Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] stepping down as maintainer

2010-10-24 Thread Lucian Branescu
On 19 October 2010 17:50, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Hi, for personal reasons have to drastically reduce my involvement in the project. Will be leaving maintenance of my modules and unsubscribing from the mailing lists. My place on the board is vacant from now on and I'll be

Re: [IAEP] chat.sugarlabs.org

2010-10-11 Thread Lucian Branescu
On 10 October 2010 23:28, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 18:13 +0100, Lucian Branescu wrote: On 10 October 2010 18:07, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: I added a new service:  http://chat.sugarlabs.org/ Shouldn't we piggyback

Re: [IAEP] chat.sugarlabs.org

2010-10-10 Thread Lucian Branescu
On 10 October 2010 18:07, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: I added a new service:  http://chat.sugarlabs.org/ Shouldn't we piggyback on webchat.freenode.net instead? I've only tested it lightly. If it seems to work well for one day or two, we can link it from our links bars and

[IAEP] The value of plastic

2010-08-24 Thread Lucian Branescu
I found his approach to teaching children about plastic/oil interesting. http://motherboard.tv/2010/8/22/a-machine-that-turns-plastic-back-into-oil--2 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [IAEP] Catching Up

2010-07-28 Thread Lucian Branescu
You'd have to install a more vanilla linux on that machine to get any Sugar activities running on it. ASE is mostly a toy, allowing you to run simple scripts. Android = Java, no way around it. On 28 July 2010 12:24, Kevin Cole kjc...@dc.sugarlabs.org wrote: Android is kin to Linux with a heavy

Re: [IAEP] Redesigning: Library, Read, Get-Books, and Content bundles

2010-07-21 Thread Lucian Branescu
On 20 July 2010 23:54, C. Scott Ananian csc...@cscott.net wrote: On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Reuben K. Caron reu...@laptop.org wrote: deployments that would like to install content bundles. They package these files into .xol packages and these packages get installed into the Library,

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] [support-gang] SoaS Good News/Bad News

2010-04-08 Thread Lucian Branescu
Those are two commands, separated by a semicolon. They could also be done on separate lines (as two commands). cd ~/Downloads navigates to your Downloads folder. You could also use ls to see what's inside. Then the second command does the actual image writing. On 8 April 2010 07:33, Caryl Bigenho

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] [support-gang] SoaS Good News/Bad News

2010-04-08 Thread Lucian Branescu
The mac terminal is nothing more than a regular bash terminal. Look for bash tutorials. On 8 April 2010 17:55, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Lucian and All, Thanks for the info. I'm glad I asked.  Now that leads to another question. If I wanted to skip the redundant download

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [GSoC] Sugar Browser

2010-03-22 Thread Lucian Branescu
between engines, if not at runtime at least with very little effort. On 22 March 2010 08:39, Tomeu Vizoso to...@tomeuvizoso.net wrote: On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 23:25, Lucian Branescu lucian.brane...@gmail.com wrote: Some have expressed concern about Browse and its current xulrunner dependency (http

Re: [IAEP] PyCon 2010 Invitation

2009-11-24 Thread Lucian Branescu
And there is actually quite a bit of healthy competition for performance between the various python VMs. PyPy for example is generally faster (http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2009/11/some-benchmarking.html) than Unladen Swallow, CPython or even CPython+psyco, but lacks compatibility to the CPython C

Re: [IAEP] [Systems] Sharing Google Apps calendars

2009-11-05 Thread Lucian Branescu
I think public read-only and @sugarlabs.org read-write should be enough. I think google calendar supports caldav for the public ones. On 5 Nov 2009 21:13, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 12:02 AM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: Personal and team

Re: [IAEP] svg animations, no?

2009-08-29 Thread Lucian Branescu
Your best bet is using a browser runtime, like hulahop. Gecko has good support for SVG, but without SMIL. You'll have to use JavaScript for animations. Right now, the only runtime I know of that can run SMIL is Opera, and that one is useless (because it's closed source). You could use Fakesmile

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] OCR?

