Re: Extracting and analysing journal data

2009-08-31 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 21:59, David
Leemingda...@leeming-consulting.com wrote:
 Hello,



 In the Solomon Islands a formal evaluation is taking place this month of the
 3 trials http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Solomon_Islands



 The independent evaluator wants to extract and analyse journal data. The
 schools do not have servers yet so there is no data there, it needs to be
 done by pulling the data off a representative sample of XOs and then being
 able to analyse it with spreadsheet or database tools.



 Please can anyone advise if they know the best way to do this.

Hi,

what version of the software is in those laptops?

Thanks,

Tomeu



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Re: Candidate paper cut bugs for a new 8.2.x release?

2009-08-31 Thread Martin Langhoff
2009/8/30 NoiseEHC noise...@freemail.hu:
 I do not know what was the conclusion about this _completely hypothetical_
 case but does fixing the Geode VGA driver match the paper cut criteria?

Rough criteria:

 - Does it affect our primary users? (kids in deployment schools)
 - Do we have a field-tested patch?
 - Is it low risk?

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Re: SarynPaint: a Java program packaged for the OLPC

2009-08-31 Thread Ben Wiley Sittler
I think maintaining two parallel versions of the code in two languages
would be a huge waste of effort for me, but if someone else wants to
they are of course welcome to.

I have neither time nor inclination to port it merely to work around
the historical accident of Java not having been Open Source at the
time Sugar was initially developed. Also, I think the UI of this
program is actually more friendly to very young children by *not*
being more Sugarized — there's no confusing Frame when they
(inevitably) move the pointer to the edges of the screen, and since it
doesn't (yet) have save support or text input there's really no reason
for a toolbar or Journal integration. Mind you, minimal save/resume
support might be nice to have on all platforms someday.

On 2009-08-29, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote:
 Hi Ben,

 On 29 Aug 2009, at 18:24, Ben Wiley Sittler wrote:

 I think, then, that I would rather just ship it as an activity bundle
 for Sugar+Java or Sugar+OpenJDK, since the versioning issues (which
 OpenJDK version should I use, exactly?), licensing issues (GPLv2 
 GPLv2+classpath-exception for OpenJDK vs. GPLv3 for SarynPaint,)
 packaging unknowns (how does one run OpenJDK from a subdirectory,
 exactly?), and bloat make bundling a JRE inside the .xo ridiculously
 impractical. I'm halfway tempted to try to subset OpenJDK for this (to
 reduce bloat), but that seems like an even bigger nightmare.

 Sorry if this is a controversial comment, but would you considered
 porting the code to Python? It looks like a nice starter chunk of code
 for someone interested in Python and or Sugar Activities.

 Regards,
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Re: SarynPaint: a Java program packaged for the OLPC

2009-08-31 Thread Jeffrey Kesselman
Honestly,  I think the lack of Java on the XO has more with python
defensiveness then anything else.

I draw this conclusion partly from the fact that it has been pretty
crippling lack since initial inception of the XO, but one that there is
great resistance to fixing nonetheless.

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Ben Wiley Sittler bsitt...@gmail.comwrote:

 I think maintaining two parallel versions of the code in two languages
 would be a huge waste of effort for me, but if someone else wants to
 they are of course welcome to.

 I have neither time nor inclination to port it merely to work around
 the historical accident of Java not having been Open Source at the
 time Sugar was initially developed. Also, I think the UI of this
 program is actually more friendly to very young children by *not*
 being more Sugarized — there's no confusing Frame when they
 (inevitably) move the pointer to the edges of the screen, and since it
 doesn't (yet) have save support or text input there's really no reason
 for a toolbar or Journal integration. Mind you, minimal save/resume
 support might be nice to have on all platforms someday.

