Re: [Grassroots-l] World scriptures

2008-10-16 Thread Sebastian Silva
Edward, It sounds to me like a wonderful project. I wondered myself why only the Bible was available. Morgan, them being christian does not necessarily imply they would not host other scriptures. The link http://www.crosswire.org/sword/publisher/index.jsp seems to suggest they would be open, for at

Deployment Team Meeting Reminder (2008-11-26 14:00 UTC)

2008-11-25 Thread Sebastian Silva
Hello We will be having our Deployment team meeting this wednesday (today) at 14:00 UTC (irc.freenode.net - channel: #sugar-meeting ) Here is the proposed agenda. http://sugarlabs.org/go/DeploymentTeam/Meetings#2008-11-19_meeting Everyone is invited to come ;). See you there. -- Sebastian

Re: Simulating a lower resolution on the OLPC XO Laptop

2008-11-26 Thread Sebastian Silva
, because the video upscaler can take RGB 5:6:5 > data, so in theory a lower-res 16 bpp frame buffer could be upscaled > on-the-fly (and the upscaler does 30 fps easily). But I guess getting > this to work would require a very determined X hacker ... > > - Bert -

Re: [sugar] XO identity shared via Browse

2008-12-03 Thread Sebastian Silva
Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > Second, we may need to think a bit about how we are going to resource > this task. Simon is the Browse maintainer and has a good knowledge of > its internals, though Marco and me have hacked occasionally on it. > AFAIK, none of us have a good knowledge of security issues and u

Re: [sugar] XO identity shared via Browse

2008-12-03 Thread Sebastian Silva
Oh, also, I'd like to point to Gracie, http://trac.whitetree.org/gracie/ It is what looks to be quite a clean and lean python(!) OpenID identity provider meant to be used locally or on a server and authenticate you against your PAM (that is your system username/password). If you are already log

Re: Sugar & XFCE

2008-12-05 Thread Sebastian Silva
pecifically Sugar (and the XO) into > competing for the "traditional_Linux_interface" laptop role ? > > mikus > > _______ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- Sebastian Silva Ini

Re: Sugar & XFCE

2008-12-05 Thread Sebastian Silva
Or you can just yum install xfce* and work your way to nirvana from there. Sebastian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 5 Dec 2008, Sebastian Silva wrote: > >> Here's a delicate scenario that I see: >> Inevitably, when comparing the XOs running Sugar to those running &g

Re: Sugar & XFCE

2008-12-05 Thread Sebastian Silva
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 5 Dec 2008, Sebastian Silva wrote: > >> Here's a delicate scenario that I see: >> Inevitably, when comparing the XOs running Sugar to those running >> Windows for evaluation (this is happening *right now*) - MMSs (that >> is, Microsoft

Re: Sugar & XFCE

2008-12-05 Thread Sebastian Silva
EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 5 Dec 2008, Sebastian Silva wrote: > >> But now that you mentioned it, bonus points for getting a tightly >> integrated Debian based XFCE4 (with as little trouble as possible). >> Only thing I dont like about this is losing the native and

Re: Fedora 10 on XO

2008-12-05 Thread Sebastian Silva
; Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> ___ >> Devel mailing list >> Devel@lists.laptop.org >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > > ___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > -- Sebastian Silva Iniciativa FuenteLibre http://blog.sebastiansilva.com/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Add Fedora logo to Sugar

2008-12-06 Thread Sebastian Silva
; section that opens up a page > in browse that describes all the components that make up the starch stack. Sure, only I'm pretty sure this is not what RedHat had in mind. -- Sebastian Silva Iniciativa FuenteLibre http://blog.sebastiansilva.com/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Missing Man Pages and ASpell Dictionaries

2008-12-07 Thread Sebastian Silva
the fedora system locale set to spanish on the deployed laptops in LA (for man pages for instance?). How can I help all of these? Filing bugs and assigning them? Thanks -- Sebastian Silva Iniciativa FuenteLibre http://blog.sebastiansilva.com/ ___ Devel

SugarLabs Sur - Libre Social Network Project

2008-12-12 Thread Sebastian Silva
ity for picking 15, then a panel picks 3 winners. So we need you, community! Thank you for your time. -- Sebastian Silva Iniciativa FuenteLibre http://blog.sebastiansilva.com/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Jabber client activity

2008-12-21 Thread Sebastian Silva
/ki.lya.online.fr> GPG ID: 9A7D 2E2B > │ Fingerprint: 197C A7E6 645B 4299 6D37 684B 6F9D A8D6 9A7D 2E2B > > ___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- Sebastian Silva Iniciativa FuenteLibre http://blog.se

Re: Jabber client activity

2008-12-21 Thread Sebastian Silva
── > │ Jabber, GoogleTalk: > │ Site: <http://ki.lya.online.fr> GPG ID: 9A7D 2E2B > │ Fingerprint: 197C A7E6 645B 4299 6D37 684B 6F9D A8D6 9A7D 2E2B > > ___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org >

Re: Greg Smith Over and Out

2009-01-08 Thread Sebastian Silva
y best software available. > > Thanks, > > Greg S > > > ___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- Sebastian Silva Laboratorios FuenteLibre http://blog.sebastiansilva.com/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Is Project Ceibal violating the GNU General Public License?

