os19 filelist checksum fails

2011-05-22 Thread Yioryos Asprobounitis
Tried a `yum provides */application' on os19/XO-1.5 and I gothttp://xs-dev.laptop.org/%7Edsd/repos/f14-xo1.5/repodata/filelists.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum I was wondering if this might be related to the fact that I run an os18-os19 (olpc-)updated system or is

Re: Raspberry Pi $25 computer

2011-05-22 Thread Peter Robinson
It wouldn't be hard to Port as there's nothing of Sugar to port. Sugar already runs on ARM platforms without issues getting Fedora running on it shouldn't be too hard. The lack of RAM would likely be a problem, but there are other issues. You need to add a microsd, USB hub and other bits that it

Re: Raspberry Pi $25 computer

2011-05-22 Thread Jerry
It's not a full computer w/o display/ touchscreen So the pricepoint is a little misleading. But at those prices why aren't they giving you a batch and hoping someone hacks on the MicroSD, adding expansion RAM + SSD and fit it in a tablet type case. Add some batches available to developers and

Re: Raspberry Pi $25 computer

2011-05-22 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Jerry danceswithc...@gmail.com wrote: It's not a full computer w/o display/ touchscreen So the pricepoint is a little misleading. But at those prices why aren't they giving you a batch and hoping someone hacks on the MicroSD, adding expansion RAM + SSD and

Re: Raspberry Pi $25 computer

2011-05-22 Thread DancesWithCars
Or Bluetooth it out to something that has those, like for a GoPro or Contour helmet cam... AdaFruit.com videos had an SD Camera card to take photos of soldering projects, and some other interesting Pick and Place automation stuff... Interesting. Sorry to interject... (little to no sleep) On

Re: [IAEP] Turtles All The Way Down

2011-05-22 Thread mokurai
On Sun, May 22, 2011 11:09 am, Hilaire Fernandes wrote: Le 21/05/2011 03:17, moku...@earthtreasury.org a écrit : Seymour Papert also proposed creating an environment in which learning math would be as easy as learning ordinary language. Smalltalk has a number of kinds of number and shape

Re: [IAEP] Turtles All The Way Down

2011-05-22 Thread Jecel Assumpcao Jr.
C. Scott Ananian wrote on Sat, 21 May 2011 19:22:01 -0400 I'm familiar with the processors designed for specific high-level languages. There was another generation of them built for Java (microblaze, picoblaze, etc) and some of those are even still commercially significant (they run Java

Re: [IAEP] Turtles All The Way Out

2011-05-22 Thread mokurai
On Fri, May 20, 2011 3:11 pm, Walter Bender wrote: On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 2:28 PM, John Gilmore g...@toad.com wrote: Recently, I finished my dissertation on mobile development directly from mobile devices. Something like this might've been very useful, although I did target experienced

Re: [IAEP] Turtles All The Way Down

2011-05-22 Thread mokurai
On Fri, May 20, 2011 2:28 pm, C. Scott Ananian wrote: On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com wrote: This is nice! Smalltalk actually got started by thinking about a way to make a child's Logo-like language with objects and pattern matching that could express its own

new OLPC slackware 13.37 released (fwd)

2011-05-22 Thread supat
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 21 May 2011 20:47:55 +0700 (ICT) From: su...@supat.eu.org To: johnny nunez esmiwu...@gmail.com Subject: new OLPC slackware 13.37 released Features: 1. on USB with full slackware 13.37 will boot on OLPC 2. support all SW in slackware 13.3 plus

Re: PY-Re: keyjector URGENT

2011-05-22 Thread Carlos Daniel Garay Ayala
Reuben, How are you, we need the keyjector. 353 XO 1.5 Hs cannot be delivered to their owners until we put our custom build in it. Can you help or point to whom should I write to? Regards, Carlos Daniel Garay Departamento de Tecnología, Paraguay Educa. 2011/5/12 Carlos Daniel Garay Ayala

Raspberry Pi (was Fwd: [Sur] linux system por $25)

2011-05-22 Thread Edward Cherlin
FYI. Anybody who would like to port Sugar to a $25 computer (requiring only monitor, mouse, and keyboard) should contact Eben, and let us know too. -- Forwarded message -- From: Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com Date: Sat, May 21, 2011 at 22:10 Subject: Re: [Sur] linux system por

