activity with a window. It is expected that the activity will pack it's widgets into a vbox in that window. Imported activities naturally create a top-level window. Tony Message: 3 Date:

Re: [Sugar-devel] [sugar] XO identity shared via Browse

2008-12-03 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, We are looking at the same problem. We would like the students to be automatically logged in to their Moodle courses. The approach I am looking at now is to have a Python script run at boot which creates a cookie with the nickname, serial number , and colors (in case there is more than one

767 issue

2008-11-12 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, I have been having a similar experience. The most common culprit it the Terminal Activity (probably because I start it first). Strangely, if I ctl-alt-erase, it will start normally. The log says: "Error: dbus.proxies: Introspect error on :1.4:/org/laptop/sugar/DataStore: dbus.exceptions.DB

Glade

2008-11-12 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, I don't think this will help much other than illustration. Some time back I modified a python script which builds a skeleton python program based on the glade output to generate an activity (656 style). See PyGTK/Hello World with Glade and Sweettepache (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Tony37

Re: keyboard

2008-11-10 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, Thanks. That may do it. Sugar is set up so the XO key with % and x (divide/multiply I suppose) is used to switch the keyboard layout. Oops. No joy. The output of setxkbmap doesn't change when I switch layouts. Tony Ties Stuij wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 9:07 PM, Tony Anderson

Re: keyboard

2008-11-10 Thread Tony Anderson
ook at /etc/sysconfig/keyboard > Thanks, > Sayamindu > > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 8:52 PM, Tony Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I am writing some python code which needs to interrogate the system >> to determine which keyboard layout is currently selecte

keyboard

2008-11-10 Thread Tony Anderson
I am writing some python code which needs to interrogate the system to determine which keyboard layout is currently selected. The goal is to show an image of the keyboard for Nepali students with a US keyboard. I checked /home/olpc/.i18n but this does not change with the % x key. Anyone kn

Re: [Server-devel] Offline moodle notes in moodle.org

2008-10-10 Thread Tony Anderson
"out-of-sequence" log entries, and this will introduce them for the > first time. I'm sure there'll be a few gotchas there. > > Hearing this, MartinD suggested that - as long as we go the "store > html" way (supported with output b

Re: [Server-devel] XS testing

2008-10-09 Thread Tony Anderson
At the moment, I am enabling password authentication for SSH. However, root login via SSH will not be possible. So this test would require the installer to log in as admin, for example. He would then su to root with the root password set by the install script, as needed. As far as I know, we d

Re: [Server-devel] XS_0_4 install

2008-09-25 Thread Tony Anderson
internet via the schoolserver! The ejabberd problem persists; however, I think it may also be a newbie problem. I'll try to keep you posted. Yours, Tony Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:04 PM, Tony Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> started ejabberd