Re: 9.1 Proposal: Top five performance problems

2008-10-24 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 2:05 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 1:56 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Activity startup is ridiculously slow. Design an API incompatible Activity class. Start from a very basic window and add

Anyone set up a client/server application using stream tubes?

2008-10-24 Thread Faisal Anwar
Hi All, I'm trying to document some more stuff related to Stream Tubes for the sugar almanac (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_Almanac) and wanted to set up some examples related to the different types of client/server arrangments that can be supported by the sugar.network package. However, I've

Re: Cannot edit Trac tickets

2008-10-24 Thread Chris Ball
Hi Bert, ... because it displays Milestone, Component, Version, and Keywords entry fields twice: and then reports a Trac Error: Multi-values fields not supported yet Which browser are you using, and do you have Javascript turned on? (And, do you see the same problem if you use a

Re: Cannot edit Trac tickets

2008-10-24 Thread Erik Garrison
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 05:25:03PM +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote: Am 24.10.2008 um 17:06 schrieb Chris Ball: I can't reproduce this here, but we did make a change yesterday that's probably responsible. Someone else on IRC reported seeing it, too. That's me...

Firefox/Xulrunner memory related crashes

2008-10-24 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
Hello, I spent some time looking into the various tickets about oom and BadAlloc crashes in trac today. Here is a summary of the problems. A) There is a bug in cairo which causes BadAlloc on very big images. Fixes are in 1.8 and should be possible to backport to 1.6.4. B) Xulrunner renders

Re: 9.1 Proposal: Top five performance problems

2008-10-24 Thread Michael Stone
Marco, I did some basic profiling of my new rainbow code last night and discovered that, in the best case with the current codebase on XO, it costs about 0.5s/1 exec(python). Approximately 80% of the 0.5s was spent importing modules. I hope to dig deeper in the near future, but I am concerned at

Re: Cannot edit Trac tickets

2008-10-24 Thread Noah Kantrowitz
On Oct 24, 2008, at 8:25 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote: Am 24.10.2008 um 17:06 schrieb Chris Ball: Hi Bert, ... because it displays Milestone, Component, Version, and Keywords entry fields twice: and then reports a Trac Error: Multi-values fields not supported yet Which browser are you

Re: 9.1 Proposal: Top five performance problems

2008-10-24 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marco, I did some basic profiling of my new rainbow code last night and discovered that, in the best case with the current codebase on XO, it costs about 0.5s/1 exec(python). Approximately 80% of the 0.5s was spent

Re: 9.1 Proposal: Top five performance problems

2008-10-24 Thread david
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Michael Stone wrote: Marco, I did some basic profiling of my new rainbow code last night and discovered that, in the best case with the current codebase on XO, it costs about 0.5s/1 exec(python). Approximately 80% of the 0.5s was spent importing modules. a silly

Re: 9.1 Proposal: Top five performance problems

2008-10-24 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 7:04 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marco, I did some basic profiling of my new rainbow code last night and discovered that, in the best case with the current codebase on XO, it

Re: [Server-devel] pam-sotp rpm package

2008-10-24 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Douglas Bagnall wrote: hi Rahul, server-devel, I've made a new pam_sotp RPM, which differs only in that it is compiled with CFLAGS=-fno-stack-protector. I made this change because the original was causing errors like this: PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_sotp.so): \

Re: [Server-devel] xs-otp: one time passwords for the XS

2008-10-24 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 07:02:23PM +1300, Douglas Bagnall wrote: 2. If you want to disable root login via the system password, touch /etc/xs-otp/disable-root-password. This file will eventually exist by default, but for now this option should be used with care. It *could* leave you

Re: [Server-devel] DanGuardian and XS Plans

2008-10-24 Thread Anna
I haven't been keeping up with this list as well as I should have, but I just noticed some discussion regarding internet filtering in Birmingham. At our XS testbed school, Glen Iris, when I set up the 0.4 box, I edited /etc/named.conf and /etc/named.conf.in to use the OpenDNS IPs. SInce the DSL

Re: Cannot edit Trac tickets

2008-10-24 Thread Chris Ball
Hi Noah, Can't reproduce on 3.1.2/Leopard. Please make sure to clear your web cache if you have one, the JS file that does the monkeying might have been cached while it was still b0rked yesterday. Hm, we just saw this on Firefox at the office -- clearing web cache and restarting

Re: Cannot edit Trac tickets

2008-10-24 Thread Eben Eliason
I, too, am seeing this on 10.5.5 Leopard with both 3.1.2 Safari and 3.0.1 Firefox. - Eben On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Noah, Can't reproduce on 3.1.2/Leopard. Please make sure to clear your web cache if you have one, the JS file that does the

RE: Cannot edit Trac tickets

2008-10-24 Thread Noah Kantrowitz
Can someone send me a copy of dev.laptop.org/condfields/new.js from a machine that is grumpy? --Noah -Original Message- From: Chris Ball [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 12:11 PM To: Noah Kantrowitz Cc: Bert Freudenberg; OLPC Devel Subject: Re: Cannot edit