 On 2009-08-29, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote:
  Hi Ben,
 
  On 29 Aug 2009, at 18:24, Ben Wiley Sittler wrote:
 
  I think, then, that I would rather just ship it as an activity bundle
  for Sugar+Java or Sugar+OpenJDK, since the versioning issues (which
  OpenJDK version should I use, exactly?), licensing issues (GPLv2 
  GPLv2+classpath-exception for OpenJDK vs. GPLv3 for SarynPaint,)
  packaging unknowns (how does one run OpenJDK from a subdirectory,
  exactly?), and bloat make bundling a JRE inside the .xo ridiculously
  impractical. I'm halfway tempted to try to subset OpenJDK for this (to
  reduce bloat), but that seems like an even bigger nightmare.
 
  Sorry if this is a controversial comment, but would you considered
  porting the code to Python? It looks like a nice starter chunk of code
  for someone interested in Python and or Sugar Activities.
 
  Regards,
  --Gary
 
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Re: SarynPaint: a Java program packaged for the OLPC

2009-08-31 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 16:56, Jeffrey Kesselmanjef...@gmail.com wrote:
 Honestly,  I think the lack of Java on the XO has more with python
 defensiveness then anything else.

Honestly, I don't think so. Most or all of the Sugar developers had
zero python experience when joined the project. And we are way too
busy to care about language wars.

 I draw this conclusion partly from the fact that it has been pretty
 crippling lack since initial inception of the XO, but one that there is
 great resistance to fixing nonetheless.

The Sugar platform is composed by what deployers want to be there, not
by what each developer would like. If that was the case, we would have
to ship the runtimes for all available languages and the XO doesn't
have enough room for that, nm for the student's work...

If you really think that Java should be there, propose to deployers of
Sugar an activity that will bring value to their students and tell
them to talk to us.

Regards,

Tomeu

 On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Ben Wiley Sittler bsitt...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 I think maintaining two parallel versions of the code in two languages
 would be a huge waste of effort for me, but if someone else wants to
 they are of course welcome to.

 I have neither time nor inclination to port it merely to work around
 the historical accident of Java not having been Open Source at the
 time Sugar was initially developed. Also, I think the UI of this
 program is actually more friendly to very young children by *not*
 being more Sugarized — there's no confusing Frame when they
 (inevitably) move the pointer to the edges of the screen, and since it
 doesn't (yet) have save support or text input there's really no reason
 for a toolbar or Journal integration. Mind you, minimal save/resume
 support might be nice to have on all platforms someday.

 On 2009-08-29, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote:
  Hi Ben,
 
  On 29 Aug 2009, at 18:24, Ben Wiley Sittler wrote:
 
  I think, then, that I would rather just ship it as an activity bundle
  for Sugar+Java or Sugar+OpenJDK, since the versioning issues (which
  OpenJDK version should I use, exactly?), licensing issues (GPLv2 
  GPLv2+classpath-exception for OpenJDK vs. GPLv3 for SarynPaint,)
  packaging unknowns (how does one run OpenJDK from a subdirectory,
  exactly?), and bloat make bundling a JRE inside the .xo ridiculously
  impractical. I'm halfway tempted to try to subset OpenJDK for this (to
  reduce bloat), but that seems like an even bigger nightmare.
 
  Sorry if this is a controversial comment, but would you considered
  porting the code to Python? It looks like a nice starter chunk of code
  for someone interested in Python and or Sugar Activities.
 
  Regards,
  --Gary
 
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SHIRT SLOGAN VOTE! Class Acts Poster! OLPC/Sugar Community Book Sprint (Sept 6-11, Washington DC)

2009-08-31 Thread Holt
Please vote for the back of our T-Shirt -- Mike Lee's image will be on 
the front of the shirt: 
http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/3865753915/in/photostream/

But we need your help for the back!!!

Proposal #1 (yes the constuctionist assessment parody's intentional!)

