Re: Broken /etc/rc.local

An idea . . . one could also just boot with the previous boot image by holding down the 'O' game pad ( http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Cheat_codes ). It might be then possible to edit (as root), the previous image found in /versions , then 'O' game pad again. It'll take a moment to figure out which imag

Re: [Testing] Please help test our pre-release build of 8.2.1

rary_pages/index.html Linkage: "Software Repository" goes to TRAC (i.e. dev.laptop.org) by mistake . Is this a bug or a feature ? :) Icons on home view still re-arranged from build 767 view... Continuing my testing... will report if I find anything else. -iXo On Sun, Jan 4, 2009

Re: automatic reminder of 'software update' when installing a new build

I second... on the idea of checking for network, before putting up the 'software update' dialog box. It certainly annoys me to no end, when my network needs a manual key and the dialog box covers over the network view so I can't connect to my access point. Or even another idea, is not showing the

Re: Wine activity

Wade, :) Any hope of just convincing you to port your program to python/sugar, so it runs the best under sugar? :) -Ixo 2009/1/4 Wade Brainerd > Has anyone considered doing a scan of download.com and similar sites for > small, free educational software for Windows, and then bundling them wit

Re: wiki.laptop.org upgrade

Sorry to comment on a older topic. But have 2 cents to offer. :) I wasn't active on the wiki around Dec 3rd. And didn't see several items mentioned previously. And certainly appreciate moving to 'openid' as an excellent idea (i was one of the proponents of it about 9 months ago)... But in

Re: [Testing] Please help test our pre-release build of 8.2.1

FYI, Downloading 8.2.1 (staging-7) now on an XO currently running with 8.2 (build 767) . Will report on anything out of the ordinary when I play with it tomorrow. :) -iXo On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 08:09, Brian Pepple wrote: > Hi All, > > A pre-release build of 8.2.1 is now available for testi

Re: New joyride build 2613 from build 762

FYI, Just an hour ago (Jan 4th 2008), I upgraded one of my XOs to the latest Joyride. FROM: build-762 TO: joyride 2613 METHOD: (as root) $ olpc-udate joyride-2613 NOTES: 1) During bootup, lots of messages from JFFS2. (Errors show also under 762, so probably a bigger issue with

Re: Wine activity

Awesome, I did some quickie work on Wine on the XO last year.. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wine :) hoping that some day, someone would pickup the ball and run with it! I'll definitely test out the new Activity and offer some feedback, the next chance I get! -iXo p.s. for extra excitement, in

Re: Scam alert: [Fwd: Thank you from One Laptop per Child]

FYI, Sine this topic has nothing to do with OLPC software development, let me attempt to move this conversion from the "developers" list to the 'support gang' list. The topic is more appropriate located there (here?). :) Thanks, -Ixo On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 16:44, John Gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Bad experience wit 764: lost complete /home/olpc/Activities directory.

Note: One item to remember, Sugar GUI won't update the icons on "Home" icons is not "live" but refreshed on certain events... such a sugar reset or 'refresh' event. I had something similar happen to me, where the icons weren't working, and then I noticed that Sugar hadn't updated the icons afte

Re: [Grassroots-l] [sugar] G1G1 Pre-installed Activities Request for Help Testing

FYI, I made a few quick edits... organized it a bit more, made a glossary tab/page (to define those confusing terms). I also started a list of 'checklist items', which Activities need before they can become part of the 'G1G1v2 Activity Pack'. (I didn't know the specific details, but put down

Re: G1G1 Pre-installed Activities Request for Help Testing

How about adding these into Joyride Activities one at a time ? A sort of encouragement for testers to test them out. before 8.2 release :) -iXo On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 15:27, Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > Thanks a lot for the input on which activities to ship! > > Her

Re: G1G1v2 Activities

Here are my top 10 ranking, (with the next 10, if assuming some basic required packages) Journal Browse Write Record Paint Maze Calculate Pippy Physics (or x2o) Measure Implode Speak Memorize TamTam Moon XaoS Read Help Terminal XoIRC My criteria is basic activities or younger children explor

