Re: some first impressions

2007-08-13 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Hello, OLCP just had a summer intern, Arjun Sarwal, who developed some low-cost gadgets to plug into the mic port - temperature sensor, intrusion detector, etc. He plans to document them and set up a framework for documenting other similar hacks. Ohh, that is cool. We would be happy

Re: some first impressions

2007-08-16 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Arjun, 1) eToys: It would be very nice to have support for Analog Input in eToys. You could use my code - See http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=projects/measure;a=blob_plain;f=audioGrab.py;hb=HEAD (getting samples) and

Re: some first impressions

2007-08-16 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Mitch, Thank you. As I wrote on http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/2800, what we would like to have is C functions. Then, I can wrap them as Squeak primitives. Probably I can just rip these functions from amixer, but if you can tell me which, that would be good! This is the

Re: Some discussion on education

2007-08-16 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Hello, Elijah, http://squeakland.org/pipermail/squeakland/2007-August/003717.html This discussion might make you think that claiming a video chat app as the killer app is not a very compelling pitch as an educational project... video chat alone, not so useful. video chat

Re: Pippy and Calculate

2007-09-04 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Albert, I think addressing the man-power problem sounds better. Undocumented needlessly non-standard interfaces and a lack of non-Python examples could have something to do with that. Outsiders are not getting a warm welcome, and you're seeing the natural result of that. ??? I was

Re: Pippy and Calculate

2007-09-04 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Jameson, Thanks! Having a simple plotter combined with Pippy would be a good idea. Even just making a character/console based plotter would give kids a lot to learn, at the same time. The one place Calculator is clearly better than Pippy is as a nice simple Sugar example app, we can let

Re: [sugar] Pippy and Calculate

2007-09-05 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Reinier, Firstly, I apologize if my first email sounded too harsh to you. (It definitely didn't mean to be personal.) Being the main Calculate developer, I don't agree on your opinion about Calculate. I think it deserves to be a separate activity. It's true that it was a little

Re: [sugar] Pippy and Calculate

2007-09-05 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Hello, Walter, Thank you for the comment. (1) Especially for young children who are just beginning to read and write, imposing Python and its syntax on them is to high of a hurdle for accessing a calculator; Yes. But, Pippy can pretend that it is not about Python at first. The user

Re: Pippy and Calculate - Evolution Solution

2007-09-07 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Albert, Oh, good. You weren't simply trying to flame the discussion after all^^; For now, let me just jump to the last part... Imagine if the functions that are available in the Calculate mode (such as sin, sqrt, etc.) are actually defined in a way that kids can understand (for

Re: Pippy and Calculate - Evolution Solution

2007-09-07 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Mitch, Remember the famous quote from Jerome Bruner: We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development. Sounds more like a statement of faith than a falsifiable

Re: Pippy and Calculate - Evolution Solution

2007-09-07 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Albert, Again, this is not a criticism toward Reinier, but rather toward the fact that keeping up with the rate of change that Sugar and the UI guideline is not something a volunteer developer can easily cope with. Calculate is in Python, isn't it? Sugar and UI changes are deadly

Re: Pippy and Calculate - Evolution Solution

2007-09-07 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Hi, James, I'm in Australia. In our school system we use lowest common denominator, class based teaching ... advancement in knowledge and skill beyond the plan for the year is socially punished. Wow. Sounds like Japan. Bright kids learned to hide their ability. However, even with

Re: Pippy and Calculate - Evolution Solution

2007-09-08 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Ivan, You can almost tell that he is pretty much the only guy who is interested in supporting outside developers. That isn't fair. I speak on behalf of the entire OLPC team when I say that we're extremely interested in supporting outside developers. There's no question about it,

Re: Pippy and Calculate - Evolution Solution

2007-09-09 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Ivan, There were virtually no widespread public systems of education until the industrial revolution. Once they came about, they came about with a purpose: creating skilled industrial workers. I would say this part is too much generalization, but,,, That's broken. The reason the XO

Re: #3655 (Specify the order of the Activity taskbar icons)

2007-09-20 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Hello, We came across this bug ticket: https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/3655 - Specifically, the first 6 icons from the left should be (in order): Chat, Browse, Write, Record, Paint, TamtamJam? After that: Turtle Art, eToys, Pippy, Calculator, Measure, TamTamEdit?, SynthLab?,