NO NINO LEFT BEHIND

Proposal #2 (from http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Five_principles )

CHILD OWNERSHIP
LOW AGES
SATURATION
CONNECTION
FREE AND OPEN SOURCE

Proposal #3

(Caryl Bigenho's attached PDF, or close simulacra you provide!)

Proposal #4, another fantastic oldtime OLPC joke (see 
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=4519 and RT4424, or better 
yet ask a Supportive friend ;)


MONGO HAPPY NOW

/Please vote BY midnight latest -- publicly or privately is fine -- FYI 
I am paying for these T shirts with my own money, will be asking for a 
very small payment (about $6 covering half the costs if you want a 
shirt) and more important plz thank ALL the silent volunteers silently 
working their butts off on DC logistics around Sept 6-11's 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/ClassActs :)/


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Re: SarynPaint: a Java program packaged for the OLPC

2009-08-31 Thread Ben Wiley Sittler
Hi, and thanks for trying it out!

On 2009-08-29, Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com wrote:
 I haven't been able to test that .xo link on an actual OLPC yet, so
 feel free to pass along bug reports, experiences, etc.

 These days I'm running F11-on-XO1 on my XO-1s -- SarynPaint launches
 and runs on both my smparrish build os6 and on my mtd build soasxo59.

Neat! I keep meaning to try that, and in fact this post just inspired
to me to buy a big SDHC card to dual-boot a regular Linux distro
from.

 It shows that just checked in minimal support for launching it from
 Sugar - when I call up Frame, and (while SarynPaint is in Move
 mode) navigate along the screen edges on which Frame shows its
 facilities, what continues to respond is SarynPaint itself.  For
 Sugar usability, an .xo ought to disregard user inputs directed to
 Sugar.  Also, the log created by SarynPaint would currently be
 unhelpful in case of trying to debug the Activity's own actions.

When I tried it on my daughter's XO the frame was not visible (at
least not by mousing to the screen border.) Is that what you see too?

Obviously the program was originally not written for Sugar, and
purposefully goes full-screen and hopes the window manager respects
that and does not interfere. Use the ESC key to exit. I realize that
this is not at all proper Sugar UI, and would be better described as
full-screen X11 app launched from Sugar. I think, though, that it
might be better for early hand-eye coordination to not have a
distracting Frame at all.

However, I can see the argument for consistency and if someone would
like to improve the Sugar integration I'm happy to take patches.

 Did not have my external speakers hooked up - the voices were kinda
 faint.  At the very beginning, the cursor had to be pre-positioned
 on the SarynPaint screen, in order to avoid the explanation text
 from vanishing before it could be read (in soasxo59 the explanation
 text vanished despite me trying to prevent that).

I noticed this bug (on other systems, too!) and plan to track it down
and fix it when I have a moment.

 On my systems, feedback to the user via voice is not always
 consistent.  Sometimes the control-press (e.g., enter) is not
 picked up [silence indicates I need to repeat the mode change].
 Other times the control-press does get picked up, but I hear no
 output [silence indicates I don't need to repeat the mode change].

Thanks! I also noticed this bug (on other systems, too!) and plan to
track it down and fix it when I have a moment; I'm not sure, though,
when I'll get to it. As usual, patches gladly accepted  :)

Thank you again for the bug reports and ideas, and thanks for trying it out!
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Re: [IAEP] SHIRT SLOGAN VOTE! Class Acts Poster! OLPC/Sugar Community Book Sprint (Sept 6-11, Washington DC)

2009-08-31 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Holth...@laptop.org wrote:
 Please vote for the back of our T-Shirt -- Mike Lee's image will be on the
 front of the shirt:
 http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/3865753915/in/photostream/
 But we need your help for the back!!!

 Proposal #1 (yes the constuctionist assessment parody's intentional!)

 NO NINO LEFT BEHIND

That's NIÑO. But no. It brings up too many bad memories for me.

 Proposal #2 (from http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Five_principles )

 CHILD OWNERSHIP
 LOW AGES
 SATURATION
 CONNECTION
 FREE AND OPEN SOURCE

Needs too much explanation.

