Re: Removing RTC from Theft-Deterrence

2010-07-07 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 4:01 PM, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote:  * Updating exactly every hour is vulnerable to an attacker who arranges to remove the battery from the machine exactly 55 minutes after power on, every time.  This is still quite awkward, but to avoid even this attack

Re: USB2VGA adapters on XO-1.5 (and XO-1 with F11 images)

2010-07-07 Thread C. Scott Ananian
spelled somewhat differently. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Removing RTC from Theft-Deterrence

2010-07-07 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 6:54 PM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: On Jul 7, 2010, at 5:07 PM, James Cameron wrote: On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 04:57:19PM -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote: Unfortunately, the software changes required are to EC code, which is difficult for outside contributors

Re: NetworkManager time sync

2010-07-05 Thread C. Scott Ananian
, tested and packaged nicely so we could use it both on the XO and SoaS. I wrote that script when I was at OLPC. It should still be packaged somewhere. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org

Re: NetworkManager time sync

2010-07-05 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 20:30 -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote: I wrote that script when I was at OLPC.  It should still be packaged somewhere. I see olpc-update-ifup in my builds, but nothing related to ntpdate. Do you

Re: NetworkManager time sync

2010-07-05 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 11:52 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: On 5 July 2010 21:44, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote: Maybe someone's got a copy of build 653 lying around and they can run rpm -q for us. While we have your attention on this topic... Do you not think

Re: New keyboard layouts

2010-06-22 Thread C. Scott Ananian
what shows up on the screen. Lowercase looks nice and friendly, too. OTOH, this keyboard is meant for older students, so maybe it's not as big a deal. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) ___ Devel mailing list Devel

Re: multi-touch

2010-06-08 Thread C. Scott Ananian
-multitouch --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Touchscreen requirements

2010-06-08 Thread C. Scott Ananian
://labs.moto.com/robot_touchscreen_analysis/ Strength of touch also matters a great deal, and there's quite a bit of fudging being done in the hardware tracking algorithms. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) ___ Devel mailing list Devel

Re: Touchscreen requirements

2010-06-08 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 11:14 PM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: The mini cocktail wieners I'm familiar with are still around 8-10mm.   I guess I could carve one down and wrap it in plastic... Gummy fingers are more fun: http://cryptome.info/0001/gummy/gummy.htm --scott

Re: [IAEP] Peru, OLPC and Wikipedia

2010-05-09 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote: http://vimeo.com/8709616 Fantastic. Like I always dreamed of the XO-1+wikipedia being used -- kids who read through the encyclopedia to find out about their world, like I did as a kid. --scott ps. the older man says he's

Re: tap-to-click feedback

2010-04-15 Thread C. Scott Ananian
of the complaints. In any case, discussion would be more constructive if participants were careful to use the proper terminology --- tap to click and palm detection -- and carefully distinguish which they like/dislike in their comments. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net

Re: [IAEP] Local software installation

2010-04-15 Thread C. Scott Ananian
, and local user package updater. These are three different tasks, and could easily be three separate tools, for three different use cases. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http

Re: [Sugar-devel] Test request: Wifi encryption changes...

2010-02-12 Thread C. Scott Ananian
gets the job done. --scott On Friday, February 12, 2010, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi lists, I've recently been working on wifi wpa association issues  on the 8.2.x releases (F-9, NM-6.5, Sugar 0.82) and there is bug I would like to ask people to test

Re: [Olpc-Haiti] Need in Haiti: inexpensive portable projectors forOLPC/XO classrooms

2010-02-03 Thread C. Scott Ananian
-Projector/dp/B000A3E2T2 might work, if just placed on an XO screen. There might still be heat issues, but it's cheap enough that an experiment might be warranted. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) ___ Devel mailing list Devel

Re: B R E A K T H R O U G H -- F11-on-XO1 has working video player

2010-02-01 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: On 30 January 2010 08:38, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote: Does this build have the patch for http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8104 ? No, this bug still plagues every mainstream Linux installation that exists

