Hey all,
I spent the past 15 minutes digging through the wiki and devel threads
from the past 3 months and I couldn't find out how to stop an XO from
suspending except for the manual "touch /etc/ohm/inhibit-idle-suspend"
that Chris told me about the other day.
Could someone please explain the
I think you should just start a page...
Thanks,
Kim
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Who is writing the release notes for 8.2.0?
>
> I am seeing a lot of good info on improvements pass by in e-mail or in
> Trac exchanges (e.g. http://dev.laptop.
On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 08:55:48PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 08:40:36PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> > * updates to the puritan UI and the f9 compilation which make combine to
> > deliver a bootable image. (As of this instant, you'll need to start X
> > manually wit
The good news is that the green we use is pretty close to the peak
luminance sensitivity, maximizing the available contrast. In general,
green is a very good choice in regard to contrast to black.
-walter
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On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 08:40:36PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> * updates to the puritan UI and the f9 compilation which make combine to
> deliver a bootable image. (As of this instant, you'll need to start X
> manually with olpc-dm)
In the build I created, NM did not start automatically. I'm
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I worked on a couple of things over the weekend that may be of interest
> to random passers-by. They include:
>
> * new rainbow ('cli' branch of users/mstone/security) and nss-rainbow
> source code which lets you use rainbo
I worked on a couple of things over the weekend that may be of interest
to random passers-by. They include:
* new rainbow ('cli' branch of users/mstone/security) and nss-rainbow
source code which lets you use rainbow from the command line and which
permits rainbow to add accounts to the system
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> Hi all, I'm not sure this is the right list for this, but I had
> some feedback on the XO which I'm not sure has been dealt with. The
> black on green keyboards apparently might be a significant issue
> for children who are colourblind. I haven't pursued this but had
> the que
On Tue, 8 Jul 2008, Carol Lerche wrote:
So there are two threads here, the first being authentication and the second
whether the standard browser could be used (I am still interested in a user
story as to why collaborative browsing is interesting/useful as opposed to a
shared bookmark or scrapb
Hi Walter,
> The most typical color-blindless is a red-green confusion. Black-green
> should not be an issue as this is contrast in value, not chroma.
> However, the point is well taken. Some of the on-screen color
> combinations may well be problematic. The general rule of thumb is to
> provide
The most typical color-blindless is a red-green confusion. Black-green
should not be an issue as this is contrast in value, not chroma.
However, the point is well taken. Some of the on-screen color
combinations may well be problematic. The general rule of thumb is to
provide at least two Munsell va
Hi all,
I'm not sure this is the right list for this, but I had some feedback on the
XO which I'm not sure has been dealt with. The black on green keyboards
apparently might be a significant issue for children who are colourblind. I
haven't pursued this but had the question posed from an education
I'm trying to get IDLE running on my XO, so that I can show Python
development directly on it.
IDLE needs Tk-inter to run. I've installed it, and IDLE runs. The font
is very small. However I can't get tk to recognize fonts or size changes.
If I open Options/Configure IDLE.../'Fonts/Tabs', I onl
Hi,
I 'm asking for permission to add an activity to Joyride to be used
primarily for debugging cerebro. This activity provides these features:
- presence (list of users with picture (avatar) and distances)
- profiles as shared by each user
- file transfer
- chat
- a bidding game (sell that penc
Hi,
We (I) are indeed porting Gears to browse (the main reason being offline
Moodle), and I'd like to be informed if the standard browser for the XO
changes, so I know what else to port to, but for now, the majority of the
work has been done, and the source code allows for integration with a wid
> And they are, in fact, succeeding, even though the open source community
> has largely turned its collective back on that success. Which is, I think, a
> shame.
Bravo for Greg, but this is overstated: not the succeeding part, the
turning its back part.
-walter
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 6:25 PM,
> And they are, in fact, succeeding, even though the open source community
> has largely turned its collective back on that success. Which is, I think, a
> shame.
Bravo for Greg, but this is overstated: not the succeeding part, the
turning its back part.
-walter
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 6:25 PM,
Ah - ok. Thanks a lot :-).
