Re: No surprise on memory

2008-12-15 Thread quozl
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:21:18PM -0500, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: > I'm no expert, but making the system work well without overcommit would > probably require extensive modifications to the python interpreter, the > fd.o libraries (dbus, gstreamer, telepathy, etc.), gecko, and maybe even > X.

Re: Minutes of Power in 9.1.0 meeting

2008-12-15 Thread david
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, John Gilmore wrote: >> On a different note, one test we might think about running is the >> closest thing the industry has to a "standard" battery life test. It's >> specified on a lot of the netbook specs. >> >> It's defined here: http://it.jeita.or.jp/mobile/e/index.html >>

No surprise on memory

2008-12-15 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I recently learned a few very important things about Linux memory management (I'm speaking about how its supposed to work, irrespective of any bugs). Operating systems experts already know all of this, but I did not. 1. Malloc lies. It will happily

Re: Minutes of Power in 9.1.0 meeting

2008-12-15 Thread John Gilmore
> On a different note, one test we might think about running is the > closest thing the industry has to a "standard" battery life test. It's > specified on a lot of the netbook specs. > > It's defined here: http://it.jeita.or.jp/mobile/e/index.html > > However, I'm also seeing that a lot of ve

Re: XO deployment count?

2008-12-15 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Samuel Klein wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 1:30 PM, wrote: >>> In countries all over the world, XOs are *actually arriving in >>> children's hands*. >>> --scott >>> >>> [*] "roughly" means there are lots of minor details I'm omitting; Peru >> >> rough numbers

Fixed Puritan bug on F10/Intrepid

2008-12-15 Thread Michael Stone
Reuben, I was able to reproduce and work around the rpmdb version problem you found today on a new Intrepid vm I created on weka.l.o. Would you mind retesting with my new 767 compilation? (To do so, just wipe the compilation and re-clone it. I modified the cloning instructions so that, in the fu

Re: XO deployment count?

2008-12-15 Thread Samuel Klein
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 1:30 PM, wrote: >> In countries all over the world, XOs are *actually arriving in >> children's hands*. >> --scott >> >> [*] "roughly" means there are lots of minor details I'm omitting; Peru > > rough numbers are good enough for answering critics who claim that OLPC > is

Re: Downloading Scratch project to XO

2008-12-15 Thread Andrés Monroy-Hernández
Hi Philipp, I am not sure if this helps, but our apache config file has this for the Scratch file extension: AddType application/x-scratch-project sb My impression is that what you descrie has to do more with how the XO operating system handles the Scratch file type and/or with how to create t

Project name : Retroscope has been set up

2008-12-15 Thread Henry Edward Hardy
Thu, 4 Dec 2008 02:17:26 -0600, "Gabriel Burt" wrote: 1. Project name : Retroscope Done. Your tree is here: git+ssh://gb...@dev.laptop.org/git/activities/retroscope Please follow instructions here for importing your project: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Importing_your_project Let us know if you ha

The new OLPC ads

2008-12-15 Thread Jean Piché
http://www2.infopresse.com/blogs/actualites/archive/2008/12/15/article-29417.aspx ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Slimmed Down Fedora 10 on XO (was Fedora 10 on XO)

2008-12-15 Thread Greg Smith
Hi All, Thanks for all the feedback on my questions about what it would take to run a slimmed down Fedora 10 on the XO NAND. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-olpc-list/2008-December/msg00022.html To reiterate, the goal is one distribution with two Desktop Environments (Sugar and one "stan

Re: Downloading Scratch project to XO

2008-12-15 Thread Bert Freudenberg
John, does Scratch accept a .sb file on its command line? If so, the launcher script could get the file from the Journal and pass it on. - Bert - On 15.12.2008, at 18:53, John Maloney wrote: > Hi, Phillipp. > > Thanks for reporting this problem. I believe there is a way to tell > the XO to a

Re: Downloading Scratch project to XO

2008-12-15 Thread John Maloney
Hi, Phillipp. Thanks for reporting this problem. I believe there is a way to tell the XO to associate the .sb file extension with Scratch. I will look into that and let you know if I figure it out. -- John On Dec 14, 2008, at 8:03 PM, Philipp Kocher wrote: > Hi > > I would like to

sugar in mongolia (was Re: [Community-news] OLPC News (2008-12-15))