Public Relations, regular updates and news (was: Peru and Microsoft announcement)

And to add 2 cents further,. . . about public announcements and reports of current events... . . . about 6 months ago a handful of us "cheerful support-gang volunteer types" started to put together a 'public friendly' newsletter of the various happenings we got one issue out, and then no

Re: Hardware_specification page has been vandalized

FYI, Firefoxman snagged and fried the spam shortly after your message. :) -Iain 2008/9/6 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hardware_specification page has been vandalized > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Hardware_specificationThe tile has been > va

Re: [Activities] Panorama activity

If the code is short, how about including it in Pippy as an example python script ? :) -Iain 2008/9/5 Christoph Derndorfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sweet, I totally missed that! > > Is anyone actively working on integrating that functionality into 'record' > or making it available as a seperate acti

Re: [support-gang] Please help test our new 8.2.0 weekly beta, joyride-2301!

My adventures in upgrading from 2269 to 2301. * olpc-update joyride-2301 No problems.. very fast to update. * Sugar / Control panel / 'Software Update' still doesn't work for me. (Never has,I have /home/olpc/Activities directory with 18 activities, no activity packs) I suspect hanging on

Re: Tribute To Randy Pausch

Thanks Greg for the heads up. I've stumbled across his work, lectures, and adventures several times over the past 6 months during his battle with Pancreatic Cancer . I hadn't seen an update for quite awhile Drilling down a bit further in some of the links I have bookmark... here's some more furt

Re: [sugar] new 8.2.0 beta joyride - upgrading via control panel ?

John, Thanks for the heads up.. Actually, I was just replying to an ongoing thread, and updated the subject approipately. :) I looked in TRAC and couldn't find anything related, so obviously I wasn't searching deep enough. I'll look again and see where I went astray ;-/ The XO that I have

Re: Please help test our new 8.2.0 weekly beta, joyride-2263!

Another thought how difficult would it be to post a summary of the differences between the "weekly" builds ? ... so it's quick to see what has changed or not between them. (i.e. similar to the 'new joyride released" announcements) -iXo p.s. Or shall I just create a TRAC entry on this ide

Re: [sugar] new 8.2.0 beta joyride - upgrading via control panel ?

I've tried to use several joyrides and the control panel / upgrade option... it just sits at 9% and does nothing. On 2269 I even left it over night to see if it needed more than 10 hrs.. still nothing. (I have no XS server, is one required?) I've never seen it work at all.. ;-/ Is there an est

Re: XO keeps staring at its own belly button

hanks! :) -iXo 2008/8/9 Martin Dengler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 09:23:57PM -0700, Ixo X oxI wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 14:55, Andrew Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Have you tried with a swap partition? Swap is robust now on a SD >

Re: XO keeps staring at its own belly button

External swap area sounds cool. How does one set it up? I'll give it a whirl. -iXo On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 14:55, Andrew Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/8/8 Ixo X oxI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I should also add another case. > > > > I have a c

Re: XO keeps staring at its own belly button

to memory swapping madly to keep up. Soon after it starts to bog down, sugar kills the activity and I see a suddent speed increase. :) I haven't tried this with the newer firefox.xo activity (with FireFox 3.x). -iXo On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 20:20, Ixo X oxI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: &g

Re: XO keeps staring at its own belly button

:-) ok... 8.3.0 then.. lol. -iXo 2008/8/8 Christoph Derndorfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On 8/8/08, Ixo X oxI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Some more 2 1/2 cents. >> >> Sometimes when the storage is full (or near full), response time is down. >

Re: suspend on 'idle'

One method also to keep the XO from going into 'keyboard-idle' mode... Sometimes what I do, is hit one of the 'modifer' keys on the keyboard to keep the machine awake. (i.e. Hand, Fn, Ctrl, Shift, Top row function keys, etc) I wonder if there's a method to simulate this in software, so one c

Re: XO keeps staring at its own belly button

Some more 2 1/2 cents. Sometimes when the storage is full (or near full), response time is down. (check in Terminal with 'df' and see how much free disk space you have.) If downloading large amounts of data, or in process of updating, could also be the cause. Frequently, when I see such un-r

Re: [OLPC-Games] Computer vision on the XO: what it is. what should it be?

