Archives week 9 of 2007
Feb. 26, 2007 - March 4, 2007
Build is underway (System upgrades first...)
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Young Coders.
Next stage in getting an OLPC developer's image is getting Gentoo updated to current from the CD image. So, I'm now building Python 2.5 (and the 20 or 30 packages it pulled in). I'll also probably have to recompile xorg (to get the Xephr server) and Gnome, so it'll be a few days still. Already ...
Build is underway (System upgrades first...)
Written by
on
in
Young Coders.
Next stage in getting an OLPC developer's image is getting Gentoo updated to current from the CD image. So, I'm now building Python 2.5 (and the 20 or 30 packages it pulled in). I'll also probably have to recompile xorg (to get the Xephr server) and Gnome, so it'll be a few days still. Already ...
Not my day for networking (Locked out of the work svn server...)
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Knight Errant.
Our SVN server is pretty tightly locked down using pftables so that only authorised addresses can connect to the ssh. I log into a secondary box and from there log into the SVN machine and update it if I'm away from a known IP range. But today the pf script won't update to let in ...
Not my day for networking (Locked out of the work svn server...)
Written by
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in
Knight Errant.
Our SVN server is pretty tightly locked down using pftables so that only authorised addresses can connect to the ssh. I log into a secondary box and from there log into the SVN machine and update it if I'm away from a known IP range. But today the pf script won't update to let in ...
Gentoo build for OLPC developers (It will be a while... (hmm, that should be Gentoo's slogan))
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Young Coders.
We're working on doing a Gentoo-based developer's image in VMWare. This will follow the pattern I used in updating my laptop, i.e. update the Gentoo OS to include the dependencies for Sugar and then build Sugar itself on that "stable" substrate.
This is going to be a full Gentoo install, including X, Gnome and the ...
Gentoo build for OLPC developers (It will be a while... (hmm, that should be Gentoo's slogan))
Written by
on
in
Young Coders.
We're working on doing a Gentoo-based developer's image in VMWare. This will follow the pattern I used in updating my laptop, i.e. update the Gentoo OS to include the dependencies for Sugar and then build Sugar itself on that "stable" substrate.
This is going to be a full Gentoo install, including X, Gnome and the ...
Progress on Developer's Environment for OLPC (Planning an Ubuntu image with everything pre-built...)
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Young Coders.
Last night I finally managed to build with jhbuild on the Gentoo machine (details here). This afternoon I'm working on getting the same to work on an Ubuntu VMWare installation. This will be a full Ubuntu install with the sugar-jhbuild/jhbuild configuration and build complete. At the moment sugar's sound is broken, so it ...
Getting OLPC images working (Our experiences hopefully will help others...)
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Young Coders.
Today we spent the day with Qemu. The Qemu images are able to run the Sugar images, including networking. With that we were able to start looking at patterns for working with the emulated images. We also spent much of the day trying to get the kernel driver for the pcnet32 compiled for the laptop ...
Something seems to be working against me working on OLPC (Ridiculous set of barriers...)
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Young Coders.
I've been working on getting Sugar installed on my laptop for development all night (since around 8pm or so). Was given a free copy of VMWare Workstation 5.5 (yay), but the image I have doesn't have the driver required for VMWare's network driver to work, Nor does it have gcc to install it. I gather ...
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Mike C. Fletcher, the VRPlumber, is a philosopher of design turned computer programmer based in Toronto, Canada. He works primarily in the Python programming language, and maintains a large number of Open Source software packages. You can reach him at: mcfletch@vrplumber.com.