Re: Datastore backup - request for help

2008-05-21 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 21.05.2008, at 00:34, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 11:43 PM, Bert Freudenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah, Marco rightly pointed out hal-get-property. Much easier that way: hal-get-property --udi $battery --key battery.charge_level.percentage hal-get-property --udi

Re: There's Still Time! Enter the Dr. Dobb's Challenge Now

2008-05-21 Thread Edward Cherlin
Shame on you! Windows! What ever happened to Running light without overbyte? I'm publicizing this to my Linux friends, and suggesting that they tear your code apart and make something in PyGame or Etoys, or whatever Free Software they like. Thanks for the art. I expect some interesting mashups.

Re: Could someone please fix the Joyride repo?

2008-05-21 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi, could someone comment on the state of joyride builds? Thanks, Tomeu On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, haven't found any commit in the pilgrim repos about the change of the system activity dir (currently only the journal is there). This is the

Re: Creating a non-python activity

2008-05-21 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 21.05.2008, at 07:25, shivaprasad javali wrote: Hi, I have a C++ activity which i want to use on the olpc. I tried to sugarize my activity based on the info i found on the olpc wiki http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugarizing . The code for sugarizing in that page didnt

Re: Datastore backup - request for help

2008-05-21 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:37 PM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Bert Freudenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, is there a reasonable way to check for whether we are in a school mesh? No idea. No worries, I cannibalised a bit of bash script from

Re: Creating a non-python activity

2008-05-21 Thread Paul Fox
bert wrote: On 21.05.2008, at 07:25, shivaprasad javali wrote: Hi, I have a C++ activity which i want to use on the olpc. I tried to sugarize my activity based on the info i found on the olpc wiki http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugarizing . The code

Re: SSH DSA logins on crank.

2008-05-21 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Hi Chris, On 19.05.2008 17:02, Chris Ball wrote: I've disabled logins with DSA keys on dev.laptop.org. Turns out that while your RSA key is only vulnerable if *created* on a weak Debian or Ubuntu machine, your DSA key is vulnerable if *used* on Debian/Ubuntu¹, due to DSA having a greater

Re: Datastore backup - request for help

2008-05-21 Thread Ivan Krstić
On May 21, 2008, at 4:41 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: what I am trying to sort out is the following. With the deployments that have APs instead of AAs, how do we tell school APs from any random AP out there? You don't, because you can't depend on controlling that part of infra. If you need to

Re: SSH DSA logins on crank.

2008-05-21 Thread Gary Oberbrunner
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: What happens to those who never logged in *from* a Debian/Ubuntu machine? There's no reason to not let them keep their DSA key. The point, iiuc, is that if even one such key was sniffed, crank is compromised. At least that user's account, which is dangerous

Re: SSH DSA logins on crank.

2008-05-21 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 21.05.2008 14:36, Gary Oberbrunner wrote: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: What happens to those who never logged in *from* a Debian/Ubuntu machine? There's no reason to not let them keep their DSA key. The point, iiuc, is that if even one such key was sniffed, crank is compromised. At

Re: SSH DSA logins on crank.

2008-05-21 Thread Ivan Krstić
On May 21, 2008, at 5:58 AM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: OK, but then a statement from the user like I never logged in anywhere from a Debian/Ubuntu system should suffice to reenable the existing key. Given the trivial cost of generating a new RSA key and the high fallibility of

Re: SSH DSA logins on crank.

2008-05-21 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 21.05.2008 15:12, Ivan Krstić wrote: On May 21, 2008, at 5:58 AM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: OK, but then a statement from the user like I never logged in anywhere from a Debian/Ubuntu system should suffice to reenable the existing key. Given the trivial cost of generating a new RSA

Re: Creating a non-python activity

2008-05-21 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 21.05.2008, at 14:02, Paul Fox wrote: bert wrote: On 21.05.2008, at 07:25, shivaprasad javali wrote: Hi, I have a C++ activity which i want to use on the olpc. I tried to sugarize my activity based on the info i found on the olpc wiki http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugarizing .

Re: SSH DSA logins on crank.

