Cerebro v3.0: File sharing and buddy management made easy!

2009-01-09 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
s are here: http://cerebro.mit.edu/index.php/Documentation#Example_GUI If you are a developer, there is detailed tutorial to do file sharing from Python prompt (!) here: http://cerebro.mit.edu/index.php/Documentation#Buddy_management Enjoy Pol -- Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos Graduate student

Cerebro v3.0: File sharing and buddy management made easy!

2009-01-08 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
s are here: http://cerebro.mit.edu/index.php/Documentation#Example_GUI If you are a developer, there is detailed tutorial to do file sharing from Python prompt (!) here: http://cerebro.mit.edu/index.php/Documentation#Buddy_management Enjoy Pol -- Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos Graduate student

VGA-output on your XO?

2008-12-10 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
http://arstechnica.com/journals/hardware.ars/2008/12/09/acer-releases-b223-displaylink-lcd-in-europe p. -- Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos Graduate student Viral Communications MIT Media Lab Tel: +1 (617) 459-6058 http://www.mit.edu/~ypod/ ___ Devel

Re: wiki.laptop.org upgrade

2008-12-04 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
Without meaning to undervalue the significance of this thread, it does not seem to pertain anymore to the subject of the devel list whose description is "Software development mailing list" (http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/) :-) I refer to devel's description for the sake of completeness, not s

Re: [sugar] Give a Laptop, Change the World : G1G1 2008

2008-10-08 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
l-purpose desktop environment, hildon is gear towards mobile interfaces on small screen real estate, and Sugar is an environment with a focus on collaboration and abstraction of concepts such as "files" and "user accounts". As such, it could sustain a learning process bett

Re: [sugar] Give a Laptop, Change the World : G1G1 2008

2008-10-07 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
our own. > > OLPC's Flickr photostream: http://flickr.com/photos/olpc > Contribute & share media: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Community_media > ___ > Sugar mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar > -- Polychronis Ypodimato

cerebro's memory usage

2008-09-22 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
does not wake up the system in that case. In the mean time, 760 is not using the latest version of cerebro. Is there going to be a newer stable? p. -- Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos Graduate student Viral Communications MIT Media Lab Tel: +1 (617) 459-6058 http://www.mit.edu/

Re: [sugar] G1G1v2 Activities

2008-09-18 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
RE- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAkjSgM8ACgkQUJT6e6HFtqQ4hACfcRnjtYpakrKRa92hrsI/aIkJ > m0QAmwQLe6qLvzYJBNnndfI1Wz6B8tUn > =qdS2 > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > ___________ > Devel mailing list > Devel

cerebro documentation

2008-09-07 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
tion, chat, etc. Chapter 6 evaluates Cerebro's performance by providing experimental results on a testbed with tens of nodes. With scalable regards, Pol -- Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos Graduate student Viral Communications MIT Media Lab Tel: +1 (617) 459-6058 http

Re: Regressions(?) in latest joyride build 2321, 2323

2008-08-25 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
Ton van Overbeek wrote: > When trying the latest joyride builds (last one I tried was 2331) I noticed > the following regressions (firmware Q2E14): > - As many have already reported the mesh device msh0 is gone. This caused > cerebro to abort and consequently to hang the shutdown. > The two i

Re: Cerebro (was Re: Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708))

2008-08-24 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
emory (5.9MB total) (WHY?!?!?) Nothing specific to cerebro up to this point. Running Cerebro fully-blown as root: Additional cost: 1.3MB of memory (7.2MB total) It doesn't seem to me that there's much I can do, except for writing some parts of Cerebro in C. Pol -- Polychronis

analyzing memory usage of python code

2008-08-24 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote: > I filed #8128 to address the memory usage that seems excessive. > > I have also disabled cerebro from start-up while this is being > investigated and the issue with blocking shutdown process (#8108). > Should be picked up at the next ver

where is msh0 ?

