Re: Faster Launch of Activities

2008-07-15 Thread riccardo
On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 13:48 -0400, Chris Ball wrote: Hi, Let's get it on the roadmap for 9.1, when we've got time to actually make the fixes required and test them properly (unless someone really believes that speeding up sugar is a 4 line patch). I'd like to see an activity

Re: LZO support

2008-07-15 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Erik, Can you design a test case or two to test the performance of these compression schemes? Thanks, Greg S ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Trac 'next-action' updates.

2008-07-15 Thread Simon Schampijer
Michael Stone wrote: Chris and I added options for 'review' and 'qa signoff' to the 'next-action' Trac field. We dropped the 'signoff' option since people were confused about how to use it. Finally, we slightly reordered the actions to better reflect the order than most tickets will progress

Re: Journal data loss warning

2008-07-15 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 12:51 AM, Gary C Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a quick warning to developers hopping between old and new builds. Today while trying to debug an issue with DNS resolution behind an Access Point I reverted (from joyride-2149) to the official release Update-1 703

Re: Recovered journal (Was: Journal data loss warning)

2008-07-15 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 2:43 AM, Gary C Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 15 Jul 2008, at 00:24, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Gary C Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many thanks for the hint Martin (and I think to Tomeu for the directory rename escape hatch)!

Re: Re: Faster Launch of Activities

2008-07-15 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Ricardo, Can you post your test description? It would be useful to see a comparison of build 656 v 703 v 708 v latest joyride. That's a lot so just 703 (last release image) vs latest Joyride would the top priority. Michael, What is the latest version of Joyride that people should be

Re: Journal metadata - buddies as a string?

2008-07-15 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 7:14 AM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking at the .metadata files that the Journal now maintains, I find that the buddies field is a string that stores a multidimensional array... is this a bug? Or perhaps Xapian cannot sture md arrays? Either way, looks

Re: Code name for 9.1.0

2008-07-15 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Guys, I believe Freire is pronounced fr eh ee ray. I thought this list was the community you were referring to. Let me know exactly what e-mail lists or wiki pages or whatever you want for communication strategy. Good point from James about Freire being political which may be a problem. I

Re: New joyride build 2162

2008-07-15 Thread Simon Schampijer
Build Announcer v2 wrote: http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2162 Changes in build 2162 from build: 2161 Size delta: 0.00M -info 4.11-5.fc9 +info 4.11-8.fc9 -libsepol 2.0.26-1.fc9 +libsepol 2.0.32-1.fc9 -olpcupdate 2.10-1 +olpcupdate 2.11-1 --- Changes for

Re: Faster Launch of Activities

2008-07-15 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi Greg, On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Greg Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Tomeu et al, One persistent request from the users is for faster response of the XO (e.g. http://sextosdela37.blogspot.com/2008/04/analizando-el-uso-de-las-laptop-en-el.html) I believe the new Sugar GUI in

Re: Faster Launch of Activities

2008-07-15 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, perhaps it would be possible to add log entries at the interesting points of activity startup, so that the timing data is always available on a regular basis. I've done this in the tinderbox, but what I've

Re: Re: Faster Launch of Activities

2008-07-15 Thread riccardo
On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 05:01 -0400, Greg Smith wrote: description? It would be useful to see a comparison of build 656 v 703 v 708 v latest joyride. That's a lot so just 703 (last release image) vs latest Joyride would the top priority. I'm not instrumenting the code but using a stopwatch

Re: Code name for 9.1.0

2008-07-15 Thread Richard A. Smith
Greg Smith wrote: Ideas so far. Please vote or propose a new one: Freire mango Papert I'm +1 for mango. I think naming after fruits plays well with calling our user environment sugar. -- Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] One Laptop Per Child ___

Re: Java

2008-07-15 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
2008/7/15 David Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Just been browsing the Java pages on the wiki and confirming to myself the Sun Java version installs but the plugin does not load. A pity, as I have installed on a school server an excellent UNESCO CD of educational materials Strengthening ICTs in

