Re: Prohibition of binaries

2007-12-10 Thread Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu
But just to be clear,end users (ie children) can also download and run new non original binaries if they so choose? - Original Message - From: Michael Burns To: Chris Ball Cc: Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 5:48 AM Subject: Re

Prohibition of binaries

2007-12-08 Thread Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu
Someone mentioned that there will be (or already is?) a prohibition on loading any binaries and that all custom content must be Python and only Python? Is this true? ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: OLPC's ready for delivery

2007-11-29 Thread Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu
How long does it take to hear back? I submitted a request last week IIRC. - Original Message - From: "Gerard J. Cerchio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Michael Burns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 3:59 PM Subject: Re: OLPC's ready for delivery >

Re: WSJ

2007-11-29 Thread Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu
Classmate and OLPC was on CNN (Europe) today in Nigeria. No mention of this - but compared Classmate and OLPC and showed schools in use. Slightly more coverage on Classmate - and compared not so much hardware and software but strategies of use, etc.

Re: GTK widgets in C# was: Re: WSJ

2007-11-28 Thread Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu
Im already working on this. Im working on it in a way though to run more effficiently than running as a normal JIT and instead working on a compiler of IL that can use the mono libs. We already have quite a bit working. - Original Message - From: "Scott Cytacki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:

Re: Status of the OLPC

2007-11-24 Thread Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu
ow what is what? - Original Message - From: "Bernardo Innocenti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 4:33 AM Subject: Re: Status of the OLPC > On 11/23/07 19:24, Chad Z. Hower aka

Re: Status of the OLPC

2007-11-23 Thread Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu
Ok I assume "Latest" symlink it he one I want - but there are a bunch of img files... any pointers on what they all are or which one I want? - Original Message - From: "Bernardo Innocenti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu" <

Re: Status of the OLPC

2007-11-23 Thread Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu
Yep. Sound is on. That was a separate bug, which I also logged and found in qemu... Maybe I need a newer build? Pointers on getting latest builds as img files? - Original Message - From: "Bernardo Innocenti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu&qu

Re: Status of the OLPC

2007-11-23 Thread Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu
mouse movement, but nothing ever goes beyond this. Is there any more information I might be able to glean from it for you? - Original Message - From: "Bernardo Innocenti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "'

RE: Status of the OLPC

2007-11-23 Thread Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu
> Yes! There has been a 'Real Soon Now' mini-project to streamline and > improve the emulation builds. Sugar-jhbuild has been (and can be How can I get involved in this? > VMWare/Parrallels/VirtualPC/Bochs/QEMU is the best way we can reach > them. I won't say I know when these changes will land,

Re: Status of the OLPC

2007-11-23 Thread Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu
> Please log it in trac, see http://dev.laptop.org/ ... or describe it to > me in detail and I'll log it for you. I'll need the build number, the > image you're running, and the emulation environment. I logged it. Its Bochs, but I think it would happen anywhere. As soon as you add -soundhw optio

RE: Status of the OLPC

2007-11-23 Thread Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu
> Depends on what you mean by 'polishing'. :) Its certainly a variable term. :) Certainly a lot of work is done and quite impressive. I've only been on the list a few days, it just seemed to me that there are quite a few things left vs what the public website would lead to believe. I ran into so

Status of the OLPC

2007-11-22 Thread Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu
I've read what is on the web of course - but from reading messages here for a few days and also playing with some builds it seems that there is still a fair bit of polishing left to do? Is this a fair statement? Can anyone give me a brief report on the status? -- Chad Z. Hower aka

RE: Emulation issue

2007-11-20 Thread Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu
> Getting sound to work in Sugar in the emulator is another problem > entirely; I've been able to play wave files from the command-line, > and to get sound working in TamTam with edits to their Config.py > files, but not otherwise. I don't need sound right now - so long as I can boot Im ok. Id be

RE: Emulation issue

2007-11-20 Thread Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu
> Thanks, but didn't help. Is it because I don't have sound in qemu? I > caught > the error by running snagit and capturing the screen right between > reboots. It was sound. Added -soundhw all And now it runs. a) Shouldn't it pause for someone to be able to see the error message? b) Why does it

RE: Emulation issue

2007-11-20 Thread Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu
sugar-shell", line 144, in hw_manager.startup() self.set_volume(profile.sound_volume) if not self._mixer or not self_master AttributeError: 'HardwareManager' objects has no attribute '_master' -- Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu "Programming is an art form t

Emulation issue

2007-11-20 Thread Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu
rs, and it reboots. Then I get the x with the arrow, and repeat, over and over Any way I can see the error? It reboots too quickly for me to read it. And has anyone else seen anything like this? -- Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu "Programming is an art form that fights back" http://www.KudzuWorld