Hey list,
At OLE Nepal we need to let our etoys image allow writing to disk,
however under rainbow the image is executed under another user id.
What's the way to give an/our activity permission to write to certain
directories without just making them world writable, which is surely
not the way to
Hi,
Before thinking about solution, could you explain specificaly what you
want to write to disk and how that will be used?
/Korakurider
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Ties Stuij [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey list,
At OLE Nepal we need to let our etoys image allow writing to disk,
however
Dennis Gilmore wrote:
On Monday 07 April 2008, Michael Stone wrote:
cjb, cscott, and I just chatted about build names. We have absolutely no
problem announcing official-703 (when candidate-703 becomes official)
under whatever name seems good but we have no consensus about what that
name
Morgan Collett wrote:
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Simon Schampijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dennis Gilmore wrote:
On Monday 07 April 2008, Michael Stone wrote:
cjb, cscott, and I just chatted about build names. We have absolutely no
problem announcing official-703 (when
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Simon Schampijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dennis Gilmore wrote:
On Monday 07 April 2008, Michael Stone wrote:
cjb, cscott, and I just chatted about build names. We have absolutely no
problem announcing official-703 (when candidate-703 becomes official)
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Ties Stuij [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But if someone has a good idea about
saving an image and writing to the changes file on the XO, I'm all
ears.
If you just want to save your work during development in Squeak,
the setup procedure in
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Korakurider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Before thinking about solution, could you explain specificaly what you
want to write to disk and how that will be used?
/Korakurider
Well, I was wondering on a general level how Sugar handles this,
because I ran
Korakurider wrote:
Hi.
I can't see April archive of Bugs ML on
http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/bugs/
while there are surely some changes on Trac
(see http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/etoys-notify/2008-April/000472.html
for instance).
What's broken? I don't know whether bugs ML itself
Hi Henry,
looks like trac is not sending emails to the bugs ml any more since 29th March:
http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/bugs/
Can you please look at that?
Thanks,
Tomeu
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On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Korakurider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Ties Stuij [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But if someone has a good idea about
saving an image and writing to the changes file on the XO, I'm all
ears.
If you just want to save your work
On Monday 07 April 2008, Gary C Martin wrote:
On 8 Apr 2008, at 04:53, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
I honestly think we should call it OLPC 2 which matches the cvs/
build tag and
signifies release number 2
OLPC 1 being ship.2
then we just increment the number for each stable release. we
Ties Stuij wrote:
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Korakurider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Ties Stuij [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But if someone has a good idea about
saving an image and writing to the changes file on the XO, I'm all
ears.
If you just
See http://dev.laptop.org/~bert/joyride-pkgs.html
Insufficient space in download directory /home/cscott/public_html/
xo-1/streams/joyride/build1841-20080408_0710/devel_jffs2/install_root/
var/cache/yum/olpc-joyride/packages to download
- Bert -
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On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 04:34 +0100, Gary C Martin wrote:
Well, if this is a democracy, of sorts, I'll stick my neck out and
vote to stick with a release-703, or official-703, kind'a format. I
just really, really dislike dates floating into version naming (and
even worse product naming -
Does anybody know the answer to Where
does gecko keep its configuration files ?
Thanks,
wad
Begin forwarded message:
From: Motaib Abdel
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 11:34 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Cc: Bentahar Latif; Kerner Marty
Subject: RE: PEAP Configuration on
Is Uruguay even using 703? Peru is. Mexico probably will... Mongolia
probably will...
While I like the discipline that is suggested by a date scheme, it
doesn't really add much real value over simply sequential numbering.
We certainly should avoid using seasonal names, as that will cause
walter wrote:
I'm in favor of Dennis's suggestion. OLPC-1; OLPC-2, ... It is simple
and, I argue, unambiguous. The hardware is XO-1, XO-2...
as perhaps more of an outsider here, i'd say that this is not
unambiguous. people with the laptops regularly refer to them
as my OLPC -- perhaps
You can use about:config in recent builds:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wifi_Connectivity#Proxy_Settings
Best,
Simon
John Watlington wrote:
Does anybody know the answer to Where
does gecko keep its configuration files ?
Thanks,
wad
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Sent:
This discussion reminds me of a favorite puzzle from Douglas Hofstadter
0, 1, 2, 3, 720!, ...
That is a numbering scheme with lots of headroom.
I agree that OLPC is the wrong name. There are reports that the
software is now running, for example, on a Classmate PC. So any direct
tie to OLPC is
On 08.04.2008, at 06:21, karl wrote:
A activity with Squeak would be nice, and even useful :-) It could
just
be the Etoy dev image with write permission.
Well, the Right Thing would be to check the image+changes files into
the datastore. Problem is, it is unusably inefficient to do so
hmm, Sugar aims to be available as an alternative desktop in all kinds
of linux distros, so would be a bad name for an OLPC-made distro.