 Proposal #3

 (Caryl Bigenho's attached PDF, or close simulacra you provide!)

Yes! XOs in two colors each, please. Or one giant two-color XØ over
the entire text.

 Proposal #4, another fantastic oldtime OLPC joke (see
 http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=4519 and RT4424, or better yet
 ask a Supportive friend ;)

 MONGO HAPPY NOW

Please leave inside jokes inside. Mongo confused now.

 Please vote BY midnight latest -- publicly or privately is fine -- FYI I am
 paying for these T shirts with my own money, will be asking for a very small
 payment (about $6 covering half the costs if you want a shirt) and more
 important plz thank ALL the silent volunteers silently working their butts
 off on DC logistics around Sept 6-11's http://wiki.laptop.org/go/ClassActs
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Re: SarynPaint: a Java program packaged for the OLPC

2009-08-31 Thread Jim Gettys
Early in OLPC, we seriously wanted to go with Java: but Sun's licensing 
was a serious issue we could not get around, despite a number of 
attempts by Walter to talk with Sun and see if it could get fixed.

Part of the issue caused by this licensing was the all or nothing part 
of it: as shipped, the tar-ball-from-hell footprint of Sun's distro: 
60MB was a lot too much, along with the memory consumption feared (but 
Python has proved to be similarly problematic).

And at the time, the non-Sun implementations weren't mature enough.

Both the licensing and implementations issues now seem pretty moot.

So again, part of why Java is not ubiquitous to this day has been its 
license history  Whether it, at this late date, can ever recover 
from the damage done by this history, is far from clear.
Sigh
 - Jim


Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
 On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 16:56, Jeffrey Kesselmanjef...@gmail.com wrote:
 Honestly,  I think the lack of Java on the XO has more with python
 defensiveness then anything else.
 
 Honestly, I don't think so. Most or all of the Sugar developers had
 zero python experience when joined the project. And we are way too
 busy to care about language wars.
 
 I draw this conclusion partly from the fact that it has been pretty
 crippling lack since initial inception of the XO, but one that there is
 great resistance to fixing nonetheless.
 
 The Sugar platform is composed by what deployers want to be there, not
 by what each developer would like. If that was the case, we would have
 to ship the runtimes for all available languages and the XO doesn't
 have enough room for that, nm for the student's work...
 
 If you really think that Java should be there, propose to deployers of
 Sugar an activity that will bring value to their students and tell
 them to talk to us.
 
 Regards,
 
 Tomeu
 
 On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Ben Wiley Sittler bsitt...@gmail.com
 wrote:
 I think maintaining two parallel versions of the code in two languages
 would be a huge waste of effort for me, but if someone else wants to
 they are of course welcome to.

 I have neither time nor inclination to port it merely to work around
 the historical accident of Java not having been Open Source at the
 time Sugar was initially developed. Also, I think the UI of this
 program is actually more friendly to very young children by *not*
 being more Sugarized — there's no confusing Frame when they
 (inevitably) move the pointer to the edges of the screen, and since it
 doesn't (yet) have save support or text input there's really no reason
 for a toolbar or Journal integration. Mind you, minimal save/resume
 support might be nice to have on all platforms someday.

 On 2009-08-29, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote:
 Hi Ben,

 On 29 Aug 2009, at 18:24, Ben Wiley Sittler wrote:

 I think, then, that I would rather just ship it as an activity bundle
 for Sugar+Java or Sugar+OpenJDK, since the versioning issues (which
 OpenJDK version should I use, exactly?), licensing issues (GPLv2 
 GPLv2+classpath-exception for OpenJDK vs. GPLv3 for SarynPaint,)
 packaging unknowns (how does one run OpenJDK from a subdirectory,
 exactly?), and bloat make bundling a JRE inside the .xo ridiculously
 impractical. I'm halfway tempted to try to subset OpenJDK for this (to
 reduce bloat), but that seems like an even bigger nightmare.
 Sorry if this is a controversial comment, but would you considered
 porting the code to Python? It looks like a nice starter chunk of code
 for someone interested in Python and or Sugar Activities.

