Re: plz test Build 802 + Firmware Q2E41 = Candidate Release 8.2.1

2009-05-01 Thread Sameer Verma
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote:
 Clean installed on 2 XOs here (Peru/Spanish 1xB4, and US/English
 1xXO-1). All went fine, no new issues to report. Working fine with WEP
 AP connections (full activity update via control panel), but haven't
 re-tested on WPA or WPA2 yet. Have a 3rd XO-1 that I'll run an upgrade
 on to test that path.

 --Gary


Clean install works. Boots up a wee bit faster than build767 (about 5
seconds...) Feels quicker.

Wi-Fi:
Checked with Linksys WRT54G V1 running dd-wrt DD-WRT v24 (05/20/08) std

Wi-Fi with WPA2 (TKIP setting on AP and auto on XO) works.
Wi-Fi with WPA (TKIP setting on AP and auto on XO) does not work. It
loops. Works in build 767
Wi-Fi with WEP works
Wi-Fi with no encryption works.
Wi-Fi simple mesh works. (802-XO to 767-XO)
Wi-Fi with Active Antenna (802-XO to school portal to 767-XO) works.

cheers,
Sameer
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Re: Battery recovery issues

2009-05-01 Thread Richard A. Smith
Emiliano Pastorino wrote:

 Richard,
 
 I've just received a box with 60 faulty batteries inside, so I'll be 
 playing with them
 for the next few years...

:)

 I did a bat-recover on one of them for about 18 hours and I noticed this:
 When I run watch-battery, it still says No battery. I did a 
 full-reset of the XO
 but nothing happened, it still says No battery.
 Then I loaded batman.fth and ran bat-charge and I got a nice output. All 
 the values 
 seemed to be OK when charging or discharging the battery.
 I tried batman-start; 6a bat-set-status; batman-stop and I could see 
 tha 6a in
 the first block, but watch-battery still says No battery.

Hmm.. and see-bstate shows 0 1 2 over and over?

There is one more battery debugging tool available.  Its called 
bat-debug and bat-debug-log.with the power for the cpu and for the

The both read the same thing but bat-debug-log will write the contents 
to 'disk:\batdbug.log'.  'disk' is USB or SD depending on what you have 
inserted.  bat-debug just does the screen and serial port.

If the 1-wire state machine is just looping over and over bat-debug 
won't provide much more info.  It might however point out what part of 
the state machine is failing.  That part of the code has a pretty large 
number of if() clauses all lumped into the same state.

Procedure:

1) Remove the problem battery.
2) Boot machine and stop boot at OFW prompt.
3) run bat-debug (or bat-debug-log)
4) insert the battery
5) let it run for one or 2 screenfuls of info
6) hit a key to stop bat-debug

send me the info.  Note, that you don't run batman-start before you run 
bat-debug since you want the EC state machine to run and you don't need 
to 'fload batman.fth'.  bat-debug should be in your firmware already.

 What is the difference between batman's bat-charge and watch-battery?
 Tell me if I'm wrong, but I think that bat-charge reads battery info 
 directly from it,
 and watch-battery takes that info from the EC. So, the problem could 
 be that
 the EC isn't synced with the battery. Am I right?

Correct.  Batman code takes over the 1-wire communication bus from the 
EC and talks directly to the battery.  'watch-battery' uses EC commands 
to read what the EC thinks.  So if the EC state machine is bailing out 
for some reason then you will get odd things from watch-battery where 
batman only needs the 1-wire to work.

 So long I could recover 2 batteries out of 4. I'll try more batteries, 
 the batteries
 that seem to be ok now are the same model (GP NTA2490), and the other two
 (the ones I couldn't recover even with bat-recover) are 

 BYD LP183662AR-2S.

I have no idea what this number is.  The serial number I would need is 
the long string of digits under the barcode in the center of the battery.

 If you want me to do a particular test with any of these batteries, just 
 ask and I'll
 share my results with you.

