Re: gitweb->cgit

On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, Chris Ball wrote: > Hi, > > http://dev.laptop.org/git/ now uses CGit instead of GitWeb. CGit is > faster, has fewer features (no detection of forked trees, for example) > but hopefully also has fewer horrific remote execution vulnerabilities: > > http://www.gentoo.org/securi

Re: Allowing an activity to be launched multiple times in parallel

On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, Gary C Martin wrote: I had the same mental hoop to jump through with my Moon activity, it's just a viewer of data, however after a version or so I soon has some useful state worth keeping (which viewing options a kid may have selected), and I do have more states to add in

Re: Allowing an activity to be launched multiple times in parallel

On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: > We have a ticket which proposes to switch to single instance by default, > while still allowing the user to choose to open a separate one if he > wants. Cool. As an activity developer, can/should I try to do something myself to handle this?

Allowing an activity to be launched multiple times in parallel

I have a general sugar UI question: My activity, "License", a simple comic book reader that has a license chooser aspect to it, can be launched multiple times if clicked multiple times from the activity launcher. To me, that seems silly. Is it normal for Sug

Re: Hi, big qüestion!!!

On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Marc Rodriguez Tristany wrote: > Hi to everybody, I've just been added to the developers list of OLPC, > cause Martin Lanhoff told me I had to do it, and I don't know too much > how it works... But anyway, I'm a guy from Spain (Barcelona) that I'm > doing the final thesis o

Re: ibus, a new input framework

On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Edward Cherlin wrote: > I'm on Debian Hardy. There's no such Debian release. I presume you mean Ubuntu Hardy. > I compiled and installed Ibus, ibus-pinyin and > Ibus-tables (apparently) but I'm having trouble with the others. I > can't make the ibus-Hangul engine, and I ca

Re: Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708)

On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Ton van Overbeek wrote: > Noticed the following: > After booting with all the joyride activities installed and then running top > on vt2 (no activities running, only journal) joyride-2302 shows 44268k free. > Booting into 708 with the same set of activities shows 82828k free.

Re: (another) WebKit port of Browse

I've snipped away the parts I have no comment on, but: On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, Martin Langhoff wrote: > Well, there is quite a bit of thinking that needs to happen here, and I > am working on something else at the moment. So, these are quick notes And me, too - just quick notes: > - XS installs/de

Re: Video from last week's country meetings.

On Thu, 29 May 2008, Edward Cherlin wrote: > Although I haven't run into any missing graphics yet, the text layout in > the PPTs are equally broken, but in OpenOffice Impress, I can read the > text that runs off the page when I select the slide. It would be much > easier to fix these files, but

Re: [sugar] Microsoft

On Thu, 15 May 2008, Nicholas Negroponte wrote: > One Laptop per Child is announcing an agreement with Microsoft > to make a dual boot, Linux/Windows, version of the XO laptop. In > addition, our intention is to engage one or more third parties to port Sugar > to > run on Windows in order to reac

Re: ssh key update IMPORTANT security advisory please read

On Thu, 15 May 2008, Joshua Minor wrote: > Can you clarify whether keys generated on an XO need to be regenerated > or not. The XO, being a Fedora-based system, is not vulnerable to this problem. -- Asheesh. -- Formatted to fit your screen. ___ Deve

Re: compiled kernel

On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, wahida mansouri wrote: > Hello ; > I want to know how can I copy a compiled kernel > to an other pc and where can I find all necessary files and repositoy. Given the level of the technical questions you're asking, you should probably ask on the community-support list. -- As

Re: space on device

On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, wahida mansouri wrote: > Hi ; > I want to know how can I resolve the problem of lack space on device > because when compiling the kernel of my XO. I get this error: > vmlinux error: no space on device. Are you compiling that kernel on an XO? Try doing the compile in an emul

Re: boot problem

On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Daly Ikbel wrote: > I try to copy a repositery of 258Mb. How did you try to copy it? Can you explain the exact steps you took? What do you mena repositery? (But see below - answer this on the community-support email list.) > I get an error of lack of space. > while reboo

Re: More Planning Thoughts

On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Michael Stone wrote: > Dear devel@, > > While I'm still rather far away from "done", I may have imposed enough > structure on my present fragmented reflections on our goals to be worth > your review [1]. > > [1]: http://teach.laptop.org/~mstone/planning/r1 Having just read

Re: Need Help

On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Michael Stone wrote: > As Tomeu said, Rainbow has detected that your activity's directory, > /home/olpc/activities/Qirat.activity, is writable by the activity. > Activities are not permitted to modify their own bundles. Consequently, > Rainbow scuttled the launch. That's go

Creative Commons branch of Sugar + Journal

I've been working behind the scenes on some changes to Sugar and the Journal that allow storing and modifying Creative Commons license metadata. It's pretty rudimentary, and it's more of a demo than code that should be merged the way it is, but I'd love to have some feedback on it. http://wiki

