Re: Journal contents disappearing
Not sure what would cause such behavior, but can we start the debugging process with a bit more background: what version of Sugar? On what platform? thanks. -walter On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 7:24 PM, david da...@leeming-consulting.com wrote: Anyone, In teacher training we had a couple of incidents when practicing copying to/from flash drives, where an unidentified action caused the journal contents to vanish. What can be the cause, and is there a way to recover? David Leeming Honiara, Solomon Islands ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] FoodForce II Beta Release
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Manusheel Gupta m...@laptop.org wrote: Andrés, Thank you. We appreciate your kind remarks. May I ask what license is it under? We are working on this aspect with World Food Programme's legal department, and the recommendation has been CPAL. Please have a look at the attached files for your reference. We have started an organization namely SEETA (Software for Education, Entertainment and Learning Activities) through which we, a group of engineers (geeks) from N.S.I.T, University of Delhi (www.nsitonline.in), could develop software projects in the field of learning. We deeply believe in the goals and vision of Sugar Labs and OLPC, and whatever projects we have developed uptill now, runs well on Sugar. This is very exciting as an example of a local project working to solve local problems. By leveraging the Sugar Platform, you can extend your reach to help similar projects with similar needs around the world. And the naysayers said, Scratching your own itch won't work to motivate contributors on an educational project. Very Cool. david Our website is in bad shape, and is under construction. However, I wish to share the link - http://seeta.in. Regards, Manu On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Andrés Ambrois andresambr...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday 08 May 2009 03:24:30 pm Mohit Taneja wrote: Hi, The Beta version of the FoodForce2 game has been developed for the XO. The features that have been incorporated are : snip Congratulations! Looks great! I had a chance to see a presentation on this game last October in El Salvador and I was impressed with the work. May I ask what license is it under? FoodForce2 Team -- Andrés ___ Sugar-devel mailing list sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] FoodForce II Beta Release
David, Thank you. Glad to hear your feedback. Appreciate it. And the naysayers said, Scratching your own itch won't work to motivate contributors on an educational project. Yes, very true. Thank you for this pointer. Regards, Manu On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 3:02 AM, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.orgwrote: On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Manusheel Gupta m...@laptop.org wrote: Andrés, Thank you. We appreciate your kind remarks. May I ask what license is it under? We are working on this aspect with World Food Programme's legal department, and the recommendation has been CPAL. Please have a look at the attached files for your reference. We have started an organization namely SEETA (Software for Education, Entertainment and Learning Activities) through which we, a group of engineers (geeks) from N.S.I.T, University of Delhi (www.nsitonline.in), could develop software projects in the field of learning. We deeply believe in the goals and vision of Sugar Labs and OLPC, and whatever projects we have developed uptill now, runs well on Sugar. This is very exciting as an example of a local project working to solve local problems. By leveraging the Sugar Platform, you can extend your reach to help similar projects with similar needs around the world. And the naysayers said, Scratching your own itch won't work to motivate contributors on an educational project. Very Cool. david Our website is in bad shape, and is under construction. However, I wish to share the link - http://seeta.in. Regards, Manu On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Andrés Ambrois andresambr...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday 08 May 2009 03:24:30 pm Mohit Taneja wrote: Hi, The Beta version of the FoodForce2 game has been developed for the XO. The features that have been incorporated are : snip Congratulations! Looks great! I had a chance to see a presentation on this game last October in El Salvador and I was impressed with the work. May I ask what license is it under? FoodForce2 Team -- Andrés ___ Sugar-devel mailing list sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: browse bug
Hi, Curiouser and curiouser. I will try to see if I can reproduce the result. Essentially, I have a bundle .cpxo which is used by ClassroomPresenter. It returned 'document/unknown' on our schoolserver (our mix of XS-0.4). Tony Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 04:19, Tony Anderson t...@olenepal.org wrote: Hi, Bryan suggests that if the mime_type had been registered with Apache, Browse might have worked as is. I have had a chance to look at that. I think the suggested patch is useful anyway. What is document/unknown ? I thought application/octet-stream was the mime type that web servers use when they don't know in which format a file is. We should use the mailing list, btw. Other deployments may be having similar problems, etc. Regards, Tomeu Tony David Farning wrote: On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Tony Anderson t...@olenepal.org wrote: Hi, I went to the SugarLabs trac page to report this bug in Browse. Please do that from the perspective of someone who wants to report a problem - what are they to do? Did you try to login and create a new ticket? The New Ticket link is only available if a user is logged in. I don't understand enough about downloadmanager.py to be useful:( so adding tomeu to the cc list. thanks for the bug report! david Meanwhile, line 178 of downloadmanger.py should read: if self._mime_type == 'application/octet-stream' or self._mime_type == 'document/unknown': This causes downloadmanager to perform the sniffed_mime_type test for ClassroomPresenter bundles (.cpxo) and provide the correct metadata in the journal entry. Tony ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [Server-devel] Questions
Martin Langhoff writes: 2009/5/9 david david at leeming-consulting.com: They have better luck (maybe my fingers are sweaty more than most) and I have noticed students often wrapping cloth around their finger to use the touch pad. It remains a real problem, but people do get by. The devel@ list archive has similar reports from the Nepal team. IIRC, many kids there had a small piece of cloth to sweep the pad of moisture and dust. Those reports were an important factor in the switch to a new touchpad, so as Daniel suggests, do request a sample one at least. The old laptops can perform better than the new ones if you do this: 1. make the resistive/pressure mode be relative instead of absolute 2. make the resistive/pressure mode be the only mode Maybe this needs to be a config option in Sugar. The new touchpads might be less awful in bad conditions, but nothing is ever going to make a capacitative touch pad work really well in bad conditions. The technology is simply not suited to mud, snot, cheese sauce, sweat, and so on. It's designed for adults in cool dry office environments. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
[Server-devel] touchpad problems (was Re: Questions)
From: david da...@leeming-consulting.com Daniel, Feedback from Nauru. It is very hot and very humid. I find typically that almost all the children observe the jumping cursor. The recalibration does help, but it's still a major issue. I am simply unable to use the touchpad in demonstrations. I use a USB mouse and VNCLauncher with UltraVNC to project the XO screen during trainings (works very well), but when I go round to help trainees (we have been training parents as well as students and children) i find I cannot use their touchpads - on almost all the XOs. They have better luck (maybe my fingers are sweaty more than most) and I have noticed students often wrapping cloth around their finger to use the touch pad. It remains a real problem, but people do get by. When I move to an airconditioned room the problem goes away mostly - a 4-finger salute and it's fine. We had the same problems w/ the touchpad here in Nepal. Nothing ever fixed the problem, though we never tried wrapping our fingers in cloth. That is quite novel. The new touchpad is 1 million times better. Our kids almost never have trouble w/ the new touchpad. That said, kids w/ the old touchpad are out of luck. -- Bryan W. Berry Technology Director OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