Well.  I'd like to make sure the firmware has the diagnostics that will 
allow you to figure out whats up with the battery.  So depending on what 
see-bstate and bat-debug info is I'll perhaps need to make new firmware 
or new diags in batman.fth to try and figure out whats up.

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Re: I2C bus assignments

2009-05-01 Thread Albert Cahalan
I have a bad feeling about swiping the CRT I2C. It kind of leaves
a needless landmine for video driver authors who would prefer to
unify their code (XO and non-XO hardware) as much as possible.
Suppose a video driver attempts E-DDC. Is it going to confuse
some non-compliant I2C device or actually hit the address in use?

Bit banging the DCON sounds OK. Your comment about the DCON bug
makes this appealing, but is also worrisome. Is this not fixed
in current chips? (if not fixed, and you do decide to fix it,
please also make the two image quality fixes I requested)

You didn't mention bit banging the camera. If you're bit banging
anyway, the fact that the camera isn't correct I2C is no issue.
(please tell me I2C is for control only, not streaming video)

You didn't mention bit banging the clock generator. Impossible?
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2PM EDT Friday: BRIEF Contributors Program Mtg (#olpc-meeting)

2009-05-01 Thread Holt

In 15min from now!

Join us reviewing the latest OLPC/Sugar community projects today 2PM 
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  Project Objectives:
  Titel:
  Gaza Beach: We Join the Party -- public art intervention
  Background
  On the occasion of Tel Aviv's centennial, the city of Vienna has
  invited the state of Israel to stage part of its celebrations at a
  beach at the Danube Canal.
  Under the title Gaza Beach -- Life Imprisonment Live, several
  intervention projects will simultaneously be staged in public spaces.
  They are aimed at directing as much attention to Palestine as to
  Israel for the duration of the Tel Aviv Beach.

  Our project is aimed at helping to create an authentic atmosphere and
  to enable the cooperation between Tel Aviv and its nearest partner
  city: Gaza in a neutral environment.


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  Set up an XO laptop lending library for the 50 students enrolled in 
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  Show that an XO lending library run by and for middle school students 
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Re: CL1B power distribution

2009-05-01 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 8:51 PM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote:

 All of our LEDs are dual (one on the inside and one on the outside).
 Instead of running these in parallel, and throwing away the extra
 voltage, I run them in series directly from the battery voltage
 (ever notice that their brightness changes when you plug in
 the charger ?)

Is this a change to the Gen 1 design?  I remember studying the Gen 1
schematic and convincing myself it could be done if only we could run
an additional wire to an input pin.  You don't have to drive the LED
directly from the microcontroller; you only need to be able to switch
it and sense the voltage while watching the time.  The photocurrent
causes the inherent capacitance to discharge faster (or slower?  I
forget).  The time scale is really short, but that's no problem for
today's chips.  You could parallel a (very small) capacitor across the
LED to make it more sensitive.

Any of the four existing LEDs would be appropriate: wireless A and
B, battery, or power.  Heck, the two separate wireless LEDs cause
more confusion then they're worth anyway, you might as well get rid of
one and use the LED there only for input...
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Re: CL1B power distribution

2009-05-01 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
John Watlington wrote:
 the LED trick has the advantage of not requiring a change to the case,
 just a single additional drive pin to be able to run it as a detector.
 
 And where would you place said detector LED, without modifying the  
 case ?

While we're bikeshedding this to death, I'll put in my vote for reusing
the camera activity LED.  It's well isolated from other light sources, and
it's rarely on. Whenever the camera is off, it can be used a
photodetector.  To retain the security guarantee that the light is on when
the camera is on, it might be necessary to put a diode across the camera's
power supply, so that they can be reverse-biased together.

If only we could get another hole in the case.

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Re: CL1B power distribution

2009-05-01 Thread david

On Fri, 1 May 2009, Jameson Quinn wrote:


I like the idea, but wouldn't light transmission inside the case, from the
other LED's, screw this up?


possibly, how much leakage is there between the LEDs?

David Lang


(btw, wikipedia says more light = faster backwards discharge)


Heck, the two separate wireless LEDs cause

more confusion then they're worth anyway, you might as well get rid of
one and use the LED there only for input...