Re: Code name for 9.1.0

2008-07-15 Thread Morgan Collett
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 11:56, Richard A. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greg Smith wrote: Ideas so far. Please vote or propose a new one: Freire mango Papert I'm +1 for mango. I think naming after fruits plays well with calling our user environment sugar. Another +1 for mango. In my

Info on Deployed XOs

2008-07-15 Thread Greg Smith
Hi All, I believe that the XOs which are on the Internet phone home unsocially and leave some info on OLPC servers. I think we lose some granularity of detail due to NATing but we may still get some useful info. Can we determine how many XOs are running each release from this info? If so,

q2e11 firmware for 8.1.2 ECO

2008-07-15 Thread Richard A. Smith
I've release the system firmware q2e11 which is the candidate firmware for 8.1.2. It should show up in the next joyride. The is the software eco proposal for its inclusion into 8.1.2. The EC changes in this release: * The board ID was updated to work with the soon to be relased C3

Re: [Server-devel] EduBlog: Direct Links

2008-07-15 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Tarun, That looks good. My only comment is that I want the kids interface to be as clean and simple as possible. Just like our alpha version on betarun if possible. Best case is to give a single URL land them on the edit page with a default blog option as selected by the teacher. Just type

Re: Code name for 9.1.0

2008-07-15 Thread pgf
morgan wrote: On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 11:56, Richard A. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greg Smith wrote: Ideas so far. Please vote or propose a new one: Freire mango Papert I'm +1 for mango. I think naming after fruits plays well with calling our user environment

Re: [sw-eco] q2e11 firmware for 8.1.2 ECO

2008-07-15 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Richard, Thanks for the details! Can you post this to a page using the format and naming convention of this one: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SW-ECO_5 The next free number is 6. Michael, Is there one SW ECO page for the whole release or do we have a separate SW ECO page for every

Re: Touch pad

2008-07-15 Thread pgf
david wrote: [Community News]The kernel team has backported the modifications to the older stable kernel so that it can be installed on builds 656 and 703. This allows our G1G1 users and deployment countries to install and test this new driver. Seeking advice on how to install

Re: How to improve the state of the touchpad for August.

2008-07-15 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Michael, Can we add this to the agenda for todays 8.2.0 meeting? I want to talk about how we confirm the touchpad will be improved in 8.2.0 more than reviewing the specific bugs. I made a quick scan through the bug list but its not clear to me which will improve the user experience and

Re: Code name for 9.1.0

2008-07-15 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 1:43 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: morgan wrote: On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 11:56, Richard A. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greg Smith wrote: Ideas so far. Please vote or propose a new one: Freire mango Papert I'm +1 for mango. I think

Re: Code name for 9.1.0

2008-07-15 Thread Richard A. Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have to say, though, that one of the best decisions ubuntu ever made was to have alphabetically ordered codenames. i'm Heh. I never noticed. Why do you think the alphabetical ordering is so special? -- Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] One Laptop Per Child

New joyride build 2163

2008-07-15 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2163 Changes in build 2163 from build: 2162 Size delta: 0.00M -bootfw q2e10-1.olpc3.unsigned +bootfw q2e11-1.olpc2.unsigned --- Changes for bootfw q2e11-1.olpc2.unsigned from q2e10-1.olpc3.unsigned --- + q2e11 this is an unsigned

Re: Java

2008-07-15 Thread Robert Myers
David, Just been browsing the Java pages on the wiki and confirming to myself the Sun Java version installs but the plugin does not load. A pity, as I have installed on a school server an excellent UNESCO CD of educational materials Strengthening ICTs in Schools and Schoolnet Project in the

Re: Code name for 9.1.0

2008-07-15 Thread Morgan Collett
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 14:34, Richard A. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have to say, though, that one of the best decisions ubuntu ever made was to have alphabetically ordered codenames. i'm Heh. I never noticed. Why do you think the alphabetical ordering is so

