How to get screenshot thumbnail?
I used the Alt-1 shortcut to get a screenshot for reference which was duly saved in the Journal. When I went to the Journal and reviewed the entry, the thumbnail preview was blank. I tried to resume the screenshot and Browse was the Activity of choice to view. I tried quitting Browse and going back to the Journal entry, still no preview. Is there some sequence of events required to get the preview to appear? 2 thoughts: ** Alt-1 screenshots should populate the preview image as they are saved ** We could use a featherweight image viewer to look at images full screen with zooming. Maybe an Activity wrapper around ImageMagick library calls would do it. Fast and simple would be the goal here. --Chris ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: How to get screenshot thumbnail?
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Chris Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used the Alt-1 shortcut to get a screenshot for reference which was duly saved in the Journal. When I went to the Journal and reviewed the entry, the thumbnail preview was blank. I tried to resume the screenshot and Browse was the Activity of choice to view. I tried quitting Browse and going back to the Journal entry, still no preview. Is there some sequence of events required to get the preview to appear? 2 thoughts: ** Alt-1 screenshots should populate the preview image as they are saved Agreed. Journal previews are a feature in need of much improvement. I think there has been some discussion of ideas on this topic for the next release. ** We could use a featherweight image viewer to look at images full screen with zooming. Maybe an Activity wrapper around ImageMagick library calls would do it. Fast and simple would be the goal here. Sayamindu has put together the Image Viewer activity, which is pretty nice. It's relatively new, but I think it works well. We could probably push for inclusion in the default activity sets and perhaps make this the default viewer in a future release. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Image_Viewer - Eben --Chris ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Scam alert: [Fwd: Thank you from One Laptop per Child]
I got an email that claimed to be from [EMAIL PROTECTED] asking for help with G1G1 but all the links were not to where they said they were from. I think it may be phishing or a scam of some sort. For example, the link to amazon.com/XO actually goes to: http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=00140GOQ-WV-PKk0vG2UCW1Iyligz-Y-vTYYeFTfL9NJG-1I4XgKCWk8-WeF7IC2D-9hgtkisNsRQucVAv9EIRn_l9kuHNU3G29iDeWY5_C765ZwGWtDddYPQ== Be warned. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Scam alert: [Fwd: Thank you from One Laptop per Child]
this mail was/is legitimate, and is part of the G1G1 launch starting tomorrow. the links go through a redirector so that OLPC can see statistics on click-through responses. i understand completely why it made you nervous, however. we'll consult with our mailing partner to find out what we can do about the URLs in future mailings. paul chris wrote: I got an email that claimed to be from [EMAIL PROTECTED] asking for help with G1G1 but all the links were not to where they said they were from. I think it may be phishing or a scam of some sort. For example, the link to amazon.com/XO actually goes to: http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=00140GOQ-WV-PKk0vG2UCW1Iyligz-Y-vTYYeFTfL9NJG-1I4XgKCWk8 -WeF7IC2D-9hgtkisNsRQucVAv9EIRn_l9kuHNU3G29iDeWY5_C765ZwGWtDddYPQ== Be warned. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel =- paul fox, [EMAIL PROTECTED] give one laptop, get one laptop --- http://www.amazon.com/xo ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Scam alert: [Fwd: Thank you from One Laptop per Child]
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this mail was/is legitimate, and is part of the G1G1 launch starting tomorrow. the links go through a redirector so that OLPC can see statistics on click-through responses. i understand completely why it made you nervous, however. we'll consult with our mailing partner to find out what we can do about the URLs in future mailings. In fact, the mailing partner did something very interesting here, which is to send the message with both a plain-text and HTML copy, embedded in the same mail. My client is configured to prefer the plain-text version, so I saw links of the form http://www.amazon.com/xo;. In the HTML copy, it's as Chris described. So OLPC beware; the traffic statistics you're getting back from Constant Contact Inc don't include (at least some) users running Thunderbird, and maybe anyone else with a similar client. - --Ben -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkkga2EACgkQUJT6e6HFtqRbvACfc5Y5ZSfdpJ9a0gjAovQOMyxt 1L0AnA9NYZV6ZcBRAUbLI5Y+GKQrIRNv =M71E -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Scam alert: [Fwd: Thank you from One Laptop per Child]
Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this mail was/is legitimate, and is part of the G1G1 launch starting tomorrow. the links go through a redirector so that OLPC can see statistics on click-through responses. i understand completely why it made you nervous, however. we'll consult with our mailing partner to find out what we can do about the URLs in future mailings. I'm sorry, if I get an e-mail with visible links to amazon.com/xo and the hidden version not coming from the amazon.com domain I will delete first and ask questions later. This trick is *exactly* what phishing and identity theft spammers do. I certainly would not forward such a message to anyone without verification of its validity. If the links were instead to some scrambled URL in same domain, e.g. laptop.org, that would at least indicate that the link gibberish is likely valid since it is in the same domain as the link claims to be. --Chris ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Scam alert: [Fwd: Thank you from One Laptop per Child]
