Re: F11 for XO-1.5 Release Candidate 1

2009-12-06 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 1:12 AM, Sandy Culver scul...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 10:41 PM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote: Hi

Re: [IAEP] Wanted: List of Sugar activities for the XO-1.5

2009-12-06 Thread Wade Brainerd
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote: Hi,   What about leaving it unstarred?  I'd hate to leave out a good   practical activity just out of indirect fear; similar arguments   could be used as reasons not to have a word processor or   spreadsheet altogether.

Technique to extract all records from xapian DB?

2009-12-06 Thread Martin Langhoff
I am trying to add minimal support on 0.84 for the old 0.82 format in which JE metadata was saved on external disks. By minimal I mean read-only, fail-safe, and generally with small impact on the codebase. I sure don't want to reimplement the old DS code Is there a simple (and cheap) way to read

F11 for XO 1.5 RC is great !

2009-12-06 Thread LASKE, Lionel (C2S)
Hi all, I’ve just upgrade to q3a18 and F11 for XO 1.5 RC. To upgrade I’ve used the olpc-update command but it didn’t work (from os48), including with the –rf option. So I’ve finally done a fs-update. Error was something like “read only file system” (sorry, I didn’t write the exact message).

Re: configuring Socksproxy for Jabber Server on the XO-1 or XO-1.5

2009-12-06 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
2009/11/19 Manusheel Gupta m...@laptop.org: On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: 2009/11/18 Manusheel Gupta m...@laptop.org: We did try to search around but have not been able to make much progress towards configuring socks proxy on the XOs. Are you

Re: [IAEP] Help Activity on XO-1.5 [was: List of Sugar activities for the XO-1.5]

2009-12-06 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi Adam, is this moving forward? Regards, Tomeu 2009/11/29 Holt h...@laptop.org Brian/Seth Sandy raised a critical issue on our Support call today-- how much work would it be to upgrade your great Help Activity from Sugar 0.82.1 to Sugar 0.84.x for the XO-1.5? And how can experienced

Re: Renpy: Rapid Development for Interactive Roleplay / Avatar based learning with the XO

2009-12-06 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi Mike, how is this going? Is there anything on which people can give feedback? Anything the Sugar community could help with? Regards, Tomeu 2009/11/11 Mike Dawson mikeofmanches...@gmail.com: Hi All, Sometime ago we had the idea to try and create skill trainers using interactive roleplay

Re: F11 for XO 1.5 RC is great !

2009-12-06 Thread James Cameron
On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 07:05:56PM +0100, LASKE, Lionel (C2S) wrote: I?ve just upgrade to q3a18 and F11 for XO 1.5 RC. Thanks for the positive test report. To upgrade I?ve used the olpc-update command but it didn?t work (from os48), including with the ?rf option. So I?ve finally done a

Re: Wanted: List of Sugar activities for the XO-1.5

2009-12-06 Thread eric b
Hi, Le 4 déc. 09 à 15:03, Reuben K. Caron a écrit : With the localization question sorted out. I even got better news since yesterday : I think I fixed the .rpm and .deb packaging, and we can expect to provide localized archives soon (verifications in progress). My problem is the only

Secure or Unsecure?

2009-12-06 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi, I am playing with the XO-1.5 that Adam sent this week. I love a lot of the features, but want to get updated so I can help test things. I have printed out the instructions for updating and have run into a few snags. First, I don't know how to tell if the machine is secured or not. As a

Re: Wanted: List of Sugar activities for the XO-1.5

2009-12-06 Thread Chris Ball
Hi Eric, Now how about my question on getting ooo4kids linked on the Gnome side so both sugar and Gnome can share the same program? I'm not sure to get what you mean. Can you explain more? To clarify, Reuben's asking about having a launcher inside the GNOME environment that is able

Re: Secure or Unsecure?

2009-12-06 Thread Chris Ball
Hi Caryl, First, I don't know how to tell if the machine is secured or not. It's definitely unsecured. As a developer machine it should be unsecured, but the firmware version doesn't show up on the start-up banner. As a matter of fact, there is no start-up banner, leading me to

Re: F11 for XO-1.5 Release Candidate 1

2009-12-06 Thread James Cameron
On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 12:59:37PM +, Peter Robinson wrote: I'm running OS54 and I've rebooted once I've unchecked this. Do I still need to do another uncheck/recheck to make it work? If having left it unchecked the laptop still suspends (power LED goes dark with occasional flash), then

