obviously I meant the distance utility not the measure (scope) utility. David Lang
On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 23:06:48 -0800 (PST) > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: devel@lists.laptop.org > Subject: problems using the measure activity. > > several of us took our XO laptops to the SCALE conferance this weekend. We > got a LOT of attention (you couldn't walk down the hallway with one > without people asking about them, I stepped out of a class at the > afternoon break on friday and didn't make it down to the registration desk > for 5 hours) > > however when we attempted to demo the measure activity we just could not > figure out how to make it work. we got it working three times over the > weekend (among a dozen or more tries). > > we has laptops with the 650 build, the -rc2 build, and the signed build > released in Jan (one of them started with a joyride build as of > mid-week). no matter which combinations of builds we tried, we were not > able to repeat a sucess. > > could somone explain step-by-step what is supposed to happen (and what > screen we need to be on when to see the result) I have a pair of boxes > which are now on the -rc2 build, so I can try and see if I can get this to > work reliably. > > we also had problems with recent builds that while the laptops were taking > measurements they would go to sleep, breaking the connection and > terminating the joint activity, the one sucess we had with -rc2 machines > required that the person holding each laptop keep masaging the mouse pad > to keep the machine awake. > > we looked in the application bar for the activity to show up as the result > of an invite, useually it wouldn't show up at all, and sometimes when it > showed up we still weren't able to get the two machines to work togeather. > > when it works it's a great demo, but it's extremely frustrating thing to > try and get it to work and fail. > > David Lang > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