Re: [Localization] Fwd: Updated 11.2.0 schedule

2011-05-22 Thread Edward Cherlin
At the end of your e-mail, you wrote Testing is much appreciated. It sounds as if there is no formal testing process for Sugar on XOs. I know that this is the case for packaging for various distributions. I recently found out through my own testing of the release that Turtle Blocks for Ubuntu

Re: Raspberry Pi $25 computer

2011-05-22 Thread C. Scott Ananian
To sweeten the pot, I'm offering a delicious stone soup for anyone who those who pitch in on the port. You need only supply a few extra ingredients. --scott On May 21, 2011 10:35 PM, moku...@earthtreasury.org wrote: FYI. Anybody who would like to port Sugar to a $25 computer (requiring only

re: kids + heirarchical directories

2011-05-22 Thread Carlos Nazareno
Preschoolers, I said. Where would you have preliterate preschoolers start? Sorry, didn't catch that part :) Preschoolers are a bit more difficult to teach with this manner :) Sorry, I might be talking about something else, just mostly the concept of [heirarchical files, directories and links],

Re: 11.2.0 development build 19 released

2011-05-22 Thread James Cameron
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 12:06:58PM +0200, Simon Schampijer wrote: On 05/20/2011 10:15 AM, James Cameron wrote: On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 09:38:12AM +0200, Simon Schampijer wrote: On 05/20/2011 12:29 AM, James Cameron wrote: On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 06:54:54PM +0200, Simon Schampijer wrote: Hmm,

Re: [Localization] Fwd: Updated 11.2.0 schedule

2011-05-22 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 1:26 AM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote: At the end of your e-mail, you wrote Testing is much appreciated. It sounds as if there is no formal testing process for Sugar on XOs. Hi Ed - For Sugar on XO, we definitely have Sam Greenfeld (QA) and Gonzalo Odiard

Re: [Localization] Fwd: Updated 11.2.0 schedule

2011-05-22 Thread Samuel Greenfeld
I was writing a detailed reply, but Martin beat me to the Send button. Just to clarify a few points (which I think you may have been asking): - The two main organizations within OLPC each have a test/QA engineer helping them. James Cameron tends to focus more on the low-level hardware;

Re: [Localization] Fwd: Updated 11.2.0 schedule

2011-05-22 Thread James Cameron
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 01:26:36AM -0400, Edward Cherlin wrote: At the end of your e-mail, you [Daniel] wrote Testing is much appreciated. It sounds as if there is no formal testing process for Sugar on XOs. Not quite sure what you mean by formal. Some of the planned and funded testing

TurtleArt problems in Ubuntu

2011-05-22 Thread Edward Cherlin
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/turtleart/+bug/731133 TurtleArt 98.1, as packaged for Ubuntu, is missing essential files and cannot start. Who is responsible for this package? -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my

Re: TurtleArt package problem

2011-05-22 Thread forster
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/turtleart/+bug/731133 TurtleArt 98.1, as packaged for Ubuntu, is missing essential files and cannot start. Who is responsible for this package? hover text says: by Luke Faraone (lfaraone), maintained by Matthew Gallagher (mattva01) Tony

Re: [Sugar-devel] TurtleArt problems in Ubuntu

2011-05-22 Thread James Cameron
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 09:27:12PM -0400, Edward Cherlin wrote: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/turtleart/+bug/731133 TurtleArt 98.1, as packaged for Ubuntu, is missing essential files and cannot start. Who is responsible for this package? http://packages.ubuntu.com/turtleart ...

Re: Disabling prelink in software builds

2011-05-22 Thread James Cameron
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 10:37:48AM +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: I've spent some time looking at this. I've sent a patch to prelink upstream allowing us to install a fixed timestamp, but I'm still waiting to see what they say. I like it. Can either of you help, especially with the

Re: new OLPC slackware 13.37 released (fwd)

2011-05-22 Thread supat
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 09:57:25 +0700 (ICT) From: su...@supat.eu.org To: johnny nunez esmiwu...@gmail.com Subject: Re: new OLPC slackware 13.37 released OLPC_Slackware13.37.howto: 1. download OLPC_Slackware13.37 at

Re: [Server-devel] [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] copy files to/from server

2011-05-22 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 19 May 2011 04:15, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: For file management, I very strongly recommend using WebDAV. It is a bit less efficient than real network file system protocols, but the benefits are many:   - more flexibilty   - closer to you and me in the stack - you