2008-08-23 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
Joyride: 2331 firmware: Q2E14 machine: B4 I don't see mshX in my interfaces. Is this a known issue? Didn't find anything similar in the archives, sorry if I 'm repeating it. Pol -- Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos Graduate student Viral Communications MIT Media Lab Tel: +1 (617

Re: Cerebro (was Re: Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708))

2008-08-23 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: > 6.5 Mib according to ps_mem > > You are right, it's enabled in joyride... it's failing for me because > it can't find msh0 (not sure why). > > Marco > I filed #8128 to address the memory usage that seems excessive. I have also disabled cerebro from start-up while

joyride version announcements

2008-08-19 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
Why are new versions of Joyride not announced? Pol ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Collaboration Requirements

2008-07-30 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
n internet connection is dependable) wrt our collaboration technology. Pol -- Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos Graduate student Viral Communications MIT Media Lab Tel: +1 (617) 459-6058 http://www.mit.edu/~ypod/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.lapto

Re: Remarks on the Work of Sugar

2008-07-22 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
th superior human interfaces (HTTP, 9P, environment > variables, well-known files, process arguments + status codes + man > pages). > > Regards, > > Michael > > P.S. - Let me know if you'd like to see more such remarks in the future > (perhaps on other subsystems?) or if you'

permission to add activity to joyride

2008-07-08 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
that pencil!) Screenshots from a GTK-based (to be sugarized) version are here: http://lyme.media.mit.edu/cerebro/index.php/Screenshots#GTK-based_UI thanks, Pol -- Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos Graduate student Viral Communications MIT Media Lab Tel: +1 (617) 459-6058 http://www.mit.edu/

Re: koji vs. dropbox

2008-07-07 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
Hi Dennis, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > On Monday 07 July 2008, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote: > >> This is probably meant for the release team. >> Is the dropbox mechanism for updating rpms in joyride still working? >> >> According to http://wiki.laptop.org/go/B

koji vs. dropbox

2008-07-07 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
This is probably meant for the release team. Is the dropbox mechanism for updating rpms in joyride still working? According to http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Build_system the dropbox should work but newer RPMs of cerebro don't get pulled into joyride. Rumors have it that this mechanism no longer work

Re: Setting up the mesh device

2008-06-24 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
is to discover nodes in different channels (although different channels do have a radio scaling advantage). p. -- Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos Graduate student Viral Communications MIT Media Lab Tel: +1 (617) 459-6058 http://www.mit.edu/~ypod/ __

wiki spam!

2008-06-20 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
s? p. -- Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos Graduate student Viral Communications MIT Media Lab Tel: +1 (617) 459-6058 http://www.mit.edu/~ypod/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

thread summary: On Cerebro, Telepathy, yokes and whites

2008-06-11 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
any parts. Pol -- Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos Graduate student Viral Communications MIT Media Lab Tel: +1 (617) 459-6058 http://www.mit.edu/~ypod/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: On Cerebro, Telepathy, yokes and whites (was Re: cerebro in sugar)

2008-06-10 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
Quoting "C. Scott Ananian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 7:51 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> * The ab

Re: [OLPC Networking] TCP is broken in mesh mode

2008-06-10 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
sing GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAkhOz+oACgkQUJT6e6HFtqSVBQCeKPWmqeoKOzVv55JS/HTAgf1r > bUYAoKCG+z1bBA+isc7Mun0VlQNGDars > =4w83 > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > ___ > Networking mailing list >

Re: On Cerebro, Telepathy, yokes and whites (was Re: cerebro in sugar)

2008-06-10 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: > Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote: > | 2) Make provision in both sugar and activities so that there is a clear > | abstraction from telepathy so that _if_ a better collaboration stack > | comes along, telepathy won't be "hardcoded" in suga

On Cerebro, Telepathy, yokes and whites (was Re: cerebro in sugar)

2008-06-10 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
ng and updating their XO that participates in the mesh in MIT campus, so I think it is critical to have cerebro in joyride. Am I wrong? Pol -- Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos Graduate student Viral Communications MIT Media Lab Tel: +1 (617) 459-6058 http://www.mit.edu/~ypod/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: journal object transfer for 8.2

2008-06-09 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
gt;> Michael >> ___________ >> Devel mailing list >> Devel@lists.laptop.org >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >> >> > ___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos Graduate student Viral Communications MIT Media Lab Tel: +1 (617) 459-6058 http://www.mit.edu/~ypod/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: New, more realistic multi-hop network testbed

2008-06-09 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
aboration stack, not only on tens of XOs, but other platforms also. > Let's work with Michail on this as he probably needs to take the lead. > > As a first step, I will order 10 laptops for Poly to find permanent > homes for throughout the MIT campus. thank you. > > K

Re: New, more realistic multi-hop network testbed

2008-06-08 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
Quoting "C. Scott Ananian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > While we're talking about networking: > > From discussions with the OLSRd guys, one way they made their > protocols work well in dense networks was to aggressively use *all* > the 802.11*a* as well as g channels. 802.11a has 24+ non-overlapping > c