Re: B R E A K T H R O U G H -- F11-on-XO1 has working video player

2010-01-30 Thread C. Scott Ananian
on wakeup, I had to do it manually. Does this build have the patch for http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8104 ? --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: offtopic question about high density wifi

2010-01-26 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:54 AM, da...@lang.hm wrote: On Tue, 26 Jan 2010, C. Scott Ananian wrote: On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:31 PM,  da...@lang.hm wrote: I've read through these, and they have a lot of useful info. I do have good RF experiance (and even some halfway decent tools

Re: offtopic question about high density wifi

2010-01-26 Thread C. Scott Ananian
useful to you if you contacted tummy.com and asked them pointed questions about what APs they used/recommend. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: offtopic question about high density wifi

2010-01-25 Thread C. Scott Ananian
backed that up with a literature search and could cite the various parts of the 802.11 collision-avoidance algorithm which melted down in the 10s of clients. I can't cite chapter and verse any more, sadly. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net

Re: OLPC does end run around IP addresses

2010-01-09 Thread C. Scott Ananian
, despite having non-pingable IP address identities activated. The 169.x.x.x subnet is reserved for link-local addresses, which is what these are. They are pingable from the local link. It's all standards-compliant and kosher, be not afraid. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link-local_address --scott

Re: Android, OLPC, and native hosting

2010-01-05 Thread C. Scott Ananian
for the collaborative model Sugar aspires to. Happy hacking! --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Android, OLPC, and native hosting

2009-12-28 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 10:07 AM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: Ahem.   With XO-1.5, I feel that I AM shipping a full-fledged Linux PC to every child. Since when did it take more than a GB of RAM and 4GB of disk to host an IDE ? I think that was Emacs 23. j/k. ;-) --scott

Fwd: Switching from Sugar to Xfce

2009-12-16 Thread C. Scott Ananian
-- Forwarded message -- From: sl...@juno.com sl...@juno.com Date: Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 9:26 PM Subject: Switching from Sugar to Xfce To: csc...@laptop.org Hi! I hope you can help me with a problem I'm having switching between Sugar and Xfce on the olpc I just acquired.  I've

Re: 8.2.2 Beta-1 test request

2009-12-06 Thread C. Scott Ananian
. If it ever hangs in the shutdown process, let me know... Curious: is there a trac bug # for this? I think stock Ubuntu hardy might have the same problem (or a related one)? --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) ___ Devel mailing list

Re: slimming icon theme caches

2009-11-23 Thread C. Scott Ananian
build). IIRC the actual icon files have timestamps correlated with the RPM creation time, so if we just stuck to those it would all be reasoable rsync-able -- but it doesn't. I don't remember the exact details. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net

Re: versioned fs and /boot minor issues

2009-11-11 Thread C. Scott Ananian
of mounting everything such that you can see/manipulate the actual underlying partitions. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: signed F11 for XO-1

2009-11-05 Thread C. Scott Ananian
. IIRC it was a little non-trivial, because there are partitions and other hair to deal with, and we might only deal with the common cases well. But the skeleton is there to read. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) ___ Devel

Re: crond disabled?

2009-11-04 Thread C. Scott Ananian
Keep in mind that some of cron's duties are done by anacron (or were when I had a hand in the distro), which is laptop-friendly. Anacron only handles daily/weekly/monthly tasks, though; you do need cron running if you want tasks with sub-day scheduling. --scott

Re: crond disabled?

2009-11-04 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: c. scott ananian wrote:   Keep in mind that some of cron's duties are done by anacron (or were   when I had a hand in the distro), which is laptop-friendly.     Anacron only handles daily/weekly/monthly tasks, though; you do need

Re: crond disabled?

2009-11-04 Thread C. Scott Ananian
' if you'd like to write one. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: XO automatic clock setting

2009-08-30 Thread C. Scott Ananian
in your XS on a per-deployment basis (ie, you can trust only the canonical OATS server in cambridge, and never trust an XS, if that's what you prefer for your deployment). --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) ___ Devel mailing

Re: [Server-devel] Antitheft: sending a fake stolen...

