On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 14:05 -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> We do a ton of things in relationship with our 'community' (or perhaps
> our different 'communities'). For example, we engage in this thread
> with you.
And yet, Developers on this list [olpc-devel] have complained when
people have done th
On Sun, 2010-08-08 at 19:55 -0400, John Watlington wrote:
> On Aug 8, 2010, at 7:15 PM, Neil Graham wrote:
>
> > There is a small open handheld console. http://www.openpandora.org/
> > http://pandorapress.net/ The openness and friendliness of the community
> > enviro
On Sun, 2010-08-08 at 18:02 -0500, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
> > in general I think it's entirely appropriate to expect
> > that people asking for help do so via the correct channels
>
> I believe that "asking for help" should not be the only supported
> motivation for contacting developers.
Along
On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 11:42 -0300, Gabriel Eirea wrote:
> My personal observation is that this came from a high demand on two
> fronts: kids and teachers complaining about youtube and online games
> on one side, and local companies used to develop web pages and such
> that wanted to create content
I've been working on this a while. I've got something for people to look
at. It's Alpha with many broken parts, but there's enough to get the
idea and, cross fingers, encourage others to contribute.
http://screamingduck.com/ude/
It's an environment aiming to provide an alternative to Sugar or Gn
On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 09:26 -1000, Mitch Bradley wrote:
> I regret that I must once again unsubscribe from devel, as the noise
> level has gotten out of control.
That 'noise' is engagement with the community. If you feel that olpc
has the resources to provide a complete system through a cathedra
On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 19:38 +0100, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> emacs is what I am using on both XO-1 and XO-1.5 so pretty good going
> ;-) (Along with vim! Peace!)
>
> Lots of people here want to claim we need Eclipse to have an "IDE". Of
> all the developers involved in the whole Linux
> kernel+Fedo
On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 18:33 -0800, John Gilmore wrote:
> > I would take it all with a large dose of salt.
>
> Also, as usual, the left hand at OLPC doesn't know what the right hand
> is doing.
Actually I think the hands are all doing a very good job. It's the head
that needs attention.
One thin
On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 11:47 -0300, César D. Rodas wrote:
> This probably reflects a bug in the program.
> The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'.
I'm doing some work that uses xv on the XO.
I found that this occurred for me when running X in 24bit, but 16bit
was ok.
I'
On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 02:55 -0500, Walter Bender wrote:
> Slightly off topic, but reading between the lines, it seems there is
> something more fundamentally broken here. 5000 packages. The Apple app
> store adds that many new "apps" every week it seems. Why aren't there
> 5 million packages avail
On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 10:18 +0100, Sascha Silbe wrote:
> > I don't think it's terribly useful to test memory consuming
> > non-interactive tasks.
> The problem is that the only way to get _comparable_, _repeatable_
> numbers is to make the test non-interactive.
Yup, but that's looking where you di
On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 19:13 -0500, Reuben K. Caron wrote:
> Since .XO and .XOL bundles were specifically designed to be "safe" for
> installation and removal, I'm concerned the inclusion of gnome-
> packagekit would allow one to more easily break their installation but
> I also think it would
On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 19:16 +0100, Sascha Silbe wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 03:41:10PM -0200, Emiliano Pastorino wrote:
> > Does anyone come out with a possible test?
> Compilation in general (e.g. Linux kernel or sugar-jhbuild) seems to be
> quite stressful to SD cards and often consumes a
On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 11:28 -0700, Jon Nettleton wrote:
> > Xv can blit both YUV and RGB data to the overlay. I do not know why do
> > not they support Xv but this cannot be the reason...
>
> http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2008/05/flash_uses_the_gpu.html
>
> Down under FAQ.
>
It may be th
On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 13:50 -0200, Emiliano Pastorino wrote:
> Does anybody know if there's any configuration in X or package
> which let you make the mouse pointer jump from one edge of the
> screen to the opposite one?
>
> This is a very useful feature for accessibility.
>
While it's not its pr
On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 10:13 +0800, Jerome Gotangco wrote:
> Thanks for this! I've tried it on an XO-1 and it updates fine.
Don't suppose you could run a few programs to show some info to help me
to decide if I want to switch to this.
