Re: [Sugar-devel] Flash activities?

2010-05-02 Thread Bryan Berry
ael/CuerpoHumano-1.xo > > Some more info: > > > http://blog.tomeuvizoso.net/2009/04/embed-flash-movies-with-gnash-in-your.html > > Would be good if you could get in contact with the OLE Nepal team > about this, they tried to use Flash as a platform for activity > deve

Re: New Synthetic Phonics Literacy Activity

2009-11-17 Thread Bryan Berry
On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 00:33 +0430, Mike Dawson wrote: > Hi All, > > As many of the target areas for the XOs suffer from massive illiteracy > problems, and some live away from where schools will be built during > the time that they grow up and could benefit from a literacy learning > activity using

Re: Create and sign Country specific XO image

2009-06-25 Thread Bryan Berry
Philip, talk to reuben caron about getting the image signed. Personally, i think you are better off unlocking your XO's and using and unsigned image. If you want to create a custom image, my best recommendation is that you contract Ties Stuij or someone at OLPC to do it for you. Reuben may or

hack/fix for (Re: XO frequently hangs on shutdown w/ 0.82)

2009-06-09 Thread Bryan Berry
On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 18:58 +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: > 2009/6/3 Bobby Powers : > > hey Dan, > > > > I tried to summarize the issues here: > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Bootanim > > > > is there more I should address? how would you avoid using > > VT_WAITACTIVE? I have some free time, so I can t

Re: XO frequently hangs on shutdown w/ 0.82

2009-06-04 Thread Bryan Berry
On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 14:28 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 14:21, Bryan Berry wrote: > > I am curious if a number of other deployments have encountered this > > problem or just us. > > > > We find that the XO occasionally hangs on shutdown. We ar

XO frequently hangs on shutdown w/ 0.82

2009-06-03 Thread Bryan Berry
I am curious if a number of other deployments have encountered this problem or just us. We find that the XO occasionally hangs on shutdown. We are using 0.82 I have created a ticket for this http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9319 I realize that OLPC has roughly zero resources to fix problems like th

Re: Occasional stuck keys on devanagari keyboard

2009-04-13 Thread Bryan Berry
ext couple weeks but if the problem doesn't occur again then it seems like a moot point. On Mon, 2009-04-13 at 14:59 -0400, Richard A. Smith wrote: > Bryan Berry wrote: > > consistently. For instance, w/ 5 XO's yesterday the keys were stuck on > > the first boot. On the

Occasional stuck keys on devanagari keyboard

2009-04-07 Thread Bryan Berry
I have about 40 XO's out of 2000 so far that occasionally show "stuck keys" in the corners of the keyboard, particularly the frame, fn, and right arrow key. The keys seem to stick occasionally but not consistently. For instance, w/ 5 XO's yesterday the keys were stuck on the first boot. On the seco

phantom stuck keys in XO shipment

2009-04-06 Thread Bryan Berry
We received 2525 XO's a week ago and have been imaging and repacking them. We have received XO 1.5's w/ Nepali keyboards. We have processed 1600 XO's so far and only found about 6 XO's DOA. I have encountered a very strange problem however. On about 50 XO's so far, the function, right arrow key,

Re: problems w/ new Nepali keyboard

2009-03-30 Thread Bryan Berry
but on second boot, the keyboard switching seems to work. verrry strange On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 09:51 +0545, Bryan Berry wrote: > We just got our new XO's last night and we are having problems switching > languages using the switch language key > > The key actually works w/ the

problems w/ new Nepali keyboard

2009-03-30 Thread Bryan Berry
We just got our new XO's last night and we are having problems switching languages using the switch language key The key actually works w/ the pre-installed 767 image from OLPC but not our customized image that is also 767. What could we have screwed up? Btw, the new XO's finally have the Nepali

Problems w/ USB-ethernet device

2009-03-23 Thread Bryan Berry
I am reposting this e-mail from the server-devel to the general developers list to see if I can find more kernel hackers w/ knowledge of this particular problem. We want to use the MSI Wind PC for the XS but it has one big problem. It only has 1 on-board NIC and no PCI slots. As you know, the XS r

[Server-devel] Is a USB-Ethernet NIC appropriate for the XS?