2009-08-24 Thread C. Scott Ananian
a valid leave from an invalid lease without knowing the UUID for every serial number, so you should probably return a lease which is valid except for the fact that the signed string has an randomly-chosen UUID (it can't be a fixed bad UUID, because that can be easily tested.) --scott

Re: [Server-devel] Antitheft: sending a fake stolen...

2009-08-24 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Martin Langhoffmartin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:45 PM, C. Scott Ananiancsc...@laptop.org wrote: so you should probably return a lease which is valid except for the fact that the signed string has an randomly-chosen UUID Exactly my

Re: [Server-devel] Antitheft: sending a fake stolen...

2009-08-24 Thread C. Scott Ananian
a valid leave from an invalid lease without knowing the UUID for every serial number, so you should probably return a lease which is valid except for the fact that the signed string has an randomly-chosen UUID (it can't be a fixed bad UUID, because that can be easily tested.) --scott

Re: [Server-devel] Antitheft: sending a fake stolen...

2009-08-24 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Martin Langhoffmartin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:45 PM, C. Scott Ananiancsc...@laptop.org wrote: so you should probably return a lease which is valid except for the fact that the signed string has an randomly-chosen UUID Exactly my

Re: DNS Mischief

2009-07-08 Thread C. Scott Ananian
that MD5 has been deprecated for 13 years now, and even SHA1 is not recommended for new use . Use http://www.ouah.org/ogay/sha2/ -- it's just two files to add, tomcrypt not required.) --scott (Ob code review: I think you just want to fabricate a new link-local address entry based on the hash

Re: The XO-1.5 software plan.

2009-05-18 Thread C. Scott Ananian
a read-only squashfs for the system code with a writeable uncompressed ext2 filesystem. This seems to combine the best of both worlds, and upgrades just involve swapping out the squashfs file. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net

Re: [Fwd: Re: Ambient light sensing via LED response]

2009-05-10 Thread C. Scott Ananian
tweaking some constants. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Does antitheft.py in olpcrd ever do anything?

2009-05-10 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 3:21 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 6:24 AM, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote: the plan is to implement real EC-based security for Gen 1.5; I recommend ditching the init-based plan completely Any hints or references

Re: [Fwd: Re: Ambient light sensing via LED response]

2009-05-10 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Reinder de Haan r...@mveas.com wrote: C. Scott Ananian wrote: On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Reinder de Haan r...@mveas.com wrote:     Absolutely not.  The A/D is eight bits, with an input range spanning     0 - 3.3V, so the best you     can hope for is about

Re: Ambient light sensing via LED response

2009-05-04 Thread C. Scott Ananian
for turning off something they can't see. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Ambient light sensing via LED response

2009-05-04 Thread C. Scott Ananian
threshold voltage... some real measurements to replace the WAGes would go a long way. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: CL1B power distribution

2009-05-01 Thread C. Scott Ananian
across the LED to make it more sensitive. Any of the four existing LEDs would be appropriate: wireless A and B, battery, or power. Heck, the two separate wireless LEDs cause more confusion then they're worth anyway, you might as well get rid of one and use the LED there only for input... --scott

Re: Ambient light sensing via LED response

2009-05-01 Thread C. Scott Ananian
). --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: CL1B power distribution

2009-04-28 Thread C. Scott Ananian
that automatically powering off the backlight in bright sunlight would lead to a lot of power savings for most young users. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org

Re: XO Gen 1.5

2009-04-28 Thread C. Scott Ananian
will encourage some budding hacker to give it a go... --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

SHLUG meets the XO

2009-04-18 Thread Scott Douglass
questions. Please don't ask me to translate any of the Chinese in the above links :-) Scott ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Building an OLPC kernel

2009-03-17 Thread Scott Douglass
/users/scott/fedora-kernel Here you will find various things: a couple of pre-built good OLPC kernels (2.6.25 and 2.6.27) for reference, and a simpler way of building the kernel RPMS based on the OLPC source. Also some Makefiles for building OLPC drivers outside of the kernel source tree, so you can

Re: announce: alternate power management

2009-03-15 Thread Scott Douglass
On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 00:37 -0400, p...@laptop.org wrote: scott wrote: 3. with the OLPC kernel and this olpc-kbdshim and olpc-powerd (which by the way are really realy nice, thanks a million pgf!) the XO suspends when via lid switch and the power button. great

Re: announce: alternate power management

2009-03-14 Thread Scott Douglass
On Sat, 2009-03-14 at 09:37 -0400, p...@laptop.org wrote: mikus wrote: - Rawhide. AFAIK there currently is no dimming support at all. I either have to power off such an XO overnight, or have to close the lid while the backlight is still lit. It would be useful if rawhide

Re: announce: alternate power management

2009-03-14 Thread Scott Douglass
3. with the OLPC kernel and this olpc-kbdshim and olpc-powerd (which by the way are really realy nice, thanks a million pgf!) the XO suspends when via lid switch and the power button. great! did you try the grab keys and rotation? (those are just olpc-kbdshim.) olpc-rotate should

kernel: olpc-wakeup.S

2009-03-12 Thread Scott Douglass
When I try to compile olpc-wakeup.S, I get the following: cc -march=i686 -c -I/lib/modules/2.6.29-0.197.rc7.fc11.i586/build/arch/x86/include -o olpc-wakeup.o olpc-wakeup.S olpc-wakeup.S: Assembler messages: olpc-wakeup.S:13: Error: no such instruction: `align' olpc-wakeup.S:104: Error: invalid

Re: Opportunity for speedup

2009-02-19 Thread C. Scott Ananian
it does nothing but write to a socket IIRC.) Anyway, further benchmarking of the current implementation is probably worthwhile before a complete reimplementation is called for. But if you want to reimplement it from scratch, go nuts. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net

Re: Life in an insecure world

2009-02-09 Thread C. Scott Ananian
/trusted. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Life in an insecure world

2009-02-09 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 9:34 AM, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote: You could either (a) mount /versions read-only Do you mean having it on a separate partition? How do you decide space dedicated

Re: Life in an insecure world

2009-02-04 Thread C. Scott Ananian
cases like this -- although it will always be possible to do something similar. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Service announcement scheme - (Re: A small request.)

2009-02-02 Thread C. Scott Ananian
suggesting to use DDNS to publish those services on a nameserver running on the XS? That is how DNS-SD works, yes. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo

Re: [Sugar-devel] Service announcement scheme - (Re: A small request.)

2009-02-02 Thread C. Scott Ananian
or cubed, because the size of the messages as well as the number of such messages increases with the # of users. If a mesh network is involved, the number of rebroadcasts necessary is another factor roughly proportional to the size of the network.) --scott -- ( http

Re: [Sugar-devel] Service announcement scheme - (Re: A small request.)

2009-02-02 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@laptop.org wrote: C. Scott Ananian wrote: This is irrelevant, really. Protocols are designed with certain assumptions. Those assumptions (mostly having to do with the behavior and cost of broadcasts) were true when the protocols were

Re: Service announcement scheme - (Re: [Sugar-devel] A small request.)

2009-02-02 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 1:17 AM, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=/iel5/4489030/4489031/04489571.pdf?temp=x I don't want adventure. I want something old

Re: [Sugar-devel] Service announcement scheme - (Re: A small request.)

2009-02-02 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 5:13 AM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@laptop.org wrote: Martin Langhoff wrote: On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 6:39 PM, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote: My suggestions: DNS-SD and libepc (http://live.gnome.org/libepc/). There's no need for Sugar-specific solutions here; we

Re: Service announcement scheme - (Re: [Sugar-devel] A small request.)

2009-02-02 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 1:15 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 6:39 PM, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote: My suggestions: DNS-SD and libepc (http://live.gnome.org/libepc/). There's no need for Sugar-specific solutions here; we just need to use

Re: OLPC upgrades

2009-02-02 Thread C. Scott Ananian
around in the initscripts, and I'm sure a lot better could be done. Patches? --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Is it possible to disable sharing for an Activity?

2009-02-02 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Eben Eliason e...@laptop.org wrote: Scott (CC'd) has already come up with some really nice proposals for adding VNC as an alternate colaboration mechanism for all activities. In my mind, this would work perfectly with the above scheme, whereby any activity

Re: [Sugar-devel] Is it possible to disable sharing for an Activity?