Re: Code name for 9.1.0

2008-07-15 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 15.07.2008 um 05:19 schrieb Tomeu Vizoso: On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 1:43 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: morgan wrote: On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 11:56, Richard A. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greg Smith wrote: Ideas so far. Please vote or propose a new one: Freire mango Papert I'm

gnash improvements on F9

2008-07-15 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, One user-visible F9 change may be the upgrade to a much newer gnash. Can anyone list any flash sites that failed on the F7 builds which I could now test with F9? Youtube excluded, as freedom of codecs remains the issue there. Daniel ___ Devel

Re: Code name for 9.1.0

2008-07-15 Thread Walter Bender
I've always been an alliteration fan, but how about a noun and a verb--after all, learning is action. appropriate apricots or a gerund form appropriating apricots -walter On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Bert Freudenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 15.07.2008 um 05:19 schrieb Tomeu Vizoso:

Re: Text To Speech issues with Read Etexts Activity

2008-07-15 Thread James Simmons
Michael, The activity logs contain no clues. Really no message at all. The Activity window is present but non-responsive. You can switch to the main screen using F3 (the XO equivalent activity-switching key) but you cannot shut down the application there. When you switch back to Read

Re: Code name for 9.1.0

2008-07-15 Thread Richard A. Smith
Morgan Collett wrote: Heh. I never noticed. Why do you think the alphabetical ordering is so special? It's easy to know the upgrade path: dapper - edgy - feisty - gutsy - hardy - intrepid - j I thought thats what the release number was for? The code name is just that a code name so

gnash improvements on F9

2008-07-15 Thread s . boutayeb
Hi Daniel You might try www.caillou.com or www.moncailletdeurope.education.fr The animations of these sites were not playable at all on the last joyride builds with the most recent Browse versions. Bests Samy ___ Devel mailing list

Re: Code name for 9.1.0

2008-07-15 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 15.07.2008 um 07:10 schrieb Richard A. Smith: Morgan Collett wrote: Heh. I never noticed. Why do you think the alphabetical ordering is so special? It's easy to know the upgrade path: dapper - edgy - feisty - gutsy - hardy - intrepid - j I thought thats what the release

gnash improvements on F9 (correct URL)

2008-07-15 Thread s . boutayeb
Sorry, the correct URL is: http://www/moncahierdeurope.education.fr Bests Samy ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: gnash improvements on F9

2008-07-15 Thread Walter Bender
But was that because the codecs weren't loaded? -walter On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:06 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Daniel You might try www.caillou.com or www.moncailletdeurope.education.fr The animations of these sites were not playable at all on the last joyride builds with the

Re: Code name for 9.1.0

2008-07-15 Thread Eben Eliason
This is clever. - Eben On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've always been an alliteration fan, but how about a noun and a verb--after all, learning is action. appropriate apricots or a gerund form appropriating apricots -walter On Tue, Jul 15,

Re: gnash improvements on F9

2008-07-15 Thread s . boutayeb
Quoting Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED]: But was that because the codecs weren't loaded? Hi, Not sure, but I have the build joyride-2158 + Browse version 91 (according to the file activity.info. Libgnash is version 0.8.3 (according to /usr/lib/gnash/libgnash) HTH Bests Samy -walter On

Re: Code name for 9.1.0

2008-07-15 Thread pgf
eben wrote: This is clever. - Eben but we need to keep at least one half of the name to one or two syllables though. i'm not looking forward to having to IRC about pummeling pomegranates. paul On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've always

Re: Code name for 9.1.0

2008-07-15 Thread Eben Eliason
p-pom for short. heh. =) On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:30 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: eben wrote: This is clever. - Eben but we need to keep at least one half of the name to one or two syllables though. i'm not looking forward to having to IRC about pummeling pomegranates. paul

Re: Info on Deployed XOs

2008-07-15 Thread Sandy Culver
Months ago, I remember Scott reporting some stats on G1G1 XOs and their update status via the ET phone home process. Getting some distilled version of this info updated to support gang might be helpful for some problem solving, for example how many 650s are still out there. Sandy

Re: Journal metadata - buddies as a string?