Re: #3655 (Specify the order of the Activity taskbar icons)

2007-09-20 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Eben, Thank you for responding. I admit that just reading a short description of a bug track ticket may miss the context behind it, but anyway here goes: Specifically, the first 6 icons from the left should be (in order): Chat, Browse, Write, Record, Paint, TamtamJam? After that:

Re: #3655 (Specify the order of the Activity taskbar icons)

2007-09-22 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
SJ, I'd say... our priority (or our message) should be more on the hard fun items. What do you think? I largely agree. I would put persistent collaboration on a par with hard fun; but then I think multiplayer notepad is among the greatest games ever. And certainly combining

Re: #3655 (Specify the order of the Activity taskbar icons)

2007-09-23 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Hello, Mitch, I think that children will do what they consider fun, regardless of our priorities or message. This is almost FAQ, but have you heard of or read about Seymour's Mathland analogy? Like if parents have a lot of books in their house and read them, or play piano after dinner or

something went wrong in the file system

2007-10-12 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Hello, My B4 with 616 build went into some interesting state. I was copying some executable files to a directory (under /usr/local/lib/) from my USB memory and playing with it (for several iteration) from the Sugar console. But I terminate the executable and left the system idle for a

Massive mesh view?

2007-10-19 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Hello, Recently, I talked with some folks who are trying to do promotion of the give one get one program, and some issues (all are related) came up: - How many users can be shown in the mesh view? - If you limit the number of buddys on the view, how do you limit? - Are we going to have

Re: [Olpc-open] Massive mesh view?

2007-10-20 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Thank you Philip, There is a friends page along with the neighborhood view where you can add all of the people that are important to you. I know this answer, but this is not really the answer, right? From where do you add all of these people and how do you find the important people?

Re: Monday Ship Mtg update message

2007-10-25 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Hi, Kim, I waited until somebody else asks this, but seems that I need to ask^^; How serious is the next deadline? While Etoys did create a new branch after Trial-3 deadline and development is going into the branch, not all our team members are comfortable with the tools enough to

Re: StopWatch activity

2007-11-14 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Benjamin, 1. Clock is non-interactive. It doesn't make sense to share it, or save it to the journal, so I've disabled those features. Human being is good at finding differences, but drawing similarity out of seemingly different things is more fun if you know it. 2. I like small programs

Re: StopWatch activity

2007-11-14 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
What do people think of this distinction? To my prejudice, it sounds like a bad idea. If you have to do some operations on the laptop and wait many seconds just to check the current time, that sounds bad, too. There was an idea of having a little clock in the Sugar frame. How about

Re: StopWatch activity

2007-11-14 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Eben, If you have to do some operations on the laptop and wait many seconds just to check the current time, that sounds bad, too. The clock activity is wholly independent in my perspective from having a clock in Sugar. We still intend to incorporate that - the overhead of launching

A Clock project in Etoys

2007-11-15 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Hello, After having a conversation with one of my colleague (Ian), I couldn't resist, and I happened to have some spare time while helping a TA as an unofficial TA. So I made a Clock project in Etoys. The file is available at: http://dev.laptop.org/~yoshiki/etoys/Clock.004.pr One way

Re: Telling time (was: StopWatch activity)

2007-11-16 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Nick, At Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:13:34 -0500, nick knouf wrote: Bert Freudenberg writes: I question the very assumption that continuously telling the time is even remotely important on a learning machine for kids in elementary school age. Dealing with time is a critical life

Re: [Etoys] A Clock project in Etoys

2007-11-16 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
http://dev.laptop.org/~yoshiki/etoys/Clock.004.pr One way or another, please load it onto Etoys (on a non-XO environment, drag-and-drop from Finder or Explorer. On XO, access the URL with browse, copy it to a USB memory and resume it from Journal, Ugh, is downloading and resuming

Re: Telling time (was: StopWatch activity)

2007-11-16 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
-1 to the idea that we should deliberately leave out features in order to encourage kids to program. O, ye of little faith. I don't see anybody said this, but yes, that would be bad. The environment should come rich set of tools/widgets etc. that make the environment rich. Several clock

