On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But it works only on the XO.
Fair enough. Is there a portable (and lightweight) way of asking this
question from bash?
cheers,
m
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On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 11:43 PM, Bert Freudenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ah, Marco rightly pointed out hal-get-property. Much easier that way:
hal-get-property --udi $battery --key battery.charge_level.percentage
hal-get-property --udi $ac_adapter --key ac_adapter.present
Great! Each
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:37 PM, Martin Langhoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Bert Freudenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Now, is there a reasonable way to check for whether we are in a school
mesh?
No idea.
No worries, I cannibalised a bit of bash script from olpc
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 6:14 AM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the patch attached maintains a copy of the metadata of each object
outside the xapian index. How it works:
Fantastic. Except that... erm... arhm... you forgot the patch ;-)
- at every create and update, a json file is
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 2:45 PM, John Watlington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Michail is choosing a method, which will be used by NM and should be
used by other laptop tasks as well. It will almost certainly not be SSID
based.
Cool. I'll keep my ears open - Michail, I assume you'll ping me when
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Kim Quirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Lots of things that we do don't meet any normal expectations of a
'company'. Most people at OLPC will tell you we are not a 'company'.
...
I have been trying to understand it, explain it, live with it ,
and improve it for a
I am looking at the feasibility of measuring (roughly, and cheaply)
the cost to reach the XS. Quite an interesting exercise :-)
Background: I'm fleshing out the rules of when do we attempt to
backup. Even if we see the XS, we want to know the number of hops to
it, so we can delay the backups if
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This process is easier to perform inside the DS process and will
happen only on first boot after update. But the backup process itself
(rsync) should have a really high nice value, agreed.
That goes without saying: my
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Andres Salomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I pointed out that one can enter text without using a keyboard. Those
of us who grew up using qwerty-style keyboards just happen to be
fastest at entering text with such a device.
Indeed. Dasher is a must-try -- with a
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 4:45 AM, Christoph Derndorfer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So you're basically looking for someone who doesn't mind being despised
by both OLPC staff (God, s/he keeps bugging me, how annoying!) and the
community (s/he knows more than s/he's telling us).
Nah. We all want to
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 10:17 AM, John Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Then whenever your hand comes close to the laptop, ugly black bars are
going to cover all the edges of that nice sky-blue screen.
I hear ugly black is the new black these days :-)
It's always harder than you want it to
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 1:13 AM, Martin Langhoff
Fantastic. Except that... erm... arhm... you forgot the patch ;-)
Ouch.
Thanks for the patch. Quick heads up - I've applied it on a 703 laptop
and it's completely borked
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 3:59 PM, John Watlington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The loss of a keyboard is mourned. But so much of the activities
the young kids that OLPC is targetting do are more manual and direct.
Will be cool if we can take dasher and run with the concept. For some
languages and
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Martin Langhoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'll diagnose a bit more and post back.
I'm baffled. I initially suspected PEBKAC but it keeps happening. With
the patch the DS gets renamed, and journal never starts. If the
datastore code gets to complain somewhere I
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 2:18 AM, Alex Belits [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Then the announcement should be:
Don't take it so seriously. It's a vision set of mockups, and the
different technical aspects of how to get there will be fleshed out in
time and discussed in [EMAIL PROTECTED]
And when I say
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ouch, sorry, I should have been more explicit in that this patch
introduces a dependency on cjson. I'm going to send next another patch
that falls back to simplejson (slower) if cjson is not available.
Ah, it was pebkac
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Albert Cahalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You ended up with
Lots of accusations :-( Have you successfully negotiated with hw
vendors over innovative gear at very low cost in the past?
We do make mistakes, and in some cases there are tradeoffs. It's part
of doing
Typo - I should have written:
Grandstanding about the mistakes made is cheap, with the advantage that most
people aren't
familiar with the issues at hand.
Albert also wrote
Minus the dollar figures of course, getting contracts out in
public would be very good for you. Groklaw would be a
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 8:49 AM, ffm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Are we creating the new slaves of the XO? or this is a gadget that
they can forget in some years?
Nope.
That's what developer keys http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developer_key are
for.