2009-08-29 Thread Lucian Branescu
Abbyy could distribute the free version of their software with a license that allows it to be redistributed with Sugar, or more precisely whatever activity uses it. But that would allow people to make full-featured clones of Abbyy's software, so I doubt it. 2009/8/28 Edward Cherlin

Re: [IAEP] svg animations, no?

2009-08-27 Thread Lucian Branescu
I've tried animations as well (with JavaScript) and indeed they don't work. However, I'm not sure they really are a good idea for icons. They may get confusing or annoying. 2009/8/27 Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org: On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 12:43, Bill Kerrbillk...@gmail.com wrote: Sugar does

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] A security vs. functionality question

2009-08-06 Thread Lucian Branescu
Could you let the invited user in a chroot by default and only allow full access if the inviting user explicitly allows it? 2009/8/6 Benjamin M. Schwartz bmsch...@fas.harvard.edu: Gary C Martin wrote: How are two (or more!) remote individuals expected to co-operate and share the same command

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] A security vs. functionality question

2009-08-06 Thread Lucian Branescu
, though. I had assumed everyone has root access, it is such a basic need for a machine you own. 2009/8/7 Benjamin M. Schwartz bmsch...@fas.harvard.edu: Lucian Branescu wrote: Could you let the invited user in a chroot by default and only allow full access if the inviting user explicitly allows

Re: [IAEP] Google Docs on XO?

2009-07-01 Thread Lucian Branescu
Everything from Google Docs works just fine in Browse, just like on Firefox. Yes, Google Docs has collaboration, but it's not quite realtime and it depends on google's servers. 2009/7/2 Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com: Hi, Another puzzler for you folks.  I am able to access my files from

[IAEP] [Design help] for Webified

2009-06-23 Thread Lucian Branescu
I have this project http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Webified, more info at http://honeyweb.sugarlabs.org Right now, I have added the following functionality to my branch of Browse: - new button for creating an SSB - new toolbar for bookmarklet buttons http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookmarklet -

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2009-06-15

2009-06-15 Thread Lucian Branescu
My major concern against porting to Android is that Java is a horrible language, even with the nice Android libs. Google have said that they will add more languages, though. A more long term solution would be using PyPy, since it has significantly lower memory usage and better optimisation

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2009-06-15

2009-06-15 Thread Lucian Branescu
2009/6/15 NoiseEHC noise...@freemail.hu: My major concern against porting to Android is that Java is a horrible language, even with the nice Android libs. Google have said that they will add more languages, though. Yes, java sucks. IMHO it does not matter though since mostly activities

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2009-06-15

2009-06-15 Thread Lucian Branescu
2009/6/15 NoiseEHC noise...@freemail.hu: There is a project doing a bit of that, http://code.google.com/p/jythonroid/ Jython just got a new compiler though, it should be possible to retarget it. Google seems to love Python, maybe they will help? Perhaps OLPC could get them to at least say

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Please help us choose a Sugar on a Stick boot animation sequence by tomorrow

2009-06-09 Thread Lucian Branescu
+1 for the ring 2009/6/9 Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com: We are on a tight schedule for the SoaS LinuxTag release and following the mega-thread on the subject we have narrowed the choice down to two variants: Progress Bar

Re: [IAEP] Journal criticism

2009-05-27 Thread Lucian Branescu
I'm new to Sugar, so I may be horribly wrong. But to me, the Journal seems more of an annoyance than anything else. A lot of the work I see done is towards bringing back some of the properties that regular filesystems have What advantage does it have as opposed to a regular filesystem with

Re: [IAEP] Journal criticism

2009-05-27 Thread Lucian Branescu
: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 20:20, Lucian Branescu lucian.brane...@gmail.com wrote: I'm new to Sugar, so I may be horribly wrong. But to me, the Journal seems more of an annoyance than anything else. A lot of the work I see done is towards bringing back some of the properties that regular

Re: [IAEP] SUGAR DESKTOP on Intel Mac's an alternate solution.