Re: Updates for Update.1 from Joyride

2007-11-20 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Jim, So in short, we're screwing down the lid on Update.1. But we likely have to do a Ship.2 build, and that on top of a feature release is a bad idea, so we'll let Update.1 slip and be sane about letting it be ready when it is ready, rather than having to throw it over the wall on

Re: some first impressions

2007-11-20 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Because somehow this email arrived to may inbox three months later,^^;, it is a good time to write a reminder. 1) eToys: It would be very nice to have support for Analog Input in eToys. For a month or so, Etoys has a support for Analog Input, in a sense that it can basically do what amixer

Acoustic distance measurement applications

2007-11-21 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Ben and everybody, The multiple-click problem prevented me from trying the acoustic distance measurement activity for a while, but finally I could do it last night on 637. Thi is pretty cool! This reminds me of a story I heard from my boss and I thought you would be interested in it, too:

Re: WSJ

2007-11-26 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Mike, but if a country wants to choose Classmates or EEEs, that's fine, we *still* want to help educate those children. Yes, I totally agree with this, and other sections on teacher training and documentation, etc., etc. * we should port to the other inexpensive laptops, if a

Re: WSJ

2007-11-26 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
It's not About the Hardware: In principle, that is true. In practice, it is the hardware that has been responsible for all the attention. Alan Kay once said: Reality is a low-pass filter. (High-frequency ideas cannot go through it.) If the project had been just a software

Re: kids cannot participate (was Re: WSJ)

2007-11-27 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
And, I see that one of the biggest downside of our software is that kids cannot participate the software development effort from their laptops (except...). If we are to look at different platforms, it is nice to think about easy support of on-laptop-development. I don't care if it is

clean installation of 643.

2007-11-28 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
I tried to do clean install of 643 and it failed. Actually, it worked for the first time. Then, I realized that I forgot to put Q2D05 firmware on my USB memory. So I put the .rom file and tried the clean installation again. Then during the boot process I got: -- Restoring

Re: Active activities as Widgets

2007-11-30 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Gerard, I am properly admonished and shall hold my performance speculations until my machines arrive. I just wanted to mention that it is not conceivable. (I even took a picture but forgot to put a link: http://dev.laptop.org/~yoshiki/pictures/pict0425.jpg ) The performance is

Re: Signed 648 (ship.2 release candidate)

2007-11-30 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
A signed copy of build 648, which is our ship.2 release candidate, is now at: http://download.laptop.org/xo-1/os/official/648/jffs2/ This build contains firmware q2d05, available separately at: http://dev.laptop.org/pub/firmware/q2d05/ Great! but sorry for my ignorance but what a

Re: Signed 648 (ship.2 release candidate)

2007-12-03 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
, so it might move to a more prominent position in the future. Regards, Kim On Dec 1, 2007 1:39 PM, Gerard J. Cerchio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexander M. Latham wrote: --- Yoshiki Ohshima wrote: Great! but sorry for my ignorance but what a signed copy means

Re: Signed 648 (ship.2 release candidate)

2007-12-04 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Hi, Kim, To start, I think it will be great to be on the olpc irc channel. We can also start an olpc-support channel and there are some people working on a 'community-support' mailing list (please sign up if you like). I signed up the mailing list. But the IRC is not what the Chat

Re: Signed 648 (ship.2 release candidate)

2007-12-04 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
: Yoshiki Ohshima wrote: I signed up the mailing list. But the IRC is not what the Chat activity on the XO uses, right? No, Chat is based on Jabber. (It uses PS's chat rooms, not 1-1 IM, and the rooms for activities are obscurely named as they use the activity ID in the JID, so while

Re: Official signed ship.2 candidate 650

2007-12-05 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Official signed images for build 650 are now at: http://download.laptop.org/xo-1/os/official/650/jffs2/ You can also use: olpc-update 650 From what version should I try this? Naturally my B4s are loaded with 135x. Should I install (signed?) 648 and Q2D05 first? -- Yoshiki

Re: Status of Develop.activity?

