, I'd be interested to hear from them too.
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On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 10:39 -0800, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
James wrote:
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Hi Brad
switch key seems to
have the desired effect.
Any help in getting my XO back to its initial US settings would be
appreciated. (Ideally, I'd like to be able to switch between the two
on a regular basis).
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Following the first 4 instructions at
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ethiopian_Setup
I have managed to set my G1G1 XO laptop to accept input in
Amharic. That's the good news.
The bad news is that I can no longer switch back to a US keyboard.
On 9 Feb
of Amharic could be written on the back of a table napkin.
Nonetheless, I feel I could be a useful go-between and might even be
able to provide a patch or two, if someone could point me at the right
bits of code to tweak.
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(Holding a lever of indeterminate length, and looking for a place
Ethiopian examples on the Input
Methods page.
Here? http://wiki.laptop.org/go/SCIM#Ethiopic.2FAmharic
The text came up as question marks in Firefox on my Mac Intel (OS
10.5) machine. I downloaded and installed James Kass's Code2000
shareware font from http://code2000.net/CODE2000.ZIP
and Ladders) game,
: designed to help younger children
: master counting in their native language.
5. URLs of similar projects :
6. Committer list
#1 Username: OpenSpark
Full name:James Newton
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$ nano /root/.ssh/id_dsa
2) Check that only the user james has read rights on the file
$ cd /root/.ssh
on the
nature of the problem, for demonstration purposes you may be able to
grab just the files of an earlier Record (camera) activity that is
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other stuff at the start of the drive. If I knew exactly how the
problem was caused, I'd recommend something, but I've missed the
reproducer. I admit, a full erase did fix a problem like this for me
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function derivations.
At worst we'll create a generation who know math better than anyone else
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http://escapepod.org/podpress_trac/web/240/0/EP122_TranscendenceExpress.mp3
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Control/Alt/Backspace on the X server console. But then the wireless is
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which is why I'm answering rather than let it bother the people who are
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I typed DIR and I got a Directory of Z:\
Therefore it works, I guess.
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to be terrain or evironment.
However, I was able to take a few photographs with the Record activity
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mail? That is the preferred option for developers, usually. The more
interfaces the better. If it is restricted to only HTTP, it won't get
much of my bandwidth.
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-623-b4-oom-dmesg.txt
This shows the first to be killed was Browse, which was my intention.
It did take a fair while for it to happen though, during which the
system was very unresponsive.
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on a B2 with build-debian, the dtmfdial package was used
to transmit tones over a ham radio for making an IRLP request. The DTMF
tones include 697 Hz for the top row.
In listening to podcasts, certainly headphones sound better.
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/olpc/.xinitrc: line 10: respeclaration: command not found
/home/olpc/.xinitrc: line 11: respeclaration: command not found
SetClientVersion: 0 9
(EE) SIGIO not blocked at xf86eqEnqueue
(EE) SIGIO not blocked at xf86eqEnqueue
(EE) SIGIO not blocked at xf86eqEnqueue
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with a bar graph, stopwatch clock face, and digital display.
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obstructions
apart from myself.
Hmm, interesting. Black rubberised track may contain a lot of
carbon, may end up behing a good reflector for the signal. Excluding
grass improves the signal.
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someone energetic about emulation
build problem reporting, they become useful to the project, we send them
hardware, they stop mentioning emulation ... now I wonder why? ;-)
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to the enthusiasm of the open source community pushing out unpopular
ideas. I think people like me (FOSS enthusiasts) might need to be kept
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Suggestions ... obtain a wireframe and render model of an XO and animate
it. I'm not into that community, but it would probably look nicer than
the static imagery.
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Integrate with face recognition using the camera, solve the
trigonometric problem of where the largest face is relative to the
centre of the screen, then warp the pointer ... so that the eyes follow
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On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 02:23:19AM -0500, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
You can also use:
olpc-update 650
No such module.
Presume you meant:
olpc-update ship.2-650
Which worked fine. 1.4Mb total download per B4 here.
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It doesn't seem like it would be difficult to write an activity that
opens a pty (like Terminal does), issues an su, and thus gives itself
elevated privileges. That's why the rest of the activity isolation
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whether that is an HC card, though.
Is SDHC just not supported in OFW? Any suggestions?
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build version number.
wget http://dev.laptop.org/pub/firmware/libertas/
usb8388-5.110.20.p42.bin
mv usb8388-5.110.20.p42.bin /lib/firmware/usb8388.bin
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fix it.