2009-08-24 Thread Sebastian Silva
s >> > have full access to source code, ability to upgrade their laptops >> > at will, and can tell modified from unmodified software.  Please let >> > me know what is really happening in the schools of Uruguay. >> > >> >        John Gilmore >> > _

Booting squashfs from olpc.fth

2009-10-26 Thread Sebastian Silva
le=ttyS0,115200 console=tty0 fbcon=font:SUN12x22" to boot-file " sd:\boot\vmlinuz" to boot-device " sd:\boot\initrd.img" to ramdisk unfreeze boot But the kernel does not seem to load as it freezes... Let me know what other data I can give to help me debug this. Thanks -- Se

Re: tap-to-click feedback

2010-04-15 Thread Sebastian Silva
t; > Daniel > ___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- Sebastian Silva ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: tap-to-click feedback

2010-04-15 Thread Sebastian Silva
BTW how do you disable it? There is a thread about the subject currently on OLPC-Uruguay. http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-uruguay/2010-April/002075.html Sebastian 2010/4/15 Sebastian Silva > We saw this issue in our work with the Cantagallo comunity school > here in Lima. Tuuk

Re: tap-to-click feedback

2010-04-15 Thread Sebastian Silva
r 15, 2010, at 11:18 AM, Paul Fox wrote: > > > daniel wrote: > >> On 15 April 2010 11:40, Martin Langhoff > wrote: > >>> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Sebastian Silva > >>> wrote: > >>>> BTW how do you disable it? > >>>

Re: illusion (Re: tap-to-click feedback)

2010-04-15 Thread Sebastian Silva
The feedback that you do get, is too little, too late. We are reporting now, and provide you with a window of oportunity to actually look at the field. If you do care, maybe you could use the oportunity to ask more questions? We would be more than happy to try t

Re: Reason for the "one dot" hang found!

2010-06-10 Thread Sebastian Silva
a quick & dirty solution such as commenting out > the modprobe line in rc.sysinit. As far as I can tell, it's not needed > on the XO. > > -- > // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/ > \X/ Sugar Labs - http://sugarlabs.org/ > > __

Re: Impossible to set date in 11.3.0?

2012-08-25 Thread Sebastian Silva
in 11.3? > --scott > > -- > ( http://cscott.net ) > ___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel -- Sebastian Silva ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Sugar Network Webui 0.5 Release Notes

2012-08-31 Thread Sebastian Silva
rting this release, only 
activities available from the Sugar Network will be included. We expect the full
Hexoquinasa activity selection to become available in Sugar Network within next
release cycle. Greetings and thanks for testing! -- Sebastian Silva _

Re: Corrupted display on XO1.5 when suspended with screen on

2013-06-24 Thread Sebastian Silva
El 21/06/13 13:56, John Watlington escribió: This is likely due to the video controller being disabled before the DCON driver has completely finished loading the image into the DCON. Our image is based on 11.3.1 shipping firmware olpc-firmware-q3c06 (but my testing machine has q3c07 and exhibit

Re: Corrupted display on XO1.5 when suspended with screen on

2013-07-05 Thread Sebastian Silva
Thanks for your detailed answer. I think it would be wise to try and update our base system, while still using sweets Sugar 0.94 + Sugar Network plugin. There are a number of advantages in this approach: * Hopefully user experience is identical (no regressions allowed). * F17+ got auto

"No signature for our key list"

2014-01-13 Thread Sebastian Silva
Hi James and OLPC, I know you might be able to help to figure out why suddently my XOs 1.5 refuse to flash my OOB built images. All I get is "No signature for our key list". However, by the same process, images built for XO1 seem to work fine. Security is even disabled on these XO1.5s and fs-upd

Re: "No signature for our key list"

2014-01-13 Thread Sebastian Silva
have a file data.sig inside it? - does the file data.sig have a sig01 line? b. Check the laptop: - use .mfg-data to check that the deployment keys are present, To automate the comparison of deployment keys, you may use telnet or rdc in Open Firmware, see http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Firmwar

Re: "No signature for our key list"

2014-01-13 Thread Sebastian Silva
. Check the laptop: - use .mfg-data to check that the deployment keys are present, checked, not sure what it shouuld say here for peru To automate the comparison of deployment keys, you may use telnet or rdc in Open Firmware, see http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Firmware/Remote On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at

