Re: [sugar] Proposal: Activity developers mailing list

2008-08-04 Thread ffm
authors to subscribe to a particular place that we can count on, to the extent that that is possible. We can have them subscribe to devel and apply filters (via the mailman web interface) to use predefined topics (regexps) that, for example, contain the string breaks-python or whatever. -FFM

Re: [sugar] Framework for managing the activities (= symfony project)

2008-08-03 Thread FFM
://www.symfony-project.org/blog/2008/07/31/plugins-have-a-new-home The structure looks pretty neat, and maybe something like that could be useful on top of the git page for the activities. Yeah, I heard someone was working on using the code from http://addons.mozilla.org. -FFM

Re: [sugar] Proposal: Activity developers mailing list)

2008-08-03 Thread FFM
, for example, that contain a certin regexp. This topic can be addded by the list admin, per http://www.esosoft.com/support/mailinglist/mailman/topics.html -FFM ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

VPN with NetworkManager

2008-07-16 Thread ffm
Is there support of VPNs in the network manager? (I'm not sure if there is more than one type, but I'm wondering if such support exists at all) -FFM -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/VPN-with-NetworkManager-tp532303p532303.html Sent from the OLPC Software development

Re: VPN with NetworkManager

2008-07-16 Thread ffm
Dennis Gilmore wrote: On Wednesday 16 July 2008, ffm wrote: Is there support of VPNs in the network manager? (I'm not sure if there is more than one type, but I'm wondering if such support exists at all) NetworkManager supports pptp, openvpn, and vpnc(cisco) but we dont support any

Re: Autoreinstallation image is not signed.

2008-06-03 Thread ffm
+restore. As long as backups are made automagically and often... -FFM -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Autoreinstallation-image-is-not-signed.-tp17612809p17626313.html Sent from the OLPC Software development mailing list archive at Nabble.com

G1G1: Security, to enable or disable...

2008-06-03 Thread ffm
Why were G1G1 machines shipped with firmware, kernel, and reflash locks enabled? (see http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developer_keys ) Theft is not a good reason, as they do not require activation leases. It only seems to be a bother for people who want to help out with the OLPC project. -FFM

Re: [OLPC Security] G1G1: Security, to enable or disable...

2008-06-03 Thread ffm
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 12:29 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Machines sent out via our developer program are always shipped out unsecured. Yet I've just recived two laptops via said program that had security enabled. -FFM ___ Devel

Re: Autoreinstallation image is not signed.

2008-06-03 Thread ffm
...) we _need_ to have a better solution than you didn't update, you're on your own. -FFM -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Autoreinstallation-image-is-not-signed.-tp17612809p17636472.html Sent from the OLPC Software development mailing list archive at Nabble.com

Autoreinstallation image is not signed.

2008-06-02 Thread ffm
Well, the title is only partially accurate. The real issue is that there is no way to back up a user's data if the OS is borked sans developer key. If the autoreinstallation image's backup features were incorporated in offline upgrade, that would solve a lot of headaches. Use case: Alice has

Re: [sugar] Community/OLPC Server Support Discussion

2008-02-20 Thread ffm
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Bernardo Innocenti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can we postpone it to a later date? 3:30 PM EST, Thursday, Feb. 21st? Earlier, but one I can make. -FFM ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http

Re: Community/OLPC Server Support Discussion

2008-02-19 Thread ffm
On Feb 19, 2008 8:15 PM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Friends, Chris Ball and I would like to spend a few minutes, perhaps at 8:20 PM EST, Monday, Feb. 25 in #olpc-meeting on irc.freenode.org Would it be possible to have the meeting at 3:30 PM EST, Thursday, Feb. 21st? -FFM

Re: using the browser as an activity platform : pyxpcom / hulahop / Gears

2008-02-17 Thread ffm
-on-the-xo spec drafting/implementation process? This is something I might be interested in contributing to, but I cannot find anything about it on the wiki. -FFM ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Digital Introduction (was: bar code scanners on the XO)

2008-02-17 Thread ffm
purpose was to facilitate a physical public key exchange (digital introduction) by holding two laptops up to one another. So what happened to the idea? I'd think it would be interesting. Any reason it was scrapped? -FFM ___ Devel mailing list Devel

Re: screen dims and brightens

2008-02-08 Thread ffm
to the next) and brightens (about six seconds after it has dimmed). That's been happening for me all the time on my B4, which cannot suspend at all since 650 (intentional). This occurs often in any suspend-inhibited XO using any version of the software after 650. -FFM

Re: New update.1 build 691

2008-02-07 Thread ffm
I take it this is RC2? Does WEP work yet? On Feb 7, 2008 5:53 PM, Build Announcer v2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://pilgrim.laptop.org/~pilgrim/olpc/streams/update.1/build691http://pilgrim.laptop.org/%7Epilgrim/olpc/streams/update.1/build691 Changes in build 691 from build: 690 Size

Re: Activity conventions?