 Regards,
 --Gary

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RE: [support-gang] SHIRT SLOGAN VOTE! Class Acts Poster! OLPC/Sugar Community Book Sprint (Sept 6-11, Washington DC)

2009-08-31 Thread Caryl Bigenho

Hi All,
I'm not a graphic artist so I just cobbled the pdf together on a ppt file and 
exported as pdf. My intent is to have the O at the end (in XO) have a happy 
face in it. The slashes across the Os above that need to be the same width as 
the lines in the letters.  Did the best I could without spending hours learning 
how to do it right!
Caryl

Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:12:02 -0400
From: h...@laptop.org
To: support-g...@laptop.org; grassro...@lists.laptop.org; 
i...@lists.sugarlabs.org; devel@lists.laptop.org
Subject: [support-gang] SHIRT SLOGAN VOTE! Class Acts Poster! OLPC/Sugar 
Community Book Sprint (Sept 6-11, Washington DC)






  


Please vote for the back of our T-Shirt -- Mike Lee's image will be on
the front of the shirt:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/3865753915/in/photostream/

But we need your help for the back!!!



Proposal #1 (yes the constuctionist assessment parody's intentional!)



NO NINO LEFT BEHIND




Proposal #2 (from http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Five_principles )




CHILD OWNERSHIP

LOW AGES

SATURATION

CONNECTION

FREE AND OPEN SOURCE




Proposal #3



(Caryl Bigenho's attached PDF, or close simulacra
you provide!)



Proposal #4, another fantastic oldtime OLPC joke (see
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=4519 and RT4424, or better
yet ask a Supportive friend ;)



MONGO HAPPY NOW




Please vote BY midnight latest -- publicly or privately is fine --
FYI I am paying for these T shirts with my own money, will be asking
for a very small payment (about $6 covering half the costs if you want
a shirt) and more important plz thank ALL the silent volunteers
silently working their butts off on DC logistics around Sept 6-11's
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/ClassActs :)


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Re: [Grassroots-l] SHIRT SLOGAN VOTE! Class Acts Poster! OLPC/Sugar Community Book Sprint (Sept 6-11, Washington DC)

2009-08-31 Thread Kevin Cole
How about something like Open  or Open Me with something suggesting
either opening something that looks ambiguously like a book or a laptop (or
perhaps an activity)?   The double-play on open would resonate with some,
while leaving another meaning for the uninitiated.  Open Me. Look inside,
for something a bit longer.
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Re: [Grassroots-l] SHIRT SLOGAN VOTE! Class Acts Poster! OLPC/Sugar Community Book Sprint (Sept 6-11, Washington DC)

2009-08-31 Thread Kevin Cole
Not to cloud the issue too much at the last minute, but ideas keep popping
into my head. This next one would only play in English, and where one is not
too sensitive to typos... ;-)

*   O*pen
Boo*X*

Or, come up with your own pair of words that have O and X...  Perhaps
something with the O and X more central to the word.

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Re: [Grassroots-l] SHIRT SLOGAN VOTE! Class Acts Poster! OLPC/Sugar Community Book Sprint (Sept 6-11, Washington DC)

2009-08-31 Thread DancesWithCars
me churning too, so

option 5:
Terminal screen Hello Children screen text
in all languages

option 6:
magic markers for kids (and overgrown ones)
to make their own T Shirt / book graphic
winner gets on the front/back/ flap page
of the production version

option 7:
constructionist with St. Nick/ Walter/ Mary Lou
and other key players (an old original OLPC group photo?)
maybe favorite logo/ product per person over their heads/
in their hands...

...

