Re: Conway's Life activity

You may be amused to know that the firmware has an Easter Egg of the Conway's Life. If you press the rocker pad (left side of screen) to the right after powering on, you will get a randomly-select amusement, one of which is Life. It uses the traditional life-death rule with a wrap-around fiel

Re: suspend/resume support?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said (off list): > Are you sure you're giving it long enough? Hold it down and give it a > good 10 count. The machine should turn off long before then, but it is > possible you're not holding it long enough. Worth a try, no? Thanks. Yes, It works if I hold it down for a long t

Conway's Life activity

The wiki says I should send this application to the list for comments, so here goes! 1. Project name : Game of Life 2. Existing website, if any : 3. One-line description : John Conway's Game of Life 4. Longer description : This was one of the first cellular automata,

Re: suspend/resume support?

G1G1 laptops are all "C2". Jake B wrote: > How can I tell what kind of model I have? Are the G1G1 laptops all of > a particular model? > Please let me know. Thanks. > > Jake > > On Dec 23, 2007 10:53 PM, Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >>> I've got joyride 1466 >> >>>

Re: suspend/resume support?

On Dec 24, 2007 3:59 AM, Jake B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I tell what kind of model I have? Are the G1G1 laptops all of > a particular model? > IIRC, if you have a G1G1 laptop you do not have to wroory about any of this, as you should have the latest model. Only ones who got laptops th

Re: suspend/resume support?

How can I tell what kind of model I have? Are the G1G1 laptops all of a particular model? Please let me know. Thanks. Jake On Dec 23, 2007 10:53 PM, Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > >> I've got joyride 1466 > >> Pressing the power button doesn't do anything. > >> Is there

Re: suspend/resume support?

Hi, > I've got joyride 1466 > Pressing the power button doesn't do anything. > Is there something else I have to do or not do? You also need a "C" model, since suspend/resume features exposed hardware bugs in earlier models. C1+ is required for suspend, C2+ is required for shutting of

Re: suspend/resume support?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Yes, the power management features were not ready in time for the G1G1 > build, but they are in Joyride. [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > That feature is already implemented. Press the power button and it > suspends; press again to resume. Lid closures do it too. I've got

Re: [PATCH] CLI Interface to the Sugar Datastore

Walter Bender wrote: > Is there a corresponding copy from datastore? (It sure would make > installing Java simpler for the faint of heart.) Not yet, although I have plans to work on something like that. It's considerably more complex, though, as the Sugar datastore is a much more opaque beast tha

Re: file compare ?

Hi, > G1G1. When in the Terminal application I enter 'cmp file1 file2', > the response I get is: "bash: cmp: command not found". yum -y install diffutils. You could file a bug asking this to be included in the stock build. The RPM is large (500KiB), but the cause seems to be copious i10n

Re: Playing with IDEs

Jeffrey Kesselman wrote: > Figured it was time for a new thread for this > > Idle is actually included on the olpc in /usr/lib/python2.5/idlelib > > However trying to invoke idle.py gives this error... > > ** IDLE can't import Tkinter. Your python may not be configured for Tk. > > Question

file compare ?

G1G1. When in the Terminal application I enter 'cmp file1 file2', the response I get is: "bash: cmp: command not found". How come ? mikus ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: how to get an activation key without wifi ?

On Dec 23, 2007 4:01 PM, Mr frÿffe9dÿffe9ric pouchal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a G1G1 olpc and I need an activation key > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activation_and_Developer_Keys You mean, "Developer Key". G1G1 machines are pre-activated from the factory. > The first m

Re: Give One Get One laptop for software development

Pippy is a capable basic Python IDE. sshfs is a nice way to get access to the XO's filesystem from a full-scale development machine. The XO's flash is large enough to install emacs, git, and other such tools; a full C development environment is a bit of a stretch, but you can add an external SD ca

Re: Clock?