The XO software certainly makes assumptions, but these are so
trivially provided by a school server and internet connection that I
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now ... what does lsof(1) say this init process has open, and what
does /proc/1/stat* say about the memory cost?
I do recall there was a really good reason why our init is in
Python ... activation and so forth. Does it deserve recoding just to
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as Forth
for the firmware. Provided you create the appropriate environment,
other languages would be possible.
Kernel level programming ... first become familiar with kernel
development, then kernel building and testing. It is very similar to
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too. The problem is getting the program to run by resuming the file
from the Journal.
I'm using my work email account and the application is at home. I can
send it to you as an attachment later if you still think it would help.
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Tomeu Vizoso wrote
suffix to be opened by my Activity by default. Unfortunately, the files
by their nature must be created by a program other than the Activity.
Any suggestions would be welcomed.
Thanks,
James Simmons
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
On 04.02.2008 18:21, James Simmons wrote:
To accomplish
it out on the XO.
Thanks again for your help.
James Simmons
Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
Ok, so what if your activity registers into the mime registry a new type
like application/x-slide-activity associated to the *.slide glob? That
can be done in the mimetypes.xml file. And then your activity should
Carl,
If I can get this working I'll definitely use a MIME type like
activity/x-slide-activity. I want to distribute this activity when its
finished.
Thanks,
James Simmons
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
Hi James,
On 06.02.2008 16:46, James Simmons wrote:
I agree I have no business
of dubious.
James Simmons
Ok, so what if your activity registers into the mime registry a new type
like application/x-slide-activity associated to the *.slide glob? That
can be done in the mimetypes.xml file. And then your activity should add
this mime to the activity.info.
In this way, the journal
thought having my own MIME type would solve the problem,
but that was only because I didn't understand what the real problem was.
James Simmons
Albert Cahalan wrote:
The faster sugar can phase out MIME the better.
The MIME type of application/zip works, but Etoys is
using that one too
/2008/02/11/1202578694540.html
... the article,
http://dev.laptop.org/~quozl/2008-02-12-smh/images.html ... photographs
from the press photographer.
http://dev.laptop.org/~quozl/2008-02-13-abc-local-radio/ ... today's
interview, same audio, several formats.
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Kept this test running overnight, total of 6% loss over 33600 packets,
each link with an snr of 50 to 60. The end node reported libertas: tx
watch dog timeout ... so I'm not confident the test reproduced
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Edward Cherlin wrote:
Will it include Text-to-Speech, for the purposes we have discussed on
this list? If so, could we get some sort of cursor or coloring effect
to show the illiterate or semi-literate where they are in the text
Publications page for more
suggestions and invitations.
I'll definitely check them out.
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there. Also, anything I get wrong
could be corrected by others.
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Edward Cherlin wrote:
I started a document on the Wiki, Programming for Children
(activities), and another, Programming with Children (tutorials). Your
input would be most welcome. See the OLPC Publications page for more
reader units via USB, and they behave like
a keyboard, and keyboards already work. I've put off buying one for a
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the expectation of
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any suggestions on where to start/
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If the consensus is that the page is of some use, I or others can link
to it from more places.
Thanks,
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Edward Cherlin wrote:
On Feb 15, 2008 9:12 AM, James Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Edward,
I browsed through the links on your
could be chapter 2, as Edward Cherlin suggested. My EtextReader
Activity, when it is hosted, could be the sample for that chapter.
James Simmons
Eduardo Silva wrote:
Hi,
Some months ago, I was working in a document called: Hacking Sugar,
which can be a place to push information about how
the correct URLs be?
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Adding a half second delay to millions of kids doesn't seem justifiable.
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and running faster.
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[1] Examples
For the XO: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ethiopian_Setup
For Director: http://nonlinear.openspark.com/articles
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deliberate
feature. Am I understanding this correctly?
James Simmons
I also went through a number of activity sources in git looking for
examples, but I didn't find one that ONLY used metadata. They all seem
to either not bother storing any UI state (so resuming or from new
makes
.
On the USB and SD, I don't know if the metadata is saved or not. I
suppose it could be saved and never retrieved. In any case, it's nice
to know this is a bug and not intentional.
James Simmons
Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
When is metadata not saved? Or you mean the metadata is saved but not
retrieved
the Activity this far. I hope to continue work on it and its
sister activity View Slides until they are both worthy and useful
additions to the Activities catalog for the XO.
