Re: Sucrose 0.83.1 Development Release

2008-10-31 Thread S Page
Simon Schampijer wrote: > This is our first Development Release in the 0.84 cycle. The code base > has seen many refactoring efforts to improve the platform. Will OLPC joyride builds pick up the new Sucrose? > Furthermore the datastore has been rewritten, to simplify and improve > maintainabili

Re: Collection (.xol) glitches

2008-10-29 Thread S Page
Samuel Klein wrote: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:47 PM, S Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > and hitting start > > doesn't seem to do anything (other than triggering some disk I/O) > > That scr

Re: 9.1 Proposal: Files

2008-10-29 Thread S Page
istory, tags, search, last viewed, description, etc.; it allows but does not require subfolders. That would be the start of the unification of browsing the web and your local work that's surely coming. Thanks for all you do. -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Collection (.xol) glitches

2008-10-29 Thread S Page
ttp://bantha.org/~kraken/olpc/bundler/makeLibraryInfo.html seems to list acceptable subcategories. * Should the host_version be 2 these day? -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Browse can't browse USB flash drive

2008-10-27 Thread S Page
S Page wrote: > Note that you could have entered file:///media in Browse and located the > HTML files I spoke too soon. Browse shows my USB flash drive's label in /media, but my attempts to navigate to any file or directory within file:///media/MYDRIVE return error -2142109675

Re: Sugar unusable as an e-book reader

2008-10-27 Thread S Page
res like annotations, etc. etc. It's the future. But PDF is certainly an important legacy format. Regards, -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Read bug hit in Rwanda

2008-10-10 Thread S Page
, zooming in didn't crash Browse, and SVG in the browser potentially allows show/hide layers, interactive quizzes, easier localization, view source, etc. Respectfully, -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Signed candidate-765 and gg-765-2 builds available for testing.

2008-10-02 Thread S Page
ned when or how you'd upgrade to a gg- build (is it for a clean-install with activities?), so I think it goes unmentioned on the wiki. Regards, -- =S Page user:skierpage ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Stability and Memory Pressure in 8.2

2008-10-01 Thread S Page
Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > Read has serious memory problems because renders whole pages > into memory, regardless of what is the viewed area. Any chance the > first pages of the PDF you opened contained big images? Nope, it's a saved Project Gutenberg PDF Coradella_Collegiate_Bookshelf_Collection_aus

Re: [sugar] Signed candidate-765 and gg-765-2 builds available for testing.

2008-09-30 Thread S Page
composite image, created by Scott. gg-765-2 is similar to what we hope >> to put into manufacturing next week. >> ... >> http://download.laptop.org/xo-1/custom/g1g1/gg-765-2/ (G1G1 composite) > > Where should this be mentioned? Should someone

Re: Stability and Memory Pressure in 8.2

2008-09-29 Thread S Page
d *then* immediately Sugar restarted. Just one datapoint. Yours sincerely, -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Signed candidate-765 and gg-765-2 builds available for testing.

2008-09-29 Thread S Page
on the wiki" has been "8.2-765", which isn't signed, hence the error message you got. Please retry with sudo olpc-update candidate-765 and let everyone know. Thanks indeed, you may be the first without a developer key to try it! -- =S Page user:skierpage __

Re: Activity resume issues (was Re: twenty issues with Paint activity)

2008-09-29 Thread S Page
The double-clicking problem sounds like http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7876 , "Double clicking an activity in the home ring causes 2 instances to launch". I get different results from different apps, e.g. click Memorize three times, get three icons for three working instances, no doubled menus,

Re: [sugar] Signed candidate-765 and gg-765-2 builds available for testing.

2008-09-28 Thread S Page
nanian wrote: > On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 3:47 AM, S Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> So I think you could or should change >> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Template:Latest_Releases/rc to >> "candidate-765", and update Friend_in_testing to replace "1. Get a >>

Re: semantic black ops for Activities? (Re: Greg Smith's Weekly Report)

2008-09-28 Thread S Page
version of Semantic MediaWiki hides it by default.) > but before it is a great long ~page screed of the > same data in a wasteful junky layout (Activity Summary). -- =S Page user:skierpage ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: X2O activity being considered for G1G1

2008-09-27 Thread S Page
> On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 01:58, Alex Levenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I've tested / updated x2o for 8.2. >> >> I filled out a test case: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Tests/Activity/x2o but >> for some reason it doesn't get propagated into >> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Test_cases_8.2.0#Activities

Re: Signed candidate-765 and gg-765-2 builds available for testing.

