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C.W. Holeman II | 1 Aug 2007 02:30

Content or software?

I sent this to library <at> lists.laptop.org previously.

I have described briefly and have links to EMLE - Electronic Mathematics
Laboratory Equipment Web Site in:

  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Cwhii

EMLE is a collection of labs that are viewed and interacted with in Firefox. So,
it can be a collection of web pages which makes it seem like it is a library
collection. But they are software that just happens to be accessible in a web
browser. (Well, not really just happens, it was done on purpose.)

Does it fit into http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Content_projects or
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Software_projects ?

The description of software and activities specify Python. There is no
Python used. It all works with client side XML, XSLT, XHTML, CSS and
Javacript.

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Dan Williams | 1 Aug 2007 04:32
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Re: [PATCH] Adding the olpc-register script to olpc-util

On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 14:08 -0400, Nelson Elhage wrote:
> Here's a fixed version of the patch.

Built as:

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=84355

dan

> - Nelson
> 
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 08:03:00AM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 11:43 -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> > > On 7/27/07, Nelson Elhage <nelhage <at> mit.edu> wrote:
> > > > This is a patch to olpc-util to add a script to register the XO with
> > > > the schoolserver for purposes of backup for trial 2
> > > > (http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/24).
> > > 
> > > > +    sn = read_ofw('mfg-data/SN')
> > > > +    uuid = read_ofw('mfg-data/U#')
> > > 
> > > Certain old machines don't have SN or U# data.  You should have
> > > read_ofw return None if the file it is looking for doesn't exist, and
> > > then follow the above two lines with:
> > > 
> > > sn = sn or 'SHF00000000'
> > > uuid = uuid or '00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000'
> > > 
> > > That should make things work properly on B1s and hand-built
> > > preproduction machines, among others.
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Albert Cahalan | 1 Aug 2007 07:22
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ffmpeg includes non-patented stuff

Avoiding ffmpeg is throwing the baby out with the bath water. Despite
the name, ffmpeg isn't all about MPEG. You can select formats at
compile time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libavcodec
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Albert Cahalan | 1 Aug 2007 10:24
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DEF CON's hostile network

I'm going to DEF CON (http://www.defcon.org/) this weekend.
Anybody else? It's only $100 cash at the door, so no problem
if you can get to Las Vegas. This would be a severely noisy
and hostile network environment, perfect for trying out some of
the activity sharing stuff.

Build preferences? I plan to bring 406.15 if I can get past a
"Page Fault" complaint the autoinstaller is giving me.
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Jim Gettys | 1 Aug 2007 19:05
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Re: ffmpeg includes non-patented stuff

You could help by opening a trac issue outlining ffmpeg how to configure
it as best we can, avoiding the patents, leaving everything we can
legally ship.

Thanks,
                 - Jim

On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 01:22 -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> Avoiding ffmpeg is throwing the baby out with the bath water. Despite
> the name, ffmpeg isn't all about MPEG. You can select formats at
> compile time.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libavcodec
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Jim Gettys | 1 Aug 2007 19:26
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Re: DEF CON's hostile network

Unless you have B2-1's, I'd recommend most developers be using current
development builds, such as 541.  Lots of activity sharing works there;
nothing to speak of does in 406.xx.  Ad-hoc meshes, and meshes in
general work (if you associate to a conventional access point, you
should become a mesh portal).  Would be amusing to see if the DEF CON
folks can make much out of the on the air format ;-)....

                          - Jim

On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 04:24 -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> I'm going to DEF CON (http://www.defcon.org/) this weekend.
> Anybody else? It's only $100 cash at the door, so no problem
> if you can get to Las Vegas. This would be a severely noisy
> and hostile network environment, perfect for trying out some of
> the activity sharing stuff.
> 
> Build preferences? I plan to bring 406.15 if I can get past a
> "Page Fault" complaint the autoinstaller is giving me.
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Nehemiah Dacres | 1 Aug 2007 19:28
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Zoom feature with gtk

Should we be using GTK for these labtops? Even Xfce is kind of slow compared to Fluxbox. Among toolkits perhaps something lighter would be suggested.

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Albert Cahalan | 1 Aug 2007 19:31
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Re: DEF CON's hostile network

On 8/1/07, Jim Gettys <jg <at> laptop.org> wrote:
> Unless you have B2-1's, I'd recommend most developers be using current
> development builds, such as 541.

I'm fairly sure the B2-1 is exactly what I have.

Bug number? How bad?
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Bert Freudenberg | 1 Aug 2007 19:58
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Re: DEF CON's hostile network


On Aug 1, 2007, at 10:31 , Albert Cahalan wrote:

> On 8/1/07, Jim Gettys <jg <at> laptop.org> wrote:
>> Unless you have B2-1's, I'd recommend most developers be using  
>> current
>> development builds, such as 541.
>
> I'm fairly sure the B2-1 is exactly what I have.
>
> Bug number?

2278

> How bad?

Very. Might have gotten a little better in the mean time.

- Bert -
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Jim Gettys | 1 Aug 2007 19:59
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Re: DEF CON's hostile network

On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 13:31 -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> On 8/1/07, Jim Gettys <jg <at> laptop.org> wrote:
> > Unless you have B2-1's, I'd recommend most developers be using current
> > development builds, such as 541.
> 
> I'm fairly sure the B2-1 is exactly what I have.
> 
> Bug number? How bad?

Until we get some memory back by taking some pigs to market, B2-1's are
in a world of hurt.  GTK was an offender (I think its fixed, from what
I've heard), ISC dhcpd is amazingly bloated, and our python isn't
sharing libraries well.  We'll get there; just exactly when isn't yet
clear.

Just go look at blocker bugs, you'll see.
                         - Jim

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