Re: Datastore backup - request for help

2008-05-20 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 5:43 PM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that I have ds_backup that does backup something (thanks Tomeu for the script to grow the ds), I am looking at doing it correctly. Couple more things that I want to do, and I am unsure where to hook into: - On

Re: [Server-devel] XO-XS backups

2008-05-20 Thread Marten Vijn
On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 17:59 +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 11:42 PM, Marten Vijn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where can I find your code? Nothing works yet :-/ - I intend to push it to a ds-backup directory in users/martin . if it is not online ik can't help

Re: Sample large datastore

2008-05-20 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 3:11 AM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 9:26 PM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: results, count = data_store.find({}, ['uid']) You may want to limit the

Re: Datastore backup - request for help

2008-05-20 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 9:47 AM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 5:43 PM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that I have ds_backup that does backup something (thanks Tomeu for the script to grow the ds), I am looking at doing it correctly. Couple

Re: Marshalling/unmarshalling costs

2008-05-20 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 4:12 AM, Jim Gettys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First step: data to see if there is a problem. If no problem; stop. If problem; fix... ;-). DBUS, btw, does not have to be inefficient; the wire protocol is sane (distinguishing it from Corba, for example). What Python

Re: Marshalling/unmarshalling costs

2008-05-20 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 4:12 AM, Jim Gettys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First step: data to see if there is a problem. If no problem; stop. If problem; fix... ;-). DBUS, btw, does not have to be inefficient; the

Re: Datastore backup - request for help

2008-05-20 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about ~/.sugar/default? Ok. I can store the flag straight there. For the locks, it might make sense to make a lock directory, as those have a different semantic (ie: you never want to copy them in a backup, for example).

Re: Marshalling/unmarshalling costs

2008-05-20 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://dev.laptop.org/~tomeu/datastore*.kgrind and https://dev.laptop.org/attachment/ticket/3979/datastore5.kgrind Hard to say what we profiled exactly now though :) Right, I would prefer if new profiles were

Re: Marshalling/unmarshalling costs

2008-05-20 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
http://dev.laptop.org/~tomeu/datastore*.kgrind and https://dev.laptop.org/attachment/ticket/3979/datastore5.kgrind Hard to say what we profiled exactly now though :) Marco On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Marco Pesenti

Re: Datastore backup - request for help

2008-05-20 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about using HAL? Sugar uses it like this: http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=sugar;a=blob;f=src/model/devices/battery.py;h=853d00ec490a0b58ef7f569ac1c9a9ef75228259;hb=HEAD Looks like a ton of work. cat

update on touchpad problems

2008-05-20 Thread Bryan Berry
sorry been out of contact on this issue and haven't responded earlier. The monsoon started last week so there is a lot less dust at Bashuki school. The touchpad problem has reduced to a point that about 3 out of 27 kids have touchpad problems at one time, down from 50% I still need to test this

Re: Datastore backup - request for help

2008-05-20 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But it works only on the XO. Fair enough. Is there a portable (and lightweight) way of asking this question from bash? cheers, m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask

Re: Datastore backup - request for help

2008-05-20 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 20.05.2008, at 11:31, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But it works only on the XO. Fair enough. Is there a portable (and lightweight) way of asking this question from bash? battery=`hal-find-by-capability

Re: SSH DSA logins on crank.

2008-05-20 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Tuesday 20 May 2008 04:08, Bernie Innocenti wrote: Hopefully this doesn't mean that the _private_ DSA key can be compromised if the _public_ key was copied on a Debian/Ubuntu machine. Not by copying to, but by using with, yes, unfortunatly. Read

Re: Datastore backup - request for help

2008-05-20 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 20.05.2008, at 12:58, Bert Freudenberg wrote: On 20.05.2008, at 11:31, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But it works only on the XO. Fair enough. Is there a portable (and lightweight) way of asking this question

RE: Microsoft

2008-05-20 Thread Joshua Seal
Although Microsoft charges $3 for the software Michail was under the impression they charge $2 on top for their fancy sticker. Then add Richards estimate for the SD card: $7 Total per XO: $12 + shipping Josh -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: SSH DSA logins on crank.

2008-05-20 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 20.05.2008 13:31, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, On Tuesday 20 May 2008 04:08, Bernie Innocenti wrote: Hopefully this doesn't mean that the _private_ DSA key can be compromised if the _public_ key was copied on a Debian/Ubuntu machine. Not by copying to, but by using with, yes,

Re: SSH DSA logins on crank.

