I'm still trying to get a handle on initrd myself. Is it safe to say that
most modern initrd images are actually initramfs images?
bp
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Martin Langhoff
wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Martin
> Langhoff wrote:
> > With these minor changes, we are now build
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Martin
Langhoff wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Martin
> Langhoff wrote:
>> Seems one of my roles in life is to find all the oddities in Python.
>> Hints from truly experienced Pythonistas welcome.
>
> Feels good to blame Python, but after a walk outside I
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Deepak Saxena wrote:
>
> I've spent some time merging the XO-1 and XO-1.5 kernels into a new
> branch and made some tweaks to the in-kernel RPM build scripts. From
> now on, all development for both XO-1 and XO-1.5 will be done on the
> olpc-2.6.30 branch of the olpc
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Peter Robinson wrote:
>> > >> I tried to summarize the issues here:
>> > >> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Bootanim
>> > >>
>> > >> is there more I should address? how would you avoid using
>> > >> VT_WAITACTIVE? I have some free time, so I can try to fix these ov
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Daniel Drake wrote:
> 2009/6/3 Tomeu Vizoso :
>> Maybe you are seeing the issue discussed here?
>>
>> http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2009-May/024414.html
>
> I think so too, but an explanation of what is on the screen at the
> point of the hang would not go
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Guylhem Aznar wrote:
> Hello
>
> "A" boards had CN18 to select the output between VGA and LCD.
> It is no longer presnt on the boards. How can it be implemented?
> (strip wire, software, ... ?)
>
> For the VGA plug, I'd also be interested in a P/N to get one from
>
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Chris Marshall
wrote:
> I would like to upgrade my XO to boot from
> an SD install of the OS. Is there a way
> to transfer the identity information from
> the original install to the SD boot so that:
>
> (1) XO colors are the same
> (2) Nickname is the same
> (3)
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 7:45 AM, Christoph Wickert
wrote:
> I'm afraid with Gnome installed by default there won't be much space
> left to install anything else.
The DebXO Gnome install size is ~ 1.5 GB, which would leave 2.5 GB or
~ 60% free disk space. (Remember this whole discussion is about t
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 8:36 PM, John Watlington wrote:
>
> On Apr 28, 2009, at 8:16 PM, da...@lang.hm wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, John Watlington wrote:
>>
>>> On Apr 28, 2009, at 7:31 PM, da...@lang.hm wrote:
>>>
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, James Cameron wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Tiago Marques wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 19:27, Tiago Marques wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 8:24 PM, John Watlington wrote:
>> >>
>> >> OLPC is excited to announce that a refres
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:04 PM, Neil Graham wrote:
> 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
>>
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Daniel Drake wrote:
> 2009/3/1 Bobby Powers :
> > I can't seem to get ul-warning to come up properly, so if anyone can
> > tell me what I'm doing wrong that would be great. I've got it to work
> > by manually placing some s
e process
would be toward getting it at least in the Rawhide/SOAS images, but it
seems pretty low risk (assuming someone can tell me what I'm doing
wrong w.r.t. ul-warning).
yours,
Bobby
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 3:03 AM, Mitch Bradley wrote:
> Cool!
>
> Bobby Powers wrote:
>>
>
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Wade Brainerd wrote:
> RLE (run length encoding) compresses sequences of identical pixels ("runs")
> as value/count pairs.
> So abbccc would be stored as 1a 10b 3c.
> The decompressor looks like:
> while (cur < end)
> {
>unsigned short count = *cur++;
>
2009/2/19 Wade Brainerd :
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 1:22 PM, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
>>
>> I'd suggest just uncompressing the various image files and re-timing
>> as a start. The initial implementation was uncompressed, but people
>> complained about space usage on the emulator images (which are
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 1:22 PM, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> I'd suggest just uncompressing the various image files and re-timing
> as a start. The initial implementation was uncompressed, but people
> complained about space usage on the emulator images (which are
> uncompressed). The current code
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 2:01 AM, Mitch Bradley wrote:
> I just measured the time taken by the boot animation by the simple
> technique of renaming /usr/bin/rhgb-client so the initscripts can't find it.
how did you measure exactly? stopwatch? I'd like to recreate the
tests. It sounds like you did
2009/2/7 Tiago Marques :
> On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 12:40 AM, S Page wrote:
>>
>> Tiago Marques wrote:
>>>
>>> That software is still not compiled for the Geode LX, which further
>>
>> slows it down.
