Re: [IAEP] booting XO-Live CD from usb key

2008-06-16 Thread WolfgangRohrmoser
On Monday 16 June 2008 11:17, you wrote: Bill, your best bet might be to ask the LiveCD creator himself - cc'ed. - Bert - Begin forwarded message: From: Bill Kerr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 16. Juni 2008 08:47:25 MESZ To: its. an. education. project [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Paul T

Usage monitoring: any experience?

2008-06-16 Thread s . boutayeb
Thank you Pia for your comments. We will examine further if the applications Moodle, which seems to be bundled with the XS-server, or ClaSS and Openadmin could address the issue of the usage monitoring. Best regards, Samy ___ Devel mailing list

Re:Recent Updates to Sugar Almanac

2008-06-16 Thread James Simmons
Faisal, What you wrote looks good, but I did see a possible error in it. You say: The following simple write_file() method shows how both metadata and files are written. Currently, write_file() will throw an error unless somewhere you actually write an actual file to the file_path that is

Text To Speech in Read Etexts improved again

2008-06-16 Thread James Simmons
This weekend I made another release of Read Etexts. This one fixes the pause/resume problem. I also introduced a new toolbar for Speech, which is adapted from the toolbar of the Speak activity but is modified to use speech-dispatcher. You can select the language to use and control pitch and

Re: Text To Speech in Read Etexts improved again

2008-06-16 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 10:00:58AM -0500, James Simmons wrote: I don't plan on doing much more with this until I can get speech-dispatcher installed and working on my XO. Hemant - how would you describe your progress on packaging speech-dispatcher? I've seen lots of traffic on

Re: Text To Speech in Read Etexts improved again

2008-06-16 Thread Hemant Goyal
Hi Michael, The basic package is ready to use, and a few more Q/A issues as described in the bug report need to be resolved. The major Q/A issues to be resolved at the moment are : 1. Conversion of CS language info file to UTF-8 encodings. I am having trouble finding the encoding of the

Re: Recent Updates to Sugar Almanac

2008-06-16 Thread Faisal Anwar
Hi James, Thanks for the feedback. I had two follow up questions for you or others who are in the know with datastore: 1. You said: 'However, if your application is like Read, Read Etexts, or View Slides, which are always resumed from existing Journal entries, there is no need to write a file.

Re: Text To Speech in Read Etexts improved again

2008-06-16 Thread James Simmons
Hemant, The RPM's and instructions you posted to the Wiki before *almost* worked. Can we assume that you'll do something similar with your debugged RPMs while awaiting sponsorship? Having my activity do TTS on a real XO would make a big difference to my project. Not to mention that I

Re: Switching to Kreyol ?

2008-06-16 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Hi Bastien, The locale code would be ht_HT.UTF-8. I need to figure out how much of Kreyol translations are in the build yet, but I would suggest that you use one of the newer joyride builds. Another problem is that probably (again, I need to verify this), the Kreyole locale is not yet defined in

Re: Recent Updates to Sugar Almanac

2008-06-16 Thread James Simmons
Faisal, Look at the code for the Read activity. It never creates a Journal entry itself. What it does is to resume from a directory entry created by downloading a PDF through the Browse activity or perhaps one copied from a USB key using the Journal activity. So there *is* a file in the

Re: Text To Speech in Read Etexts improved again

2008-06-16 Thread Hemant Goyal
Hi James, Absolutely not a problem at all. I am also working on finding a fix for the problems that developers can have while using speechd api with pyGTK as described here : http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg15868.html I discussed a solution to the problem with tomeu and erikos,

Question about logging behavior

2008-06-16 Thread Faisal Anwar
Hi, I'm trying to do simple logging for an activity, but am finding some strange behavior with logging that I'm hoping someone can clarify for me. In particular, I've written code similar to the following: import logging _logger = logging.getLogger('Annotate') class

Re: [Server-devel] [PATCH] ds_backup - major rework

2008-06-16 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 7:46 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Use json (part of the XO base install) instead

Re: Question about logging behavior

2008-06-16 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
2008/6/16 Faisal Anwar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Now, when I start my activity up, I don't find any logs that are written to with the logging message. However, when I resume the activity from the journal, I do see the logging message that I have written in my code. Does anyone know why logging seems

Re: Koji Tags for 8.2.0

2008-06-16 Thread Dafydd Harries
Ar 13/06/2008 am 00:23, ysgrifennodd Michael Stone: Marco, Dennis, and I talked this afternoon and evening about how to arrange our Koji tags for the 8.2.0 release. Assuming no serious objections are raised by either you or the Fedora infrastructure and release-engineering teams, we will take

Gadget on the XS - upwards/downwards compat?