Re: [Sugar-devel] restart by ctl+alt+bs

2014-05-12 Thread Sebastian Silva
Hi, The Ctl-Alt-Backspace thing was dropped upstream with xorg, the graphical server. It can be restored to its original function, by means of a configuration on xorg.conf (look for "DontZap" option). In order to get what you want, more or less, and without any coding, you'd need to use a Disp

Re: [Sugar-devel] restart by ctl+alt+bs

2014-05-13 Thread Sebastian Silva
BTW, as a workaround I use when all I need to restart is X, I switch to a virtual terminal (ctl+alt+f2) and type "killall X". That will avoid the full reboot cycle and restart Sugar. Regards, Sebastian El mar, 13 de may 2014 a las 7:23 AM, Jon Nettleton escribió: On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 2:04

Re: Announcing the development of OLPC OS 13.2.1

2014-06-13 Thread Sebastian Silva
The main hurdle would be the DRM. no volunteer can possibly help where "security" is enabled. In Peru we had to lobby the government for the crypto keys but it might not be possible with smaller deployments that only have OLPC keys, then it might make sense to have a mechanism for James or OLPC

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar 0.100 features on Sugar 0.102 build

2014-09-02 Thread Sebastian Silva
I don't care one way or the other how you guys configure olpc-os-builder, but as a Sugar platform contributor, I think "sugar" packages should come with all the bells and whistles included, and if any deployment wants to chop and censor functionality, then it should be their problem, not the ot

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar 0.100 features on Sugar 0.102 build

2014-09-02 Thread Sebastian Silva
ry Vonau escribió: On September 2, 2014 at 11:54 AM Sebastian Silva wrote: I don't care one way or the other how you guys configure olpc-os-builder, but as a Sugar platform contributor, I think "sugar" packages should come with all the bells and whistles included, and if

signed /boot/olpc.fth

2014-10-15 Thread Sebastian Silva
f you have it. Also, Is there perhaps forth code available for a simple, nice menu? Thanks in advance, -- Sebastian Silva "icarito" #sugar #somosazucar (freenode IRC) Somos Azúcar - Fuente Libre - Sugar Labs "Las maestras y los maestros democráticos intervenimos en el mundo a

Re: os 14.1.0

2015-02-01 Thread Sebastian Silva
Greetings James, I would like to understand your logic more, just because I adhere to the "release early, release often" philosophy. What are the costs of putting these releases out? What kind of community investment do you require? For what XO models is this version targeted? As a community me

Re: [Sugar-devel] Community OS 14.1.0 Version 2

2015-03-05 Thread Sebastian Silva
Hi Samuel, James, I am interested to try this as well. where can I find images to try first, before committing to creating new builds? Regards, Sebastian El 05/03/15 a las 07:06, James Cameron escibió: > On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 06:55:13AM -0500, Samuel Greenfeld wrote: >> The updated images can b

Re: [Sugar-devel] Community OS 14.1.0 Version 2

2015-03-05 Thread Sebastian Silva
Downloading http://www.greenfeld.org/xo/community/builds/14.1.0/build_2/xo-1/41002qq0.img for XO1 now. Is this the one that runs off of SD card? I'm interested for Perú, but as you can imagine, it doesn't depend on me. Our team (Platform team + SomosAzucar) did build the last official image Peru

Re: [Sugar-devel] Community OS 14.1.0 Version 2

2015-03-05 Thread Sebastian Silva
uot;xx" changed > to "qq" and "Community Build" added as the name of the deployment. > > > On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 9:20 AM, Sebastian Silva > mailto:sebast...@fuentelibre.org>> wrote: > > Downloading > > http://www.greenfeld.org/xo/commu

Re: [Sugar-devel] Community OS 14.1.0 Version 2

2015-03-05 Thread Sebastian Silva
> > [powerd] > enable_idle_suspend=0 > > > >> -Original Message- >> From: Samuel Greenfeld [mailto:sam...@greenfeld.org] >> Sent: Thursday, March 5, 2015 10:25 PM >> To: 'Sebastian Silva' >> Cc: 'OLPC Devel', sugar-de...