I agree. You need a better way to track your hits. Id suggest Google analytics as fast and free. Make a special web page for the landings from the email and track hits. Jk On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Chris Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this mail was/is legitimate, and is part of the G1G1 launch starting tomorrow. the links go through a redirector so that OLPC can see statistics on click-through responses. i understand completely why it made you nervous, however. we'll consult with our mailing partner to find out what we can do about the URLs in future mailings. I'm sorry, if I get an e-mail with visible links to amazon.com/xo and the hidden version not coming from the amazon.com domain I will delete first and ask questions later. This trick is *exactly* what phishing and identity theft spammers do. I certainly would not forward such a message to anyone without verification of its validity. If the links were instead to some scrambled URL in same domain, e.g. laptop.org, that would at least indicate that the link gibberish is likely valid since it is in the same domain as the link claims to be. --Chris ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel -- ~~ Microsoft help desk says: reply hazy, ask again later. ~~ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Scam alert: [Fwd: Thank you from One Laptop per Child]
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Jeffrey Kesselman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree. You need a better way to track your hits. Id suggest Google analytics as fast and free. Make a special web page for the landings from the email and track hits. The way google.com does it on their search results page is to set up an onclick() handler for each link which reports your click to google, without affecting the actual link target URL. I'm not certain this would work with email, since even clients which display HTML might not execute embedded javascript (I hope not, but I've been surprised/appalled before). --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Scam alert: [Fwd: Thank you from One Laptop per Child]
chris wrote: Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this mail was/is legitimate, and is part of the G1G1 launch starting tomorrow. the links go through a redirector so that OLPC can see statistics on click-through responses. i understand completely why it made you nervous, however. we'll consult with our mailing partner to find out what we can do about the URLs in future mailings. I'm sorry, if I get an e-mail with visible links to amazon.com/xo and the hidden version not coming from the amazon.com domain I will delete first and ask questions later. This trick is *exactly* what phishing and identity theft spammers do. I certainly would not forward such a message to anyone without verification of its validity. If the links were instead to some scrambled URL in same domain, e.g. laptop.org, that would at least indicate that the link gibberish is likely valid since it is in the same domain as the link claims to be. i agree completely. one more level of redirect (from us to our partner site then to the real destination would be far better. i confess i noticed it as the mail was being prepared, but my alarm bells didn't go off. (probably because i was on the sending end, and not the receiving end. :-) we'll do better next time. paul =- paul fox, [EMAIL PROTECTED] give one laptop, get one laptop --- http://www.amazon.com/xo ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Scam alert: [Fwd: Thank you from One Laptop per Child]
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 2:57 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: chris wrote: Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this mail was/is legitimate, and is part of the G1G1 launch starting tomorrow. the links go through a redirector so that OLPC can see statistics on click-through responses. i understand completely why it made you nervous, however. we'll consult with our mailing partner to find out what we can do about the URLs in future mailings. I'm sorry, if I get an e-mail with visible links to amazon.com/xo and the hidden version not coming from the amazon.com domain I will delete first and ask questions later. This trick is *exactly* what phishing and identity theft spammers do. I certainly would not forward such a message to anyone without verification of its validity. If the links were instead to some scrambled URL in same domain, e.g. laptop.org, that would at least indicate that the link gibberish is likely valid since it is in the same domain as the link claims to be. i agree completely. one more level of redirect (from us to our partner site then to the real destination would be far better. i confess i noticed it as the mail was being prepared, but my alarm bells didn't go off. (probably because i was on the sending end, and not the receiving end. :-) we'll do better next time. The system handling our emails did this auto-magically. If we were to do this more than once we would likely setup a better system for it. --Seth ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Home