>>>
>>> As you say, everything uses CPU on the Geode. Things like
>>
>> decompressing can be made, p
I wrote:
> I've ported the patch to upstart's bzr trunk (it applies cleanly to
> 0.5.0), and scratch-built some rpms:
> https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1106475
>
> The patch is here, along with the srpm and spec file:
> http://dev.laptop.org/~bobbyp/upstart/
>
> Of note, I had t
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 05:53:14PM -0500, Chris Ball wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>> > This is Fedora's initramfs, right?
>>
>>Right.
>>
>> > Peter's suggestion is to use pilgrim to create rawhide builds,
>> > hence using the olpc initramfs.
>>
>>Tha
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz
wrote:
> This gives us Linux users a bit of a dilemma if we want to use FTL flash
> for primary storage. FAT does not provide the file access permissions,
> symlinks, hardlinks, or even case sensitivity, that we desire for most
> filesystems on
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 7:55 PM, wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, Martin Langhoff wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 1:03 PM, wrote:
>>> Ok, what tools can I use to satisfy you of this 'opinion' that
>>> applications start faster on either KDE or GNOME than on Sugar on the same
>>> hardware.
>>>
>>>
2009/2/2 Tiago Marques :
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 4:03 AM, Mitch Bradley wrote:
>>
>> Guess what? The people at OLPC, who aren't stupid, already considered
>> every point in the message cited below, a long time ago. So why aren't
>> we doing them? ...* *On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 9:57 PM, Carlos Naz
hello all,
I just installed candidate-25 of 8.2.1, and while it works flawlessly
in my limited testing, DebXO doesn't like prettyboot. I've tried
creating an initscript to echo 0 to /sys/devices/platform/dcon/freeze,
locating it in /etc/init.d, and creating an appropriately named
symlink in /etc/
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Carlos Nazareno wrote:
>> People say they buy computers to work, but by and large they really
>> buy them to play. And geodes
>> wont run modern games so they aren't selling.
>
> Before the term DDOS came into use, there was only the Slashdot effect
> where entire
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Peter Robinson wrote:
> Just thought I'd post my understanding of where the packages are at
> based on the list that was created at FUDCon
>
> For reference see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OLPC/Packages_for_F11
>
> Also there's the OLPCDelta tracking bug in RHB
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 1:53 AM, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
wrote:
> Want to exchange files between your desktop and your XO laptop? It can't
> get any easier!
>
> In the latest version of Cerebro (currently 3.0.3) you will find
> simplified file sharing and buddy management. Just click on the bud
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Erik Garrison wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 04:42:48PM -0500, Greg Smith wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Thanks for all the feedback on my questions about what it would take to
> > run a slimmed down Fedora 10 on the XO NAND.
> >
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/f
(to dig this back up)
I have a similar situation here at my university - WPA2 enterprise w/
PEAP/MSCHAPv2. My Macbook Pro with F9 couldn't connect, neither can my XO
(running F9, DebXO, or 8.2), but my Macbook Pro with F10 connects fine.
I assume this is due to Network Manager .7 in F10. Any wor
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 10:06 PM, Ed McNierney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes, that's exactly the point. We currently offer developer keys by
> postal mail for users who do not have Internet access, but users
> without Internet access cannot get the instructions on how to make
> such a request.
On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 9:05 PM, Mikus Grinbergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Daniel writes:
>> On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 12:13 AM, Mikus Grinbergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> genesee writes:
NetworkManager-0.7 and/or NetworkManager-glib killed my Neigborhood view.
>>>
>>> Same problem here.
>>
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 12:12 AM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 04:35:30PM -0500, David Farning wrote:
>>On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Actually, for a variety of reasons, I'm working quite hard to make
>>> rainbow
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 8:03 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Several activities needs a web view and currently duplicate a lot of
> Browse code to implement one. This is a maintenance nigthmare. I would
> like to provide a trivial way to create such activities using
> sugar-t
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Edward Cherlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't mind if the G1G1 donors have the option to participate in
> testing secured laptops, but I utterly reject the notion that we can
> jerk customer/donors around like this without their permission in
> advance. They _
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 2:59 AM, Carlos Nazareno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ugh.
>
> Okay, in an attempt to get sound working with Gnash 8.3.0
> (preinstalled with build 766), I did the following:
>
> su
> wget http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-9.rpm
> rpm -vi livna-release-9.rpm
>
> Now livna is
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Carlos Nazareno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi guys! I'm a volunteer for OLPC Philippines and I'm very new here.
>
> Our project, OLPC XO as a Flash gaming/educational gaming platform
> (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects/Flash_Gamedev) got approved and we
> just r
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Build Announcer v2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2497
>
> Changes in build 2497 from build: 2495
>
> Size delta: 0.00M
>
> -olpc-library-common 1-29
> +olpc-library-common 1-21
any reason for the large versi
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 3:47 AM, S Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey activity maintainers,
>
> I shrank the wasteful junky layout slightly and got rid of all the
> warning triangles for empty values. If you see any yellow triangles
> after updating your activity page, please let me know.
than
very cool!
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Antoine van Gelder
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 1. Project name : XO-Lambda
> 2. Existing website, if any : http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO-Lambda
> 3. One-line description : XO-Lambda is a simple Lisp interpreter
> for the OLPC XO-1
> 4. Lo
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 3:40 AM, Albert Cahalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> For the zillionth time, my kids brought my XO to a halt. They started
> up two copies of Tux Paint and two copies of Colors! (BTW, boy do I
> hate names with built-in sentence-ending punctuation) The end result
> is that t
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Eben Eliason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm paying attention to this thread, quietly. I like a lot of this.
> :) I'll let it continue without interfering, for now, but I wanted to
> point out that the new toolbar design (posted on the wiki) would make
> that "mo
it generally looks great seth.
the only thing I don't get is the 'record' shaped button up top that
is labeled home. It seems to actually be linked to back. is this
intentional, or the case of too much to do, too little time?
yours,
Bobby
2008/9/23 adam hyde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> congrats all!
I'm curious as to why the olpc specific numpy, python and python-lib
rpms didn't make it into 761/2. are they too risky?
bobby
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 1:36 AM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 1:32 AM, Build Announcer v2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> http://p
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was hoping to be able to announce the availability of 8.2-761 but it
> does not seem to have been created over the weekend and I am unable to
> locate the required pilgrim and mock commits or changelog in any of
>
>d
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 12:13 AM, Benjamin M. Schwartz
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Let's keep thinking about this. For example, I wonder what Metacity does
>> to a window that is both _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN a
all my comments are directed at Gregs email, so I suppose I should
have replied to him... I hope this doesn't cause too much confusion...
bobby
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Bobby Powers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Walter Bender <[EMAIL
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Walter Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> For consideration in your testing: there are some ways to tune the
> performance of Flash, such as the video playback hack described here:
>
> http://olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=845.0
>
> I don't know if there are s
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 7:22 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Intentional?
yup, the monolithic library is being split into content bundles that
can be added with a customization stick, or added to images for e.g.
Peru or G1G1.
bobby
> Marco
>
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 8:09 A
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 2:11 AM, Build Announcer v2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2346
>
> Changes in build 2346 from build: 2344
>
> Size delta: 0.00M
>
> -libertas-usb8388-firmware 2:5.110.22.p17.1-1.olpc3
> +libertas-usb8388-firmware 2:5.
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 7:56 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Mikus Grinbergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> ... found that people are using
>>> 'org.laptop' as a prefix incorrectly (if everyone uses org.laptop as a
>>> prefix, then OLPC loses the a
I generally agree with Ed on this point, although I think it would be
even better if players could choose to cooperate and collaborate or
not, and when they choose to work together the outcome is clearly and
noticeably better. That is, make it a game that teaches collaboration
at the community, vi
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 7:54 PM, Martin Langhoff
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 3:31 AM, Gary C Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Just a quick double check – I take it that all yum attempted installs
>> will also be failing at the moment? Having re-flashed my XO last night
what will olpc bundler do?
bobby
2008/8/13 Henry Edward Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:48:10 -0400, Erik Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> May we please have a shared git repo named "olpc-bundler" for me (erik),
> sj, and mako?