2007-12-05 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
The old 8-bit computer BASIC editors often would simply refuse to let you enter bad syntax. The language was also quite easy. Sorry to all the LISP fans out there, but 220 GOTO 200 is really easy for kids to understand. The XO is sorely lacking in something so easy to use. The other stuff

Re: Voice IM project proposal

2007-12-12 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Just as a reminder, there is push-to-talk already built into EToys, though I haven't tried it for awhile--it certainly used to work just fine. Ah, yes. I remember that now. We are not exactly happy with the UI and the push-to-talk nature and unoptimized long latency, but it still seems to

Re: [Etoys] Smalltalk development on XO

2007-12-14 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Karl, Any comments are welcome. Thank you! Looks really good. I noticed a few issues with the code representation. Maybe add a link to http://squeakbyexample.org/ Oh, I meant to say any comments and corrections are welcome. Please edit and fix! -- Yoshiki

Re: Give One Get One laptop for software development

2007-12-23 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Danilo, I'm a student at State University of Campinas, Brazil. I'm researching efficient implementation of Elliptic Curve Cryptography in constrained environments. I'm working with an ARM XScale PXA270 platform but would like also to work with a x86-based constrained platform. I think the

Re: Conway's Life activity

2007-12-24 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
That reminds me of a version in Etoys. http://dev.laptop.org/~yoshiki/etoys/LifeGame.006.pr The nice thing about Etoys version is that you can edit the rule dynamically by drag-and-drop while the simulation is running. You can just try what-if simualtions whenever you like. On some

Re: Conway's Life activity

2007-12-24 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Hi, Ross, I think it would be neat to have a dedicated activity for it, with the ability to save interesting patterns in the journal, and so forth. I'm not sure if a dedicated activity is neater or not (I know people who would say yes), but it is surely possible with the Etoys version to

Re: Give One Get One laptop for software development

2007-12-25 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Jake, How do you swap out the window manager? I missed the question earlier, sorry. The simplest thing is to edit /usr/bin/olpc-session. The last line of it reads currently: exec /usr/bin/sugar You can change it so that: #exec /usr/bin/sugar twm exec

Re: Give One Get One laptop for software development

2007-12-25 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Edward, a. There isn't enough room for the RPM on the base 1 GB hard drive. This, and what you wrote to the Ruby mailing list makes me think that there is some differerence between your environment and a typical installment on XO. A clean installation of later Update.1 gives me about 65%

Re: Classroom tools

2008-01-15 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
be essential addition to the current OLPC effort. -- Yoshiki At Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:13:58 -0800, Edward Cherlin wrote: On Jan 14, 2008 10:06 PM, Yoshiki Ohshima [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But let me say one more thing. Making use of constructionism theory doesn't means the unnecessity

Re: Classroom tools

2008-01-19 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
At Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:11:40 -0800, Edward Cherlin wrote: At the schoolroom level, the difference is between knowing rules for manipulating variables, and understanding what a variable is. (Basically, a variable name is a pronoun that can refer to a different number each time it is used.)

Re: [sugar] Using Matplotlib in Measure Activity

2008-02-02 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
At Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:38:01 -0500, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 01:32 -0500, Arjun Sarwal wrote: For some time I have been thinking about extending the functionality of Measure Activity into a tool that also allows for graphical analysis of data acquired not just

Re: Activity hosting application: Time

2008-02-03 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
At Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:16:04 -0600, Jason Rock wrote: 1. Project name : Time Sounds good! 5. URLs of similar projects : None that I know of You might have looked at Clock and concluded that these are substantially different, but you know the Clock activity, right? (It

Re: Activity hosting application: Time

2008-02-03 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Hi, Jason, I filed a ticket sometime ago (http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5255). I sure wish something like this will be incorporated. I think this should be covered in the dragability of each individual hand. Very good! Another ticket that seems to inspire you

Re: Activity hosting application: Time

2008-02-04 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Hi, Jason, Translating the 12 hour to 24 hour notation of the submission to whichever the other player is using shouldn't be a problem. Also the game isn't time zone dependent. Translating these isn't a big problem technically, yes. Again, I was just thinking that that wouldn't be the

Re: How to create a new MIME type for a Sugar activity?

