[Sugar-devel] Activity Installation Problem - help!

2010-09-19 Thread Peter Hewitt
Hi, I successfully installed my first activity on my soas box but it took a lot of trial and error! I thought I wrote down all the steps but when I tried my second activity it failed. I spent a lot of time with alsroot - the app worked fine for him - could I have an soas issue here? Thanks ...

[Sugar-devel] pygame activities stop XO sleep?

2010-12-30 Thread Peter Hewitt
Hope this is the right place for this my first post. It seems that my pygame activities prevent the XO (both models) from going to sleep. This problem persists even after my activity has stopped. Someone suggested that this happens with other pygame activities. Does anyone have a solution for

Re: [Sugar-devel] pygame activities stop XO sleep?

2010-12-30 Thread Peter Hewitt
@Paul - thanks for the feedback - I no longer have a 1.5 to verify what you found but I've just double checked on my 1.0 (.82) - I started Boxes, stopped it and now the XO is awake for ever :( (Two asides for you - 1. Discover the sacrificial strategy mentioned in my notes and turn your "bad

Re: [Sugar-devel] pygame activities stop XO sleep?

2010-12-31 Thread Peter Hewitt
At 10:46 PM 31/12/2010, you wrote: In addition to advice from James, you might also want to consider the case when your activity is not in the user focus, as they switch away to a different activity or use one of the home views. A few months back I added some extra event checks to Physics so th

Re: [Sugar-devel] Visual 6502 microprocessor

2011-01-07 Thread Peter Hewitt
I developed this simulation many years ago - its instruction set is based on the 6502. http://www.mulawa.net/mulawa/simcom/simcom1.html Note that on modern browsers the current memory box fails to light up and sadly the Assembler only seems to work on IE :o( - I did say "many years ago" :o)

Re: [Sugar-devel] mouseCAM

2011-09-22 Thread Peter Hewitt
Hi Andres, Have just read your posting on the sugar-devel Mailing List about mouseCAM. Was about to e-mail you and tell you about my activities when I saw that you are already using one on the video! One of my guiding design principles is User Interface simplicity - the full list is here:

Re: [Sugar-devel] NZ Testing - Letters 23

2011-10-30 Thread Peter Hewitt
This activity requires the player to make the longest English word from 8 random letters. Just wanted to comment on the idea of supplying a list of the "missed" words. This is most undesirable - many of the words in the computer's dictionary will be completely unknown to the student. The list

[Sugar-devel] A network question

2011-11-10 Thread Peter Hewitt
I'm finally starting to investigate networking on my XOs. I have two XO 1s - Firmware Q2E45 Wireless 5.110.22.p23 Sugar .84.16 Build 852 Let's call them G (good) & B (bad) The neighbourhood show three mesh symbols on both. On G one pulses but on B ... no pulsing. G finally says "Connected" on

Re: [Sugar-devel] A network question

2011-11-10 Thread Peter Hewitt
ok test net nothing on B on G: RSSI: 0 SSID: Channel: 1 RSSI: 49 SSID: Channel: 1 At 01:17 PM 11/11/2011, Jerry Vonau wrote: On Fri, 2011-11-11 at 12:08 +1000, Peter Hewitt wrote: > I'm finally starting to investigate networking on my XOs. > > I have two XO 1s - Firmware

Re: [Sugar-devel] A network question

2011-11-10 Thread Peter Hewitt
At 01:55 PM 11/11/2011, James Cameron wrote: On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 01:47:10PM +1000, Peter Hewitt wrote: > ok test net > > nothing on B Does the wireless LED blink during this test? Yes Does the test take about two seconds? Yes And ... I have now discovered the command test /w

Re: [Sugar-devel] A network question

2011-11-10 Thread Peter Hewitt
One further piece of info before answering your questions: ifconfig on B has NO "inet addr" line - otherwise appears ok (apart from the previously mention lack of an eth0 entry). At 02:34 PM 11/11/2011, James Cameron wrote: On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 02:22:53PM +1000, Peter Hewitt w

Re: [Sugar-devel] A network question

2011-11-10 Thread Peter Hewitt
At 03:09 PM 11/11/2011, James Cameron wrote: On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 02:54:33PM +1000, Peter Hewitt wrote: > One further piece of info before answering your questions: > > ifconfig on B has NO "inet addr" line - otherwise appears ok (apart > from the previously mention

Re: [Sugar-devel] A network question

2011-11-10 Thread Peter Hewitt
d with the other two machines on the ad hoc network. I assigned "169.254.7.200" to B. Pinging to or from it produced Destination Host Unreachable. At 03:39 PM 11/11/2011, James Cameron wrote: On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 03:23:25PM +1000, Peter Hewitt wrote: > "Ad-hoc Network 1

Re: [Sugar-devel] A network question

2011-11-11 Thread Peter Hewitt
Re-installed the operating system (a first for me) and now XO B is working fine - many thanks to James Cameron for his patience and assistance. Peter At 03:39 PM 11/11/2011, James Cameron wrote: On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 03:23:25PM +1000, Peter Hewitt wrote: > "Ad-hoc Network 1" on

[Sugar-devel] ssh & SoaS query

2011-12-22 Thread Peter Hewitt
I have PuTTY on my Windows XP box and have successfully connected to an XO but when I try to connect to my SoaS box I get "Network error: No route to host". I copied the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file from the XO box (although the only difference is the uncommenting of "Protocol 2"). I've made su

Re: [Sugar-devel] SugarGame problem (Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn)

2012-01-08 Thread Peter Hewitt
Hi Alan, All my activities use sugargame - they are all built in the same way - perhaps you'll find an answer there. http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/user/2246 Hope this helps ... Peter ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.suga

Re: [Sugar-devel] Result of test activities on Sugar 0.94.1

2012-01-14 Thread Peter Hewitt
I have checked all my 31 published activities (there are 6 more undergoing final testing at the moment): http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/user/2246 on an XO 1 with 0.94.1 No problems. Have marked with a green rectangle on the spreadsheet as requested. Peter __

Re: [Sugar-devel] Result of test activities on Sugar 0.94.1

2012-01-14 Thread Peter Hewitt
At 02:33 PM 15/01/2012, Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn wrote: > I have checked all my 31 published activities (there are 6 more undergoing > final testing at the moment): > on an XO 1 with 0.94.1 > > No problems. > > Have marked with a green rectangle on the spreadsheet as requested. > Great! Now, th

Re: [Sugar-devel] Result of test activities on Sugar 0.94.1

2012-01-17 Thread Peter Hewitt
At 06:06 AM 18/01/2012, Gary Martin wrote: On 15 Jan 2012, at 04:33, Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn <alan...@hotmail.com> wrote: > I have checked all my 31 published activities (there are 6 more undergoing > final testing at the moment): > on an XO 1 with 0.94.1 > > No p

[Sugar-devel] Looking for a Spanish speaking colleague

2012-01-23 Thread Peter Hewitt
I'm looking for a Spanish speaker to work with me on my activities - maybe someone on this list can introduce me to someone who has the time and interest to assist. Here's a link to all my activities: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/user/2246 To give you some idea of what I hope