Re: Adobe Flash 10.1 + AIR 2.0 on the XO

2010-03-25 Thread Neil Graham
On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 11:42 -0300, Gabriel Eirea wrote: My personal observation is that this came from a high demand on two fronts: kids and teachers complaining about youtube and online games on one side, and local companies used to develop web pages and such that wanted to create content

Re: New XO-1.5 10.2.0 build 116

2010-03-25 Thread Yioryos Asprobounitis
Looks like there is a regression in the record activity. Basically video is black and audio does not record enything. I know people are working on Record/GStreamerz issues, but I'm not sure the following 2 issues are part of it, so here they are: GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin

Re: fundamentalism

2010-03-25 Thread Carlos Nazareno
Hey Bert, no, I'm not calling people here fundamentalists. You guys are awesome. -Naz -- carlos nazareno http://twitter.com/object404 http://www.object404.com -- interactive media specialist zen graffiti studios http://www.zengraffiti.com -- if you don't like the way the world is running, then

Re: To Gnome or not to Gnome

2010-03-25 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 14:33 -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: All I can suggest is that having a hardlinked tree of the core Activities can help restore with tiny du cost. Core activities are tiny. Good idea. We could create the hard-links in olpc-os-builder and add a panic menu to

Re: New XO-1.5 10.2.0 build 116

2010-03-25 Thread Paul Fox
yioryos wrote: BTW, Powerd behaves much better now, if you remember not to wake it up with the power button when in suspend. As long as this is not changing back and forth is fine, but otherwise in may end up in some *beeep* words :-) can you clarify this? (not the beeep words. i'm

Re: New XO-1.5 10.2.0 build 116

2010-03-25 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
- if the screen is dark, the power button will just wake up the laptop Please define dark. Is dark different from dim ? mikus ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: New XO-1.5 10.2.0 build 116

2010-03-25 Thread Paul Fox
mikus wrote: - if the screen is dark, the power button will just wake up the laptop Please define dark. Is dark different from dim ? yes -- dark == off. =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list

Re: New XO-1.5 10.2.0 build 116

2010-03-25 Thread Yioryos Asprobounitis
--- On Thu, 3/25/10, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: From: Paul Fox p...@laptop.org Subject: Re: New XO-1.5 10.2.0 build 116 To: Yioryos Asprobounitis mavrot...@yahoo.com Cc: Fedora OLPC fedora-olpc-l...@redhat.com, Devel devel@lists.laptop.org Date: Thursday, March 25, 2010, 9:47 AM

Re: Adobe Flash 10.1 + AIR 2.0 on the XO

2010-03-25 Thread Tiago Marques
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 1:26 AM, Carlos Nazareno object...@gmail.comwrote: Oh dear. Googling HQTube ended up with the top 2 entries being porn sites :-/ I think something needs a project name change :) Indeed, hence the link in my e-mail, to avoid confusion. Anyway, wouldn't there be a

Re: Adobe Flash 10.1 + AIR 2.0 on the XO

2010-03-25 Thread Tiago Marques
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 2:05 AM, Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com wrote: I can tell you that youtube is well within reach of both the XO-1 and 1.5, currently (or at least up to build 114), it was running better and faster on the XO-1 rather than on the XO 1.5 due to the presence of Xv

Re: Adobe Flash 10.1 + AIR 2.0 on the XO

2010-03-25 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
Tiago Marques wrote: I don't think H.264 needs licensed codecs but I'm not sure on that. H.264 is at the top of MPEG-LA's list of codecs that require patent licensing. All the MPEG codecs are on the list, including MP3 and AAC. If you don't want to buy a license, Theora and Vorbis (the Ogg

Re: Adobe Flash 10.1 + AIR 2.0 on the XO

2010-03-25 Thread Tiago Marques
Thanks Ben, That is a big problem. Or is OLPC allowed to ship codecs without issues? Best regards, Tiago On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz bmsch...@fas.harvard.edu wrote: Tiago Marques wrote: I don't think H.264 needs licensed codecs but I'm not sure on that. H.264 is

Re: Adobe Flash 10.1 + AIR 2.0 on the XO

2010-03-25 Thread John Watlington
On Mar 25, 2010, at 5:19 PM, Tiago Marques wrote: On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 1:26 AM, Carlos Nazareno object...@gmail.com wrote: Oh dear. Googling HQTube ended up with the top 2 entries being porn sites :-/ I think something needs a project name change :) Indeed, hence the link in my e-mail,

Re: Adobe Flash 10.1 + AIR 2.0 on the XO

2010-03-25 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
John Watlington wrote: EVERY codec need licenses. I know that the FOSS community thinks that Theora is unencumbered, but it has never been tested in court (there hasn't ever been anybody worth suing using it.) Google, Opera, and Mozilla have all funded work on Theora and are distributing

Re: Adobe Flash 10.1 + AIR 2.0 on the XO

2010-03-25 Thread Walter Bender
Changing the subject (slightly), I spoke with some folks from deployments today about Flash support. Here are a couple of data points, for what it is worth: The Brazilian government has invested $73M over the past 3 years in the development of educational materials in Flash (I am guessing they do

Re: Adobe Flash 10.1 + AIR 2.0 on the XO

2010-03-25 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
I hate to reply twice, but John Watlington wrote: it has never been tested in court This is a non sequitur. A codec cannot be proved patent-free in a court. It can only be proved that some particular patent does not apply. If this is your standard, then buying licenses doesn't help, because

Journal Backup/Restore UI

2010-03-25 Thread Bernie Innocenti
In Paraguay, we started discussing the topic of improving backup and restore procedures. Let's compare notes with a wider audience. We started from an existing backup/restore procedure written by Daniel Drake one year ago. It's meant to be invoked from the Terminal and uses a transactional

Re: [Sugar-devel] Journal Backup/Restore UI

2010-03-25 Thread Walter Bender
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: In Paraguay, we started discussing the topic of improving backup and restore procedures. Let's compare notes with a wider audience. We started from an existing backup/restore procedure written by Daniel Drake one year

Re: [Sugar-devel] Journal Backup/Restore UI

2010-03-25 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 18:54 -0400, Walter Bender wrote: All you'd need would be one 2-gig SD card per technician if you made the transaction run from external storage rather than the NAND. Hmm, this would move the atomicity problem from one place (wifi net) to another one (SD card). Granted,

Re: To Gnome or not to Gnome

2010-03-25 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 09:33 -0300, Bernie Innocenti wrote: More than protecting them, which is very hard or impossible, I'd add an option to reset them to defaults without the need to reflash. It just occurred to me that GNOME actually provides some ways to lock-down settings, useful for

[Server-devel] Moodle en español

2010-03-25 Thread Kevin Mauricio Benavides Castro
Hola como estan a todo los de la lista como puedo hacer para cambiar el lenguaje de moodle a español por que algunos profesores no entienden mucho el ingles ya que cuando acceden tiene el lenguaje en ingles ? Saludos -- Kevin Mauricio Benavides Castro Technical Support-Nicaragua OLPC