Re: Journal activity profiling

2008-08-14 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:38 AM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 06:02:49PM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >> >> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 5:20 PM, riccardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, 2008-08-13 a

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2008-08-20 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 5:53 AM, Brian Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I solved the problem for my own XO by adding the missing links, but that > won't work for a project distributed to the kiddies. Can someone tell me > the right way to solve this problem? Thanks. I don't really know, but:

Re: #7426 BLOC 8.2.0 (: Journal in f7 disappears after olpc-update to f9

2008-08-21 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Zarro Boogs per Child <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > #7426: Journal in f7 disappears after olpc-update to f9 > -+-- > Reporter: mikus | Owner: tomeu > Type: defect |

Re: Scratch activity problems

2008-08-26 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > John Maloney (scratch developer) is aware of both issues. He is > considering making Scratch use the journal in future, but this is a > large amount of work. May not be so much work? I would love to discuss this and help

Re: [Techteam] Weekend Report - due today

2008-08-31 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 8:52 PM, Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - Follow up on Cmap tools Looks quite interesting, where can we get more details? Regards, Tomeu ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/d

Re: Frimware Q2E15 and Joyride-2368, good and bad

2008-09-03 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 4:07 AM, Ton van Overbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > C. Scott Ananian wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 10:02 PM, Ton van Overbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> The bad: >>> - Bounce (aka 3Dpong) has become completely unplayable. The screen >>> update is very jerky. >>>

Re: Google Chrome activity?

2008-09-03 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Ton van Overbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christoph Derndorfer wrote: > > Anyway, since it really targets the high-end (each tab running its own > process with own virtual machine for JS etc.) > I doubt it will run nicely on the XO. > The renderer is based on Web

Re: Cmap tools (was [Techteam] Weekend Report - due today)

2008-09-04 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Bert Freudenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am 04.09.2008 um 01:06 schrieb Michael Stone: > >> On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 05:33:28PM -0400, Greg Smith wrote: >>> Has anyone tried making the activity which is X-windows and inside >>> which >>> other activities can ru

Re: Stability and Memory Pressure in 8.2

2008-09-09 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 6:10 AM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * We need to find out why the oom-killer is not killing things fast >enough. Based on our results, we might consider configuring >/proc/$pid/oom_adj to preferentially kill some processes (e.g., the >foreground

Re: analyzing memory usage of python code

2008-09-09 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote: >> I filed #8128 to address the memory usage that seems excessive. >> >> I have also disabled cerebro from start-up while this is being >> investigated and the issue with bl

Re: Stability and Memory Pressure in 8.2

2008-09-09 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 7:39 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 7:02 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 6:10 AM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> * We need to find

Re: Stability and Memory Pressure in 8.2

2008-09-09 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 9:13 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i wrote: > > > > i think there's definitely a sugar shell leak. here's some > > partial data, gathered from a few machines on my desk right now. > > > > (be careful with the column headings -- i rearranged partway through > > to g

Re: Stability and Memory Pressure in 8.2

2008-09-09 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 9:24 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > tomeu wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 9:13 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > (there are a lot of variables in play here -- the main thing is > > > that something's certainly leaking.) > > > > The shell shouldn't be doing anyth

Re: Stability and Memory Pressure in 8.2

2008-09-10 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 11:53 AM, John Gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It may be possible and useful to store some commonly used executables > and shared libraries as uncompressed files in jffs2, making them much > faster to page back in from Flash. Nobody has tried doing this, as > far as

Re: Stability and Memory Pressure in 8.2

2008-09-10 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 6:10 AM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * We need to check carefully for memory-leaks. Three mechanisms which >occur to me include: Looks like we have regressed on http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5532 . Just entered http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8394 because m

Re: Stability and Memory Pressure in 8.2

2008-09-10 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 2:05 PM, James Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had a few hours look at the second largest process, the journal > activity, on Joyride 2412. > > Then I used gdb to generate-core-file and wander through the heap memory > to get an idea of what it might contain. I did n

Re: Stability and Memory Pressure in 8.2

2008-09-10 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 2:37 PM, riccardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul, > > On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 08:18 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> tomeu wrote: >> > On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 2:05 PM, James Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> > > Has anyone got an idea of how to measure the hea

Re: Stability and Memory Pressure in 8.2

2008-09-11 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 5:30 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 8:13 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 2:05 PM, James Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> But I did notice one odd thin