Indded, that's what
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 11:38 AM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Your opinions matter much more if they are backed up with
working code, or with a community of volunteers to attack some task,
or a well-written report. We get a lot of opinions. Many of them
are, frankly,
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 7:34 AM, Anna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry for the lack of promptness, but they didn't invite me back to work on
the server till this afternoon. You're right. In the BIOS, there was a ZIP
drive (huh?) as Primary Master. The hard drive is the SATA master. I
2008/5/30 Carlos Dario Isaza Zamudio [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Luego de mucho molestar y sufrir con esto... Lo instale en una maquina
virtual en mi casa, y concluimos que es un problema con el proxy de la
universidad. Ya tengo Moodle corriendo en el server en mi portatil y mañana
lo probare en la
Hi Chris,
here in Lima, I'm debugging a problem that the local team has shown me
with the wilkipedia activity not starting for a second time. The
problem is that the server never really closes, so the 2nd invocation
finds the socket taken, and can't use it. Apparently this is a common
issue with
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for the testing! We saw a report of this from Peru yesterday and
fixed it¹, then released Wikipedia-10.xo² with the fix. I think Scott
plans on putting Wikipedia-10.xo and other fixes into a 703-6 shortly.
Cool. I
On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 11:18 AM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm also a little cranky because when we fought over this last time it
was argued in elevated voices that we simply *couldn't* have any
system which required manually plugging a USB key into every machine,
because the
On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 11:41 AM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As much as I dislike having multiple ways to do the same thing,
Embrace the inner Perl programmer in you :-)
on
reflection it looks like touching up the autoreinstallation script is
probably going to be the Right
2008/6/9 David Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I have an XO-1 that has stopped booting correctly after I tried to install
some large activities from a flash drive.
Ugh, that sounds bad.
for minutes due to respawning too fast and I have a window when I can log
onto the back end / shell as
Hi Daf Collabra team,
Michael Stone gave me a brief run down of Gadget and plans to review
it for inclusion on future XO and XS builds. What he described sounded
pretty good, so I am keen on this.
Have you guys considered backwards / forwards compat? We have many
locations where XS and XO will
2008/6/17 Jim Gettys [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Attached is a note from Tridge, pointing to a script that does a much
better job accounting to real usage.
After talkling with tridge I did a bit of sleuthing and found this one:
http://bmaurer.blogspot.com/2006/03/memory-usage-with-smaps.html
Somehow
Michael Stone's review of my recent patches to ds-backup raised some
issues about creating temp files (that wear NAND out) and about
successful backups on a full or otherwise RO NAND. See below...
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Martin Langhoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Are we concerned about
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 3:25 AM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why not use /var/lock like everybody else? We can add appropriate users
to the lock group if needed. (Or however Fedora does these things.) Are
we better off making ~/.sugar/default contain our complete parallel
FHS?
I
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Martin Langhoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Good point. This part of the code is removed, but I haven't made it a
point to ensure that the code can backup a RO homedir. Actually, we
aren't well setup for a RO root fs at all (should an error kick us
into ro), /tmp
This is a resend - Daf already clarified some things on irc (thanks!),
but we should flesh this out more...
-- Forwarded message --
From: Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 3:48 PM
Subject: Gadget on the XS - upwards/downwards compat?
To: [EMAIL
Hi Kim -
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Kim Quirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Secondly, I am proposing that our Support team can only support one
major release along with the current one. With school systems being
run on yearly basis, this would suggest that we plan for 2 major
releases per
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 11:29 PM, David Farning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Two releases per year make sense. Particularly when add in the fact that
we have two hemispheres with opposing springs and falls.
Only if you assume we can get countries in lockstep with us. Any
number of things can
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 11:18 AM, David Farning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As Kim stated earlier, in the end this becomes a cost of effort issue.
From a developer point of view the more releases the better. From a
support perspective maintaining several long releases can quickly suck
the energy
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What other kinds of tags including release numbers do you have in mind?
Build numbers, perhaps. But I am more concerned about the fact that
our trac install tracks several projects/subprojects. So I'd propose
xo-8.2.1 or
Actually - can anyone confirm that their owner.key
(~/.sugar/default/owner.key) is mode 600 or 400? As per my earlier
email (below), I keep finding boxes with the wrong filemode...
cheers, m
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 12:52 AM, Martin Langhoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just spent a bit of time
Looking for a (memory, cpu, power) efficient way to trigger
events/scripts on the XS, I came across incrond. It weights ~600KB
according to ps_mem.py, and it looks like the kind of tool we want to
be using. There are a few processes I have on the XS that signal
completion by touching a file in a
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 9:14 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What it sounds even more like, to me, is any modern init system. For
example:
I'm very keen on new init systems, but this is not one.
