Re: 15 computer science collegians looking for a project

2008-04-30 Thread Martin Dengler
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:18:24AM +0200, NoiseEHC wrote: http://homepages.cwi.nl/~manegold/Calibrator/ Could you run on your machine and share the results? Currently I do not have access to an XO. Probably not the results you were looking for: bash-3.2$ echo `cat /ofw/ec-name` PQ2D13

Re: Datastore and Core Data

2008-04-30 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 7:03 AM, Benjamin M. Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suggest that people interested in datastore design should become familiar with Apple's Core Data (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_Data). Core Data is a strongly typed high-level data persistence framework

Re: Signed build for Italy

2008-04-30 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, A side note: they also badly want to rename Pippy because apparently it's an obscenity in Turkish :-) We're already localizing it to a different name in some other cases -- Peppy in Spanish locales, and Python in Mexico's build. Since Sugar uses gettext for the activity name, we can

Re: Journal Suggestions

2008-04-30 Thread James Simmons
To be truthful I would be perfectly happy if the SD card just had metadata, including screenshots, like regular journal entries have. The other Journal features aren't necessary. If there was a way of doing a Move from the Journal to the SD card that would be helpful. Finally, since both

Re: Journal Suggestions

2008-04-30 Thread Eben Eliason
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:15 AM, James Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To be truthful I would be perfectly happy if the SD card just had metadata, including screenshots, like regular journal entries have. The other Journal Quoting Jameson: Technically, I think this would mean that the

Re: 15 computer science collegians looking for a project

2008-04-30 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 30/04/08 10:18 +0200, NoiseEHC wrote: On 29/04/08 17:41 +0200, NoiseEHC wrote: On this page http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Geode_LX I have named some instructions as Synchronized ops (in the MMX section). Are those real or did I mismeasured something? That section is very

Re: 15 computer science collegians looking for a project

2008-04-30 Thread Dafydd Harries
Ar 29/04/2008 am 14:56, ysgrifennodd Eben Eliason: I could very well be way off target with this suggestion, but an implementation of Groups (background reading, though not quite up to date: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Human_Interface_Guidelines/The_Laptop_Experience/Zoom_Metaphor#Groups)

Re: [sugar] Sugar\Windows won't ship

2008-04-30 Thread Nathalia Sautchuk PatrĂ­cio
The video that Scott are saying are available at http://twiki.softwarelivre.org/bin/view/TV 2008/4/28 Carol Lerche [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I assume many people may already have seen this articlehttp://www.olpcnews.com/software/operating_system/aquatic_sugar_childrens_interface.htmland

Re: FAQ software

2008-04-30 Thread Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
Hello i did a little googling on this.. Results only include scripts in python or perl to generate the FAQS. Also drupal and other CMS have especial modules for this purpose. On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Charles Merriam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi John, A text file and raw HTML to the

Re: Translation refresh

2008-04-30 Thread Charles Merriam
FYI: The tracking of activities, and marking which ones were in the best state to ship, was part of the build debate earlier this year. The proposal was for OLPC F. to mark some activities as mature enough to consider for deployment and to push them to have a consistent branch name for each time

Re: [Server-devel] FAQ software

2008-04-30 Thread Aaron Huslage
Faq-o-Matic used to work great. 2008/4/30 Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello i did a little googling on this.. Results only include scripts in python or perl to generate the FAQS. Also drupal and other CMS have especial modules for this purpose. On Wed, Apr 30, 2008

Re: Build Debate: Followup on Build Naming

2008-04-30 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Charles Merriam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After a small novel worth of posts about having time-based release numbers, the push from those that make that choice seem to be to have function based release numbers. The time-based release number was my minimum

Controversies

2008-04-30 Thread Edward Cherlin
I have made a new Wiki page, http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Controversies, with sections for the major arguments that we have been having over OLPC strategy and tactics. I have also included links to blog posts, mailing list threads, and interviews with Nicholas Negroponte. Additional topics and

Gamepad and Rocker Images?

2008-04-30 Thread Robert Myers
Are there any images (.png or whatever) of the rocker and gamepad keys? Foe example, to use if you wanted to include an image along with 'press square gamepad key' or 'press rocker left' in documentation? I couldn't find anything easily on the wiki. TIA, Bob

Re: [Server-devel] Extreme Linux Server Available to North America

2008-04-30 Thread John Watlington
On Apr 29, 2008, at 7:00 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: 2008/4/30 Holger Levsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tuesday 29 April 2008 22:41, Martin Langhoff wrote: If those same machines could be ordered with RAM ranging from 512 to 2GB... instant love ;-) -- add a fanless ext USB drive enclosure and

Re: [Server-devel] Extreme Linux Server Available to North America

2008-04-30 Thread Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
This is cool but what about $$ ? Sorry this question was aimed to determine possible better solutions about pricing, i'm not involved in decisions about money (talking about my country's pilot) but it would be nice to have a reference, because all the schools and pilots are different and this

Re: [Server-devel] Collaboration between schools

2008-04-30 Thread Greg Smith (gregmsmi)
Hi John et al, One minor clarification. I think you mean L3 (IP) VPN (virtual private network) not VLAN (virtual LAN). Let me know if that is not right as you can send an IP packet from one VLAN to another but not from one VPN to another (except in special cases). BTW sounds like people have

Re: [Server-devel] Collaboration between schools

2008-04-30 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 6:28 PM, John Watlington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I learned more about the network built by the MED in Peru for their schools. Each school is in its own VLAN, and cannot route to the other schools, only to the Internet and to MED servers. They have good economic

Re: [Server-devel] Collaboration between schools

2008-04-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I would love to hear what are those economic reasons. I am sure that most of you know that if they are connecting to the Internet then the big cost is paid. The rest are peanuts. So... what are those economic reasons to don't allow collaboration between schools? Today economic reasons...

Re: [Server-devel] GPRS connectivity

2008-04-30 Thread James Cameron
Similar but different ... using HSDPA in Australia with an XO. To test with another modem, find the USB vendor and product codes from lsusb or /proc, and try the usbserial module. http://quozl.linux.org.au/bp3-usb/xo.phtml -- James Cameronmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]