Is mkdir -p /home/root good enough, (for government work)? mikus wrote: I notice that Joyride on the XO no longer has a /root directory - -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/%22Home%22-tp1086649p1507337.html Sent from the OLPC Software development mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Scam alert: [Fwd: Thank you from One Laptop per Child]
I got an email that claimed to be from [EMAIL PROTECTED] asking for help with G1G1 but all the links were not to where they said they were from. I think it may be phishing or a scam of some sort. For example, the link to amazon.com/XO actually goes to: If you look at the Received headers you will probably find that it came from something like ccm01.constantcontact.com Constant Contact is one of the big ESPs (Email Service Providers). They handle mailing lists for other people and generally do a better job than most people would do by themselves. http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?... If you poke around with whois, you will see that rs6.net is owned by Constant Contact. That particular URL will bounce through their system and off to Amazon. The idea is that they count clicks. Marketers love that sort of data so companies like CC provide it. A variation is 1x1 gifs, often called web bugs. That lets them count how many people opened the mail even if they don't click on any of the links. That assumes you enable html in your mail reader and that you enable gifs and ... I'm not sure why they use rs6 (or similar) rather than constantcontact. I think I saw an explanation once, but I don't have enough marketing blood in me for it to make sense. I'm a privacy nut. I hate tracking. I consider it to be rude at best. I don't know if CC is setup to disable tracking if their customers ask about it. -- 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: Scam alert: [Fwd: Thank you from One Laptop per Child]
this mail was/is legitimate, and is part of the G1G1 launch starting tomorrow. the links go through a redirector so that OLPC can see statistics on click-through responses. I'm sorry, if I get an e-mail with visible links to amazon.com/xo and the hidden version not coming from the amazon.com domain I will delete first and ask questions later. OLPC should NEVER be tricking its donors with email spy techniques! I've gone one step further than deleting the messages. I've stopped funding nonprofits who use this kind of surreptitious monitoring in their bulk mailings. You'd be surprised how many nonprofits have been snowed by bulk email providers like Convio into perverting the recipient's classic postal-mail / email assumptions. Commercial companies are so afraid of being tarred with the spammer brush that they don't do this -- but nonprofits aren't yet that smart. They violate donor expecations like like: * Once you sent it, you don't know when, where, or whether I read it (unless it comes as a registered letter with explicit tracking). * I can read it over and over again without you finding out * I can copy and forward it to others and you can't tell who forwarded it. These social expectations are being deliberately and silently broken by including web bugs, tracking links and similar monitoring devices into ordinary emails. I encourage everybody who receives such mails to delete them unread, to chastize the organization that sent them (if they can be found), and to stop funding or supporting any org that persists. If an email sender wants to track the popularity of its emails that include links, that's easy to do by looking at how many accesses are made to the web pages that it links to. You can even link to a landing page for each such email that you send (to 1000 or 100,000 people), rather than linking to a pre-existing page. That kind of monitoring doesn't intrude on personal privacy by trying to figure out WHICH email recipient clicked on the link -- it just counts how many did. You can turn off all these intrusive technologies in the Convio user interface -- but they default to on, because Convio and its sister companies care more about data-mining than they do about donor privacy or social cohesion. And they'll continue to do so until donors ostracize any nonprofit who does this. John Gilmore ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Scam alert: [Fwd: Thank you from One Laptop per Child]
john wrote: If an email sender wants to track the popularity of its emails that include links, that's easy to do by looking at how many accesses are made to the web pages that it links to. You can even link to a landing page for each such email that you send (to 1000 or 100,000 people), rather than linking to a pre-existing page. That kind of monitoring doesn't intrude on personal privacy by trying to figure out WHICH email recipient clicked on the link -- it just counts how many did. john -- i/we hear you loud and clear. i will say that OLPC has no idea _who_ clicked on any given link, nor how many times. nor are we the least bit interested in knowing. as you surmised, the default setting for doing link redirects is on, and for better or worse, they were left that way when we sent the mail. we will clearly reconsider this setting in the future. paul =- paul fox, [EMAIL PROTECTED] give one laptop, get one laptop --- http://www.amazon.com/xo ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Music Keyboard for TamTam?
