Re: Developer XO laptop loan or buy - Speakeasy project

2012-06-12 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 4:16 AM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote: Hi Lester, On Mon, Jun 11 2012, Lester Leong wrote: I think it could just be as easy as having a collection of multimedia and gamifying it. I thought of having a set of flashcards with audio - then many things could be

Re: buildrpm et al on the XO-1.75

2012-06-12 Thread Yioryos Asprobounitis
--- On Mon, 6/11/12, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: From: Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com Subject: Re: buildrpm et al on the XO-1.75 To: Yioryos Asprobounitis mavrot...@yahoo.com Cc: OLPC Devel devel@lists.laptop.org Date: Monday, June 11, 2012, 12:50 PM On Sun,

Re: Re: XO battery/performance[ Devel Digest, Vol 76, Issue 21]

2012-06-12 Thread Yioryos Asprobounitis
  Perhaps your comm settings are wrong?  115200,n,8,1 is what they should be set to.  That did the trick (thus my change in the wiki) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Re: XO battery/performance[ Devel Digest, Vol 76, Issue 21]

2012-06-12 Thread James Cameron
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 11:17:06PM -0700, Yioryos Asprobounitis wrote: ? Perhaps your comm settings are wrong?? 115200,n,8,1 is what they should be set to.? That did the trick (thus my change in the wiki) I think it was coincidence. Please try without it. -- James Cameron

Re: Developer XO laptop loan or buy - Speakeasy project

2012-06-12 Thread Lester Leong
Thanks guys. These are decent insights. I guess the question is, are there examples of gamification apps that have been successful in the wild? Perhaps experience and design insights can be drawn from these. Another thing is, with regards to webapp implementation - I have thought of using

Re: Developer XO laptop loan or buy - Speakeasy project

2012-06-12 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
Another thing is, with regards to webapp implementation - I have thought of using PHP/HTML5/Javascript. If you can replace PHP by python, your live will be a lot easier including your work as a activity in sugar. Gonzalo ___ Devel mailing list

olpc.fth question

2012-06-12 Thread Kevin Gordon
Disclaimer: Newbie Forth question :-) We are trying to create a consolidated unsecured update stick. This is not for use in the real world, but in our wild lab. We have learned and experimented a lot today, and everything pretty much humming along nicely, to a point: We have borrowed

Re: Re: XO battery/performance[ Devel Digest, Vol 76, Issue 21]

2012-06-12 Thread Yioryos Asprobounitis
? Perhaps your comm settings are wrong?? 115200,n,8,1 is what they should be set to.? That did the trick (thus my change in the wiki) I think it was coincidence.  Please try without it. At least in my setting ie XO-1.75 embedded keyboard model with the problem battery and the

Re: XO battery/performance [Devel Digest, Vol 76, Issue 21]

2012-06-12 Thread Yioryos Asprobounitis
From: Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org To: devel@lists.laptop.org Subject: Re: XO battery/performance [Devel Digest, Vol 76, Issue 4] Message-ID: 4fd5e76c.3010...@laptop.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed On 06/10/2012 01:07 AM, Yioryos Asprobounitis wrote:

Re: [Techteam] 12.1.0 devel build 13 released, for the XO-1, XO-1.5 and XO-1.75

2012-06-12 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: Yep, according to the olpc-utils git repo it should have been in 2.0.13 which we have, it seems either didn't have a trac ticket or it wasn't in my queue/ Actually, we missed this on os13, it never made it to

Re: [Techteam] 12.1.0 devel build 13 released, for the XO-1, XO-1.5 and XO-1.75

2012-06-12 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 5:39 PM, Martin Langhoff mar...@laptop.org wrote: On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: Yep, according to the olpc-utils git repo it should have been in 2.0.13 which we have, it seems either didn't have a trac ticket or it wasn't in

Re: [Techteam] 12.1.0 devel build 13 released, for the XO-1, XO-1.5 and XO-1.75

2012-06-12 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: I was just going on the logs from git and we have 2.0.13 and according to the logs 2.0.13 was post that commit, but it seems it wasn't tagged so I assume 2.0.13 is the same as 2.0.12 then

