Re: anti-cheating

2009-01-11 Thread Noah Kantrowitz
On Jan 11, 2009, at 11:06 PM, Jeffrey Kesselman wrote: On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 10:35 PM, Carlos Nazareno object...@gmail.com wrote: Since when is more equipment then a pencil and a sheet of paper necessary for a school quiz?? When they are not available. Im confused if the basic

Re: administrative security

2009-01-11 Thread Noah Kantrowitz
On Jan 11, 2009, at 11:28 PM, Carlos Nazareno wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:00 PM, qu...@laptop.org wrote: Physical access to the system gives full access, especially once the developer key is obtained, to install applications that their teachers or government had not considered.

Re: for those recently laid off...

2009-01-08 Thread Noah Kantrowitz
On Jan 7, 2009, at 11:05 PM, Albert Cahalan wrote: In case any low-level hackers are included in the layoffs, note that my employer can hire a good number of them. (if US citizen) In case you know somebody appropriate who no longer reads devel, please let him know. People might unsubscribe

Re: File bugs, don't fix 'em.

2009-01-07 Thread Noah Kantrowitz
On Jan 7, 2009, at 2:48 AM, John Gilmore wrote: genesee wrote: before the mesh search cycle is done, the 'looking for a mesh' keeps blinking forever while my wifi is solid. If I let the mesh search run it's course, (while I'm doing something else ...it takes a few minutes), then

Re: Cannot edit Trac tickets

2008-10-24 Thread Noah Kantrowitz
On Oct 24, 2008, at 8:25 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote: Am 24.10.2008 um 17:06 schrieb Chris Ball: Hi Bert, ... because it displays Milestone, Component, Version, and Keywords entry fields twice: and then reports a Trac Error: Multi-values fields not supported yet Which browser are you

RE: Cannot edit Trac tickets

2008-10-24 Thread Noah Kantrowitz
Can someone send me a copy of dev.laptop.org/condfields/new.js from a machine that is grumpy? --Noah -Original Message- From: Chris Ball [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 12:11 PM To: Noah Kantrowitz Cc: Bert Freudenberg; OLPC Devel Subject: Re: Cannot edit

RE: trac question: search with AND?

2008-09-22 Thread Noah Kantrowitz
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:devel- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin Langhoff Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 3:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: devel@lists.laptop.org Subject: Re: trac question: search with AND? On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 4:52 AM, [EMAIL

RE: trac question: search with AND?

2008-09-22 Thread Noah Kantrowitz
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:devel- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin Langhoff Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 3:35 PM To: Noah Kantrowitz Cc: devel@lists.laptop.org Subject: Re: trac question: search with AND? On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 10:10 AM, Noah

Re: trac question: search with AND?

2008-09-20 Thread Noah Kantrowitz
On Sep 20, 2008, at 5:25 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can i search for (the equivalent of) power AND external in trac? if not, can we change trac to _always_ do that, instead of an OR search? i can't remember the last time i actually wanted an OR search, whereas i almost always want an AND

Re: Tribute To Randy Pausch

2008-08-15 Thread Noah Kantrowitz
Ton van Overbeek wrote: Eben Eliason wrote: I had the opportunity to study under Randy during his last year at the Entertainment Technology Center, before Jesse (formerly of Disney Imagineering) took over. His Building Virtual Worlds course was the most time consuming yet most rewarding

Re: Security for launching from URL

2008-07-07 Thread Noah Kantrowitz
On Jul 7, 2008, at 12:52 PM, Eben Eliason wrote: On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 6:42 PM, Ivan Krstić [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That said, the URI handler approach should be used sparingly. It's one thing to allow starting an audio player by clicking an MP3 link in the browser, and another to

Ticket cloning

2008-06-27 Thread Noah Kantrowitz
I have enabled ticket cloning support on dev.laptop.org. Just use the new Clone button on the ticket form. Enjoy. --Noah ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

RE: Trac: release management

2008-06-15 Thread Noah Kantrowitz
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:devel- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wade Brainerd Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 11:38 AM To: Garrett Goebel Cc: devel@lists.laptop.org Subject: Re: Trac: release management Hello, I agree wholeheartedly that ticket triage and

Re: Trac: release management

2008-06-15 Thread Noah Kantrowitz
Chris Ball wrote: Hi, Would anyone be opposed to having both installed? The Browse Sources link would use Trac, but there could be a prominent link to gitweb on the main wiki page. That sounds fine; last I knew, the GIT plugin wasn't very complete. If it's ready for use, and

Trac jiggery pokery

2008-06-10 Thread Noah Kantrowitz
I did some minor updates to Trac so we can actually remove spam. If you see anything explode, please notify the proper authorities. On a related note, we now have to ability to force users to validate their email address before touching tickets. This is currently disabled, but do you guys

RE: OLPC: Open Organized Transparent

2008-06-04 Thread Noah Kantrowitz
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:devel- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Garrett Goebel Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 11:51 AM To: C. Scott Ananian Cc: devel@lists.laptop.org Subject: Re: OLPC: Open Organized Transparent [snip] Please don't point me at:

RE: Trac: reports and queries and schema... oh my!