Hi, I was wondering if there would be a way to connect a usb musical keyboard to the XO to use with the TamTam suite of Activities? The software would have to be able to recognize the input from the keyboard. A small 37-key midi keyboard by M-Audio costs about $50. http://www.fullcompass.com/product/324805.html. It supposedly works with any computer with a usb connection, but I suspect they mean any Mac or Windows based machine. The programs in the TamTam suite are really powerful, and could appeal to older children and adults if the keyboard input was more suited to their larger hands. Any ideas? I'm not on your mailing list so please just cc your answer to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [Grassroots-l] [IAEP] OLPC France CodeCamp in Paris
Samy: gracias por tu ayuda Cualquier información que necesites, puedes hacermela llegar. Saludos, ---hernan (Perú) [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Hi Tomeu, Great! I can handle the translation between the spanish teachers and the french developers if the need arises. Podré apoyar las comunicaciones entre los profesores de Uruguay, Panama y Peru por una parte, y los desarroladores en Paris, por si alguien necesita. Bests, saludos Samy Quoting Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Lionel and all OLPC France, excuse me if this comes too late or isn't to the point, but would like to propose to hack on a mind mapping activity during the CodeCamp in Paris. I think this project has the appeal of being in direct connection to the needs in the field. Teachers from Uruguay, Peru and Panama have asked for such a tool, and have been exploring alternatives that may not be the best: drawing in Paint, using the connectors in Etoys, executing a java app (CMaps) inside the X Activity or using web apps. Happens that a pygtk application for mind mapping already exists and its architecture makes for an easy port to sugar. It's called Labyrinth [0] and was proposed more than one year ago by Jim Gettys [1] though no resources were allocated. Recently, teachers in the olpc-sur mailing lists asked again for it [2] and I gave a quick (2 hours) try to sugarize it with some success [3]. In [3] you can find links to the activity bundle, a screenshot and a patch to the code in the svn repository. [0] http://www.gnome.org/~dscorgie/labyrinth.html [1] http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/4577 [2] http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-sur/2008-November/001168.html [3] http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-sur/2008-November/001173.html My proposal is for the CodeCamp participants to divide in pairs and each pair to choose one feature to add or bug to fix. At the end of the session, everybody would integrate all the changes and produce a single bundle. Most of the functionality is already in the original pygtk app, it's just a matter of exposing that functionality through the Sugar UI. I will try to be in #sugar at FreeNode during the CodeCamp to answer questions. After the CodeCamp, we could send the bundle to teachers in olpc-sur and ask them to try it and give feedback. Also, at some point whoever is interested in following up could contact the authors of Labyrinth and see the best way to upstream the changes. What do you say, looks like a challenge? Regards, Tomeu 2008/11/1 LASKE, Lionel (C2S) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, OLPC France is proud to announce its OLPC CodeCamp in Paris on November 15th. Five workshops are planned: · Sugar: development and experimentation on Sugar/python, · School Server: setting up and test of school server on multiple platform (standard PC, Booba server, CherryPal, …), · Mono: development of new activities using Mono, · Pedagogic usage: Feedbacks from Haïti, Ethiopia and Palestine deployment. Brainstorming with French teachers to find usage and class activity for the XO. · French localization: French translators will work all the days to translate in French, sugar, activities and FLOSS manual. If you're interested to meet the French OLPC community and to have a nice trip to Paris: you're welcome ! More information on: http://olpc-france.org/wiki/index.php?title=OLPC_France_CodeCamp_15_november Best regards from France. Lionel Laské ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep ___ Grassroots mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [sugar] [IAEP] Tentative talk schedule: Nov 19
I hope for a chance to see a server in action, and it would be tops if I could see a server being set up from scratch. That might even justify I take a box with me... In a Montessori way, I learn best when things happen as I do them. Yama Martin Langhoff wrote: On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:07 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... lots of interesting things... I'm very happy that the Sugar folks are in town -- under whatever alibi -- and I'm keen on meeting, having a beer together and perhaps talking a few technical things too ;-) After all, we've been collaborating for almost a year now, and I don't know your faces. There are a few things I'm interested in talking about so I'll try to use my slot (and the many beer rounds) for that. The xocamp later will be another chance to talk about them more formally, but perhaps we can have a quick overview of - Repeated automagic registration - so updated registration data (with perhaps more bits of data) reaches the XS. - Manually triggered actions from the control panel - re-registration, ds-backup - Browse.xo automagic authentication against XS. Also - automagic proxy config with PAC files, etc. - Service announcement (plain old DNS, mdns, avahi, carrier pigeons) - so activity and OS updates work better - How I learned to stop worrying and love ejabberd's mod_roster facilities (group handling between XS and XO) As you can see, it's fairly concrete stuff. There are a couple of blue-sky areas you can probably drag me into - - extended journal using the backup storage from the XS. - General Journal / Project diary magic UI voodoo. Now, if we can talk about at least some of these things in a parenthesis -- avoiding all the distractions -- let's do it. Otherwise, I'm happy to just have a beer with you. Let's make the most of what we have. And apologies for not sending this earlier -- cheers, m ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Music Keyboard for TamTam?
