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

2008-01-06 Thread Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
hmm. adding text is pointless... If a vandal went through and did massive deletions, is it recoverable? yes, this can be done going trough the page history and reverting changes . -- Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero ___ Devel mailing list

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

2008-01-06 Thread Samuel Klein
yes, deletions are recoverable. I didn't see the additions; were they just spam? Did someone talk to Star? SJ On Jan 6, 2008 12:36 PM, Jeffrey Kesselman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 5, 2008 5:39 PM, Bernardo Innocenti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ffm wrote: User blocked, all articles

Re: New joyride build 1514

2008-01-06 Thread David Woodhouse
On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 01:45 -0500, Michael Stone wrote: On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 12:37:33AM -0500, Build Announcer Script wrote: http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1514/ +kernel.i586 0:2.6.22-20071213.7.olpc.807beb7d0b8a49a -kernel.i586

Re: New joyride build 1514

2008-01-06 Thread Ivan Krstić
On Jan 6, 2008, at 2:16 PM, Dennis Gilmore wrote: So im going to ask why we are not using nagios or something simmiliar to monitor the systems? Im also going to ask why we have drives holding critical data that are not redundent? and what backup solutions we have in place? I have

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

2008-01-06 Thread Walter Bender
yes. there is a page revert option. -walter On Jan 6, 2008 12:36 PM, Jeffrey Kesselman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 5, 2008 5:39 PM, Bernardo Innocenti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ffm wrote: User blocked, all articles created by user deleted. Don't they ever learn that vandalism is

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: A jabber hosting offer...

2008-01-06 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Jan 5, 2008 9:01 PM, drew einhorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If we are going to have small local communities instead of one big one, the we need to be able to contact multiple jabber servers, because there will be communities organized by: age groups language xo activity

Re: A jabber hosting offer...

2008-01-06 Thread Kent Loobey
On Sunday 06 January 2008 12:46:42 Edward Cherlin wrote: On Jan 5, 2008 9:01 PM, drew einhorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In fact, I think we need a Social Networking Web site specifically for the children, protected from adults who might want to interfere or exploit children. And a site for

Does anyone know Game Baker?

2008-01-06 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
Hello all, I recently stumbled across the Game Baker project (http://code.google.com/p/game-baker/) and apparently this is a visual game editor for children, and it's written in Python... Does anyone here happen to have any experience with it? I was thinking that this might come in handy

Re: Free OLPC for someone who needs it

2008-01-06 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Jan 5, 2008 5:13 PM, Jesse Molina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a free OLPC for someone who needs it. It works fine. I got it via the buy-one-get-one program. The Sugarizing Factory project that Heather Stern and I are working on could make good use of your G1G1 XO. We only have B4s

Re: server-to-server communication (was: A jabber hosting offer)

2008-01-06 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sat, 05 Jan 2008 at 22:01:03 -0700, drew einhorn wrote: If we are going to have small local communities instead of one big one, the we need to be able to contact multiple jabber servers The underlying protocol of the server-based collaboration is XMPP. In XMPP, you never need to connect to

GCompris whole bundle problem

2008-01-06 Thread Teresa Selling
I downloaded and installed the new xo for GCompris as a whole app. Its too big! 81M Looks like there are voices for many languages included. That should probably be a separate download so people can get just the one they want. The xo for Click On Letter Activity is 43M... so I am guessing

Re: sugarize tool and Tux Paint

2008-01-06 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On Dec 29, 2007, at 8:48 , Albert Cahalan wrote: I wrote a tool to make normal X programs to run under sugar. As a demo, it runs a logo program. http://dev.laptop.org/~albert/xlogo-1.xo http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/albert/sugarize;a=summary How it works: A launcher program places

Boot Error

2008-01-06 Thread starsu
Dear all, I updated build 613 into 650 on B4 Machine. For some time, it worked well. However, after several reboots, when XO restarts, the following boot error occurs. Boot device: /usb/wlan Arguments: Scan for: OLPCOFW Cannot find: OLPCOFW [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0: Can't open boot device Can

Re: GCompris whole bundle problem

2008-01-06 Thread Bruno Coudoin
Le dimanche 06 janvier 2008 à 16:06 -0800, Teresa Selling a écrit : I downloaded and installed the new xo for GCompris as a whole app. Its too big! 81M Looks like there are voices for many languages included. That should probably be a separate download so people can get just the one they

Offering Hosting For OLPC Projects?