2009-02-02 Thread C. Scott Ananian
*not*! --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Service announcement scheme - (Re: [Sugar-devel] A small request.)

2009-02-01 Thread C. Scott Ananian
no need for Sugar-specific solutions here; we just need to use existing standard solutions. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS on the XO progress

2009-01-23 Thread C. Scott Ananian
$INSTALL_ROOT/etc/rpm/macros.rpmdb %__dbi_cdb create private nommap EOF It's probably worth reading through the pilgrim 'streams.d/olpc-development.stream' file to see if there are other fixes you are missing. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net

Re: Fedora Desktop on XO

2009-01-09 Thread C. Scott Ananian
interface. John, I don't know if you ever saw: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Journal,_reloaded Given the massive disruption to the status quo, I'm not sure that I would attempt to argue for one approach over the other; just noting that there is an alternative. --scott -- ( http

Re: status of OLPC project

2009-01-09 Thread C. Scott Ananian
those who are comfortable announcing their employment status will do so, here or in some other appropriate venue. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo

Leaving

2009-01-08 Thread C. Scott Ananian
...@cscott.net for future correspondence. I've enjoyed working with you all. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Installing Flash on the OLPC

2008-12-29 Thread C. Scott Ananian
comes with the OLPC before I install Flash. I recommend using Firefox and following the instructions at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Firefox, for what it's worth. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) ___ Devel mailing list Devel

Two quotes

2008-12-29 Thread C. Scott Ananian
to derail OLPC's first release due to massive filesystem corruption, sigh.) As we approach new-year's-resolution season, quotes like these are fodder for mapping out good resolutions for the coming year. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net

Re: Problems revealed by a report of detailed changes to 8.2.1 tickets.

2008-12-23 Thread C. Scott Ananian
responsible for tweaking the Trac query for report #38, thanks. Guilty as charged. Maybe I'll eventually get the action needed statuses sorted correctly. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) ___ Devel mailing list Devel

Re: Problems revealed by a report of detailed changes to 8.2.1 tickets.

2008-12-22 Thread C. Scott Ananian
a series of RC builds which fix only one thing at a time, or something else. I'm lazy, I'd prefer the first option. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo

Re: wiki.laptop.org upgrade

2008-12-04 Thread C. Scott Ananian
language. Our mediawiki installation is quite patched, and an upgrade should have been approached with a great deal more caution. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http

Re: wiki.laptop.org upgrade

2008-12-04 Thread C. Scott Ananian
Also, bernie checked 'secrets.php' into git during his upgrade. Thank goodness this wasn't pushed to dev! --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: wiki.laptop.org upgrade

2008-12-04 Thread C. Scott Ananian
vacation yet. Let's cool down and assume that everyone actually wants to play together. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Journal2 patches + timings + notes

2008-12-02 Thread C. Scott Ananian
. See above. P.S. - Thanks for the stimulating vacation entertainment. You're welcome! Thanks for the patches! Want to work some on pinot? --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http

Re: Journal2 recipe...

2008-12-02 Thread C. Scott Ananian
if journal2 came with a sample ~/.pinot/config.xml or if its README instructed users to enable indexing in some other fashion. Yes, pinot still needs to be configured using the standard GUI. Patches welcome. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net

Re: [Localization] [Proposal] .xot bundles, for translations

2008-12-02 Thread C. Scott Ananian
to back out changes, in order to protect against getting malicious translations from a friend. Uninstalling a language bundle gives you that, un-merging changes to a shared in-place translation file is... more difficult. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net

Re: Info on developer key request page on XO

2008-12-02 Thread C. Scott Ananian
a short time (before the original G1G1 image deadline) to pull this together, and decided that it's much more flexible to fix bugs and handle translations and giving instructions on devkey installation on the server-side, rather than needing to preload them all ahead of time. Scott will know

Re: [sugar] [Proposal] .xot bundles, for translations

2008-12-02 Thread C. Scott Ananian
is not obviously the right solution. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [sugar] [Proposal] .xot bundles, for translations

