OLPC News 2007-12-30

2007-12-30 Thread Walter Bender
1. Give One Get One: The G1G1 program ends on December 31. G1G1 has not only made it possible to seed the launch of programs in Haiti, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Cambodia, Mongolia, and Afghanistan, but we have also greatly broaden the community of participation in the project. The community has already

Re: joyride image Jffs2 on usb ?

2007-12-30 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Dec 29, 2007 6:36 PM, Ivan Krstić [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 28, 2007, at 9:32 PM, Mr frÿffe9dÿffe9ric pouchal wrote: There is a file that ends with jffs2.usb Does it mean that you can use jffs2 on usb ? No, and you don't want to be using JFFS2 on a USB hard drive.

Re: How can the XO be made accessible to blind

2007-12-30 Thread Hemant Goyal
Hi, We have been working on a simple screen reader for the XO and have made some headway. We have ported and customized eSpeak for the XO. A text to speech server has been written and methods exposed through Dbus . I have documented the work done till now at

TurtleArt Mandelbrot

2007-12-30 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
I was intrigued by Turtle Art, and wanted to learn how to use it. I was also bored, stuck in an airport after my flight was delayed. Therefore, I decided to write a Mandelbrot Fractal generator in Turtle Art. You can see the result here: http://dev.laptop.org/~bemasc/mandelbrot/Screenshot.png

Re: Updates API documentation for everything.

2007-12-30 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Dec 30, 2007 1:31 PM, Jeffrey Kesselman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In general it would be good if a docs could be made downloadable... I don't always have net access. Good point. When I integrate this into the build process, I'll be sure to .zip up the files as well. In the interim:

Re: How can the XO be made accessible to blind

2007-12-30 Thread David W Hogg
On a somewhat related note, is there any way to attach an external monitor to the XO? I would love to give my astronomy research seminars in the spring from my G1G1 XO; but this would also be useful for those with impaired sight (some of my colleagues need to immensely magnify images, diagrams,

Re: Oprofile, swap

2007-12-30 Thread Zvi Devir
I played a bit with Psycho a few months ago, trying to speed up my B2 machine. I was not able to get a a measurable speedup, so I abandoned my testings.    Zvi Ivan Krstić wrote: On Dec 18, 2007, at 12:27 PM, Jameson Chema Quinn wrote: Has anyone looked at Psyco on the XO? Psyco

Re: How can the XO be made accessible to blind

2007-12-30 Thread Mitch Bradley
David W Hogg wrote: On a somewhat related note, is there any way to attach an external monitor to the XO? I would love to give my astronomy research seminars in the spring from my G1G1 XO; but this would also be useful for those with impaired sight (some of my colleagues need to immensely

Re: OLPC News 2007-12-30

2007-12-30 Thread Mitch Bradley
Richard noticed that on the community-development list there are at least two reports of the EC going terminal, meaning that on boot they get the error message: EC problem. Remove all power and restart. We need to get those machines to Cambridge to investigate further. It is unlikely

Re: OLPC News 2007-12-30

2007-12-30 Thread Jaya Kumar
On Dec 31, 2007 3:23 AM, Mitch Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: resetting without the EC's knowledge. There is a 2-line patch in the ticket; it makes the kernel reboot using the approved EC interaction. Looking at your trac entry, I see: The change is in arch/i386/kernel/reboot_fixups.c :

Re: How can the XO be made accessible to blind

2007-12-30 Thread Duane King
Espeak works fine, the XO just did not have the correct sound system config installed because somebody forgot to enable OSS emulation in ALSA. I hope you did not waste a lot of time editing the code for Espeak to get around this bug, I hope you did not edit it to make it pipe out sound data to

Re: OLPC News 2007-12-30

2007-12-30 Thread Richard A. Smith
Mitch Bradley wrote: Richard noticed that on the community-development list there are at least two reports of the EC going terminal, meaning that on boot they get the error message: EC problem. Remove all power and restart. We need to get those machines to Cambridge to investigate further.

Re: OLPC News 2007-12-30

2007-12-30 Thread Mitch Bradley
Jaya Kumar wrote: On Dec 31, 2007 3:23 AM, Mitch Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: resetting without the EC's knowledge. There is a 2-line patch in the ticket; it makes the kernel reboot using the approved EC interaction. Looking at your trac entry, I see: The change is in

Re: OLPC News 2007-12-30

2007-12-30 Thread Mitch Bradley
Richard A. Smith wrote: Mitch Bradley wrote: Richard noticed that on the community-development list there are at least two reports of the EC going terminal, meaning that on boot they get the error message: EC problem. Remove all power and restart. We need to get those machines to Cambridge

Re: Sugar UI design and Tux Paint

2007-12-30 Thread Jameson Chema Quinn
On Dec 30, 2007 12:02 AM, Albert Cahalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jameson Chema Quinn writes: One thing I've noticed in Tux Paint is that an Edit toolbar is far less useful than an Edit menu. You want to copy something - you go to the edit toolbar - you select the copy 'tool' - and

Re: Question about button mapping in Browse handheld mode

2007-12-30 Thread Samuel Klein
Jake, the behavior you see is as expected from recent builds. That feature is planned for implementation in the future (currently update.2). SJ On Dec 28, 2007 9:48 AM, Jake Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This looks like the most likely candidate: http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/2249

Re: TurtleArt Mandelbrot

2007-12-30 Thread Samuel Klein
Ben, that's neat. Speaking of fractals: Bernie has been working on sugarizing Gnu Xaos, and we were just tweaking an icon. It has a lovely tutorial about what fractals are that could serve as a model for other tutorials. SJ On Dec 30, 2007 12:58 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED]