Re: XoPhoto needs a few intrepid testing volunteers.
Excerpts from James Cameron's message of Mon Aug 23 03:51:03 +0200 2010: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Xophoto Thanks for the link! Unfortunately it doesn't even start up for me. [1] Sascha [1] https://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2227 -- http://sascha.silbe.org/ http://www.infra-silbe.de/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Default unlock key ring (Fedora 11 + Gnome 2.26.3 + Apps)
Dear friends, How I can unlock the default ring keys. I need never ask the system keys, because End users are children. It should be noted that the system runs on the XO laptop, the program OLPC. Your help will be very important for the deployment of 500k laptops OLPC. Operating system Fedora + Gnome + App ---Hernan ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [Server-devel] Looking for additional hands on XS
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.laptop.org/en/utility/people/opportunities.shtml We've had an amazing level (and respectable number) of applicants to this! Thanks for all the interest. Right now I am swamped with some urgencies; will coordinate a review and response. There are other positions too... kernel hackers, distro/build wranglers, GUI designers... cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Server-devel mailing list server-de...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [support-gang] XoPhoto needs a few intrepid testing volunteers.
Hi George, I'm really excited about the release of this version of XoPhoto. The timing is really great because I have been meeting with a local (to Washington, D.C.) nature photographer who is adept at getting grants to deliver digital photography experiences to at-risk youths. I will be setting up another meeting with her to demo the activity. We still have around 20 XO-1 laptops in our lending library that would be great to use in an outdoor photo exercise with kids. Mike On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 1:29 PM, George Hunt georgejh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, I've been working pretty regularly since April on an application to manipulate images found in the journal. Probably the best description is at http://georgejhunt.com/olpc/xophoto/xophoto.html. I'd appreciate help in identifying and correcting my oversights, bugs, kludges. . . I believe that XoPhoto runs on Build 802 and Build 850. There are some api problems with the pygame that comes with builds before 802 that I have not yet resolved. Feedback warmly solicited, and appreciated, Thanks George ___ support-gang mailing list support-g...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: XoPhoto needs a few intrepid testing volunteers.
I took a brief look at it on a fedora 64 sugar emulator (luckily it doesn't have a camera hardware dependency 8-) CPU utilization fairly high on it for a while, iirc and may have crashed sugar, will see if indeed it does it again, to bug report somehow. Glad to have another activity, even if in alpha/ beta. Keep up the good work guys gals On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Sascha Silbe sascha-ml-reply-to-201...@silbe.org wrote: Excerpts from James Cameron's message of Mon Aug 23 03:51:03 +0200 2010: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Xophoto Thanks for the link! Unfortunately it doesn't even start up for me. [1] Sascha [1] https://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2227 -- http://sascha.silbe.org/ http://www.infra-silbe.de/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel -- DancesWithCars leave the wolves behind ;-) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Re: XoPhoto needs a few intrepid testing volunteers.
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Xophoto Runs OK on XO1 OS373pyg Unfortunately it saves 11 photos to the journal every time it starts. There is no way to easily delete multiple journal items. Suggest that it only saves these photos on the first start and maybe only 4 photos. Tony ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Re: Re: XoPhoto needs a few intrepid testing volunteers.