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Re: CL1B power distribution

2009-05-01 Thread david
On Fri, 1 May 2009, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote:

 John Watlington wrote:
 the LED trick has the advantage of not requiring a change to the case,
 just a single additional drive pin to be able to run it as a detector.

 And where would you place said detector LED, without modifying the
 case ?

 While we're bikeshedding this to death, I'll put in my vote for reusing
 the camera activity LED.  It's well isolated from other light sources, and
 it's rarely on. Whenever the camera is off, it can be used a
 photodetector.  To retain the security guarantee that the light is on when
 the camera is on, it might be necessary to put a diode across the camera's
 power supply, so that they can be reverse-biased together.

my understanding is that currently the camera and mic LEDs are hard-wired 
to those devices, not controlled independantly (to make sure that it's not 
possible to activate those devices without activating the LED)

the power LED is well seperated from everything else, has a fairly large 
opening in the case to let light in, so it would seem to be a good option.

at least one article indicated that this could be done with an LED that 
was otherwise on without the user noticing (comments were made that in the 
dark the delay could become noticable, but that could be solved by setting 
a max count to wait for)

David Lang

 If only we could get another hole in the case.

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Re: Ambient light sensing via LED response

2009-05-01 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 8:38 PM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote:
 I don't have time to take a look at this right now,
 but we have a A/D input to dedicate to this, if it helps work around
 the patent.

 We can talk to MERL if needed.   I probably still know a handfull
 of people around there.

Oh, yeah, you should be able to wire the top side of the LED directly to the
LED and measure the photovoltaic current directly; that's not patented:
  battery voltage
  Q1  |
---from EC--| _ to A/D
  |
 LED  *V*
  |
 GND

The only question is whether the LED can put out enough photovoltaic current
to be reliably measured by the A/D.  Depends on what the input to the A/D
looks like, how much capacitance it sees, etc.  An ultralow power versoin of
the 339 could fix any problems there, but then your parts count increases.
You don't *have* to reverse-bias the LED; that just enhances sensitivity,
but distinguishing between outside on a sunny day and inside doesn't
exactly require precision; there's at least an order of magnitude change in
illumination, maybe 2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lux).
 --scott

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Re: [support-gang] 2PM EDT Friday: BRIEF Contributors Program Mtg (#olpc-meeting)

2009-05-01 Thread Sameer Verma
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Aaron Hull guinartis...@gmail.com wrote:
 Sorry also not able to keep up recently.  Had a baby boy (7 lbs. 14 oz.)
 last week and have been wanting to get re-connected. But have been following
 the emails while catching up at work. Keep up the good work!
 Aaron


Congratulations! Finally, something productive :-) Just kidding. Post
some pics. Make him pose with an XO!

I couldn't make it to the meeting either...faculty meetings :-(

Sameer
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Re: [support-gang] 2PM EDT Friday: BRIEF Contributors Program Mtg (#olpc-meeting)

2009-05-01 Thread Aaron Hull
Sorry also not able to keep up recently.  Had a baby boy (7 lbs. 14  
oz.) last week and have been wanting to get re-connected. But have  
been following the emails while catching up at work. Keep up the good  
work!


Aaron


On May 1, 2009, at 11:46 AM, Holt h...@laptop.org wrote:


In 15min from now!

Join us reviewing the latest OLPC/Sugar community projects today 2PM  
EDT, Boston Time:

  http://forum.laptop.org/chat

Then type at bottom:
  /join #olpc-meeting


AGENDA:

* New Libraries!
  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects#XO_Laptop_Lending_Libraries

* Which projects might you enjoy Mentoring?!
  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects
  http://rt.laptop.org/Search/Results.html?Query=Queue=%27contributors%27

* Fast Review of the 2 latest (greatest!) HW/Project Proposals:


1. Gaza Beach Art [Austria]
   http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39345
   http://www.gazabeach.at

   Requests 1 XO for 5 months

   Project Objectives:
   Titel:
   Gaza Beach: We Join the Party – public art intervention
   Background
   On the occasion of Tel Aviv's centennial, the city of Vienna has
   invited the state of Israel to stage part of its celebrations at a
   beach at the Danube Canal.
   Under the title „Gaza Beach – Life Imprisonment Live“, sever 
al
   intervention projects will simultaneously be staged in public  
spaces.