2009-05-25 Thread Lucian Branescu
at all... And different students can plug their sticks in for their session on it. they also can go home and run it on their PC's without jeopardizing the integrity of the host PS's The situation should be the same on an Intel Mac : / Cordially; Tom Gilliard Bend Oregon USA Lucian

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] soas live cd on MacBook? How?

2009-05-24 Thread Lucian Branescu
blessing would be useful for enabling 'boot from USB'. 'boot from CD' or 'boot from USB with helper CD' don't need it. 2009/5/24 Andrea Mangiatordi andrea.mangiato...@gmail.com: Jonas Smedegaard wrote: You cannot run the currently released SoaS on a PowerPC Macintosh. That's why I wrote so I

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] soas live cd on MacBook? How?

2009-05-20 Thread Lucian Branescu
rEFIt http://refit.sourceforge.net/ is akin to GRUB, but nicer. It detects and shows all boot options. 2009/5/20 Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com: This may be helpful too: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1310 On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote: For completeness,

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] soas live cd on MacBook? How?

2009-05-20 Thread Lucian Branescu
s/Sugar/Sugar on a Stick/ Still, it should just show up as Linux (USB). 2009/5/20 Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 04:26:18PM +0100, Lucian Branescu wrote: And is distinguishing between other linux distros and Sugar

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] soas live cd on MacBook? How?

2009-05-20 Thread Lucian Branescu
And is distinguishing between other linux distros and Sugar even desirable? My macbook is off to be repaired so I can't test, but AFAIK both the SoaS and the .iso should be recognised as Linux by rEFIt and booted. 2009/5/20 Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] soas live cd on MacBook? How?

2009-05-20 Thread Lucian Branescu
Perhaps, but to me it seems a very good option, especially when compared to requiring a helper CD and an arcane key press combination . rEFIt is tiny and quite useful by itself, since the default apple bootloader doesn't offer any feedback. 2009/5/20 Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de: Note

Re: [IAEP] VIA C3 based laptop

2009-05-19 Thread Lucian Branescu
AFAIK, ubuntu x86-32 is in fact i386 (unless they changed it recently). For debian, try this http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ 2009/5/19 Ashar Iqbal s.ashar.iq...@gmail.com: On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-

Re: [IAEP] Library Activity

2009-05-04 Thread Lucian Branescu
WebDAV is very nice at a first look, but its implementations are so radically different, that using it across OSes is often hopeless (from my limited experience). 2009/5/5 Benjamin M. Schwartz bmsch...@fas.harvard.edu: Eben Eliason wrote: Something we have talked about in the past is a way for

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: SoaS on a MacBook?

2009-04-22 Thread Lucian Branescu
I think if you have rEFIt, you don't need the helper. 2009/4/22 Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com: On 21 Apr 2009, at 21:38, Caroline Meeks wrote: I'm pretty sure you will definitely need the CD Helper.  But I was able to boot my iBook with one so I'm very much looking forward to your

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: SoaS on a MacBook?

2009-04-22 Thread Lucian Branescu
I have a macbook pro, I'll research this when I have some time. 2009/4/22 Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org: On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 09:15, Lucian Branescu lucian.brane...@gmail.com wrote: I think if you have rEFIt, you don't need the helper. The Fedora live image stuff has several references

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Call for Testers (New Snapshot!)

2009-04-04 Thread Lucian Branescu
The ISO boots up fine in VirtualBox. Again, the vmdk appliance doesn't. http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/677 2009/4/4 Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.com: Hi folks, the SoaS team has another snapshot ready for testing - it's absolutely important that it get's tested as much as possible for

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] ars technica

2009-03-26 Thread Lucian Branescu
I can help translating to Romanian, if that helps. 2009/3/26 Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com: Please, if there is anyone who can help translating our press release into Portugese, Italian, or any other language besides the four we had at launch, I would be very grateful. thanks Sean

[IAEP] Hello, I'm an aspiring GSoC student

2009-03-24 Thread Lucian Branescu
Well, Hello! I'm a stage 1 student and I have some experience with Python, JavaScript, SQL and web development in general. I'm also very excited about open source, I use a lot of it and have made small contributions. I'm fascinated about how networks and the web work and I'm continuously amazed at