2008-02-05 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Hello, 1). The Etoys activity does not try to open the file, at all, ever. EToys takes a long time to start up and shut down and it is really annoying when I open the file with EToys instead of my own activity. For for the record, Etoys doesn't take a long time to start up. It is the

Re: Activity hosting application: Time

2008-02-05 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Hi, Jason, My point is that to get kids understand the sense of time, the programmer doesn't have to build a single the game; like what you have on the wiki page, in a game, a kids walks up to the blackboard and write something. There, if the activity has simple yet

Re: How to create a new MIME type for a Sugar activity?

2008-02-11 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
At Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:35:59 +, Martin Dengler wrote: Is there a possibility to make a distinction between ability to handle and claims [as the default handler]? As an outsider / random developer, I understand why Etoys should declare it can handle, say, text/html, but I don't

Re: How to create a new MIME type for a Sugar activity?

2008-02-11 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Albert, The MIME type of application/zip works, but Etoys is using that one too. Whatever you invent, Etoys will claim it in the next release. It does not matter if Etoys has any ability to handle the data. No. If it is something that somebody invent for their app, we don't have to

Re: Open Simulator with Physics Engine

2008-02-20 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
It is not something done with a physics engine, but there are a few particle systems written in Etoys. For example, if you launch Etoys, click on Gallery of Projects, and click on the thumbnail third from the left in the bottom row. It is an ideal gas simulation (in 2D). You can modify the

Re: [OLPC library] Lieutenant Governor Pat Quinn on HB5000

2008-04-10 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
There was been strong Etoys experiment going in Illinois, especially at Columbia College and UIUC. I don't know how much olpc-chicago overlaps with that group, but it would be nice to be able to say that we already have been doing the test of (a part of) software long time in the state. --

Re: [OLPC library] Lieutenant Governor Pat Quinn on HB5000

2008-04-11 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
At Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:10:45 -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Yoshiki Ohshima [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There was been strong Etoys experiment going in Illinois, especially at Columbia College and UIUC. Excellent. Can you point us to some groups

Re: [Community-news] on Sugar

2008-04-23 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
At Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:47:09 +0200, Hilaire Fernandes wrote: 2008/4/23 Korakurider [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So I am assuming the policy would apply to effort porting activities to windows. But this should make us much slower... Not necessary. Application developed within

Re: to be deployed Epaati version is out!

2008-04-24 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
I'm playing with Epaati-10 a bit. Entering Grade2/Math/Unit4/IIM4_2_money identification.011.pr and coming back (the instance of Project did get collected, but the accompanying PasteUpMorph serving as its world along with all objects and players are lingering. Now, I'm (again) looking at

Re: to be deployed Epaati version is out!

2008-04-24 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
And, compiling textual code, including class definition, etc. in the file out part of the project is quite slow. I noticed that some projects have seemingly unnecessary class definitions of Players (I don't know why these are there), and if you can eliminate them in one way or another (you can

Re: Auto backlight management?

2008-04-24 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
At Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:43:53 -0400, John Watlington wrote: Bert misread the spec. When the backlight is switched off, the screen automatically switches to BW mode. Why would you want to take that out of the control of the user ? Did he misread the spec? What you wrote here and what

Re: 15 computer science collegians looking for a project

2008-04-29 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
We are a group of 15 collegians, studying 'Applied Computer Science' at the University of Applied Sciences in Iserlohn (Germany) and we are looking for a project for the OLPC within the scope of our subject Computer-Networks. Our professor (Prof. Martin Hühne) let us choose our own topic,

Re: very simple datastore reimplementation

2008-05-13 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
and that's it. It's a trivial thing, will work on any fs, on any OS, no magic tricks needed. We can do fast searches on based on the documents metadata, and the only slow op is mounting a device where the documents metadata is stale or missing. I like along this line, too. In fact, Journal

Re: View Source question

2008-05-16 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
What's the best path for making an activity 'view source' friendly? Reverse engineering from Chat, which is? Some other way? Perhaps you could write it in Squeak. The entire dynamic and static state and environment including source code is readily available for viewing to the user, and you

Re: [Etoys] squeak image sometimes takes very long to be responsive after XO suspend

2008-05-17 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Basically when coming out of suspend, the Squeak process takes up lots of cpu power and can be unresponsive for about a minute on build 703 (other builds not yet tested). Hmm. Interestingly, windows VM has similar problem. If you suspend Windows with Squeak running, resuming takes long