Hi Tony and all, This is the way I think XoPhoto works, and does for me on build 850 1.5. When XoPhoto loads, it checks for at least 10 images, (mime_type .png,.jpg,.tif). If there're not enough to play around with, load 11. If there are more than 10, don't load the journal with anything, just create the thumbnails, and store them away in sqlite database. The storing in the journal takes time, and the thumbnail generation does also. Thereafter, at startup, look for recent images, stop when datastore find returns one you've already seen (assumes most recent first, which is, I think, the design). So your observation is interesting. I haven't experienced multiple copies of the test images in the journal. I think I would have noticed that, because I've been working so hard on latency, I've been paying pretty close attention to delay. I also looked back in my journal, to make sure I wasn't missing something. But I don't want to discount the possibility that os373 is different. The journal images can be deleted pretty easily, when the user is done with the (currently non-existent) tutorial -- just drag the images to the trash, and then empty the trash. Thanks for your help, George On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Adam Holt h...@laptop.org wrote: Saw this right? :) Subject: Re: Re: XoPhoto needs a few intrepid testing volunteers. Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:38:52 +1000 From: fors...@ozonline.com.au To: devel@lists.laptop.org http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Xophoto Runs OK on XO1 OS373pyg Unfortunately it saves 11 photos to the journal every time it starts. There is no way to easily delete multiple journal items. Suggest that it only saves these photos on the first start and maybe only 4 photos. Tony ___ Devel mailing listde...@lists.laptop.orghttp://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
DHCP option 119
We are working with a department of education that is using Windows-based domain and DHCP servers. They want to know if the XOs support DHCP option 119, so that they can accept correct domain information for name resolution, etc. Does anybody have any information on this? Thanks Sridhar Dhanapalan Technical Manager One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Australia p: +61 425 239 701 w: http://laptop.org.au ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: DHCP option 119
Hi, We are working with a department of education that is using Windows-based domain and DHCP servers. They want to know if the XOs support DHCP option 119, so that they can accept correct domain information for name resolution, etc. Does anybody have any information on this? Yes, I'd expect it to work. You/they should try it out. - Chris. -- Chris Ball c...@laptop.org One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Re: Re: Re: XoPhoto needs a few intrepid testing volunteers.
Thanks When XoPhoto loads, it checks for at least 10 images, (mime_type .png,.jpg,.tif). If there're not enough to play around with, load 11. This I expect is what happened, I had 2 of my own images, it installed 11 more, I deleted 4, ran it again and it installed 11 more. The journal images can be deleted pretty easily, when the user is done with the (currently non-existent) tutorial -- just drag the images to the trash, and then empty the trash. There is no trash in Sugar, its a dropdown menu in Journal to delete. Tony ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: DHCP option 119
srid...@laptop.org.au said: We are working with a department of education that is using Windows-based domain and DHCP servers. They want to know if the XOs support DHCP option 119, so that they can accept correct domain information for name resolution, etc. Does anybody have any information on this? [mur...@xo-02-33-ff ~]$ more /etc/resolv.conf # Generated by NetworkManager domain megapathdsl.net search megapathdsl.net nameserver 66.80.130.23 nameserver 66.80.131.5 [mur...@xo-02-33-ff ~]$ host www www.megapathdsl.net is an alias for users.megapathdsl.net. users.megapathdsl.net is an alias for users.megapath.net. users.megapath.net has address 66.80.60.21 [mur...@xo-02-33-ff ~]$ That's what I expect via DHCP from my local DSL modem so it looks like the XO is doing the right thing. (I didn't verify the packets on the wire/air to verify that it's using option 119.) You will have to try it to verify that it works with your setup. -- These are my opinions, not necessarily my employer's. I hate spam. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: DHCP option 119