2009-03-23 Thread Bryan Berry
Bernie and friends on the server-devel list We want to use the MSI Wind PC for the XS but it has one big problem. It only has 1 on-board NIC and no PCI slots. As you know, the XS requires 2 NIC's. We have tried several different USB NIC's and are having serious throughput problems. Is this issue

Re: [Server-devel] Serving 400+ students w/ a single central XS - ejabberd nightmare?

2009-03-10 Thread Bryan Berry
On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 21:51 -0700, Sameer Verma wrote: > On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Bryan Berry wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 09:58 +1300, Martin Langhoff wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Bryan Berry wrote: > >> > I am worried about the XO&#

[Server-devel] Serving 400+ students w/ a single central XS - ejabberd nightmare?

2009-03-07 Thread Bryan Berry
We want to support 5-6 schools with a centralized XS. This XS would connect to the schools by wireless links and support 400+ students. We are planning on a pretty heavy duty server to handle this load but I am concerned that 400+ students in the @online@ group will cause havoc w/ ejabberd and the

Re: any way to display "Nand full" boot message in Nepali?

2009-02-16 Thread Bryan Berry
-Original Message- From: Chris Ball >You can modify the text in /etc/init.d/diskspace{check,recover}. >It is not localized past English and Spanish, because it runs before >almost anything else on the system. Thanks cjb, will take a look at this -- Bryan W. Berry Technology Director OLE

any way to display "Nand full" boot message in Nepali?

2009-02-16 Thread Bryan Berry
I am quite happy that the XO now displays a "Disk full" message when the nand is full and notifies the user that a number of journal entries will be deleted. Is there any way to display that same text in Nepali for our users here in Nepal? -- Bryan W. Berry Technology Director OLE Nepal, http://

Deployment Training 101 course, now in moodle

2009-02-10 Thread Bryan Berry
http://moodle.olenepal.org/course/view.php?id=28 you can try it out by logging in as guest This is the course I am giving to Nepal's deployment vlounteers -- Bryan W. Berry Technology Director OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org ___ Devel mailing list

Deployment Training 101 course, now in moodle

2009-02-10 Thread Bryan Berry
http://moodle.olenepal.org/course/view.php?id=28 you can try it out by logging in as guest This is the course I am giving to Nepal's deployment vlounteers -- Bryan W. Berry Technology Director OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org ___ Devel mailing list

Re: [Sugar-devel] ActivityTeam inaugural meeting

2009-01-28 Thread Bryan Berry
On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 02:35 +, Aleksey Lim wrote: > its(adding new intruments) already in progress :) > Awesome! Zamechatelno! -- Bryan W. Berry Technology Director OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org h

Re: [Sugar-devel] ActivityTeam inaugural meeting

2009-01-28 Thread Bryan Berry
On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 18:17 -0500, Wade Brainerd wrote: > Hi everyone, > > > Please join us for the first Sugar Labs ActivityTeam IRC meeting this > Friday, 3PM EST in #sugar-meeting on FreeNode. > > > http://sugarlabs.org/go/ActivityTeam/Meetings > > Wade, great idea! I would love to atten

Re: Turning off the mesh to save battery power

2009-01-27 Thread Bryan Berry
On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 19:26 -0800, John Gilmore wrote: > > hey guys, here in Nepal we are deciding whether or not to turn off the > > mesh on our custom XO build in order to save power. We will leave on > > regular wifi. > > > > Any ideas on how much power we will actually save? An extra hour of

Turning off the mesh to save battery power

2009-01-27 Thread Bryan Berry
hey guys, here in Nepal we are deciding whether or not to turn off the mesh on our custom XO build in order to save power. We will leave on regular wifi. Any ideas on how much power we will actually save? An extra hour of battery life would be worth it -- Bryan W. Berry Technology Director OLE

Turning off the mesh to save battery power

2009-01-27 Thread Bryan Berry
hey guys, here in Nepal we are deciding whether or not to turn off the mesh on our custom XO build in order to save power. We will leave on regular wifi. Any ideas on how much power we will actually save? An extra hour of battery life would be worth it -- Bryan W. Berry Technology Director OLE

Re: child protection + anti-cheating

2009-01-11 Thread Bryan Berry
cjb wrote: > I hope you don't mind if I give some blunt/opinionated answers: > >> How do we protect children from accessing porn or other >> questionable content, and how do we prevent malicious persons from >> communicating with kids, like say, child predators in IRC? > > You can't p

Re: [Server-devel] small form factor XS options?