2008-09-27 Thread S Page
to put into manufacturing next week. This doesn't work using olpc-update, right? sudo olpc-update gg-765-2 gave @ERROR: unknown module 'build-gg-765-2': bad build identifier: gg-765-2. -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

twenty issues with Paint activity

2008-09-25 Thread S Page
lar icons but do completely different things. It would be better to separate them, and change the hover text for the first to "Make picture gray" I know, I know, "File bugs". What do kids make of Paint? -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: 8.2-760 AP connect problem

2008-09-21 Thread S Page
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I recently did a reinstall of 8.2-760 on my > MP G1G1 XO. Me too. My AP is an old Linksys BEFW11 S4 version 2. > The new install seems to be > very finicky about connecting to my AP: I find 760 works about the same as 75x builds. > 1. mesh connect keeps trying and s

Firefox and Browse and xulrunner on 8.2.0

2008-09-21 Thread S Page
application also shares code, since it's using Hulahop that Browse uses. But top shows VIRT RES SHR 132m 37m 11m Browse 121m 36m 11m xulrunner (i.e. chatzilla) 130m 30m 7096 Help Should Help be sharing more memory, or am I just clueless on top[*] ? Cheers, -

semantic black ops for Activities? (Re: Greg Smith's Weekly Report)

2008-09-13 Thread S Page
ty? ** Display activity and versions compatible with a particular build? * Generate the Activity_microformat data for the pages that Software update parses (scary...)? Y'all can reply here, or edit <http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:Semantic_MediaWiki#Activities>, or some

Re: Rainbow-daemon dialog in Browse?

2008-09-12 Thread S Page
Bert Freudenberg wrote: > I've never seen a "rainbow-daemon" dialog before, what is it supposed > to do? It doesn't work anyway, I filed a ticket with screenshot: > > http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8435 I filed http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7930 about another Browse pop-up window titled "rainbow-

Re: #6930 shipped activities need to be audited for licensing information

2008-09-08 Thread S Page
ully understand how these files appear in Browse, git, or the build, I apologize if I'm missing something. Weeding out stuff that seems out-of-date is good gardening practice. -- =S Page user:skierpage ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Sucrose 0.82.1 Stable Release

2008-09-05 Thread S Page
"About my XO" in Build 8.2-759 says I have Sugar 0.82. -- =S Page user:skierpage ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Browse 96 failures (Re: How did the testing go on 8.2-757?)

2008-09-04 Thread S Page
Robert Myers wrote: > Downloaded the g1g1 activity pack. I know that some stuff there is out > of date, but given what happened next I didn't get much further. > > Browse doesn't work (no hulahop?) so it was hard to do much without > running back and forth to a working computer. Browse 95 on 8.2

upgrading firmware ( Re: q2e15 released )

2008-09-01 Thread S Page
t page obsolete now that each firmware's page transcludes Manual_Firmware_Install? Thanks, go Forth and prosper -- =S Page user:skierpage ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Incorrectly titled General Release Notes page on wiki

2008-09-01 Thread S Page
x27;t know that this is the 7.1.0 ("ship.2") release or the 8.1.1 release unless you do some research. I filed Trac ticket 8260. Regards, -- =S Page user:skierpage ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: olpc.fth and OFW api docs

2008-08-28 Thread S Page
be aspects of XO startup in [[Category:XO startup]], which is in [[Category:Firmware]]. "The truth Is Out There! but it's hard to find and hasn't been updated since March 2007" -- Fox Mulder -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list De

Re: OFW Q2E14 is available for testing

2008-08-28 Thread S Page
ded the following to <http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Olpc-update#Simple_online_upgrade>: If the new build includes new [[firmware]], then your XO will reboot twice. If that's correct, the same line could be added to the 42 other instructions for upgrading on the wiki.

automating lists of events, jams, etc.

2008-08-22 Thread S Page
29th-31st 2008 with The Physics Game Jam will be held [[Start date::August 29, 2008]]-[[End date::August 31, 2008]] -- =S Page user:skierpage "Nifty, but does it put a laptop in a child's hands?" ;-) === More details... === Every event page is different, so I didn't c

updating OLPC_{Region} pages, with a payoff

2008-08-22 Thread S Page
l do it. Should there be an OLPC_G1G1 page for the G1G1 "deployment"? Cheers, -- =S Page user:skierpage ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

what is a "Customization key" ?

2008-08-15 Thread S Page
USB flash drives. If it ain't cryptography, avoid the "key" word. Thanks for any clarification, I'll improve the wiki. -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

what is a "Customization key" ?

2008-08-15 Thread S Page
USB security dongles and encrypted USB flash drives. If it ain't cryptography, avoid the "key" word. Thanks for any clarification, I'll improve the wiki. -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Please help test our new 8.2.0 weekly beta, joyride-2301!