2008-06-16 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi Daf Collabra team, Michael Stone gave me a brief run down of Gadget and plans to review it for inclusion on future XO and XS builds. What he described sounded pretty good, so I am keen on this. Have you guys considered backwards / forwards compat? We have many locations where XS and XO will

Re: Upgrade G1G1 using autoreinstallation method

2008-06-16 Thread John Watlington
I'm glad you found a solution. Can you provide more information (such as exactly what model of AP are you using ? Which versions of firmware worked/didn't work.) I can't follow the link you provided, it returns: No Thread specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the

Re: Upgrade G1G1 using autoreinstallation method

2008-06-16 Thread John Watlington
On Jun 14, 2008, at 6:09 AM, David Leeming wrote: Hi John, To see if we could duplicate our problem, we tried with another AP: We have a VSAT set up near the village where we are deploying a trial with 50 children in PNG. It has a reliable wireless AP and you can associate both grown

Re: Recent Updates to Sugar Almanac

2008-06-16 Thread Faisal Anwar
Hi James, Based on your feedback, I've changed to wording for the write_file() entry to the following: *The following simple write_file() method shows how both metadata and files are written. write_file() must point to a physical file. This file reference can be created in several ways: * 1.

Supported media formats?

2008-06-16 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Which media formats are supported out-of-the box on the XO? I found a partial list here http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Data_File_Formats but it does not mention audio and video formats. In particular I'm interested in what GStreamer can handle as installed - only the good plugins are

Re: Upgrade G1G1 using autoreinstallation method

2008-06-16 Thread Pia Waugh
Hi all, quote who=John Watlington If one pulls the cable out on the LAN side of the AP the XOs cease to share and quickly drop out and look for the mesh. So, this duplicated the problem I described. More and more interesting. Have you been able to follow up on what Pia Waugh found

Re: Recent Updates to Sugar Almanac

2008-06-16 Thread James Simmons
Faisal, /* You can download or save a file to a particular location and then change the self._jobject.file_path variable (as the Read activity does). */The Read activity only does the self.jobject.file_path variable when receiving a shared document. I wish I had a really old version of Read

Journal, Clipboard and activity instances vs. files (was Re: Recent Updates to Sugar Almanac)

2008-06-16 Thread Wade Brainerd
2008/6/16 Faisal Anwar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Rather than keeping track of what state you are in, it seems more coherent and natural that the developer only worries about specific calls to write metadata when he wants to write metadata (like volume and playback settings) and only worries about

Re: Journal, Clipboard and activity instances vs. files (was Re: Recent Updates to Sugar Almanac)

2008-06-16 Thread James Simmons
Wade, What you propose sounds difficult for a kid to master. For myself, I'd like external storage to be treated differently from Journal entries and to *look* like its being treated differently. External storage could have files and directories, you could navigate through them with a

Re: Journal, Clipboard and activity instances vs. files (was Re: Recent Updates to Sugar Almanac)

2008-06-16 Thread Wade Brainerd
Hey James, It actually sounds a bit like we're talking about the same thing... On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 3:26 PM, James Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What you propose sounds difficult for a kid to master. For myself, I'd like external storage to be treated differently from Journal entries

Communicate the changing of some sugar keyboard shortcuts?

2008-06-16 Thread Martin Dengler
Hi and apologies for the wide distribution of this email... Some Sugar keyboard shortcuts are changing due to trac ticket #4646[1]. They're not in joyride yet but will get there soon (I imagine). You can view the changes and the discussion leading up to them in the [EMAIL PROTECTED] email trail

MPP tests

2008-06-16 Thread Giannis Galanis
On my last week at 1cc, I performed several tests on MeshPortalPoint(MPP) configurations. Perhaps it is good for all to have an insight on what is possible, and what isnt with MPP. (especially after tomorrows network presentation!) For those who dont know yet, an XO acts as an MPP, when it

Re: [Server-devel] Beta Server hardware - Description complete

2008-06-16 Thread Tony Pearson
Martin, Here is the changelog. The utility support DOS and WINDOWS. When I called the store, they were under the impression that the manufacturer does not support LINUX, 0801 -- Latest beta 0602 -- Support new version of chipset (I am not sure if my machine has the new chipset n it) 0402 --

[Server-devel] [PATCH] Introducing ds_backup.sh - a lightweight wrapper.

2008-06-16 Thread martin . langhoff
From: Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] ds_backup.sh gets called from cron and/or from NetworkManager, and decides whether it's a good time to attempt a backup. It also protects ds_backup.py from concurrent executions, staggers clients to avoid stampedes, and keeps various other demons at bay.

Re: [Server-devel] Modify the Kickstart File on XS-163

2008-06-16 Thread Martin Langhoff
2008/6/16 Tony Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: packages and @post script. Does that look reasonable? Hmmm. I don't quite understand what is happening here. Our current ks file is here, but it is built to support the livecd bootstrapping process - a different beast altogether:

Re: [Server-devel] [PATCH] Touch a .transfer_complete to mark completion, minor cleanups

2008-06-16 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 06:20:02PM -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: Note: this is a work in progress. Naturally. Back to your question: we tack on a transfer_complete flag file in a 2nd rsync transmission that is conditional on the first one succeeding. A better solution is to wrap rsync at