Warm regards,
Sayamindu
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 3:57 AM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 03:50:51AM +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
>> Hi Michael,
>
>> Just to confirm - the init file for the customization key is at
>> http://dev.lapto
On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 03:50:51AM +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> Just to confirm - the init file for the customization key is at
> http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/mstone/irfs-udebs;a=blob;f=src-olpc/init
> right ?
Actually, it's in users/cscott/olpcrd-rootskel.
> Also, is t
Folks,
The inimitable Greg DeKoenigsberg just landed a whopper on
fedora-devel-list@:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-July/msg00433.html
which is quite worthy of your questions and follow-ups. The folks
replying to that thread are masters of the Fedora technologies and a
It appears that logs posted in the Log Activity go, by default, to
olpc.scheffers.net/olpc/submit.tcl
Pascal - can you provide access to these logs?
Thanks,
Michael
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Riccardo,
Your graphs would be more helpful if they gave more information about
exactly which processes were running. "python (pid)" doesn't really tell
me what's going on.
Perhaps you could modify the display so that each track is prominently
labeled with the full arguments to the process?
Than
Hi,
as part of my intern work on profiling sugar, I've written a little application
for gathering system and per process statistic from /proc called.
It may reveal itself useful in catching interferences between processes or
when profiling cpu/mem usage of long running processes.
In fact there a
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> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > sameer wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Ubuntu uses Gobby for its UDS (Ubuntu Developer Summit) meetings and
> it
> > > > works quite well.
> > >
> > > perhaps they have a usage model (guidelines) that would be
> > > in
On Jul 8, 2008, at 5:31 PM, Carol Lerche wrote:
> This is an assertion, not an argument. It is also factually
> incorrect.
I have no interest in arguing with you; you're obviously free to
ignore my advice.
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > sameer wrote:
> > >
> > > Ubuntu uses Gobby for its UDS (Ubuntu Developer Summit) meetings and it
> > > works quite well.
> >
> > perhaps they have a usage model (guidelines) that would be
> > interesting to look at.
> >
> Overall UDS part
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 6:31 PM, Carol Lerche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is an assertion, not an argument. It is also factually incorrect.
And needless to argue over it if we can get instead some working code.
:-)
m
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> sameer wrote:
> >
> > Ubuntu uses Gobby for its UDS (Ubuntu Developer Summit) meetings and it
> > works quite well.
>
> perhaps they have a usage model (guidelines) that would be
> interesting to look at.
>
> paul
> =-
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Ivan writes::
While you may believe the setup you have in mind is easy and uncomplicated,
the odds are *overwhelmingly*, **super-stunningly** stacked against you to
make PKI work the way you want in production. The fact that TLS client
certs, in particular, have zero commercial end-user deployment
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2130
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On Jul 8, 2008, at 2:46 PM, Carol Lerche wrote:
> I am puzzled about the PKI infrastructure you envision. I envision
> having a
> private certificate authority that runs on the teacher's XO and
> keeps its
> keystore on a USB thumb drive.
To summarize for those who haven't heard me rant about
Greg,
Touchpad bug summary, as of May:
http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-May/013580.html
Suggestions:
* There's no release contract material ready here yet -- people are
optimistic that they will be able to improve the user experience of
the touchpad but no one wants to be p
sameer wrote:
>
> Ubuntu uses Gobby for its UDS (Ubuntu Developer Summit) meetings and it
> works quite well.
perhaps they have a usage model (guidelines) that would be
interesting to look at.
paul
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>> Another problem is that the Activity button (the 4th zoom level) can
>> select the Journal if that was the last active activity. It has an own
>> button so I cannot see any reason why it has to be the way it is. It is
>> an annoyance that when I download several thing
Hi,
> We'd like to try out using Gobby to record the agenda and minutes
> for Tuesday's release meeting. If you have an XO and will be
> joining the meeting, please run "yum install gobby" beforehand, or
> "apt-get install gobby" on an Ubuntu laptop. The server will be at
> pullco
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Martin Langhoff
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Please point me to your notes on this, if you would be so kind.
>
> There aren't any, unfortunately. I had to read idmgr to understand the
> protocol - so read the source. It is a trivial xml-rpc.
