Re: how to confuse the user

2009-05-30 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 22:34, Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com wrote: Recently I've been experimenting with booting my XO from an USB stick.  I've been using the script 'livecd-iso-to-disk' to place various F11-based builds (one at a time) onto the USB stick. Just now, when a newly-created USB

Longer XO transformer power cord in the plans?

2009-05-30 Thread Tiago Marques
Hi all, Does anyone have plans to give 2 extra meters on the power cord of the XO-1 transformer, maybe in time for Gen 1.5? I don't have a clue of the usage scenario on underdeveloped countries but it sure would come in very useful to have some extra length on this power cord. At least I feel

Re: slow wiki?

2009-05-30 Thread Tiago Marques
I'm currently somewhat busy but I may be able to find some free time. If this can be done remotely, I may be able to help. Do you have any prediction of required time to finish this? Best regards, Tiago Marques On 5/30/09, Seth Woodworth s...@laptop.org wrote: The Imagemagick install on pedal

Re: 8.2.1 WPA testing

2009-05-30 Thread Tiago Marques
Hi all, I've updated to 8.2.1 just now and am not able to connect to my WPA/WPA2 AP. I'm using a configuration file for wpa_supplicant and launching it separately, since I use an hidden SSID. I connect to the network in WPA2 mode, with AES. From what the debug output of wpa_supplicant tells me,

Re: Longer XO transformer power cord in the plans?

2009-05-30 Thread James Cameron
I know of no such plans, but the physics of the configuration has a bearing ... 1. a longer cable has a larger voltage drop, and so a greater amount of power is lost as heat, leading to greater inefficiency of power use, 2. compensating for the voltage drop can only be done by either raising

Re: Longer XO transformer power cord in the plans?

2009-05-30 Thread John Watlington
We are considering changing from a wall wart design to an inline design, for the following reasons: A - The difficulty in supporting new countries, when each new plug design requires new tooling. With an inline design, only the plug at the end of the AC cable has to change. B - The wall wart

Re: Longer XO transformer power cord in the plans?

2009-05-30 Thread James Cameron
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 12:23:37AM -0400, John Watlington wrote: Comments ? Suggestions ? Everything you said seems good to me, and I agree. A few things to add to your list: 1. Earthing. The current design has no earth at the AC end, and is isolated in relation to the DC end. An earthed