Tomeu
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This discussion reminds me of a favorite puzzle from Douglas Hofstadter
0, 1,
True. How about OLPC-Fedora.1, ...
-walter
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hmm, Sugar aims to be available as an alternative desktop in all kinds
of linux distros, so would be a bad name for an OLPC-made distro.
Tomeu
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 5:13
On 07.04.2008, at 23:50, Ties Stuij wrote:
Hey list,
At OLE Nepal we need to let our etoys image allow writing to disk,
however under rainbow the image is executed under another user id.
What's the way to give an/our activity permission to write to certain
directories without just making
The prefix is much longer than the actual information that the name is
supposed to provide ;-)
p.
Walter Bender wrote:
True. How about OLPC-Fedora.1, ...
-walter
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hmm, Sugar aims to be available as an alternative
On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 10:38 -0400, Walter Bender wrote:
Is Uruguay even using 703? Peru is. Mexico probably will... Mongolia
probably will...
Ok, maybe it was Mexico-703 but for reasons you state below that is the
wrong way to go. OLPC-1, OLPC-2 , etc. sounds good to me.
While I like the
howdy,
I am training two teachers from our pilot schools how to maintain the
XO, XS, and networking equipment.
I have create a wiki page of the training program I have put together
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Nepal:_Support_Training
i would very much appreciate the input of others.
I have lots
Here is my two cents on this subject.
start-of-rant
I worked for over ten years on a project that shipped software to states for
localization and redistribution to their schools every fall.
The following was true all of those years.
The people that did the redistribution wanted a predictable
The right answer to the naming question depends on the meta-question of
what will we be releasing.
Are we going to continue down the path of bundling the OS and the
activities into one giant release wad, or will we split out the separate
components (OS, sugar, core activities) and release them
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As far as a feature-based scheme, that will just increase the pressure
to do an end-run around our renewed pledge to do time-based releases.
I'm in favor of Dennis's suggestion. OLPC-1; OLPC-2, ... It is simple
and, I
I think we are all in complete agreement re predictable release
schedules. It is the naming scheme we are struggling with.
-walter
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Kent Loobey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here is my two cents on this subject.
start-of-rant
I worked for over ten years on a
Actually, it is a bit more complicated; whether we should reflect this
in numbering, is, however, less clear to me.
We have network protocols in the presence service we depend on, and
which fundamentally affect interoperability between applications (flag
days). I also posit we're very likely to
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Martin Langhoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
After having worked in projects with many schemes, I
find that the best communicator is a 3-part release name x.y.z
where...
Which is what Richard is saying too, except he is clearer ;-)
For builds that are custom in
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Jim Gettys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We have network protocols in the presence service we depend on, and
which fundamentally affect interoperability between applications (flag
days). I also posit we're very likely to have to face at least one
more flag day
Perhaps it would be better to use a letter instead of a number for the
generation code (major release). When confronted with a string of
several numbers, the human mind tends to blank out. For some reason,
letter - number - number is easier to remember and say than number -
number - number .
Mon, 7 Apr 2008 17:01:34 -0400, Patrick Dubroy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
1. Project name: TabletUI
Done. Your tree is here:
git+ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/git/activities/tabletuihttp://[EMAIL
PROTECTED]/git/activities/imagetosound
Please follow instructions here for importing your project:
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 7:59 PM, Mitch Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Perhaps it would be better to use a letter instead of a number for the
generation code (major release). When confronted with a string of
several numbers, the human mind tends to blank out. For some reason,
letter -
Hi Scott,
On Monday 07 April 2008 22:14, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
I've got 11 DV tapes on my desk containing the mini-conference
proceedings. We had to return the DV camera we were using to MIT,
but hopefully we can borrow another one to get the bits off the tapes,
and then I'll be
We had two hours downtime just now of our mailing lists due to an upgrade to
pedal.laptop.org. We have restarted mailman and are testing the service now.
--HH.
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Sorry for cross posting. Could not resist myself. Please, visit the link
below. Some of you might have read it already. There's a substantial mention
of OLPC.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7334518.stm
Regards,
--
Prakhar Agarwal
Technical Head - Library RD Team
3rd Year
B.Tech, IT
JIIT
Can't tell your players without a program
Micheal stone: no problem
Andres Salomon: hmm. Apple Blueberry (named alphabetical)
Gary Martin: No, official-703.. No to OLPC2 thats hardware
Dennis Gilmore: OLPC2. Oh, an the next hardware is XO-2 and should
have same releases.
