Re: Power manager specification... (request for comments).

2007-08-17 Thread Walter Bender
Lets please be careful not to over-engineer. While Mike makes good points, we have this wonderful human social network we can depend upon as well. E.g., If I am downloading something from your machine, I can ask you to hold on a second until I finish. Let's take advantage of the fact that the kids

Re: Power manager specification... (request for comments).

2007-08-17 Thread Don Hopkins
You have to remember that the kids using these machines might not yet know how to read, so just popping up a notice with a paragraph explaining the situation and Yes/No buttons isn't an ideal solution. -Don http://xarg.net/blog/one-entry?entry_id=20005

accessibilities first tests - many questions

2007-08-17 Thread Guylhem Aznar
Hello, As explained before, I started playing with the DCON (displaying test images in X, changing various parameters, etc) and other stuff. The results are interesting. For example, a black and white mode will backlight on, even if it reduces the percieved resolution, could be usefull to read

Re: Power manager specification... (request for comments).

2007-08-17 Thread Guylhem Aznar
Hello, On 8/17/07, Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lets please be careful not to over-engineer. While Mike makes good points, we have this wonderful human social network we can depend upon as well. E.g., If I am downloading something from your machine, I can ask you to hold on a second

Re: Power manager specification... (request for comments).

2007-08-17 Thread Richard Hughes
On 15/08/07, Jim Gettys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fpr general comment and discussion, the following is a list of things cjb and I think should happen. What are we missing? Other opinions? Sorry for getting to the conversation late, it's been a busy week. Actions that OHM should do: o On

Re: Power manager specification... (request for comments).

2007-08-17 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi, On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 16:01 -0400, Jim Gettys wrote: When we are suspended, and the battery wakes us up because it is low, then: For now, graceful shutdown after journal has been notified May do hibernation if enough flash is available. I guess what we want here is to notify

Re: [sugar] Some discussion on education

2007-08-17 Thread Edward Cherlin
Just as videophones have not taken off in industrialized nations, video chat is not a killer app. I have used teleconferencing as a business tool, and it will have a place in the XO program. But what we really need is quite different. There have been computers in schools for 30 years. But they

Re: Power manager specification... (request for comments).

2007-08-17 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
Walter Bender wrote: Lets please be careful not to over-engineer. While Mike makes good points, we have this wonderful human social network we can depend upon as well. E.g., If I am downloading something from your machine, I can ask you to hold on a second until I finish. Let's take advantage

Re: Autoreinstallation now saves user directory by default.

2007-08-17 Thread Gian Carlo Salvati
Dears, I did exactly like the autoreinstallation wiki page, but the machine doesn't activate. I tried everything, but nothing. How can I active my board. Best regards, Gian C. Scott Ananian escreveu: On 8/15/07, Zephaniah E. Hull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at

Re: Does sugar web browser support extensions?

2007-08-17 Thread Kleber Infante
Dan, I want to know better about the sugar web browser and learn how to create extensions for it (port some firefox extension too). I installed firefox2 in my XO emulated and I think every extension (addons) will work fine there (google bar works fine), but I think firefox2 is not the default

Re: Power manager specification... (request for comments).

2007-08-17 Thread Jim Gettys
On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 12:57 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: Hi, On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 16:01 -0400, Jim Gettys wrote: When we are suspended, and the battery wakes us up because it is low, then: For now, graceful shutdown after journal has been notified May do hibernation if enough

Re: Power manager specification... (request for comments).

2007-08-17 Thread Jim Gettys
On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 11:46 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: On 15/08/07, Jim Gettys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fpr general comment and discussion, the following is a list of things cjb and I think should happen. What are we missing? Other opinions? Sorry for getting to the conversation late,

Re: accessibilities first tests - many questions

2007-08-17 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 17/08/07 11:56 +0200, Guylhem Aznar wrote: Hello, The only things I don't know yet how to do with the DCON : - how to disable the smoothing algorithm applied in color mode We didn't enable this ability in the sysfs/ interface. I have never been too clear on what the actual practical

Re: accessibilities first tests - many questions

2007-08-17 Thread Jim Gettys
On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 17:34 -0600, Jordan Crouse wrote: On 17/08/07 11:56 +0200, Guylhem Aznar wrote: Hello, The only things I don't know yet how to do with the DCON : - how to disable the smoothing algorithm applied in color mode We didn't enable this ability in the sysfs/

Re: some first impressions

2007-08-17 Thread Hal Murray
I've tried one SD card made by a local company. It's a bit thinker than the genuine panasonic one. So this results in that it can only be ejected out a bit and I have to use my finger nail to grab it out. (probably same situation as you) Usually there's a groove at the tail of an SD card top