Re: New, more realistic multi-hop network testbed

2008-06-08 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
Quoting Michail Bletsas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/08/2008 12:00:30 PM: > >> one more (which may be considered a varient of d) >> i) 802.11s meshing in bad RF environments >> >> this is where there are a small number of XO machines (so you don't have > >> the 802.11s traff

Re: New, more realistic multi-hop network testbed

2008-06-07 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
Wad, John Watlington wrote: > I would like to point out that both Marvell and Nortel have mesh testbeds > (100 and 50 nodes, respectedly).Our problem has been that no-one has > a collaboration testbed. A collaboration test is all I did in the past (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Simple_mesh_test

Re: New, more realistic multi-hop network testbed

2008-06-06 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
rts of its software (with the exception of Marco? ;-). I think commitment, communication and roadmaps is the answer to this problem. p. -- Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos Graduate student Viral Communications MIT Media Lab Tel: +1 (617) 459-6058 http://www.mit.edu/~ypod/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: New, more realistic multi-hop network testbed

2008-06-06 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
Hi Wad, John Watlington wrote: > > Poly, > In theory, your suggestion sounds good. In practice, I think > it is advanced research winning out over fixing real problems. Heh as you know, research is usually done based on simulations, not by deploying such cumbersome, large area networks ;-)

Re: New, more realistic multi-hop network testbed

2008-06-06 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
Aaron Kaplan wrote: > > On Jun 6, 2008, at 10:31 PM, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote: > >> In the spirit of escalating collaboration/communication use cases to >> more realistic scenarios, I 'd like to propose creating the following >> multihop network testbed.

New, more realistic multi-hop network testbed

2008-06-06 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
2) setup and automate software updates over the network. 3) last but not least, get about 10-12 XOs from OLPC ;-) Comments/additions are most welcome! Pol -- Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos Graduate student Viral Communications MIT Media Lab Tel

Volunteers/help for sugar/cerebro integration

2008-05-14 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
p.org/git?p=users/mstone/telepathy-cerebro;a=tree;hb=HEAD [3] /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/sugar/presence/presenceservice.py Thanks, Pol -- Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos Graduate student Viral Communications MIT Media Lab Tel: +1 (617) 459-6058 http://www.mit.edu/

Re: [sugar] 65-node simple mesh test (and counting... ;-)

2008-05-13 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
John Watlington wrote: > One interesting note is that the suggested routing algorithm for > 802.11s is a combination of reactive and proactive routing (unlike our > current one, which is > solely reactive). Perhaps that provides the adaptation necessary for the mesh > to work ? If you refer

Re: 65-node simple mesh test (and counting... ;-)

2008-05-12 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
Hi Bill, Bill Mccormick wrote: > The network manager could be the culprit here, although I thought you > had it disabled, how did you disable it? > chkconfig --del NetworkManager you'll need to pass the '--add' argument to restore it in rc5. > When it's running it looks like it first looks o

Re: 65-node simple mesh test (and counting... ;-)

2008-05-09 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
Quoting Robert Withrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > As you may know, but for the others also: Nortel is working to set up > a 100 node test network of this nature (each node wired through > switches with some test director automation) in a RF clean > environment in a Lab in Ottawa and Marcus is one of

Re: 65-node simple mesh test (and counting... ;-)

2008-05-09 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
(or even better due to lowered speed) reliability using broadcast frames. Even without the ack scheme, I noticed that, on average, some 95% of the data transmitted over broadcast are successfully received on all nodes. We are throwing this away by discarding it on our wireless interfaces. Po

Re: [sugar] 65-node simple mesh test (and counting... ;-)

2008-05-09 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
me allows sizeable bandwidth savings (http://lyme.media.mit.edu/cerebro/index.php/Experimental_results), especially in dense wireless networks. Pol -- Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos Graduate student Viral Communications MIT Media Lab Tel: +1 (61

Re: [sugar] 65-node simple mesh test (and counting... ;-)

2008-05-09 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
n for Cerebro yet is because I was heavily working on many of its protocols, but I think they 've reached a stable point now (I found no reason to change anything for more than a month now). This is definitely on the wish-list right now! Help is greatly appreciated. Pol -- Polychronis Ypodima

RE: [sugar] 65-node simple mesh test (and counting... ;-)

