Re: Unshare an Activity

2009-02-16 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 16.02.2009, at 00:21, Jorge Saldivar wrote: Hi all, I am doing an activity for blind childrens and I need to know If some one knows if sugar has a way to programmaticaly unshare a shared activity?, and if it has, how can i do that?. If I join a shared activity I can use the leave

Re: [Testing] Wireless test results

2009-02-16 Thread Ties Stuij
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: On 16 Feb 2009, at 05:32, Chris Ball wrote: Hi, Last I checked, it was either the firmware or the kernel changes that did it. I posted my findings to the mailing list in the past two weeks. I think your findings

Re: [Server-devel] mkusbinstall fails -SUCCESS

2009-02-16 Thread David Leeming
Martin, All solved - I did not read all that Pia has written on the XS installing server wiki page - it's all there. I missed the bit about editing ks.cfg Well done Pia and sorry to be too impatient to follow instructions :) I now have 0.5.1 running on the eBox David Leeming Technical Advisor,

Re: Unshare an Activity

2009-02-16 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 16.02.2009, at 09:10, Bert Freudenberg wrote: On 16.02.2009, at 00:21, Jorge Saldivar wrote: Hi all, I am doing an activity for blind childrens and I need to know If some one knows if sugar has a way to programmaticaly unshare a shared activity?, and if it has, how can i do that?. If

Re: Wireless test results (Was: Announcing the first 8.2.1 release candidate)

2009-02-16 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 16.02.2009, at 04:48, Gary C Martin wrote: On 16 Feb 2009, at 03:18, James Cameron wrote: On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 03:05:59AM +, Gary C Martin wrote: Summary: 8.2.1 has regressed relative to 8.2 for WPA access points. You now have to enter the security string; it will fail to

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] webactivity: seed the XS cookie at startup

2009-02-16 Thread Simon Schampijer
Martin Langhoff wrote: On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.de wrote: Please find attached the patch against master. Looks good to me (but I know nothing of what's changed in master...) - i use the backup_url to see if we are associated with a schoolserver -

Re: power consumption after shutdown

2009-02-16 Thread James Cameron
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 12:19:41AM -0500, Richard A. Smith wrote: qu...@laptop.org wrote: (If one discharges an XO battery outside the XO using a home lighting circuit, the displayed state of charge will be inconsistent. Persisting in this practice results in increasing inconsistency.

Re: HTML-based/Browser apps (was Re: anti-cheating)

2009-02-16 Thread Mike Dawson
Dear Wade, Thanks for that - I got it co-operating - I found that something had gone wrong with inkscape. Indeed there is some relation to the finance activity - we are focusing on finding the economic info and presenting it (e.g. we have a listing of common businesses that people start such as

Re: Devel Digest, Vol 36, Issue 59

2009-02-16 Thread James Simmons
To the Sugar release team: While we're discussing favorite fixes I'm wondering if anyone is working on my favorite. It affects Read as well as my own Activities. The problem is the saving of custom metadata, like page number for Read. If you use Read, exit and later Resume the document,

Re: Devel Digest, Vol 36, Issue 59

2009-02-16 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 16:34, James Simmons jim.simm...@walgreens.com wrote: To the Sugar release team: While we're discussing favorite fixes I'm wondering if anyone is working on my favorite. It affects Read as well as my own Activities. The problem is the saving of custom metadata,

Re: Wireless test results

2009-02-16 Thread Hal Murray
- WPA works with some percentage chance of success For me, WPA never works automatically and almost always works when I poke my AP icon. (That's after I've given it my password the first time.) That includes both power up and returning from closing the cover. I think Daniel Drake has a

Re: etextRead activity and espeak

2009-02-16 Thread James Simmons
Tony, I have some good news on TTS with Read Etexts. It turns out that speech-dispatcher is available through yum update, and it does work on the XO. If you follow the instructions at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Read_Etexts#Using_Text_to_Speech you should be able to get Read Etexts to do TTS

Re: Guidance sought on collaboration techniques

2009-02-16 Thread James Simmons
Wade, This weekend I tried to get my two computers running Fedora 10 with the Sugar RPMs to share with one another, with no luck. Back when I was using Xubuntu there was a collabora server that the Xubuntu RPMs had installed by default, and I was able to set up my XO to use it using a

Re: power consumption after shutdown

2009-02-16 Thread Frederick Grose
In a discussion thread like this, it would good to have a source code link for all to reference, now and in the future. Thanks for all the contributions! On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 3:36 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 12:19:41AM -0500, Richard A. Smith wrote:

Re: power consumption after shutdown

2009-02-16 Thread pgf
frederick wrote: In a discussion thread like this, it would good to have a source code link for all to reference, now and in the future. Thanks for all the contributions! unfortunately, the code in question (i.e., the EC firmware) is one of the few small bodies of code on the XO which isn't