Re: [Techteam] 12.1.0 devel build 13 released, for the XO-1, XO-1.5 and XO-1.75

2012-06-12 Thread Jon Nettleton
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Martin Langhoff mar...@laptop.org wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: I was just going on the logs from git and we have 2.0.13 and according to the logs 2.0.13 was post that commit, but it seems it wasn't tagged so

Re: [Techteam] 12.1.0 devel build 13 released, for the XO-1, XO-1.5 and XO-1.75

2012-06-12 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Jon Nettleton jon.nettle...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Martin Langhoff mar...@laptop.org wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: I was just going on the logs from git and we have 2.0.13 and

Re: Developer XO laptop loan or buy - Speakeasy project

2012-06-12 Thread C. Scott Ananian
..and if you can replace the php with javascript, your life will be even easier. ;) --scott On 6/12/12, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote: Another thing is, with regards to webapp implementation - I have thought of using PHP/HTML5/Javascript. If you can replace PHP by python, your

Re: Developer XO laptop loan or buy - Speakeasy project

2012-06-12 Thread Lester Leong
The only reason for me to use Python would be to implement it as a native Sugar activity. But I'd like for the app to coexist on the Internet, running in a web server environment, without having to rewrite the codebase. As for Javascript, how? Javascript can't handle backends without some

Re: olpc.fth question

2012-06-12 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 11:08 -0400, Kevin Gordon wrote: Disclaimer: Newbie Forth question :-) We are trying to create a consolidated unsecured update stick. This is not for use in the real world, but in our wild lab. We have learned and experimented a lot today, and everything pretty

Re: Developer XO laptop loan or buy - Speakeasy project

2012-06-12 Thread Walter Bender
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Lester Leong lester.ble...@gmail.com wrote: The only reason for me to use Python would be to implement it as a native Sugar activity. But I'd like for the app to coexist on the Internet, running in a web server environment, without having to rewrite the

Re: On XO-1.5 with 11.3.0/11.3.1 -- hang during shutdown?

2012-06-12 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 20:06 +0530, Anish Mangal wrote: On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 8:11 PM, Martin Langhoff mar...@laptop.org wrote: On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Martin Langhoff mar...@laptop.org wrote: - Seems to be related to umount of /home failing. Adding sync ; sleep 2; before umount

Re: Developer XO laptop loan or buy - Speakeasy project

2012-06-12 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Lester Leong lester.ble...@gmail.com wrote: The only reason for me to use Python would be to implement it as a native Sugar activity. But I'd like for the app to coexist on the

Re: Developer XO laptop loan or buy - Speakeasy project

2012-06-12 Thread Lester Leong
Do XO's ship with a web server and a DB? Or are software stacks managed on a deployment-by-deployment basis? On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at

Re: Developer XO laptop loan or buy - Speakeasy project

2012-06-12 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi Lester, you should not expect a webserver. No deployment has ever done it. Sqlite I think has always been included. We have an activity that runs its own webserver -- see the Wikipedia activity -- but has a pure Python webserver implementation. hth, martin On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 3:39 PM,

Re: Re: XO battery/performance[ Devel Digest, Vol 76, Issue 21]

2012-06-12 Thread James Cameron
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 09:15:48AM -0700, Yioryos Asprobounitis wrote: ? Perhaps your comm settings are wrong?? 115200,n,8,1 is what they should be set to.? That did the trick (thus my change in the wiki) I think it was coincidence.?? Please try without it. At least in

Re: olpc.fth question

2012-06-12 Thread James Cameron
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 11:08:29AM -0400, Kevin Gordon wrote: Disclaimer: Newbie Forth question :-) Always welcome. We are trying to create a consolidated unsecured update stick. I worked on a secured update drive last week, so the techniques are on my mind. [...] So for those coming

Re: [Server-devel] Moodle broken with 0.94 datastore?

2012-06-12 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: current entries in /library/user/SN.  Any thoughts on how to proceed? Needs fixing :-/ Sameer is right. m --  martin.langh...@gmail.com  mar...@laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC  - ask interesting questions  - don't get