User workflow sharing Journal Entries over USB sticks

2009-11-12 Thread Martin Langhoff
On os34, if I 1 - create a new Journal entry (named F11-100) with some content (and exit activity) 2 - plug in a USB stick 3 - copy the Journal entry to the USB stick via drag-n-drop in the Journal... 4 - exploring the USB disk shows a F11-100.gtar file with _no_ metadata, and the metadata seems

Re: User workflow sharing Journal Entries over USB sticks

2009-11-12 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On os34, if I Filed it as http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9657 - can't find anything on this topic on the SL trac; apparently the usage on SoaS has seen other bugs when saving to a USB stick (like

Re: Broken XO battery (battery LED flashes red)

2009-11-12 Thread Dave Bauer
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 2:22 AM, Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.orgwrote: Can the battery be fixed? Yes. You don't appear to have any of the multiple 0xffs in your banks so look like its just your pack status is 0x00 rather than 0x6a Grab the latest batman.fth (As of 2 minutes ago, I

Re: Information on XO-1 power efficiency

2009-11-12 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
Paul, Richard, thanks a lot for your extensive replies, much appreciated! :-) I probably won't be able to finish my slides before Sunday but I'll try and send you a draft if I can find an Internet connection during my Munich-Copenhagen-Stockholm train adventure... Cheers, Christoph On Thu, Nov

Re: [Sugar-devel] User workflow sharing Journal Entries over USB sticks

2009-11-12 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 1:55 PM, David Van Assche dvanass...@gmail.com wrote: inclydiung usb if that was desired Maybe your usb disk has a firmware smart enough to run telepathy :-) Not kidding, at least one of the bugs listed in SL's tracker about Journal Entry sharing would be fixed with the

Re: [Sugar-devel] User workflow sharing Journal Entries over USB sticks

2009-11-12 Thread David Van Assche
its true its an unecessary step in THIS particular scenario, but I'm thiking more of a universal tool we could rely on for our datar storage, and something like xmpp file sotrage XEP came to mind. IT contains rudeimentary autehntication, file storage per person or for mutiple people (ie a group

Rationale behind the JSON - CJSON switch in Sugar codebase?

2009-11-12 Thread Martin Langhoff
This commit http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar/repos/mainline/commits/ee4535c98ae74347e7072909d49dcf8a5e16ca7b breaks importing Journal Entry Bundles, and I think it's just the tip of the iceberg. The commit msg is pretty factual but doesn't add much to what the diff says. There must have

Re: [Server-devel] Backup and Recovery

2009-11-12 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: It will work better in the Journal interaction, but the contents of the document will fail to be loaded in the Activity because a bug on the Moodle side -- see  http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9602 for more info.

Re: [Sugar-devel] User workflow sharing Journal Entries over USB sticks

2009-11-12 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 12.11.2009, at 14:08, Martin Langhoff wrote: Not kidding, at least one of the bugs listed in SL's tracker about Journal Entry sharing would be fixed with the JEB-based approach I am proposing. And once the Journal can prepare a JEB, you just write it to the USB disk mountpoint. But (IIUC

Re: [Sugar-devel] User workflow sharing Journal Entries over USB sticks

2009-11-12 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: IMHO separating the meta-data from the file itself is a good idea. Having one database at the root of the stick is just too fragile. Better store meta data next to the file in question, like myimage.jpg and

Re: Rationale behind the JSON - CJSON switch in Sugar codebase?

2009-11-12 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 15:59, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: This commit http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar/repos/mainline/commits/ee4535c98ae74347e7072909d49dcf8a5e16ca7b breaks importing Journal Entry Bundles, and I think it's just the tip of the iceberg. The

Re: Rationale behind the JSON - CJSON switch in Sugar codebase?

2009-11-12 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Is because of a bug in cjson why those files aren't being parsed? CJSON is not a vanilla parser. It makes a very strict reading, that - throws an exception on unordered keys - throws an exception on random whitespace

Re: Rationale behind the JSON - CJSON switch in Sugar codebase?

2009-11-12 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: If I read correctly, you are implying that the cjson module reads Actually, scratch my prev reply. You are meaning that cjson is not bitfrost.util.cjson, and I had missed that subtlety in the code and in your reply. Then

Re: Rationale behind the JSON - CJSON switch in Sugar codebase?