Re: power consumption after shutdown

2009-02-16 Thread Richard A. Smith
Richard A. Smith wrote: The instrumented setup only has a current measurement resolution down to about 1mA. So there's room for a lot of error in that measurement. Looking at the schematics I see that there are quite a few other parts that share the 3.3V rail with the EC so 1mA or so

Re: [Sugar-devel] Activities migration status

2009-02-16 Thread Gary C Martin
On 10 Feb 2009, at 00:29, S Page wrote: Ed McNierney wrote: On the other hand, anyone working on Sugar efforts such as Activity development should be encouraged to put all those efforts under the Sugar Labs roof where they can be more readily available to the entire Sugar community (not

Re: [Testing] Wireless test results

2009-02-16 Thread rihowa...@gmail.com
I find 767, with either q2e18 or q2e24, connecting to a WPA AP succeeds 100% of the time for me using a Linksys WRT54g L. With OFW q2e32 I have seen the network connection die. Seems like the stack is dead. I assume it is the marvell driver that is delivered with q2e32. My other XO

Re: [Server-devel] consequences of re-registering with XS

2009-02-16 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/2/14 Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com: On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 2:25 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: To avoid this situation in future (should we ever run into it again, fingers crossed we won't), we are considering a small modification to the paraguay OS build which makes

Re: [Server-devel] consequences of re-registering with XS

2009-02-16 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: I've come short of a nice patch (too many pressures at the moment, sorry) but I have shared our hack here: http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/362 Looks reasonable... and hackish :-) Registration sets both backup server and

Re: [Testing] Wireless test results

2009-02-16 Thread Mitch Bradley
The OS is supposed to reload the wireless firmware so the firmware that is in OFW shouldn't affect the OS behavior. rihowa...@gmail.com wrote: I find 767, with either q2e18 or q2e24, connecting to a WPA AP succeeds 100% of the time for me using a Linksys WRT54g L. With OFW q2e32 I have

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] webactivity: seed the XS cookie at startup

2009-02-16 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.de wrote: Our registration URL is REGISTER_URL = 'http://schoolserver:8080/', wouldn't the right Domain than be 'schoolserver'? Since the cookie is about the registration with the schoolserver this makes most sense to me (the

Re: [Server-devel] mkusbinstall fails -SUCCESS

2009-02-16 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 9:21 PM, David Leeming leem...@pipolfastaem.gov.sb wrote: All solved - I did not read all that Pia has written on the XS installing server wiki page - it's all there. I missed the bit about editing ks.cfg I didn't know WTF you were talking about. Looking at the wikipage,

Re: Unshare an Activity

2009-02-16 Thread Jorge Saldivar
Thanks Bert! But, even if you initiated the sharing, you can leave the shared activity. After an activity has been shared, all participants are equal. I know that I you join a shared activity you can leave it, calling the leave method but what happend if i share the activity???, how can I

Re: Unshare an Activity

2009-02-16 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jorge Saldivar wrote: Thanks Bert! But, even if you initiated the sharing, you can leave the shared activity. After an activity has been shared, all participants are equal. I know that I you join a shared activity you can leave it, calling

Re: power consumption after shutdown

2009-02-16 Thread S Page
I made http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Troubleshooting_Battery#Tips but you folks can do a much better edit. In q2e32 I've pulled in some of my batman.fth stuff. I noted this in the same page's batman.fth section. -- =S ___ Devel mailing list

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] webactivity: seed the XS cookie at startup

2009-02-16 Thread Simon Schampijer
Martin Langhoff wrote: On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.de wrote: Our registration URL is REGISTER_URL = 'http://schoolserver:8080/', wouldn't the right Domain than be 'schoolserver'? Since the cookie is about the registration with the schoolserver this makes

Re: power consumption after shutdown

2009-02-16 Thread Richard A. Smith
S Page wrote: I made http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Troubleshooting_Battery#Tips but you folks can do a much better edit. In q2e32 I've pulled in some of my batman.fth stuff. I noted this in the same page's batman.fth section. I don't see it. In q2e32 i've changed the names of some of the

Re: Unshare an Activity

2009-02-16 Thread Jorge Saldivar
Thanks Benjamin for the answer. Now I understand many things that previously were not clear to me. Excuse continue bothering you. I am going to explain a little bit more. I am doing an activity which are a club with many board games each one in different rooms of the club. The idea is that you

Re: Unshare an Activity

2009-02-16 Thread Walter Bender
Is the club itself the activity? In which case you'd be continually sharing as long as you were at the club? -walter 2009/2/16 Jorge Saldivar jorgesaldi...@gmail.com: Thanks Benjamin for the answer. Now I understand many things that previously were not clear to me. Excuse continue bothering

