[Community News]The kernel team has backported the modifications to the
older stable kernel so that it can be installed on builds 656 and 703. This
allows our G1G1 users and deployment countries to install and test this
new driver.
Seeking advice on how to install this modification!
Just been browsing the Java pages on the wiki and confirming to myself the
Sun Java version installs but the plugin does not load. A pity, as I have
installed on a school server an excellent UNESCO CD of educational materials
"Strengthening ICTs in Schools and Schoolnet Project in the ASEAN Setting
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2162
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If, as is the current plan, multiple versions of
an activity can coexist on an XO, ...
> Two use cases:
> 1. I have a journal object. I want to choose which activity to open it with.
> I am presented with a multilevel menu: the top level has all activities
> which open the mime type, the
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:46:57AM -0500, James Simmons wrote:
>...but after I stop Speech I can't get it to start up again.
Do the activity logs contain any clues?
>Worse, it generally hangs the Activity so I need to reboot the XO to
>quit the Activity.
Is the activity window still present b
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:05:46AM -0400, Daniel Drake wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 09:14 -0400, Greg Smith wrote:
> > - Leaving aside how its done technically, I believe that Linux
> > distributions are fully backward compatible. That is, you can go to the
> > latest supported Distribution and
On 15 Jul 2008, at 00:24, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Gary C Martin
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I vaguely remember some mention somewhere of the DS folder being
>> moved
>> or renamed, I guess mine just got zapped by that change. I'm assuming
>> (hoping) it d
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would be happy to whip up a universal approximate ordering for version
> strings in a few lines of Python. My emphasis here is on _approximate_;
> nothing should depend on precisely correct interpretation of vers
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2161
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> Jameson "Chema" Quinn wrote:
> | It is desirable for Sugar to be able to compare versions and
> | guess which one is newer.
>
> "Newer" means "more recent". If this capability is important to you, then
> we may simply include a datestamp in each
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Eben Eliason wrote:
| I guess the point here is that performing intelligent string comparisons on
| several of these schemes requires parsing the string. ;)
I would be happy to whip up a universal approximate ordering for version
strings in a few line
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 7:47 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Jameson "Chema" Quinn wrote:
> | It is desirable for Sugar to be able to compare versions and
> | guess which one is newer.
>
> "Newer" means "more recent". If t
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Jameson "Chema" Quinn wrote:
| It is desirable for Sugar to be able to compare versions and
| guess which one is newer.
"Newer" means "more recent". If this capability is important to you, then
we may simply include a datestamp in each bundle, separa
>
> So, that said, starting with Freire might still allow us to move in a
> different direction for 9.2 and avoid the learning philosophy wars.
> --scott
I could easily propose my "trees" idea as a follow up to Freire. He spoke of
learning to write with a stick in the dirt under a mango tree. 9.
> I'd like to pose an alternative goal, inspired by your comment: Glucose
> should never attempt to parse version strings. I believe that we can
> accomplish this without sacrificing any of the user-facing behaviors that
> we truly desire. The choice of an appropriate versioning scheme may then
>
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Gary C Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just a quick warning to developers hopping between old and new builds.
> Today while trying to debug an issue with DNS resolution behind an
> Access Point I reverted (from joyride-2149) to the official release
> Update-1 7
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 4:18 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If we're going to a 'dotted decimal' scheme, we
> should use '.'.
>
> ...
>
> Is 1.1 "newer" or "older" than 1.11?)
This is exactly the reason I think that 1-1 ... 1-11 is clearer (you're
right, colon is unworkable
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Martin Langhoff wrote:
| After
| all, if an activity writer wants to use Klingon characters for
| versioning, hey, let them go wild!
This is actually the key point. Currently, the versioning system is
embedded into the Glucose code itself, and our pl
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 6:56 PM, Martin Langhoff
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Version numbers are used to communicate API/ABI compat and degree/type
> of changes to users. Later in this thread Eben suggests what everyone
> else in the industry is using: major.minor - sounds good to me. Even
> bette
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 6:17 AM, Eben Eliason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There was an extensive discussion on this topic a while back on IRC,
Version numbers are used to communicate API/ABI compat and degree/type
of changes to users. Later in this thread Eben suggests what everyone
else in the i
Just a quick warning to developers hopping between old and new builds.