Re: "XOs cannot act as WiFi access points"

2015-03-16 Thread Sebastian Silva
Hi Adam, If I remember correctly, the /libertas /driver that is needed (for the xo1 at least), in contrast to its name, actually is not completely free, I don't remember if because of some firmware blobs. Therefore, it was difficult or impossible for a driver programmer to set the device to monit

Re: "XOs cannot act as WiFi access points"

2015-03-16 Thread Sebastian Silva
Looking at the page that I linked, I think actually this product would make it feasible, hopefully without too much fuss. I guess the drivers should come preinstalled with the XO, not sure. https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-wireless-n-usb-adapter-w-external-antenna-gnu-linux-tpe-n150u

Re: [UKids] Re: "XOs cannot act as WiFi access points"

2015-03-16 Thread Sebastian Silva
Back then, I was dogfooding Sugar 0.94 because I had to deploy it to the children of Peru. Also, you can image, I had various XOs around. In my vision, Sugar should grow to be a useful desktop for a person of any age who likes to learn with simplicity, collaboration and reflection. If it's not to

Re: [Server-devel] [UKids] Re: "XOs cannot act as WiFi access points"

2015-03-16 Thread Sebastian Silva
El 16/03/15 a las 22:31, James Cameron escibió: > Why would Google and the carriers want to have people bypass them? It > makes no business sense. ;-) Oh very timely with news about this beauty here: https://github.com/matiasinsaurralde/facebook-tunnel It's a tunnel for Internet traffic thru

Re: [Sugar-devel] XO-1 vs Sugar 0.104 performance, and swap to NAND Flash

2015-04-07 Thread Sebastian Silva
On 07/04/15 22:47, James Cameron wrote: > The testing scripts can be made available if anybody else would like > to replicate the results. I'd be curious to look at your scripts and try to replicate some results with our builds. Thanks a lot for your detailed tests! Sebastian __

Error on XO4 update to 32016o4.zd

2015-04-20 Thread Sebastian Silva
Hello OLPC devs, I tried to update an XO4 touch to 32016o4.zd. It looked like it went fine, but... It won't boot, with the following error (see image attached). Hints are very welcome. Impatient young one around. :-) -- I+D SomosAzucar.Org "icarito" #somosazucar en Freenode IRC "Nadie libera

Re: Error on XO4 update to 32016o4.zd

2015-04-20 Thread Sebastian Silva
u have the XO connected to the charger? > > Gonzalo > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 1:12 PM, Sebastian Silva > mailto:sebast...@fuentelibre.org>> wrote: > > Hello OLPC devs, > > I tried to update an XO4 touch to 32016o4.zd. It looked like it went > fine, but... >

Re: Error on XO4 update to 32016o4.zd

2015-04-20 Thread Sebastian Silva
Gonzalo, I did finally find a reference to this error: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO-4_Touch#Software_upgrade_considerations *Refusal to update EC code* When upgrading from old software versions, Open Firmware may refuse to update the EC firmware, showing a battery icon with a bad face on every

Re: [Sugar-devel] Community XO software builds

2015-05-05 Thread Sebastian Silva
Hi Samuel, I think your volunteer work is important. It is not clear to me exactly what the focus is of your images, nor where the repositories with the ini files for the builder, or the download link for the ready images. This is probably the reason you have so few downloads logged. Perhaps we

Re: [Sugar-devel] Community XO software builds

2015-05-06 Thread Sebastian Silva
On 06/05/15 18:10, James Cameron wrote: > 1. our installed base express interest in Fedora or Ubuntu, I wonder how accurate this is? Many times "upstream", or suppliers, tend to lump entire deployments into one person or group. Did you mean administrators, technicians, teachers, or users? --

Keys dying in my XOs

2015-11-25 Thread Sebastian Silva
Hi, I have a couple of XO laptops, XO1.5 and XO4, the models with the non-membrane keyboards, where several keys stopped working. Is this common? Is there a recommended fix? Thanks Regards, Sebastian -- I+D SomosAzucar.Org "icarito" #somosazucar en Freenode IRC "Nadie libera a nadie, nadie se li

Re: Keys dying in my XOs

2015-11-25 Thread Sebastian Silva
On 25/11/15 20:02, James Cameron wrote: > We continue to make the keyboards, so I'm interested in any wide > area systemic report, so that I can feed it back into manufacturing. > > The array of key switches may be connected in a matrix. A key switch > that does not release can cause several keys

Re: Keys dying in my XOs

2015-11-25 Thread Sebastian Silva
On 25/11/15 20:32, Sebastian Silva wrote: > On the XO4 I couldn't figure out how to reach the keyboard self test. > "menu" command in ofw triggers an OS boot selector (linux/android) > instead of the test. Ok, sorry, I figured it out now. This wording was confusing

"Physics with XO" by Guzmán Trinidad now available in English

2016-07-03 Thread Sebastian Silva
Our team would like to share with the community the immediate availability [1] of Guzmán Trinidad's "Physics with XO". It is a book that includes 30 experimental activities for the Physics Laboratory that utilize the XO laptop's capabil

Re: Working script to produce a debian chroot for usb

2017-07-23 Thread Sebastian Silva
Squeeze? :-/ That's Debian 6, which was supported until Feb 2016. That doesn't help much. Also you don't say what model XO this is for. I'd be very interested in a Debian 9 builder that one could install with the game buttons on XO1 and 1.5. There are still many of those in Peru. Regards, Sebas