Re: [Sugar-devel] dumping datastore to another filesystem

a) storage for months of programmer time are misguided. 2009/5/15 Sameer Verma > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 5:14 AM, Carol Farlow Lerche > wrote: > > Martin, the last disk we bought, a few days ago, was $100 and half a > > terabyte. I understand that you are trying to fit the XS

Re: [Sugar-devel] dumping datastore to another filesystem

2:14 PM, Carol Farlow Lerche > wrote: > > Martin, the last disk we bought, a few days ago, was $100 and half a > > terabyte. I understand that you are trying to fit the XS into the > > preexisting XO hardware, but realistically it is unlikely to be a > > configuratio

Re: [Sugar-devel] dumping datastore to another filesystem

Martin, the last disk we bought, a few days ago, was $100 and half a terabyte. I understand that you are trying to fit the XS into the preexisting XO hardware, but realistically it is unlikely to be a configuration a real school could use by itself. The deployments we know about so far have large

Re: [Server-devel] Filtering and authentication

I suggest this discussion be taken to iaep or some other non-technical list where educational issues are discussed. When there, we can ask questions about the widespread objectification of and violence against women in visual pornography and the educational goals it serves. Also the relative magn

Re: Announcing Fedora 11 Beta for XO

I have made an outline for a google spreadsheet that tries to provide a checklist of information about XO compatibility for various possible distributions that an XO owner could choose to put on their hardware. Would it be appropriate for knowledgeable persons to fill out this checklist for the do

Re: Announcing Fedora 11 Beta for XO

at 1:04 PM, Peter Robinson wrote: > The Fedora F11 beta announcement is here > > http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-March/msg02103.html > > Peter > > On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Carol Farlow Lerche > wrote: > > Chris, are there release notes so

Re: Announcing Fedora 11 Beta for XO

Chris, are there release notes somewhere? On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Chris Ball wrote: > Hi, > > Here's a build of the F11 beta release for XO: > > > http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/rawhide-xo/f11-beta/ > > Instructions on flashing are at >

Re: [Sugar-devel] Future of Rainbow + Sugar?

Michael, I'm happy to continue this discussion off-list if you or others feel it is inappropriate to carry it on here. However, to respond to your mail: > Thanks you for this detailed critique of my documentation efforts to date. > One > thing that I've (obviously) struggled with is understandi

Re: [Sugar-devel] Future of Rainbow + Sugar?

Bert, Are you satisfied with the number of activity developers? Are you satisfied with the number of developers within the deployments? Have you noticed the periodic questions on the developer-oriented lists about Rainbow security and whether it is causing mysterious symptoms? I'm not, and I ha

Re: [Sugar-devel] Future of Rainbow + Sugar?

Michael, I think your work on Rainbow is very important, but I think it is a bit opaque. Perhaps you could improve your documentation and as well write a tutorial about it that would make it more apparent how much is actually implemented and what an activity can do with it. So here's an example.

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] What's going on with Text To Speech on the XO?

Samuel -- I'd like to call your attention again to SynPhony. We are close to a base release (probably this week) of a 44,000 word English word database that has a very rich array of information helpful to the teaching of English, especially reading. A 10,000

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] webactivity: seed the XS cookie at startup

Martin, I want to understand what https traffic you are concerned will affect performance and caching. As far as I understand the need for https, it would only be used infrequently, when reauthenticating to the server. I.e..: 1. XO connects to Moodle without valid cookie and is redirected to http

Re: [Sugar-devel] Is it possible to disable "sharing" for an Activity?

Gary, I've used it for many years on machines much less powerful than the XO, often for an sshable net meeting with multiple participants, and I think you might need to do a few simple things to speed it up for yourself. (Remove fancy graphic backdrop, try for a smaller palette). These things are

Re: keyboard handling (was Re: OLPC where to go development advice.)

It seems that the implementations for volume and brightness keys are handled separately from the remainder of the keyboard in most laptops. I have recently been installing Linux in various older laptops, some with gnome, some with xfce, and have found the laptop "special keys" scripts in /etc/acpi

Re: Is it possible to disable "sharing" for an Activity?