2008-11-26 Thread Bryan Berry
On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 09:39 -0200, Martin Langhoff wrote: > If you look for machines with VIA CPUs, they are low power > dissipation, and often cheap too. We have a few samples at 1cc with > heatsinks - no fans! I have found this great machine http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16

Re: Touch pads

2008-11-25 Thread Bryan Berry
> From: "David Leeming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Touch pads > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Some feedback on touch pads. I returned to the PNG trials school of Giare > last week to do some training, and noticed se

Re: Suggestion for presentation at Sugar Camp2

2008-11-13 Thread Bryan Berry
wrote: > >infrastructure, managing volunteers, and particular technical > >needs. > > > > * 90 minutes + 30 minutes of discussion > > * Bryan Berry and Tony Anderson will lead the > discussion > > * Pow

Suggestion for presentation at Sugar Camp2

2008-11-13 Thread Bryan Berry
Deployment is Hard! Notes from Nepal's Deployments Summary: Bryan Berry (that's me) will talk about Nepal's deployments with help from Tony Anderson. Will talk about tough stuff like teacher training, developing local support infrastructure, mana

Re: [Server-devel] physical security of the XS and XO-as-XS

2008-10-14 Thread Bryan Berry
Martin, you make some good points. Sorry for the late reply. On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 10:56 +1300, Martin Langhoff wrote: > [Note: this is a resend - with some better editing - the earlier email > got sent prematurely...] > > On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 3:43 AM, Bryan Berry <[EMAIL PR

Re: [Server-devel] physical security of the XS and XO-as-XS

2008-10-11 Thread Bryan Berry
I have been discussing these issues off-list w/ Greg Smith. I will summarize some of our discussion and then reply to Sameer about physical security for the XS and to the general suggestion that the XO can serve as an XS. I have paraphrased Greg's question, don't blame him if I have bastardized his

Re: Hardware Errors -- any hope?

2008-09-02 Thread Bryan Berry
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 11:50 > This sounds more like a problem with the USB key, not the motherboard. > If the controller were having trouble transferring data, it wouldn't > be so > consistent about making it to 29 MB with no error. I will take your suggestion and try another usb key. I tried

Hardware Errors -- any hope?

2008-09-02 Thread Bryan Berry
I have what appear to be two hardware errors and I would like to know if there is any hope of fixing them short of swapping out the motherboards. Machine #1 Possible bad USB controller On this machine, I can't copy a file larger than 29 MB from a USB stick to the SSD. The machine completely hang

need help troubleshooting possible jffs2 problem

2008-09-01 Thread Bryan Berry
I am having w/ one of the XO's from a pilot school. I cannot copy large files from a USB key to the local SSD. The SSD mtd0 is only 47% full. I am trying to transfer a 156 MB file. The XO crashes when I try to copy the file locally. The XO works fine otherwise. I have run test-all and seen no er

Ugly JABBER problem

2008-08-05 Thread Bryan Berry
I would like to use the same XO OS image for all my deployment schools, w/ no configuration change specific to an individual school. Unfortunately, there is one setting on the XO that has to be unique, the jabber setting. I have tried to use "schoolserver" as the Jabber ID but no joy. Need the ful

Re: Any cure for a washed out keyboard

2008-07-31 Thread Bryan Berry
nol (but not denatured alcohol!). > > Best regards, > yokoy > > On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:44:08 +0545 > Bryan Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The first XO casualty at Nepal's pilot schools a few days ago. A second > > grader washed his XO because it had gotte

Any cure for a washed out keyboard

2008-07-31 Thread Bryan Berry
The first XO casualty at Nepal's pilot schools a few days ago. A second grader washed his XO because it had gotten too dirty. Thankfully, the display, cpu and motherboard seem to be working fine. The keyboard is non-functional and the mouse is nominally functional. Anyone know a fix for a "washed