Ah, apologies, wrong an
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 8:59 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> If we just added a number of extensions to Firefox either in C++ or
>> JS, could we deliver as much to the kids that want to study and modify
>> t
Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 2:14 AM, Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> We'd like to try out using Gobby¹ to record the agenda and minutes for
>> Tuesday's release meeting.
>>
>
> Yeah. apt-cache show says
>
> Package: gobby
> (...)
> Description: collaborative t
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If we just added a number of extensions to Firefox either in C++ or
> JS, could we deliver as much to the kids that want to study and modify
> the software on their machines?
Yes. Firefox has a much better integrated IDE fo
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Jim Gettys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 00:17 -0400, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
>> > Not everyone likes tabbed browsing.
>>
>> That may be true - but what if the user needs to reference two (or
>> more) separate pages of information. If while l
> > I am puzzled about the PKI infrastructure you envision. I envision
> having a
> > private certificate authority that runs on the teacher's XO and keeps its
> > keystore on a USB thumb drive. So my favorite CA tool is TinyCA
> (currently
> > version2) which is written in Perl. This works very
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> |> We could add many more of the missing features to Browse if
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C. Scott Ananian wrote:
| On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|> We could add many more of the missing features to Browse if all the
|> developers weren't so busy with the rest of Sugar. Also, although most
|> of the
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 8:05 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> We could add many more of the missing features to Browse if all the
>> developers weren't so busy with the rest of Sugar. Also, although most
>> o
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Carol Lerche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I can certainly produce a proof of concept for the first,
> using client certs via Scott's Firefox 3. I don't think it is as hard as
> you think, and I promise to provide something concrete by the end of the
> weekend.
Tha
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We could add many more of the missing features to Browse if all the
> developers weren't so busy with the rest of Sugar. Also, although most
> of the sugar developers have occasionally hacked on Browse, we are far
> from expe
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 6:32 PM, Jim Gettys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 2) the lack of a certificate UI has hampered our Browse usage primarily
> in G1G1 developed world situations: this tells me while it is of
> concern, it's not as high priority as some other issues might be,
> certainly lower
Tue, 8 Jul 2008 13:13:42 +0200, "Riccardo Lucchese" <
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1. Project name :Picker
Done. Your tree is here:
git+ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/git/activities/picker
Please follow instructions here for importing your project:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Importing_your_project
Let us
Hi folks,
many of the VPRI developers are attending the Scratch conference at
MIT. We'll fly in a day early so that we would have some time on Wed.
the 23rd to talk about issues, future plans, or whatever else comes
up :) We're leaving Monday night so I hope there will be even more
opportu
So there are two threads here, the first being authentication and the second
whether the standard browser could be used (I am still interested in a user
story as to why collaborative browsing is interesting/useful as opposed to a
shared bookmark or scrapbook). While I am mostly interested in the
On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 00:17 -0400, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
> > Not everyone likes tabbed browsing.
>
> That may be true - but what if the user needs to reference two (or
> more) separate pages of information. If while looking at one page
> he can't remember *exactly* what the other page said,
Oh, and as Walter points out, journal integration is also important to
us, and necessary in any replacement. Sometimes brain is not engaged.
If we can build the OLPCfs stuff that Scott has come up with, this will
help unmodified apps interoperate with the journal, but I suspect for
something like
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Jim Gettys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I can also anticipate Javascript performance may become an issue as its
> use continues to increase.
Confirming this - to work with XS-based tools nicely, JS and related
tools (gears) support is a must.
cheers,
m
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Let me summarize where I think we are and/or should go and try to put
this into some context:
0) good rendering onto our high resolution screen is very important to
us; this is why we went with a Gecko based web browser in the first
place. Before we moved to the development builds of gecko/xulrun
Hi,
There was a mistake on assigning the project.
Thanks,
riccardo
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> Tue, 8 Jul 2008 13:13:42 +0200, "Riccardo Lucchese"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 1. Project name: Picker
>
> Done. Your tree is here:
> git+ssh:/
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Please follow instructions here for importing your project:
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Let us
Hi Kim, Scott, et al,
In the meeting on 7/1 we (those who joined on time) agreed 8.2.0 is a
time based release intended to include the latest code (e.g. Fedora 9
and New Sugar).