>
> Done. Your tree is here:
> git+ssh://[EMA
I'm running 2249, are there suppose to be access points in the network
view? aside from that, awesome job so far!
bobby
On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 11:21 PM, Build Announcer v2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/faster/build2250
>
> Changes in build 2250 from bu
hello,
I believe this is the type of stuff Upstart was designed for, and my
limited testing shows that adding the line
stop on stopping prefdm
to the rainbow upstart job sufficiently links rainbow with X.
yours,
Bobby
On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 1:45 AM, James Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On
can you post the logs?
2008/8/1 Alex Levenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> In the Terminal Activity, from any directory. Usually from the activity's
> directory, but it works from anywhere (I've tried).
>
> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>>
>> Alex Leve
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Mikus Grinbergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> A DECISION NEEDS TO BE MADE !!!
>
> I've been randomly launching Activities on 2226. __Far too many__
> of them fail -- because csound was changed, numeric was changed,
> mixer was changed, etc., etc., etc.
>
>
> Given
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:03 PM, Bastien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Benjamin M. Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Jerry Williams wrote:
>> | Seems like this problem for linux was solved with RPM.
>> | With rpm if something is missing for something you want to install, it
>> | complains
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Richard A. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> I was also wondering if you could give me feedback on this table. The
>> table shows how much kWh is needed a year to power a xo based on
>> different scenarios. If you think I should add or
if packages are included or updated from people using their
public_rpms directory on dev.laptop.org, they have to update a
changelog file references the new rpm. it is _recommended_ they list
the changes, but not mandatory. that is my understanding anyway. I
don't think updates pulled in from F9
hi Mia
this sounds really interesting, how can I find out what the different
scenarios are? I don't use google docs a lot, is there just a link
I'm forgetting to click?
thanks!
Bobby
2008/7/18 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I've shared a document with you called "electricity table":
> http://spreadsh
Joyride is down to 302 MB, awesome job Dan!
bobby
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Build Announcer v2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2178
>
> Changes in build 2178 from build: 2177
>
> Size delta: -12.98M
>
> -cpio 2.9-7.fc9
> +cpio 2.9-8.f
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Morgan Collett
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 16:50, Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> The functionality is actually part of NetworkManager 0.6 upstream, so
>> they are not patches in the usual sense. The problem is that the
>> func
Hello Martin -
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 12:54 AM, Martin Sevior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Samuel,
> Marc Maurer has done 95% of the work required to do
> multi-programming language syntax highlighting in libabiword. The
> advantage of using libabiword is that you get collaboration f
thank you guys (and girls? probably just guys...) for the informative
ChangeLogs!!!
bobby
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Build Announcer v2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2171
>
> Changes in build 2171 from build: 2169
>
> Size delta: 0.
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Robert Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> David,
>
>> Just been browsing the Java pages on the wiki and confirming to myself the
>> Sun Java version installs but the plugin does not load. A pity, as I have
>> installed on a school server an excellent UNESCO CD of ed
On 7/12/08, Morgan Collett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 00:56, Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> > We should definitely have backward compatibility for activities!
>
>
> In my opinion, there should be compatibility from one release to the
> next. A
2008/7/11 Ixo X oxI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> FYI,
> I believe there's also 'Xo-get' which contains a very frequently
> updated list of 'released' activities and activity packs.
>
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Xo-get
yes I have used this, it is very good and in addition allows you to
uninstall
2008/7/10 Dennis Gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> in preparation for 8.2 we have a new 8.2 stream it can be found at
> http://pilgrim.laptop.org/~pilgrim/xo-1/streams/8.2/
> Please test and file bugs against it. This is the stream intended for the 8.2
> test builds.
This sounds good. Can you ple
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Build Announcer v2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2134
>
> Changes in build 2134 from build: 2131
>
> Size delta: 2.10M
>
> -sugar 0.81.6-1.olpc3
> ...
> +xorg-x11-server-Xephyr 1.4.99.902-3.20080612.olpc3.1
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I worked on a couple of things over the weekend that may be of interest
> to random passers-by. They include:
>
> * new rainbow ('cli' branch of users/mstone/security) and nss-rainbow
> source code which lets you use rainbo
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Jim Gettys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 00:17 -0400, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
>> > Not everyone likes tabbed browsing.