2008-08-15 Thread S Page
run `top`, but often I wasn't able to switch to a console. Thanks, -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: jackd on OLPC?

2008-08-14 Thread S Page
iki.) Edit away. HTH, -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: inhibiting suspend via dbus

2008-08-12 Thread S Page
John Gilmore wrote: > For an idea of where Linux power management is going, see Richard > Woodruff's presentation from the Ottawa Linux Power Management summit: > > > http://www.celinux.org/elc08_presentations/TI_OMAP3430_Linux_PM_reference.ppt .ppt?! To help the suiteless view a very intere

Re: Please help test our new 8.2.0 weekly beta, joyride-2263!

2008-08-09 Thread S Page
Christoph Derndorfer wrote: > When you're in the software-update panel of the control-panel then there > are "cancel" and "ok" buttons in the upper right corner. However the > "ok" button seems redundant as they both do exactly the same thing: > close the panel and take you back to the main conf

Read 49 on Joyride (was Re: Evince)

2008-08-09 Thread S Page
I tried Read 49 on joyride-2273. On Tue, 2008-07-29, Daniel Drake replied: > The rpm changelog suggested [that Read supports DjVu]. Can you try it > out with a recent joyride? The needed djvulibre library is in the build. Trying the DjVu samples at http://djvu.org/docs/ , Read recognizes it's e

Re: Test results on Joyride 2230?

2008-08-06 Thread S Page
Greg Smith wrote: > Hi All, > > Can we get a "show of hands" on who downloaded joyride 2230? I updated my G1G1 from 708 (Update 8.1.1 candidate). Software updates is very nice! I had to erase Browse to update it, and I couldn't get Log (viewer) to erase cleanly or install (these are in Trac a

Re: sticking ctrl and alt keys cont...

2008-08-04 Thread S Page
Chris Marshall wrote: > ...That isn't so good if the problem > is not in the keyboard mechanism but in the EC, timings tolerances > somewhere... My only stuck key experience was recently on build 708 (8.1.1 candidate). I pressed a bunch of keys along with the power button trying to come out of

status of 8.1.1 and now 8.1.2 ?

2008-07-31 Thread S Page
== 8.1.1 == Is 8.1.1 done? It was due June 7. According to , the only thing left is for "The champion" to sign off; according to http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7014 , the only thing left is "finalize". If/when 8.1.1 is done, should all G1G1 use

Re: Notes from today's Release Meeting(s)

2008-07-29 Thread S Page
Michael Stone wrote: > 5. Separately, I wish we were receiving even more volunteer testing. Can you > help out? Fame, glory, and the undying gratitude of hundreds of thousands of > children await you! Background: I'm just a G1G1. I don't have a "Developer key", but on my own initiative I install

Evince (was Re: New joyride build 2222)

2008-07-29 Thread S Page
Mikus Grinbergs wrote: > Noticed that sugar-evince 2.20.1.1-3.olpc3 brought in > poppler 0.6.2-5.olpc3, which is 3 MB. I think 8.1.0 and 8.1.1 have the same dependency (on poppler-0.6.2.4-olpc2). Evince needs Poppler to render PDFs. Spea

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

2008-07-06 Thread S Page
think any Web-based learning plan that involves launching apps and downloading files has similar issues jumping out of the web page. I wonder how they solve them. Respectfully yours, -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

lowercase wiki titles

2008-07-02 Thread S Page
lifies making links within text: you can write we want to avoid [[distro verson migration nastiness]] in the future and don't have to provide alternate display text for the link. There are #REDIRECT pages on wiki.laptop.org for some alternate capitalizations, like Content_Pr

downloaded files and the Journal

2008-06-13 Thread S Page
t that might be updated, or have disappeared.) If I'm wasting time here with obvious rehash, I apologize and cut me off. And/or I can file enhancement bugs for these ideas. Thanks for all you do, Your most obsequious and devoted occasional G1G1 user, -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: ANN: 8.1.1 Candidate Build - candidate-708

2008-06-12 Thread S Page
, otherwise looks fine! > please help update the > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_8.1.1_Software_Release_Notes I reorganized it a bit to focus first on changes from Update.1, and tweaked other referenced pages. HTH, XO FTW, BBL, -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: ANN: 8.1.1 Candidate Build - candidate-708

2008-06-11 Thread S Page
oks fine! > please help update the > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_8.1.1_Software_Release_Notes I reorganized it a bit to focus first on changes from Update.1, and tweaked other referenced pages. HTH, XO FTW, BBL, -- =S Page ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

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