On Dec 23, 2007 4:55 PM, Bernardo Innocenti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jerry Van Baren wrote: > > > Hmmm, odd. After setting the hwclock with --utc, my /etc/adjtime has > > "UTC" but, when I cycled power, my system clock was off by my timezone. > > Ahh, my /etc/adjtime has "0" instead of "UTC" o

Playing with IDEs

Figured it was time for a new thread for this Idle is actually included on the olpc in /usr/lib/python2.5/idlelib However trying to invoke idle.py gives this error... ** IDLE can't import Tkinter. Your python may not be configured for Tk. Question for those more familiar with python on lin

Re: Silly Question

On Dec 23, 2007, at 12:22 AM, Jeffrey Kesselman wrote: > my "journal", which I assume is hiding fiels somewhere in the > main filesystem, yes? Yes. > Is there a way to redirect downloads directly > to the SD card? Not yet. > If not, is ther a way from the interface to move > downlaods to it aft

Re: Clock?

Jerry Van Baren wrote: > Hmmm, odd. After setting the hwclock with --utc, my /etc/adjtime has > "UTC" but, when I cycled power, my system clock was off by my timezone. > Ahh, my /etc/adjtime has "0" instead of "UTC" on the second line. This is probably because adjtime is marked writable in /etc

New update.1 build 667

http://pilgrim.laptop.org/~pilgrim/olpc/streams/update.1/build667/ -Calculate-13.xo +Calculate-15.xo -Paint-13.xo +Paint-15.xo -Read-35.xo +Read-37.xo -Web-80.xo +Web-81.xo -evince-olpc.i386 0:0.3-1 -fontconfig.i386 0:2.4.2-3.fc7 +fontconfig.i386 0:2.4.2-4.olpc2 -kernel.i586 0:2.6.22-20071121.7.ol

Re: Give One Get One laptop for software development

Rob Savoye wrote: >> 2. "Native" develop and test on the XO itself. > GCC and G++ are both used with the XO. Used with an XO, sure. But not *installed on* the XO by default. I run virtual XOs in VMware Workstation 6. You can't install VMware Tools on one because: a. There isn't enough room for

Re: Give One Get One laptop for software development

Eic looks really nice. I tooka first stab at installing it but (a) it has a LOt of dependancies that take up a lto of room and 9b) one of the dependnacies, QScintilla, doesn't seem to be available as a binary and I gacve up at that point. I might look at idle to see if its as bad... JK On Dec

Re: Give One Get One laptop for software development

Jeffrey Kesselman wrote: > The discussion thread rather looks like it suffered from a 'too many > cooks" problem. > > Aren't there any existing small ide's written in pyton for python? The two main IDEs for Python are "Eric" and "Idle" (bonus points for knowing who Eric Idle is and what *other* g

New joyride build 1470

http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1470/ +AcousticMeasure-11.xo -AcousticMeasure-9.xo -Chat-31.xo +Chat-32.xo -Paint-13.xo +Paint-15.xo -Pippy-14.xo +Pippy-16.xo -Record-47.xo +Record-49.xo -TamTamJam-45.xo +TamTamJam-46.xo -Web-81.xo +Web-83.xo +fontconfig.i386 0:2.4.2-4.o

Re: Give One Get One laptop for software development

The discussion thread rather looks like it suffered from a 'too many cooks" problem. Aren't there any existing small ide's written in pyton for python? JK On Dec 23, 2007 3:57 PM, Jake B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 23, 2007 3:50 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > D

how to get an activation key without wifi ?

Hello I have a G1G1 olpc and I need an activation key http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activation_and_Developer_Keys The first method requires a wifi connection , I don't have wifi , and there is no wifi spot where I live The second method requires an account on https://activation.laptop.org I hav

Re: Give One Get One laptop for software development

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > > 1. Cross-develop on a more powerful platform, download the software to > the XO, and test it. Which is the easiest way. You can also develop natively on Fedora 7, and just copy the executables over, as the XO is basically running Fedora 7 anyway. > 2. "Native"

Re: Give One Get One laptop for software development

On Dec 23, 2007 3:50 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Danilo Câmara wrote: > > I'm a student at State University of Campinas, Brazil. I'm researching > > efficient implementation of Elliptic Curve Cryptography in constrained > > environments. I'm working with an ARM XScale PX

Re: Silly Question

Yuan Chao wrote: > On Dec 24, 2007 2:21 AM, Jeffrey Kesselman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> I was plugged into a USB slot on thr ight not the left. >> Interestingly enough, on the current software, if you do that the >> journal will still see the usb stick but not be able to open it. >>

Re: Give One Get One laptop for software development

Danilo Câmara wrote: > I'm a student at State University of Campinas, Brazil. I'm researching > efficient implementation of Elliptic Curve Cryptography in constrained > environments. I'm working with an ARM XScale PXA270 platform but would > like also to work with a x86-based constrained platform.

