Re: [Grassroots-l] SHIRT SLOGAN VOTE! "Class Acts" Poster! OLPC/Sugar Community Book Sprint (Sept 6-11, Washington DC)

Not to cloud the issue too much at the last minute, but ideas keep popping into my head. This next one would only play in English, and where one is not too sensitive to typos...  

   Open

BooX

Or, come up with your own pair of words that have O and X...  Perhaps something with the O and X more central to the word.

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<div>Not to cloud the issue too much at the last minute, but ideas keep popping into my head. This next one would only play in English, and where one is not too sensitive to typos... &nbsp;<br>
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<div>BooX</div>
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<div>Or, come up with your own pair of words that have O and X... &nbsp;Perhaps something with the O and X more central to the word.<br>
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Re: SHIRT SLOGAN VOTE! "Class Acts" Poster! OLPC/Sugar Community Book Sprint (Sept 6-11, Washington DC)

I like #2 (5 principles) because it addresses issues that would make
sense to the public-at-large (i.e. beyond our community) and would
make sense for the t-shirt wearer to wear it well after the event.
Even better would be if you can grab the graphic off this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-M77C2ejTw at 1:17. Screenshot
attached.

Sameer

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Holt<holt@...> wrote:
> Please vote for the back of our T-Shirt -- Mike Lee's image will be on the
> front of the shirt:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/3865753915/in/photostream/
> But we need your help for the back!!!
>
> Proposal #1 (yes the "constuctionist assessment" parody's intentional!)
>
> NO NINO LEFT BEHIND
>
> Proposal #2 (from http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Five_principles )
>
> CHILD OWNERSHIP
> LOW AGES
> SATURATION
> CONNECTION
> FREE AND OPEN SOURCE
>
> Proposal #3
>
> (Caryl Bigenho's attached PDF, or close simulacra you provide!)
>
> Proposal #4, another fantastic oldtime OLPC joke (see
> http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=4519 and RT4424, or better yet
> ask a Supportive friend ;)
>
> MONGO HAPPY NOW
>
> Please vote BY midnight latest -- publicly or privately is fine -- FYI I am
> paying for these T shirts with my own money, will be asking for a very small
> payment (about $6 covering half the costs if you want a shirt) and more
> important plz thank ALL the silent volunteers silently working their butts
> off on DC logistics around Sept 6-11's http://wiki.laptop.org/go/ClassActs
> :)
>
> _______________________________________________
> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)
> IAEP@...
> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
>

I like #2 (5 principles) because it addresses issues that would make
sense to the public-at-large (i.e. beyond our community) and would
make sense for the t-shirt wearer to wear it well after the event.
Even better would be if you can grab the graphic off this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-M77C2ejTw at 1:17. Screenshot
attached.

Sameer

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Holt<holt@...> wrote:
> Please vote for the back of our T-Shirt -- Mike Lee's image will be on the
> front of the shirt:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/3865753915/in/photostream/
> But we need your help for the back!!!
>
> Proposal #1 (yes the "constuctionist assessment" parody's intentional!)
>
> NO NINO LEFT BEHIND
>
> Proposal #2 (from http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Five_principles )
>
> CHILD OWNERSHIP
> LOW AGES
> SATURATION
> CONNECTION
> FREE AND OPEN SOURCE
>
> Proposal #3
>
> (Caryl Bigenho's attached PDF, or close simulacra you provide!)
>
> Proposal #4, another fantastic oldtime OLPC joke (see
> http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=4519 and RT4424, or better yet
> ask a Supportive friend ;)
>
> MONGO HAPPY NOW
>
> Please vote BY midnight latest -- publicly or privately is fine -- FYI I am
> paying for these T shirts with my own money, will be asking for a very small
> payment (about $6 covering half the costs if you want a shirt) and more
> important plz thank ALL the silent volunteers silently working their butts
> off on DC logistics around Sept 6-11's http://wiki.laptop.org/go/ClassActs
> :)
>
> _______________________________________________
> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)
> IAEP@...
> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
>

Re: SHIRT SLOGAN VOTE! "Class Acts" Poster! OLPC/Sugar Community Book Sprint (Sept 6-11, Washington DC)

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Holt<holt <at> laptop.org> wrote:
> Please vote for the back of our T-Shirt -- Mike Lee's image will be on the
> front of the shirt:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/3865753915/in/photostream/
> But we need your help for the back!!!
>
> Proposal #1 (yes the "constuctionist assessment" parody's intentional!)
>
> NO NINO LEFT BEHIND

That's NIÑO. But no. It brings up too many bad memories for me.

> Proposal #2 (from http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Five_principles )
>
> CHILD OWNERSHIP
> LOW AGES
> SATURATION
> CONNECTION
> FREE AND OPEN SOURCE

Needs too much explanation.

> Proposal #3
>
> (Caryl Bigenho's attached PDF, or close simulacra you provide!)

Yes! XOs in two colors each, please. Or one giant two-color XØ over
the entire text.

> Proposal #4, another fantastic oldtime OLPC joke (see
> http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=4519 and RT4424, or better yet
> ask a Supportive friend ;)
>
> MONGO HAPPY NOW

Please leave inside jokes inside. Mongo confused now.