Re: Any cure for a washed out keyboard

2008-07-31 Thread Bryan Berry
It's already been two days and it is quite dry. the keys don't respond at all. The touchpad works but only responds to heavy pressure. On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 19:14 +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Bryan Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >

Any cure for a washed out keyboard

2008-07-30 Thread Bryan Berry
The first XO casualty at Nepal's pilot schools a few days ago. A second grader washed his XO because it had gotten too dirty. Thankfully, the display, cpu and motherboard seem to be working fine. The keyboard is non-functional and the mouse is nominally functional. Anyone know a fix for a "washed

Re: Beta Test

2008-07-07 Thread Bryan Berry
Greg Smith wrote: >Now that we are making progress on your requests I want to ask for some >quid pro quo :-) >Can your team allocate time to "beta" test 8.2.0? We were intending to do this anyways but wasn't sure about when we would do it. What timelines do you have in mind? I don't have time fo

Re: Project activity (was Security Launching . . .)

2008-07-07 Thread Bryan Berry
Original Message- From: Eben Eliason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: devel@lists.laptop.org, Bryan Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Security for launching from URL Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 13:41:20 -0400 A prime example would be the Project activity, which would allow

Re: Seamless Lessons & Security (commentary)

2008-07-07 Thread Bryan Berry
after work. How would JEB's work if the activities are installed as one .xo bundle? And does anyone have a better idea? -Original Message- From: Martin Langhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Martin Dengler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Ivan Krstić <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bryan

Re: Seamless Lessons & Security (commentary)

2008-07-06 Thread Bryan Berry
seamful approach sounds workable to me This is a very productive discussion! -Original Message- From: Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Bryan Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: devel@lists.laptop.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Seamless Lessons & Security (commentary)

Re: Release 8.2.0 -- pls add critical features (Greg Smith)

2008-07-04 Thread Bryan Berry
Greg wrote: >Thanks for keeping us apprised of your needs! My pleasure. >I'm also not aware of any feasible design proposal which might address >your request. You need a precedent or engineering level suggestion to >move this forward. Is this possible in Firefox at all? Probably not. We had t

Re: Release 8.2.0 -- pls add critical features

2008-07-01 Thread Bryan Berry
ludes Nepal's E-Paath activities and additional rpms for gnuchess and flash player -Original Message- From: Marco Pesenti Gritti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Bryan Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: OLPC Developer's List , Gregsmitholpc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Rele

Re: Release 8.2.0 -- pls add critical features

2008-07-01 Thread Bryan Berry
>You can delete those from the Journal. Is that insufficient for some >reason? yeah, if the activity comes pre-installed you can't remove it. We include a lot of activities in our custom build as I imagine Peru and Uruguay do ___ Devel mailing list

Release 8.2.0 -- pls add critical features

2008-07-01 Thread Bryan Berry
7071 Our development team in Nepal is moving from developing just activities to developing entire courses that include activities, lesson plans for the teachers, and supplementary materials. This in response to feedback from the teachers at the pilots and department of education. B

Re: First Draft Development Process Proposal

2008-06-28 Thread Bryan Berry
Michael, thanks for your responses. Michael wrote: >Noted. Can you or Bernie supply a patch which accomplishes the desired >behavior? If someone can come up with a halfway decent patch, I'm more >than happy to try to see that this gets resolved. I will have to ask Bernie for help w/ this. It is b

re: First Draft Development Process Proposal

2008-06-28 Thread Bryan Berry
Here in nepal, here are the key features we need listed in order of priority: 1) Be able to remove activities to free up space, including activities that come pre-installed. For example, our current E-Paath activities already use up 105 MB and that only covers 1 month of coursework! We intend to h

Re: Making Updating Easier

2008-06-22 Thread Bryan Berry
ional rpms. Sulochan is working on a shell script to automatically update activities when there are new versions on the school server. I will ask him to communicate his work back. Keep up the good work Bryan Berry OLE Nepal ___ Devel mailing list