Re: [PATCH] CLI Interface to the Sugar Datastore

Is there a corresponding copy from datastore? (It sure would make installing Java simpler for the faint of heart.) -walter On Dec 21, 2007 9:45 PM, Phil Bordelon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey there, folks. > > With the wonderful help of m_stone on IRC, I've managed to take a > script I bange

Re: Silly Question

On Dec 23, 2007 2:25 PM, Yuan Chao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 24, 2007 2:21 AM, Jeffrey Kesselman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I was plugged into a USB slot on thr ight not the left. > > Interestingly enough, on the current software, if you do that the > > journal will still see the us

Re: suspend/resume support?

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 key . -ffm ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org

Re: suspend/resume support?

Can olpc-update be used to update to a joyride version? Jake On Dec 23, 2007 2:30 PM, Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > >> Doesn't work on mine. Neither closing the lid nor pressing the >> power button causes it to suspend. I'm fairly sure of this, as the >> power light st

Re: Clock?

On Dec 22, 2007 10:06 PM, Hal Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It looks in /etc/sysconfig/clock for the UTC flag. It defaults to local. > > My XO doesn't have an /etc/sysconfig/clock > > All the Linux boxes I've ever worked with have run with the hardware clock > set to UTC. I'm not sure why X

Re: suspend/resume support?

Hi, > Doesn't work on mine. Neither closing the lid nor pressing the > power button causes it to suspend. I'm fairly sure of this, as the > power light stays lit, and the network activity light continues to > flash. I'm using a G1G1 laptop with build 650. Do I need to be > using a

Re: suspend/resume support?

Could I get more info on /sys/power/state please? For a project where intelligent power consumption is such a large concern, I would expect this to be solid. Could anyone weigh in on the status of suspend/resume on the XO, and perhaps explain why my G1G1 does not appear to implement this feature?

Re: Silly Question

On Dec 24, 2007 2:21 AM, Jeffrey Kesselman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was plugged into a USB slot on thr ight not the left. > Interestingly enough, on the current software, if you do that the > journal will still see the usb stick but not be able to open it. That's interesting... I used to use

Re: Give One Get One laptop for software development

If you hit some areas where the spec (databook) does not describe reality, please update this page: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Geode Thanks! Danilo Câmara wrote: > I'm a student at State University of Campinas, Brazil. I'm researching > efficient implementation of Elliptic Curve Cryptography in co

Update instructions for "normal" users

I looked at the information on the wiki about updating the OLPC's software, and saw no info targeted for the G1G1 users. I thus decided to take the initiative and write my own (very) short instructions on how to update from stable to stable for "normal" users at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Olpc-updat

Re: suspend/resume support?

On 23/12/07 08:29 -1000, Mitch Bradley wrote: > Jake B wrote: > > Are XO developers planning to implement support for > > suspend-to-RAM/resume on the XO? > > Please let me know. Thanks. > > > That feature is already implemented. Press the power button and it > suspends; press again to resume.

Re: Give One Get One laptop for software development

I'm surprisingly happy with the XO laptop keyboard. After only a day of practice, I've acclimated enough to be productive. How do you swap out the window manager? Jake On Dec 23, 2007 1:33 PM, Yoshiki Ohshima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Danilo, > > > I'm a student at State University of Campin

Re: suspend/resume support?

Doesn't work on mine. Neither closing the lid nor pressing the power button causes it to suspend. I'm fairly sure of this, as the power light stays lit, and the network activity light continues to flash. I'm using a G1G1 laptop with build 650. Do I need to be using a new joyride? Please let me know

Re: Give One Get One laptop for software development

Danilo, > I'm a student at State University of Campinas, Brazil. I'm researching > efficient implementation of Elliptic Curve Cryptography in constrained > environments. I'm working with an ARM XScale PXA270 platform but would > like also to work with a x86-based constrained platform. I think th

Re: suspend/resume support?