Boot then open up a terminal in X and type
free
df
xdpyinf
On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 13:54 +0200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> Work on getting a top-notch polished $desktop on it, and continued
> mantainership behind it, and it'll definitely be an option. It's
> reasonably easy to get desktops "going", but good polish making it
> suitable for end users takes a to
On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 13:54 +0200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> Work on getting a top-notch polished $desktop on it, and continued
> mantainership behind it, and it'll definitely be an option. It's
> reasonably easy to get desktops "going", but good polish making it
> suitable for end users takes a to
On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 15:24 -0400, John Watlington wrote:
> The design goal is to provide an overall update
> of the system within the same ID and external appearance.
>
> In order to maximize compatibility with existing software, this
> refresh will continue with an x86 processor, using a chipset
On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 20:41 -0700, Jordan Crouse wrote:
> > I'm curious as to why reads from video memory are so slow, On standard
> > video cards it's slow because there is quite a division between the CPU
> > and the video memory, but on the geode isn't the video memory shared in
> > the same S
On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 15:36 -0700, Jordan Crouse wrote:
> You might want to re-acquire the numbers with wireless turned off and
> the system in a very quiet state. If you want to be extra careful, you
> can run the benchmarks in an empty X server (no sugar) and save the
> results to a ramfs ba
On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 16:23 -0700, Jordan Crouse wrote:
> I recommend running the Cairo benchmarks on the XO again with
> acceleration turned off in the X driver. This will give you a good
> indication of which operations are being accelerated and which are not.
Done.
http://screamingduck.com
On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 16:23 -0700, Jordan Crouse wrote:
> I would start by establishing a 1:1 baseline - it is great to compare
> against a 2Ghz Intel box, but that the differences between the two
> platforms are just too extreme. No matter how good the graphics gets,
> we are still constrain
On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 19:37 +0800, Carlos Nazareno wrote:
> These days, 433MHz may seem unusable to the average Moore's
> law-spoiled user, but it was more than enough for me who grew up on a
> 4.77MHz 8088 as a kid (yeah, that's nothing to you guys over here who
> are older :P), a Pentium 166 MMX
On Wednesday 06 August 2008 7:08:33 am Alex Levenson wrote:
> I'm announcing x2o's first tentative release! x2o is a physics problem
> solving game in which you create Rube Goldberg contraptions in order to get
> the O to land on top of the X. Check it out at
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/X2o, give i
On Friday 27 June 2008 1:59:16 pm Chris Ball wrote:
> Instead of (or as well as) preparing a separate disk image, we could
> prepare a Desktop activity which launches an Xfce session and includes
> some office tools, the standard NetworkManager applet, a configurable
> CUPS installation, and so on.
As it stands now there seems to be no 100% reliable way to judge the
compressed size of things on jffs2.
I cast my eye to the boot-anim, uncompressed it comes to about 60 Meg, is
there space being wasted there?
http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/library/2007-July/70.html says
> JFFS2 comp
On Saturday 17 May 2008 5:26:06 pm John R.Hogerhuis wrote:
> One possible idea: rather than popping up the frame when near the edge, pop
> up a translucent overlay in key places that looks just like the keyboard
> frame key. If the user clicks on it, then bring up the whole frame.
I had been ponde
On Saturday 17 May 2008 11:27:29 am Robert Myers wrote:
> 'View Source' is touted as one of the user win features of the XO. There
> doesn't seem to be much useful discussion of it on the wiki.
>
> What's the best path for making an activity 'view source' friendly?
> Reverse engineering from Chat,
On Friday 16 May 2008 6:06:10 pm Martin Langhoff wrote:
> What happens if we remove it? Well, it looks like Ubuntu tried, and
> had to revert
It looks like they just removed the dependency rather than a replacement.
xrdb supports
-cpp filename preprocessor to use [/usr/bin/cpp]
so a sm
I noticed today that my xo (newly 703) has cpp which while modest in size
seems to launch /usr/libexec/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.1.2/cc1 which weighs in
at 5.1Meg
Anybody know what this is used for? would either TCC or mcpp be up to the same
task?
This work http://www.gnome.org/~lcolitti/gnome-s
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