Douglas Bagnall wrote:
In the course of making an activity server for the XS, I have looked
at the activity.info files of 114 bundles from
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities. One (Berkeley Logo) turned out
not to be a bundle at all, and otherwise the tags I found were:
name
Hi,
as koji is up again i built a new xulrunner rpm
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=60150 in the OLPC-3
branch.
It has not been picked up by the builds yet. Are there any changes?
Thanks,
Simon
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I wonder if CIFS vs WebDAV is an either/or type of decision. My first
google shows a driver effort called davfs2. This appears to implement
network access via a driver (ala nfs, smb).
If it turns out to be usable, I can see that a single project could satisfy
Martin's 6 requirements (via
2) To turn off mesh, click on wireless AP; to turn off wireless AP,
click on mesh (assuming no obstacles caused by bugs).
Yes. If by turn off you mean do not use, in particular.
But will the indicated communications mode persist, or will
Network Manager soon switch
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 3:53 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Douglas Bagnall wrote:
In the course of making an activity server for the XS, I have looked
at the activity.info files of 114 bundles from
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities. One (Berkeley Logo) turned out
not
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:56 PM, Martin Langhoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Discussing the activity installer/updater control panel and
olpc-update (a few days before) one design assumption from the XO team
was very strong: that network clients on the XO could just ignore the
XS and attempt
*OLPC's Volunteer Infrastructure Group (infrastructure-gang) will be meeting
today 2008-08-19
irc.oftc.net/#olpc-admin
5:15 pm EDT -04:00 UCT*
topics:
triage and migration of sysadmin docs from internalwiki
rt
pootle
wiki
drupal
big sister
content server
mailing list
installation/configuration
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 11:39 AM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Again, it seems like you need an offline DNS solution. Many legacy
applications will assume they can resolve a DNS name to an address; it
seems best to let them do this.
Incidentally,
[sorry, had to resend as I'm subscribed to library/devel/sugar with
different mail addresses... :-/]
Greg Smith schrieb:
Hi Christoph et al,
Hey all,
I'm currently working on the chapter about the Sugar Control Panel for
the BookSprint and it looks like I need some more information,
especially
On Aug 26, 2008, at 2:27 PM, Daniel Drake wrote:
Hi,
Scott requested I pass on some information about 2 issues with the
Scratch activity:
1. Version numbering:
The version number in the activity bundle is wrong (it reads
version 2,
but the bundle is Scratch-5.xo). This confuses the
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 11:12 PM, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It has recently come to my attention that the majority of the traffic on
the wiki is coming from Uruguay XO users (students it seems).
Could we track, or are we already tracking, pageviews per page by
country of origin
Apologies for the cross posting, but I thought some of you might find
this interesting:
http://dev.compiz-fusion.org/~cyberorg/2008/08/26/sugar-up-opensuse-a-hackweek-project/
quote
The work is in progress, thanks to Fedora and our fantastic openSUSE
Build Service, most packages required are now
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
John Maloney (scratch developer) is aware of both issues. He is
considering making Scratch use the journal in future, but this is a
large amount of work.
May not be so much work? I would love to discuss this and help on
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 1:12 AM, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It has recently come to my attention that the majority of the traffic on
the wiki is coming from Uruguay XO users (students it seems).
I think this could motivate activity developers as well -- it's
discouraging to think
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2. Saving of files:
Scratch does not use the Journal, it uses the regular filesystem.
Rainbow prevents Scratch from saving in usual locations. So, Scratch
ships with a world-writable Projects directory underneath the
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 11:09:36AM +0200, Simon Schampijer wrote:
Hi,
as koji is up again i built a new xulrunner rpm
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=60150 in the OLPC-3
branch.
It has not been picked up by the builds yet. Are there any changes?
Yes, Dennis and Scott are
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 3:39 AM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I prefer a stronger assumption: network services are all based on cachable
HTTP.
Implementations of cacheable HTTP - both on the server and client -
are *caching*, not replacing.
We want to do partial
That sounds like network_config crashed on you. network_config is
responsible for creating /etc/resolv.conf.in and then domain_config
will do the rest. On xs-0.4, we call domain_config at install time
(and it defaults to random.xs.l.o).
The answer is that /etc/resolv.conf should probably point
During g1g1 the support-gang (even before it was formalized) answered
questions in #olpc-help and many important questions get answered there on a
regular basis.
If there were a few support-ganger's available we would have a great
resource for providing documentation and structuring things for
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 05:14:23PM -0400, Seth Woodworth wrote:
During g1g1 the support-gang (even before it was formalized) answered
questions in #olpc-help and many important questions get answered there on a
regular basis.
If there were a few support-ganger's available we would have a
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2342
Changes in build 2342 from build: 2331
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+ add translations ar, bg, fa_AF,
On Sun, Feb 3, 2008 at 12:31 PM, John Maloney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am porting Scratch to the XO. (Scratch is an easy-to-learn
[...]
Scratch includes commands to play notes and trigger drum sounds. On
Windows and Mac OS, these commands use the underlying OS MIDI
synthesizer. On the XO,
Hi,
Did you ever get a satisfactory answer to your questions? I think
Pippy contains the best examples of using csound to play sounds --
is that right, Chris?
Well, I'd say that TamTam does. :) But yes, Pippy does some basic
synthesis using sinewaves and music files with csound.
In http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8166 there's a problem reported: Peru
can't save their work in Scratch, because Scratch tries to write to
Scratch.activity/Projects, and this is not writable. Luckily, there
is an easy workaround: the directory $SUGAR_ACTIVITY_ROOT/data is
persistent storage which
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Martin Langhoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
HTTPS has many problems. None of the basic XO protocols use HTTPS.