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, though. I would guess there
are a lot of sugar-jhbuild users on this list, and I'd appreciate any
suggestions. I can easily uninstall automake 1.7.9, the question is
what to do after that.
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to be that environment, the build
sugar-jhbuild on xubuntu after removing the sugar RPMs.
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Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 2:56 PM, James Simmons
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I'm trying to set up sugar-jhbuild on my OpenSuse 10.2 computer. When I
was satisfying all the dependencies
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I think I figured out what happened with automake. I think that while I
deleted automake form /usr/local/bin I did NOT delete aclocal from
that directory. I'll try that tonight.
The missing abiword file is still a concern.
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.
Thanks again,
James Simmons
Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
I checked the website. The website came up OK, but the file was
definitely not there. This was not a problem when I first tried running
sugar-jhbuild, so the file or URL must have changed in the last day or so.
Hmm, it worked here
Morgan,
Thanks much, that should be a big help.
James Simmons
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I'm getting timeouts here at work on both http://sugar.abisource.com and
the IP address. Yesterday I was able to bring up a website at
sugar.abisource.com
tell what kind of file I am receiving when
someone shares a file with me?
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Tomeu and Michael,
It turns out Python has a method you can pass a filename to and it will
identify if the file is a Zip file or not, based on the magic number,
not the filename. It seems to do the trick.
Thanks,
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Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 9:43 PM, Michael
Tomeu,
The zipfile.is_zipfile(filename) method solved my problem. I was able
to successfully share a Zip file between two computers running my
activity. Still some kinks to iron out, though. I'll keep your
suggestion in mind for the future.
Thanks,
James Simmons
Tomeu Vizoso wrote
activities in my
testing, so I can develop on the xubuntu machine and test on both
without passing USB drives back and forth. If someone could improve my
understanding of this I'd be grateful.
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that has sharing code. I'd like to be able to do
the same with View Slides.
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John Watlington wrote:
It is a known problem that the Read activity doesn't automatically store
a copy of the shared document in the Journal.
Read has bigger problems. I haven't been able to get
I hope you'll address is the code in the Read activity for
sharing. It is full of FIXME comments, yet the Wiki recommends its use
as sample code. I'm stuck adapting that code for my own Activities as
they are variations on the Read activity.
Thanks,
James Simmons
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17
:
SUGAR_PROFILE=2 ./sugar-jhbuild run
In any case, if I could get the Salut thing working that would be
*exactly* the kind of thing that I hope that Morgan would document better.
Thanks,
James Simmons
Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
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James Simmons
Morgan Collett wrote:
As Tomeu pointed out you can use salut and it is the fall-back for
when you cannot connect to a Jabber server.
If you want to run your own server, I have posted instructions on the
wiki on installing ejabberd with the required patches and
configuration at http
to
copy a 15 mb or so file, and my theory is that all these debug messages
are slowing it down. If you can think of a better explanation I'd love
to hear it.
Thanks again for your help.
James Simmons
Guillaume Desmottes wrote:
Le mardi 15 avril 2008 à 20:32 +0200, Morgan Collett a écrit
speechd in my app that may not be possible. Or
can I do a conditional import, something like:
if speechd file exists:
import speechd
If you have any ideas I'd like to hear them.
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the latest is in the git repository and
I have a page for View Slides linked from the OLPC Activities page.
Thanks,
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Morgan Collett wrote:
If you get stuck with View Slides, I'll be happy to take a look.
The Read activity is definitely on my list as the sharing was found to
have
that the python stuff was missing. As
for the source RPMs, wouldn't I need a C compiler on the XO to install a
source RPM?
Your suggestion on dealing with the import problem looks right on the
money. Thanks!
James Simmons
Hemant Goyal wrote:
Hi,
Yesterday I finally got around
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box, but have not had the opportunity to do a test that way yet.) The
stream tube code I use was adapted from the core Read activity.
Good luck with getting p2p working. That sounds like it would help a lot.
James Simmons
Guillaume Desmottes wrote:
Le lundi 21 avril 2008 à 10:24 -0500
to be careful. I have had an experience where it
copied a Journal entry to the SD card and ran out of disk space before
the copy completed, and there was no indication of this at all, other
than the fact that my Activity didn't work. I had to open the Terminal
to find out what went wrong.
James
package on Debian, but not on recent builds,
I'm not sure if the extension is present in the X-Server, but if it is,
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