Today while trying to debug an issue with DNS resolution behind an
Access Point I reverted (from joyride-2149) to the official release
Update-1 703 using olpc-update. After running some tests and then olpc-
updating back
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 6:48 PM, Eben Eliason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I read on our wiki that the version number was supposed to be monotonically
> increasing. If that were the case, doing as you suggest isn't valid, as I
Who wrote this? Did they mean it to be taken this literally, or just
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Jameson Chema Quinn
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If we do choose this naming scheme, I think Freire is a good place to start.
> If not, I think that something suggesting growth (names of trees?) might be
> safer.
As I understand it, the other part of the Fedora nam
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 6:41 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 6:24 PM, Eben Eliason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > I think this is still a whole bunch clearer than trying to convince
> someone
> > that version 5 is newer than version 10! (where 10 is a "b
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 6:24 PM, Eben Eliason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think this is still a whole bunch clearer than trying to convince someone
> that version 5 is newer than version 10! (where 10 is a "bugfix" release to
> what used to be version 4.)
You're undercutting your own points: wh
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 3:40 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > My suggestion is to use names of famous pedagogues as code names. I
> > suggest we call this one Freire for Paulo Freire
> > (http://en.wikipe
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 11:51:20PM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 9:00 PM, NoiseEHC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>> > I have a partially finished ZLIB decompression code as well. mstone
>> > just
>>
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 6:18 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 6:07 PM, Eben Eliason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Jameson Chema Quinn <
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> I agree with almost everything jquinn said, except for the u
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 6:07 PM, Eben Eliason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Jameson Chema Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I agree with almost everything jquinn said, except for the use of ':'
to delimit version numbers. Like it or not, the rest of the software
world uses
Dear world,
We should meet tomorrow to discuss release questions and on Wednesday to
discuss tickets. I will arrive fifteen minutes early for each of these meetings
to finalize the agenda for each; however, here are some tentative items:
-
For TUESDAY:
=== St
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Jameson Chema Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> I agree with the signature approach. However, I don't really know what
>> happens when I have 37, 38, and 39 where 39 is a "bugfix" release of 37, and
>> 39 is a "brand new version"...I'd prefer to see them ordere
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 11:51:20PM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 9:00 PM, NoiseEHC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > I have a partially finished ZLIB decompression code as well. mstone
> > just
> > told me that time that we will use LZO so that effort was moot...
> > Currently
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 5:34 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Eben Eliason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > I'm not sure this satisfies me. It might accurately handle the use case
> of
> > updating when upgrading, assuming that activity developers
On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 17:39 -0400, Build Announcer v2 wrote:
> http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2160
>
> Changes in build 2160 from build: 2159
>
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> -
> I agree with the signature approach. However, I don't really know what
> happens when I have 37, 38, and 39 where 39 is a "bugfix" release of 37, and
> 39 is a "brand new version"...I'd prefer to see them ordered 37, 39, 38, to
> coincide with the "level of newness". This is something we will l
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 11:42 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The goal from the beginning has been to minimize cost-of-entry to
> develop applications for our platform. Requiring that people set up
> bugzilla in order to receive bug reports is a high bar! Requiring
> that they h
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 11:36 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 11:30 PM, Eben Eliason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> What an email does do is allow, for instance, the Log a
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> They could be made available on a web site instead, or we could aim at
>> integrating log with trac.
>
> GNOME, for example, has bug-buddy which reports crashes to bugzilla.
The goal from the beginning has been to
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My suggestion is to use names of famous pedagogues as code names. I
> suggest we call this one Freire for Paulo Freire
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo_Freire)
>
> Any other votes or code name suggestions?
Well, I'm not
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2160
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On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 11:35 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 11:30 PM, Eben Eliason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> What an email does do is allow, for instance, the Log activity to actually
>> be useful in practice, since the "send log" button can send
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 11:30 PM, Eben Eliason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> What an email does do is allow, for instance, the Log activity to actually
>> be useful in practice, since the "send log" button can send t
As I have suggested before, I think that these sorts of checks also
matter enourmously to the quality of user experience that we'll be able
to provide when we start seriously attempting to provide 'easy code
sharing' features.