2008-05-09 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
a lot of > time working with us. > Would you like to setup a few use cases that I could put to the test and explore our limits? I would like to shift my focus to make Cerebro more activity-friendly and examine alternative use cases. Thanks for the feedback

Re: [sugar] 65-node simple mesh test (and counting... ;-)

2008-05-09 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
Bill Mccormick wrote: > Hey Pol, > > what format is the data in, is this pcap? > yes, it's libpcap. Saved from wireshark. I just tested the file and successfully loaded in wireshark ;-) Pol > The raw capture is here: > > http://lyme.media.mit.edu/cerebro/capture-1 > __

Re: [sugar] 65-node simple mesh test (and counting... ;-)

2008-05-09 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
any rate, thanks for this good work! > > Michael > > P.S. - When you produce measurements like these, please include links to > the raw data. > The raw capture is here: http://lyme.media.mit.edu/cerebro/capture-1 Pol -- Polychro

65-node simple mesh test (and counting... ;-)

2008-05-09 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
;10MB) and consistent CPU usage (83 minutes of CPU usage in 'top'). Comments/suggestions? Pol -- Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos Graduate student Viral Communications MIT Media Lab Tel: +1 (617) 459-6058 http://www.mit.edu/~ypod/ ___ Devel mailin

Re: Mesh testing

2008-05-05 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
Robert Withrow wrote: > Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote: >> I 've been doing experiments on a 50-node testbed (703, Q2D14, 22.p9, >> simple mesh) and getting all 50 of them to communicate consistently >> has been hard, even in the absence no sharing or he

Re: Mesh testing

2008-05-05 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
we should aim for at some 5 hours of continuous and stable operation. We currently do _not_ meet these requirements and from an activity point of view, the network look like an omelet rather than distinct yoke and white!!! Pol -- Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos Graduate student Viral Communica

Mesh testing

2008-05-05 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
rkManager seems to fix the problem. Is anyone still maintaining the NetworkManager? It seems to me that the NetworkManager chooses to restart msh0 sometimes. Is this true? Does it go so far as to reload the firmware? Pol -- Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos Graduate student Viral Communications MI

Re: [sugar] Ad-hoc Networking

2008-04-23 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
x27; which is an obstacle without visible benefits to users/developers has no inherent value". Let's try to follow this rule for a moment: the kernel has 286 bug reports and journal has 232. Do you suggest abandoning the kernel and substitute with something else (say "windo

Re: Walter leaving and shift to XP.

2008-04-22 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
dows box and ask them to sign up to Facebook so that they can communicate with their friends. Pol -- Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos Graduate student Viral Communications MIT Media Lab Tel: +1 (617) 459-6058 http://www.mit.edu/~ypod/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Document sharing issues

2008-04-22 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
Guillaume Desmottes wrote: > Le lundi 21 avril 2008 à 10:24 -0500, James Simmons a écrit : > >> 2). Downloading a document is very slow. I distribute View Slides >> files on an Apache server, using the Browse activity to copy same to the >> Journal. This takes under a minute even for a larg

Cerebro released

2008-04-21 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
efficient multicast mechanism - simple collaboration mechanism through 'share', 'join', 'leave' functions - simple programming API based on dbus (see examples) http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Cerebro Enjoy! Pol -- Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos Graduate student Viral Commun

Re: Do we ever want to bind more than 8 multicast MAC addresses?

2008-04-18 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
David Woodhouse wrote: > On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 12:01 -0400, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote: > >> You're not following: Ethernet ports are bytes 12-14 (2 bytes total) on >> _all_ ethernet frames. IP has nothing to do with this. Instead of >> looking at the f

Re: Do we ever want to bind more than 8 multicast MAC addresses?

2008-04-18 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
David Woodhouse wrote: > On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 11:50 -0400, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote: > >> what's possible? why not? >> >> David Woodhouse wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 11:43 -0400, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote: >>>

Re: Do we ever want to bind more than 8 multicast MAC addresses?

2008-04-18 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
what's possible? why not? David Woodhouse wrote: > On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 11:43 -0400, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote: > >> Is it possible to associate shared activities with ethernet ports >> instead of whole multicast addresses? Then we would only need one single &

Re: Do we ever want to bind more than 8 multicast MAC addresses?