Re: View Source question

2008-05-18 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Indeed, that is one of the virtues of Squeak. Python was somewhat of a compromise in this respect, but it has the virtual that opens up ready access to most of the rest of the GNU/Linux world. I'm not sure if Python has that edge over Squeak, but probably it does. Alas, this is a feature

contents (Re: View Source question)

2008-05-19 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Creating content that is culturally and personally meaningful to children across the world is a huge challenge. The thorny issue of content has also been a subject of debate from the very beginning. The gist of the debate was in regard to the proper balance between OLPC providing content

Re: View Source question

2008-05-19 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
So, I'm really not (at this time) interested in peeling layers, or that it's a no-brainer in squeak, or frankly (again at this time) deeper implications or philosophy. The philosophy is interesting and challenging, but I just want to figure out how to implement a feature that the XO was

Re: Video from last week's country meetings.

2008-05-29 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Please let me know the exact URL you had trouble viewing, and double-check the sizes against the index listing on http://download.laptop.org/content/conf/20080520-country-wkshp/Video/2008-05-20/ to ensure you have the whole file. There are multiple versions of each talk, and it's possible

Re: [squeak-dev] Re: squeak image sometimes takes very long to be responsive after XO suspend

2008-06-04 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Tomeu and all, At Fri, 16 May 2008 13:53:16 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Ties Stuij [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Basically when coming out of suspend, the Squeak process takes up lots of cpu power and can be unresponsive for about a minute on build 703

Re: [squeak-dev] Re: squeak image sometimes takes very long to be responsive after XO suspend

2008-06-04 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
I forgot to mention one thing. So, Ties, you might be already doing this, but one workaround for the problem is to instruct kids not to touch the keys or touchpad when the unit is suspended... -- Yoshiki ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org

Re: Unicode for Etoys

2008-06-19 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
At Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:05:13 -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: Trac Issue #4011 Put the Pango support for Etoys in place. is marked for Update 2. What is the holdup? This is a blocker for Mongolian Cyrillic, Greek http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/greece/using_xos_in_greece.html, Ethiopian

Re: fixing etoys

2008-06-24 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
At Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:16:22 -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: Here are some ideas that might help you fix some of the problems with start-up performance, shut-down performance, open source, and software engineering practices. First, Etoys' start up time is very fast. And shutdown/saving could

Re: [IAEP] etoys now available in Debian's non-free repository

2008-06-24 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
After seeing that Jim Gettys and Alan Kay combined failed to convince a guy on a software issue, it is uncertain that how much I can add^^; But here goes: At Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:04:36 +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote: Am 24.06.2008 um 23:12 schrieb Frank Ch. Eigler: The gist of the

Re: [IAEP] fixing etoys

2008-06-25 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Yoshiki Ohshima wrote: Again, start up time is not a problem. Etoys start up looks a bit slow on XO, but that is because the DBus communication that has to be done. I frequently hear DBus being accused of latency. As badly implemented as it might be, I can't believe a daemon

Re: etoys implementation

2008-06-25 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Hi, John, My only experience with Squeak/eToys up til now was trying it on the OLPC as a naive user. Poking at objects on the screen with the handles, since that was the only tutorial offered. The way the darn thing saved its workspace in the friggin Journal whenever you tried to quit it

Re: etoys implementation

2008-06-25 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
John, I separated the real Etoys implementation part from your email. Hopefully it helps to focus on different aspects of discussion. It took some searching, but I found a paper on the design of the guts of Squeak: ftp://st.cs.uiuc.edu/Smalltalk/Squeak/docs/OOPSLA.Squeak.html I

Re: etoys implementation

2008-06-25 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
There's also a warning at http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak that if you want to run eToys, you need to run a different version of Squeak than everybody else. *That* is Etoys. What is wrong with it? Just out of curiosity: Exactly how is it different from vanilla squeak? (If

Re: etoys implementation

2008-06-25 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
At Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:09:12 -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Can gst bring in a .sources file and a .changes file and create a working image? It doesn't have to. It builds gst.im from scratch at every bootstrap. If squeak/etoys did

Re: [IAEP] etoys now available in Debian's non-free repository

2008-06-25 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
At Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:12:23 -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: The gist of the argument is that one can't currently know what's really inside an etoys image, except beyond what it itself tells us, BTW, have you now understood that this was not true? -- Yoshiki

