Re: Woodhouse on flash storage

2009-10-06 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Mitch Bradley w...@laptop.org wrote: time, I expect the situation to get better and better as the firmware that gets it right supplants the earlier tries. It's reassuring to hear that at least someone with your understanding of HW (and the industry around it)

Re: OLPC XO 1.5 overheating problems

2009-10-06 Thread Tiago Marques
Hi John, On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 6:45 AM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: On Oct 3, 2009, at 12:16 PM, Tiago Marques wrote: On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Ed McNierney e...@laptop.org wrote: Tiago - Well, everyone gets to contribute something to thermal problems :-) Actually, the

Re: Woodhouse on flash storage

2009-10-06 Thread Tiago Marques
Trying to find datasheets of the flash chips to know what their erase block size and page size(and number of erase cycles) has been a nightmare for me, the manufacturer just doesn't care if your partitioning choice ends up sending the SSD/SD/MMC sooner than the warranty expires. Have you had the

Re: [Server-devel] what is xs-callhome?

2009-10-06 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: I just noticed for the first time this xs-callhome thing. What's the intended purpose of it? It is an attempt at setting up a reverse SSH tunnel via an upstream trusted host, for XSs that are deep behind NAT layers. Feel free

Re: Woodhouse on flash storage

2009-10-06 Thread Mitch Bradley
Martin Langhoff wrote: On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Mitch Bradley w...@laptop.org wrote: time, I expect the situation to get better and better as the firmware that gets it right supplants the earlier tries. It's reassuring to hear that at least someone with your understanding

Re: Woodhouse on flash storage

2009-10-06 Thread Mitch Bradley
Tiago Marques wrote: Trying to find datasheets of the flash chips to know what their erase block size and page size(and number of erase cycles) has been a nightmare for me, the manufacturer just doesn't care if your partitioning choice ends up sending the SSD/SD/MMC sooner than the warranty

Re: Woodhouse on flash storage

2009-10-06 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Mitch Bradley w...@laptop.org wrote: To solve a hard problem to the level where you can ship the result requires money Not particularly controversial with me at least. The community is made of many interests, and the commercial interests are a significant part.

Re: Woodhouse on flash storage

2009-10-06 Thread Mitch Bradley
Martin Langhoff wrote: On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Mitch Bradley w...@laptop.org wrote: To solve a hard problem to the level where you can ship the result requires money Not particularly controversial with me at least. The community is made of many interests, and the

Re: complex langs/scripts in abiword

2009-10-06 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 08:35, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: 2009/10/5 Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org: Hi, I've been working on various bugs related to Nepali/Sanskrit text in AbiWord which likely fall over to other languages too. There were several pretty big bugs before, and now it is

Re: Woodhouse on flash storage

2009-10-06 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Mitch Bradley w...@laptop.org wrote: The raw-access device will not be cheaper, because any possible (small) savings in silicon area will be overwhelmed by the lower-volume factor.  The managed-NAND  solution will lock in. Yes, that's what usually happens, and

Woodhouse on flash storage

2009-10-06 Thread Tiago Marques
-- Forwarded message -- From: Tiago Marques tiago...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 1:26 PM Subject: Re: Woodhouse on flash storage To: Mitch Bradley w...@laptop.org On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Mitch Bradley w...@laptop.org wrote: Tiago Marques wrote: Trying to find

Re: complex langs/scripts in abiword

2009-10-06 Thread Dov Grobgeld
I checked out Arabic rendering under Fedora 11, Abiword 2.6.8, and there seems to be some problems. I entered the non-sensical text MEEM-NOON-MEEM-NOON (by using gucharmap, since I don't know the arabic keyboard). I also chose the font DejaVu Serif Bold as in the PaleXO blog and the result was

Mouse wrap-around in X?

2009-10-06 Thread Emiliano Pastorino
Hi everyone! Does anybody know if there's any configuration in X or package which let you make the mouse pointer jump from one edge of the screen to the opposite one? This is a very useful feature for accessibility. Thanks! Emiliano ___ Devel mailing

Re: OLPC XO 1.5 overheating problems

2009-10-06 Thread John Watlington
On Oct 6, 2009, at 4:55 AM, Tiago Marques wrote: Hi John, On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 6:45 AM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: On Oct 3, 2009, at 12:16 PM, Tiago Marques wrote: On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Ed McNierney e...@laptop.org wrote: Tiago - Well, everyone gets to

NANDBlaster fails on one machine repeatedly...

2009-10-06 Thread Sameer Verma
I am using NANDBlaster to update all of our SFSU Lending Library XOs (a total of 12). All machines update via nb-secure to 8.2.1 except one XO, which repeatedly (five tries so far) fails to find the NANDBlaster info, cycles through all other options and says Boot failed. It does update via USB

using 802.11b APs

2009-10-06 Thread Sameer Verma
I have six Lucent/Agere Orinoco-based RG1000 access points (http://www.murgatroid.com/rg1000/rg1000.htm) that do bridging quite well. Any specific reason to *not* use 802.11b for the XS? Note that these also have 10BaseT ports. Will these be significant bottlenecks? cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer

Re: complex langs/scripts in abiword

2009-10-06 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/10/6 Dov Grobgeld dov.grobg...@gmail.com: I checked out Arabic rendering under Fedora 11, Abiword 2.6.8, and there seems to be some problems. With 1 exception, all the fixes I referenced are not included in abiword 2.6.8 - they are newer. Daniel

Re: NANDBlaster fails on one machine repeatedly...

2009-10-06 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: I am using NANDBlaster to update all of our SFSU Lending Library XOs (a total of 12). All machines update via nb-secure to 8.2.1 except one XO, which repeatedly (five tries so far) fails to find the NANDBlaster info, cycles

Re: [Server-devel] using 802.11b APs

2009-10-06 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 8:07 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: I have six Lucent/Agere Orinoco-based RG1000 access points (http://www.murgatroid.com/rg1000/rg1000.htm) that do bridging quite well. Any specific reason to *not* use 802.11b for the XS? Note that these also have 10BaseT

[Server-devel] what is xs-callhome?

2009-10-06 Thread Daniel Drake
I just noticed for the first time this xs-callhome thing. What's the intended purpose of it? It seems quite broken at the moment. It is launched by cron every few hours, but looks for configuration in the wrong place (/etc/sysconfig/callhome instead of /etc/sysconfig/callhome/callhome.conf). Can