Simon: 802.month
Here's may proposal:
OLPC Year components major:minor [- special_build]
OLPC 2008 OS 1:0 - Mexico
OLPC 2009 Activity Bundle 2:14
SPE 2009 Student Bundle 1:0 - Approved by Sec. Mota
OLPC = Built by OLPC. If the Secretariat of Public Education builds a
custom, they name it SPE or
On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 14:40 -0300, Martin Langhoff wrote:
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Martin Langhoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
After having worked in projects with many schemes, I
find that the best communicator is a 3-part release name x.y.z
where...
Which is what Richard is
I updated my g1g1 with the usual olpc-update -r -f joyride-1842
The update went ok, but when I attempted to play with the record
activity,
the camera doesn't give the normal video feedback, the image is
frozen and
can not take a picture. Switching from Video to Photo will cause the
image
I talked with Ryan Croke of Illinois Lieutenant Governor Pat Quinn's
office today. They are keen on this project, and would like to arrange
for us to assist in getting the program designed for the best possible
outcome. HB5000 is moving rapidly through the House, and will then go
to the Senate,
Is anyone familiar with the status of the jnlp activity?
--
Steven M. Lewis PhD
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FYI, HP also announced a lower cost ($500) laptop aimed at classrooms today.
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_8848583
2008/4/8 Prakhar Agarwal [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Sorry for cross posting. Could not resist myself. Please, visit the link
below. Some of you might have read it already. There's a
Yesterday we had a mini-sprint with argentinian pythonistas and we
discussed Alecu's CDPedia which is a Python toolchain that does are
good job of cutting a slice of wikipedia and cutting off the least
interesting parts to make it fit. His project is here
http://code.google.com/p/cdpedia/
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A paper called Freezing More Than Bits: Chilling Effects of the OLPC XO
Security Model will be presented next Monday at USENIX UPSEC'08 [1]. The
author has kindly posted the paper at [2], which I discovered after Google
took me to her weblog [3].
It
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Bobby Powers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anyone looked into the Encyclopedia of the Earth / Earth Portal?
http://www.eoearth.org/
They have several ebooks and online textbooks, and peer-reviewed content (to
edit, you have to apply, and all changes to the
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 10:24:34PM -0400, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote:
A paper called Freezing More Than Bits: Chilling Effects of the OLPC XO
Security Model will be presented next Monday at USENIX UPSEC'08 [1]. The
author has kindly posted the paper at [2], which I discovered after Google
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 7:59 PM, Jameson Chema Quinn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is fascinating. I would say that the first triaging you should do to
make this a reality for September is to reduce the number of grade levels
you target to an absolute minimum. More than 3 would be crazy, two is
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Joshua N Pritikin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 10:24:34PM -0400, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote:
A paper called Freezing More Than Bits: Chilling Effects of the OLPC XO
Security Model will be presented next Monday at USENIX UPSEC'08 [1]. The
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Noah Kantrowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Trac thinks it is sending messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Beyond
that I can't actually check.
Then could you please nail down?
+ Is the ML is working actually?
I tried to ping the ML from my gmail account but my message
Nope, I don't have access to the mail server, so my testing stops at
trac.
--Noah
On Apr 9, 2008, at 12:00 AM, Korakurider wrote:
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Noah Kantrowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Trac thinks it is sending messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Beyond
that I can't actually
It would have been nice if the criticisms had been delivered directly to
OLPC, instead of broadcast in a public forum, where enemies of OLPC can
cite and expand on them as evidence that OLPC is hopelessly screwed up,
so you should buy our competing product instead. If you get my drift.
I
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 9:16 PM, Bert Freudenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 07.04.2008, at 23:50, Ties Stuij wrote:
Hey list,
At OLE Nepal we need to let our etoys image allow writing to disk,
however under rainbow the image is executed under another user id.
What's the way to
Moved the top post down.
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 9:21 PM, Mitch Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It would have been nice if the criticisms had been delivered directly to
OLPC, instead of broadcast in a public forum, where enemies of OLPC can cite
and expand on them as evidence that OLPC is
Let me take a crack at it...
The closest thing to a valid criticism here is that bitfrost does not protect
political dissidents from government monitoring and control. Similarly, a valid
criticism of my shampoo is that it doesn't protect me from falling satellites.
Which is the bigger threat to
Perhaps someone @devel can comment...
thanks
Arjun
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Ravi Kondamuru [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Arjun,
I am having trouble accessing git because of my corp firewall. Is there http
access to the repository. My efforts so far have been unsuccessful. I was
Hi
I am preparing the bof, thanks for your input!
see http://wiki.apache.org/apachecon/
when it's online again,
I ll be on #schoolserver and might some help for anwering some question.
time are not sure since i can't access their wiki.
expected time: next wednessday 20:30 CET
kind
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 8:48 AM, Marten Vijn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am preparing the bof, thanks for your input!
Fantastic! Thanks for doing this. If you remember to keep notes and
post something back (maybe CC'd to the key participants from the BoF)
then we can continue the conversation
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