I think it falls in the category of "release early and release often".
I agree that it does not completely address t
Hi NoiseEHC,
I agree that the key problem is communication of decisions more than
what decisions are being made.
Several people have said that recently (e.g. localization team recently
made the same point).
I hope we can address this at the high level with an agreed process that
include miles
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On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 6:52 AM, NoiseEHC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Now I see that the XO icon thing is a dupe:
> https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7043
>
> I do not see any connection with 7430 however. What I wanted to say is
> that if you really want to keep that useless Free Form view then at
> l
Hi All,
Who is writing the release notes for 8.2.0?
I am seeing a lot of good info on improvements pass by in e-mail or in
Trac exchanges (e.g. http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7443#comment:3). I
want to start capturing them somewhere so users can see what
changes/benefits are in the release.
May
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 2:14 AM, Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We'd like to try out using Gobby¹ to record the agenda and minutes for
> Tuesday's release meeting.
Yeah. apt-cache show says
Package: gobby
(...)
Description: collaborative text editor
Gobby is an editor which helps your me
Just a lowly G1G1 end user here,
I would strongly agree that the option of free form, list or ring is a great
feature. The choice may be seen as unnecessary clutter but it provides an
avenue of customization and familiarity for those using the device and would
add to the polish of the overall des
Hi Martin,
That's a much requested feature from the field as you know!
Thanks for working on it.
Are you in synch with the XO side of the work needed? Can you check bug
ID 7392 and confirm it covers what you need?
When do you think we can release an XS image which supports this (be
very conse
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Carol Lerche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Martin -- You state that ssl at the network layer is significant. The
> question is when and how much must ssl be used to authenticate with client
> certs? I believe it only needs to be used during initial authentication an
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 5:37 AM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> a) SSL overhead being "impractical"? Come on. You can use SSL on the
> browser today; there is no perceptible speed difference. I agree that
> client certs may be impractical, but it won't be because the XO can't
> han
"Sugarizing" involves more than just the look and feel of the UI; in
addition to Bitfrost considerations--raised by Bert and Mikus--and the
collaboration model, there is also Journal/Datastore intergration to
consider: the trivial from of Sugarizing does not result in useful
Journal entries. So som
1. Project name :Picker
2. Existing website, if any :
3. One-line description :Lightweight system and processes
statistics (cpu/mem/io) gatherer.
4. Longer description :Gathers system and processes statistics from /proc
:and graphs them to pretty f
Now I see that the XO icon thing is a dupe:
https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7043
I do not see any connection with 7430 however. What I wanted to say is
that if you really want to keep that useless Free Form view then at
least select the Circle View by default (for the Circle vs Free Form).
Anothe
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 9:37 AM, NoiseEHC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Could we at least select the ring view by default? I see the free form
> view as unnecessary crap because the last thing I want is to reorder
> icons by using the touchpad. Did anybody actually try that exercise?
> Also the list
Am 08.07.2008 um 06:35 schrieb Mikus Grinbergs:
> A reference was made to Gears:
>> My point was exactly that it is a plugin.
>> There are other plugins that are educationally useful.
>
> Security. I believe that 'Browse' is restricted as to how much it
> is allowed to modify the operating system
Am 08.07.2008 um 09:37 schrieb NoiseEHC:
> http://www.thewebsiteisdown.com/
Hah! Must. Stop. Laughing. It. Hurts.
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On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 10:37 AM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> The real question to me is whether there are size (memory & nand)
> disadvantages to Firefox. Othewise it's just a practical problem of
> finding enough resources to implement a Firefox extension to match the
> curren
A couple points:
a) SSL overhead being "impractical"? Come on. You can use SSL on the
browser today; there is no perceptible speed difference. I agree that
client certs may be impractical, but it won't be because the XO can't
handle the computation.
b) Many of the customization issues mooted a
Could we at least select the ring view by default? I see the free form
view as unnecessary crap because the last thing I want is to reorder
icons by using the touchpad. Did anybody actually try that exercise?
Also the list view has a bug, that it does not have an XO icon which can
be clicked to
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