On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> 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. >> >> Hmm. It's fairly simple, and usually works just about perfectly, or not at >> all. >> >>> 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. >> >> To use Distance (formerly called Acoustic Tape Measure): >> 1. Launch the activity on XO A. >> 2. Share the activity from the toolbar >> 3. Using XO B, join the shared instance from the mesh view >> 4. Click the big button on each machine (there's only one button) >> >> That's it. There should be a lot of whooshing, after which the enormous >> "0.00" >> should change to be the current distance. There's only one screen, and >> there's >> only one number field, and it tells you the distance. >> >> What happened instead? Do try in Update1-rc2. So far, it's been working >> perfectly fine for me, in either build*. > > one mistake we were making was that we tried to invite the other laptop to > join, sometimes this would result in an additional item on the toolbar, > useually it would not. > > when we did join (either through the mesh view or from the toolbar we > frequently had both machines sitting and saying that they were waiting for > another machine. > > we did try this with -rc2 (we upgraded 4-5 machines to -rc2 over the > wekend.)
I just tried it again with my two machines and it worked for about 60 seconds (at which time the one running on battery did a suspend and the activity stopped) >> *: Due to mysterious telepathy/mesh bug #6061, Distance does not work in >> hostile >> network environments like at 1CC. This has not been a problem anywhere >> else, yet... > > the RF enviornment was definantly hostile on the show floor (it didn't > seem to matter if we used mesh or infrastructure), but we had the same > problems in the OLPC bof session where we were far enough away to not > detect the networks from the exibit floor. many of the exibitors setup > their own access points in addition to the ones the hotel had to start > with and that SCALE put up to provide access. what does it take to be considered a hostile RF environment? David Lang _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