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Kevin Coledc.l...@gmail.com wrote:
 Not to cloud the issue too much at the last minute, but ideas keep popping
 into my head. This next one would only play in English, and where one is not
 too sensitive to typos... ;-)

    Open
 BooX
 Or, come up with your own pair of words that have O and X...  Perhaps
 something with the O and X more central to the word.

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Re: [Server-devel] [Sugar-devel] Jabber Testing Monday Aug 24

2009-08-31 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi Caroline,

sorry about the delay -- catching up on XS things now -- enormous
thanks for the report.

So controlling for Gadget and reg'd numbers, it seems that the
ejabberd version (or perhaps other XS compoment) version makes a
difference.

The ejabberd upgrade was very significant, and the rework of the
'online' patch was also fairly important (I assume you are using the
'online' SRG as it's the 'default' config).

In terms of Sugar preferring salut, and having to restart...

 - Maybe there are connectivity issues (high latency?) to the XS?

 - If connectivity to the XS is good, it should be enough to wait, as
I've seen Sugar (0.82 at least) try Gabble every once in a while...

 - If waiting is not enough, it should be enough to reconnect to the
AP. That definitely triggers a Gabble connection attempt

IOWs if you do have to restart, there maybe a regression there...

Overall, I find the relatively fast Telepathy switching a bit
frustrating as a programmer, but I've seen how it's useful in real
world usage.

All I would ask for -- should a genius-in-a-lamp ask for my wishes --
would be some subtle UI hint. Maybe a variation on the quater-arcs
that mark the connected AP or something like it...

cheers,



m

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 5:18 AM, Caroline
Meekscarol...@solutiongrove.com wrote:
 Again we are working with


 XS1 - responding to jabber.sugarlabs.org. Installed a few months ago and
 currently with 1000 registered users, it tends to have about 20 people on
 it these days.
 XS2 - Installed a few weeks ago, responding to
 schoolserver.xsdev.solutiongrove.com with about 100 registered users
 First i connected to XS1 and joined a Turtle Art instance.  CPU usage rose
 to 100%.  When we stopped sharing the TA it dropped back down.
 We then shared a chat and CPU again rose to 100%.
 Next we switched to testing on XS2.  Sharing Turtle Art and Chat did not
 spike the CPU.
 We felt there were 4 differences between XS1 and XS2

 The number of registered users
 XS 1 is an older version of the XS 0.5.2. XS2 is 0.6beta
 XS 2 has Gadget
 XS1 had about 20 users logged in XS2 had 4 or 5

 Next we turned off Gadget on XS2 and repeated our test. No CPU spike.  Thus
 we think #3 is unlikely to be the important difference.
 Next we deleted the registered users on XS1 and switched our testing back to
 XS1.  When we shared TA and chat there was still spikes up to 100% CPU.
  Thus we think #1 is unlikely to be the important difference.
 We will work on this again tomorrow so let us know your ideas
 A separate issue is that it hard to get the computers to connect up the the
 XS. They tended to stay on Salut, sometimes they would goto Jabber on
 resstart, other times not.  We could really use better control and the
 ability to force one or the other.
 Here is the log of our conversation.

 Josely is Caroline at the GPA School
 12:06  joasely-2260 the jabber server is back up to 100% CPU usage.
 12:06  joasely-2260 22 people are online. over 1000 are registered
 12:06  joasely-2260 one turtle Art is being shared.
 12:06  joasely-2260 the load did not seem to change when the GPA computers
 I am controlling stopped sharing turtle art
 12:07  joasely-2260 current hypothisis - its th 1000 registered users that
 is making the difference between decent performance and 100% CPU
 12:08  daveb jabber is back to 0%cpu
 12:09  joasely-2260 Interesting note. The Red Turtle Art activity seems to
 have been started by David who is not online anymore.
 12:09  joasely-2260 ah very very interesting.
 12:09  joasely-2260 let me join the turtle art again.
 12:09  daveb joasely-2260: ok
 12:09  daveb we have cpu logs every minute back until august 15
 2:09  joasely-2260 ok I have joined the Turtle Art

 12:10  joasely-2260 lets give it 5 minutes with just one person sharing
 it. then I'll add another peron

 12:10  daveb up to 100%
 12:10  joasely-2260 so note, we can scratch they hypothisis that its the
 1000+ registered users.
 12:10  daveb yes
 12:11  joasely-2260 ok very cool.