Given your opposition to DBUS in this context, you might enjoy
:-) I'm not
2008/6/25 Devrim GÜNDÜZ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I would like to assist packaging PostgreSQL for OLPC.
I'm the upstream packager for PostgreSQL, and I also maintain 30+
packages for Fedora+EPEL.
What should I do next?
Hi Devrim! Thanks for getting in touch - I am the guy looking after
the School
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Devrim GÜNDÜZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
python-psycopg2 is there, but not php-pgsql. The question is: Is
php-pgsql already in OLPC package set? If yes, we have compat packages
to satisfy dependencies. If not, I can give it a shot.
It's not mentioned in our
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 12:45 AM, Bill Bogstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sure but any process that is waiting for a file to appear in the
filesystem seem more like a batch process to me. There is no way to
know how long it will take (and thus your timeouts).
Bill,
everything you say makes
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We chose a monolithic update solution because of several deficiencies,
*for our primary use case*, of all package-based upgrade solutions with
which we were familiar at the time. Package-based update solutions with
which
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Let's say we dist-upgrade our system. It's in an unbootable state.
In our current situation we attempt to avoid:
* can leave the system in an inconsistent or even unbootable
state on failure.
... by holding around
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 11:38 AM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All reasonable, and the snapshot based approach has certain key
advantages for some uses. There is one thing that really bothers me,
however, and makes me suspect that we cannot actually use the snapshot
approach long
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 6:50 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
how many different deployment builds do you think are being supported at
this time? I think it's still in the single digits.
I expect this to change quite drastically soon.
...
customizers are able to take full advantage of the
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 9:03 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
what I would really like to see is for OLPC to not just release the
(note: I think what you are asking for is available)
...
I would then like to see someone maintain another base-level distro that
Guys, it'd be great to run all the
Opening post cross-posted to devel@ but please reply only to server-devel@ :-)
Couple weeks ago we had Tridge @ 1CC and while jg and I cried about
memory pressure on XO and XS, he suggested we try talloc, and monitor
actual memory usage with the newfangled smaps.
This is something I'm very keen
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 5:41 AM, David Leeming
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
AFTER clicking register, and rebooting, it won't find the school mesh and
eventually settles on teh simple mesh. Then olpc-netstatus reports:
- Have you connected successfully with this machine? (we've seen a
small % of
2008/7/2 Dennis Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
by setting the replyto the list i wont get ccd on email when people reply to
all because that is the easy way to make sure it goes back to the list in the
current setup. instead I will get responses via mailmain and not direct and
the mail will have
Just realised that the python-cjson dependency of
sugar-datastore-0.8.2 (which is req'd by ds-backup) makes it hard to
support on F7 (we'd need a backport of python-cjson). Not sure if the
F9 port landed in joyride...
Hmmm. A few checks... people told me that stuff had to be in monday's
Joyride.
On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Bryan Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greg wrote:
Thanks for keeping us apprised of your needs!
My pleasure.
From what I can see v8.2.0 is at a late stage - we are discussing
what it takes to ship the features we have in Joyride end-of-business
Monday.
Having
2008/7/7 Martin Dengler [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
...yields:
http://dev.laptop.org/~mdengler/launch-by-click-ie.jpg
...so perhaps I need a different understanding of launch-by-click for
executables. Please accept my apologies for wasting your/others time
if I've misunderstood.
I think that the
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 5:37 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Since a conversation on IRC got unexpectedly heated, let me restate my
personal philosophy for OLPC's relationships with upstream:
I am surprised this got heated, you are right, and this isn't even
controversial. This
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 6:17 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think we're all agreed that even small forks have large long-term
costs, and we'd prefer to avoid them where at all possible -- which we
all agree seems to be the case at present.
Here I disagree - small and medium
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 6:56 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd rather see us just give up on Browse and ship and appropriately
configured Firefox. I just can't see OLPC devoting enough developer
Not so fast! The XS deliverables need a custom browser on the XO for
reasons we were
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Carol Lerche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why does automatic authentication require a custom browser? Client
certificates work well for this function in ordinary web applications
(assuming a properly configured server).
I haven't delved into this deeply yet, but I
Carol,
give me some credit :-) I know that FF works well with client certs
and apache has no problem with it. I've been coding apache/ssl aware
apps since '98...
What sort of patch are you looking for?
