Re: [Server-devel] [OLPC Networking] RSSI value questions

2008-04-07 Thread Ryan Crawford Comeaux
I realized after chatting with Ben that my assessments were wrong about this being a feasible project for the summer. The main issue is still that the radios dynamically adjust their gain to increase RSSI between nodes that are farther apart. I do have ideas that may be possible to overcome

Simple gtk+ program - output not as expected

2008-04-07 Thread Aswathy
Hi I have compiled the program shown below in my system in Fedora platform and had run in my system too. I took the executable file of this program and run it in the OLPC. But I couldn't get the same output as that in Fedora. Why is it so? It just shows up like the whole screen. It doesn't

wireshark and 802.11s

2008-04-07 Thread kais.mnif.1
Good day We would like to do performance tests with some OLPCs. We use wireshark (1.0.0 for windows) for that, but we can't see IEEE 802.11 in the protocol description. Is there any special config. to do in wireshark (windows version) Another question, did this version (1.0.0 for windows)

Re: New faster build 1825

2008-04-07 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Build Announcer v2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/faster/build1825 Couldn't update: -bash-3.2# olpc-update -rfvv faster-1825 Downloading contents of build faster-1825. @ERROR: unknown module 'build-faster-1825': Command

Re: [PATCH] Remove Ctrl-O (the letter oh) keyboard shortcut to fix #4646

2008-04-07 Thread Martin Dengler
Eben, There's been a trac bug open for a while about removing the Control-O shortcut from the keystrokes captured by sugar so that nano can work from the Terminal. nano's the recommended editor, IIRC. Control-O is save in nano. It's a one line patch, and you said ages ago in trac (#4646) that

Re: wireshark and 802.11s

2008-04-07 Thread Ricardo Carrano
Hi! As far as I know, there is no available patch for the windows version. Please refer to: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wireshark (though this page is not updated). -- Ricardo Carrano On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 7:06 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good day We would like to do performance tests with

Re: DBus - Sessionbus rights

2008-04-07 Thread John (J5) Palmieri
On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 15:32 -0400, Michael Stone wrote: On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 01:11:55AM -0400, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote: The SystemBus is used for communication between processes that belong to different users. By default, /etc/dbus-1/system.conf says ...Deny everything then

Re: Simple gtk+ program - output not as expected

2008-04-07 Thread Yuan Chao
2008/4/7 Aswathy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have compiled the program shown below in my system in Fedora platform and had run in my system too. I took the executable file of this program and run it in the OLPC. But I couldn't get the same output as that in Fedora. Why is it so? It just shows up

Re: [PATCH] Remove Ctrl-O (the letter oh) keyboard shortcut to fix #4646

2008-04-07 Thread Eben Eliason
Yes, I'm fine with this. - Eben On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 6:53 AM, Martin Dengler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eben, There's been a trac bug open for a while about removing the Control-O shortcut from the keystrokes captured by sugar so that nano can work from the Terminal. nano's the

Re: DBus - Sessionbus rights

2008-04-07 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
John (J5) Palmieri wrote: Luckily all mail with DBus in the header gets filtered into a single folder ;) Yes spoofing is the answer here (it is sort of like asking why can't users create applications that run from /usr/bin though not quite exact). If we allowed users to grab names on the

Re: [Server-devel] [OLPC Networking] RSSI value questions

2008-04-07 Thread Jim Gettys
On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 17:05 -0400, John Watlington wrote: At 2.4 GHz, the interference between multiple paths makes signal level measurement pretty useless for determining position. If you do this to a number of spatially distributed access points, you can improve the estimate... This is

Re: DBus - Sessionbus rights

2008-04-07 Thread John (J5) Palmieri
On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 10:57 -0400, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote: John (J5) Palmieri wrote: Luckily all mail with DBus in the header gets filtered into a single folder ;) Yes spoofing is the answer here (it is sort of like asking why can't users create applications that run from

Re: DBus - Sessionbus rights

2008-04-07 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
John (J5) Palmieri wrote: I can't think of a reason to want a system process invoking methods on a user process. Well, in my case, the system process is the only one having access to the network and provides network connections and events to all user processes. Sending signals to user

Re: DBus - Sessionbus rights

2008-04-07 Thread John (J5) Palmieri
On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 11:43 -0400, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote: John (J5) Palmieri wrote: I can't think of a reason to want a system process invoking methods on a user process. Well, in my case, the system process is the only one having access to the network and provides network

Re: New Activity Proposal -- Your voice on XO

2008-04-07 Thread Alex Escalona
Hi Josh, Thanks again for corresponding with me regarding this proposal. I actually have not had a chance yet to get my hands dirty with espeakeditor, or any of the voice-building components in the interface, for that. I do understand that it is something that can be done with a standard PC

Mini-conference followup

2008-04-07 Thread C. Scott Ananian
Hi, everyone! Thanks to everyone who participated in the mini-conference last Thurs/Fri. If you presented slides or an outline, please upload them to http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Mini-conference so that we can collect all the information presented there. (Some of you have already done this!)

Project application: TabletUI

2008-04-07 Thread Patrick Dubroy
1. Project name: TabletUI 2. Existing website, if any: 3. One-line description: A prototype activity for exploring user interfaces for the XO Pen Tablet. 4. Longer description: See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/PenTablet_UI 5. URLs of similar projects : 6. Committer list Please list the

Build Debate: Followup on Build Naming

2008-04-07 Thread Michael Stone
cjb, cscott, and I just chatted about build names. We have absolutely no problem announcing official-703 (when candidate-703 becomes official) under whatever name seems good but we have no consensus about what that name should be. cscott proposes '8.1' on the basis that it will be our first 2008

Re: Build Debate: Followup on Build Naming

2008-04-07 Thread Andres Salomon
On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 20:37:15 -0400 Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cjb, cscott, and I just chatted about build names. We have absolutely no problem announcing official-703 (when candidate-703 becomes official) under whatever name seems good but we have no consensus about what that name

UI for working on it

2008-04-07 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
The recent talk on Sugar about notifications reminds me that the OLPC currently appears to lack easy-to-check I'm working on that feedback to the user. Combined with Sugar's a single screen for whatever one is doing philosophy, this serves to HIDE what is going on from the user. I had

Re: Fixing the Pen Tablet

2008-04-07 Thread Patrick Dubroy
I've heard that the tablet is enabled is in recent joyride builds. Is there a build that has it that would be particularly good to try out? And how does the tablet mapping work? Does it control the core pointer, or is it accessed as an XInput device? I'm really interested in trying this out, as

Re: fake X11 input driver?

2008-04-07 Thread Paul Fox
i wrote: i wrote: the xorg.conf file on the XO has no traditional stanzas for pointer and keyboard. this means there's no place to put options for things like ctrl:nocaps or emulate3buttons. ... i've now found part of this (no emulate3buttons) already filed as

Information about Content Development and Teacher training strategies in Nepal

2008-04-07 Thread Bryan Berry
Hey Edward, Our Education Director Saurav Dev Bhatta has put some very informative posts up on our blog that you might find useful. Interactive Content Development Principles http://blog.olenepal.org/index.php/archives/242 About our Teacher Training program

Re: Build Debate: Followup on Build Naming

2008-04-07 Thread Dennis Gilmore
On Monday 07 April 2008, Michael Stone wrote: cjb, cscott, and I just chatted about build names. We have absolutely no problem announcing official-703 (when candidate-703 becomes official) under whatever name seems good but we have no consensus about what that name should be. cscott proposes

Re: [sugar] Mini-Conference Proposal: Toolbars Tabs (or lack thereof)

2008-04-07 Thread Gary C Martin
On 5 Apr 2008, at 16:44, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: What if on rollover would appear a normal palette with all the buttons that would be in the subtoolbar? This palette would have an option for pinning it, and that would mean inserting a subtoolbar between the toolbar and the canvas like in the

Re: Build Debate: Followup on Build Naming

2008-04-07 Thread Gary C Martin
On 8 Apr 2008, at 04:53, Dennis Gilmore wrote: I honestly think we should call it OLPC 2 which matches the cvs/ build tag and signifies release number 2 OLPC 1 being ship.2 then we just increment the number for each stable release. we have a development codename of joyride. we can