Re: Problems with soas

2009-04-20 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
[cc'ing to sugar-devel] On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 01:51, Aaron Konstam akons...@sbcglobal.net wrote: What is wrong? Does the usb stick have to be formatted ext2, for example or can it be NTFS? I think it can be either FAT or ext2, but I guess the safest bet is making it FAT16. Others more

Re: #9307 NORM Not Tri: 100% reliable way to test a DCON creates the wrong colors bug

2009-04-20 Thread NoiseEHC
I am not sure if anybody reads the OLPC trac anymore but this demo can show us a DCON bug which probably should be fixed in the gen 1.5 version. Since the program reproduces the bug in 100% of the time, I wish you good debugging. (If it turns out to be just an X bug then I do not know whether

Notes on service discovery XS/XO

2009-04-20 Thread Martin Langhoff
(Cross posted to the Sugar list, I am hoping to discuss this stuff with the Sugar folks in Paris as well.) I've reviewed the XS 0.6 / 0.7 development plans, and one area that I have to address is service discovery: how does an XO figure out cheaply (in network RF terms) what services are

Re: Notes on service discovery XS/XO

2009-04-20 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Langhoff wrote: The short of it is that mdns/dns-sd make sense for a small, underutilised network of peers. They assume that the network is a cheap resource, that broadcast messages are cheap, and that there is no coordinating server. mDNS

Re: [Sugar-devel] Problems with soas

2009-04-20 Thread Walter Bender
Given Mitch's advice, I would recommend trying a factory-fresh 1-2G stick and not formatting at all. -walter On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 3:14 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: [cc'ing to sugar-devel] On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 01:51, Aaron Konstam akons...@sbcglobal.net wrote: What is

Re: #9307 NORM Not Tri: 100% reliable way to test a DCON creates the wrong colors bug

2009-04-20 Thread pgf
noiseehc wrote: I am not sure if anybody reads the OLPC trac anymore but this demo can show us a DCON bug which probably should be fixed in the gen 1.5 version. Since the program reproduces the bug in 100% of the time, I wish you good debugging. (If it turns out to be just an X bug then

Re: Notes on service discovery XS/XO

2009-04-20 Thread pgf
benjamin m. schwartz wrote: Martin Langhoff wrote: The short of it is that mdns/dns-sd make sense for a small, underutilised network of peers. They assume that the network is a cheap resource, that broadcast messages are cheap, and that there is no coordinating server. mDNS

Re: [Server-devel] [Sugar-devel] Notes on service discovery XS/XO

2009-04-20 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 07:26:30AM -0400, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: Martin Langhoff wrote: The short of it is that mdns/dns-sd make sense for a small, underutilised network of peers. They assume that the network is a cheap resource, that

Re: [Sugar-devel] Notes on service discovery XS/XO

2009-04-20 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk wrote: DNS-SD using unicast DNS seems reasonable to me too. If we can do without the avahi gunk, and use it in a way that is not optimised for user driven browsing but for automated selection of services, then it might work.

[Server-devel] Fwd: [Sugar-devel] testing backup and restore on SoaS

2009-04-20 Thread Dave Bauer
Forwarded from sugar-devel, Are the backup scripts available? We have a script that allows us to register SoaS and we want to try the backup scripts with that. Thanks! Dave -- Forwarded message -- From: Hamilton Chua hamilton.c...@gmail.com Date: Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 7:43 AM

Re: [Sugar-devel] Notes on service discovery XS/XO

2009-04-20 Thread pgf
martin wrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk wrote: DNS-SD using unicast DNS seems reasonable to me too. If we can do without the avahi gunk, and use it in a way that is not optimised for user driven browsing but for automated selection of services,

Re: [Server-devel] Fwd: [Sugar-devel] testing backup and restore on SoaS

2009-04-20 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Dave Bauer dave.ba...@gmail.com wrote: Forwarded from sugar-devel, Are the backup scripts available? We have a script that allows us to register SoaS and we want to try the backup scripts with that. Grab them from the same place where you found the ejabberd pkg

Re: [Server-devel] Fwd: [Sugar-devel] testing backup and restore on SoaS

2009-04-20 Thread Dave Bauer
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Dave Bauer dave.ba...@gmail.com wrote: Forwarded from sugar-devel, Are the backup scripts available? We have a script that allows us to register SoaS and we want to try the

Re: [Sugar-devel] Notes on service discovery XS/XO

2009-04-20 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk wrote: I don't understand your question.  Sounds like prefetching that isn't part of dns (id you perhaps think of DHCP here?) I don't have my well-worn DNS and BIND book with me right now but I am positive that the server side can