Summary: the option is supported, but not requested by the DHCP client in the current builds. The search value is set to the domain name. Tested using os852 on XO-1. The result will be the same on XO-1.5. 1. the DHCP Request emitted by the XO does not contain a domain-search (119) request, therefore not unexpectedly there will be no reply that will contain it, and no use of the data, (method to test was to capture packet stream with tcpdump and analyse with wireshark), 2. a manual request for the purpose of testing can be formed by turning off Network Manager, and using dhclient -R domain-search eth0, and this correctly includes the domain-search (119) item in the DHCP Request, but as my DHCP server does not provide this item there was no response to the option, 3. there will likely be some method by which Network Manager can be directed to pass -R domain-search or an equivalent to dhclient via the -cf option, but offhand I don't know what it is, 4. /sbin/dhclient-script does contain logic for handling the domain-search (119) reply, so if an XO is configured to request it we know the reply should be handled, and the /etc/resolv.conf file properly updated, 5. in the absence of domain-search (119), the search tag in /etc/resolv.conf is set to the domain-name option value if any. 6. a deployment customised build could potentially be produced that implemented domain-search support. The domain-search option to DHCP is defined in RFC 3397. (Opinion: it seems to be a crutch for badly designed namespaces or failure to use reasonable alias names. A large search list can have a huge impact on clients and a network, since queries may be repeated until satisfied. I recommend against using it in a deployment of XOs, due to the potential for increased DNS requests helping to saturate the radio environment.) -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
[Server-devel] Mass OLPC XO chargers
Hello, We are here in India implementing OLPC at village in Khairat, Near Mumbai a small village and Merces,GOA. Lot of problem of electricity and also XO chargers, plugin points are less and all. So finally we get a small hack to solve this problem. I would like share a blog written by my team mate Amit Dhakulakar for MASS OLPC Chargers . http://me-damitr.blogspot.com/2010/08/mass-charger-for-olpc.html Please share your views for the same. -- Ganesh (Dragger) Be a FOSSERS, use GNU/Linux ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Mass OLPC XO chargers
Is effective. Same idea was mentioned earlier this year. Looking at the photographs, a modification I suggest is an inch of heatshrink tubing over the black and red cables as they exit the DC plug. This is so that the stress is distributed and the connection lasts longer. Another suggestion: four self-adhesive rubber feet on the metal box. Would help to avoid scratching plastic chairs, would raise the box for better cooling. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] [PATCH] Use LSB functions for initscript
El Mon, 23-08-2010 a las 15:09 -0500, Jerry Vonau escribió: Be careful with that one, check the Requires of redhat-lsb first, there are lots of rpms that will get pulled in because of it. Indeed :-( I've always been looking for a good cross-distro replacement for start-daemon. The LSB init-functions are really a half baked solution that doesn't even include a portable way to print OK/FAIL after starting something. -- // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/ \X/ Sugar Labs - http://sugarlabs.org/ ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] [Tecnologia] Schoolserver development in Uruguay
El Thu, 19-08-2010 a las 22:02 -0600, Daniel Drake escribió: Actually, no cleanup was being done on that particular schoolserver. Are you sure? Yes, and now I know why: [r...@schoolserver ~]# /usr/bin/ds-cleanup.sh Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/ds-cleanup.py, line 42, in module import syck ImportError: No module named syck The package is also missing on our xs 0.6. It's simply a missing dependency in ds-backup-server, but it broke all schoolservers worldwide ;-) After installing syck-python, ds-cleanup.py still doesn't seem to do anything. I'll figure out why another day, now it's 2am again. There's more than that. It's a tool that makes you really think through the changes that your making. It helps you centralize everything. It also results in a configuration that results in the ability to upgrade from any point in time to the latest version. It would be less error prone in many ways. That's true. The problem with this sort of tools is that it's very hard to diagnose what went wrong. On a puppetized machine, a rule containing rpm -i package; do_something failed after the first command for some obscure reason. Then, the first command would also keep failing because the package was already installed. This time we could blame it on the incautious rule author who forgot --force, but you see what I mean: error paths become complex with puppet because the flow control is non-linear (like in make) and rule execution happens asynchronously and in thebackground (even more obscure than make). And if you have a mix of offline and online servers, its a no-brainer. The puppet benefits (vs shell script) for connected servers are very significant. And if you can just take a few easy steps to share the configuration with your offline servers, you save a lot of time. That is true. OTOH, one could also share a script to be executed off a USB stick or over the net with Puppet. As ugly as it may sound, humans would probably find it easier to maintain linear code that could be debugged interactively from the command line, independently of an asynchronous client/server system based on interdependent rules. [takes breath] -- // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/ \X/ Sugar Labs - http://sugarlabs.org/ ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
