Re: Mesh testing on Monday.

2008-02-22 Thread Morgan Collett
Chris Ball wrote: >5. Read -- if one laptop shares a PDF, how many laptops fail to > retrieve it? Joyride 1721 has a fix in Salut for #6483, Stream Tubes issue in sharing a PDF in Read. Therefore, we recommend that build for testing. Morgan

Sprint Projects/Resources for PyCon 2008 Sprints

2008-02-22 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
Hi all, We'll being doing an Activities sprint after PyCon2008, March 17th (evening) to the afternoon of the 20th. We'll likely have 8-10 Python programmers of various skill levels available. Given the compressed time-frame, we should be able to either complete very small projects or work on

Re: Suspended time vs Resumed time in an idle XO

2008-02-22 Thread Giannis Galanis
in case you need it, i am resending the script because it was blocked On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Giannis Galanis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have noticed that an idle machine will resume for some time, and suspend > again, several times for no reason. > > I wrote a simple script that che

Re: Alternative power/recharging source?

2008-02-22 Thread Ed Montgomery
Came across this rather amazing item the other day, and instantly thought this might be a very, very useful power/recharging mechanism for the XO... A lamp powered by gravity producing 40 watts over 4 hours...using gravity! :-) (Consider the XO using about 2 watts...) Not affected by weather/seaso

Re: The XO and email

2008-02-22 Thread Jameson "Chema" Quinn
I don't have anything too useful to contribute, I just wanted to say that it would be great if you could make a new activity. I looked into making one based on Tinymail as my initial get-to-know-sugar exercise, but I have ended up working on Develop. I only saw enough to see that tinymail is really

Suspended time vs Resumed time in an idle XO

2008-02-22 Thread Giannis Galanis
I have noticed that an idle machine will resume for some time, and suspend again, several times for no reason. I wrote a simple script that checks every 1sec whether the machine is suspended on not. It gives a timeline of Suspended times and Resumed times. A left an XO completely idle overnight

Re: Alternative power/recharging source?

2008-02-22 Thread david
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Ed Montgomery wrote: > Came across this rather amazing item the other day, > and instantly thought this might be a very, very > useful power/recharging mechanism for the XO... > > A lamp powered by gravity producing 40 watts over 4 > hours...using gravity! :-) (Consider the XO

Re: Suspended time vs Resumed time in an idle XO

2008-02-22 Thread Ricardo Carrano
Yanni, But we should note that, not everything that expires, does so because of a timer. A cache entry may have an associated timestamp and expire in timestamp + ttl. I have noticed that an idle machine will resume for some time, and suspend > again, several times for no reaso > The result is tha

Re: Alternative power/recharging source?

2008-02-22 Thread Richard A. Smith
Ed Montgomery wrote: > hours...using gravity! :-) (Consider the XO using > about 2 watts...) Where did you see that the XO uses only 2 Watts? Thats only when suspended. Suspended: 2W Running: 5-7W Charging the battery: 16W -- Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> One Laptop Per Child _

Re: Alternative power/recharging source?

2008-02-22 Thread Greg DeKoenigsberg
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Richard A. Smith wrote: > Where did you see that the XO uses only 2 Watts? Thats only when suspended. > > Suspended: 2W > Running: 5-7W > Charging the battery: 16W Doesn't it only use 2W-ish when it's in monochrome, screen refresh-only mode? --g -- Greg DeKoenigsberg C

Re: Staffing of an OLPC Booth at PyCon, volunteers needed

2008-02-22 Thread Mel Chua
I'll be at PyCon after all (yay TOPP!). I'm not sure exactly when and where and what I'm doing yet, but if someone keeps me in the loop, I'll gladly help with OLPC stuff at PyCon as best as I'm able. I'm sure others will be drifting around as well. -Mel On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 2:19 AM, Edward Che

Re: Alternative power/recharging source?

2008-02-22 Thread Richard A. Smith
Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote: > On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Richard A. Smith wrote: > >> Where did you see that the XO uses only 2 Watts? Thats only when >> suspended. >> >> Suspended: 2W >> Running: 5-7W >> Charging the battery: 16W > > Doesn't it only use 2W-ish when it's in monochrome, screen refresh

Re: Alternative power/recharging source?