Re: The XO and email

On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Shikhar wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to get the general feeling about the XO and email. There is > a Gmail activity but no possibility of composing and viewing emails > offline, which I think is important. I think that might be nice also! > - With Python, an email activity

Re: [OLPC library] Overweight Wiki Page

On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, drew einhorn wrote: I have nothing to add to the meat of this topic, but I can at least answer this: > mediawiki bot? Could you point me to the skeleton? http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pywikipediabot has the skinny on it. -- Asheesh. -- Two is not equal to three, even f

Shell account

I would like to have a shell account (with the same SSH key as controls my git repository) so I can put the Licensing activity into a public_rpms directory. I don't know if blasting this to the whole devel list is the way to go, but http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Project_hosting doesn't suggest a s

Re: Licensing for One Laptop Per Child

On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, ffm wrote: > On Feb 5, 2008 7:10 PM, Asheesh Laroia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, ffm wrote: >> >>> On Feb 5, 2008 6:37 PM, Samuel Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>>>> I can try to

Re: Licensing for One Laptop Per Child

On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, ffm wrote: > On Feb 5, 2008 6:37 PM, Samuel Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can try to have Ubisoft donate versions of Chessmaster so the children can play chess as well. >>> >>> Outstanding. >> >> Unless there's a Linux port I don't know about, this might be har

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Beta release of Creative Commons licensing activity

On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Edward Cherlin wrote: > On Jan 14, 2008 4:10 PM, Asheesh Laroia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> I'm happy to announce a beta release of the Creative Commons licensing >> activity for the XO. >> >> This activity is a comic

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Beta release of Creative Commons licensing activity

On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > On Jan 14, 2008 7:10 PM, Asheesh Laroia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm happy to announce a beta release of the Creative Commons licensing >> activity for the XO. > > Do you have suggestions on integrating this wi

[ANNOUNCE] Beta release of Creative Commons licensing activity

I'm happy to announce a beta release of the Creative Commons licensing activity for the XO. This activity is a comic reader that includes simple English text to explain the images. This is based on a comic we published a few weeks back that was written with the XO audience in mind: http://wik

Re: Free OLPC for someone who needs it

On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Jesse Molina wrote: > I'm going through the replies that I received and I'm going to figure > out who's getting the laptop here in a few minutes, or at least the > final candidates. > > Wow, I feel like a big jerk now. I've got replies from all these great > people, doing grea

Re: Copy-on-write for develop

On Sat, 5 Jan 2008, Jameson \"Chema\" Quinn wrote: >> Jameson "Chema" Quinn wrote: >>> Does anyone know if it is possible for Sugar to support something like >>> this? That is, if it there's any way - either file-system-native or >>> through some strap-on - to safely hand a link to a process so th

Re: Circumventing kernel signing

On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, John Richard Moser wrote: > I did not address the mass of other crap you could do to the system with > root. I was only addressing evading the OFW security implementation for > only booting signed OSes. Here's another vector: 1. On a laptop that comes from the factory with t

Re: root password

On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: > I think we should re-enable the empty root password for > Update.1. > > The reason why is that we have plenty of documentation in > the wiki and elsewhere suggesting people to login as root or > to su as root. There should be at least a transition p

Re: Tricks to getting Java Frames working on the OLPC

On Mon, 31 Dec 2007, Steve Lewis wrote: > The following code allows Java JFrames to work properly on the OLPC - > it assumes - only one active frame and that the frame is full screen. > You can add it to common applications = the active sections work only on > the OLPC > The trick is to use showFr

Re: licensing: GPLv2, v3, and Apache

On Fri, 28 Dec 2007, ffm wrote: > Apache or GPLv2 is fine. Anything that is GPL-compatable will be acceptable. Just to be clear, the Apache License v2 is only compatible with GPLv3: Apache License, Version 2.0 This is a free software license, compatible with version 3 of the GPL. P

Re: Toolbar in OLPCGames

On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, Ross Andrews wrote: > I have been banging my head against this for a while, and I am lost. > > I've got a program made using OLPCGames. I am trying to add a toolbar > to it with some custom buttons, and I can't find any example code on > the wiki that works. I've looked at Imp

Re: suspend/resume support?