Well, there is quite a bit of thinking that needs to happen here, and
I am working on
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 5:37 AM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
a) SSL overhead being impractical? Come on. You can use SSL on the
browser today; there is no perceptible speed difference. I agree that
client certs may be impractical, but it won't be because the XO can't
handle the
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Jim Gettys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can also anticipate Javascript performance may become an issue as its
use continues to increase.
Confirming this - to work with XS-based tools nicely, JS and related
tools (gears) support is a must.
cheers,
m
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On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Carol Lerche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can certainly produce a proof of concept for the first,
using client certs via Scott's Firefox 3. I don't think it is as hard as
you think, and I promise to provide something concrete by the end of the
weekend.
Thanks!
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Martin Langhoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please point me to your notes on this, if you would be so kind.
There aren't any, unfortunately. I had to read idmgr to understand the
protocol - so read the source. It is a trivial xml-rpc.
Ah, apologies, wrong answer
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 6:31 PM, Carol Lerche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is an assertion, not an argument. It is also factually incorrect.
And needless to argue over it if we can get instead some working code.
:-)
m
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On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 15:47 -0300, Martin Langhoff wrote:
On Joyride 2129 I am having trouble getting JEBs to do anything magic
when downloaded on the XO. I click on the link and... nothing happens
:-)
Possibly #7247
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Ivan Krstić
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Jul 12, 2008, at 11:59 PM, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote:
Which IDMR - the sun one with all the usual/heavily standardized
industry protocols - or something OLPC specific ?
It's not a protocol, just a small Python script
Looking at the .metadata files that the Journal now maintains, I find
that the buddies field is a string that stores a multidimensional
array... is this a bug? Or perhaps Xapian cannot sture md arrays?
Either way, looks like either a big or an artifact from the '90s to me
:-)
All I care to know
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 6:17 AM, Eben Eliason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There was an extensive discussion on this topic a while back on IRC,
Version numbers are used to communicate API/ABI compat and degree/type
of changes to users. Later in this thread Eben suggests what everyone
else in the
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Gary C Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just a quick warning to developers hopping between old and new builds.
Today while trying to debug an issue with DNS resolution behind an
Access Point I reverted (from joyride-2149) to the official release
Update-1 703
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would be happy to whip up a universal approximate ordering for version
strings in a few lines of Python. My emphasis here is on _approximate_;
nothing should depend on precisely correct interpretation of version
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 2:53 AM, Eben Eliason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please see: http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/4755#comment:5
Eben, I agree with your analysis. This is ugly-ish.
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 9:08 PM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, this is totally expected, you are seeing
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Gary C Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Version (activity_version) is just some sortable entity to be agreed
Please do read back on this - now lenghty - discussion. Unfortunately,
any monotonically increasing version does _not_ work, thanks to the
magic of
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 2:37 AM, Guylhem Aznar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wouldn't necessarily want another machine - just a motherboard from
say a machine that has been returned with a broken screen, or
whatever, would be fine
A fully working XO would be best used for someone who hasn't one
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Gary C Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK, sorry, I've clearly accidentally wandered in to a room full of hardcore
:-) Sorry about the dry tone of my reply. I was trying, perhaps too
hard, to avoid this thread regressing into silly-land.
The current scheme is
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 4:54 AM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What _should_ be happening in this thread is the collection of use
cases.
For a small selection of the issues involved, please refer to
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Mstone/Commentaries/Bundles_1
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For these reasons, in my humble opinion, choosing our software packaging
format and guidelines (of which version numbering is but a single
aspect) is NOT A TRIVIAL EXERCISE and is not as simple as picking an
off-the-shelf
Hi Michael, list,
the ds-backup packaging is based on your scripts (
http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/mstone/rpm-packaging ) and I am not
100% sure how it is meant to work but attempting to build a snapshot
or a release makes it snap back at me with
mock.py: error: no such option: --define
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 2:03 AM, Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
appropriating apricots
Alliterating Apricots
m
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- ask interesting questions
- don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first
-
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 1:16 AM, Morgan Collett
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
With olpc-update, it's not critical to update from version x to
version x+1 - we can skip versions as we don't depend on a particular
package state. (e.g. You can upgrade from 650 to joyride without
having to upgrade to
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Brian Jordan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.ceibal.edu.uy/gobiernoelectronico/pdf_libro/Libro_CEIBAL_en_la_sociedad_del_siglo_XXI.pdf
This is great! More, please!