Re: Stability and Memory Pressure in 8.2

2008-09-11 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 6:51 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 5:30 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Wed, Sep 10, 2

Re: Bundle activity

2008-09-12 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 10:40 PM, Erik Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Firstly, insofar as the hierarchical filesystem is a worldwide standard > for human-computer interface, it is something which is useful to teach > students. So it seems like a very useful activity. AFAIK, kids have been

feedback about usage of the journal in uruguay (was Re: [sugar] Supporting desktop applications, extending the EWMH spec)

2008-09-23 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 8:52 PM, Erik Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For what it's worth, it is also my impression. I have heard similarly > from virtually all technically-oriented parties involved. I have heard > echos of this from less technical users (e.g. teachers who are confused >

simple datastore replacement, take two

2008-09-23 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi all, have given one more push to my DS clone [0] and have reached the point where it is plug'n'play compatible with the old one except in the two following aspects: 1.- has no support for removable devices, 2.- all metadata properties are just strings. Regarding 1, I really hope we move that

Re: simple datastore replacement, take two

2008-09-23 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > | 2.- all metadata properties are just strings. > > I think this is a good decision (especially since by strings you mean > "byte arrays"). However, it's n

Re: Flash tests

2008-09-25 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
2008/9/16 Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi All, > > We need to characterize the performance and support of Flash in release 8.2. > > Technical people in Uruguay did a tests a while ago on the Flash games at > this web site: http://www.minijuegos.com/ > > They used the Gnash shipped with 656 (0.

Re: simple datastore replacement, take two

2008-09-26 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > | 2.- all metadata properties are just strings. > > I think this is a good decision (especially since by stri

Re: simple datastore replacement, take two

2008-09-27 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 11:27 PM, NoiseEHC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> The Datastore can then provide two accessor functions: >>> get_by_value(key) and get_by_reference(key). get_by_value() returns the >>> contents of the file as a bytestring in memory. get_by_reference() >>> returns the pat

Re: [sugar] rendering test

2008-09-28 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Ooops. cc'ing to some other people/list in the hope someone more knowledgeable than me will comment. Thanks, Tomeu On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Riccardo Lucchese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 12:43 +0200, Riccardo Lucchese wrote: >> * build 703, xorg driver = amd, redra

Re: [sugar] rendering test

2008-09-28 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 8:57 PM, Bernie Innocenti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Riccardo Lucchese wrote: >> >> I haven't tried to run oprofile on the xo yet (it is on my todo list). > > Be careful, there's a catch with jffs2: it does not support the writable > shared mmap that oprofiled needs. This

Re: [sugar] Another pass through some basic Activity test results

2008-09-29 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 2:32 AM, Gary C Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 26 Sep 2008, at 19:31, Arjun Sarwal wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> 2008/9/26 Gary C Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> Here's a set of basic Activity test results for build 8.2-763, hope >>> the ASCI >>> art doesn't get too mangled

Re: Feedback on Measure (was Re: Another pass through some basic Activity test results)

2008-09-29 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
2008/9/29 Erik Blankinship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 6:02 AM, Gary C Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> > On 26 Sep 2008, at 19:31, Arjun Sarwal wrote: >> > >> >> 2008/9/26 Gary C Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >>> >> >>> Here's a set of basic Activity test results for

Re: idea for running out of RAM

2008-09-29 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 2:07 AM, Walter Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> So UI changes that help make this clearer will probably be a good idea >> for a 9.1 ... :-/ > > There was an early sketch of a mechanism similar to the old Home View > circle, where there was a space allocated to each open

Re: Feedback on Measure (was Re: Another pass through some basic Activity test results)

2008-09-29 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Erik Blankinship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Do you need to do that for each window? Why don't you just listen for >> that signal in just the main activity window and stop everything when >> gtk.gdk.VISIBILITY_FULLY_OBSCURED and resume when otherwise? > > > Full

Re: Stability and Memory Pressure in 8.2

2008-09-30 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 4:13 AM, S Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On September 8th, Michael Stone wrote: >> Kim, Greg, and I have concluded that the instability we experience under >> memory-pressure in 8.2-759 and similar is the single "hard" issue that >> we wish to _attempt_ to address before

Re: Flash tests

2008-09-30 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
and 656 (Uruguay image) if the instructions are different for > each. > > Thanks, > > Greg S > > Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >> >> 2008/9/16 Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> We need to characterize the performance and

Re: Flash tests

2008-09-30 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 7:37 PM, John Watlington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just checked Flash10 with 8.2-765. > > The results are the same as with earlier versions of Flash: The flash games in the ceibal tests are still unplayable, but their performance is greatly improved, just go back to

Re: Flash tests

2008-09-30 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
ROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Sep 30, 2008, at 1:53 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 7:37 PM, John Watlington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> wrote: >>>> The video in "Hulk Central Smashdown" shows only two >>>&

Re: why are removable storage devices just an adjunct ?