Will we never care for end-user privacy?
We do. We just don't use HTTPS. You should know better.
- At the protocol layer you mask a whole
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:48 AM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Martin Langhoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
HTTPS has many problems. None of the basic XO protocols use HTTPS.
Will we never care for end-user privacy?
We do. We just don't use HTTPS.
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 7:17 PM, Martin Langhoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Network principles is a nice statement of desired ideal network
topology. Which we may implement one day - but I am delivering a
network topology and the _main source of XO services_ on a very tight
timeframe and with
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:28 AM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's a nice rhetorical trick. And wrong.
No tricks with me. It is a development strategy I have been using for
years to deliver working code for users.
... found that people are using
'org.laptop' as a prefix incorrectly (if everyone uses org.laptop as a
prefix, then OLPC loses the ability to assign unique names in this domain).
Undoubtedly people who are dbus developers understand the proper use
of the organization_namespace. But suppose
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Martin Langhoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Network_principles#Disconnected_operation is
a principled means to substitute unavailable resources in the offline
case.
The solution you suggest has problems, and I mentioned them in my
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Mikus Grinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... found that people are using
'org.laptop' as a prefix incorrectly (if everyone uses org.laptop as a
prefix, then OLPC loses the ability to assign unique names in this domain).
Undoubtedly people who are dbus
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2343
Changes in build 2343 from build: 2342
Size delta: 0.00M
-olpc-library-common 1-26
+olpc-library-common 1-28
--- Changes for olpc-library-common 1-28 from 1-26 ---
+ updated common to include wiki searchbar and
Hi, Scott.
What's wrong with just making the directory Scratch.activity/Projects
writable by the world? Seems to me that it could not hurt other
applications. Scratch does not run any binary files from that folder,
so it should be pretty safe. At worse, some malicious software could
write
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 7:56 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Mikus Grinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... found that people are using
'org.laptop' as a prefix incorrectly (if everyone uses org.laptop as a
prefix, then OLPC loses the ability to
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:53 AM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
a) Don't lie about DNS entries when you are connected.
b) When you are disconnected, use a DNS server which allows you to map
names to short lifetime addresses, then serve resources for those
addresses.
c) Don't try
bobby wrote:
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 7:56 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Mikus Grinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Undoubtedly people who are dbus developers understand the proper use
of the organization_namespace. But suppose someone in a
I am trying to generate an image usable in Qemu for use by the Peru team
in the production of a series of videos about the XO.
I am generating this image because the existing ones are out of date
with respect to the current Peru deployment's software, and they have
requested if it would be
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2344
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+kernel 2.6.25-20080826.1.olpc.7bee90029d84945
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On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 9:01 PM, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Currently I am stuck because I do not know how to write grub to an image
file. Here is what happens when I try to write the bootloader [3] on a
loopback (produced via losetup /dev/loop0 os.img).
Any ideas? Someone out
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 9:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
bobby wrote:
it's helpful, but could be better. how should i, an individual
contributor with no particular domain that i own or belong to,
construct a name? the given example of com.redhat.Sugar.BrowserActivity
isn't much of a
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 08:40:34PM -0400, John Maloney wrote:
Hi, Scott.
What's wrong with just making the directory Scratch.activity/Projects
writable by the world? Seems to me that it could not hurt other
applications. Scratch does not run any binary files from that folder,
so it
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 09:40:09PM -0500, Daniel Drake wrote:
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 9:01 PM, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Currently I am stuck because I do not know how to write grub to an image
file. Here is what happens when I try to write the bootloader [3] on a
loopback
http://pilgrim.laptop.org/~pilgrim/xo-1/streams/8.2/build757
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Size delta: 0.79M
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+cerebro 2.9.13-1.olpc3
-etoys 3.0.2076-1
+etoys
I've figured out more about why my first install of 0.4 went so badly.
For some reason, the network interfaces weren't configured properly
on first boot (even though the files were in the right places).
In conjuction with having the cable to my wired net plugged into the
LAN port, nothing was
Wad,
If you are pointing to localhost in resolv.conf, will there be at least a
caching DNS named server to catch it?
--HH
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 10:08 AM, John Watlington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've figured out more about why my first install of 0.4 went so badly.
For some reason, the
On Aug 26, 2008, at 4:47 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote:
That sounds like network_config crashed on you. network_config is
responsible for creating /etc/resolv.conf.in and then domain_config
will do the rest. On xs-0.4, we call domain_config at install time
(and it defaults to random.xs.l.o).
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 7:50 AM, John Watlington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The proposed change to the operation of the xs-config
package seem sane, with a few comments:
Thanks!
The make-a-replacement strategy is the crucial one.
I have hesitations about the xs-config.make file
used:
My
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Martin Langhoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
HTTPS has many problems. None of the basic XO protocols use HTTPS.
Will we never care for end-user privacy?
We do. We just don't use HTTPS. You should know better.
- At the protocol layer you mask a whole
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:48 AM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Martin Langhoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
HTTPS has many problems. None of the basic XO protocols use HTTPS.
Will we never care for end-user privacy?
We do. We just don't use HTTPS.
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 7:17 PM, Martin Langhoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Network principles is a nice statement of desired ideal network
topology. Which we may implement one day - but I am delivering a
network topology and the _main source of XO services_ on a very tight
timeframe and with
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Martin Langhoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Network_principles#Disconnected_operation is
a principled means to substitute unavailable resources in the offline
case.
The solution you suggest has problems, and I mentioned them in my
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 07:53:19PM -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Martin Langhoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Network_principles#Disconnected_operation is
a principled means to substitute unavailable resources in the offline
case.
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