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).

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 bi

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: 9.1 Proposal: Power.

2008-10-24 Thread Gary C Martin
On 24 Oct 2008, at 23:40, Richard A. Smith wrote: > 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

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

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: 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: 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 fou

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 conc

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? >> >> --

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 rea

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 ch

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 futu

Re: 9.1 Proposal: Top five performance problems

2008-10-24 Thread Erik Garrison
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 01:56:47AM +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: > Problems and ideas in no particular order. > > * Sugar shell startup is too slow. > > Reduce dependencies, single process shell, modularize and delay > initialization of components which are not immediately necessary, > measu

Re: Cannot edit Trac tickets

2008-10-24 Thread 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 > >> -Original Message- >> From: Chris Ball [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Friday,

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 e

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 d

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 restartin

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 c

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] 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): \ > /l

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

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 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 > s

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" >>

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 a

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 image

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...

Re: Cannot edit Trac tickets

2008-10-24 Thread Bert Freudenberg
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 using, and do you have Javascript turned o

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

[Server-devel] ejabberd shared roster config

2008-10-24 Thread Morgan Collett
I've been playing around with setting up ejabberd seeing that Debian and Intrepid ship with the shared roster patches: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Installing_ejabberd/deb I managed to hack up the shared roster with a minimum of things that could go wrong, by using: sudo ejabberdctl srg-create Onlin

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 be

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 ad