Nirav, Great ideas... here are some thoughts and notes when IsForInsects and I did some discussions, some research... then ran out of time to actually program it. :) http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Ixo/Project/Webcam -iXo On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 19:43, Nirav Patel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: Easiest way to run the latest activities

FYI, I believe there's also 'Xo-get' which contains a very frequently updated list of 'released' activities and activity packs. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Xo-get -iXo On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 10:41, Sayamindu Dasgupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > The easiest way, perhaps, to run

Re: Release 8.2.0 -- pls add critical features

Bryan, I believe that 'xo-get' can uninstall activities. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Xo-get I know that the terminal/console interface works great ! I haven't tested the latest GUI version, not sure what the current status. -iXo On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 18:23, Bryan Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New update.1 build 707

FYI, I was looking through the files... and noticed that http://pilgrim.laptop.org/~pilgrim/olpc/streams/update.1/build-number says build #708 . Not sure if this is supposed to match. . . . . http://pilgrim.laptop.org/~pilgrim/olpc/streams/update.1/LATEST-IS-707 :-) -iXo On Wed, J

Re: Cannot see activities in joyride-2005

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 6:58 AM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dov, > > First, please file a ticket that sugar fails to start up if /home/olpc > is empty/missing. Please CC at least mstone and marco on it. > FYI, I filed one 5 months ago... the reply was 'won't fix' then it was clos

Re: Joyride-2009 from 1949 (No standard activities)

I too just upgraded to Joyride-2009 last night. I jumped from joyright 1949 to joywrong 2009 (about a 4 week difference)... Had 'standard' G1G1 activities, now it's only the ones which I've custom installed. So. it looks like joyride is going the route of Update.1 ? Shipping with no activ

Re: Project Hosting Application: olpc-netscripts

Great idea! I have some scripts, thoughts, and code I might be interested with contributing myself. Is there a start to a list of tools, what they do, and maybe even a 'request/want' list ? :) -iXo On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. Project name

Centralized Authentication (was Re: ssh key update security advisory)

FYI, I put in a TRAC ticket on something similar... https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6506 Several months ago, not sure if it ever went anywhere... -iXo 2008/5/15 Dennis Gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thursday 15 May 2008, Henry Hardy wrote: > > Debian has published a recent security

Re: New joyride build 1918

FYI, in build 1914, from Terminal as root, doing a simple # yum install -y svn git mc xawtv (results in 50+ packages to install) During the package resolution and installation. Every 1 to 5 minutes, the screen goes dark (power save?), the eta transfer time goes up, the screen goes brigh

Re: jumpy cursor problem and sugar issue

One thing to note also, I have observed that many people (including myself) out of habit do a quick 'double-tap' on the touchpad for a 'left-click' (which is standard for most US 'typical' laptops). I've noticed, 8 times out of 10 times touching the keyboard like this, the cursor and sensitivel

Re: notes from first few days at Bashuki and Bishwamitra

Bryan, Glancing through the OLE Nepal Wordpress blog, I saw an impressive implementation of a home-grown solution to the XO charging rack. http://blog.olenepal.org/index.php/archives/254 Wow! Very well done. Love to see more of this type of work in the U.S. ! :) -iXo 2008/5/1 Bryan Berry

Re: NYC schools and cloaked APs

Although, this may not be what you are looking for.. I was looking for myself, all the hints on trying to make connecting to hidden SSID networks easier. So your question prodded me to gather the links together :) http://wiki.laptop.org/go/WPA_Manual_Setting http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wifi_C

Re: Cursor does not move left/right using touchpad on 2.6.22-20080123.4 and newer master kernels

FYI, I am one of the support-gang volunteer, and a recent startup "XO Repair Center". And I was shipped a XO for repair.. which has this this exact problem. It is original build 656. It is untouched since I received it, and reproduce the problem at anytime. The 'four-finger-touchpad-reset' d