2008-02-05 Thread ffm
), the guideline ignored if there is a good reason to in that spesific case, or a bug filed against an activity. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/HIG -FFM ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Licensing for One Laptop Per Child

2008-02-05 Thread ffm
, no? -FFM ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Licensing for One Laptop Per Child

2008-02-05 Thread ffm
On Feb 5, 2008 7:10 PM, Asheesh Laroia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, ffm wrote: On Feb 5, 2008 6:37 PM, Samuel Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can try to have Ubisoft donate versions of Chessmaster so the children can play chess as well. Outstanding. Unless

Re: New joyride build 1606

2008-01-29 Thread ffm
So when's our RC2 coming out... 2008/1/29 Dwaine Garden [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm fine. No problem at all. I have booted the xo laptop about 8 times. The pull a/c power and battery worked for me. No problem since 1597 *Marcus Leech [EMAIL PROTECTED]* wrote: Build Announcer v2 wrote:

Re: What does 'Register' do for a G1G1 user?

2008-01-26 Thread ffm
.] Is 'Register' supposed to do anything for me ? mikus Nope, it doens't do anything for you. -ffm ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Xo-get with GUI (pyGTK)

2008-01-21 Thread ffm
to upload a single file there, I can't imagine uploading 100 files. To give an idea, GCompris have currently 2GB/Day upload average. You could post a request for hosting from OLPC at their servers... I am sure you would be accepted quickly. -ffm ___ Devel

Re: New joyride build 1568

2008-01-21 Thread ffm
Someone want to test it? On Jan 21, 2008 3:43 PM, Build Announcer v2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1568http://xs-dev.laptop.org/%7Ecscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1568 Changes in build 1568 from build: 1566 Size delta: 0M -bootfw

Re: Update.1 testing

2008-01-20 Thread ffm
On Jan 20, 2008 1:07 PM, Mitch Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jameson Chema Quinn wrote: I know that we're supposed to all be developers here, and know how to change the firmware in our sleep; but it would be great to include a link to instructions. I searched the wiki -

Re: Update.1 testing

2008-01-20 Thread ffm
On Jan 20, 2008 6:46 PM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AC not present Am I missing something here? I also downloaded q2d09.rom.{sha1,md5,asc} to the same place just in case, but it didn't make a difference. Plug in the AC adapter to the wall. -ffm

Switch to a sane packaging and upgrade system

2008-01-16 Thread ffm
system w/o removing all non /home customizations. -ffm ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: New update.1 build 682

2008-01-15 Thread ffm
What is stopping http://dev.laptop.org/~bert/update.1-joyride.html from being nil? On Jan 15, 2008 3:00 PM, Build Announcer Script [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://pilgrim.laptop.org/~pilgrim/olpc/streams/update.1/build682/http://pilgrim.laptop.org/%7Epilgrim/olpc/streams/update.1/build682/

Re: getting 'olpc-update'

2008-01-15 Thread ffm
then you have the old version You need to be on update.1 or joyride to get the new one. On Jan 15, 2008 6:22 PM, Mikus Grinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dennis wrote regarding Update.1 build 682: -olpcupdate.i386 0:1.9-0 +olpcupdate.i386 0:2.1-0 This wont go in util i have the srpm

Re: q2d08A firmware anywhere?

2008-01-13 Thread ffm
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q2d08 2008/1/13 Martin Dengler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I'm seeing plenty of suspend/resume problems with my G1G1 C2 laptop (joyride-1532 with firmware q2d08), and I'd like to try the latest firmware before I file any proper trac bug reports[1]. I

Re: disabling root and olpc passwords

2008-01-13 Thread ffm
are not stored, so password stupidity can not be assessed at that point. While I would certainly consider improvements, what's wrong that we're trying to fix with this simple solution we already adopted? Still would be a good idea to do the thing with sudo and su that I mentioned earlier. -ffm

ejabberd woes

2008-01-13 Thread ffm
Forwarded message by [EMAIL PROTECTED] : I have been struggling with setting up my own ejabberd server inside my home network. I did this just to try a few things out. The public servers (such as xochat.org) were just too crowded. I posted basically the same thing to olpc-open and no one