2008-06-04 Thread Noah Kantrowitz
-Original Message- From: Garrett Goebel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 1:17 PM To: Noah Kantrowitz Cc: devel@lists.laptop.org Subject: Trac: reports and queries and schema... oh my! On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Noah Kantrowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: trac stopped sending email to the bugs mailing list ( [laptop.org #8969] )

2008-04-08 Thread Noah Kantrowitz
Nope, I don't have access to the mail server, so my testing stops at trac. --Noah On Apr 9, 2008, at 12:00 AM, Korakurider wrote: On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Noah Kantrowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trac thinks it is sending messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Beyond that I can't actually

Re: Develop Activity: what to do with Trac bugs?

2008-02-05 Thread Noah Kantrowitz
Paul Swartz wrote: A couple of us have started in with a rewrite of the Develop activity http://wiki.laptop.org/Develop based on a fork of Pippy. However, there are some bugs in Trac which apply to the old abandoned version. What's the right thing to do with those bugs. Also, should we use

[Fwd: [PyCON-Organizers] OLPC Booth]

2008-01-29 Thread Noah Kantrowitz
Anyone know the status on this? ---BeginMessage--- Hello, We are holding open an OLPC booth, as someone had mentioned that they wanted one. Can anyone confirm this? Thanks, Van ___ Pycon-organizers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: #2448 NORM Future : Xbook needs djvu-libre support

2008-01-23 Thread Noah Kantrowitz
Zarro Boogs per Child wrote: #2448: Xbook needs djvu-libre support +--- Reporter: sj | Owner: rwh Type: enhancement| Status: new Priority: normal |

Re: Misuse of Trac

2008-01-22 Thread Noah Kantrowitz
Bert Freudenberg wrote: On Jan 22, 2008, at 3:32 , Zarro Boogs per Child wrote: #6137: Better browsers - +-- Reporter: clash| Owner: clash Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: high

Re: Violent games on the OLPC Activities page

2008-01-18 Thread Noah Kantrowitz
On Jan 18, 2008, at 4:58 AM, Antoine van Gelder wrote: With a result, that I can guarantee you that if ANY parent at my kid's school were to start arguing that the school should install Doom on the media center's computers that I would oppose them in any way I can. No one is coming even

Re: Choosing a correct working-dir for upgrade-server

2008-01-18 Thread Noah Kantrowitz
On Jan 18, 2008, at 6:49 PM, Michael Stone wrote: When inetd runs upgrade-server/upserv.py, it does so with in the working dir /. Since the upgrade-server's python modules are not installed in PYTHONPATH, this choice of working-dir interferes with the module loading that occurs when

Re: pyGame fonts

2008-01-17 Thread Noah Kantrowitz
On Jan 17, 2008, at 10:26 AM, Wade Brainerd wrote: Hi Ken, PyGame provides a font module which can render text onto a surface. ... The _() around the text indicates that the string is to be localized, it will be extracted and placed in a database by the gettext utility. The PyGame

Re: Violent games on the OLPC Activities page

2008-01-17 Thread Noah Kantrowitz
On Jan 17, 2008, at 10:46 AM, Bryan Berry wrote: I feel very strongly that violent games should not be associated with OLPC. Albert Cahalan points out that games like Doom can teach geometry and other skills. There are ways to teach those skills w/out involving violence. I work in Nepal, a

Re: [OLPC-Games] Violent games on the OLPC Activities page

2008-01-17 Thread Noah Kantrowitz
On Jan 17, 2008, at 5:26 PM, Bryan Berry wrote: My only objection is that Doom be on the same page as Squeak, Library, Speak, etc. I have no problem with it being on a page that explains that activities w/ violence are not endorsed by OLPC. Who picks what is endorsed and what isn't? My

Voting in Trac

2008-01-17 Thread Noah Kantrowitz
I have enabled a voting plugin on dev.laptop.org for tickets. To use it just login and click the up or down arrows in the top-right of your favorite/hated tickets. You do not need to click submit on the ticket or anything else. A summary of all open tickets sorted by votes is available at

Re: Violent games on the OLPC Activities page

2008-01-17 Thread Noah Kantrowitz
On Jan 17, 2008, at 5:49 PM, Antoine van Gelder wrote: Bennett Todd wrote: Let's get a concrete definition of violence and I think the disagreement will fade right out. If I did it to you and you would go *ouch* as a result then it is violent. This rules out Minesweeper, Mario,

Re: Violent games on the OLPC Activities page

2008-01-17 Thread Noah Kantrowitz
On Jan 17, 2008, at 7:36 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: On Friday 18 January 2008, Edward Cherlin wrote: I see no point in OLPC arguing with either governments or families about their rights in these matters. Others may wish to, but that is no part of the question before us. I think this is

Re: Reducing pygame cpu-load to 4 %

2007-12-09 Thread Noah Kantrowitz
Unfortunately this is not possible in most games, as doing them purely vector-based is infeasible. A lot of the artwork made for games will be standard raster graphics, and will need to be designed for a specific screen. If there are changes in the future, they can always be redrawn. --Noah

Re: Reducing pygame cpu-load to 4 %

2007-12-09 Thread Noah Kantrowitz
The surf.convert() and .convert_alpha() will do this. It is advised to always run one of these (depending on if you need per-pixel alphas) on any image loaded from disk. --Noah Bernardo Innocenti wrote: On 12/09/07 19:08, Noah Kantrowitz wrote: Unfortunately this is not possible in most games

Re: Reducing pygame cpu-load to 4 %

2007-12-09 Thread Noah Kantrowitz
The Python way is explicit over implicit. pygame.image.load() will return a surface of the form you actually saved, you must explicitly convert it to another format if you saved it in a format different than what you want for blitting. --Noah Bernardo Innocenti wrote: On 12/09/07 19:51, Roberto

Re: [PyCON-Organizers] OLPCs not considerate wireless users

2007-11-11 Thread Noah Kantrowitz
We can always lock the mesh interface to a single channel, and keep the normal APs on the two others. Also turning down the Tx power will reduce interference with normal 802.11b/g. As an absolute fall-back, there is a snippet of commands on the wiki to disable the wireless interface (Airplane mode

Re: SDL FAQ, XO Frame Buffer and SVGALIB

2007-09-26 Thread Noah Kantrowitz
You may want to look at the games-misc stuff in git. In there are some Sugar/SDL bridge systems we use to run Pygame apps in Sugar (Pygame is SDL-based as well). --Noah big one wrote: No dependency between SDL and SVGALIB Perhaps during compile time of SDL library, the svgalib is not

Re: Project Hosting Application

2007-09-26 Thread Noah Kantrowitz
there's a demonstrated need. If you have one, please explain here, and list the usernames of the committers above needing shell access. 11. Notes/comments: The project is been working on with the help of Noah Kantrowitz

Re: [sugar] emergency server maintenance: 8/31

2007-09-04 Thread Noah Kantrowitz
Its being worked on, should be fixed by Friday. --Noah On Sep 4, 2007, at 8:33 PM, Takashi Yamamiya wrote: Hello, Now I can login the trac. But maybe CC: form in a ticket doesn't work? Thank you, - Takashi 2007/8/31, Philip Macpherson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks for bringing it back so

Re: Does sugar web browser support extensions?

2007-08-14 Thread Noah Kantrowitz
If you mean normal Firefox add-ons. It does not. We use a simpler core called XULRunner. It does support extensions of a sort using PyXPCom, though I don't (yet) know much about those. --Noah On Aug 14, 2007, at 3:00 PM, Kleber Infante wrote: Hi all, I saw in a post that Sugar web

Re: Usable builds in the 5xx series on B2s?

2007-08-01 Thread Noah Kantrowitz
I've got 539/Q2C18 on a B2 staring at me right now. It helps to throw a swapfile at it (mine is on a USB stick). --Noah On Aug 1, 2007, at 10:37 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: Aside from the memory-hogging notes -- are recent 5xx builds booting for people with B2s? I've updated to the latest

Re: Audio sample bank on the XO.

2007-07-15 Thread Noah Kantrowitz
This can and should be handled by the bundle unification system on activity installation. For now just continue with the data files in your bundle, the changeover to shared resources should be mostly automatic. --Noah Jean Piché wrote: Hello all, After trial-2 madness has passed, we have to

Re: XO in-field upgrades

2007-06-25 Thread Noah Kantrowitz
C. Scott Ananian wrote: On 6/25/07, Christopher Blizzard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's going to be interesting, yeah. You would need to teach the wireless firmware about it? How about just checking on wakeup? Some kind of wake-on-lan signal? Binding upgrade notifications to a

Re: Google Gears included?

2007-06-04 Thread Noah Kantrowitz
Martin Langhoff wrote: I know it's way too early to ask about GG on OLPC :-) But -- speaking from the POV of a web-based tool dev (such as moodle) it'd be _great_ to have GG or something similar embedded in the Sugarised webbrowser, whether it is Gecko or Webkit based. SJ and I were