Michael
___
Devel mailing l
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 11:30 PM, Eben Eliason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What an email does do is allow, for instance, the Log activity to actually
> be useful in practice, since the "send log" button can send the log to the
> people who might actually look at it and make any necessary changes t
>From my perspective,
the user-visible and developer-visible feature is that, with root
authority, you can install RECENT software which is available in Fedora.
This really matters for G1G1 people and for our ability to attract
Fedora contributors.
The OLPC-visible feature is that nobody is goin
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Eben Eliason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm not sure this satisfies me. It might accurately handle the use case of
> updating when upgrading, assuming that activity developers are very careful
> to add extra info about compatibility into the .info file. It doesn
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:49 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:> The activities database at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities
> > already has a 'source url' field for the web page. What is needed
Hi Marco,
8.2.0 draft release notes are at:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_Notes/8.2.0
We have this section:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_Notes/8.2.0#Activity_Incompatibilities
so you could make a new section next to that.
Any reviews, edits or additions welcome.
Thanks,
Greg S
Marco
Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:26:29 -0400, "Alex Levenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
1. Project name : x2o
Done. Your tree is here:
git+ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/git/activities/x2o
Please follow instructions here for importing your project:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Importing_your_project
Let us know if y
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:49 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> And I'd strongly prefer that they *not* do so. First off, it's
> pointless to do so, since the web page is a lot easier to spam-spider
> than the activity bundle. But fundamentally, I want to be able to use
> semi-aut
Hi All,
I need to create a page where I can start organizing ideas and gathering
requirements for 9.1.0.
I plan to refer to it by code name instead of number until its released
(thanks to Scott for the suggestion).
My suggestion is to use names of famous pedagogues as code names. I
suggest we
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> RE: Marco's comments.
>
> GS - Thanks! Can you start adding the names of all activities that we
> know should/will work to the Release notes too?
I can add the Fructose ones, where are the release notes? :)
> How does someon
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Mikus Grinbergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The way I see it, there are TWO kinds of items for which
> "compatibility" needs to be provided -- executables + data :
>
>
> * Executables : The problem arises from the "quickness" with which
> some users (such as I)
Hi,
Greg is looking for changes introduced by the F9 builds which result in
user-visible features.
Can anyone give any specifics? For example, do you have some USB device
which didn't work in F7 but does work in F9?
Obviously the kernel upgrade brings a lot of new device support, but
we're looki
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 6:32 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Also, there's nothing saying that this has to be a particular person's
>> email address. It could be a list, or a mailinator account,
Comments follow...
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 4:09 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Eben Eliason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > They don't get it? Or they don't get how a single integer is supposed to
> be
> > sufficient, and therefor use their own
The way I see it, there are TWO kinds of items for which
"compatibility" needs to be provided -- executables + data :
* Executables : The problem arises from the "quickness" with which
some users (such as I) can switch operating system versions. I
sometimes have two different "streams" on
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Otherwise how can we reasonable sort/group the activities in any way
> > that makes sense?
>
> I suggested one (stupidly slow, but very general) approach based on the
> Travelling Salesman problem. To recap:
>
> Regard a
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Eben Eliason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> They don't get it? Or they don't get how a single integer is supposed to be
> sufficient, and therefor use their own methods? Do you have examples of
> specific "random and bogus" strings we can look at to see what's been t
> Otherwise how can we reasonable sort/group the activities in any way
> that makes sense?
I suggested one (stupidly slow, but very general) approach based on the
Travelling Salesman problem. To recap:
Regard all activities as nodes in a fully connected graph. Let
activities state that they are c
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 3:09 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2008/7/14 Eben Eliason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > There was an extensive discussion on this topic a while back on IRC,
> which I
> > unfortunately don't have a record of. There was also mention of this in
> the
> > maili
2008/7/14 Eben Eliason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> There was an extensive discussion on this topic a while back on IRC, which I
> unfortunately don't have a record of. There was also mention of this in the
> mailing lists not too long ago, initiated by
> Morgan: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/
C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 2:05 PM, NoiseEHC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Currently I am profiling/rewriting the LZO decompression code.
>>
>
> Again, be warned that there's no guarantee we will ever use LZO
> compression. The plan of record is to disable compres
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2159
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On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 2:05 PM, NoiseEHC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Currently I am profiling/rewriting the LZO decompression code.