Re: Update to Terminal Activity

2008-01-12 Thread ffm
Odd, does not seem to be in joyride as of yet. -ffm On Jan 12, 2008 2:27 AM, Phil Bordelon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Stone and I added a 'become root' button to the Terminal tonight. It is now part of Terminal-8.xo. This consists of two parts: * a new minimalist script

Re: disabling root and olpc passwords

2008-01-12 Thread ffm
) that _would_ indicate poor security. -ffm ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: New joyride build 1526

2008-01-10 Thread ffm
olpc-update fails for this one. On Jan 10, 2008 8:15 AM, Build Announcer Script [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1526/http://xs-dev.laptop.org/%7Ecscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1526/ -cairo.i386 0:1.4.10-1.fc7 +cairo.i386 0:1.4.12-1.fc7

Re: New update.1 build 680

2008-01-10 Thread ffm
Are we in the RC stages now? When should QA start? -ffm On Jan 10, 2008 12:15 PM, Build Announcer Script [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://pilgrim.laptop.org/~pilgrim/olpc/streams/update.1/build680/http://pilgrim.laptop.org/%7Epilgrim/olpc/streams/update.1/build680/ -Calculate-15.xo

Re: [OLPC devel] su/sudo or not to sudo/su (was PATCH: add --loginpause to mingetty)

2008-01-10 Thread ffm
they are logged in as root will be the one time they rm -rf / sudo in front of every as-root command is not too hard, right? Especialy once we get paste working. -ffm ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Announcing OLPC firmware Q2D08

2008-01-09 Thread ffm
Will it be auto-installed when I olpc-update to latest joyride, or will it have to be manualy installed? -ffm On Jan 9, 2008 4:33 PM, Mitch Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q2d08 This firmware has a large number of mostly-minor improvements

Re: New joyride build 1514

2008-01-06 Thread ffm
Why is there a push against freenode? What did I miss? On Jan 6, 2008 2:33 PM, David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 13:16 -0600, Dennis Gilmore wrote: I started a irc channel #olpc-admin on freenode if anyone wants to help with infrastructure issues feel free

Re: wiki is being spammed with huge numbers of new pages

2008-01-05 Thread ffm
User blocked, all articles created by user deleted. -ffm On Jan 5, 2008 3:58 PM, Tom Hannen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, The wiki is being spammed with huge numbers of new pages, made by user Star... Can someone go in and clear them quickly? Tom

Re: Printing et al.

2008-01-04 Thread ffm
, who do not want to be only able to view their work on their XO. -FFM ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: licensing: GPLv2, v3, and Apache

2007-12-28 Thread ffm
Apache or GPLv2 is fine. Anything that is GPL-compatable will be acceptable. -ffm On Dec 28, 2007 11:22 AM, David W Hogg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear developers, Since I am *loving* my G1G1 (yes I recovered it from the brick I made it yesterday), I am inspired to finally get my planetarium

Re: Unofficial Debian+XFCE build

2007-12-28 Thread ffm
Can this be installed to an external hard disk and be booted off of? I would hate to fill up my 1GB and use all my flash write cycles... -ffm On Dec 28, 2007 4:15 PM, Ivan Krstić [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While waiting for the servers to finish churning last night, I put together an UNOFFICIAL

Re: [OT] struggles installing builds

2007-12-27 Thread ffm
I just went from 1480 to latest joyride over ethernet, and it worked for me. -ffm On Dec 27, 2007 5:38 PM, Hal Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: olpc-update doesn't work with wired ethernet is another bug (which I've previously asked you to provide further information about). I'm pretty

Re: newbie question: single-user mode

2007-12-27 Thread ffm
No need to reboot to SUM. Assuming your laptop still boots, press CTRL+ALT+F2 and log in as root. -ffm On Dec 27, 2007 7:41 PM, David W Hogg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for the newbie mail but I just demolished the X config of my G1G1 and need to reboot in single-user mode. How do I do

Re: [olpc-help] setting correct time

2007-12-26 Thread ffm
it be to enable that option in an XO? It should be a trivial task. ntpd is already installed, so all we would need to do is to rename one file, /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/K74ntpd to /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S74ntpd . -ffm ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http

Latest stable build in Ship.2

2007-12-26 Thread ffm
to run w/o issues, why the two different sources? Since 653 is signed and (iirc) fixed WPA issues, should we not tell users to update to 653 to fix their issues? -ffm ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: activity downloadable from wiki that may contain malcious code?

