Re: Security for launching from URL

2008-07-04 Thread Ivan Krstić
On Jul 4, 2008, at 1:37 PM, Edward Cherlin wrote: > My guess is that there is a way to secure the > process, but it might require some extra effort beyond a software fix, > like teachers whitelisting URLs for lessons. Or perhaps just > whitelisting our Moodle instances. Signed lesson plans? At any

XTerm usage tips.

2008-07-04 Thread Michael Stone
I've wanted, for a long time, to be able to use XTerms on the XO with readable fonts. Blake Setlow recently worked out how to do this for me: LANG=C xterm -fa "DejaVu LGC Sans Mono" -fs 8 +sb Regards, Michael ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop

Managing computer content in a schoolroom

2008-07-04 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
There are at least two ways to manage the content of the laptops in a classroom -- "bottom-up" (let the kids choose) or "top-down" (let an administrator choose). Was reading a two-weeks-old Linux Weekly News, which described Func (Fedora Unified Network Controller - see https://fedorahosted.or

Re: intern project on profiling sugar

2008-07-04 Thread Riccardo Lucchese
On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Martin Dengler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 08:56:34AM +0200, Riccardo Lucchese wrote: >> Hi >> >> I'm riccardo lucchese (rl) and will be an intern at olpc for the >> next ten weeks. My initial proposal for the internship was working >> on p

Re: 8.2 Kernel status update

2008-07-04 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, > Dave looked at it and doesn't like the implementation. I can throw > it into our joyride along with the needed changes to olpcrd to > mount with a root reservation of 4M or so as a stop-gap to a better > solution until we have something better. Note that both the patch > and

Re: 8.2 Kernel status update

2008-07-04 Thread pgf
deepak wrote: > On Jul 02 2008, at 10:16, Jim Gettys was caught saying: > > The other issue it would be nice to get fixed is the jffs2 full > > performance falling off the wall cliff, for which there is a patch that > > the Nokia folks have deployed. While in development we seldom run full, >

Re: 8.2 Kernel status update

2008-07-04 Thread Deepak Saxena
On Jul 02 2008, at 10:16, Jim Gettys was caught saying: > The other issue it would be nice to get fixed is the jffs2 full > performance falling off the wall cliff, for which there is a patch that > the Nokia folks have deployed. While in development we seldom run full, > running full is likely the

New joyride build 2111

2008-07-04 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2111 Changes in build 2111 from build: 2110 Size delta: 0.00M -telepathy-gabble 0.7.4-3.olpc3 +telepathy-gabble 0.7.6-2.olpc3 -- This mail was automatically generated See http://dev.laptop.org/~rwh/announcer/joyride-pkgs.html for ag

Security for launching from URL (was Re: Release 8.2.0 -- pls add critical features (Greg Smith))

2008-07-04 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 6:35 AM, Bryan Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greg wrote: >>Thanks for keeping us apprised of your needs! > > My pleasure. > >>I'm also not aware of any feasible design proposal which might address >>your request. You need a precedent or engineering level suggestion to >>

Re: Release 8.2.0 -- pls add critical features (Greg Smith)

2008-07-04 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Bryan Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greg wrote: >>Thanks for keeping us apprised of your needs! > > My pleasure. >From what I can see v8.2.0 is at a late stage - we are discussing what it takes to ship the features we have in Joyride end-of-business Monday. H

New joyride build 2110

2008-07-04 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2110 Changes in build 2110 from build: 2109 Size delta: 0.00M -sugar-journal 79-3.fc9 +sugar-journal 93-2.fc9 -telepathy-gabble 0.7.4-1.fc9 +telepathy-gabble 0.7.4-3.olpc3 -telepathy-glib 0.7.6-1.fc9 +telepathy-glib 0.7.11-1.fc9 --- Cha

Re: Release 8.2.0 -- pls add critical features (Greg Smith)

2008-07-04 Thread Bryan Berry
Greg wrote: >Thanks for keeping us apprised of your needs! My pleasure. >I'm also not aware of any feasible design proposal which might address >your request. You need a precedent or engineering level suggestion to >move this forward. Is this possible in Firefox at all? Probably not. We had t

Re: koji dependency problem building telepathy-gabble

2008-07-04 Thread Morgan Collett
2008/7/4 Dennis Gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Friday 04 July 2008, Morgan Collett wrote: >> Dennis, >> >> I couldn't build telepathy-gabble 0.7.6 in OLPC-3 because it depends >> on telepathy-glib >= 0.7.8: >> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=694418&name=root.log >> >> Guillaume

Re: koji dependency problem building telepathy-gabble

2008-07-04 Thread Dennis Gilmore
On Friday 04 July 2008, Morgan Collett wrote: > Dennis, > > I couldn't build telepathy-gabble 0.7.6 in OLPC-3 because it depends > on telepathy-glib >= 0.7.8: > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=694418&name=root.log > > Guillaume built the latest telepathy-glib in F-9: > http://koji

New joyride build 2109

2008-07-04 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2109 Changes in build 2109 from build: 2107 Size delta: -0.14M +avahi-gobject 0.6.22-10.fc9 -telepathy-salut 0.2.3-3.olpc3 +telepathy-salut 0.3.3-4.olpc3 --- Included avahi-gobject version 0.6.22-10.fc9 --- -- This mail was automat

Re: [Localization] How do we manage translation effort in Release, process/roadmap?

2008-07-04 Thread Korakurider
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Korakurider, > > Thanks for reviewing the process page. > > Can you write up an explanation (or point me to the URL) on the steps > and actions needed for translation in each release? An example of what > happens and when fo

koji dependency problem building telepathy-gabble

2008-07-04 Thread Morgan Collett
Dennis, I couldn't build telepathy-gabble 0.7.6 in OLPC-3 because it depends on telepathy-glib >= 0.7.8: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=694418&name=root.log Guillaume built the latest telepathy-glib in F-9: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=54696 However I s

Re: intern project on profiling sugar

2008-07-04 Thread Martin Dengler
On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 08:56:34AM +0200, Riccardo Lucchese wrote: > Hi > > I'm riccardo lucchese (rl) and will be an intern at olpc for the > next ten weeks. My initial proposal for the internship was working > on profiling sugar. i.e. why is activities startup so long ? ;) [...] > I was told

Re: sugar-datastore-0.8.2 & ds-backup on F7

2008-07-04 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 12:44 AM, Martin Langhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just realised that the python-cjson dependency of > sugar-datastore-0.8.2 (which is req'd by ds-backup) makes it hard to > support on F7 (we'd need a backport of python-cjson). Not sure if the > F9 port landed in joyride.