Re: New release8.2 build 764

2008-10-01 Thread Bastien
"C. Scott Ananian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> But it appears that the Help activity (for example) is not listed in >> these pages. What URL should I use? > > You should use the URL listed on the [[Activities/G1G1]] page. The > data is machine-readable; there is a parser at: > > > http://d

Re: why are removable storage devices just an adjunct ?

2008-10-01 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 6:01 AM, Mikus Grinbergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Applications which I intend to use in the near future I keep > "resident" (Sugar Activities in /home/olpc/Activities, Linux > applications on my "permanent" SD card). Those I access rarely I > keep on a removable storage

Re: Stability and Memory Pressure in 8.2

2008-10-01 Thread S Page
Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > Read has serious memory problems because renders whole pages > into memory, regardless of what is the viewed area. Any chance the > first pages of the PDF you opened contained big images? Nope, it's a saved Project Gutenberg PDF Coradella_Collegiate_Bookshelf_Collection_aus

Re: Flash Tests

2008-10-01 Thread Bobby Powers
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 2:59 AM, Carlos Nazareno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ugh. > > Okay, in an attempt to get sound working with Gnash 8.3.0 > (preinstalled with build 766), I did the following: > > su > wget http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-9.rpm > rpm -vi livna-release-9.rpm > > Now livna is

Is http://wiki.laptop.org/ down or vandalized?

2008-10-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is http://wiki.laptop.org/ down or vandalized? Since about 10 PM PST last night all I get is a blank page when I try to connect to the home page. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Is http://wiki.laptop.org/ down or vandalized?

2008-10-01 Thread Jim Gettys
Best guess is a success disaster: the server needs more RAM... Henry's scrambling to upgrade the system. - Jim On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 08:13 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is http://wiki.laptop.org/ down or vandalized? Since about 10 PM PST > last night all I get is a bla

Re: Is http://wiki.laptop.org/ down or vandalized?

2008-10-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How about putting up a simple page saying the main system is down for maintenance? That would at least be a bit better than complete failure to serve pages. On Oct 1, 2008, at 8:14 AM, Jim Gettys wrote: > Best guess is a success disaster: the server needs more RAM... > > Henry's scrambling t

Re: Filesystem path ordering overrated.

2008-10-01 Thread Albert Cahalan
C. Scott Ananian writes: > The response usually is that additional context is sufficient to > disambiguate tag sets, you don't actually need ordering. That is, > it's okay if a/b is indistinguishable from b/a -- in practice one > will really be c/a/b and the other will be b/a/d or whatever, and >

New joyride build 2501

2008-10-01 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2501 Changes in build 2501 from build: 2500 Size delta: 0.39M -e2fsprogs 1.40.8-3.fc9 +e2fsprogs 1.41.0-2.fc9 -e2fsprogs-libs 1.40.8-3.fc9 +e2fsprogs-libs 1.41.0-2.fc9 -wget 1.11.1-1.fc9 +wget 1.11.4-1.fc9 --- Changes for e2fsprogs 1.41

Re: New release8.2 build 764

2008-10-01 Thread Eben Eliason
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 12:34 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 12:31 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sun, 28 Sep 2008, C. Scott Ananian wrote: >>> Requesting dev keys should not be difficult! How can we fix that problem? >> >> one headache (at least f

New joyride build 2502

2008-10-01 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2502 Changes in build 2502 from build: 2501 Size delta: 0.00M -olpc-library-common 1-30 +olpc-library-common 1-31 --- Changes for olpc-library-common 1-31 from 1-30 --- + updated/clarified link to the 'update' page so it can be focuse

Laptop Immersion

2008-10-01 Thread John Watlington
I just finished taking apart an XO that had been immersed in flood water for several days. It wasn't a pretty sight. The conclusion is that such a laptop is not a candidate for repair (with the possible exception of the display.) Additional details at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Immersio

New joyride build 2503

2008-10-01 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2503 Changes in build 2503 from build: 2502 Size delta: 0.00M -sugar 0.82.9-2.olpc3 +sugar 0.82.9-3.olpc3 -- This mail was automatically generated See http://dev.laptop.org/~rwh/announcer/joyride-pkgs.html for aggregate logs See htt

New release8.2 build 767

2008-10-01 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://pilgrim.laptop.org/~pilgrim/xo-1/streams/8.2/build767 Changes in build 767 from build: 766 Size delta: 0.00M -olpcrd 0.47-0 +olpcrd 0.48-0 -olpc-library-common 1-28 +olpc-library-common 1-30 -sugar 0.82.9-2.olpc3 +sugar 0.82.9-3.olpc3 -- This mail was automatically generated See http

Re: New release8.2 build 767

2008-10-01 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Build Announcer v2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://pilgrim.laptop.org/~pilgrim/xo-1/streams/8.2/build767 Full changelog at: http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=projects/pilgrim;a=shortlog;h=8.2 http://mock.laptop.org/gitweb/?p=repos;a=shortlog;h=koji.dist-olpc3-testin

Re: Flash Tests

2008-10-01 Thread genesee
Carlos Nazareno wrote: > > Now the worst part is that now I can't > yum update > > says I'm missing network dependencies :-/ > > :( > > -Naz > Howdy, Try Sudo Yum Update -x where is whichever one that is missing dependencies. If one package won't yum update then none in the queue will yu

"Walter Bender": Re: devkeys, prettyboot, and G1G1

2008-10-01 Thread John Gilmore
Mitch and I have come up with a way to ship G1G1 laptops so that they will pretty-boot, but still come from the factory without any need for developer keys (in the Forth "disable-security" setting). This requires a small edit to /boot/olpc.fth in the OS build, to load the XO child image, freeze

Re: "Walter Bender": Re: devkeys, prettyboot, and G1G1

2008-10-01 Thread Jeremy Katz
On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 19:15 -0700, John Gilmore wrote: > I know the support crew would be much happier if G1G1 laptops were > shipped able to run test builds and patched software, if users could > interact with Forth to diagnose their hardware, if they could run > unsigned Forth code from USB colle

Re: "Walter Bender": Re: devkeys, prettyboot, and G1G1

2008-10-01 Thread Edward Cherlin
I don't mind if the G1G1 donors have the option to participate in testing secured laptops, but I utterly reject the notion that we can jerk customer/donors around like this without their permission in advance. They _will_ complain publicly. Engineering and marketing should never have the authority

Re: "Walter Bender": Re: devkeys, prettyboot, and G1G1

2008-10-01 Thread Bobby Powers
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Edward Cherlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't mind if the G1G1 donors have the option to participate in > testing secured laptops, but I utterly reject the notion that we can > jerk customer/donors around like this without their permission in > advance. They _

Re: release 8.2 build 762 still has olpc-update manifest failure at line 383 problem

2008-10-01 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 5:51 AM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to know what version you are updating *from*. > --scott Seeing the same problem with 8.2-764, updating to 8.2-766 - the error complains about the contents manifest line 319 . cheers, martin -- [EMAIL PROTE

Re: testing ejabberd

2008-10-01 Thread Douglas Bagnall
I've written up my recent testing of ejabberd for the wiki: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ejabberd_resource_tests It is not completely satisfactory: I don't have the resources to test up to 3000 active users which I believe is an important target. At lower numbers, however, ejabberd's memory consump

hyperactivity limits

2008-10-01 Thread Douglas Bagnall
I wrote: > It is not completely satisfactory: I don't have the resources to test > up to 3000 active users which I believe is an important target. Just to clarify this: it was actually client resources I ran out of, not the server (though that must have been getting close to melt down). I used h