Re: 9.1 Proposal: Top five performance problems

2008-10-24 Thread Mitch Bradley
Michael Stone wrote: I did some basic profiling of my new rainbow code last night and discovered that, in the best case with the current codebase on XO, it costs about 0.5s/1 exec(python). Approximately 80% of the 0.5s was spent importing modules. I hope to dig deeper in the near future, but

Re: 9.1 Proposal: Top five performance problems

2008-10-24 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Erik Garrison wrote: What about changing the kind of visual feedback we give. Instead of pulsing icons what about icons with a string of dots beneath, a progress bar, flashing, or another kind of overlay feedback which requires fewer visual

Re: 9.1 Proposal: Top five performance problems

2008-10-24 Thread NoiseEHC
The Geode X drive copyes every bit of data to the command ring buffer by using the CPU so that is sure that those almost no CPU cycles thing is at least a bit stretch... :) According to Jordan Crouse it will not be better but he was not too concrete so in the end I am not sure what he was

Re: Cannot edit Trac tickets

2008-10-24 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Appears to be fixed now. - Bert - Am 24.10.2008 um 21:42 schrieb Eben Eliason: Attached. - Eben On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Noah Kantrowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone send me a copy of dev.laptop.org/condfields/new.js from a machine that is grumpy? --Noah

Re: 9.1 Proposal: Top five performance problems

2008-10-24 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 25/10/08 00:00 +0200, NoiseEHC wrote: The Geode X drive copyes every bit of data to the command ring buffer by using the CPU so that is sure that those almost no CPU cycles thing is at least a bit stretch... :) According to Jordan Crouse it will not be better but he was not too concrete

Re: 9.1 Proposal: Power.

2008-10-24 Thread Richard A. Smith
Nate Ridderman wrote: Do we have the ability to pulse width modulate the backlight LEDs? What is the resolution on the PWM? It's hard to know if this is feasible without a hardware schematic and specs on the backlight driver. The CL1 spec mentions a PWM signal, but maybe it only has four

Re: 9.1 Proposal: Top five performance problems

2008-10-24 Thread NoiseEHC
Could you be a bit more specific, please? What did you mean when you talked about that moving a little bit more of the driver to kernel level would not help? (This was the mentioned thread I had with Bernie.) Also could somebody enlighten me why we does not use DirectFB? Is it because of there

Re: 9.1 Proposal: Top five performance problems

2008-10-24 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 25/10/08 00:48 +0200, NoiseEHC wrote: Could you be a bit more specific, please? What did you mean when you talked about that moving a little bit more of the driver to kernel level would not help? (This was the mentioned thread I had with Bernie.) I'm not exactly which part you want more

Re: [Community-news] Software developers needed for OLPC Afghanistan

2008-10-24 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am interested Svetla. I have lots of skills and I do also possess a bit of charm. I am not religious but that does not mean that I am against religion. Sadly my knowledge of computers thus far are only windows based. I am a

Re: 9.1 Proposal: Power.

2008-10-24 Thread david
On Sat, 25 Oct 2008, Gary C Martin wrote: Not sure if this helps the original feedback (that the sudden screen dimming is annoying when trying to read), but the effect is at least more pleasing than a sudden sharp drop in brightness. what I would really like to see is a reading mode, where

Re: [Community-news] Software developers needed for OLPC Afghanistan

2008-10-24 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:09:21 -0700, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am interested Svetla. I have lots of skills and I do also possess a bit of charm. I am

debxo 0.2 release

2008-10-24 Thread Andres Salomon
Hi, I've prepared a new release of DebXO. This has a number of new features and desktops. NEW FEATURES: - The JFFS2 images now have partition support. While this shaves a number of seconds off of the boot time, we can take better advantage of it in the future (doing things like using UBIFS).

[Server-devel] xs-otp: one time passwords for the XS

2008-10-24 Thread Douglas Bagnall
This is an implementation of the ideas described at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Blueprints:OTP_root_passwords There's an RPM at http://xs-dev.laptop.org/xsrepos/testing/olpc/9/i386/xs-otp-0.4-1.xs9.noarch.rpm and a repository at

Re: [Server-devel] xs-otp: one time passwords for the XS

2008-10-24 Thread Douglas Bagnall
Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2. If you want to disable root login via the system password, touch /etc/xs-otp/disable-root-password. This file will eventually exist by default, but for now this option should be used with care. It *could* leave you with no way of logging into the

Re: [Server-devel] help with small/first world XS deployment issues requested

2008-10-24 Thread David Farning
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 1:36 AM, Bill Bogstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are a number of XO deployments possible in the Boston metro area sometime next spring. My understanding is that OLPC does NOT want to run these deployments, but is interested in having them happen so there are