Re: [IAEP] etoys now available in Debian's non-free repository

2008-06-25 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
After writing the most of reply here, I found it now largely off-topic (thanks to Frank for understanding!) At Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:00:24 -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: Yoshiki Ohshima [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The gist of the argument is that one can't currently know what's really

Re: etoys now available in Debian's non-free repository

2008-06-26 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Albert, Before drifting to a new topic, let me make sure one thing; did you get convinced that FSF's definition of software freedom doesn't contradict with a binary image file with right tools to fully explore/understand/modify it? If not, please explain. If so, I understand that you

Re: etoys now available in Debian's non-free repository

2008-06-26 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Albert, The very foundation of the Linux development community (which Squeak developers are asking to be accepted by) includes an expectation that software can be handled in certain ways. I don't know if it is *very* foundation, yeah there is an expectation. I know it because I was one

A greater cause (Re: etoys now available in Debian's non-free repository)

2008-06-26 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Hello, Sorry for causing some email traffic last a few days. We, everybody who are participating the project, including Albert, John, Bert and myself, are working for a greater cause; that is to empower children all over the world via computer technology and education. There are some

Re: etoys now available in Debian's non-free repository

2008-06-27 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
At Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:47:11 -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Albert Cahalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm glad that Debian didn't break the rules for etoys. You're claiming to be open source, yet you've LOST the source code decades ago. This turns out not

Re: etoys now available in Debian's non-free repository

2008-06-27 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
At Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:43:45 -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: I think that the result of all this is that we can produce all of the C (or some other language, maybe CLOS) and Smalltalk source files that Debian wants (even if we think of the C as compiler output, we don't have to bother them with

Re: etoys now available in Debian's non-free repository

2008-06-27 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Hi, Edward, Thank you (again) for thinking about these things! Well, now I see a reply from Alan. I'll try to concentrate on the pure technical part. I think that the result of all this is that we can produce all of the C (or some other language, maybe CLOS) and Smalltalk source

Re: etoys now available in Debian's non-free repository

2008-06-27 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Albert, You'd be all set if you had Smalltalk source code that you could feed into any random Smalltalk system to create your build tools. While I happen to like C, and it's a very popular way to achieve the required ability to bootstrap, it isn't needed. You even get a certain amount of

Re: P.S. Re: [IAEP] etoys now available in Debian's non-free repository

2008-06-28 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Continuing with the biological analogy, the folks who want to be able to bootstrap a Squeak/etoys image (starting from 'scratch' without such an image) want literally to be able to make ontogeny recapitulate phylogeny -- not necessarily every time an image starts, possibly not necessarily

Re: Scratch localization.

2008-08-27 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
At Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:54:18 +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote: Am 27.08.2008 um 18:38 schrieb C. Scott Ananian: Scratch appears to require manual editing of the Scratch.ini file in order to come up in a language other than English. Is there any way I can pass a command-line option in

Re: Clock activity? Activities about time?

2008-09-01 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
At Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:38:19 -0400, Chris Ball wrote: Hi Bastien, is there a Sugar activity displaying a simple clock? Yes; search for Clock on http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities. What activities can be used to teach things about time? (seconds, minutes, hours, days,

Re: idea for running out of RAM

2008-09-23 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
At Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:57:36 -0700, Deepak Saxena wrote: On Sep 23 2008, at 03:40, Albert Cahalan was caught saying: Determining the RAM requirement for an activity goes something like the following: awk '/Dirty/{x+=$2} END{print x}' /proc/12345/smaps (after exercising all

Re: [sugar] G1G1 Pre-installed Activities Request for Help Testing

2008-09-25 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
BTW, the spreadsheet is at http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=p_Xhb6KcXLyEViA50CnCaDghl=en So by that metric, Terminal is the best activity. Huh? Yeah. Do these numbers mean anything? What is the point of averaging unrelated numbers? Averaging lines of code score and usability

Re: [sugar] G1G1 Pre-installed Activities Request for Help Testing

2008-09-25 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
At Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:37:09 -0500, Sameer Verma wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Yoshiki Ohshima [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, the spreadsheet is at http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=p_Xhb6KcXLyEViA50CnCaDghl=en So by that metric, Terminal is the best activity. Huh

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