Re: Check this out

2009-04-20 Thread Albert Cahalan
Aaron Konstam writes: Unfortunately, currently it seems to be only able to translate whole pages not words or paragraphs. The more you have, the better you can translate: I offered several different types of foods. They liked a banana more than onions, roast beef, garlic, or beets. In

Re: [Sugar-devel] Notes on service discovery XS/XO

2009-04-20 Thread pgf
jonas wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 09:45:28AM -0400, p...@laptop.org wrote: benjamin m. schwartz wrote: Martin Langhoff wrote: The short of it is that mdns/dns-sd make sense for a small, underutilised network of peers. They

Re: XO Gen 1.5

2009-04-20 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Watlington wrote: The enabling chipset is hot off the fab line, the VX855 [2]. This single chip provides ... a 3D graphics engine, an HD video decoder It's worth remembering that the only existing driver that supports either of these

Re: XO Gen 1.5

2009-04-20 Thread Peter Robinson
John Watlington wrote: The enabling chipset is hot off the fab line, the VX855 [2].  This single chip provides ... a 3D graphics engine, an HD video decoder It's worth remembering that the only existing driver that supports either of these features is a pure binary blob.  The Openchrome

Re: [Server-devel] [Sugar-devel] Notes on service discovery XS/XO

2009-04-20 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 9:46 PM, Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk wrote: Here's my understanding: I've read the damned specs, don't worry. I need help getting sh*t done because there's a lot of stuff to do. any takers? m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server

Re: [Sugar-devel] Notes on service discovery XS/XO

2009-04-20 Thread david
On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk wrote: I don't understand your question.  Sounds like prefetching that isn't part of dns (id you perhaps think of DHCP here?) I don't have my well-worn DNS and BIND book with me right

Re: XO Gen 1.5

2009-04-20 Thread NoiseEHC
But this should improve with VIA now having employed Harald Welte of gnuviolations.org fame to help them move forward in the open source world. They have released their drivers and some manuals for their GPUs now. So no 3D just yet, but then that's not exactly a regression compared to the

Re: [Server-devel] Collaboration Bugs in today's Olin Play Session

2009-04-20 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 4:33 AM, Dave Bauer dave.ba...@gmail.com wrote: Its jabber.sugarlabs.org aka schoolserver.solutiongrove.com ejabberd-xs-2.0.3 Should be XS 0.5.2 Can you post the complete version string as reported by `rpm -qa ejabberd-xs` ? I published various 2.0.3's, the early ones

Re: [Server-devel] Notes on service discovery XS/XO

2009-04-20 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Langhoff wrote: The short of it is that mdns/dns-sd make sense for a small, underutilised network of peers. They assume that the network is a cheap resource, that broadcast messages are cheap, and that there is no coordinating server. mDNS

Re: [Server-devel] [Sugar-devel] Notes on service discovery XS/XO

2009-04-20 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk wrote: DNS-SD using unicast DNS seems reasonable to me too. If we can do without the avahi gunk, and use it in a way that is not optimised for user driven browsing but for automated selection of services, then it might work.

Re: [Server-devel] Collaboration Bugs in today's Olin Play Session

2009-04-20 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Dave Bauer dave.ba...@gmail.com wrote: I have an online group that contains @all@ Good move on the upgrade -- you should also change @all@ to @online. @all@ is known not to work with that release, and even if it did work... you really want @online@ instead of

[Server-devel] livecd patch - creator: -d opt and matching setdebug() method that gets rpm in debug mode

2009-04-20 Thread Martin Langhoff
Useful to diagnose problems with %post scripts during the build. This patch adds the method to the ImageCreator class, and the corresponding options to image-creator and livecd-creator -- Actually, quite a handy trick when my dodgy %post scripts mess up during initial/anaconda installs.

Re: [Server-devel] [Sugar-devel] Notes on service discovery XS/XO

2009-04-20 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 09:45:28AM -0400, p...@laptop.org wrote: benjamin m. schwartz wrote: Martin Langhoff wrote: The short of it is that mdns/dns-sd make sense for a small, underutilised network of peers. They assume that the network is a

Re: [Server-devel] [Sugar-devel] Notes on service discovery XS/XO

2009-04-20 Thread david
On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk wrote: I don't understand your question.  Sounds like prefetching that isn't part of dns (id you perhaps think of DHCP here?) I don't have my well-worn DNS and BIND book with me right