Re: [OLPC devel] su/sudo or not to sudo/su (was PATCH: add --loginpause to mingetty)

2008-01-11 Thread Simon Schampijer
ffm wrote: On Jan 10, 2008 11:37 PM, Iain (OLPC) Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I typically like the solution of $ sudo bash Just a comment on that: Since most of our users will not know much about computers, having them exit will just add another step which they will forget to do,

New joyride build 1528

2008-01-11 Thread Build Announcer Script
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1528/ -initscripts.i386 0:8.54.1-16.olpc2 +initscripts.i386 0:8.54.1-17.olpc2 -- This email was automatically generated Aggregated logs at http://dev.laptop.org/~bert/joyride-pkgs.html ___

Re: [OLPC devel] su/sudo or not to sudo/su (was PATCH: add --loginpause to mingetty)

2008-01-11 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
Simon Schampijer wrote: does not auto-complete. The bash-completion (141K) package solves this, which I tried on my F8 machine. Maybe worth an inclusion since the completion works as well for other cases like: yum in[tab] (even so in the case of 'yum install b[tab]' it takes a

bind problems - HELP!

2008-01-11 Thread John Watlington
Sorry for the spam, but I've got a puzzling named problem. Perhaps someone on this list can redirect this to a bind hacker... I'm running bind 9.4.2 on a principal school server. An auxiliary school server is connected to one of its subnets, and both support a wireless mesh. Name resolution

Re: mesh portal discovery

2008-01-11 Thread Bennett Todd
D'oh. Still recovering from a wicked cold. 2008-01-11T16:49:06 Bennett Todd: If so, you could use them to assign the lower 24 bits of a 10/24 addr until you've shipped 16 million XOs, 10/8 Sorry. -Bennett pgpxodZ2p78Z8.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: New activity: Speak

2008-01-11 Thread Hemant Goyal
Hi Joshua, Can this or the Screen Reader project be adapted to reading content, such as the children's picturebooks provided in the Library? (We would presumably need a text file to go with each document.) We are working on a speech-server for providing all these features. Currently we are

Stupid Question

2008-01-11 Thread Steve Fullerton
Hi - I am a developer since 08/07 doing Joyrides etc. but I seem to have lost my activation lease somewhere along the way. I still have my developer key in /security/ but no lease in /ofw/mfg-data/ How to restore? cheat sheet directional keys don't seem to work help. Any hints? Build:

New joyride build 1529

2008-01-11 Thread Build Announcer Script
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1529/ +bash.i386 0:3.2-19.fc7 -bash.i386 0:3.2-9.fc7 -libxml2.i386 0:2.6.29-1.fc7 +libxml2.i386 0:2.6.31-1.fc7 -libxml2-python.i386 0:2.6.29-1.fc7 +libxml2-python.i386 0:2.6.31-1.fc7 -rainbow.noarch 0:0.7.7-1.olpc2 +rainbow.noarch

Re: 3dpong request for hosting

2008-01-11 Thread Wade Brainerd
Hi Ivan, it looks like I sent you a public key that I no longer have the private key for :( Can you update my account to use this one? I have also updated the public key at http://www.wadeb.com/wadeb.pub to match the key below. ssh-dss

Re: root password

2008-01-11 Thread Steve Fullerton
Hi - I don't to varciperate, however --- think about toys. A child uses a toy to discover things about his/her universe at a certain point in time. That is the concept behind OLPC. In constructionist philosophy, a child is given the tools to construct and more importantly share constructed music

Re: 3dpong request for hosting

2008-01-11 Thread Samuel Klein
I've added a feature request for simple level editing without dropping to the terminal and hacking the source. What I like best about 3dpong is how easy it is to experiment with new levels. Also: please /substitute/ the game template when you use it; it is only a guide to contribution. leaving

Re: 3dpong request for hosting

2008-01-11 Thread Wade Brainerd
Sure, no problem. I didn't really know my way around PyGTK well enough to do the editing UI before, but I should be able to crank it out quickly now. I also plan to add a two player mode now that I've had some experience with the mesh APIs. It would be nice if there were a turn waiting

Re: 3dpong request for hosting

2008-01-11 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Samuel Klein wrote: Yes, it would help to have distributed network services such as ones that let you say join the next available connect/pong game This is easy to implement within the current sharing framework. It just requires each game to pair

Re: 3dpong request for hosting

2008-01-11 Thread Samuel Klein
Yes, it would help to have distributed network services such as ones that let you say join the next available connect/pong game and pass this message to wadeb when he reconnects. This doesn't require an explicit server, but can be sped up by the existence of one. SJ 2008/1/11 Wade Brainerd

Re: 3dpong request for hosting

2008-01-11 Thread Wade Brainerd
I'm thinking of the case where there are 5 people connected to a 3dpong activity. Two are playing, the rest are watching, waiting to play the winner. Some overall score needs to be maintained, saved to the journal etc. Someone has to maintain the list, and if they leave then someone else

Re: New activity: Speak

2008-01-11 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Jan 10, 2008 12:05 PM, Joshua Minor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 10, 2008, at 11:23 AM, Edward Cherlin wrote: On Jan 10, 2008 1:27 AM, Joshua Minor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I made a new activity called Speak http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Speak Also, if

New joyride build 1530

2008-01-11 Thread Build Announcer Script
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1530/ -Journal-82.xo +Journal-83.xo -Paint-16.xo +Paint-17.xo -Web-83.xo +Web-84.xo -hulahop.i386 0:0.4.0-1.olpc2 +hulahop.i386 0:0.4.0-2.olpc2 -sugar.i386 0:0.75.7-1 +sugar.i386 0:0.75.8-1 -xkeyboard-config.noarch

Re: Marvell

2008-01-11 Thread Edward Cherlin
I got tied up in a contract and lost site of this thread for a while. I'm game to start up again. On Sep 10, 2007 5:53 PM, Alex Gibson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Bernardo Innocenti [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dan Williams wrote: Somebody needs to take ownership of the issue and run with it.

Update to Terminal Activity

2008-01-11 Thread Phil Bordelon
Michael Stone and I added a 'become root' button to the Terminal tonight. It is now part of Terminal-8.xo. This consists of two parts: * a new minimalist script, 'become_root', as part of olpc-utils; * the button in Terminal. The button is on the primary toolbar, with a new SVG created by