> Please vote BY midnight latest -- publicly or privately is fine -- FYI I am
> paying for these T shirts with my own money, will be asking for a very small
> payment (about $6 covering half the costs if you want a shirt) and more
> important plz thank ALL the silent volunteers silently working their butts
> off on DC logistics around Sept 6-11's http://wiki.laptop.org/go/ClassActs
> :)
>
> _______________________________________________
> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)
> IAEP <at> lists.sugarlabs.org
> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
>

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(默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my
name, and
Children are
my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination.
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Re: [Grassroots-l] SHIRT SLOGAN VOTE! "Class Acts" Poster! OLPC/Sugar Community Book Sprint (Sept 6-11, Washington DC)

me churning too, so

option 5:
Terminal screen Hello Children screen text
in all languages

option 6:
magic markers for kids (and overgrown ones)
to make their own T Shirt / book graphic
winner gets on the front/back/ flap page
of the production version

option 7:
constructionist with St. Nick/ Walter/ Mary Lou
and other key players (an old original OLPC group photo?)
maybe favorite logo/ product per person over their heads/
in their hands...

...

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Kevin Cole<dc.loco <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> Not to cloud the issue too much at the last minute, but ideas keep popping
> into my head. This next one would only play in English, and where one is not
> too sensitive to typos... 
>
>    Open
> BooX
> Or, come up with your own pair of words that have O and X...  Perhaps
> something with the O and X more central to the word.
>
> --
> Ubuntu Linux DC LoCo
> Washington, DC
> http://dc.ubuntu-us.org/
>
> _______________________________________________
> Grassroots mailing list
> Grassroots <at> lists.laptop.org
> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots
>
>

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Count bad blocks on NAND -

I've wanted for a while to have a userland means to get a precise
report on the number of bad blocks (as seen by the MTD driver, which
reads the NAND BBT). MTD has this info, but it's only accesible via an
ioctl(). Mitch added a similar trick to OFW -- in practice a
self-standing binary is a lot easier to use on suspect machines.

Here's a very rough-but-works patch, and a precompiled 'mtd_debug'
binary that has been tested to work on 656 and 802.

  http://dev.laptop.org/~martin/mtd_debug.patch

  http://dev.laptop.org/~martin/mtd_debug

How to use - as root:

  modprobe mtdchar
  /path/to/mtd_debug info /dev/mtd0

The output will include a line about "mtd.badblockscount".

Note: The number is over-reported by 4 when you compare it with OFW --
I am not sure why the accounting done by the MTD driver differs from
the accounting done by OFW.

Wiki is dead at the moment -- will add this info when the wiki is back.

cheers,

m
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Re: Count bad blocks on NAND -

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Martin
Langhoff<martin.langhoff <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> Note: The number is over-reported by 4 when you compare it with OFW --
> I am not sure why the accounting done by the MTD driver differs from
> the accounting done by OFW.

Looking at strace output over several XOs, it is always the last 4
blocks on the MTD device that are marked as 'bad'.

Maybe my patch is overshooting the mark somehow. Clearly those 4 "bad"
blocks are bogus.

m
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 - don't get distracted with shiny stuff  - working code first
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Re: Count bad blocks on NAND -

martin wrote:
 > On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Martin
 > Langhoff<martin.langhoff <at> gmail.com> wrote:
 > > Note: The number is over-reported by 4 when you compare it with OFW --
 > > I am not sure why the accounting done by the MTD driver differs from
 > > the accounting done by OFW.
 > 
 > Looking at strace output over several XOs, it is always the last 4
 > blocks on the MTD device that are marked as 'bad'.
 > 
 > Maybe my patch is overshooting the mark somehow. Clearly those 4 "bad"
 > blocks are bogus.

i believe the bad block table is stored in the last 4 blocks.

paul
=---------------------
 paul fox, pgf <at> laptop.org

Re: Count bad blocks on NAND -

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Paul Fox<pgf <at> laptop.org> wrote:
> i believe the bad block table is stored in the last 4 blocks.

Indeed, and MTD is "covering them up" by marking those blocks as bad
(rather than reporting the devices as 4 blocks shorter I guess).

I've updated the patch and the binary at
http://dev.laptop.org/~martin/ and the report matches OFW.

cheers,

m
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SoaS Test Day Team: Please sign up!

As announced before, the SoaS QA test day [1] is coming up quickly and 
will already take place tomorrow. We're still looking for people willing 
to join the team, which will support the testers in #fedora-test-day.

If you'd like to jump on the train, please enter your availability here 
[2] so that we can schedule from when to when the test day will run (so 
that we don't run out of developers while testers are still around).

--Sebastian

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-09-03_SoaS
[2] http://whenisgood.net/soas-test-day

Request for help - can variable values be passed to an Activity ?

I've modified some system files in /etc to define some global 
environmental variables ( export WHAT=foo ).  Those variables are 
available within the environment passed to a Terminal session (or 
when logged on at the text console) -- the command 'echo $WHAT 
$LANG' will emit "foo en_US.UTF-8".  But those same variables are 
undefined within the environment passed to an Activity launched by 
Sugar -- the command 'echo $WHAT $LANG' will emit "blank en_US.UTF-8".

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Low-level_Activity_API does not appear to 
go into how come some "global" environmental variables aren't passed 
when an Activity is launched by Sugar.

Please - is there a way to ensure that that a particular global 
variable __does__ get passed to an Activity ?

Thanks,  mikus