Inline power supply (was: Re: Longer XO transformer power cord in the plans?)

2010-03-16 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 12:23:37AM -0400, John Watlington wrote: We are considering changing from a wall wart design to an inline design, for the following reasons: [...] What got of this idea? The XO-1.5s that just arrived included a wall wart again - a bit larger than the XO-1 one, so I had

Re: Activities updated in 802b4 - test request

2010-03-16 Thread milan zimmermann
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all! I am uploading 802b4 to http://dev.laptop.org/~martin/8.2.2-betas/ -- I only see 802b3 there so far. Let me ask a question: I wm wondering what is the difference between 8.2.2-betas and

Re: Activities updated in 802b4 - test request

2010-03-16 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 9:57 AM, milan zimmermann milan.zimmerm...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all! I am uploading 802b4 to http://dev.laptop.org/~martin/8.2.2-betas/ -- I only see 802b3 there so far. Ah, the

Re: Activities updated in 802b4 - test request

2010-03-16 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: I am uploading 802b4 to http://dev.laptop.org/~martin/8.2.2-betas/ -- the main purpose of this build is to test updated activities. I did an initial round of smoketesting, and activities fall in 3 buckets: BTW,

Re: Activities updated in 802b4 - test request

2010-03-16 Thread milan zimmermann
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 9:57 AM, milan zimmermann milan.zimmerm...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all! I am uploading 802b4 to

powerd intro

2010-03-16 Thread Paul Fox
reuben just reminded me that it might be worth mentioning the user-visible changes that come about as a result of the switch to powerd from ohmd. there aren't many, at least as powerd is currently configured: - new shutdown menu screen when the power button is pushed: i take full

Re: Inline power supply (was: Re: Longer XO transformer power cord in the plans?)

2010-03-16 Thread John Watlington
The inline adapter is still slated for production, but due to supplier issues didn't ship with the ramp units. Instead, the ramp units (and some early production) will ship with a stock white wall-mount unit. Would you rather that I held up your test unit while we waited for the supplier to

Re: Powerd comments

2010-03-16 Thread James Smith
- if on battery, the laptop will auto-shutdown after its been asleep for 1 hour. if plugged in, it will sleep forever. I've used powerd and really love how it works, especially how easy it is to configure and hack. I agree with the design decisions for the most part but auto-shutdown

Re: powerd intro

2010-03-16 Thread Paul Fox
wad just reminded me of another user-visible change: people need to know how to inhibit automatic suspend. to inhibit suspend... ... for the duration of a command you're running interactively: $ olpc-nosleep commandname args... ... for the duration of a command, from within the

Re: Powerd comments

2010-03-16 Thread Paul Fox
hello james -- james wrote: - if on battery, the laptop will auto-shutdown after its been asleep for 1 hour. if plugged in, it will sleep forever. I've used powerd and really love how it works, especially how easy it is to configure and hack. I agree with the design decisions

Re: powerd intro

2010-03-16 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: wad just reminded me of another user-visible change:  people need to know how to inhibit automatic suspend. to inhibit suspend... I have to say, that's *very* nice and comprehensive. Takes a lot to go from the it works in my

Re: [Server-devel] Web Caching Issues

2010-03-16 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Andra DuPont andradup...@gmail.com wrote: Any thoughts from the team? Any interesting entries in the squid log? Are there any files in the /library/squid directories? cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect -

Re: Fuzzy screen problem in Nicaragua

2010-03-16 Thread Daniel Drake
On 15 March 2010 11:48, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: Please provide us with serial numbers of affected units. I'm a little perplexed as to how Nicaragua ended up with such a high failure rate with this issue. Germán is on a field trip so I'll step in... SHC92502C19 SHC925021D6

802b5 - activity bakeoff!

2010-03-16 Thread Martin Langhoff
I am uploading 802b5 to http://dev.laptop.org/~martin/8.2.2-betas/ -- the main purpose of this build is to test updated activities. The focus is on somespecific activities that may be better... or not.  - Colors 13 - 15 -- the build includes v15. It mostly worked correctly. I found odd bugs in

Re: Inline power supply (was: Re: Longer XO transformer power cord in the plans?)

2010-03-16 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:13:43PM -0400, John Watlington wrote: The inline adapter is still slated for production, but due to supplier issues didn't ship with the ramp units. Thanks, that's good news! Would you rather that I held up your test unit while we waited for the supplier to provide

Re: Powerd comments

2010-03-16 Thread Richard A. Smith
On 03/16/2010 04:33 PM, Paul Fox wrote: the wakeup events currently available are the SOC (state-of-charge) event, which is emitted every time the battery capacity changes by 1%, and the critical event, which is emitted when the battery is critically low. if the battery has less than 20%

Re: 802b5 - activity bakeoff!

2010-03-16 Thread Walter Bender
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: I am uploading 802b5 to http://dev.laptop.org/~martin/8.2.2-betas/ -- the main purpose of this build is to test updated activities. The focus is on somespecific activities that may be better... or not.  -

New XO-1.5 10.2.0 build 114

2010-03-16 Thread Chris Ball
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/F11_for_1.5 http://build.laptop.org/10.2.0/os114 Compressed image size: 678.77mb (-0.08mb since build 113) Description of changes in this build: * With thanks (again) to Jon Nettleton, this builds fixes an X crash bug when using the camera with Xv, and also greatly

[Server-devel] Web Caching Issues

2010-03-16 Thread Andra DuPont
I have set up an XS server at my home to become familiar with it so I can help an installation in Asilong, Kenya. There server has never been used as no one there understands it. My server is running the latest XS (0.6) and in order to simulate the situation in Asilong, the server is connected

Re: [Server-devel] Web Caching Issues

2010-03-16 Thread John Watlington
When you turn on offline mode, you are just handling the HTTP requests. There are other network operations which have to happen before hand which probably aren't being offlined properly. What happens to DNS in the offline scenario ? If your clients are all properly pointed at the school

Re: [Server-devel] Web Caching Issues

2010-03-16 Thread Andra DuPont
With the internet disconnected, my web browser just says it can't display anything because it is not connected to the internet. When I plug the DSL modem back into eth0 on the XS, all is fine. How do I turn on DNS server logging? Andy On Mar 16, 2010, at 11:06 PM, John Watlington wrote:

Re: [Server-devel] Web Caching Issues

2010-03-16 Thread Andra DuPont
How do I Crank up the debugging/logging options ??? On Mar 16, 2010, at 11:26 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Andra DuPont andradup...@gmail.com wrote: I have reconfigured my server so that my internet connection goes straight from my DSL modem to eth0 on the XS.

Re: [Server-devel] Web Caching Issues

2010-03-16 Thread John Watlington
On Mar 16, 2010, at 11:30 PM, Andra DuPont wrote: With the internet disconnected, my web browser just says it can't display anything because it is not connected to the internet. When I plug the DSL modem back into eth0 on the XS, all is fine. How do I turn on DNS server logging? You