2008-07-15 Thread Eben Eliason
Please see: http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/4755#comment:5 - Eben On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 5:08 AM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 7:14 AM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking at the .metadata files that the Journal now maintains, I find that the

Re: gnash improvements on F9

2008-07-15 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 16:06 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Daniel You might try www.caillou.com The rendering is clearly broken on 708 but works fine on joyride. www.moncailletdeurope.education.fr On 708 it is rendered badly. On joyride it is better except there is still no text

Re: Text To Speech issues with Read Etexts Activity

2008-07-15 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 09:06:02AM -0500, James Simmons wrote: Michael, The activity logs contain no clues. Really no message at all. The Activity window is present but non-responsive. You can switch to the main screen using F3 (the XO equivalent activity-switching key) but you cannot

Re: Text To Speech issues with Read Etexts Activity

2008-07-15 Thread Erik Garrison
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 09:06:02AM -0500, James Simmons wrote: Michael, The activity logs contain no clues. Really no message at all. The Activity window is present but non-responsive. You can switch to the main screen using F3 (the XO equivalent activity-switching key) but you cannot

Re: Java

2008-07-15 Thread Dennis Gilmore
On Monday 14 July 2008, David Leeming wrote: Just been browsing the Java pages on the wiki and confirming to myself the Sun Java version installs but the plugin does not load. A pity, as I have installed on a school server an excellent UNESCO CD of educational materials Strengthening ICTs in

Re: B4 motherboard question

2008-07-15 Thread Jim Gettys
You should definitely get a new system. We aren't set up to handle motherboards separately. And now we are in production, people should be much less shy about asking for developer machines in general; before production started we had limited numbers of prototypes, but this is not a concern and

Re: Virtualising and 3dnow woes on a Mac

2008-07-15 Thread Torello Querci
Hi Alle lunedì 14 luglio 2008, pyramind ha scritto: Hello, I made a search in the list but couldn't find a solution. I'm running Os X Leopard and want to use qemu to emulate the os and start developing. However I'm getting problems. I'm following the directions here:

Re: Virtualising and 3dnow woes on a Mac

2008-07-15 Thread Ton van Overbeek
Torello Querci wrote: Hi Alle lunedì 14 luglio 2008, pyramind ha scritto: Hello, I made a search in the list but couldn't find a solution. I'm running Os X Leopard and want to use qemu to emulate the os and start developing. However I'm getting problems. I'm following the directions

Re: User-visible Fedora 9 features

2008-07-15 Thread Dennis Gilmore
On Monday 14 July 2008, Michael Stone wrote: From my perspective, the user-visible and developer-visible feature is that, with root authority, you can install RECENT software which is available in Fedora. This really matters for G1G1 people and for our ability to attract Fedora contributors.

Re: LZO support

2008-07-15 Thread Erik Garrison
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 04:41:35AM -0400, Greg Smith wrote: Hi Erik, Can you design a test case or two to test the performance of these compression schemes? Yes. The following script encodes a trivial and necessarily flawed test case:

Re: Text To Speech issues with Read Etexts Activity

2008-07-15 Thread Hemant Goyal
Hi, I had written a mail to the speechd community regarding the problems that James was facing some time back. Hi, James is using speech-dispatcher on the OLPC laptop. I would just like to ask in the speechd community what is the exact meaning of the following espeak.log messages. (I get

Re: Java

2008-07-15 Thread Bobby Powers
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Robert Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David, Just been browsing the Java pages on the wiki and confirming to myself the Sun Java version installs but the plugin does not load. A pity, as I have installed on a school server an excellent UNESCO CD of educational

Re: LZO support

2008-07-15 Thread NoiseEHC
It seems that you two did not notice the smiley at the end of that sentence... I rather not to think about that it was not funny... :) First, I have to apologize since that statement was made by Mitch Bradley here: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-January/009437.html I am sorry,

