Re: [ANNOUNCE] Compressed Cache release 0.1

2008-02-20 Thread Nitin Gupta
On Feb 19, 2008 2:27 PM, Ivan Krstić [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 19, 2008, at 3:52 AM, Nitin Gupta wrote: I am excited to announce first release of ccache - Compressed RAM based swap device for Linux (2.6.x kernel) Heads-up: 'ccache' is the name of Tridge's well-established and widely

Re: [OLPC library] Health mailing list (was: Minutes posted, next steps)

2008-02-20 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Feb 19, 2008 6:48 PM, Seth Woodworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ed, I hope that groups grow enough to create lists as well. But we dont want to segregate before achieve a critical mass. No rush, just a heads up. The Machine Shop discussions can take place on the languishing prepherial

Re: [sugar] An Update about Speech Synthesis

2008-02-20 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Feb 19, 2008 4:45 PM, Samuel Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hemant and James, Can you write something about this at a [[spoken texts]] page on the wiki ('hear and read'? some other more creative name... )? The Google Literacy Project is highlighting a number of literacy efforts for the

Re: telepathy - request for guidance

2008-02-20 Thread Guillaume Desmottes
Le mercredi 20 février 2008 à 00:37 -0500, Mikus Grinbergs a écrit : | ** ERROR **: file lm-connection.c: line 364 (_lm_connection_succeeded): asserti | on failed: (source != NULL) | aborting... That to me implies I am now getting through my proxy. The last two (ERROR) lines occur only

Re: A modest proposal.

2008-02-20 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 15:45 -0500, C. Scott Ananian wrote: implementation details Clicking on a link of this form would add this person to your buddy list. Communicating with a this form of buddy would, in parallel, (a) attempt to contact the IPv6 Link-Local address formed from the lower 64

Re: Salut and Suspend/Resume issues

2008-02-20 Thread John Gilmore
OK, children of the world, please calm down. There are a few too many bugs and egos flaring up to come to a reasonable resolution. This is an interdisciplinary problem that crosses too many architectural boundaries for any of us to be comfortable seeing the whole picture. I filed a bug report

Re: Mesh Network feature XO-XS

2008-02-20 Thread sulochan acharya
Hi Ricardo, I have iwpriv showing NULL on all the fwt_list . What should it be set to? best, Sulochan. On Feb 19, 2008 5:41 PM, Ricardo Carrano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sulochan, You should check your forwarding (layer two) table with : iwpriv msh0 fwt_list index (index is 0,1,2,...)

Re: Salut and Suspend/Resume issues

2008-02-20 Thread Ricardo Carrano
John, I believe what is discussion here is the choice between waking on multicast (and then keep MDNS working) or don't wake on multicast (and then saving more power). Or if there is a way out of this compromise. Are you cutting to the chase or just changing the movie? (Forgive me for the joke

Re: Mesh Network feature XO-XS

2008-02-20 Thread Ricardo Carrano
Hi Sulochan! Assuming it is your XO2 fwt_list, it should be populated with paths to XO1 (via XO1) and XS (via XO1 or XS, depending whether the XS is in reach). The way it is (empty) this means your XO has no path for any other XO. It is lonely and sad ;-) But, please keep in mind that these

Beyond Hello World

2008-02-20 Thread James Simmons
All, As threatened, I have created a Wiki page called Beyond Hello World where I put what I know about writing Sugar Activities. It isn't much, but there is information on that page I had an awful time figuring out, so maybe it will be of use to someone. I am sure that at least some of the

Re: [sugar] Community/OLPC Server Support Discussion

2008-02-20 Thread ffm
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Bernardo Innocenti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can we postpone it to a later date? 3:30 PM EST, Thursday, Feb. 21st? Earlier, but one I can make. -FFM ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org

Buddy list URI proposal, revised slightly.

2008-02-20 Thread C. Scott Ananian
Rather than invent a new 'friend' URI scheme, an alternative is to use the standard XMPP scheme: xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED];name=Full%20Name (see http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0147.html ) (Thanks, Robert McQueen.) The xmpp server on the laptop responds to roster and chat requests at that

Re: Community/OLPC Server Support Discussion

2008-02-20 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Feb 20, 2008 3:02 PM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 07:30:36AM +0545, Bryan Berry wrote: Michael, Will this discussion cover the management of OLPC server infrastructure like the wiki.laptop.org, dev.laptop.org or the actual School Server (XS)? My

Re: Beyond Hello World

2008-02-20 Thread James Simmons
Eduardo, This sounds fine to me. Your document has an Activity bundle section with a Hello Kids app which doesn't do anything with the Journal. *Every* tutorial I've seen stops at that point. My page is an attempt to fill in the missing information so a developer could learn how to write

Re: Beyond Hello World

2008-02-20 Thread Samuel Klein
How about making hacking sugar a chapter or two in the developers manual? Eduardo: you can 'transclude' pages on the wiki if you want to share content across pages (something like {{:Developers Manual}} inside a page will include all of the text from [[Developers Manual]] at that point in the

Broken links on Hacking_Sugar page

2008-02-20 Thread James Newton
Hi everyone, On the page ... http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php?title=Hacking_Sugardiff=110650oldid= 110649#How_Sugar_takes_the_control ... the link to... http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=sugar;a=blob;f=bin/sugar-shell;hb=HEAD ... results in 403 Forbidden - Error lookup file At

Re: Buddy list URI proposal, revised slightly.