2008-12-02 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 6:49 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fedora does not have a standard solution either, so I'm not sure where you're going with this. We have to invent something. RPM is not obviously

Running out of memory is bad

2008-12-01 Thread C. Scott Ananian
for disk space in 8.2.1. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: x11vnc and vncviewer for classroom

2008-11-24 Thread scott
a kernel that supports the OLPC-specific hardware. Which devices in particular? Can these device drivers be merged into the upstream kernel tree, or are we still dealing with a binary blob somewhere? Enjoy, Scott ___ Devel mailing list Devel

Re: x11vnc and vncviewer for classroom

2008-11-24 Thread scott
is the firmware for the wireless LAN module. iirc, that is a full SOC device from marvell, correct? any progress on that front? Thanx, Scott ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: x11vnc and vncviewer for classroom

2008-11-23 Thread scott
to a wired network also. After all, why use terminal services you have to pay licencing fees for... Enjoy, Scott On Sun, 23 Nov 2008, Jim Gettys wrote: On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 20:56 -0500, Ian Daniher wrote: To be honest, I've had the best luck with microsoft terminal services in so far

Re: XO deployment count?

2008-11-17 Thread C. Scott Ananian
a lower limit on the number of machines in the field -- a number of our deployments have no connectivity, and those that have connectivity are often firewalled. The second shows Peru status: 40,000 today in 600 schools, and 150,000 in transit, which will go into an additional 900 schools. --scott

Re: XO deployment count?

2008-11-17 Thread C. Scott Ananian
hands*. --scott [*] roughly means there are lots of minor details I'm omitting; Peru has some dispute with its shipping company, for example, and there are some lawsuits pending over exactly who is paying what to whom, and some number of the manufactured XOs are currently stuck in a warehouse

Re: Scam alert: [Fwd: Thank you from One Laptop per Child]

2008-11-16 Thread C. Scott Ananian
/appalled before). --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Suggestion for presentation at Sugar Camp2

2008-11-13 Thread C. Scott Ananian
Just to make sure I'm clear: are you in town next week? We've been discussing having a content and deployment day on Tuesday; would that work for you? --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) ___ Devel mailing list Devel

an interesting filesystem challenge: static pull of wiki.laptop.org

2008-11-12 Thread C. Scott Ananian
wisdom of devel@ can suggest other things I could be trying. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Tentative talk schedule: Nov 19

2008-11-12 Thread C. Scott Ananian
will be present to lobby your favorite speakers to ensure that your favorite topic will be addressed. Refer to [[Sugarcamp#Proposals]] for details on the talks each person listed below has proposed. Wednesday: 10am: Desktop legacy compatibility. (Marco, C. Scott, possibly Saymindu by phone?) 11am

Re: Tentative talk schedule: Nov 19

2008-11-12 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:07 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does this schedule seem reasonable to others? (Esp. those I've pencilled in for talks?) If you are going to be in town, made a 9.1 proposal (or forgot to), and aren't listed above, let me know. I should have also

Re: Tentative talk schedule: Nov 19

2008-11-12 Thread C. Scott Ananian
smoking crack before we finish scheduling the rest of the week. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [IAEP] Tentative talk schedule: Nov 19

2008-11-12 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:29 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 3:07 AM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 4pm: Internationalization (Marco, C. Scott, possibly Saymindu by phone and/or cjb on language learning) I'm not giving talks about i18n

Re: [IAEP] Tentative talk schedule: Nov 19

2008-11-12 Thread C. Scott Ananian
and prototype dumps. Brainstorming is scheduled for Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [IAEP] Tentative talk schedule: Nov 19

2008-11-12 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:50 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 3:07 AM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does this schedule seem reasonable to others? (Esp. those I've pencilled in for talks?) If you are going to be in town, made a 9.1

Re: [sugar] [IAEP] Tentative talk schedule: Nov 19

2008-11-12 Thread C. Scott Ananian
need more than 90 minutes, so perhaps Christian could take the latter half of the morning for UI/design. Scott, it'd be great if you could join us. Yup, I think that matches what Bernie and I had pencilled in. We'll finish fleshing out the rest of the week's schedule tomorrow. Unless

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