   They are aimed at directing as much attention to Palestine as to
   Israel for the duration of the „Tel Aviv Beach.“

   Our project is aimed at helping to create an authentic atmosphere  
and

   to enable the cooperation between Tel Aviv and its nearest partner
   city: Gaza in a neutral environment.


2. Audubon MS XO Library and Repair Center [Los Angeles, Calif, USA]
   http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39449
   http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects#XO_Laptop_Lending_Libraries

   Requests 10 XO's for 24 months

   Set up an XO laptop lending library for the 50 students enrolled  
in the Vista College Bound/Famili After School Program
   Show that an XO lending library run by and for middle school  
students is a viable option
   Identify Sugar Activities most suitable for use in an after  
school academic enrichment program
   Develop students’ ability to make simple repairs to the laptops a 
s the need arises

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Re: Ambient light sensing via LED response

2009-05-01 Thread Nate Ridderman
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 2:28 PM, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote:

 Oh, yeah, you should be able to wire the top side of the LED directly to
 the LED and measure the photovoltaic current directly; that's not patented:
   battery voltage
   Q1  |
 ---from EC--| _ to A/D
   |
  LED  *V*
   |
  GND

 The only question is whether the LED can put out enough photovoltaic
 current to be reliably measured by the A/D.  Depends on what the input to
 the A/D looks like, how much capacitance it sees, etc.  An ultralow power
 versoin of the 339 could fix any problems there, but then your parts count
 increases.  You don't *have* to reverse-bias the LED; that just enhances
 sensitivity, but distinguishing between outside on a sunny day and
 inside doesn't exactly require precision; there's at least an order of
 magnitude change in illumination, maybe 2 (
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lux).


A reverse biased LED doesn't output much current at all - even photo sensor
diodes that are tuned for the job. Have a look at this page for some ambient
light sensors that you would find in a cell phone -
http://www.avagotech.com/pages/en/optical_sensors/ambient_light_photo_sensors/light_sensor_photo_sensor/.
The basic variety has a photodiode and a small current amplifier. The output
current is logarithmically related to the lux level. If hook a series
resistor to the output, the voltage across vs lux is also logarithmic.
Besides the current amplifier, these devices have other advantages. First,
they have a spectral sensitivity that's tuned to the human eye, so infrared
light (say a campfire) will not skew the reading. Second, they have a large
optical window so the readings won't change when you tilt your phone/laptop
slightly. These little sensors are less than $0.25 in large quantities
(perhaps by quite a bit), and they are being used more and more in cell
phones to reduce backlight power in low light environments. It's well worth
the price if you get 10% more battery life on average. Quantifying the
impact on battery life is tricky because there are a lot of assumptions.

Anyways, a normal LED might work under certain circumstances. I don't have
the experience to say one way or another.

Thanks,
Nate
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Re: Ambient light sensing via LED response

2009-05-01 Thread John Watlington

On May 1, 2009, at 2:28 PM, C. Scott Ananian wrote:

 On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 8:38 PM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org  
 wrote:
  I don't have time to take a look at this right now,
  but we have a A/D input to dedicate to this, if it helps work around
  the patent.
 
  We can talk to MERL if needed.   I probably still know a handfull
  of people around there.

 Oh, yeah, you should be able to wire the top side of the LED  
 directly to the LED and measure the photovoltaic current directly;  
 that's not patented:
   battery voltage
   Q1  |
 ---from EC--| _ to A/D
   |
  LED  V
   |
  GND

 The only question is whether the LED can put out enough  
 photovoltaic current to be reliably measured by the A/D.

Ahh, therein lies the challenge!