2008-12-15 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 15:25, Jim Gettys wrote: > > A Mongolian version of 8.2 has been installed in the Ulaanbaatar > schools. The feedback is overwhelmingly positive. When David Cavallo > visited a school where the new version is in use, the teachers actually > shook his hand because they liked

Re: Joyride SD card corruption

2008-12-15 Thread Deepak Saxena
On Dec 15 2008, at 08:23, Deepak Saxena was caught saying: > nn Dec 12 2008, at 11:34, Mikus Grinbergs was caught saying: > > WARNING -- since about build 2590 I can get my "permanent" SD card > > (ext2 filesystem) completely corrupted - I've had to restore it > > twice. [This is a regression -

Re: Joyride SD card corruption

2008-12-15 Thread Deepak Saxena
nn Dec 12 2008, at 11:34, Mikus Grinbergs was caught saying: > WARNING -- since about build 2590 I can get my "permanent" SD card > (ext2 filesystem) completely corrupted - I've had to restore it > twice. [This is a regression - with 2583 and earlier I never saw > any SD corruption. Note that

Re: [Sugar-devel] Wacom Bamboo with XO?

2008-12-15 Thread Wade Brainerd
Hey Chris, Awesome, thanks for testing! On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Chris Marshall wrote: > * The display update seems to be by continuous stroke: > XO #1 user draws a curve not lifting pen. After the stylus > is lifted from the tablet the stroke updates on XO #2. That's intentional,

Re: [Telepathy] ANNOUNCE: telepathy-gabble 0.7.17

2008-12-15 Thread Guillaume Desmottes
Le lundi 15 décembre 2008 à 11:09 +0100, Peter Robinson a écrit : > >> F-10 doesn't have dbus-glib 0.78, only 0.76 so I can't add this to > >> joyride yet. Do we want an OLPC-4 branch for dbus-glib to handle this? > > > > I think we can wait that the updated package reach F-10. > > > >> Collabora,

Re: [Telepathy] ANNOUNCE: telepathy-gabble 0.7.17

2008-12-15 Thread Morgan Collett
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 12:09, Peter Robinson wrote: > BTW I noticed this changelog entry in the rawhide version of > telepathy-salut "Enable OLPC support code. It is not used unless a > client explicitely requests them." would this mean that the forks > aren't required when this gets pushed to th

Re: [Telepathy] ANNOUNCE: telepathy-gabble 0.7.17

2008-12-15 Thread Peter Robinson
>> F-10 doesn't have dbus-glib 0.78, only 0.76 so I can't add this to >> joyride yet. Do we want an OLPC-4 branch for dbus-glib to handle this? > > I think we can wait that the updated package reach F-10. > >> Collabora, is this relevant to OLPC? If not, we can hold off on >> packaging this for now

Re: [Telepathy] ANNOUNCE: telepathy-gabble 0.7.17

2008-12-15 Thread Guillaume Desmottes
Le lundi 15 décembre 2008 à 10:07 +0200, Morgan Collett a écrit : > > * dbus-glib 0.78 (fixes support for complex types in hashtables) > > F-10 doesn't have dbus-glib 0.78, only 0.76 so I can't add this to > joyride yet. Do we want an OLPC-4 branch for dbus-glib to handle this? I think we can wai

Re: [Telepathy] ANNOUNCE: telepathy-gabble 0.7.17

2008-12-15 Thread Morgan Collett
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 10:45, Peter Robinson wrote: >>> The "I accidentally an entire call *and* MUC" release. >>> >>> Tarball: >>> http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/releases/telepathy-gabble/telepathy-gabble-0.7.17.tar.gz >>> Signature: >>> http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/releases/telepathy-gabb

Re: [Telepathy] ANNOUNCE: telepathy-gabble 0.7.17

2008-12-15 Thread Peter Robinson
>> The "I accidentally an entire call *and* MUC" release. >> >> Tarball: >> http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/releases/telepathy-gabble/telepathy-gabble-0.7.17.tar.gz >> Signature: >> http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/releases/telepathy-gabble/telepathy-gabble-0.7.17.tar.gz.asc >> Git repository: >>

Re: [Telepathy] ANNOUNCE: telepathy-gabble 0.7.17

2008-12-15 Thread Morgan Collett
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 20:33, Robert McQueen wrote: > The "I accidentally an entire call *and* MUC" release. > > Tarball: > http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/releases/telepathy-gabble/telepathy-gabble-0.7.17.tar.gz > Signature: > http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/releases/telepathy-gabble/telepathy