/etc/init.d/olpc_europe start - OLPC Europe event at FOSDEM

2008-02-07 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, at FOSDEM, the Free and Open Source Developers European Meeting, a yearly gathering of about 4000 (mostly) developers and contributors in Brussels, I will be moderating an event called /etc/init.d/olpc_europe start, which is described in more detail below (which is just copied and pasted

Re: /etc/init.d/olpc_europe start - OLPC Europe event at FOSDEM

2008-02-07 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, never post links without testing them... :/ On Thursday 07 February 2008 10:03, Holger Levsen wrote: If you intend to participate please enter yourself at http://wiki.laptop.org/Go/OLPC_Europe/Events/FOSDEM It's http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Europe/Events/FOSDEM sorry for the noise,

Re: python activities startup

2008-02-07 Thread Ivan Krstić
On Feb 7, 2008, at 3:06 PM, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: To what extent could prelinking, which should improve this aspect, be used on OLPC? It was tested and found to have no measurable performance impact. -- Ivan Krstić [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://radian.org

Re: python activities startup

2008-02-07 Thread Frank Ch. Eigler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] I can't comment on python modules, but I've seen similar issue on shared libraries with firewall proxies that did a fork for each connection. [...] if you can get the linking and initialization step down to once per boot it will bee a huge win. To what

Re: [sugar] Matplotlib vs PyCha

2008-02-07 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 02:20 -0500, Arjun Sarwal wrote: Hi, In continuation with my previous email[1] in which I had mentioned that I was looking for python packages that would enable me to do graphing/plotting of data in various formats. I searched through a series of packages. One that I

Re: [sugar] Matplotlib vs PyCha

2008-02-07 Thread Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
Hi Arjun, I think Matplotlib would be the best choice taking in count that we probably want to work analysing bio-signals, i see that Matplotlib has splendid examples like mri_with_eeg.pyhttp://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/screenshots/mri_with_eeg.pyand eeg.py

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

2008-02-07 Thread James Simmons
Tomeu, I tried using the mimetypes.xml file in the activity directory with the Sugar Emulator in Xubuntu. It ignored it. I then tried packaging up the .xo file with setup.py dist and loading it on my XO. That didn't work either. Today I opened the .xo file with 7-zip and found that

Re: Update.1 690 very slow on B2-7 XO

2008-02-07 Thread Jim Gettys
On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 10:42 -0500, Stephen Bannasch wrote: We'ved ordered 2 of the G1G1 XOs for development at Concord Consortium but since they haven't arrived yet I installed Update.1 690 on one of our B2-7 XOs. The install completed and the system works but it is extremely slow --

New update.1 build 691

2008-02-07 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://pilgrim.laptop.org/~pilgrim/olpc/streams/update.1/build691 Changes in build 691 from build: 690 Size delta: 0.13M -kernel 2.6.22-20080110.1.olpc.940c801838dbaf2 +kernel 2.6.22-20080131.2.olpc.f150813900a7eec -libertas-usb8388-firmware 2:5.110.20.p49-1.fc7 +libertas-usb8388-firmware

Re: project application: OLPC Europe

2008-02-07 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Monday 21 January 2008 16:11, Holger Levsen wrote: we (a group of people starting OLPC Europe, website below) would like to apply for a project hosted on laptop.orgs infrastructure, currently mostly to have a central git repository to store the sources for the Documentation,

Re: Matplotlib vs PyCha

2008-02-07 Thread Arjun Sarwal
Seems like gtkextra has continued to be developed and was ported to gtk2. It is also packaged in F7: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=1987 But I think that doesn't include python bindings :/ Ah yes, I was talking about the python bindings. python-gtkextra or

Re: [sugar] Matplotlib vs PyCha

2008-02-07 Thread Arjun Sarwal
Interestingly pytz is actually just 600kB and not 6MB! It is wrongly written here :) http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/5320110/com/pytz-2006p-2.fc7.noarch.rpm.html So on the disk, after installation of python-matplotlib and pytz, the total extra space taken was 7MB, The examples are

Association test

2008-02-07 Thread Ricardo Carrano
As part of the wireless test suite, I am writing a test script for the association process. Basically you write a configuration file with the info on some essids; the script parses the file and tries to associate to each of the APs in loop. The only drawback is that the script kills

Re: Association test

2008-02-07 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
This might be useful: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/NetworkManager/branches/nm-0-6-olpc/docs/NetworkManager%20DBUS%20API.txt?revision=2474view=markup Marco 2008/2/7 Ricardo Carrano [EMAIL PROTECTED]: As part of the wireless test suite, I am writing a test script for the association process.

Re: Association test

2008-02-07 Thread John Watlington
I don't know the answer to your question. But the test you've proposed would help figure out #6287 and #4975. In my case, it may be problems associating with a new mesh after suspending, or after 24+ hours. We eagerly anticipate it. wad On Feb 7, 2008, at 4:21 PM, Ricardo Carrano wrote:

Re: [OLPC library] Licensing for One Laptop Per Child

2008-02-07 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Feb 6, 2008 2:50 AM, Bert Freudenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 6, 2008, at 1:35 , Walter Bender wrote: For point of information, the GCompris front end to gnuchess has been ported to the laptop. Enjoy. -walter ... and a chess game is shipping in Etoys. - Bert - Josh is

Timeline for merging patch to kernel's Geode AES support

2008-02-07 Thread Denver Gingerich
I am interested in using the Geode's hardware AES encryption with OpenSSH, but I see that there is a bug in the kernel that causes Corrupted MAC on input errors [1]. The fix [2] has been applied to Linus' tree [3], but is not in 2.6.24 [4] and not in the OLPC tree [5]. I'm not that familiar with

Where are the latest builds ?

2008-02-07 Thread karl
Latests builds directories (1657) contain just build logs that I think say the disk is full ? http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1657/devel_jffs2/ Karl ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org

Joyride builds are incomplete

2008-02-07 Thread Mark Bauer
I would like to try the latest builds, but all builds (6 of them) after joyride-1643 are incomplete? dev.laptop.org/~bert/joyride-pkgs.html and the rsync rsync://updates.laptop.org both show only up to 1643 as good? Is there a better place to look? Thanks Mark

Re: python activities startup

2008-02-07 Thread Simon McVittie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 at 23:06:19 -0500, Michael Stone wrote: Next, according to dbus-python's dbus/_dbus.py, the SessionBus returned when you call SessionBus() is cached in Bus._shared_instances[BUS_SESSION] This is not an API guarantee;

Re: New update.1 build 691

2008-02-07 Thread ffm
I take it this is RC2? Does WEP work yet? On Feb 7, 2008 5:53 PM, Build Announcer v2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://pilgrim.laptop.org/~pilgrim/olpc/streams/update.1/build691http://pilgrim.laptop.org/%7Epilgrim/olpc/streams/update.1/build691 Changes in build 691 from build: 690 Size

Re: New update.1 build 691

2008-02-07 Thread C. Scott Ananian
2008/2/7 ffm [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I take it this is RC2? Does WEP work yet? This will be RC2; WEP/WPA are believed working but please test. Technically, this may not actually be RC2 until it is signed, but I expect we'll do that tomorrow, unless our early adopters find that it breathes smoke,

Fwd: [OVC-discuss] New version of demo software

2008-02-07 Thread Edward Cherlin
FYI. We are organizing a code sprint on this software for the upcoming PyCon in Chicago. -- Forwarded message -- From: Alan Dechert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Feb 7, 2008 2:14 PM Subject: [OVC-discuss] New version of demo software To: Open Voting Consortium discussion list [EMAIL

New joyride build 1658

2008-02-07 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1658 Changes in build 1658 from build: 1641 Size delta: -0.13M -bootfw q2d12-1.olpc2.unsigned +bootfw q2d13-1.olpc2.unsigned -xkeyboard-config 1.1-10.20071130cvs.olpc2 +xkeyboard-config 1.1-11.20071130cvs.olpc2 --- Changes for bootfw

Re: New update.1 build 691

2008-02-07 Thread Gary Oberbrunner
ffm wrote: I take it this is RC2? Does WEP work yet? I just updated and it seems not. :-( I got some errors during the update though, more work is needed to see what happened. More later. -- Gary Oberbrunner ___ Devel mailing list

Re: New update.1 build 691

2008-02-07 Thread Gary Oberbrunner
ffm wrote: I take it this is RC2? Does WEP work yet? Actually it mostly does for me, now. (WPA actually). I had to reboot a few times after the upgrade, but after that clicking on the WPA ap usually works. It doesn't autoconnect after a reboot (it tries though). But after that I can

Include olpc-audit in olpc-utils?

2008-02-07 Thread Michael Stone
Bernie, olpc-audit is a filesystem-status-verifier written for us by Marcus Leech. I think it would be decent to include in olpc-utils because, analogous to the network and battery status detectors, it's handy for figuring out if people have done funny things to their filesystem. Also, I'd like