Hi Caryl, On 16 Nov 2008, at 04:54, Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi, I was wondering if there would be a way to connect a usb musical keyboard to the XO to use with the TamTam suite of Activities? The software would have to be able to recognize the input from the keyboard. A small 37-key midi keyboard by M-Audio costs about $50. http://www.fullcompass.com/product/324805.html. It supposedly works with any computer with a usb connection, but I suspect they mean any Mac or Windows based machine. The programs in the TamTam suite are really powerful, and could appeal to older children and adults if the keyboard input was more suited to their larger hands. Any ideas? Ooh I've been meaning to test this for a while – so I've just plugged my M-Audio 49-e into the XO (release 8.2-767), and tried each of the TamTam suite... Unfortunately it seems to have no effect :-( This was only a very quick attempt, I'll try a deeper look and see if anything obvious is borked, will likely poke about with csound in the raw and see what I can pick-up: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/CSound I'm guessing this may well work, or at least used to, as I found this flicker shot of Simon and Walter testing an early board prototype :-) http://flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/189728345/ Anyone else tried, or can point me in the right direction (is there some /dev I should look for)? I'm not on your mailing list so please just cc your answer to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Music Keyboard for TamTam?
On 17 Nov 2008, at 04:06, Gary C Martin wrote: I was wondering if there would be a way to connect a usb musical keyboard to the XO to use with the TamTam suite of Activities? The software would have to be able to recognize the input from the keyboard. A small 37-key midi keyboard by M-Audio costs about $50. http://www.fullcompass.com/product/324805.html. It supposedly works with any computer with a usb connection, but I suspect they mean any Mac or Windows based machine. The programs in the TamTam suite are really powerful, and could appeal to older children and adults if the keyboard input was more suited to their larger hands. Any ideas? Ooh I've been meaning to test this for a while – so I've just plugged my M-Audio 49-e into the XO (release 8.2-767), and tried each of the TamTam suite... Unfortunately it seems to have no effect :-( This was only a very quick attempt, I'll try a deeper look and see if anything obvious is borked, will likely poke about with csound in the raw and see what I can pick-up: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/CSound I'm guessing this may well work, or at least used to, as I found this flicker shot of Simon and Walter testing an early board prototype :-) http://flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/189728345/ Anyone else tried, or can point me in the right direction (is there some /dev I should look for)? OK, replying to my own email (well it is late here) – I can at least see the midi keyboard is being recognised using the terminal amidi command: amidi -l Dir DeviceName IOhw:1,0,0 Ketstation 49e MIDI 1 On a more disappointing note I found this ticket G1G1 tamtam suite should respond to MIDI keyboard input from 10 months ago. Closed. Wont fix :-( https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6031 --Gary ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Wacom Bamboo with XO?
Has anyone had any success getting a Wacom USB tablet working with the XO? The new Bamboo series is affordable ($79 US), about the same size active area as the XO display, and could be a substitute for the deprecated/soon to be abandoned pressure sensitive touchpad on the original XOs. This could be good value added for the G1G1 XO-ers. It would be a perfect fit for the Colors Activity. --Chris ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Music Keyboard for TamTam?