2008-10-01 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 6:01 AM, Mikus Grinbergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Applications which I intend to use in the near future I keep > "resident" (Sugar Activities in /home/olpc/Activities, Linux > applications on my "permanent" SD card). Those I access rarely I > keep on a removable storage

Re: Joyride and 9.1 development

2008-10-07 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > is joyride open for 9.1 development now? Also, should we start work on rebasing on F10? Regards, Tomeu ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lis

Re: Stability and Memory Pressure in 8.2

2008-10-07 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 12:50 PM, S Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 contai

Re: notes on Journal feedback (was Re: Bundle activity)

2008-10-07 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Erik Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 09:17:16AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 10:40 PM, Erik Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > When I was in Uruguay more teachers

Re: notes on Journal feedback (was Re: Bundle activity)

2008-10-07 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Erik Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 12:14:13PM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Erik Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 09:17:16AM +0200, Tomeu V

Re: notes from the field - Mongolia

2008-10-07 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Erik Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 11:20:04AM -0400, elana langer wrote: >> Hey Tech Community- >> >> I just wanted to give y'all some feedback from my experience in >> Mongolia. Feel free to contact me with any questions. Please excus

Re: [sugar] Give a Laptop, Change the World : G1G1 2008

2008-10-08 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 11:49 PM, Samuel Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The laptops feature the latest release of the Sugar window manager, ... I think we should be able to find a better term than "window manager", Matchbox is the window manager used in 8.2 and it hasn't been modified by OLPC

Re: [sugar] Give a Laptop, Change the World : G1G1 2008

2008-10-08 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
"environment"; the > latter actually sounds a little friendlier, to me.) I guess in platform Sugar would be supporting learning, where in environment Sugar would be where learning happens. I would vote for platform, as the learning really happens inside the user. Regards, Tomeu > -

Re: using synergy

2008-10-08 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 7:32 PM, Ed McNierney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul - > > Thanks very much for this help. I've been wanting to be a "real user" of my > XO more and this all helps me get pointed in the right direction. I'm also > hoping the two hours I spend each day working on my XO on

Slowness (was Re: notes from the field - Mongolia)

2008-10-09 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi Elana, you have brought a very needed point of view to this list. Let me try to start the process of translating your experience to actionable items. On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 5:20 PM, elana langer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1) Computers are slow - So I was in a Ger in the west part of Mongol

saving files (was Re: notes from the field - Mongolia)

2008-10-09 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi, On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 5:20 PM, elana langer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2) Can't save files - this should probably be the first item on my > list. It drives teachers and students crazy. They make something in an > application, take some pictures or write something and then have to go > thr

sugar and the digital age (was Re: notes from the field - Mongolia)

2008-10-09 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi Elana, On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 9:48 PM, elana langer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > d) Although I think building a tagging tool around kids natural ways > of thinking is really exciting, most teachers/schools/gov'ts are > really concerned that this OS isn't preparing kids for the digital age > p

journal is hard (was Re: notes from the field - Mongolia)

2008-10-09 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi, On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 5:20 PM, elana langer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 3) Basically - The journal is really hard for people/ kids to use over > a longer period of time. Kids and teachers can't find things that they > did unless it was done within the last 30 minutes. Could you please ela

Re: Trip Report: GNOME UI Hackfest

2008-10-10 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 9:40 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> (I don't think this says negative things about OLPC at all; children >> don't resist learning in this way.) > > Yet those Largo workers did somehow

Re: notes from the field - Mongolia

2008-10-10 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
2008/10/10 Deniz Kural <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This whole "why would you need a USB in mongolia?" conversation shows how > out of touch some people on this list are with the people the project is > trying to reach. Deniz, this list if composed by people from all around the world, some of which ha

Re: journal is hard (was Re: notes from the field - Mongolia)

2008-10-10 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
it's why everyone wants to save on a USB right away. Record creates several entries in the journal: one per video, one per photo, one per audio recording and one to tie them all together. Maybe this is confusing users? Thanks, Tomeu > On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 5:07 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL

Re: saving files (was Re: notes from the field - Mongolia)

2008-10-10 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
> I don't have enough > data from kids trying to do the same yet but hopefully I will see what > they do in the next weeks. Awesome, look forward for more feedback from you. Thanks, Tomeu > On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 5:04 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>

Re: Slowness (was Re: notes from the field - Mongolia)

2008-10-10 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
a > list of "dream field feedback" or something I can try to make that all > happen. Thanks, will keep asking questions. Tomeu > On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 4:59 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi Elana, >> >> you have brought a very neede

Re: UBIFS 8.2 image

2008-10-10 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Deepak Saxena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I have created an initial UBIFS 8.2 image that can be used for testing > and playing with. Tried it here on a B3. > * UBI is taking an extremely long time (~50s) to attach to the MTD > device on the XO I

Re: [sugar] 0.84/9.1 planning.

2008-10-11 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 9:33 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Just to clarify: like our "mini-conferences" in the past, the plan is >>> to have at least three days full of talks and hacking, so t

Re: journal is hard + sugar and the digital age

2008-10-11 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
2008/10/9 Carol Hussein Lerche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I think a lot of the frustration around the journal could be abated by > publishing a roadmap with actual projected times when each feature is > planned to be available for testing in a joyride and then projected release > number. Many of the e

Re: journal is hard + sugar and the digital age

2008-10-11 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 6:55 PM, Erik Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 12:13:02PM -0400, Eben Eliason wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Carlos Nazareno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Hi Tomeu. Some personal feedback: >> > >> >> 3) Basically - The journal is rea

Re: journal is hard + sugar and the digital age

2008-10-11 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Carlos Nazareno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Tomeu. Some personal feedback: > >> 3) Basically - The journal is really hard for people/ kids to use over >> a longer period of time. Kids and teachers can't find things that they >> did unless it was done within the l

enabling and disabling file compression

2008-10-13 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi Chris and Deepak, in Ubifs, I have tried unsetting the compression xattr on files, but reads were equally slow so I guess the contents weren't actually uncompressed. Even tried dd'ing to an empty existing file without the c attribute, but the result was the same. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Re: enabling and disabling file compression

2008-10-13 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 6:46 PM, Deepak Saxena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 13 2008, at 14:59, Tomeu Vizoso was caught saying: >> Hi Chris and Deepak, >> >> in Ubifs, I have tried unsetting the compression xattr on files, but >> reads were equally slo

Re: Fedora 10 for 9.1.0?

2008-10-14 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 6:49 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Jeremy Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 13:34 +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: >>> do we plan to rebase to F10 for 9.1.0? I'm ask

Re: Fedora 10 for 9.1.0?

2008-10-14 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Jeremy Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 13:34 +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: >> do we plan to rebase to F10 for 9.1.0? I'm asking because I'd need to >> know if I can depend on gtk 2.14... > > If not, then you're going to be basing on a Fe

Re: Reminder: Demo of next-gen journal ideas *tomorrow noon* @ 1cc

2008-10-15 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:09 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 2:41 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'll be giving a demo of some next-generation journal ideas (and code) >> at noon Wednesday at OLPC's 1cc offices. I'll make sure to have i

Re: Fedora 10 for 9.1.0?

2008-10-15 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Bert Freudenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am 15.10.2008 um 01:19 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > >> the distro landscape has changed a bit in the last few years, is it >> worth >> considering a jump to Ubuntu if it has a better fit for your release >> cycle? at th

Re: [Techteam] weekend 10/10

2008-10-15 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 3:11 AM, Deepak Saxena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 10 2008, at 11:44, Tomeu Vizoso was caught saying: >> - when the filesystem gets less empty, the jffs2 gc thread has to work >> a lot and steals a considerable amount of cpu to the rest of

Re: Fedora 10 for 9.1.0?

2008-10-15 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:30 AM, James Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:57:45AM +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote: >> Ubuntu also seems a much better fit in spirit than RedHat. > > Agreed. xodist could easily be used, and the OLPC specific RPMs could > be converted to .

Re: 9.1 Proposal: Security and Isolation

2008-10-20 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 9:53 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >* Persistent activity storage What does this mean? Thanks, Tomeu ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: 9.1 Proposal: Printing support

2008-10-20 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Robert Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Peter Krenesky (CC'd) from the Open Source Lab at Oregon State has >> discussed some printing basics with me, and may have already begun >> further research in this area. There is some info in the wiki on the >> subject: h

Re: Browse Activity cant't download files with accents on filename

2008-10-21 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:31 AM, Raúl Gutiérrez Segalés <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I searched trac and googled a little for this, so sorry if this is a known > issue. > > This is on build 765. When I try to download an attachment that has a > filename with accents Browse does nothing and I get t

Re: latest problems

2008-10-21 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 10:53 AM, elana langer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey there- > > I was at a school yesterday and it seemed like the three major > problems they faced were: > > 1) computer freezing constantly > 2) computers were missing their journal or the journal disappeared > 3) slownes

Re: Browse Activity cant't download files with accents on filename

2008-10-21 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Raúl Gutiérrez Segalés <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tomeu, > > On Mar, 21 de Octubre de 2008, 5:46 am, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:31 AM, Raúl Gutiérrez Segalés >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I s

Re: Software developers needed for OLPC Afghanistan

2008-10-22 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 7:42 AM, Svetlana Senajova <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Right now we are half way through setting up an open source localisation > team for Afghanistan and building the open source community. For those of > you who are more interested in remote contributions to Afghanistan

9.1 proposal: View source key everywhere

2008-10-23 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi, I think that with a small effort, we could implement something much better than what we have today. We have glorious plans for the view source key, but as no resources have been devoted to them, perhaps we should scale back and make sure that we provide the best we can today. And let the futu

Re: 9.1 Proposal: Top five performance problems

2008-10-24 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 2:05 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 1:56 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> * Activity startup is ridiculously slow. >> >> Design an API incompatible Activity class. Start from a very basic >> window and ad

Re: 9.1 Proposal: Top five performance problems

2008-10-24 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 7:04 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Marco, >> >> I did some basic profiling of my new rainbow code last night and >> discovered that, in the best case with the current codebase

Re: [sugar] 9.1 proposal: View source key everywhere

2008-10-27 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 9:19 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 9:33 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> sure, that's fine. but i think we need to keep thinking about >> how to support of non-, or not-fully-sugarized applications with >> every new feature we d

Re: 9.1 Proposal: Top five performance problems

2008-10-27 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Mitch Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Stone wrote: >> I did some basic profiling of my new rainbow code last night and >> discovered that, in the best case with the current codebase on XO, it >> costs about 0.5s/"1 exec(python)". Approximately 80% of th

Re: [sugar] Postponement of XOCamp Event to January

2008-10-30 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 6:06 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:52 PM, Ed McNierney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The OLPC XOCamp event being planned for November 17 – 21 is being postponed >> until January, 2009. The Fedora FUDCON conference is in Boston o

Re: [sugar] Sucrose 0.83.1 Development Release

2008-11-01 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 9:30 PM, S Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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? Sure. Hopefully

sugar 0.83 in joyride

2008-11-05 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Dear Masters of Joyride, have built updated sugar rpms and they seem to work fine on last joyrides. Built locally these rpms. Anybody sees any problem if I build them in the OLPC-3 branch? Or should be in F9? Or F10 if we intend to switch soon? What if we decide to do a 8.2.1 release? sugar-0.83

Re: sugar 0.83 in joyride

2008-11-05 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Masters of Joyride, > > have built updated sugar rpms and they seem to work fine on last joyrides. Marco pointed me out in #sugar that "work fine" may need some clarification. In fact, the f

Re: sugar 0.83 in joyride

2008-11-06 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
ounds good? If there's any problem with this, please explain. Thanks, Tomeu On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Masters of Joyride, > > have built updated sugar rpms and they seem to work fine on last joyrides. > > Built locally

Re: sugar 0.83 in joyride

2008-11-06 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Ed McNierney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This certainly seems like a reasonable solution. Awesome, how much time would it take to get implemented? Thanks, Tomeu > On Nov 6, 2008, at 10:16 AM, Chris Ball wrote: > >> Hi, >> >>> Hi again, I'm thinking that perhaps

Re: New XO-LiveCD Version 8.2 available

2008-11-06 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 4:48 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A new version of the XO-LiveCD is available. Thanks Wolfgang, I have updated http://sugarlabs.org/go/Supported_systems#Starch with this new release. Could you please check that you agree with it? Note that I had to remove the pub segme

new journal

2008-11-07 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi Scott, do you have any news for us about the work on your journal+datastore replacement? Thanks, Tomeu ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: upgrade to sugar-0.83