2008-02-22 Thread Richard A. Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > no, in that mode it's down around .2W-ish > I think in color, screen only mode it's ~1w Again whats your source for this info? Because its news to me. -- Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mail

Re: Staffing of an OLPC Booth at PyCon, volunteers needed

2008-02-22 Thread david
just a word of warning, at SCALE the OLPCs were the hit of the show. you may end up finding that you spend a lot more time talking about them than you ever imagined. (depending on what else you are trying to do this may or may not be a problem) one thing that will be extremely useful is if a FA

Re: Alternative power/recharging source?

2008-02-22 Thread david
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Richard A. Smith wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> no, in that mode it's down around .2W-ish >> I think in color, screen only mode it's ~1w > > Again whats your source for this info? Because its news to me. http://laptop.org/en/laptop/hardware/specs.shtml LCD power co

Re: Alternative power/recharging source?

2008-02-22 Thread Richard A. Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Again whats your source for this info? Because its news to me. > > http://laptop.org/en/laptop/hardware/specs.shtml > LCD power consumption: 0.1 Watt with backlight off; 0.2-1.0 Watt with > backlight on; > > David Lang > You are misinterpreting that. That is the d

Re: Alternative power/recharging source?

2008-02-22 Thread david
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote: > On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Richard A. Smith wrote: > >> Where did you see that the XO uses only 2 Watts? Thats only when suspended. >> >> Suspended: 2W >> Running: 5-7W >> Charging the battery: 16W > > Doesn't it only use 2W-ish when it's in monochrome

Re: Alternative power/recharging source?

2008-02-22 Thread Ben Goetter
>> hours...using gravity! :-) (Consider the XO using >> about 2 watts...) There seems little danger of this mechanism being useful on Earth for the XO-1. A 30kg human child who can move her own mass a meter vertically (via a series of pulleys, or perhaps just climbing stairs with a buddy rid

Re: Suspended time vs Resumed time in an idle XO

2008-02-22 Thread Giannis Galanis
It is possible indeed. We have to check. I will try to test how it works with avahi. On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Ricardo Carrano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yanni, > But we should note that, not everything that expires, does so because of a > timer. > A cache entry may have an associated t

Re: Alternative power/recharging source?

2008-02-22 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 22.02.2008 23:41, Ben Goetter wrote: > >> hours...using gravity! :-) (Consider the XO using > >> about 2 watts...) > > There seems little danger of this mechanism being useful on Earth for > the XO-1. A 30kg human child who can move her own mass a meter > vertically (via a series of pulleys

Re: Alternative power/recharging source?

2008-02-22 Thread david
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Richard A. Smith wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> Again whats your source for this info? Because its news to me. >> >> http://laptop.org/en/laptop/hardware/specs.shtml >> LCD power consumption: 0.1 Watt with backlight off; 0.2-1.0 Watt with >> backlight on; >> >> Davi

Re: Alternative power/recharging source?

2008-02-22 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 22/02/08 17:12 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Richard A. Smith wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >>> Again whats your source for this info? Because its news to me. > >> > >> http://laptop.org/en/laptop/hardware/specs.shtml > >> LCD power consumption: 0.1 Watt

Re: Salut and Suspend/Resume issues (MDNS and LLMNR multicast)

2008-02-22 Thread John Gilmore
I dropped a note to Bernard Aboba at Microsoft (a friend of a friend), coauthor of that RFC, who brought some clarity to the situation. His note is appended. What precedes it is my interpretation, and my question to him. Unfortunately, it appears to me to be an ugly situation. > RFC 4795 does n

Preparing the XOs for next week's test

2008-02-22 Thread Giannis Galanis
A couple of stuff for the next week's test. 1. We have about 45 XOs in the conference room, and we can make it up to 80 by collecting other XOs in the office. Do you think this is enough? 2. I will try to update all of them with the build we will agree to initially test with. This would be 693/D1