Paper on how to improve education in Nepal with OLPC

2008-06-05 Thread Bryan Berry
My colleague Saurav Dev Bhatta just released a paper he wrote about implementing OLPC in Nepal. It really gives a great overview of OLPC's relevance to Nepal's education system and how best to implement OLPC in a developing country. Tackling the Problems of Quality and Disparity in Nepal’s School

Re: pls checkout new project management site for E-Paath activities

2008-06-02 Thread Bryan Berry
will be happy to write it up. I have the setup in my personal wiki anyways. We are working out testing process that includes teachers, software testers, and the developers. The software testers test for stuff that plain just doesn't work and teachers review our activities to evaluate whether they

Re: pls checkout new project management site for E-Paath activities

2008-06-02 Thread Bryan Berry
t; was discussed there. > > Cheers, > wad > > On Jun 2, 2008, at 9:55 AM, Bryan Berry wrote: > > > I have setup redmine for E-Paath and E-Pustakalaya at > > http://redmine.olenepal.org . Please take a tour of using the guest > > account, password guest and le

pls checkout new project management site for E-Paath activities

2008-06-02 Thread Bryan Berry
I have setup redmine for E-Paath and E-Pustakalaya at http://redmine.olenepal.org . Please take a tour of using the guest account, password guest and let me know what you think. We wanted to use OLPC’s Trac set up but found it did not meet our needs. We have 47+ individual activities to keep track

What Constructionism is - excellent article by Bill Kerr

2008-05-31 Thread Bryan Berry
here is an excellent article by Bill Kerr http://www.olpcnews.com/content/education/tidying_up_the_const.html I highly recommend reading it. Shameless plug for my own writing: How to make open-source work for education http://www.olpcnews.com/content/education/how_to_make_opensour.html --

excellent overview of the anatomy flash filesystems

2008-05-20 Thread Bryan Berry
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-flash-filesystems/index.html?ca=drs- w/ a really sexy flowchart for jffs2 -- Bryan W. Berry Systems Engineer OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://list

excellent overview of the anatomy flash filesystems

2008-05-20 Thread Bryan Berry
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-flash-filesystems/index.html?ca=drs- w/ a really sexy flowchart for jffs2 -- Bryan Berry OLE Nepal ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

update on touchpad problems

2008-05-20 Thread Bryan Berry
sorry been out of contact on this issue and haven't responded earlier. The monsoon started last week so there is a lot less dust at Bashuki school. The touchpad problem has reduced to a point that about 3 out of 27 kids have touchpad problems at one time, down from 50% I still need to test this p

Re: [Olpc-open] jumpy cursor problem and sugar issue

2008-05-08 Thread Bryan Berry
thanks, will try this out On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 16:01 -0400, Samuel Klein wrote: > Advice from the field : try dusting a jumpy touchpad with chalkdust. > --SJ, who is looking for a cite... > > > On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 7:50 AM, Bryan Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote

First week at Nepal's Test Schools

2008-05-08 Thread Bryan Berry
http://blog.olenepal.org/index.php/archives/290 written by Rabi karmacharya, exec director OLE Nepal This is a compilation of observations from the first week of the laptop implementation at the two rural schools in Nepal — Bashuki and Bishwamitra Ganesh. After the launch of the project on A

Re: Teacher Preparation Program for the OLPC Project in Nepal — Part II , Onsite training

2008-05-04 Thread Bryan Berry
other > sites, or just their accumulated contacts in their address books, or > any appropriate mailing lists? > > On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Bryan Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dr. Saurav Dev Bhatta posted the review of the second week of teacher > > trai

Teacher Preparation Program for the OLPC Project in Nepal — Part II , Onsite training

2008-05-04 Thread Bryan Berry
Dr. Saurav Dev Bhatta posted the review of the second week of teacher training, which took place on-site at the schools http://blog.olenepal.org/index.php/archives/283 We have just completed Part II of our teacher preparation program. The complete teacher training consisted of two segments: Par

Re: notes from first few days at Bashuki and Bishwamitra

2008-05-03 Thread Bryan Berry
; >http://blog.olenepal.org/index.php/archives/254 > > Wow! Very well done. Love to see more of this type of work in the > U.S. ! :) > > -iXo > > 2008/5/1 Bryan Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > what Rabi has put together > >

Re: Touchpad Bugs

2008-05-02 Thread Bryan Berry
On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 09:19 -0400, Richard A. Smith wrote: > Bryan: Whats the temperature like around the areas that you saw lots of > jumpy problems? > about 95 F and very, very dry ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.