Again, be warned that there's no guarantee we will ever use LZO
compression. The plan of record is to disable compression on selected
files instead. That's not to
There was an extensive discussion on this topic a while back on IRC, which I
unfortunately don't have a record of. There was also mention of this in the
mailing lists not too long ago, initiated by Morgan:
http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/2008-May/005895.html. Finally, I
brought this up at
Currently I am profiling/rewriting the LZO decompression code.
The speed result (from memory, not too reliable):
LZO compression: ~9.5 MB/sec
LZO compression ASM version: ~9.3 MB/sec
LZO decompression: ~25MB/sec
LZO decompression ASM version: ~40 MB/sec
Here the ASM version is the version from the
Hi,
> perhaps it would be possible to add log entries at the
> "interesting" points of activity startup, so that the timing data
> is always available on a regular basis.
I've done this in the tinderbox, but what I've found is that the
goalposts are moving -- the dbus signals that I moni
chris wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> Let's get it on the roadmap for 9.1, when we've got time to
>> actually make the fixes required and test them properly (unless
>> someone really believes that speeding up sugar is a 4 line patch).
>
> I'd like to see an activity startup time comparison (
Hi Scott,
I agree. I think we need to work on "stability" only from now until
release. No more features unless previously defined via "release
contract" and listed at: http://dev.laptop.org/report/18
My questions is if there's anything that already had a release contract
or anything already in
Hi,
> Let's get it on the roadmap for 9.1, when we've got time to
> actually make the fixes required and test them properly (unless
> someone really believes that speeding up sugar is a 4 line patch).
I'd like to see an activity startup time comparison (just taken with a
stopwatch) betwe
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 7:27 PM, Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> > - Another option is to provide a one-time flag passed at file
>> > creation time (O_CREAT) to enable/disable compression. This would
>> > a
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 7:27 PM, Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > - Another option is to provide a one-time flag passed at file
> > creation time (O_CREAT) to enable/disable compression. This would
> > also require VFS changes but I think would be simpler; however,
> > this case
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > - Another option is to provide a one-time flag passed at file
> > creation time (O_CREAT) to enable/disable compression. This would
> > also require VFS changes but I think would be simpler; however,
> > this case ha
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 11:35 -0400, Greg Smith wrote:
>> Is there anything else in the 8.2.0 release which will improve
>> responsiveness of the XO in general?
>
> I think the new X server in the distro upgrade is supposed t
Hello,
I made a search in the list but couldn't find a solution. I'm running Os X
Leopard and want to use qemu to emulate the os and start developing. However
I'm getting problems.
I'm following the directions here:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OS_images#Latest_Stable_Build
and got my image from h
Hi,
> - One option, as suggested in the trac, is to have the kernel trap
> file extensions and disable compression based on that. Doable, but
> I expect a rather large hack to VFS to do this. An extension to
> this idea is to look for specific signatures in files that disable
> comp
Chris and I added options for 'review' and 'qa signoff' to the
'next-action' Trac field. We dropped the 'signoff' option since people
were confused about how to use it. Finally, we slightly reordered the
actions to better reflect the order than most tickets will progress
through them in.
Are there
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 7:07 PM, Erik Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 12:50:26PM -0400, Chris Ball wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>>> I prefer aiming at #2886 ("Some files shouldn't be compressed by
>>>> jffs2"), which goes a long way to solving the user problems
>>>> w
On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Walter Bender wrote:
> Tthe classic example of misconstruing value contrast and chromatic
> contrast was when the Human Factors journal decided to switch from
> black-on-white to yellow-on-white for their cover. The switch only
> lasted one issue, as I recall.
>
> We (humans)
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 12:50:26PM -0400, Chris Ball wrote:
> Hi,
>
>>> I prefer aiming at #2886 ("Some files shouldn't be compressed by
>>> jffs2"), which goes a long way to solving the user problems
>>> without introducing the logistical cost of LZO support in OFW or
>>> partitio
On Jul 14 2008, at 12:19, Chris Ball was caught saying:
> Hi,
>
>> Based on some very provisional testing, I believe that the extremely
>> long save times we're seeing in EToys are at least partly related
>> to our use of zlib compression for data nodes in the filesystem.