2008-02-20 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 11:45 AM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rather than invent a new 'friend' URI scheme, an alternative is to use the standard XMPP scheme: xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED];name=Full%20Name (see http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0147.html ) (Thanks, Robert

Re: Beyond Hello World

2008-02-20 Thread Eduardo Silva
I have some reservations about the Hacking Sugar page. First, the name could be improved. To me, Hacking implies making something do I chose that name meaning how to hack the sugar environment not just related to create activities, also include how sugar works internally and how a

Re: Beyond Hello World

2008-02-20 Thread Eduardo Silva
Hi Samuel :D How about making hacking sugar a chapter or two in the developers manual? that make sense.. Eduardo: you can 'transclude' pages on the wiki if you want to share content across pages (something like {{:Developers Manual}} inside a page will include all of the text from

where did cross-build customization come from ?

2008-02-20 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
FYI -- don't intend to do anything about it -- just letting you know I had a strange experience. I keep both a Joyride build and an Update.1 build on my G1G1; I switch between them with the 'O' button at boot. Today I used 'olpc-update' (from Joyride) to install the latest Update.1, then

How XO's know XS

2008-02-20 Thread Shikhar
I was wondering how an individual XO identifies a school server. On the wiki I see that '...When a laptop is activated, it is associated in some way (TBD) with a school server. (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Server_Services#Security_and_Identity) Best Shikhar

Overweight Wiki Page

2008-02-20 Thread drew einhorn
Hi, I've got a couple variations on a way overweight wiki page. It began as a MS Word file, and it's been through Open Office, shell, sed, perl, awk, python and the result is not too shabby. Should publish it, but really ought to rewrite it all in python first. Is there a way to use the

Re: Overweight Wiki Page

2008-02-20 Thread drew einhorn
Oh, I forgot to than Jameson for his help and for pointing me to: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ask_OLPC_a_Question Where I learned a lot by looking a how it was written. On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 3:46 PM, drew einhorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've got a couple variations on a way

Re: telepathy - request for guidance

2008-02-20 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Could be a loudmouth bug. Could you provide telepathy-gabble log with LM_DEBUG=net defined please? I was already using that definition, and earlier posted the ending part of my telepathy-gabble.log. Just in case you need it, here is the beginning of that log (constant string deleted from

Re: [OLPC library] Overweight Wiki Page

2008-02-20 Thread Jameson Chema Quinn
Making a mediawiki bot is not too hard - all the skeleton exists in python, you only have to flesh it out with your own logic. As for the TOC, the template idea is that you use noinclude ... /noinclude around all the parts of the templates that are NOT headers (or you can start the noinclude

Re: Open Simulator with Physics Engine

2008-02-20 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
It is not something done with a physics engine, but there are a few particle systems written in Etoys. For example, if you launch Etoys, click on Gallery of Projects, and click on the thumbnail third from the left in the bottom row. It is an ideal gas simulation (in 2D). You can modify the

Re: [OLPC library] Overweight Wiki Page

2008-02-20 Thread drew einhorn
If I understand what you are suggesting: after I use the noinclude ... /noinclude to prune all the text I end up with at TOC with links into a TOC without links, not very useful. I'd be happy to link into right place in the right template. No need for scrolling out of the bottom of one

What links here

2008-02-20 Thread drew einhorn
What links here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Special:Whatlinkshere/VistA_Monograph_Wiki Tells me the pages that link here Can it be coaxed into giving the page/sections that link here? -- Drew Einhorn ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org

physically feeble adults

2008-02-20 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
I realize the intent of the OLPC project is to make booting the system as quick as possible. There is one situation for which introducing a deliberate __delay__ might be beneficial: It appears the XO is testing its front panel buttons as soon as it starts running. If an individual used his

hippo-canvas, etc. not checking out properly?

2008-02-20 Thread kawk
I just noticed that ./sugar-jhbuild update fails on hippo-canvas (among others). Any suggestions why? Are the repos being updated or something? KAWK ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: hippo-canvas, etc. not checking out properly?

2008-02-20 Thread kawk
kawk wrote: I just noticed that ./sugar-jhbuild update fails on hippo-canvas (among others). Any suggestions why? Are the repos being updated or something? KAWK ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org

The XO and email

2008-02-20 Thread Shikhar
Hi, I would like to get the general feeling about the XO and email. There is a Gmail activity but no possibility of composing and viewing emails offline, which I think is important. Also, I want to post some of my ideas for an email activity for feedback, and know of any fundamental flaws. My

Re: Moon, new activity available

2008-02-20 Thread Simon Schampijer
Hi Gary, thanks for this nice activity - pointed my attention to the lunar eclipse tonight. Hence, I had to feature it in my little install tutorial: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Browse#Install_an_activity Looking forward for your next contributions. Simon Gary C Martin wrote: Hi Devels,

Re: The XO and email

2008-02-20 Thread Ivan Krstić
On Feb 20, 2008, at 8:25 PM, Shikhar wrote: I would like to get the general feeling about the XO and email. Some informal notes from one of my former interns are here: http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/jrus/email-spec;a=blob;f=email-spec.text;hb=HEAD -- Ivan Krstić [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: physically feeble adults

2008-02-20 Thread James Cameron
I don't think the front panel buttons will be used normally, so I don't think this optimisation is necessary. Those with weaker fingers can use alternate means, such as clamping the whole thing in a woodworking vice, placing weights on the switches, or composing a USB key script to do what is

Re: How XO's know XS

2008-02-20 Thread Giannis Galanis
When the XO connects to a mesh channel, it sends a specific request for a School server. If it receives a reply it knows there is SS somewhere in the mesh. After it receives the reply it will attempt to connect to it. If no reply is received within a certain timeout, then the XO will connect to

Re: [OLPC library] Overweight Wiki Page

2008-02-20 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, drew einhorn wrote: I have nothing to add to the meat of this topic, but I can at least answer this: mediawiki bot? Could you point me to the skeleton? http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pywikipediabot has the skinny on it. -- Asheesh. -- Two is not equal to three, even