Re: /boot/olpc_build - who reads it on our F9 builds?

2009-11-23 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 17:52 +0100, Martin Langhoff wrote: Exactly as stated. If a local team builds a slightly customised version, is it safe sane to write 802+nic001 in there? It's read from sugar, olpc-pwr-log, etc. Yes

Wanted: List of Sugar activities for the XO-1.5

2009-11-23 Thread Chris Ball
Hi folks, We'd like your help in coming up with a list of default-installed Sugar activities for the XO-1.5 software release. The current activity list, which wasn't chosen with any particular criteria or thoughtfulness, is: Analyze Browse Calculate Chat Distance Etoys Implode Infoslicer IRC

Re: B3 with different RAM chips

2009-11-23 Thread John Watlington
On Nov 23, 2009, at 1:55 PM, Tiago Marques wrote: On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Mitch Bradley w...@laptop.org wrote: Tiago Marques wrote: Hi, The hardware page for the XO 1.5 doesn't show the clockspeed of the RAM chips used. CAS 3 looks like very aggressive timings for cheap DDR2

New F11 for the XO-1 Build 9

2009-11-23 Thread Steven M. Parrish
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/F11_for_XO-1 http://dev.laptop.org/~smparrish/XO-1/builds/OS9 Today I have released build 9 for the XO-1. This release will require you to flash it onto your XO-1 so you will loose everything. Please be sure to backup you home directory before installing. Release

Re: slimming icon theme caches

2009-11-23 Thread James Cameron
On 24/11/2009, at 2:19 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: This saved some disk space and presumably made olpc-update run a bit quicker (this file tends to change on a rebuild even if nothing else has changed). I've not looked into it, but I wonder what it is about the file contents that causes a

DNS Mischief, cont'd: dnshash-0.3.0 released!

2009-11-23 Thread Michael Stone
Friends, I am pleased to announce the release of dnshash-0.3.0. dnshash implements the hash-based DNS resolver described in Scott's Network Principles document. The key features of this release are better testing and more reliable results. * Better testing was accomplished via the network

Re: slimming icon theme caches

2009-11-23 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 4:46 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On 24/11/2009, at 2:19 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: This saved some disk space and presumably made olpc-update run a bit quicker (this file tends to change on a rebuild even if nothing else has changed). I've not looked into

Re: B3 with different RAM chips

2009-11-23 Thread Tiago Marques
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 7:19 PM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: On Nov 23, 2009, at 1:55 PM, Tiago Marques wrote: On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Mitch Bradley w...@laptop.org wrote: Tiago Marques wrote: Hi, The hardware page for the XO 1.5 doesn't show the clockspeed of the

some os9 impressions

2009-11-23 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
I'm a Terminal user - and I had to install Terminal myself. Some other popular (my opinion) activities not included were: irc, maze, and tamtam_mini. Speak speaks; Record records audio. There was one circle icon in Neighborhood, but two circle icons in Frame. All activities launched (that

Re: B3 with different RAM chips

2009-11-23 Thread John Watlington
Trac it. No, we have seen nothing that leads us to believe that we have memory corruption problems w. B2s. Software errors are a much more likely cause. wad On Nov 23, 2009, at 6:56 PM, Tiago Marques wrote: On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 7:19 PM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: On Nov

Haiti OLPCs - some news

2009-11-23 Thread Guylhem Aznar
Hello all, Long time no see. So I've got news to all y'all volunteers who helped me raise dead XO to the Vodoo of Haiti :-) The machine are safely stored in vice director locker of the University Hospital of Martinique. First tests and OS (non sugar) - for now, work as expected. 6 terrain units

Re: slimming icon theme caches

2009-11-23 Thread Daniel Drake
On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 13:32 -0500, C. Scott Ananian wrote: Yeah, I still think they're unnecessary for a flash device. Is it important enough to be worth maintaining a fork? Depends on whether small updates via something like the update-system are still important. Thanks for your input. As

Re: [Server-devel] Fresh install of XS 0.6 -- Moodle is disabled at the moment.

2009-11-23 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 7:13 AM, Ben T benjt...@gmail.com wrote: I just did a fresh install of XS 0.6 and now I can't access Moodle.  I dug around in the mail archive but couldn't find anything to fix the problem.  Please see details below. Hi Ben, Strange -- it should not happen. I had seen

Re: [Server-devel] Fresh install of XS 0.6 -- Moodle is disabled at the moment.

2009-11-23 Thread Ben T
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 1:43 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 7:13 AM, Ben T benjt...@gmail.com wrote: I just did a fresh install of XS 0.6 and now I can't access Moodle. I dug around in the mail archive but couldn't find anything to fix the