2007-12-25 Thread ffm
system, but until then, be careful what downloads you trust. -ffm ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Give One Get One laptop for software development

2007-12-23 Thread ffm
It has wireless connectivity, so you should be able to ssh via wifi. -ffm On Nov 27, 2007 10:52 PM, Danilo Câmara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a student at State University of Campinas, Brazil. I'm researching efficient implementation of Elliptic Curve Cryptography in constrained

Re: Browse in GS

2007-12-23 Thread ffm
BTW, the way to install firefox is 'yum install firefox' (as root) -ffm On Dec 23, 2007 12:59 PM, Yuan Chao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 21, 2007 3:36 AM, Rob Logan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Got my GOGO yesterday. The pdf viewer does an outstanding job imaging http://rob.com/airports

Update instructions for normal users

2007-12-23 Thread ffm
. I am interested in having others examine my work to make sure I haven't made any large errors. I am not running the stable, so I cannot test it out, but it *should* work. -ffm ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org

Re: suspend/resume support?

2007-12-23 Thread ffm
On Dec 23, 2007 2:52 PM, Jake B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can olpc-update be used to update to a joyride version? Yes, assuming you have a developer keyhttp://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developer_Key . -ffm ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http

Re: suspend/resume support?

2007-12-23 Thread ffm
through the developer program have to worry about models. -ffm ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: sudo, not su.

2007-12-19 Thread ffm
, so an attacker would have to disconnect and reconnect from mesh network to resume his attacks. Given the large number of IPs, it is unlikely that one will be reused. -ffm ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo

Re: sudo, not su.

2007-12-19 Thread ffm
*IPv4 On 12/19/07, ffm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/19/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On a simmilar vein, would it be much of a perfomance hit to be running denyhosts on these machines? What would it do with the mesh network interface? IIRC, each member

Re: [Testing] Conf Call today for discussion of G1G1 Support, 2pm est

2007-12-17 Thread ffm
Will someone be keeping minutes for those of us who cannot be available at that time? -ffm ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: New update.1 build 656

2007-12-14 Thread ffm
Should we be doing testing on this build, or on the latest joyride? Will all the changes made here be merged back with joyride eventualy? -ffm ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Fwd: Project Hosting Request

2007-12-11 Thread ffm
This was submitted a week ago and got no replies, so I am submitting it again. 1. Project name : Graphics API for the Students of Python (GASP) 2. Existing website, if any : https://launchpad.net/gasp 3. One-line description : GASP provides a simple, procedural graphics API for

Re: Prohibition of binaries

2007-12-10 Thread ffm
On 12/10/07, Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But just to be clear,end users (ie children) can also download and run new non original binaries if they so choose? If you mean if they can run applications compiled for the platform, then yes. -ffm

Re: Upgrading to Fedora 8

2007-12-10 Thread ffm
a stricter check on the EUID somewhere in dbus or in hal. So, once this is fixed, are there any plans to upgrade to Fedora Core 8 for everyone else? -ffm ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: New joyride build 1386

2007-12-08 Thread ffm
Odd, I can not seem to use olpc-update. I am sure I have an Internet connection, I just don't think that it is published on the olpc binary diff update server. -ffm ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: web proxy logs from school servers?

2007-12-06 Thread ffm
On 12/6/07, Adrian Chadd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I've found that schools (locally!) have an interest in the google maps and youtube caching because they suddenly can use those resources in a classroom without fear of using enormous amounts of bandwidth. They weren't using it before

OpenFirmware password

2007-12-05 Thread ffm
I am not completely sure how to set it for the XO-1. I have followed instructions for other implementations of OpenFirmware, but without success. Any ideas? -ffm ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

olpc-update fails: When I attempt to update to ANY joyride, I get an error that Could not download update contents file from: rsync://updates.laptop.org/build-joyride-1364/contents I don't think the r

2007-12-04 Thread ffm
When I attempt to update to ANY joyride, I get an error that Could not download update contents file from: rsync://updates.laptop.org/build-joyride-1364/contents I don't think the requested build number exists. updates.laptop.org is not a valid domain Am I doing somthing wrong here? -ffm

Re: olpc-update fails: When I attempt to update to ANY joyride, I get an error that Could not download update contents file from: rsync://updates.laptop.org/build-joyride-1364/contents I don't think t

2007-12-04 Thread ffm
have not copied the latest joyrides to the update server. -ffm ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Project Hosting Request

2007-12-04 Thread ffm
1. Project name : Graphics API for the Students of Python (GASP) 2. Existing website, if any : https://launchpad.net/gasp 3. One-line description : GASP provides a simple, procedural graphics API for beginning students using Python. 4. Longer description :GASP is built on

What build should we be testing?

2007-12-01 Thread ffm
Should we be testing the Joyride or the ship.2 builds? -ffm ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel