analyzing memory usage of python code

2008-08-24 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote: I filed #8128 to address the memory usage that seems excessive. I have also disabled cerebro from start-up while this is being investigated and the issue with blocking shutdown process (#8108). Should be picked up at the next version of joyride. Any

Update the a beta2 XO machine

2008-08-24 Thread Hilaire Fernandes
Hello, Is it possible to update the software in a XO beta2 machine. I tried it as I did with beta4 machine but I did not succeed. I want to be sure if it is a fault of my own or if there are some limitation in the update you can do in a beta2 machine. Thanks to enlighten me. Hilaire --

Re: Write cannot handle Composed dead characters

2008-08-24 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 4:48 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 10:49 PM, Khaled Hosny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 10:45:11PM +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: Hello, It looks like Write is unable to

Is it possible to boot alternative OS from an USB stick?

2008-08-24 Thread Hilaire Fernandes
I am at the Smalltalk Camp in Amsterdam, with SqueakNOS colleagues we try to start XO machine with SqueakNOS operating system. We don't find the key sequence to boot on USB. We will keep searching but if any of you have direct pointer, thanks. Hilaire -- http://blog.ofset.org/hilaire

Re: Cerebro (was Re: Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708))

2008-08-24 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
I did the following as a basic test for memory usage of various python modules. I did the test on my computer, a 32-bit Centrino laptop running ubuntu. Let's start with the following code: import gobject mainloop = gobject.MainLoop() mainloop.run() Cost: 1.2MB of memory (1.2MB

CIFS will be strategic in some settings, but not included in kernel

2008-08-24 Thread George Hunt
Two factors tip the balance between bloat and functionality in favor of including CIFS file system in the kernel. 1. The decision to double boot some XOs with XP. 2. The need of IT professionals, in small roll-outs, to use the resources at hand (MS configured machines hooked up to

Re: Write cannot handle Composed dead characters

2008-08-24 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Sayamindu Dasgupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes indeed - in that case, it does work (I removed /etc/olpc-security). I also noticed that before I removed olpc-security, I had to set the font manually, now I don't need to do this. (Some interaction problems

Re: Cerebro (was Re: Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708))

2008-08-24 Thread david
On Sun, 24 Aug 2008, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote: I did the following as a basic test for memory usage of various python modules. I did the test on my computer, a 32-bit Centrino laptop running ubuntu. Let's start with the following code: import gobject mainloop =

Re: Is it possible to boot alternative OS from an USB stick?

2008-08-24 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 24.08.2008 um 11:39 schrieb Hilaire Fernandes: I am at the Smalltalk Camp in Amsterdam, with SqueakNOS colleagues we try to start XO machine with SqueakNOS operating system. We don't find the key sequence to boot on USB. We will keep searching but if any of you have direct pointer,

Re: updating OLPC_{Region} pages, with a payoff

2008-08-24 Thread Seth Woodworth
A better list for this conversation might be localization or even better, grassroots. I seem to remember a Countries mailing list as well? Not sure. It's well past time for a lists overhaul. 2008/8/23 Samuel Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] I definitely like the idea of a G1G1 deployment page.SJ

Fwd: [ElectionReformActivistsforObama] LinuxWorld Obama vs McCain - YouTube

2008-08-24 Thread Edward Cherlin
The Open Voting software is written in Python. We would like to start a project to offer it to schoolchildren for conducting school elections and learning more about the election process in general and the security and reliability requirements for election software more particularly. --

Re: Update the a beta2 XO machine

2008-08-24 Thread Michael Stone
Hilaire, Some people (Blaketh, on IRC) have reported some success updating B2's to recent software; however, the economics are such that we prefer to replace B2's with more recent hardware via the Developer's Program [1] than to support the old hardware. Michael [1]: (http://projectdb.olpc.at)

Re: CIFS will be strategic in some settings, but not included in kernel

2008-08-24 Thread Martin Langhoff
2008/8/24 George Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Two factors tip the balance between bloat and functionality in favor of including CIFS file system in the kernel. First, for any network FS to actually be usable we would need to do significant work on the UI. Including the smb client code is a trivial

Re: Sugar activity development (record)

2008-08-24 Thread Erik Blankinship
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Morgan Collett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Erik I'm reaching out to Sugar (OLPC) activity authors and maintainers to find out where things are at, and to try and improve communication in the development community. We have some information to get out such as

Re: debxo 0.1 release [PATCH] cache downloaded kernel

2008-08-24 Thread James Cameron
Caches the downloaded kernel package in the current working directory, and also resumes from where a previous interrupted download was up to. --- initchroot.sh |7 ++- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/initchroot.sh b/initchroot.sh index 025f8c2..1c5b986

Re: Is it possible to boot alternative OS from an USB stick?

2008-08-24 Thread Mitch Bradley
Bert Freudenberg wrote: Am 24.08.2008 um 11:39 schrieb Hilaire Fernandes: I am at the Smalltalk Camp in Amsterdam, with SqueakNOS colleagues we try to start XO machine with SqueakNOS operating system. We don't find the key sequence to boot on USB. We will keep searching but if any

Re: Is it possible to boot alternative OS from an USB stick?

2008-08-24 Thread pgf
mitch wrote: Open Firmware can boot ELF binaries directly. Put your .elf file in the root directory on a USB key that is formatted with either a FAT filesystem (preferred) or an ext2 filesystem. Then, on an unsecured XO laptop, type: ok boot u:\myprogram.elf mitch -- where are

XS-0.4 Released -

2008-08-24 Thread Martin Langhoff
It is a pleasure to announce that XS-0.4 is out. The release notes, containing important notes about installation an upgrades are here http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Release_Notes#XS-0.4 . Download the ISO http://xs-dev.laptop.org/xs/OLPC_XS_0_4.iso or update via yum. This release interoperates

[Server-devel] xs-0.4 - Branched xs-dev repository and xs-config

2008-08-24 Thread Martin Langhoff
Now we have a stable and testing pair repositorties for the XS-0.4 release. The repositories http://fedora.laptop.org/xs/stable/olpc/xs-0.4/i386/ http://fedora.laptop.org/xs/stable/olpc/xs-0.4/source/SRPMS/ http://fedora.laptop.org/xs/testing/olpc/xs-0.4/i386/