Re: New long range router! :-)

2008-03-19 Thread Ed Montgomery
I'm wondering if the OLPC has become aware of a new long-range wi-fi router, reported in MIT review. Apparently, gives 6Mps for at least 60 miles! Could be very useful in some remote areas. http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/20432/

Re: Interested in the Google Summer of Code

2008-03-19 Thread Blaine Booher
I just signed up to the developer's list a few days ago (After seeing an XO live for the first time at SigCSE 2008 in Portland) and would love to work on the OLPC as a Google Code project. I look forward to seeing more information on this. In the mean time I'm going to continue figuring out how

Re: Interested in the Google Summer of Code

2008-03-19 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi, if you are interested in hacking Sugar, please check the roadmap in the mail below and find something you would have fun working on: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/2008-March/004546.html I would recommend people interested in participating in the google summer code to send an email

Activity hosting application: Assimilate

2008-03-19 Thread Urko Fernandez
1. Project name : Assimilate 2. Existing website, if any : http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Drill_and_test_software * *The wiki entry is a proposal I've used to develop the activity 3. One-line description : A flashcards based activity with a constructivist touch 4. Longer description

Re: Image Recognition

2008-03-19 Thread JERRY DUNMIRE
Hi Ixo, While it is not exactly what you are looking for, I thought should mention that I have started on an activity that makes motion ( http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHome) easier to use on the XO. For now I am using the tarball referenced in the

Re: State of Update.1 on the night of Mar. 18, 2008

2008-03-19 Thread C. Scott Ananian
From today's software status meeting: #6483: read sharing broken. Currently considered critical. #4153: dhcp failing when connecting to school server #5848: network manager failure. Recent, and demoted to important but not ready: #6575/6707: chat can't send #6716: record can't share audio

Re: State of Update.1 on the night of Mar. 18, 2008

2008-03-19 Thread Morgan Collett
C. Scott Ananian wrote: Recent, and demoted to important but not ready: #6575/6707: chat can't send For clarity, the above bugs are salut issues, not Chat directly. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Detecting MIME type of a shared file

2008-03-19 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 09:18:05AM -0500, James Simmons wrote: how can I tell what kind of file I am receiving when someone shares a file with me? You might examine python's mimetypes module or the 'file' command. Michael ___ Devel mailing list

Re: Detecting MIME type of a shared file

2008-03-19 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 9:43 PM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 09:18:05AM -0500, James Simmons wrote: how can I tell what kind of file I am receiving when someone shares a file with me? You might examine python's mimetypes module or the 'file' command. I

Re: Detecting MIME type of a shared file

2008-03-19 Thread James Simmons
Tomeu and Michael, It turns out Python has a method you can pass a filename to and it will identify if the file is a Zip file or not, based on the magic number, not the filename. It seems to do the trick. Thanks, James Simmons Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 9:43 PM, Michael

Re: Detecting MIME type of a shared file

2008-03-19 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 11:08 PM, James Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tomeu and Michael, It turns out Python has a method you can pass a filename to and it will identify if the file is a Zip file or not, based on the magic number, not the filename. It seems to do the trick. As a rule

Re: Interested in the Google Summer of Code

2008-03-19 Thread Edward Cherlin
2008/3/18 Bobby Powers [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I'm a master's student at the University of Bergen and I'm interested in bringing System Dynamics to the XO. Before I start, if there is a better mailing list for this just let me know (I briefly looked through the other ones liked from the Wiki,

Re: [Server-devel] Drupal on OLPC? (Martin Langhoff)

2008-03-19 Thread Carol Lerche
Martin and friends, One problem with moodle is its lack of skinning. I have not found any examples that are not text heavy and I can't find examples of use by actual young children. The elementary examples referenced are closed (moodle login doesn't work and the site pointed to says by

[Server-devel] Fwd: New long range router! :-)

2008-03-19 Thread Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
-- Forwarded message -- From: Ed Montgomery [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 9:09 AM Subject: Re: New long range router! :-) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm wondering if the OLPC has become aware of a new long-range wi-fi router, reported in MIT review. Apparently, gives

Re: [Server-devel] Web-based Management Interface for the XS

2008-03-19 Thread Bryan Berry
Martin, have you also looked at http://ebox-platform.com/ ? I have downloaded and intend to play w/ it today. From the screenshots and reviews looks quite nice. From what I can tell it is specific to Debian. If you do intend to build a web-based interface from scratch, can you use a pretty