2008-11-10 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 6:10 AM, Carlos Nazareno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> We're mid-way through the upgrade to sugar-0.83. And even when that's >> done, there will be mucho breakage (see Tomeu's earlier post). > > Any chance latest Gnash can be integrated? Well, Gnash in this case is at the s

Re: sugar 0.83 in joyride

2008-11-10 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 4:10 AM, genesee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Daniel Drake-5 wrote: >> >> We're mid-way through the upgrade to sugar-0.83. And even when that's >> done, there will be mucho breakage (see Tomeu's earlier post). >> >> I think joyride will break often over the course of t

Re: [Server-devel] RW Compressed FUSE FSs? (Re: XS - XO archiving and backup)

2008-11-10 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Martin Langhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - Right now, the jffs2 fs can outstore the backup storage on highly > compressible content. Not a good look, and leading to all sorts of bad > scenarios. I would get a real journal and check for real which is the comp

Re: RW Compressed FUSE FSs? (Re: XS - XO archiving and backup)

2008-11-10 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Martin Langhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I would get a real journal and check for real which is the >> compressibility of the data that is actually there. &

updating telepathy in OLPC's F9-based images

2008-11-10 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi all, I'm having some trouble updating the telepathy packages in joyride, which is a prerequisite for updating sugar. My plan was to update the telepathy* packages in F9 to the sources of those packages in F10, but I'm having some trouble in getting commit permissions to do that. Perhaps that'

Re: updating telepathy in OLPC's F9-based images

2008-11-10 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Morgan Collett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:29, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm having some trouble updating the telepathy packages in joyride, >> which is a prereq

Re: sugar 0.83 in joyride

2008-11-10 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
in that case, keep trying explosive stuff ;) Joyride will be really broken for at least a couple of days, but soon (I hope) it will be usable by curious people who want to see where development is heading. Though will keep eating people's files and failing to do basic stuff for several months ;)

Re: ShoeBot (a free software DrawBot implementation) is out! Time to Sugarize some Ruby apps?

2008-11-11 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 7:17 PM, Samuel Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shoebot, a free-software version of the awesome Mac program DrawBot > (which relies heavily Cocoa), is finished. Thanks to David Crossland > who tipped me off to this. > http://www.tinkerhouse.net/shoebot/ > http://tinke

Re: Rebase joyride to Fedora 10

2008-11-12 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
th my suggestion of letting Sugar people to manage the builds, but I still cannot push to pilgrim, so I'm still blocking more often than the minimum necessary. Thanks, Tomeu From 02f289e4de5e962b39d24ff2f163ad15a13a79c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Rebase joyride to Fedora 10

2008-11-12 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Tomeu, > > > Looks like Dennis has put pilgrim to build from F10, but we are now > > failing because our sugar-evince requires a libpoppler older than what > > is in F10. > > Thanks to Dennis! > > > I would like to

Re: [Activities] ShoeBot (a free software DrawBot implementation) is out! Time to Sugarize some Ruby apps?

2008-11-12 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
2008/11/9 i i <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I am developing an activity using glade ,any method to load widget tree > instead of widgets in sugar activity bundle Hi, we don't have any special support for glade in Sugar, but it should work in the same way as in non-sugar apps. I think you can find some

Re: New joyride build 2544

2008-11-13 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi, this build is known not to work: (06:30:54 PM) marcopg_: X does not seem to start (06:31:00 PM) marcopg_: and I cannot login (06:31:25 PM) marcopg_: it asks for a password Regards, Tomeu On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Build Announcer v2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://xs-dev.laptop.o

Re: New joyride build 2544

2008-11-13 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 6:44 PM, Peter Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> -sugar 0.82.9-1.fc10 >> +sugar 0.83.2-1.olpc4 >> -sugar-artwork 0.82.3-1.fc10 >> +sugar-artwork 0.83.1-1.olpc4 >> -sugar-base 0.82.2-1.fc10 >> +sugar-base 0.83.1-1.olpc4 >> -sugar-datastore 0.8.3-2.fc10 >> +sugar-datastor

Re: New joyride build 2544

2008-11-13 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Peter Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there a reason the new sugar can't go upstream into F-10? >>> >>> It's very unstable code and contains several big regressions, as of today. >>> >>> F-10 being on feature freeze, I guess it won't be allowed in. >> >>

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