Re: Post-August developer-education hardware availability?

2007-04-13 Thread MBurns
The official line has consitently been no small-scale orders (less than 1 million units). Economics of scale, logistics, overhead, administration, etc., etc. have been cited as to why this won't yet happen in the near future. Frankly, I completely agree with OLPC on this, and can't wait for it to

Re: Stupid Question: Who's in charge of the mesh network systems?

2007-04-12 Thread MBurns
On 4/12/07, Mike C. Fletcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have a mesh networking specialist who is interested in working with the project. Yay. :) One of his projects involves (as I understand it) analysis of pair-wise contact data to allow partitioned-network operations that use gathered

Re: Why call tools activities?

2007-04-04 Thread MBurns
On 4/4/07, José Antonio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seems me a bad idea call software or tools as activities. Activities, in Brazil educational sistem, are actions made with tools. Example: scissors, glue, pencils are tools. A colage (patch work) made with this tools is an activity. I think

Re: Flash video works on X0

2007-03-31 Thread MBurns
On 3/31/07, Rob Savoye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I managed to get the recent video support in Gnash working with ffmpeg on the OLPC. Woot. Rocking good stuff. :) While I can see there is room for improvement, it's still great to see it actually works. The pictures are terrible, but you get

Re: XO avatars

2007-03-30 Thread MBurns
That almost gets into a Nintendo Wii-style avatar/Mii face building game. A child's actual picture, especially in a timeline as they grow, serves a very good purpose. Having said that, the South Park or comic book style is a neat game-like idea to build off of. On 3/30/07, Jim Gettys [EMAIL

Re: 802.11s portals

2007-03-27 Thread MBurns
List: correct me if I am wrong. As far as I know, the best first step is an Xbox 360 Wireless Adapter [1]. They use the same Marvell chip that the OLPC uses, and it would stand to reason that a Linux+Marvell setup for the OLPC would work reasonably well in a generic Linux desktop machine with an

Re: Source code in the *.xo file?

2007-03-21 Thread MBurns
On 3/21/07, Albert Cahalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not everybody writes in interpreted languages. I hope everyone realizes that the GPL and LGPL both require that source be provided. I assure you, they do. (there are other ways, involving a 3-year agreement to ship source on something like

Re: suspend/resume on geodefb

2007-02-20 Thread MBurns
On 2/20/07, Manish Regmi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was the going through sources of Linux (for olpc), i saw that the suspend/resume routines were not implemented for geodefb. Is it on a todo or there are other techniqueues for power management? Suspend/Resume and power management as a

Re: [sugar] A special linux distribution for developing OLPC applications

2007-01-04 Thread MBurns
Hi, The Open Source Lab here in Oregon is actively looking into bring online a development cluster that might meet your needs. The idea being that we have 10 or so OLPC machines and give out user accounts to developers interested in the project. They would be able to login and have a full

Re: Fwd: OLPC Laptop - some suggestions for the software

2006-12-20 Thread MBurns
On 12/20/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So which Instant Messenger client and which Messenger protocol will be used ? There is a full linux implementation if Cspace and it is working perfectly. http://www.aabdalla.com/cspace/ Last I heard, work was being based off the

Re: journal spec?

2006-12-17 Thread MBurns
On 12/17/06, Joshua N Pritikin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can somebody give me a link to the mailing list archive where this discussion took place? Wiki article on the spec [1] and a generic Google search [2] are two places to start. I don't know what specific conversation might have gone on

Re: Re: alt-tab interface

2006-12-15 Thread MBurns
On 12/15/06, Kevin Purcell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know if it's already supported by XO but Mac OS X uses command ` (the tilde key above to tab key -- proximity is the important thing) to go back through the list of applications. It's a lot easier to type than shift/command/tab. Note

Getting developer boards to talk to eachother.

2006-10-31 Thread MBurns
(Wasn't sure if I should send this to networking@, devel-board@, or [EMAIL PROTECTED] My apologies if this is the wrong choice.)Problem: Mesh networking (dev board to dev board) does not work. Peer discovery, Mesh View, etc, does not seem to function. Scenario:* 2 a-test boards* both on build 133

Hosting request: Abiword on OLPC

2006-10-24 Thread MBurns
their own. There is no need to list non-committer developers. Username Full name SSH2 key URL E-mail - -- #1 jirwin Justin Gallardo http://tinyurl.com/ydqg44 [EMAIL PROTECTED] #2 mburns Michael Burns http://tinyurl.com/ydj6dc [EMAIL PROTECTED]7. Preferred

Re: Re: [OT] Regards

2006-10-19 Thread MBurns
On 10/18/06, Duncan Patton a Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lemme know if you have any luck... I've run into some deafening silence, hereabouts. A lot of these people are hard at work, no doubt, and so some introductory questions slip through their fingers. On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 23:46:14

[OLPC-devel] GPG and a centralized Contact list

2006-09-04 Thread MBurns
I'd like to get some feedback on what has been done/talked about with regards to the authentication problem of ad hoc messaging. This is something that is repeatedly warned about on the Wiki [1] but with no clear solution proposed. First, with regards to the Buddy List/Contacts list, has a