>> We cou
Hi,
I think we will need to create direct links to the EduBlog pages within
Moodle for the beta test. For the teacher, we have: Manage Remote
Blogs, Create New Blog and a List of Blogs. For the student, we just
have a list of blogs. If they choose the wrong one, there will be a
menu for the
andres wrote:
> >
> > Cc'ing devel for a wider audience. Basically, we've got a new
> > touchpad driver that uses mouse mode rather than advanced/stream
> > mode. This means the PT won't work, but the benefits are numerous:
> >
> > - lots of silly complexity ripped out of the driver
> >
Hi,
>> I prefer aiming at #2886 ("Some files shouldn't be compressed by
>> jffs2"), which goes a long way to solving the user problems
>> without introducing the logistical cost of LZO support in OFW or
>> partitions.
> How would this work? Should we create an empty file, set an xa
On Jul 14 2008, at 12:07, Erik Garrison was caught saying:
> There is an existing ticket to address this issue
> (http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/2072). This ticket suggests that we could
> add LZO support to OFW in order to implement LZO-compressed data nodes
> in the filesystem.
>
> In this scheme
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
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> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 6:32 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Also, there's nothing saying that this has to be a particular person's
>> email address. It could be a list, or a mailinator account, o
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 6:19 PM, Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > Based on some very provisional testing, I believe that the extremely
> > long save times we're seeing in EToys are at least partly related
> > to our use of zlib compression for data nodes in the filesystem.
>
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 6:32 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Also, there's nothing saying that this has to be a particular person's
> email address. It could be a list, or a mailinator account, or pass
> through an anonymizer or something else.
I suppose some activity authors mi
Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:24:22 +0530, "Manusheel Gupta" wrote:
1. Project name : socialcalc
Done. Your tree is here:
git+ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/git/activities/socialcalc
Please follow instructions here for importing your project:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Importing_your_project
Added accounts for d
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Eben Eliason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> when that button is pressed. The problem with this design, of course,
> is that it exposes the email in a place where spammers can easily find
Yes, that is life in the 200x's. Every major package management
system has th
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Erik Garrison wrote:
| But an alternative is to implement a
| partitioning scheme in which user data resides on a LZO-compressed
| partition and the system data resides on a zlib-compressed partition.
I strongly favor this approach. Regardless of com
Hi Greg,
It wasn't designed to work as drag and drop (think that would require
change to XO code, will look into that). The designed way is to:
1) Click the Imagen toolbar
2) Choose the picture from Journal
3) It should appear after it is uploaded and verified
Thanks,
Tarun
Greg Smith wrote:
Hi,
> Based on some very provisional testing, I believe that the extremely
> long save times we're seeing in EToys are at least partly related
> to our use of zlib compression for data nodes in the filesystem.
> We could switch to LZO compression for a 500% speedup in
> compression
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 05:27:05PM +0530, Tarun Pondicherry wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Recently, I tried to commit some changes and I got several messages
> about trailing whitespace. I tried to redownload that same library
> (Zend GData) again and check it in, but had the same issues. There was
> no p
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 06:33:41PM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote:
>
> One concern I have with auto saving state before powering off is the
> potential corruption of journal data. How robust is the Journal if
> power off happens half way through an ongoing auto state save – do you
> loose both t
A couple of weeks ago I announced here that I had text to speech working
in the Read Etexts activity. I had reason to believe at the time that
this was true. I am sorry to report that I was wrong.
What is happening is this: Read Etexts works just fine when running
under Sugar Emulation on Xu
On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 11:35 -0400, Greg Smith wrote:
> Is there anything else in the 8.2.0 release which will improve
> responsiveness of the XO in general?
I think the new X server in the distro upgrade is supposed to launch a
lot quicker. We should do a side-by-side bootup time comparison of
up
Hi Tomeu et al,
One persistent request from the users is for "faster" response of the XO
(e.g.
http://sextosdela37.blogspot.com/2008/04/analizando-el-uso-de-las-laptop-en-el.html)
I believe the new Sugar GUI in 8.2.0 may help with that by launching
activities faster. I'm told you may know more
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 11:22 AM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The other points sound reasonable. I think we need to include a
> 'contact email' field in the activity.info for each activity (i'm
> kinda shocked we haven't done so yet) so that we can get in touch with
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