Re: Unshare an Activity

2009-02-16 Thread Jorge Saldivar
Hi Walter, Is the club itself the activity? Yes, the club is the activity. The club has several mini games in this case board games. In which case you'd be continually sharing as long as you were at the club? When you start the activity it set up private, but when you enter in room (of

Re: Unshare an Activity

2009-02-16 Thread Walter Bender
In the scenario you describe, from the Sugar POV, you are always sharing. You can control internally to your club a sharing state among rooms an individuals that you can turn on and off at will. -walter On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Jorge Saldivar jorgesaldi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Walter,

Re: Unshare an Activity

2009-02-16 Thread Jorge Saldivar
Just to undestand. Once you share an activity, in sugar you do not have a way to stop it, unless stop the activity?. -- Jorge Saldivar ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] webactivity: seed the XS cookie at startup

2009-02-16 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.de wrote: Well, your call - using the schoolserver url then? The fqdn from backup server or jabber server. Either will do until we fix the registration stuff. Well, it gets the core functionality. If a method can only throw

Re: Unshare an Activity

2009-02-16 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/2/16 Jorge Saldivar jorgesaldi...@gmail.com: Just to undestand. Once you share an activity, in sugar you do not have a way to stop it, unless stop the activity?. You could look at other games (e.g. connect 4) which face similar scenarios (only useful with 2 participants). It sounds like

Re: [Testing] Wireless test results

2009-02-16 Thread James Cameron
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:21:34AM -1000, Mitch Bradley wrote: The OS is supposed to reload the wireless firmware so the firmware that is in OFW shouldn't affect the OS behavior. Agreed. It shouldn't. I wonder if it does, through some mechanism we don't know yet. Has anyone else got the

Re: [Testing] Wireless test results

2009-02-16 Thread Mitch Bradley
James Cameron wrote: On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:21:34AM -1000, Mitch Bradley wrote: The OS is supposed to reload the wireless firmware so the firmware that is in OFW shouldn't affect the OS behavior. Agreed. It shouldn't. I wonder if it does, through some mechanism we don't

Re: Unshare an Activity

2009-02-16 Thread Hal Murray
This is the problem with your understanding. A shared activity is _initiated_ by one user, but this user does not _own_ the shared activity. The user who initially shared the activity can turn off his computer, and the other users can still continue to share with each other. You can see

any way to display Nand full boot message in Nepali?

2009-02-16 Thread Bryan Berry
I am quite happy that the XO now displays a Disk full message when the nand is full and notifies the user that a number of journal entries will be deleted. Is there any way to display that same text in Nepali for our users here in Nepal? -- Bryan W. Berry Technology Director OLE Nepal,

Re: any way to display Nand full boot message in Nepali?

2009-02-16 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, [removing sugar-devel@ since this is OLPC-disk-image-specific] I am quite happy that the XO now displays a Disk full message when the nand is full and notifies the user that a number of journal entries will be deleted. Is there any way to display that same text in Nepali for

Re: any way to display Nand full boot message in Nepali?

2009-02-16 Thread Bryan Berry
-Original Message- From: Chris Ball c...@laptop.org You can modify the text in /etc/init.d/diskspace{check,recover}. It is not localized past English and Spanish, because it runs before almost anything else on the system. Thanks cjb, will take a look at this -- Bryan W. Berry Technology

Re: [Server-devel] IRC channel/using ejabberdctl

2009-02-16 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi Yifan, This is the right place to ask for help. Tell us a bit more about the steps you are following after the initial installation is complete. some more specific questions - what domain did you pass to domain_config ? - can you send the ejabberd log? it is in /var/log/ejabberd/ cheers,

Re: [Server-devel] Collaboration problem again 0.5.1

2009-02-16 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 1:08 PM, David Leeming leem...@pipolfastaem.gov.sb wrote: 9-0.5.1 ejabberd-xs-2.0.1-12.fc9.olpc.i386 Hmmm, the versions are correct -- I can't test this right now in a clean environment, as I have bits and pieces of different versions everywhere because I am working on

Re: Unshare an Activity

2009-02-16 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hal Murray wrote: This is the problem with your understanding. A shared activity is _initiated_ by one user, but this user does not _own_ the shared activity. The user who initially shared the activity can turn off his computer, and the other

Re: [Server-devel] Collaboration problem again 0.5.1

2009-02-16 Thread Martin Langhoff
2009/2/17 David Leeming leem...@pipolfastaem.gov.sb: I thought this was fixed in 0.5.1 What do the following commands say? cat /etc/fedora-release rpm -qa ejabberd-xs cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting