Jecel Assumpcao Jr writes:
Holger Levsen wrote:
IIRC/IIUC this is one aspect why the ftpmasters didnt accept
it in main. More generally said, (IIRC) it's because the
impossibility to bootstrap etoys.
Is the subject correct? I mean I know we are talking about a directory
called non-free but
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It was a very poor experiment and the article had a number of items
of misinformation. The author of the article did not take advantage
of the fact that she had 2 XOs . She did not boot both in Sugar to
observe the collaboration capabilities of Sugar and
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 7:57 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
File sharing is not an active real time collaboration tool by any means.
Right. Active real-time collaboration is nice, and I wish my
own editor had it, but I think you're overvaluing it greatly.
In sugar multiple
Marco Pesenti Gritti writes:
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Wade Brainerd wadetb at gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 4:11 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti mpgritti at
gmail.comwrote:
11 replace matchbox with a more traditional desktop window
manager, with the ability to fullscreen windows
C. Scott Ananian writes:
The response usually is that additional context is sufficient to
disambiguate tag sets, you don't actually need ordering. That is,
it's okay if a/b is indistinguishable from b/a -- in practice one
will really be c/a/b and the other will be b/a/d or whatever, and
you
Arjun Sarwal writes:
I would like to propose Measure Activity to be included in the build.
I really think this activity is important. I'm not so sure it
is ready to ship.
(3) Provides instant feedback (eg. make sound and see waveform)
Out of the box, all I get is a crooked line that jumps
Eben Eliason writes:
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Eduardo H. Silva hoboprimate at gmail.com
wrote:
2008/9/19 C. Scott Ananian cscott at laptop.org:
Eben, Eduardo, and I have been chatting about this some over IRC.
What I find most interesting here is how *filesystem paths* (well,
URL
I want to delete everything that isn't an activity.
In case that isn't practical, I could settle for just
deleting everything. That would be awful though,
because I want to clean out my journal at every boot.
This is to recover some space, and maybe some
RAM or CPU time.
I'm OK with sacrificing
Greg Smith writes:
I just got word from a decision maker in Uruguay that they are very
concerned about performance. They say that Sugar is slow. I'm probing
to get more details but I want to evaluate the options in parallel.
...
This may cost us significantly if we don't show improvement.
Note that we *cannot* share much of the information about the
possible alternatives we are examining for Gen-2 hardware
until decisions are final; it is the basis of serious negotiations
among competing parties, under non-disclosure agreements.
Lest rumors of more OLPC secrets get started,
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 5:28 AM, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Albert Cahalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just look at the deal. Dual-boot costs $7 extra. Governments will
not pay the extra $7 to allow dual-boot.
No, Windows costs about $7 extra
Seth Woodworth writes:
So as a fair practice I think it's clear that no special actions can
ethically be made to prevent Windows or any other OS from running on
the machine. So a Windows port for the XO isn't something that
could have been preventative.
Wrong. It's called tit-for-tat,
It was terrible to lose the pie chart for resource usage.
That was very useful for both developers and kids.
The new design makes the loss permanent, while
still keeping a visual design that no longer makes
any sense.
Fixing the old ring doesn't seem so difficult. You can't
have a minimum
Michael Stone writes:
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 07:58:06PM +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
* It deals with the problem of children clicking on 2-3 activities
at the same time, which proved to be a real issue in the field
(will faster activities address this? not sure).
If you actually
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Gary C Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 1 May 2008, at 16:24, Albert Cahalan wrote:
For other reasons (GUI complexity and the OOM killer), the ability
to launch multiple activities should be disabled by default.
Do you mean 2+ instances of one activity
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 3:46 PM, Joshua N Pritikin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As I have posted before, I am not distressed by the inclusion of Windows
on the XO laptop, perhaps in a dual-boot configuration or whatever. What
would distress me is if Windows was not sold as an option. If laptops
It's clear that we aren't all here for the same thing.
Some wish to help all kids, or poor kids, or non-Western
kids. Some wish to advance freedom of speech, freedom from
EULA slavery, or freedom to learn heretical ideas.
Some of us are, assuming good intentions, extremely innocent
regarding
Jameson Chema Quinn writes:
One thing I've noticed in Tux Paint is that an Edit toolbar is far
less useful than an Edit menu. You want to copy something - you go
to the edit toolbar - you select the copy 'tool' - and nothing
happens, because you don't have anything selected. So how do you
On Dec 25, 2007 6:28 PM, Bernardo Innocenti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jeffrey Kesselman wrote:
Now this isnt to say that a minimum resolution cant work in the same
way it works on PCs... it works IF you can go full screen at that
resolution and if the game can request that resolution.
It
Michael Stone writes:
On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 11:29:40PM +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
Why not simply run it as the same (non-olpc) user every time?
- Bert -
I don't personally want to provide such an option
because I consider it prone to abuse.
I'm not seeing much of a problem here.
Paul Kippes writes:
How can I prevent the OLPC from attempting to start the GUI and just
dump me into the root prompt or login? I have no abilities to run
terminal since it is failing to start the X server and forever is
looping trying to do so.
Agh!
I reported this bug ages ago.
Woah, hold on a second...
These fonts have terrible coverage. Not even Latin-1 is covered.
You get 80 of the 96 characters in the 0x00a0 to 0x00ff range.
Furthermore, are the fonts actually good for what is claimed?
Remember that they may be optimized for low-res screens without
anti-aliasing.
On 11/8/07, Ivan Krstić [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Nov 7, 2007, at 9:09 PM, Albert Cahalan wrote:
Using standard directories is not scribbling all over
the filesystem!
This anti-compatibility attitude needs to stop. It's really
hurting OLPC, needlessly making the goals harder
On 11/8/07, Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In some cases though it's better to break than to keep a fake
compatibility with something which is designed for a different use
case. That way the error is explicit and the activity author knows it
needs to be fixed. And I agree with
I'm hearing that files will be provided to activites as hard links.
This is not good. It prevents atomic update via rename.
Far better is to provide directories, one per file, so that
updates can be made atomic. While you can't hard link a directory,
you can bind mount it. This is essentially the
Ivan Krstic writes:
On Nov 2, 2007, at 12:02 PM, Michael Stone wrote:
Can we create subdirectories within /tmp?
I would really prefer it if you used $SUGAR_ACTIVITY_ROOT/tmp instead.
I think Erik was in fact referring to the 'tmp' inside
SUGAR_ACTIVITY_ROOT. Writes to the real /tmp are
Eben Eliason writes:
Roughly speaking, you can calculate a colored pixel's effective
luminance by:
Y = 0.3*R+0.59*G+0.11*B
To be clear on why this is rough: it performs an operation
on non-linear data which is only valid on linear data.
That is, it ignores gamma.
From best to worst:
a.
Bert Freudenberg writes:
We do *not* want to start with a clean state every time.
...
I have personally observed this over the last months, with
passers-by as well as with regular users like my own kids.
Resuming from the Journal is a very rarely used feature.
E.g., my son (8yo) really likes
On 10/22/07, Eben Eliason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 10/22/07, Albert Cahalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 10/22/07, Eben Eliason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 10/21/07, Albert Cahalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The simplest format for audio data is an audio file.
Basic *.wav data
Arjun Sarwal writes:
1) Since many logs are going to be associated with one logging
session, what is the best way to pack these log files and
associate with the journal? Should one make a .zip file of
all the log files ?
That's OK, but don't waste effort on compression.
Standards say you use
That's OK, but don't waste effort on compression.
Standards say you use the pax format, or at least
something like tar or cpio.
Interesting point. Perhaps, with our filesystem, we should always
prefer something other than zip for bundles? Tar would be a good
pick.
It's also because
On 10/22/07, Eben Eliason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 10/21/07, Albert Cahalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The simplest format for audio data is an audio file.
Basic *.wav data is really simple. It's a 44-byte header
followed by the raw data.
Obviously I know little about the .wav format
On 10/12/07, Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In the unstable builds:
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/
These don't have ChangeLog files. It'd be good to know
what is going on. I'm guessing that after Trial3 the latest
one of these becomes a regular OS build;
The stuff involving *.activity exec lines
and names not being DBUS services
and all... in which OS build does it land?
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Activity files are based on this spec:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/desktop-entry-spec
According to the spec, translation is handled like this:
[Activity]
name = Tux Paint
name[af] = Tux Verf
name[da] = Tux maling
name[et] = Joonistame koos Tuksiga!
name[gos] = Vaarve
name[hr]
Ivo Emanuel Gongalves writes:
Paint, is this the famous Tux Paint? I have heard that it is a very
neat drawing app for kids, but what I saw so far was an Open/Save
interface more awful than the one used by the other porgrams. What
the Niflheim where the developers thinking? It doesn't make
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