2008-04-18 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
f firmware support which numbers of > addresses? Remember, this driver handles lots of devices, some with > non-mesh firmware. > > -- Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos Graduate student Viral Communications MIT Media Lab Tel: +1 (617) 459-6058 http://www.mit.edu/~ypod/ ___

Re: Devel Digest, Vol 26, Issue 65

2008-04-14 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
go/Sugar_with_sugar-jhbuild#Running_multiple_instances > > Hope it helps, > > Tomeu > ___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos Graduate st

Re: networking scenarios

2008-04-11 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
Dafydd Harries wrote: > This is something which was not completely clear to me until I talked to Wad > about it the other day, and I think other people might find it useful. It > should probably go on the wiki (assuming it isn't already there somewhere). > I'd > like some feedback about where it b

Re: "Chilling Effects" paper at USENIX

2008-04-08 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
Having received a lot of publicity, the OLPC project is a great candidate for criticism, sometimes constructive, other times done in the absence of other serious academic research. Potentially weak security models in windows is no news, but in OLPC... Now this is worth taking a shot at! ___

Re: Build Debate: Followup on Build Naming

2008-04-08 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
grees) >> > > >> > > >> > > ___ >> > > Devel mailing list >> > > Devel@lists.laptop.org >> > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >> > > >> > ___ >> > Devel mailing list >> > Devel@lists.laptop.org >> > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >> > >> >> > ___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos Graduate student Viral Communications MIT Media Lab Tel: +1 (617) 459-6058 http://www.mit.edu/~ypod/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: DBus - Sessionbus rights

2008-04-07 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
John (J5) Palmieri wrote: > I can't think of a reason to want a system process invoking methods on a > user process. Well, in my case, the system process is the only one having access to the network and provides network "connections" and events to all user processes. Sending signals to user proc

Re: DBus - Sessionbus rights

2008-04-07 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
John (J5) Palmieri wrote: > Luckily all mail with DBus in the header gets filtered into a single > folder ;) Yes spoofing is the answer here (it is sort of like asking > why can't users create applications that run from /usr/bin though not > quite exact). If we allowed users to grab names on the

DBus - Sessionbus rights

2008-04-05 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
...". Why do we forbid the default user (olpc) by default from advertising processes under a "well known name"? What's wrong with user processes making their presence known on SystemBus? -- Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos Graduate student Viral Communications MIT Media Lab Tel: +

Re: [OLPC Networking] RSSI value questions

2008-04-01 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFH8szwUJT6e6HFtqQRAge7AJ4i7NOqoxIA4lyiuJ8B30nJMsH4igCggJFE > yFGqTzfIsyGUgrx/yATJWn8= > =Zsbp > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > __

Re: OLPC security project

2008-03-28 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
> Thanks! > Jeremy Flores > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos Graduate student Viral Communications MIT M

Re: Call for Papers/Talks/Ideas! "Update.2 Mini-Conference"

2008-03-21 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
ce >> > > Mechanisms to achieve those performance goals are worthy candidates for a > talk! > --scott > > -- Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos Graduate student Viral Communications MIT Media Lab Tel: +1 (617) 459-6058 http://www.mit.edu/~ypod/

Cerebro performance

2008-03-06 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
cerebro now offers (in command-line!) - chat (just type text in the console) - file transfer (type in console: /sendfile) - view of network tree layout - information about all other nodes in the network (nickname, colors, keys, etc) Performance (remember that this is a mesh test, no servers wer

RPM package for cerebro test

2008-02-26 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
http://lyme.media.mit.edu/cerebro/images/Cerebro-24-1.olpc2.noarch.rpm ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

status of project hosting?

2008-02-25 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
What is the status of pending project hosting requests? ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Salut and Suspend/Resume issues

2008-02-19 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
Gianni, Giannis Galanis wrote: > In fact the although the requests are every 10min, the icon will hold > for 30min in total until it is deleted. > Bug 5501, however, will delete the entry if within the timeframe, a > new host arrives. Are you saying that you can have stale icons on screen for a

Re: Salut and Suspend/Resume issues

2008-02-19 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
g suspends that have this problem. It's probably the fact > that the TTL for all contacts has run out, that is causing avahi to flush the > peer list. After which it needs to rediscover all of them. Which is a valid > thing to do, if you've been away

hosting request: Cerebro

2008-02-14 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
is no need to list non-committer developers. Username Full nameSSH2 key URL E-mail - -- #1 ypod Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos http://wiki.laptop.o

Re: Salut/avahi/meshview issues

2008-01-30 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
Like Michail and Ricardo said, going from a paper publication to an actual implementation and also _testing_ of that implementation is a very long way. The following factors need to be taken into account when comparing various approaches to routing and presence in MANETs: 1) scalability: I woul

Re: Testing the Wireless driver changes

2008-01-17 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
he driver activate it when it's appropriate. > Then the decision as to whether the radio is blocked can properly be > handled in userspace, and the device can be left quiescent if > appropriate. > > -- Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos Graduate student Viral Communications

Cerebro: Scalable presence information

2007-12-31 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
d properly, while the rest are simply put in the list on the right. A sugarized version of the UI will follow soon! Enjoy! Pol -- Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos Graduate student Viral Communications MIT Media Lab Tel: +1 (617) 459-6058 http://www.mit

layer-2 ping?