Re: Overloaded Networks, was Re: Signed Build for Italy

2008-05-01 Thread Bryan Berry
t; When you do "Register" from the UI, does the gray rectangle go away > quickly, or stick around > for multiple seconds ? Does the "Register" entry in the menu go away ? > (If not, registration failed.) > > wad > > On May 2, 2008, at 1:17 AM, Bryan B

Re: jumpy cursor problem and sugar issue

2008-05-01 Thread Bryan Berry
lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Bryan Berry wrote: > > > > > 1. We are having a lot of trouble w/ jumpy cursors. You know where the > > > touchpad behaves erratically. Is there an easy fix to this problem? > > > > > > we are using build 70

Re: [Olpc-open] jumpy cursor problem and sugar issue

2008-05-01 Thread Bryan Berry
On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 09:36 -0400, Steve Holton wrote: > Do you have a way to accurately measure relative humidity? > currenlty, no. something I should investigate. > On the other hand, I have seen (and fixed) a very similar behavior on > a NintendoDS touchpad which was caused by dust or sand b

Re: Overloaded Networks, was Re: Signed Build for Italy

2008-05-01 Thread Bryan Berry
> A caveat here: Unless the machine is reflashed, the basic ID in jabber > will remain the same (the laptop keys are the same.) > > Cheers, > wad In my experience it remains something like update.laptop.org or ship2.laptop.org even after server registration. IMHO this is the single biggest pro

Re: Overloaded Networks, was Re: Signed Build for Italy

2008-05-01 Thread Bryan Berry
> For any number of laptops greater than 20, we recommend that they > be registered with a school (presence) server, so that they don't use > salut (clique). This is REALLY true when using active antennas, but > still true when using access points. > > wad Wad, will registering w/ the school s

notes from first few days at Bashuki and Bishwamitra

2008-05-01 Thread Bryan Berry
what Rabi has put together http://blog.olenepal.org/index.php/archives/282 Bryan Kathmandu ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Signed Build for Italy

2008-05-01 Thread Bryan Berry
-05-02 at 07:48 +0545, Bryan Berry wrote: > >This, or the laptops will have to remain in English. I don't think > >this > >is acceptable for the municipality. Also, OLPC support for regular > >builds > >at this time is limited to one new release every 6 months. >

Re: Signed Build for Italy

2008-05-01 Thread Bryan Berry
>This, or the laptops will have to remain in English. I don't think >this >is acceptable for the municipality. Also, OLPC support for regular >builds >at this time is limited to one new release every 6 months. Sorry to chime in so late, but the Italian team can change the language in the firmwar

re: Strange 703 activitie startup problem "permission denied"

2008-04-30 Thread Bryan Berry
>Message: 5 >Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:21:21 +1200 >From: "Martin Langhoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Strange 703 activitie startup problem "permission denied" >To: devel-list >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >I have updated a B4 machine

Re: If you need to customize an XO automatically, you should use the Action usb stick

2008-04-29 Thread Bryan Berry
thanks giannis and mstone, I look forward to playing w/ this On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 20:41 -0400, Giannis Galanis wrote: > **this mail was sent a couple of times, due to devel bounces > > The action USB key offers the capability to customize the XOs nand > image automatically. > It is also possible

Re: jumpy cursor problem and sugar issue

2008-04-28 Thread Bryan Berry
hey guys, thanks to all who have replied to my issue w/ the jumpy cursor. I haven't been able to test out the responses I have gotten because I have been sick in bed for the last couple days. Will reply once I am coherent enough to read the e-mails. On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 11:39 +0200, Bernie Innoce