2008-01-06 Thread Duane King
I'm not really sure how to say this, and I'm not even sure if this is the correct forum (If not let me know please), but I own a co-located server setup and I'm not really using that much of the bandwidth dedicated to the server I own, and I feel kind of bad about how its mostly just sitting

Re: GCompris whole bundle problem

2008-01-06 Thread Teresa Selling
Thanks, that worked. I was thinking it would be nice if we could install the several GCompris activities and they all went into one GCompris activity directory so that there would only be one GCompris icon (you only need the one icon then ;-) and we would not have to install the whole

Re: Offering Hosting For OLPC Projects?

2008-01-06 Thread Chris Ball
Hi Duane, I pondered what I would do with it now that the new year is here, and thought it would be both fun and interesting to offer free hosting for projects I felt need the helping hand. This includes any technical help (svn accounts, etc) I can give. I think it would be

Boot Failure

2008-01-06 Thread starsu
Dear all, I updated build 613 into 650 on B4 Machine. For some time, it worked well. However, after several reboots, when XO restarts, the following boot error occurs. Boot device: /usb/wlan Arguments: Scan for: OLPCOFW Cannot find: OLPCOFW [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0: Can't open boot device Can you

Re: Offering Hosting For OLPC Projects?

2008-01-06 Thread Walter Bender
how about a mirror? On Jan 6, 2008 8:31 PM, rupa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are a few projects floating around that are sort of grey area - for xo's but not really endorseable by olpc - maybe they involve non-free codecs or aren't kid oriented or just won't ever get into the olpc builds,

Re: Offering Hosting For OLPC Projects?

2008-01-06 Thread Ivan Krstić
On Jan 6, 2008, at 8:38 PM, Walter Bender wrote: how about a mirror? Yes, I've spoken to Duane on IRC and we will likely be entering in some kind of mirroring arrangement. There are services we want to scale horizontally anyway, and I'll post details here when we go through it once so

Re: Offering Hosting For OLPC Projects?

2008-01-06 Thread rupa
There are a few projects floating around that are sort of grey area - for xo's but not really endorseable by olpc - maybe they involve non-free codecs or aren't kid oriented or just won't ever get into the olpc builds, seems like there could be still be a use for a place for these things to end up

GLX available?

2008-01-06 Thread Randy Heiland
Can someone tell me if GLX is possible on OLPC? 'glinfo' tells me it's not there. If so, what's the .rpm? thanks, Randy ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: GLX available?

2008-01-06 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
Randy Heiland wrote: Can someone tell me if GLX is possible on OLPC? 'glinfo' tells me it's not there. If so, what's the .rpm? Since our GPU cannot support hardware 3D acceleration, and we don't even ship libGL, I've disabled the GLX at build time in the X server. Software based GLX could

Re: Protecting children

2008-01-06 Thread Ed Montgomery
Glad you brought up this point. I have been somewhat concerned about the child security of this project (but I just may not know). As a computer teacher for many years, I have seen several cases of students who have been negatively affected by their contacts and activities on the net. I'd be

a few GCompris activities have problems

2008-01-06 Thread Teresa Selling
I went through most of the activities in the gcompris xo bundle and found that most work ok but a few have some problems: /computer/mouse/clickgame: couldin't find or load clickgame/sea1.jpg /fun/hexagon: couldn't find or load hexagon/strawberry.png /fun/anim: couldn't find or load

Re: a few GCompris activities have problems

2008-01-06 Thread Teresa Selling
I found a couple more activity problems: /discovery/micelaneous/babyshapes: coiuldn't find or load babyshapes/food/chocolate.png (missing all the items on the left) /discovery/micelaneous/clockgame: couldn;t find or load clockgame/clockgame-bg.jpg Teresa Selling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Boot Failure

2008-01-06 Thread Mitch Bradley
The fact that it is trying to boot from the wireless device means that it didn't find /boot/olpc.fth on either USB, SD, or NAND. What happens if you type: ok dir n:\boot\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, I updated build 613 into 650 on B4 Machine. For some time, it worked well. However,

Re: A jabber hosting offer...

2008-01-06 Thread Morgan Collett
Dave Belfer-Shevett wrote: Do I simply use the sugar-control-panel -s jabber j1.olpc.stonekeep.com or the like to point the XO's to my server? And they'll come up as active / neighborhood users? Yes. (If not, the jabber server's probably not configured correctly.) Regards Morgan