Jake B wrote: > Are XO developers planning to implement support for > suspend-to-RAM/resume on the XO? > Please let me know. Thanks. > That feature is already implemented. Press the power button and it suspends; press again to resume. Lid closures do it too. > Jake >

Re: Give One Get One laptop for software development

Jeffrey Kesselman wrote: > Keep in mind though that it has the "chicklet' keyboard that really > isnt suited to writing a whole lot at once. > > I haven't tried plugging a USB kb in. I dont know if it would work. Plugging in a USB keyboard works great. That's how I used my XO at work over the p

Re: Fooling with Java

On Dec 22, 2007 3:25 PM, Jeffrey Kesselman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Guys. > > I decided to try something a bit lighter weight so i installed JEdit. > I discovered that alt-p/alt-n and at elast for JEdit that works to get > my editor window up front. > > Two oddities in mtachbook/java pa

Re: Silly Question

Thanks all i foudn my problem. I was plugged into a USB slot on thr ight not the left. Interestingly enough, on the current software, if you do that the journal will still see the usb stick but not be able to open it. On Dec 23, 2007 9:16 AM, Yuan Chao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 23, 200

Re: Give One Get One laptop for software development

Keep in mind though that it has the "chicklet' keyboard that really isnt suited to writing a whole lot at once. I haven't tried plugging a USB kb in. I dont know if it would work. My devel environment is an emulator for development and my give/get for testing. JK On Dec 23, 2007 1:00 PM, ffm <

Re: Browse in GS

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/ai

Re: Give One Get One laptop for software development

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 > environ

Re: Browse in GS

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/afd/nc_212_25OCT2007.pdf > but if I pre-process and pre-size it into 8 grays in a > fixed colormap via gs | pnmcut | ppmquant -map 8gray

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

[Adam - can you check the email addresses for people? thanks] These minutes can be found here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Support_mtg Attending: Noah, Danny, Kate Davis, Adam Holt, Jim Gettys, Kim, Yani, Mary Lou, Ricardo, Chui-Yui, Rob (Marvell), Mitch, Don Hopkins >From our main wiki page, the

Moodle on the XS server?

Martin Langhoff, who works on the Moodle project, gave me this list address, so hopefully I am and sending this to the correct people. My question is: I understand that there have been plans for sending some version of Moodle with the XS server. But I don't find a copy on the ISO downloaded fr

Re: [OLPC-Games] Reducing pygame cpu-load to < 4 %

It's not just animation, though, right? Like the previous poster mentioned, any game that has a realtime simulation component is going to be using the CPU even when not responding to user input. Example of this would include games ranging from SimCity to Tetris. Similarly, any game with a compute

Re: #5564 HIGH Update.: browser render problem disallows t-mobile login on XO

Workaround to get logged on to t-mobile w/ XO. I called t-mobile customer service. They gave me a really long url that i believe started with service2 and ended with .jsp but since I couldn't find any url persistence on the XO browser only tried that at the Borders location. going to that url b

Re: [sugar] Hippo Canvas

Its planned adopt goocanvas or another canvas? Gonzalo Odiard 2007/12/20, Benjamin M. Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Gerard J. Cerchio wrote: > > Sorry to say that I am having a terrifically hard time trying to use the > > hippo canvas. > > h

Re: #5564 HIGH Never A: browser render problem disallows t-mobile login on XO

from rpm -q kernel, i get kernel-2.6.22-20071121.7.olpc.af3dd731d18bc39 I'm guessing that will specify also which build of the browser. I tried a rpm -q on firefox but not installed, browser app name not known yet. I don't the equivalent of 'about' on sugar. Attached is file that's result of rpm

RE: #5583 NORM Never A: At The London Times Online the browser shows blank pages

I don't know how to find which build I have. My guess is that occurs on pages which have Flash at the top. I downloaded the Adobe Flash as my pages don't run with Grungy Flash. -- Mike -Original Message- From: Zarro Boogs per Child [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 20,

RE: #5583 NORM Never A: At The London Times Online the browser shows blank pages

Hi Zarro, Sometimes I get a right angle with a twirling circle and then the page comes up. Other times the screen goes white and nothing seems to budge it. I just go the XO today so I haven't figured out how to find what version I am running. -- Mike Crick -Original Message- From: Zarro

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

What if we change the sidebar link the wiki from "Getting Started" to "Help Getting Started"? -walter On Dec 18, 2007 10:43 AM, Kim Quirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [Adam - can you check the email addresses for people? thanks] > > > These minutes can be found here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go

Re: multiple MTD partitions

The main reason you have gotten no feedback is because we are ultra-busy right now with mass-production and other issues. I have been looking into partitioning schemes for some time now. We need to have a discussion about this, but now is not the time. Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > Hello Mitch, >

Re: Another proxy idea - web proxy logs from school servers?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > James, > > > I had thought of rproxy between the school server and the XO browser, if > > the time taken to checksum is low enough, and if there is a local cache > > on the XO. > > gosh no, I don't propose putting rproxy on the laptops themselves. > > The way it wou

Give One Get One laptop for software development

I'm a student at State University of Campinas, Brazil. I'm researching efficient implementation of Elliptic Curve Cryptography in constrained environments. I'm working with an ARM XScale PXA270 platform but would like also to work with a x86-based constrained platform. I think the OLPC laptop is an

Re: [Xiph-dev] What's the status of Xiph codecs support in the Helix project?

On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 12:12:15AM -0500, Samuel Klein wrote: > > Has this been formally made a requirement yet? It seems like this is > > still being hashed out on the xiph lists. I have yet to comment on the > > proposal because I haven't completely groked the whole thread yet. For > > now Skele

[PATCH] Import copy-to-journal

--- bin/Makefile.am |3 +- bin/copy-to-journal | 86 +++ configure.ac|2 +- 3 files changed, 89 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) create mode 100755 bin/copy-to-journal diff --git a/bin/Makefile.am b/bin/Makefile.am index 764f0ba.

[PATCH] CLI Interface to the Sugar Datastore

Hey there, folks. With the wonderful help of m_stone on IRC, I've managed to take a script I banged on (copy-to-datastore, originated by rwh) and have at: http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5571 and put it in a Git repository, built RPMs for the ship.2 build, and so on. The patch follows; the RPM

suspend/resume support?

Are XO developers planning to implement support for suspend-to-RAM/resume on the XO? Please let me know. Thanks. Jake ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

[Reminder] Please refresh your packages today to pick up new translations

Hi all, As per the roadmap[1] today (23rd) is the date when packages are supposed to be refreshed in order to pick up new translations. So if you are the maintainer of a translated activity/module, please create new packages to include the latest translations. Also, if you use the MANIFEST file i

Re: upgrading firmware on activated laptops

Mikus Grinbergs wrote: >>> Please note that there are users like me who have the exact problem >>> described by http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5558. I have been >>> totally __unable__ to gain access to the Open Firmware "ok" prompt. >>> >> Please read the top section of >> http://wiki.laptop.

Re: Status of SVG rendering on the XO

Is the Browse activity using a stable version of XULRunner? If so, how are you able to use the stable release of XULRunner, and still use firefox 3 beta 1's rendering engine? Please let me know. Thanks. Jake On Dec 23, 2007 8:56 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 21, 200

Re: Silly Question

On Dec 23, 2007 1:22 PM, Jeffrey Kesselman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (1) I have a 2 gig SD card in my card slot. I can see it in the > journal, but I can't figure out how to use it for anything. Journal serves as file manager for XO. > In particular Id like to dowload stuff to it But when

Re: Status of SVG rendering on the XO

On Dec 21, 2007 4:49 PM, Ed Trager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A question to ask might be, when will the XO get updated to use FF3's > new rendering engine? The new engine is supposed to be faster, > although I have not found that to really be the case on our machines. We are currently using the

Re: upgrading firmware on activated laptops

> > Please note that there are users like me who have the exact problem > > described by http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5558. I have been > > totally __unable__ to gain access to the Open Firmware "ok" prompt. > > Please read the top section of > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Autoreinstallation_image:

Re: Update of activities over the web

Updating activities have been just implemented: http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/4906 Tomeu On Sat, 2007-12-22 at 18:59 -0800, Gerard J. Cerchio wrote: > I have noticed that PlayGo is listed as an activity on the Austria > download site. I think this great, but I have one problem: Updating the > a