Re: Wanted: List of Sugar activities for the XO-1.5

2009-12-06 Thread Reuben K. Caron
As I said it can be launched in Gnome through /home/olpc/Activities/ OOo4Kids.activity/resources/program/soffice. So I guess the question becomes is it sufficient to just link to this in the Gnome side and if so how can our build system incorporate this in the process? I believe we are doing

Re: Wanted: List of Sugar activities for the XO-1.5

2009-12-06 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 06.12.2009, at 23:14, Reuben K. Caron wrote: As I said it can be launched in Gnome through /home/olpc/Activities/ OOo4Kids.activity/resources/program/soffice. So I guess the question becomes is it sufficient to just link to this in the Gnome side and if so how can our build system

Re: Wanted: List of Sugar activities for the XO-1.5

2009-12-06 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, /home/olpc/Activities/OOo4Kids.activity/resources/program/soffice. Missed that, sorry. Yes, it's very easy to add such a launcher to GNOME. So, I think we're coming back to the same question on whether we should add this to the build -- could we get a single activity bundle with both

Re: Secure or Unsecure?

2009-12-06 Thread Richard A. Smith
On 12/06/2009 05:03 PM, Chris Ball wrote: If you're talking about a command that starts with flash, that's for the firmware, and not for the booted XO. To upgrade both firmware and software at the same time, open the terminal activity, go online, and type: sudo su - olpc-update

Re: side/side batt. life in suspend

2009-12-06 Thread James Cameron
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 06:56:58PM +, Tiago Marques wrote: I went to the wiki yesterday and found the information that the LiFePO4 batteries have 2 or 4 cells, rated at 22Watt hours. Is this rating the same or is it half of that with 2 cell models? I think that is unlikely, but I don't

Re: 8.2.2 Beta-1 test request

2009-12-06 Thread milan zimmermann
Hi, I did some testing yesterday and today. First I: - updated firmware to q2e41 (latest) - updated to 802 b1 from USB: - probe-usb copy-nand u:\xo1.0\os802b1.img Testing notes and observations inline On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote:

Fwd: 8.2.2 Beta-1 test request

2009-12-06 Thread milan zimmermann
(hit sent too soon) Hi, I did some XO1.0 testing with 802 B1 yesterday and today. First I:   - updated firmware to q2e41 (latest)   - updated to 802 b1 from USB:       - probe-usb copy-nand u:\xo1.0\os802b1.img Testing notes and observations inline On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Martin

Re: 8.2.2 Beta-1 test request

2009-12-06 Thread Milan Zimmermann
Hi, I did some XO1.0 testing with 802 B1 yesterday and today. First I: - Show quoted text - - updated firmware to q2e41 (latest) - updated to 802 b1 from USB: - probe-usb copy-nand u:\xo1.0\os802b1.img Testing notes and observations inline On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Martin Langhoff

Re: side/side batt. life in suspend

2009-12-06 Thread Richard A. Smith
On 12/06/2009 09:00 PM, James Cameron wrote: On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 06:56:58PM +, Tiago Marques wrote: I went to the wiki yesterday and found the information that the LiFePO4 batteries have 2 or 4 cells, rated at 22Watt hours. Is this rating the same or is it half of that with 2 cell

Re: 8.2.2 Beta-1 test request

2009-12-06 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: = Startup / shutdown = Two bugs related to the shutdown process have been fixed. Rebooting side-by-side, you should see 802B1 shutdown much faster, and never hang in the switch to the ul-warning screen. If it

Re: 8.2.2 Beta-1 test request

2009-12-06 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, Curious: is there a trac bug # for this? I think stock Ubuntu hardy might have the same problem (or a related one)? I think this bug is a pet peeve of dsd's, so he might reply with more details, but the sources I can find quickly are: bug:http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7531

Re: [Server-devel] [IAEP] Sharing EToys projects

2009-12-06 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 21:31, Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.com wrote: Hello. I am working with 140 5th grade students who are using XOs (mostly) and netbooks with SOAS. About 50 of them are using Etoys to create projects. I am trying to find a way to share them with their teachers and

Re: [Server-devel] [IAEP] Sharing EToys projects

2009-12-06 Thread Gerald Ardito
Tomeu, There is no mime type that I can see. The Journal entry simply says File filename.pr from url for file. This is no different, by the way, when I upload and then download games we made in Memorize. However, Memorize will load the downloaded game. Thanks. Gerald On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at

Re: [Server-devel] [IAEP] Sharing EToys projects

2009-12-06 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
Dave Bauer wrote: Do you happen to know what the mime type should be for Etoys to open it? The list of mime types that the eToys activity will open is at http://dev.laptop.org/git/projects/etoys/tree/activity.info.in I'm sure one of the eToys expert can give you better advice than I on which