 Depends on what the input to the A/D looks like, how much  
 capacitance it sees, etc.

Thought the KB3700 (EC) A/D datasheet frustratingly doesn't list any  
such exotic parameter
as input impedance, I asked ENE and they said that the input was high  
impedance CMOS
(think a MOSFET gate, in the wee, wee microamps).   The impedance  
also does not vary
(even though the A/D is muxed).

 An ultralow power versoin of the 339 could fix any problems there,  
 but then your parts count increases.

Sorry, no parts count increases allowed except for one LED,  
resistors, capacitors (basically free), and maybe
one transistor, diode, or NMOS MOSFET (about a penny).   I will throw  
in a couple of EC digital outputs, and
a day of Richard's time in EC code.

 You don't *have* to reverse-bias the LED; that just enhances  
 sensitivity, but distinguishing between
 outside on a sunny day and inside doesn't exactly require  
 precision; there's at least an order of
 magnitude change in illumination, maybe 2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/ 
 wiki/Lux).

I haven't read the patent, but the advantage to a digitally  
controlled time integration A/D has always
been a high dynamic range by changing the time scale.  I'll let the  
community suggest this
circuit/algorithm.   Someone practiced in the arts might suggest  
measuring the integration of
the reverse leakage current over time, using a digital output to  
clear the integrator, allowing
software to control the time period over which the current is  
integrated to increase the range.

In response to earlier mails on this topic:  the microphone/camera  
LEDs are inviolate.
( Ivan got this one right! )   I will not allow software interference  
with those LEDs.

The power savings resulting from switching the LEDs was significant  
in Gen 1 (on the order of
50 mW in run/suspend).  Even after adding this feature, it will have  
to be integrated into Ohm
and the Control Panel before being useful in power savings.

By the way, has anyone really thought about this feature ?  I grok  
the intent, but you have to make
sure that kids who happen to be in brightly lit rooms (glaring  
fluourescents aren't uncommon)
don't loose their backlight, and wonder why ?   The keyboard lighting  
on my mac is a good idea,
but they only allow adjusting the amount of light output, not the  
sensitivity to ambient light.

And the Mac's light sensor is annoyingly placed where hand movement  
during typing may occlude it,
something we should be able to avoid...
The light pipes for most LEDs, however, are quite large.  I believe  
that a second LED
could be positioned next to an output LED, under a light pipe. 
Perhaps the battery LED is
the best candidate, since it is usually not lit when operating from  
the battery.

Cheers,
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Re: Ambient light sensing via LED response

2009-05-01 Thread John Watlington

The back-bias voltage is a sensitive topic.
If you could guarantee periodic clearing of the integrator,
I could provide up to 10V or so.   Otherwise, it should
probably be limited to +3.3V.

wad

On May 1, 2009, at 11:59 PM, John Watlington wrote:

 On May 1, 2009, at 2:28 PM, C. Scott Ananian wrote:

 On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 8:38 PM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org  
 wrote:
  I don't have time to take a look at this right now,
  but we have a A/D input to dedicate to this, if it helps work  
 around
  the patent.
 
  We can talk to MERL if needed.   I probably still know a handfull
  of people around there.

 Oh, yeah, you should be able to wire the top side of the LED  
 directly to the LED and measure the photovoltaic current directly;  
 that's not patented:
   battery voltage
   Q1  |
 ---from EC--| _ to A/D
   |
  LED  V
   |
  GND

 The only question is whether the LED can put out enough  
 photovoltaic current to be reliably measured by the A/D.

 Ahh, therein lies the challenge!

 Depends on what the input to the A/D looks like, how much  
 capacitance it sees, etc.

 Thought the KB3700 (EC) A/D datasheet frustratingly doesn't list  
 any such exotic parameter
 as input impedance, I asked ENE and they said that the input was  
 high impedance CMOS
 (think a MOSFET gate, in the wee, wee microamps).   The impedance  
 also does not vary
 (even though the A/D is muxed).

 An ultralow power versoin of the 339 could fix any problems there,  
 but then your parts count increases.

 Sorry, no parts count increases allowed except for one LED,  
 resistors, capacitors (basically free), and maybe
 one transistor, diode, or NMOS MOSFET (about a penny).   I will  
 throw in a couple of EC digital outputs, and
 a day of Richard's time in EC code.

 You don't *have* to reverse-bias the LED; that just enhances  
 sensitivity, but distinguishing between
 outside on a sunny day and inside doesn't exactly require  
 precision; there's at least an order of
 magnitude change in illumination, maybe 2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/ 
 wiki/Lux).

 I haven't read the patent, but the advantage to a digitally  
 controlled time integration A/D has always
 been a high dynamic range by changing the time scale.  I'll let the  
 community suggest this
 circuit/algorithm.   Someone practiced in the arts might suggest  
 measuring the integration of
 the reverse leakage current over time, using a digital output to  
 clear the integrator, allowing
 software to control the time period over which the current is  
 integrated to increase the range.

 In response to earlier mails on this topic:  the microphone/camera  
 LEDs are inviolate.
 ( Ivan got this one right! )   I will not allow software  
 interference with those LEDs.

 The power savings resulting from switching the LEDs was significant  
 in Gen 1 (on the order of
 50 mW in run/suspend).  Even after adding this feature, it will  
 have to be integrated into Ohm
 and the Control Panel before being useful in power savings.

 By the way, has anyone really thought about this feature ?  I grok  
 the intent, but you have to make
 sure that kids who happen to be in brightly lit rooms (glaring  
 fluourescents aren't uncommon)
 don't loose their backlight, and wonder why ?   The keyboard  
 lighting on my mac is a good idea,
 but they only allow adjusting the amount of light output, not the  
 sensitivity to ambient light.

 And the Mac's light sensor is annoyingly placed where hand movement  
 during typing may occlude it,
 something we should be able to avoid...
 The light pipes for most LEDs, however, are quite large.  I believe  
 that a second LED
 could be positioned next to an output LED, under a light pipe. 
 Perhaps the battery LED is
 the best candidate, since it is usually not lit when operating from  
 the battery.

 Cheers,
 wad


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Re: [Server-devel] ds-backup.py backup_url server check

2009-05-01 Thread Dave Bauer
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Martin Langhoff
martin.langh...@gmail.comwrote:

 On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Dave Bauer d...@solutiongrove.com
 wrote:
  Thanks for the tips. I am testing with my XO. What version of browse.xo
 do I
  need that supports the magic cookies? Do I need to upgrade my XO software
 or
  download certain new files?

 No prob. You want Browse-101 or newer, that's all.

 I searched and found a link to browse-101


OK. If anyone else is interested, here is Browse-101 for 0.82
including the fix for http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8857
http://dev.laptop.org/~dsd/py-activities/Browse-102.xohttp://dev.laptop.org/%7Edsd/py-activities/Browse-102.xo


and I tried browse-103 from activities.sugarlabs.org and neither one
contains the magic cookie code that I can find. Specifically I looked for
import sqlite3 in webactivity.py.

Is there a certain release or URL for the browse-101 that I should be using
to test?

Thanks
Dave




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Re: [Server-devel] ds-backup.py backup_url server check

2009-05-01 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Dave Bauer d...@solutiongrove.com wrote:
 OK. If anyone else is interested, here is Browse-101 for 0.82
 including the fix for http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8857
 http://dev.laptop.org/~dsd/py-activities/Browse-102.xo;

That's Daniel's release. Look for a release issued by Simon Schampijer.

 and I tried browse-103 from activities.sugarlabs.org and neither one
 contains the magic cookie code that I can find. Specifically I looked for
 import sqlite3 in webactivity.py.

Weird. But the numbers are misleading (one of the serious drawbacks in
the linear numbering scheme we have :-/  )

 Is there a certain release or URL for the browse-101 that I should be using
 to test?

I think it depends on the release you want to run it on. For the SoaS
series, grab at least 104 I think. For XOs running 8.2, grab 101.

cheers,


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