2008-05-21 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 21.05.2008, at 15:27, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: Chris Ball wrote: Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you were using a DSA key that you now need to replace. I interpreted the statement above as replace with a RSA or new DSA key. Ivan, you seem to interpret it as replace with a RSA

Re: SSH DSA logins on crank.

2008-05-21 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, So DSA is a no-go from now until the end of time? I'm open to debate on that, though many systems have made that decision; debian.org and freedesktop.org are no longer allowing DSA logins, for example. (I'm curious to hear reasons for wanting to use DSA keys, now that the RSA patents

Re: Creating a non-python activity

2008-05-21 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 21.05.2008, at 15:46, shivaprasad javali wrote: Thanks to all of you . I finally got the app working thanks to this link http://olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=1555.0 Interesting, thanks. In that post, CatMoran made a script that combines Albert's libsugarize.so and my shell script

Re: Turkish keyboard layout

2008-05-21 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
I'll take care of the XKB file. Thanks, Sayamindu On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Kim Quirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are trying to finalize the Turkish keyboard and I would like to get any last minute opinions or thoughts. A number of people have already provided their input -- THANKS!

Re: SSH DSA logins on crank.

2008-05-21 Thread david
On Wed, 21 May 2008, Chris Ball wrote: Hi, So DSA is a no-go from now until the end of time? I'm open to debate on that, though many systems have made that decision; debian.org and freedesktop.org are no longer allowing DSA logins, for example. (I'm curious to hear reasons for wanting

[PATCH] Maintain a metadata copy outside the index (was Re: Datastore backup - request for help)

2008-05-21 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi, On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any idea if someone can lend a hand with the DS issues I mentioned in my opening post? To recap: - Add a dump all metadata to a file mechanism in datastore/xapianindex.py that is fast. It could be one file per

Re: SSH DSA logins on crank.

2008-05-21 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On 5/21/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: one reason would be that DSA is more secure then RSA. If you have a copy of the secret key from one end of the conversation and they are using RSA you can decrypt the communication, with DSA you cannot do so. There are several products

Re: Could someone please fix the Joyride repo?

2008-05-21 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On 5/21/08, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, could someone comment on the state of joyride builds? I looked into it just now; my apologies for not doing so earlier. (We're entertaining country representatives this week, things are rather hectic.) It turns out that xs-dev, where joyride

New joyride build 1970

2008-05-21 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1970 Changes in build 1970 from build: 1949 Size delta: 0.00M -gnutls 1.6.3-2.fc7 +gnutls 1.6.3-3.fc7 -hal-info 20070516-2.fc7 +hal-info 20070725-1.fc7 -olpc-utils 0.71-1.olpc2 +olpc-utils 0.73-1.olpc2 -squeak-vm 3.10-3olpc1 +squeak-vm

Re: New joyride build 1970

2008-05-21 Thread Dennis Gilmore
On Wednesday 21 May 2008, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 9:46 PM, Build Announcer v2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1970 Changes in build 1970 from build: 1949 Size delta: 0.00M ... -sugar 0.79.4-1.olpc2 +sugar

Re: [PATCH] Maintain a metadata copy outside the index (was Re: Datastore backup - request for help)

2008-05-21 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 6:14 AM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the patch attached maintains a copy of the metadata of each object outside the xapian index. How it works: Fantastic. Except that... erm... arhm... you forgot the patch ;-) - at every create and update, a json file is

Re: New joyride build 1970

2008-05-21 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Joyride 1970 has the OLD 'Frame', instead of the 'Circle of Activities' in the Home view. Please fix. mikus ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

New joyride build 1971

2008-05-21 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1971 Changes in build 1971 from build: 1970 Size delta: 0.13M +python-simplejson 1.7.3-1.fc7 -sugar 0.75.15-1.olpc2 +sugar 0.79.5-1.olpc2 +sugar-toolkit 0.79.7-1.olpc2 --- Included python-simplejson version 1.7.3-1.fc7 --- ---

New faster build 1971

2008-05-21 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/faster/build1971 Changes in build 1971 from build: 1970 Size delta: 0.27M +python-simplejson 1.7.3-1.fc7 -sugar 0.75.15-1.olpc2 +sugar 0.79.5-1.olpc2 +sugar-toolkit 0.79.7-1.olpc2 --- Included python-simplejson version 1.7.3-1.fc7 --- --- Included