2009-11-12 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: Then maybe yes, I am seeing a bug in cjson that parses 'foo\/bar' incorrectly. Confirmed. In a python session: json.loads('foo\/bar') u'foo/bar'== correct cjson.decode('foo\/bar') 'foo\\/bar' == incorrect

Re: [Sugar-devel] Rationale behind the JSON - CJSON switch in Sugar codebase?

2009-11-12 Thread Lucian Branescu
The json module (simplejson) has only the parser written in C, so it's still slower overall than cjson. Not by a lot, but measurable. 2009/11/12 Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com: On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: Then maybe yes, I am

Re: [Sugar-devel] User workflow sharing Journal Entries over USB sticks

2009-11-12 Thread David Van Assche
and storing images in Base64 for example? David On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: IMHO separating the meta-data from the file itself is a good idea. Having one

Re: [Sugar-devel] User workflow sharing Journal Entries over USB sticks

2009-11-12 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 6:16 PM, David Van Assche dvanass...@gmail.com wrote: and storing images in Base64 for example? Ugh! Why - for ASCII art enjoyment? m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with

Re: Broken XO battery (battery LED flashes red)

2009-11-12 Thread Richard A. Smith
Interesting. I tried this by downloading batman.fth to USB and trying fload u:\batman.fth I get the following errors: fileih isn't unique bat-b@ isn't unique ok Any ideas? Those aren't errors you can ignore them and things should still work. batman.fth grew enough useful features

Re: [Sugar-devel] XO problems with 32 characters SSID

2009-11-12 Thread Gabriela Corrales
I already open a ticket in dev.laptop.org and they just told me that it sounds like a libertas driver bug that was fixed inbetween 2.6.25 and 2.6.30. They also asked me to do the same that you suggested: trying with F11 for XO 1.0. I will try that and let you know the results. Thanks!

Re: #9652 HIGH Future : XO 1.0 freezing when connecting to 32 characters SSID

2009-11-12 Thread Gabriela Corrales
Ok I will try that and let you know the results. Thanks! 2009/11/11 Zarro Boogs per Child bugtrac...@laptop.org #9652: XO 1.0 freezing when connecting to 32 characters SSID +--- Reporter: gcorrales |

Re: [Sugar-devel] XO problems with 32 characters SSID [laptop.org #9652]

2009-11-12 Thread James Cameron
This is being tracked as http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9652 -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] User workflow sharing Journal Entries over USB sticks

2009-11-12 Thread Hal Murray
martin.langh...@gmail.com said: In terms of use cases, saving to a USB disk allows for personal backups -- like before a complete upgrade / reflash, which is still used in many cases. You wouldn't use a system that didn't let you copy your files to a disk, would you? How old do kids have

Re: [Sugar-devel] User workflow sharing Journal Entries over USB sticks

2009-11-12 Thread K. K. Subramaniam
On Thursday 12 November 2009 08:36:58 pm Bert Freudenberg wrote: IMHO separating the meta-data from the file itself is a good idea. Having one database at the root of the stick is just too fragile. Better store meta data next to the file in question, like myimage.jpg and

Can I make mt own vmlinuz?

2009-11-12 Thread 張嘉修
I get the source rpm and install it. Find the file “olpc-2.6.tar.bz2” inside and decompressing it. I get into linux-2.6.30 document and cp the kernel-xo1.5-custom.config to .config. Type #make menuconfig to choose same option what I need and save. Finally, type #make vmlinux to produce vmlinux

Re: Can I make mt own vmlinuz?

2009-11-12 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, I get the source rpm and install it. Find the file olpc-2.6.tar.bz2 inside and decompressing it. It's better to run rpmbuild to make the RPM. See: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Rebuilding_OLPC_kernel Finally, type #make vmlinux to produce vmlinux file. But this file is

Re: OLPC developers in Tampa FL area?

2009-11-12 Thread Justin Petro
I have already sent this to develo...@laptop.org ... but it was bounced back under review. I then found that it was a depreciated list. I have sent this copy to what I believe is the correct list. I have a OLPC XO with the infamous blank screen. It has been sitting for ...

yum has problem with F11 repositories

2009-11-12 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Both yesterday and today, I'm getting an error message about filelists.xml.gz on http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~dsd/repos/, from both the f11 and f11-xo1 repositories: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum mikus ___ Devel mailing list