PM, Wade Brainerd wrote: > I think some simplistic automatic collaboration being built into Sugar, has > been discussed, possibly even prototyped. > Just a matter of engineering motivation/time perhaps. > -Wade > > > On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Carol Farlow Lerche wro

Re: Is it possible to disable "sharing" for an Activity?

I'm guessing someone has already suggested this on some list or other, but in my experience kids like to watch over each other's shoulder, and a default collaboration of "everyone watches, one person types" vnc would in my opinion be the 80 of a collaboration 80-20 rule. I think this ought to be i

Re: OLPC where to go development advice.

Here is a good current Ubuntu (Intrepid 8.10) to try with installation instructions, together with a page that collects the answers to a lot of questions that others have come up with: http://www.olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=40 To install it, you will have to buy an SD card (I just put an 8

Re: child protection + anti-cheating

This exists in http://italc.sourceforge.net/home.php On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 9:33 PM, Wade Brainerd wrote: > Something I hope will end up in Sugar someday are more classroom > management tools. > > Maine's Apple-based classroom laptop system gives the teacher the > ability to remotely watch the

Re: Fedora Desktop on XO

Another plug for Teapot's Intrepid Ibex install if you want an easy way to try the Ubuntu XFCE out on an SD card. I think it is quite beautiful. http://www.olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=4053.0 On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Erik Garrison wrote: > On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 02:23:24PM -0500

Recording XO Camp 2

I hope that someone is planning to record these sessions as was done at the last event. I watched all of these and found them very helpful and informative as a way to get the flavor of backstory, opinion and debate that doesn't always come through reading the lists. My personal opinion is that au

Re: Emulating 8.2-767

The excellent folk who are doing the Ubuntu work often post to this list, and can speak for themselves, but here is what Morgan Collett replied when I asked: ... many "core" activities don't work. Read and > Write both depend on things we couldn't get packaged in Ubuntu in the > right time frame -

Re: Emulating 8.2-767

It may be feasible to do this on Fedora, but it is not yet feasible on Ubuntu. Sugar doesn't do anything interesting there because the networking is broken. (They are working on it and the problem might be solved in a test version, but it isn't feasible for someone who just wants to use standard

Re: Minutes of Power in 9.1.0 meeting

I have recently seen this behavior with the Gnome desktop network applet, when provisioning Ubuntu Intrepid on some old laptops donated to a school near me. What fixed my problem was making pm-utils unload/reload the madwifi atheros driver on suspend and hibernate. I think the prompt for a passwor

Re: Minutes of Power in 9.1.0 meeting

I'm sure Birmingham or other deployments in the US will be using encrypted access. No US school system would permit an open AP. On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 2:51 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > On 25.12.2008, at 09:19, John Gilmore wrote: > > >> along similar lines an issue I have been seeing with the

Re: No surprise on memory

lly allow for a graceful OOM management by using something about second swap usage to be a signal to make the user pick an activity to close. On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Carol Farlow Lerche > wrote: > > Since Linux allows m

Re: No surprise on memory

After reading Belyakov's paper a few questions for the experts occurred to me: Since Linux allows multiple swap partitions, is there anything to be gained by using two -- the first, a compcache swap file and the second on flash, perhaps with Belyakov's MTD layer. First question is whether Linux t

Re: Collaboration using qemu emulation

Speaking of vmware, here is a source for various interesting vmware servers "in a box". Perhaps they could be convinced to package ejabberd. They have a moodle package already. http://www.rpath.org/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://

Re: Collaboration using qemu emulation

Or run the school server on a spare machine or virtual machine. It has an ejabberd server as part of its yummy goodness. Btw without offering offense to Qemu, vmware server is free as in beer on Windows, and its networking is very easy to configure On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 3:16 AM, Bert Freudenber

Re: spell checking in activities

Please provide the pointers if you would be so kind. I don't think spell checkers of either type are likely to be used for early writers. When young children are taught to write (when learning to write and read) in US classrooms, they are encouraged not to obsess over the spelling of each word.