Re: jumpy cursor problem and sugar issue

2008-04-27 Thread Bryan Berry
o bringing up the frame. I haven't tested this myself. > > > > On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 6:39 AM, Arjun Sarwal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > Bryan, > > Similar issues were dominant at the India pilot too... > >

jumpy cursor problem and sugar issue

2008-04-27 Thread Bryan Berry
Day 3 of the pilots at Bishwamitra and Bashuki and couple of issues have come up 1. We are having a lot of trouble w/ jumpy cursors. You know where the touchpad behaves erratically. Is there an easy fix to this problem? we are using build 703, MP machines, and firmware Q2d14. We have the kids hol

Re: This project is rolling, so should OLPC

2008-04-24 Thread Bryan Berry
time left for actual technical stuff. w/in the next few weeks hope to figure out how edit pre-boot image using puritan. Should be fun and under a lot less pressure then ;) On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 15:24 +0200, Simon Schampijer wrote: > Bryan Berry wrote: > > Our pilots at Bishwamitra and Ba

This project is rolling, so should OLPC

2008-04-23 Thread Bryan Berry
Our pilots at Bishwamitra and Bashuki schools start this Friday and I couldn't be more excited. I find this discussion about the future of OLPC frankly *annoying* and tiresome. The future of OLPC isn't at 1CC. It's at pilot schools around the world. It's in the hands of kids. The software and hard

Re: [Server-devel] Customizing build 703 for mass deployment

2008-04-22 Thread Bryan Berry
here is what i have I tried this afternoon bunzip xo-1tar.bz2 mkdir os703 tar xvf xo-1..tar -C os703/ then mkfs.jffs2 -n -e128KiB -r os703 -o testpre.img sumtool -n -p -e 128KiB -i testpre.img -o testpost.img ../pilgrim/crcimg/crcimg testpost.img copyied testpost.img and testpost.crc to my

Re: [Server-devel] Customizing build 703 for mass deployment

2008-04-21 Thread Bryan Berry
Thanks Michael, I was looking for a quick solution since time is limited. I am wary of trying something very different but I will put two hours to it this afternoon and see what I can accomplish. I have added Anna Schoolfield from the Birmingham deployment and Stefan Reitzis to this thread. On Tu

Re: [Server-devel] Customizing build 703 for mass deployment

2008-04-21 Thread Bryan Berry
grade to the next OLPC build? Do you > have to do it all again? > > Kim > > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:25 PM, Martin Langhoff > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Bryan Berry > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: cleaning up machine-specific security settings - what can I delete in /security/state?

2008-04-21 Thread Bryan Berry
I plan to delete /system/security/etc/* it seems to get regenerated on reboot. thanks On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 13:35 -0300, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > Please customize the pre-boot image, thanks. That will spare you > these problems. > --scott > > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 9:2

cleaning up machine-specific security settings - what can I delete in /security/state?

2008-04-21 Thread Bryan Berry
Michael, I am customizing build 703 w/ a custom set of activities, rpms, and other settings. Currently, I am deleting - rm ~/.sugar - delete host name from /etc/hosts - rm -r ~/isolation - rm /var/lib/dbus/machine-id Which machine-specific settings can I remove from /security/state ? I f

Customizing build 703 for mass deployment

2008-04-20 Thread Bryan Berry
I have created a wiki page detailing the customizations Nepal has made to the 703 image, which includes installation of the gnuchess, and man page rpms, the proprietary flash player, changing the display order of activities, among other changes http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Nepal:_Testing%2C_QA% 2C_and

Deployment image configuration for os703

2008-04-17 Thread Bryan Berry
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Nepal:_Testing%2C_QA% 2C_and_Configuration#Custom_XO_Build_Configuration Here are the changes I have made and am making for os703 for the pilot schools Bashuki and Bishwamitra. I would very much appreciate the feedback of others. I have included instructions on how to l

trying to customize nand images with block2mtd

2008-04-17 Thread Bryan Berry
hey guys, I am trying to customize a os703 image without booting up into Sugar. I am using the following currently, but getting some stttrrrnge errors. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Mounting_jffs2_images here is what I have done losetup /dev/loop0 os703.img modprobe block2mtd block2mtd=/dev/loop

working version of Watch and Listen?

