Re: Extracting and analysing journal data

2009-08-31 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 21:59, David Leemingda...@leeming-consulting.com wrote: Hello, In the Solomon Islands a formal evaluation is taking place this month of the 3 trials http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Solomon_Islands The independent evaluator wants to extract and analyse journal data.

Re: Candidate paper cut bugs for a new 8.2.x release?

2009-08-31 Thread Martin Langhoff
2009/8/30 NoiseEHC noise...@freemail.hu: I do not know what was the conclusion about this _completely hypothetical_ case but does fixing the Geode VGA driver match the paper cut criteria? Rough criteria: - Does it affect our primary users? (kids in deployment schools) - Do we have a

Re: SarynPaint: a Java program packaged for the OLPC

2009-08-31 Thread Ben Wiley Sittler
I think maintaining two parallel versions of the code in two languages would be a huge waste of effort for me, but if someone else wants to they are of course welcome to. I have neither time nor inclination to port it merely to work around the historical accident of Java not having been Open

Re: SarynPaint: a Java program packaged for the OLPC

2009-08-31 Thread Jeffrey Kesselman
Honestly, I think the lack of Java on the XO has more with python defensiveness then anything else. I draw this conclusion partly from the fact that it has been pretty crippling lack since initial inception of the XO, but one that there is great resistance to fixing nonetheless. On Mon, Aug 31,

Re: SarynPaint: a Java program packaged for the OLPC

2009-08-31 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 16:56, Jeffrey Kesselmanjef...@gmail.com wrote: Honestly,  I think the lack of Java on the XO has more with python defensiveness then anything else. Honestly, I don't think so. Most or all of the Sugar developers had zero python experience when joined the project. And we

SHIRT SLOGAN VOTE! Class Acts Poster! OLPC/Sugar Community Book Sprint (Sept 6-11, Washington DC)

2009-08-31 Thread Holt
Please vote for the back of our T-Shirt -- Mike Lee's image will be on the front of the shirt: http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/3865753915/in/photostream/ But we need your help for the back!!! Proposal #1 (yes the constuctionist assessment parody's intentional!) NO NINO LEFT BEHIND

Re: SarynPaint: a Java program packaged for the OLPC

2009-08-31 Thread Ben Wiley Sittler
Hi, and thanks for trying it out! On 2009-08-29, Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com wrote: I haven't been able to test that .xo link on an actual OLPC yet, so feel free to pass along bug reports, experiences, etc. These days I'm running F11-on-XO1 on my XO-1s -- SarynPaint launches and runs on

Re: [IAEP] SHIRT SLOGAN VOTE! Class Acts Poster! OLPC/Sugar Community Book Sprint (Sept 6-11, Washington DC)

2009-08-31 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Holth...@laptop.org wrote: Please vote for the back of our T-Shirt -- Mike Lee's image will be on the front of the shirt: http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/3865753915/in/photostream/ But we need your help for the back!!! Proposal #1 (yes the

Re: SarynPaint: a Java program packaged for the OLPC

2009-08-31 Thread Jim Gettys
Early in OLPC, we seriously wanted to go with Java: but Sun's licensing was a serious issue we could not get around, despite a number of attempts by Walter to talk with Sun and see if it could get fixed. Part of the issue caused by this licensing was the all or nothing part of it: as shipped,

RE: [support-gang] SHIRT SLOGAN VOTE! Class Acts Poster! OLPC/Sugar Community Book Sprint (Sept 6-11, Washington DC)

2009-08-31 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All, I'm not a graphic artist so I just cobbled the pdf together on a ppt file and exported as pdf. My intent is to have the O at the end (in XO) have a happy face in it. The slashes across the Os above that need to be the same width as the lines in the letters. Did the best I could

Re: [Grassroots-l] SHIRT SLOGAN VOTE! Class Acts Poster! OLPC/Sugar Community Book Sprint (Sept 6-11, Washington DC)

2009-08-31 Thread Kevin Cole
How about something like Open or Open Me with something suggesting either opening something that looks ambiguously like a book or a laptop (or perhaps an activity)? The double-play on open would resonate with some, while leaving another meaning for the uninitiated. Open Me. Look inside, for

Re: [Grassroots-l] SHIRT SLOGAN VOTE! Class Acts Poster! OLPC/Sugar Community Book Sprint (Sept 6-11, Washington DC)

2009-08-31 Thread Kevin Cole
Not to cloud the issue too much at the last minute, but ideas keep popping into my head. This next one would only play in English, and where one is not too sensitive to typos... ;-) * O*pen Boo*X* Or, come up with your own pair of words that have O and X... Perhaps something with the O and X

Re: [Grassroots-l] SHIRT SLOGAN VOTE! Class Acts Poster! OLPC/Sugar Community Book Sprint (Sept 6-11, Washington DC)

2009-08-31 Thread DancesWithCars
me churning too, so option 5: Terminal screen Hello Children screen text in all languages option 6: magic markers for kids (and overgrown ones) to make their own T Shirt / book graphic winner gets on the front/back/ flap page of the production version option 7: constructionist with St. Nick/

Re: [Server-devel] [Sugar-devel] Jabber Testing Monday Aug 24

2009-08-31 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi Caroline, sorry about the delay -- catching up on XS things now -- enormous thanks for the report. So controlling for Gadget and reg'd numbers, it seems that the ejabberd version (or perhaps other XS compoment) version makes a difference. The ejabberd upgrade was very significant, and the

Re: [Server-devel] stress testing schoolservers...

2009-08-31 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Sameer Vermasve...@sfsu.edu wrote: I have a student who has to work on a graduate project. He has a background in using Selenium at Youtube. I'm thinking of getting him Interesting! On the XS, we have various things that would be stress-testable. - On the web

[Server-devel] serving an XS

2009-08-31 Thread Kevin Benavides
Hello as they are to all of the mailing list just wanted to know how can I know whether the services are on the server are running normally, and in that directory are saved back to the XO. -- Kevin Mauricio Benavides Castro Cel: (505) 8376-4616 Tener éxito en la vida no es llegar a tener fama,

[Server-devel] bios-crypto

2009-08-31 Thread Kevin Mauricio Benavides Castro
Hello as they are to all of the mailing list I need help downloading the bios-crypto to an XS server which is not now that I can find directory to edit information -- Kevin Mauricio Benavides Castro Fundación Zamora Terán www.fundacionzt.org Technical Support-Nicaragua OLPC -

[Server-devel] configure a crypto bios xs

2009-08-31 Thread Kevin Mauricio Benavides Castro
Ok martin una vez instalado el bios-crypto en un XS y ya tengo el archivo csv con los seriales y uuid de todas las maquinas ¿en qué directorio lo cargo? En el ejemplo que nos enviaste por el correo ya lo mire pero no tiendo…. Que es lo que tengo que hacer a continuación tengo las llaves que le

[Server-devel] disable makewhatis

2009-08-31 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, By default, makewhatis runs every day on the XS. Seems like a waste of resources. Could we turn it off by default? The setting is in /etc/man.config Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org