Re: LZO support

2008-07-15 Thread Erik Garrison
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 07:06:53PM +0200, NoiseEHC wrote: Also for speed testing this script seems totally unusable, I would send my c program but it does not contain ZLIB. Do you mean that running the tests inside a python script is bad for speed testing? No, the problem is that

Re: Info on Deployed XOs

2008-07-15 Thread John Watlington
No granularity loss due to NATs The problem with using this info is that it only measures laptops with Internet connectivity, a decreasing minority. Theoretically, we have the mapping from serial number to deployment. wad On Jul 15, 2008, at 7:01 AM, Greg Smith wrote: Hi All, I believe

Re: LZO support

2008-07-15 Thread Erik Garrison
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 01:05:42PM -0400, Erik Garrison wrote: On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 04:41:35AM -0400, Greg Smith wrote: Hi Erik, Can you design a test case or two to test the performance of these compression schemes? Yes. The following script encodes a trivial and necessarily

Re: [sugar] Activity versioning schema

2008-07-15 Thread Jameson Chema Quinn
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 8:29 PM, Mikus Grinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If, as is the current plan, multiple versions of an activity can coexist on an XO, ... Two use cases: 1. I have a journal object. I want to choose which activity to open it with. I am presented with a multilevel

Re: Info on Deployed XOs

2008-07-15 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Guys, I'm working the manufacturing side and the human side. Just wanted to know if we have any data coming from pings. Even if I know how many XOs are on the internet that would be useful data. Give me what you have or let me know where to find it. Thanks, Greg S BTW spell check changed

Re: [sugar] Activity versioning schema

2008-07-15 Thread C. Scott Ananian
2008/7/15 Jameson Chema Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If you have a better idea of how Glucose should handle these issues, please share it. Simplifying assumptions are good, even if they're not 100% valid. Versions in activity.info files are either plain integers, or RPM-standard version strings,

Re: Code name for 9.1.0

2008-07-15 Thread Jameson Chema Quinn
Well, actually, the mango suggestion was made originally as a tree, not a fruit - as the tree Freire learned to read underneath. Obviously the concept of learning under a tree exists in many cultures around the world, and there are several trees that would work for this: apple (newton),

Re: [sugar] Activity versioning schema

2008-07-15 Thread Eben Eliason
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 2:57 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/7/15 Jameson Chema Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If you have a better idea of how Glucose should handle these issues, please share it. Simplifying assumptions are good, even if they're not 100% valid. Versions in

Re: [sugar] Activity versioning schema

2008-07-15 Thread Jameson Chema Quinn
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 12:57 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/7/15 Jameson Chema Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If you have a better idea of how Glucose should handle these issues, please share it. Simplifying assumptions are good, even if they're not 100% valid. Versions in

Re: [sugar] Activity versioning schema

2008-07-15 Thread Jameson Chema Quinn
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 12:57 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/7/15 Jameson Chema Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If you have a better idea of how Glucose should handle these issues, please share it. Simplifying assumptions are good, even if they're not 100% valid. Versions in

Re: Reminder: Tuesday Release Wednesday Software Meetings -- 2:00 PM in #olpc-meeting on irc.freenode.org

2008-07-15 Thread Brian Jordan
Gobby notes from #olpc-meeting irc.freenode.net 2PM = Agenda from http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-July/016583.html === Status Review last week action items * Where are we? (freeze status, general bugginess, ...) Differences between this and last week: Bugs have been

Re: B4 motherboard question

2008-07-15 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 15.07.2008 um 09:11 schrieb Jim Gettys: And now we are in production, people should be much less shy about asking for developer machines in general; before production started we had limited numbers of prototypes, but this is not a concern and we have more machines allocated for

RE: Java

2008-07-15 Thread David Leeming
Hi Tomeu, I just followed the instructions for Sun JRE using http://wiki.laptop.org/go/RestrictedFormats using 1.5.0 update 13. It all worked as in the text The end result is a blue-coloured plugin listed in the Mozilla plugins folder /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins libjavaplugin_oji.so But it

Re: Text To Speech issues with Read Etexts Activity

2008-07-15 Thread James Simmons
Erik and Michael, I think there is some confusion in Hemant's last post. Actually, speech-dispatcher seems to be working just fine on the XO. I had to reboot the XO after installing the RPMs before it would work, but it DOES work. Speech is produced, and callbacks are generated. Even the

New joyride build 2165

2008-07-15 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2165 Changes in build 2165 from build: 2163 Size delta: 0.00M -kernel 2.6.25-20080714.1.olpc.4fab16203e851f2 +kernel 2.6.25-20080715.2.olpc.ef92c83e1c0d23a -- This mail was automatically generated See

Re: B4 motherboard question

2008-07-15 Thread Michael Stone
I really wish that people receiving developer machines posted to devel or planet.laptop.org on a regular basis and, if possible, introduced themselves on our Profiles page. Do you think we could try to arrange this? Michael ___ Devel mailing list

planet.l.o (was Re: B4 motherboard ...)

2008-07-15 Thread pgf
michael wrote: I really wish that people receiving developer machines posted to devel or planet.laptop.org on a regular basis and, if possible, introduced so, speaking of communication gaps, neither erikg nor i had ever heard of planet.laptop.org until this message. considering i've been

Re: Journal metadata - buddies as a string?

2008-07-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 2:53 AM, Eben Eliason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please see: http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/4755#comment:5 Eben, I agree with your analysis. This is ugly-ish. On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 9:08 PM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, this is totally expected, you are seeing

Re: [sugar] Activity versioning schema

2008-07-15 Thread Gary C Martin
On 15 Jul 2008, at 20:15, Eben Eliason wrote: On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 2:57 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/7/15 Jameson Chema Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If you have a better idea of how Glucose should handle these issues, please share it. Simplifying assumptions are

Re: [sugar] Activity versioning schema

2008-07-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Gary C Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Version (activity_version) is just some sortable entity to be agreed Please do read back on this - now lenghty - discussion. Unfortunately, any monotonically increasing version does _not_ work, thanks to the magic of

RE: Touch pad

2008-07-15 Thread David Leeming
Many thanks. I have updated the first few of 75 XO-1s to be used in a Solomons trial next week and will let the list know my observations. I used the following to install from the terminal activity su rpm -ivh kernel-rpm cp -a /boot/* /versions/boot/current/boot/ exit The cp command gave a

Re: [Localization] How do we manage translation effort in Release, process/roadmap?

2008-07-15 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 9:47 AM, Greg Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Sayamindu, Great work, thanks for taking up the gauntlet on this! One question for you, how much lead time do you need to do the translations? Assuming something like final test starts 15 days before the target release

Video Chat

2008-07-15 Thread Ricardo Carrano
Hey! I am trying to install the Video Chat activity, in order to check #7511. Following instructions in: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-April/013227.html Fetching the rpms from: http://people.collabora.co.uk/~cassidy/olpc-video-chat/ All the rpms installs ok but the last which

Project hosting application: xomail

2008-07-15 Thread Shikhar
1. Project name : xomail 2. Existing website, if any : http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects/xomail 3. One-line description : Email activity 4. Longer description : An email activity that provides a usable interface for sending and receiving email, tags for organizing email,

Re: B4 motherboard question

2008-07-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 2:37 AM, Guylhem Aznar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wouldn't necessarily want another machine - just a motherboard from say a machine that has been returned with a broken screen, or whatever, would be fine A fully working XO would be best used for someone who hasn't one

Re: planet.l.o (was Re: B4 motherboard ...)

2008-07-15 Thread Gary C Martin
On 15 Jul 2008, at 22:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: michael wrote: I really wish that people receiving developer machines posted to devel or planet.laptop.org on a regular basis and, if possible, introduced so, speaking of communication gaps, neither erikg nor i had ever heard of

Re: Activity Backward Compatibility (was re: Re: joyride 2128 smoketest)

2008-07-15 Thread Brian Jordan
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Eben Eliason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/7/14 Kim Quirk [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've been thinking about this problem for the last year -- when it first became obvious (to me) that: 1 - we were definitely NOT going to be able to lock down APIs for at least a

Cannot test 8.2 images with VMware Player on an Intel laptop (Kernel requires 3dnow)

2008-07-15 Thread Ton van Overbeek
Hello, I am trying to run the 8.2 builds under VMWare Player on my Windows XP Intel laptop. The 8.2 image I used is from http://pilgrim.laptop.org/~pilgrim/olpc/streams/8.2/build3/devel_ext3: xo-1-olpc-stream-8.2-devel_ext3.img.bz2 Converted with qemu-img to a vmdk as per the instructions on

Re: planet.l.o (was Re: B4 motherboard ...)

2008-07-15 Thread Daniel Drake
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so, speaking of communication gaps, neither erikg nor i had ever heard of planet.laptop.org until this message. considering i've been following the project for about a year and a half, that surprises me. :-) Cool! Who's the admin? I'd like to get myself added and

Re: planet.l.o

2008-07-15 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, Cool! Who's the admin? I'd like to get myself added and write some articles about what I'm doing. Incase the admin is lurking, here's my RSS feed: http://www.reactivated.net/weblog/feed/ That'd be me. I've added your OLPC category-specific feed. Thanks! Any other takers,

Re: [sugar] Activity versioning schema

2008-07-15 Thread Gary C Martin
On 16 Jul 2008, at 00:03, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Gary C Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Version (activity_version) is just some sortable entity to be agreed Please do read back on this - now lenghty - discussion. Unfortunately, any monotonically

Re: B4 motherboard question

2008-07-15 Thread John Watlington
On Jul 15, 2008, at 9:47 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 2:37 AM, Guylhem Aznar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wouldn't necessarily want another machine - just a motherboard from say a machine that has been returned with a broken screen, or whatever, would be fine A fully

Re: [sugar] Activity versioning schema

2008-07-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Gary C Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, sorry, I've clearly accidentally wandered in to a room full of hardcore :-) Sorry about the dry tone of my reply. I was trying, perhaps too hard, to avoid this thread regressing into silly-land. The current scheme is

speech-dispatcher RPM for OLPC without pulse and nas support

2008-07-15 Thread Hemant Goyal
Hi James, Assim, I've built the OLPC specific package for speech-dispatcher with the reduced set of dependencies. You can grab the RPMS for OLPC-2 and OLPC-3 stream from http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=56323 and http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=56325

review request for python-dotconf RPM

2008-07-15 Thread Hemant Goyal
Hi, I had recently requested a review request for my python-dotconf pakage for my GSOC project in the Fedora community. I have not received a formal review of my package there till now. Its a really small python package and I do not think it needs more work/modification. Can anyone in the OLPC

Re: [Localization] How do we manage translation effort in Release, process/roadmap?

2008-07-15 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Korakurider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Sayamindu. On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Korakurider, Thanks for your input. I have put up a basic document at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Localization/Workflow

Re: [Localization] How do we manage translation effort in Release, process/roadmap?

2008-07-15 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Hi Greg, It looks like the current release schedule for SugarLabs worked out pretty fine for us. The time frame depends on the number of strings, as well as the number of strings which are being changed in a given release cycle. I would say a period of 30 days in enough. You may also find the

Re: [Server-devel] EduBlog Image upload issue

2008-07-15 Thread Tarun Pondicherry
Hi Greg, I didn't do anything special. When i click the button, Journal comes up. I select a file and it goes into the GUI. Perhaps the problem arises when Journal is used for a while. Maybe mine has few entries so it doesn't hang. It is however slow, and the system goes unresponsive for

Re: [Server-devel] [sugar] OLPC/Sugar related MIME Types...

2008-07-15 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 13.07.2008 um 20:39 schrieb Martin Langhoff: I am going to add some MIME types for Apache on the XO - application/vnd.olpc-sugar xo - application/vnd.olpc-content xol - application/vnd.olpc-journal-entry xoj The above list comes from a bit of Googling about. Are there any other mime