Re: Synchronizing xs-0.3 and xo-??? --- backups

FYI, Awhile back ago, I developed a quick-n-dirty little *rsync* script which can be ran on the XO Laptop at any time and regularly. Here's the latest online version... http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Ixo/Script/xo-backup-server I've set it up on my XO. And run it when-ever and where-ever i

Re: fun and games with trying to un-suspend

"I too" since before joyride 1850 (sorry, I don't know exactly when it started.) I have no SD card in slot. I frequently travel with my XO around town during my various meetings and volunteer activities. Great little device for taking quick notes at the table. :-) Take it to one meeting, take

Re: New joyride build 1796

FYI, Happened in several previous joyrides... But happened to me again today. Suddenly touch-pad 'oversensitivity' and 'absolute' mode in JoyRide 1796 ... while in Neighborhood view, after a sleep mode wake up after touching the touch pad to 'wake' it up. "Reboot"ing (while plugged into AC)

Re: Update.1 activities download script

FYI, Chris, To also help make the 'official' Activity Pack(s) (or bundled activities, or whatever final terminology), I've tried to start a 'clear and written' list of such mentioned Activities. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/G1G1_bundled_activities with a similar vein of thought, started another

Core Activities - Bundled Packs discussion

Michael, I took some of your thoughts... and the 'global' problem of no activities shipped with XOs. ... ran with it a bit further. . . . :-) Thinking along the lines, the set of 'recommended' activities per deployment location are being discussed informally, without much tracking or public-wide

Re: Image Recognition

FYI, A few months back, Seth Woodworth (irc/isforinsects) and I did some brainstorming about stop motion and webcam ideas. But both of us got distracted on other projects here's the notes and comments that we gathered during our investigation... http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Ixo/P

Re: Update.1 activities download script

FYI, Another great program to use to install .xo bundles. is 'xo-get'. Has both a console/terminal and Sugar/GUI interface. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Xo-get Currently under going testing, but pretty darn close with only a handful of 'un-documented features left'. :-) -iXo p.s xo-get

Re: Detecting the native locale

Although.. :) I would be really neat if this was settable as a user option, inside speak too. Example, In locale of US or UK, tune to speak with French accent or vice versa . :) Or in non-english locales, tune to english to learn english speaking ? -Ixo 2008/3/8 Joshua Minor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Serious problems with "rescan networks on wakeup" feature.

One thought, to add to the mix... How about designing the best solution for the 'deployment / school' situation, then offering a method for users to optionally 'tweak' the setting for their preference / situation. Like a sugar-control-panel option to 'show mesh enable/disable scan option'... the

Personal Scripts moving to personal git space ?

Devel team, I'm in the process of both updating my scripts ( http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Ixo/Script ) to be under the better GPL , ( :] thanks Tony for the nudge!) and moving them into a better manageable personal git space. I tried to follow the directions at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Cr

Common Exhibit XO questions/answers

David, I recently did a presentation at our local Bellingham Linux User Group (BLUG), and staffed a table at a 'Technology Festival at Western Washington University'. You aren't kidding, I was talking non-stop about the XO , OLPC, demoing the laptop, and sharing the various features with crowds of

Re: Tentative Plans for Nepal's School Server and related infrastructure

rsync Have fun, and good luck, --ixo 2008/2/16 Ixo X oxI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Well, creating points which go 'INTO' your server is probably not a > really good strategy. > > However, one could do it the other way with ssh keys (i.e. no login), > 'from

Re: Tentative Plans for Nepal's School Server and related infrastructure

Well, creating points which go 'INTO' your server is probably not a really good strategy. However, one could do it the other way with ssh keys (i.e. no login), 'from' the server. I've thought about this before... one solution... server has a webpage which allows the XO to see and logon, and us

XO Colors ?

Devel group, I've been looking at a few Wiki and python pages about XO color definitions, and even updated one page with some of my discoveries. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_colors Basically, found color definitions in two standard distribution python pages : /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packa