 12:11  joasely-2260 so sharing a turtle art activity causes 100% CPU

 12:11  joasely-2260 I'm gong to quit TA
 12:11  tomeu erikos: yes
 12:11  satellit_ daveb: that TA has been up for several days

 12:11  joasely-2260 let me know when its back down and I'll try a chat.
 12:12  joasely-2260 thanks satelit_

 12:12  satellit_ I think it is an orphan

 12:13  daveb satellit_: yes but when someone joins te cpu spikes
 12:13  daveb joasely-2260: should we quit that and try a different
 activity?
 12:13  daveb unfortunatly i tink debug is off on jabber

 12:13  daveb ok cpu back to 0%

 12:14  satellit_ daveb: is there a way to kill orphan shared items?
 12:14  daveb satellit_: i have no idea

 12:14  joasely-2260 started chat on one computer

 12:14  daveb cpu 100%

 12:15  joasely-2260 wow before I even joined it anywhere else
 12:15  daveb yes
 12:15  joasely-2260 still at 100%?
 12:15  daveb yes
 12:15  daveb now
 12:15  daveb did we ever get this on the 0.6 

Re: [Server-devel] stress testing schoolservers...

2009-08-31 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Sameer Vermasve...@sfsu.edu wrote:
 I have a student who has to work on a graduate project. He has a
 background in using Selenium at Youtube. I'm thinking of getting him

Interesting!

On the XS, we have various things that would be stress-testable.

 - On the web front, Moodle. If he wants to play w Selenium, I can get
him in touch with other ppl who have been working on some Selenium
testing of Moodle -- last I saw, there were a few ad hoc sets of
tests, but nothing formalised.

Note that Selenium is mainly for correctness rather than load testing.

 - Other fronts: ejabberd - search this list for Douglas' posts on the
topic for low-level testing, and search this same list for Caroline's
posts on high level testing...

In terms of what HW to test, XS-on-XO and a machine that roughly
matches the XO-1.5 specs would be what I'd recommend.

cheers,



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[Server-devel] serving an XS

2009-08-31 Thread Kevin Benavides
Hello as they are to all of the mailing list just wanted to know how can I
know whether the services are on the server are running normally, and in
that directory are saved back to the XO.

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[Server-devel] bios-crypto

2009-08-31 Thread Kevin Mauricio Benavides Castro
Hello as they are to all of the mailing list I need help downloading the
bios-crypto to an XS server which is not now that I can find directory to
edit information


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[Server-devel] configure a crypto bios xs

2009-08-31 Thread Kevin Mauricio Benavides Castro
Ok  martin una vez instalado el bios-crypto en un XS  y ya tengo el archivo
csv con los seriales y uuid de todas las maquinas  ¿en qué directorio lo
cargo? En el ejemplo que nos enviaste por el correo ya lo mire pero no
tiendo….

Que es lo que tengo que hacer a continuación tengo las llaves que le diste a
Raul que tiene las llaves privada de Nicaragua estas llaves son la que voy a
colocar en el XS o las que recolecte de las maquinas



O solo me voy al directorio
/usr/shared/doc/olpc-bios-crypto-0.1.19.gc1637a4/README en este directorio
lo tengo que editar


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[Server-devel] disable makewhatis

2009-08-31 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi,

By default, makewhatis runs every day on the XS. Seems like a waste of
resources. Could we turn it off by default? The setting is in
/etc/man.config

Daniel
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