>>
>> That may be true - but what if the user needs to reference two (or
>> more) separate pages of information. If while l
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 7:58 PM, Eben Eliason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2008/7/7 Carol Lerche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> The UI seems pretty important to me, but obviously that's a matter of
>> taste. Not everyone likes tabbed browsing. Correct operation of websites
>> that fail with the extant br
wiki.laptop.org/go/Browse/ProblemSites
And, to be fair, Gears is not (only) a website, its a browser plug-in
that allows you to interact with certain websites offline. (and I do
think someone is working on porting it as you said).
Bobby
> On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Bobby Powers <[E
2008/7/7 Carol Lerche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Client certs can be used for authentication with no changes to a Firefox
> browser or an Apache server. GTK based as well as web based software to
> create certs also already exists. What sort of patch are you looking for?
> I could certainly provide
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Browse/WebKit
things work pretty well in general, but gmail chokes, possibly due to gnash.
if you just want to try it (on an F9 based joyride), the bundle is:
http://dev.laptop.org/~bobbyp/Browse-92.xo
yours,
Bobby Powers
Intern Extroadinare
(irc:
might know the magic I need in xorg.conf to get
this working. Do you have any ideas?
yours,
Bobby Powers
(summer intern at 1CC)
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2008/6/30 Carlos Dario Isaza Zamudio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hello
Hello!
> I 'm working with the OLPC Caldas project and i have a few questions about
> the sugar system.
>
> 1) What's the equivalent command for "man" in the XO?
man pages are not installed to save some space on the machines. I
s
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 7:30 AM, Hemant Goyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Hemant Goyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>>
>> Sorry for the Repost - *slightly more formatted email*
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Fedora and OLPC developers can now download the speech-dispatcher R
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Mark Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I upgraded my G1G1 as I have many times to the latest joyride build
> (2072). The touchpad is almost impossible to use, about 0.5" of
> movement will send the pointer all the way across the display. Then
> it locks up the
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 12:39 AM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 05:53:49PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> >> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 02:58:07PM -0600, Jameson Chema Quinn wrote:
> >
008/05/16/technology/16laptop.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
>
> "Windows will add a bit to the price of the machines, about $3, the
> licensing
> fee Microsoft charges to some developing nations under a program called
> Unlimited Potential. For tho
2008/5/14 shivaprasad javali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi All,
>
> I am trying to install a new activity written in c++ on the OLPC.
> I tried writing a python script which just launches my application and
> setting the approproate properties in the activity.info file. It launched
> allrigh
t teaching methods compare to traditional
ones? (sorry if people have posted this before... its been hard to keep up
with all the mail)
yours,
Bobby Powers
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On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 11:32 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > what about Sugar software running as well as possible on normal linux
> > boxes? without having to install the full sugar package and run
> > everythi
I'd be interested in helping
-Bobby
On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Jason Galyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> missed the list
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Jason Galyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 10:14:04 -0500
> Subject: Re: Ideas for testers (what needs tes
page that switching to Windows and non-free software would be a Bad
Thing. Maybe we could take a break from talking about the sky falling until
we hear something from Negroponte or someone else at 1CC regarding Windows?
Just my 2¢.
yours,
Bobby Powers
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yes, this looks like a great start! I'm just getting my feet wet with
development (got sugar-jhbuild working today! ;), and was wondering if
anyone has had experience, or examples, of software on regular laptop
collaborating with an XO? Is this even possible, and if it isn't then is
there a way I
be a solid way to
get more content that is less collaborative in nature (as textbooks and some
hard science reference material typically is) onto the machines. Just my
2¢.
yours,
Bobby Powers
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 12:49 AM, Edward Cherlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I talked with Ryan
Thanks Homunq (Jameson?) especially for the GSOC category maintenance.
I think I am in the same boat as you - I've gotten some feedback already but
would like to be included on the list for some more especially since I've
rewritten most of it in the past few days to focus more on development of an
isual_Programming
[3] http://www.bobbypowers.net/mockups.html
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 12:46 AM, Edward Cherlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2008/3/18 Bobby Powers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Hi, I'm a master's student at the University of Bergen and I'm
> inte
ed Cairo in a project for a couple months. I've only dabbled with the XO,
but am really looking forward to developing bundles for it.
I'm eager to hear what you think!
yours,
Bobby Powers
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_dynamics
[2] http://www.systemdynamics.org/
[3] http://www.
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