2008-05-20 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Tuesday 20 May 2008 14:13, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: Not by copying to, but by using with, yes, unfortunatly. Sorry, using with is very imprecise language and leads many people to the wrong conclusion. If you think that using was confusing here, you should probably also remove

Re: [Its.an.education.project] Constructionism (was Re: XP on OLPC - a contrarian view)

2008-05-20 Thread Alex Belits
Walter Bender wrote: The week culminated with an open-house where each teacher presented a project they developed that integrated national curriculum goals into an XO activity. I think, this illustrated another, probably less fundamental but practically important point -- if a country has

Re: Google Summer of Code project, sugarbot

2008-05-20 Thread Zach Riggle
Hi Tom, thanks for the interest in the project. Right now everything is more towards the exploratory phase, in seeing what can be done. I thought that I had a method picked out that worked fairly well on standalone PyGTK apps, that doesn't work so well for OLPC Activities. The approach

Re: [sugar] Release management for upcoming bug fix releases and August release

2008-05-20 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 1:41 AM, Kim Quirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have started planning for the next SW releases. The goal is a bug fix release in a few weeks (8.1.1), and then the major August release (8.2.0). Hi, what about updating to the latest stable abiword release for 8.1.1?

Re: olpc fedora build source code

2008-05-20 Thread Paul Fox
michael wrote: On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 01:38:41PM -0400, Bill Mccormick wrote: Hey folks, Sorry to bug you with another newbie question, but I'm now stuck. Where do I get the fedora src code? We keep archives of the code that goes into our builds, in the form of SRPMs, in a

Re: olpc fedora build source code

2008-05-20 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 02:59:59PM -0400, Paul Fox wrote: it's not clear (to me) from the Build_system page linked above where the final contents of a give release is determined. The determination is usually made by yum as it is run from pilgrim on either xs-dev.laptop.org or

Re: olpc fedora build source code

2008-05-20 Thread Paul Fox
michael wrote: On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 02:59:59PM -0400, Paul Fox wrote: it's not clear (to me) from the Build_system page linked above where the final contents of a give release is determined. The determination is usually made by yum as it is run from pilgrim on either

Re: [Its.an.education.project] Constructionism (was Re: XP on OLPC - a contrarian view)

2008-05-20 Thread Antoine van Gelder
On 19 May 2008, at 19:21, Albert Cahalan wrote: Are you serious? Are you really a Republican? No Child's Behind Left is the worst disaster in education in decades, as John Holt would have been the first to point out if he had lived long enough. Who claims that NCLB is raising skills, as

Re: Datastore backup - request for help

2008-05-20 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 11:43 PM, Bert Freudenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah, Marco rightly pointed out hal-get-property. Much easier that way: hal-get-property --udi $battery --key battery.charge_level.percentage hal-get-property --udi $ac_adapter --key ac_adapter.present Great! Each

excellent overview of the anatomy flash filesystems

2008-05-20 Thread Bryan Berry
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-flash-filesystems/index.html?ca=drs- w/ a really sexy flowchart for jffs2 -- Bryan Berry OLE Nepal ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

excellent overview of the anatomy flash filesystems

2008-05-20 Thread Bryan Berry
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-flash-filesystems/index.html?ca=drs- w/ a really sexy flowchart for jffs2 -- Bryan W. Berry Systems Engineer OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org

Re: Microsoft

2008-05-20 Thread Jim Gettys
We already have the technology in place to automatically update the firmware as part of updating the laptop. We certainly don't what the support headaches of having to support multiple versions. - Jim On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 18:34 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nick

Creating a non-python activity

2008-05-20 Thread shivaprasad javali
Hi, I have a C++ activity which i want to use on the olpc. I tried to sugarize my activity based on the info i found on the olpc wiki http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugarizing . The code for sugarizing in that page didnt work for me. I was only able to launch my process as a

Re: Turkish keyboard layout

2008-05-20 Thread Edward Cherlin
I accidentally sent this to one person last time. Sorry. Here it is for everybody. On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Kim Quirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We're looking for some help on the Turkey keyboard layout. Attached is an image of the 'Q' layout for Turkey. Can anyone verify the details of

Re: [Server-devel] XS software compatibility question

2008-05-20 Thread Berkowitz Andrew (Project Connect)
I am having a problem with the ejabberd. I took the ejabberd.cfg ejabberdctl.cfg files from a working server and then changed the domain before starting ejabbered. What do you suggest? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ejabberdctl ejabberd status Node [EMAIL PROTECTED] is started. Status: started ejabberd

Re: [Server-devel] XS software compatibility question

2008-05-20 Thread John Watlington
I don't have enough information to suggest anything, just offer condolences and vague comments :-) From your command line info I assume that you are having problems keeping ejabberd running, not connecting or collaborating after starting it up. There is a brief time during startup when