It is great - the writing is well thought out, though I haven't read
it all in depth, it seems
Hi Ankur,
note I've edited the CC list a bit :-)
2008/7/18 Ankur Verma [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I am able to receive SMS text messages through a mobile phone intended to be
attached to school server. I need to forward this message to a specific XO
connected on the jabber server. At this moment, I
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I regard fully pythonic python data as a subgraph of a
reference-counted object graph. So far as I know, Python has lots of
interesting ways to parse bytestreams into object graphs, but no great
way to read an object
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
While I'm convinced that protocol buffers and their supporting code
generators are cute, I'm also convinced that the real issue in the IPC
space is not what marshalling format do you use? but is, instead,
what tools are
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Greg Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
8 - Use the same NAND space.
*Tough*. The F6-to-F9 upgrade means we're over OS footprint budget.
Dennis Gilmore knows more about this.
9 - Always boots up, especially when there is no space on NAND
Always is a tricky one :-)
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
8 - Use the same NAND space.
*Tough*. The F6-to-F9 upgrade means we're over OS footprint budget.
Dennis Gilmore knows more about this.
Not so:
703: 309M .jffs2
2202: 298M .jffs2
Credit due to Daniel
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The list of missing features needed to make Sugar a first-rate system is
really surprisingly short.
Fantastic news! As Kim points out, we knew most (all?) those things
already, and we are just extremely short on
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
unionfs will involve a kernel change.
Erik's got a ko to add to the initrd AIUI.
Have we considered sorting by date and removing from oldest to new until
the threshold is reached? Perhaps excluding starred items.
Both
Henry is asking about localised images for the XO, and specifically
asking about a branded boot image (splash image).
2008/7/28 Henry Vélez [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Les pregunto.
¿como puedo poner una imagen personalizada en el inicio de la laptop?
Que cambios quieres hacer? Solo el splash? Parte
Hi Scott,
I am exploring what it will take to package the action lease server
for the XS, and what usage scenarios we can support. So I had an
initial look around act-server, which covers a much wider
functionality than I had in mind.
If we assume for a moment that the lease management is done
Hi Scott,
I'm looking at the 'upgrade-server' project, considering packaging it
for the XS. After a read of the sources, I see that it does extend the
rsync protocol a bit, but the commands seem to not be needed for
updates: server is an rsync cmd, but clean and install are not, but I
don't
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jerry Williams wrote:
| Seems like this problem for linux was solved with RPM.
| With rpm if something is missing for something you want to install, it
| complains and won't let you install it.
That's not really
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 9:38 PM, Stan. SWAN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greetings- in spite of numerous [EMAIL PROTECTED] categories I
can't find any concerned with solar charging! Can someone please
direct me, as = devel@lists.laptop.org seems essentially software.
Post it right here. Hardware
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When releasing ds-backup revisions, please update documentation like
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ds-backup
Looks like we've both updated the page :-)
m
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Hi Scott,
I'm looking some more at the update-server sw, and also looking at how
rsync://updates.laptop.org behaves, and what olpc-update uses.
Right now, the server publishes a top-level 'root' directory, which is
what the client seems to be looking for, and also a number of other
things that
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 6:59 PM, 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 gotten too dirty.
Thankfully, the display, cpu and motherboard seem to be working fine.
The keyboard is
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Mikus Grinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Recently, I have on two occasions with Joyride (2229+, 2232) pressed
ctl-alt-erase in order to restart Sugar. Both times. when Sugar
came up, the Journal screen told me 'Your journal is empty'.
If unwanted emptying of
something very basic is not working well with Python - reading 1MB
from a process and writing it to a file gets truncated at random
points. Not being a native Python speaker, review and comments
welcome. Hopefully I'm not losing my mind just yet.
Summary:
- The script untars an XO image under
On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Martin Langhoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
something very basic is not working well with Python - reading 1MB
from a process and writing it to a file gets truncated at random
points. Not being a native Python speaker, review and comments
welcome. Hopefully I'm
n Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 2:16 AM, Greg Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
First Michael:
This feels very similar to an RFC.
GS - Its not meant to be an RFC
I think Michael was just suggesting a time-saving device: you defined
should, must, etc, and there's a common standard for that kind of
On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Martin Langhoff
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something very basic is not working well with Python -
After a couple of days of rumination, it all became clear. Python is
off the hook, instead, I am being hit with a fakeroot bug,
characterised here
http
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