2008-04-13 Thread Bryan Berry
I get 404 not found when I try to access the url listed for Watch and Listen on the Activities page: http://staff.osuosl.org/~peter/myfiles/Watch%20&%20Listen-10.xo Can anyone tell me how stable the version of Watch and Listen is that lives in git? http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=projects/watch-list

question about cleaning up custom builds

2008-04-13 Thread Bryan Berry
Hey Michael, I am still trying to find a more elegant way to create a custom XO build but that eludes me. Am learning how the olpc.fth boot process works but that is going slowly. Currently I make the following changes to a build before I do save-nand rm -r /home/olpc/.sugar/default rm /securit

Re: #6864 updated w/ new error logs

2008-04-10 Thread Bryan Berry
I take back my criticisms of 703. looks like the problems stemmed from a corrupted .olpc.store/ directory on my usb key. same usb key caused same problem on 702 On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 13:04 +0545, Bryan Berry wrote: > http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6864 > > successfully reproduced the

#6864 updated w/ new error logs

2008-04-10 Thread Bryan Berry
http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6864 successfully reproduced the error and have uploaded all the log files and output errors I could. hope this helps. So far I am having a lot of issues w/ 703, I don't recommend it for Update.1 release. 702 had a lot less issues Bryan OLE Nepal Kathmandu

#6864 Activities crashing on startup w/ build 703

2008-04-09 Thread Bryan Berry
Tomeu, I am having a hell of a time reproducing the error this morning. I cross-referenced the activities that I am using w/ the ones in the G1G1 pack. The only difference is Write activity. I am using version 54 rather than 55. will keep testing. thanks again to you and erikos for your help la

XO-specific training for a support technician

2008-04-08 Thread Bryan Berry
howdy, I am training two teachers from our pilot schools how to maintain the XO, XS, and networking equipment. I have create a wiki page of the training program I have put together http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Nepal:_Support_Training i would very much appreciate the input of others. I have lots of

Information about Content Development and Teacher training strategies in Nepal

2008-04-07 Thread Bryan Berry
/archives/239 Bryan Berry OLE Nepal Kathmandu ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

RE: Regarding mapping tables for nepali. (Prabhas Pokharel)

2008-04-06 Thread Bryan Berry
Prabhas Pokharel wrote: >Just wanted to make sure that you guys know about the work that has > >been done for nepalinux and associated project by this organization in >Nepal (http://madanpuraskar.org/). Rabi is working closely w/ the team at Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya (MPP) on the keyboard to make

Re: 24 teachers start OLPC training

2008-04-04 Thread Bryan Berry
server for that purpose? If we could make > it work, we could perhaps offer it to interested people in education, > government, and the general public. Presumably some tailoring to > particular audiences would be needed. > > On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 8:04 PM, Bryan Berry <[EMAIL

re: [sugar] Mini-Conference Proposal: Toolbars & Tabs

2008-04-03 Thread Bryan Berry
Greg Smith wrote: >I'm not opposed to changing the GUI at the OS level. I can think of a >dozen suggestions starting with that annoying "hot corners" thing. I >also love a whole bunch of the design elements. >All I'm saying is that any change comes at a cost. A cost paid by the >teachers, students

Re: any drawbacks to using copy-nand and save-nand to install XO images

2008-04-03 Thread Bryan Berry
sorry for the week late reply, was busy w/ teacher training Michael Stone wrote: >A much better strategy is >to reflash an XO, boot it off of external media (like a USB key), make >changes >to the NAND, then save-nand, thus avoiding the first-boot configuration >junk. Let me make sure my linux-n0

Re: 24 teachers start OLPC training

2008-04-02 Thread Bryan Berry
-04-01 at 22:38 -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: > 2008/3/31 Bryan Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 24 teachers from Bishwamitra and Bashuki schools started 4-day long OLPC > > training organized by OLE Nepal. > > > > http://blog.olenepal.org/index.php/archives/193 > >

Re: any drawbacks to using copy-nand and save-nand to install XO images

2008-04-01 Thread Bryan Berry
thanks Michael, this is really helpful On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 15:23 -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > Bryan, > > Several weeks ago, I was asked to do reverse engineer an image created via > save-nand for another client and I discovered many "unexpected differences" > that had crept into the image as a

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