On Wed, 26 Dec 2007, Jake B wrote: > * I think behavior has been added to mess with the backlight. For > example, after about 30 seconds of minimal activity, the screen dims. > Soon after, the laptop suspends. This would be fine, but > unfortunately, it fails to take into account the screens curre

Re: Fooling with Java

On Sat, 22 Dec 2007, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > On Dec 22, 2007, at 2:04 , Jeffrey Kesselman wrote: > >> Okay, >> >> I have a JDK installed and it seems to work. For grins i put netbeans >> on my USB stick and fired it up. >> >> It seems to be working however I get no main display. I do get pop u

Re: Mounting a USB drive (windows format)

On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, Jeffrey Kesselman wrote: > Hmm. > > It is a FAT file system. > > But it isn't automounting :( And I can't figure out what it "name" would > be to manually mount it... > > Maybe its the weird U3 Cruiser software. I'll get a second drive, > they're cheap now, and reformat it

Re: New joyride build 1452

On Wed, 19 Dec 2007, Build Announcer Script wrote: > http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1452/ > > -Chat-31.xo > +Chat-32.xo > +libpcap.i386 14:0.9.7-1.fc7 > -olpc-utils.i386 0:0.53-1.olpc2 > +olpc-utils.i386 0:0.59-1.olpc2 > +sudo.i386 0:1.6.8p12-14.fc7 > +tcpdump.i386 14:3

Re: My git repository is stuck with a lock problem

On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Ivan Krstić wrote: On Dec 14, 2007, at 4:57 PM, Asheesh Laroia wrote: Who could fix this, and/or is there a way for fix it myself? (And is this the right place to ask?) Please try now. Cheers, Sweet, thanks! All's well now. -- Asheesh. -- Hackers of the

My git repository is stuck with a lock problem

My git repository hosted on laptop.org seems to be "stuck" for the past three or four hours. Here are the messages I when I try to git push: [EMAIL PROTECTED] License.activity]$ git push updating 'refs/heads/master' from bb231162b87e27a389754b67bfafd8cdeafe03d0 to c3e252284fb8df59dc959ff

First pre-release sample thing of Creative Commons' Licensing activity

I'm deeply fearful^W^Wproud to announce the first version of the CC licensing activity. Let me give you all some background, and then scar you all with a link. One of the core activities of the Creative Commons organization is getting software (apps and platforms) to support metadata showing a

Re: Activity depends on Fedora-packaged binary code

On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: > Asheesh Laroia wrote: > >> I suppose I'll have to include a libraptor.so.1 in my own .xo's lib/ >> directory. Is the normal(ish) way to do this by just unpacking the RPM >> and yoinking the Fedora-compiled .so

Activity depends on Fedora-packaged binary code

My activity reads RDF files and uses libraptor.so.1 to do that. Fedora does package this in the raptor.i386 RPM. This package is not installed on the Build 650 I'm using. I also see no way to specify RPM dependencies in a .xo nor a way that deployed XOs could be guaranteed to be able to get d

Restarting a half-started activity

As I debug how to start my activity with an LD_LIBRARY_PATH (or for other reasons), sometimes it fails to start correctly at all. In those cases, my activity's icon just sits in the ring that shows running activities. When I move the mouse over it, Sugar tells me it is "Starting...", but when

Re: GCompris activities for joyride

On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Asheesh Laroia wrote: > Where in the docs does it say how to make a "sugar compliant icon"? I > noticed that my icons don't do the cool color-changing thing that other > Sugar apps' do. > > Searching the wiki for icon doesn't seem

Re: GCompris activities for joyride

On Sat, 8 Dec 2007, Bruno Coudoin wrote: > - New sugar compliant icon (but not very cute) Where in the docs does it say how to make a "sugar compliant icon"? I noticed that my icons don't do the cool color-changing thing that other Sugar apps' do. Searching the wiki for icon doesn't seem to b

Bundling Python extensions that depend on C libraries

I'd like to bundle a Python C extension and use it from my activity. This requires Python to dlopen() a shared library whose path can change depending on where the activity is installed, but also whose path is different than on my desktop where I built the .xo. Initially I tried to set os['LD_

Re: joyride, ship.1 etc.

On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero wrote: > Hi all > > i've put some notes in here.. > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Stable_Upgrade Thanks for writing it up! I just tried it with a "USB memory key" (an SD card in a multi-card reader), and my XO said this: Trying disk:\fs.z

Displaying formatted text (HTML)

Part of the Creative Commons licensing activity I'm working on is a cartoon that explains CC licensing. The display of it has two parts: a picture, and some formatted text. Right now, we have the formatted text in HTML format. I don't really want to embed Mozilla, but is there a lightweight G

Re: clocks, watches, stopwatches, chronometers

On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Ed Montgomery wrote: > (Or is it possible to get started on that using the liveCD?) Since I'm > in Japan at the moment, my XO is being shipped to my home address in > Canada, so it may be some time before I can tackle this. FWIW I'm on vacation in Tokyo until Monday evenin

Hosting application for Creative Commons licensing information activity

project's code repository, or push their own. There is no need to list non-committer developers. UsernameFull name SSH2 key URL E-mail - -- #1 paulproteus Asheesh L