Re: New joyride build 1971

2008-05-21 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Now have the 'Circle of Activities'. But Journal does not start automatically. [Did not have Journal on Joyride 1970, either.] What are the steps to start Journal manually ? Thanks, mikus ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org

Re: Datastore backup - request for help

2008-05-21 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 2:45 PM, John Watlington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michail is choosing a method, which will be used by NM and should be used by other laptop tasks as well. It will almost certainly not be SSID based. Cool. I'll keep my ears open - Michail, I assume you'll ping me when

Converting xol files???

2008-05-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I downloaded a file that has the curriculum of the Peruvian Primary Schools. Once I unzip (unrar?) I have found the xol files. Since I don't have a XO in my hands...is it possible to tranform the xol format to something that can be read with other document tools? (PDF? TXT? other?)

Re: [PATCH] Maintain a metadata copy outside the index (was Re: Datastore backup - request for help)

2008-05-21 Thread Jameson Chema Quinn
Yay, I am happy about this patch (when there is a patch :) - at every create and update, a json file is created next to the object's file, I definitely think it should be in the same directory as the object file, with a related name. It might even be worth using the macintosh ._name naming

Re: [IAEP] Converting xol files???

2008-05-21 Thread John Watlington
On May 21, 2008, at 10:27 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I downloaded a file that has the curriculum of the Peruvian Primary Schools. Once I unzip (unrar?) I have found the xol files. Since I don't have a XO in my hands...is it possible to tranform the xol format to something

Re: [PATCH] Maintain a metadata copy outside the index (was Re: Datastore backup - request for help)

2008-05-21 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jameson Chema Quinn wrote: | - at startup, if the file datastore_path/.metadata.exported doesn't | exist, check how many objects need to get their metadata exported | (0.8s for 3000 entries) | That's pretty good. | | - in an idle callback, process

Re: [sugar] OLPC's bizarre behaviors

2008-05-21 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Kim Quirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lots of things that we do don't meet any normal expectations of a 'company'. Most people at OLPC will tell you we are not a 'company'. ... I have been trying to understand it, explain it, live with it , and improve it for a

Re: [Server-devel] Problems with mesh OLPC Sur list / problemas con la malla

2008-05-21 Thread Kim Quirk
Since I can't read Martin's answers in Spanish, I thought I would answer a few in English. If these two sets of answers don't agree, can someone point it out so we can get them right. See inline below. Kim 2008/5/15 Yama Ploskonka [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi y'all, I am double posting for I do not

Re: [Server-devel] XS software compatibility question

2008-05-21 Thread John Watlington
On May 21, 2008, at 1:43 PM, Berkowitz Andrew (Project Connect) wrote: OK, the jabber is working fine. The problem was that hostname was working correctly but hostname -s -f were not. I installed the idmgr with yum install idmgr. Are there any configuration files I need to edit? Take a

Re: [Server-devel] XS software compatibility question

2008-05-21 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 2:36 PM, John Watlington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This server is running Fedora 7. If I try Fedora 8 or 9 to avoid that incompatible package, should your packages still work? There lie uncharted waters. Dennis might be able to help with that answer. I suspect that

Re: [Server-devel] XS software compatibility question

2008-05-21 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 2:51 PM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wad said it best. All I can add is a suggestion to read through xs-config to get an idea of what we are tweaking and cherry pick the bits you might want. Actually, might be better to do git clone

Re: [Server-devel] Datastore backup - request for help

2008-05-21 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 2:45 PM, John Watlington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michail is choosing a method, which will be used by NM and should be used by other laptop tasks as well. It will almost certainly not be SSID based. Cool. I'll keep my ears open - Michail, I assume you'll ping me when

Re: [Server-devel] Datastore backup - request for help

2008-05-21 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 3:43 PM, John Watlington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That question was asked at the school server presentation today, by someone from Teaching Matters (IIRC) who knew of you. They commented that 1GB seemed very low for 100 students where Moodle was involved. That's for