Re: Updating translations for release...

2008-02-10 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 08:23 +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: On Feb 9, 2008 10:49 PM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 22:38 +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: 1) Can the activities be updated by you updating the packages, or will this require work by the

Re: [Community-news] OLPC News (2008-02-09)

2008-02-10 Thread Frank Ch. Eigler
Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Chris Ball provided Richard with some power readings from our newly enhanced power tinderbox running a C2 (mass production) laptop. [...] The top auto-suspend power-draw breakdown: WLAN: 734 mW backlight:362 mW memory: 239 mW LCD:

Re: [Community-news] OLPC News (2008-02-09)

2008-02-10 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, The good news is that the 2W total matches what olpc-logbat reports as being the average for a 4.5 hour uninterrupted suspend session so measured matches reality. The bad news is that this works out to only about 8.5 hours of battery life with no wakups. My own perspective

Re: [Community-news] OLPC News (2008-02-09)

2008-02-10 Thread Chris Ball
Hi Frank, Has the following idea already come up? How about just turning off the wlan entirely during suspend, if the machine has reason to believe that its contribution to mesh connectivity is negligible? Michail should answer this, but it sounds to me like an interesting idea with

Re: [Community-news] OLPC News (2008-02-09)

2008-02-10 Thread Frank Ch. Eigler
Hi, Chris - On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 01:44:15PM -0500, Chris Ball wrote: [...] Has the following idea already come up? How about just turning off the wlan entirely during suspend, if the machine has reason to believe that its contribution to mesh connectivity is negligible?

New joyride build 1673

2008-02-10 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1673 Changes in build 1673 from build: 1670 Size delta: 0.00M -Journal 85 +Journal 86 --- Changes for Journal 86 from 85 --- + #5017 Translate the dates in the list view. -- This mail was automatically generated See

Re: [Community-news] OLPC News (2008-02-09)

2008-02-10 Thread Jameson Chema Quinn
re: turn off the network when not contributing I second this idea, if it can be implemented. Separate from suspended battery life, there is sleep life (I have to say I still think these words are backwards. Suspend = automatic, screen on, sleep= power button or close case, screen off; right?).

[Announce] Updated translations pushed

2008-02-10 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Hello all, I have just finished checking (with msgfmt --check) all the po files for the activities and modules which are translated via Pootle, and mass pushed the updated files into dev.laptop.org git. Please do a git pull, and test - if the build happens successfully, please release a new

Re: Keyboard layout (is: connect from console)

2008-02-10 Thread James
On 9 Feb 2008, at 16:50, Walter Bender wrote: If you can still boot and get to the console, you should be able to both configure your network and do an update. Are you familiar with the iwconfig command? It is in /sbin olpc-update lives in the /usr/sbin directory, which should be in your

Re: age appropriate development

2008-02-10 Thread Mel Chua
Kent, Have you tried the library mailing list? (lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library) It tends to have more education-related discussion along with people with instructional design education backgrounds that might be able to fill you in on what's been done so far with age-related categorizations.

Re: Keyboard layout (is: connect from console)

2008-02-10 Thread Bennett Todd
2008-02-10T22:39:53 James: /sbin/iwconfig eth0 essid linksys /sbin/iwconfig eth0 key C55999D652 /usr/sbin/olpc-update 656 ... but the virtual console complained: Could not download update contents file from: rsync://updates.laptop.org/build-656/contents I don't think

Re: Keyboard layout (is: SOLVED?)

2008-02-10 Thread James
On 9 Feb 2008, at 10:36, James wrote: Following the first 4 instructions at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ethiopian_Setup I have managed to set my G1G1 XO laptop to accept input in Amharic. That's the good news. The bad news is that I can no longer switch back to a US keyboard. On 9 Feb

Re: [Community-news] OLPC News (2008-02-09)

2008-02-10 Thread Richard A. Smith
Jameson Chema Quinn wrote: re: turn off the network when not contributing I second this idea, if it can be implemented. Separate from suspended battery life, there is sleep life (I have to say I still think these words are backwards. Suspend = automatic, screen on, sleep= power button or

Re: WiFi power conservation

2008-02-10 Thread John Gilmore
Has the following idea already come up? How about just turning off the wlan entirely during suspend, if the machine has reason to believe that its contribution to mesh connectivity is negligible? We can do better, without losing any functionality in school deployments. First,

Re: problems using the measure activity.

2008-02-10 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: however when we attempted to demo the measure activity we just could not figure out how to make it work. we got it working three times over the weekend (among a dozen or more tries). we has laptops with the 650 build,

Re: problems using the measure activity.

2008-02-10 Thread david
obviously I meant the distance utility not the measure (scope) utility. David Lang On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 23:06:48 -0800 (PST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: devel@lists.laptop.org Subject: problems using the measure activity. several of us took

problems using the measure activity.

2008-02-10 Thread david
several of us took our XO laptops to the SCALE conferance this weekend. We got a LOT of attention (you couldn't walk down the hallway with one without people asking about them, I stepped out of a class at the afternoon break on friday and didn't make it down to the registration desk for 5

Re: problems using the measure activity.

2008-02-10 Thread david
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: however when we attempted to demo the measure activity we just could not figure out how to make it work. we got it working three times over the weekend (among a dozen or

Re: problems using the measure activity.

2008-02-10 Thread david
On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: however when we attempted to demo the measure activity we just could not figure out how to make it work. we got it working