2007-10-29 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
anyone has done/seen a layer-2 ping (from one MAC to the other directly) Pol ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: is there space for Space for a joyride?

2007-10-29 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
about 100kb. Pol Bernardo Innocenti wrote: > Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote: > > >> If there is still interest in the Space activity (layout of tree of >> neighbors according to distance) entering Joyride, do you need an .xo >> file or an .rpm? >&g

is there space for Space for a joyride?

2007-10-29 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
If there is still interest in the Space activity (layout of tree of neighbors according to distance) entering Joyride, do you need an .xo file or an .rpm? Pol ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Massive mesh view?

2007-10-20 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
Representation of massive numbers of XOs in the network is definitely an interesting problem. It may be a little early to jump into providing solutions, but I dealt with the problem recently while working on my space activity, and space itself can be a scarce resource on screen, especially if y

[Fwd: [msgs] Teach anything you want!]

2007-10-16 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
Not sure if this is relevant, but maybe someone would like to showcase the XO there. I may have an hour or so available to spend during that weekend, so let me know and feel free to forward. Pol Original Message Subject:[msgs] Teach anything you want! Date: Tue, 16 O

[Fwd: [msgs] Teach anything you want!]

2007-10-16 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
Not sure if this is relevant, but maybe someone would like to showcase the XO there? I may have an hour or two to spare on that weekend, but no more than that. Please forward freely and let me know. Pol Original Message Subject:[msgs] Teach anything you want! Date: T

Re: slightly long and detailed proposal for documentation-translation workflow

2007-10-16 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
heh, I totally agree, but this doesn't mean that there isn't a market for a book like that (unfortunately!). Apart from the fact that some people feel "disabled" without a book, there still is *not* a "user-friendly" introduction on how to use the laptop (let alone how it works) and I doubt tha

Re: [OLPC Networking] Wireless porting

2007-10-12 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
;Xo" signs with > different colors. > > best, > aaron. > > > On Oct 13, 2007, at 1:12 AM, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> What platform do you plan to port the driver to? >> >> Pol >> >> Alex Gibson wrote: >>&

Re: Wireless porting

2007-10-12 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
Hi, What platform do you plan to port the driver to? Pol Alex Gibson wrote: > To Jim , Walter, Ivan and others > > We (UTS) sent a proposal on doing the wireless driver porting to you a > fortnight ago and > we are still yet to here from you. > > Can you please confirm that you received it or n

Re: Alternative neighborhood in mesh networks

2007-10-10 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
Hi Cris, No it does not rely on any subsystems of the firmware or sugar (other than getting the XO's color settings). :-) Pol Chris Ball wrote: > Polychronis, > >> Announcing "Space", an activity that displays an alternative mesh >> network neighborhood that offers a sense of space by p

Alternative neighborhood in mesh networks

2007-10-10 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
Announcing "Space", an activity that displays an alternative mesh network neighborhood that offers a sense of space by placing you in the center and everyone else in the mesh network at a distance proportional to link quality between you and the node that is being displayed. http://web.media.mi

mesh driver in ubuntu

2007-09-26 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
I have Ubuntu 7.04 with 2.6.20-16 and want to use the 8388 USB module with my system. I guess I either need to jump to 2.6.22, or compile the driver for 2.6.20. I would prefer the second as the upstream version of the driver does not come with all the features I need. So, do I just get the driver a

BIOS prompt at q2c25 + B2?

2007-08-23 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
How do I enter the BIOS prompt on q2c25? It seems I can no longer use ESC tryied other buttons too ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: System update spec proposal

2007-06-27 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
Actually things are not as simple as that. The first problem is that the table of neighbors in fwt_list_neigh does not get updated to remove nodes that are no longer reachable, so after a while you will be left with stale entries and you will either have to reset the table with fwt_reset, or try