On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 04:24 +, Gary C Martin wrote: On a more disappointing note I found this ticket G1G1 tamtam suite should respond to MIDI keyboard input from 10 months ago. Closed. Wont fix :-( https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6031 All wontfix means is that they're waiting for someone with a stronger itch to scratch it ;) -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams [EMAIL PROTECTED] PLEASE don't CC me; I'm already subscribed signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Emulating 8.2 images on QEMU for windows
Wade, The installation works OK, however, the run.bat script needs to cd to the install directory when Run as Administrator... is used to start it; I'm not sure why UAC starts batch scripts differently as Admin, but here's the line I added to my copy of start-olpc.cmd to fix the problem: cd %~dp0 ... rest of script... (That syntax means to take the (d)irectory and (p)ath from parameter %0. ) Cheers, Mark From: Wade Brainerd [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ton van Overbeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Mwarren [EMAIL PROTECTED]; devel@lists.laptop.org Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 2:02:04 PM Subject: Re: Emulating 8.2 images on QEMU for windows Oh, and Ton - if you're interested in hacking on QEMU some more, I would love to see a build with some extra command line parameters: --start-kqemuExecutes 'net start kqemu' automatically if the service exists. --window-title= Changes the title of the window from QEMU to whatever, say 'OLPC Software Environment 8.2.0'. Then we could have the shortcut run qemu.exe directly and eliminate the command prompt window, for a more seamless experience. Best, Wade On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Wade Brainerd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd love to get the Windows installer capable of installing without issue on Vista, but I lack a Vista machine to test. I would welcome any assistance with this matter! Also, regarding downloading the image instead of bundling it, It easy to modify the installer to download the image. NSIS has a Download plugin for this exact purpose. That would drop the initial file size down to a few MB, and we could add a disk space check beforehand. -- To work on the installer: Install NSIS from nsis.sourceforge.net. Get the installer source code: git clone git://dev.laptop.org/git/users/wadeb/wininstall/.git Or, download the source .tgz source file from this link: http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/wadeb/wininstall/.git;a=snapshot The installer code is all in the 'olpc.nsi' file. This is a simple, text based install script. The NSIS download has full documentation for the language. Cheers, Wade On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Ton van Overbeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mwarren wrote: I put together a new Quick Start bundle at http://sites.google.com/site/olpcqemu/Home/olpc_qemu_8.2.0.zip (4.7 MB). The bundle includes Ton's qemu-svn-4887, KQEMU 1.4.0pre1, the cwRsync bundle (rsync, cygwin1.dll, PuTTY), curl and bunzip2. The OLPC image has been replaced with a get-image.cmd script that automatically downloads an image, bunzip2's it, and creates a linked .qcow2.img file. I would appreciate it if you can try out the bundle and give feedback - http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php?title=User_talk:Mwarrenaction=edit . Thank you, Mark Works fine for me on Win XP/SP3. A few remarks: - Might put a warning in for people (like me) who already have Cygwin installed. Two cygwin1.dll on the same system can create problems. - Put more emphasis on 'run as Administrator' for the install start and stop of the kqemu service. Without kqemu you do not have run as Administrator (but it will be very slow). - You do not say how to ssh into the emulated XO: For a command line ssh: 'ssh -p [EMAIL PROTECTED]'. For PuTTY you have to change the port from 22 to . Also you first have to set a password on the olpc account in the emulated xo, otherwise no ssh logins are allowed. - You might want to mention to let software update download all the G1G1 activities on the first boot of the emulated xo. Alternatively we could set up an image somewhere with the G1G1 activities already included. It might be an idea to combine your approach with Wade Brainerd's installer. See http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-November/021016.html . However the installer has problems installing the service on Vista due to UAC. I cc'ed Wade on this email. Good work !! Ton van Overbeek PS Have not updated my original zip with libusb0.dll yet. Will do this soon. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [Server-devel] iso size
Martin Langhoff wrote: On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 9:18 PM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Spinning hopefully the last one. There's a dev11 now in the server, and I think it's The One. But I'll formally release it tomorrow, I think :-) cheers, m Well, the upgrade is not painful. The weird thing I found is about yum, $releasever, and fedora-updates.repo, we have two issues.. First with the use of xs-release when I do a rpm -q --whatprovides /etc/fedora-release I get back: fedora-release-7-3.noarch xs-release-9-0.4.12.noarch which will confuse the heck out of yum if you have $releasever anywhere. I guess we should have xs-release do: Obsoletes: fedora-release Second, I found the above because I did a yum repolist and the fedora-update repo from the F7 install was active. Need to remove that one, maybe from xs-release? Jerry ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
