I have a bunch of these as well, and even a few sets of components. Like
Paul, I put together another one every so often when I need a
microcontroller for a project, but I'm happy to share my stash with other
good homes.
--scott
On Mar 10, 2017 7:13 PM, "Paul Fox" wrote:
> paul wrote:
> > doi
SJ and I did get a chance to follow up with him afterward and suggest that
they might considering teaching English literacy directly to non-native
speakers (as we did in our Ethiopia pilot, rather than only teaching
students in their native language; of course DuoLingo doesn't support a
large numbe
I'm in a presentation by Luis von Ahn, founder of DuoLingo, and I asked him
if he had any plans to expand to literacy.
He replied that they will be releasing a "reading and typing" (not writing,
which he thought had poor ROI) app next year.
This makes me extremely excited.
--scott
PS. I should
and activities. It is based
> on 13.2.0 hardware support.
>
> One of the Sugar changes might be considered hardware support;
> compatibility with WPA Enterprise and hidden SSID access points.
> There might be others, I haven't checked.
>
> There are no hardware chan
A related question. I'll try to phrase this delicately -- what's the
relationship between Walter's "Sugar 100" build and the latest OLPC
kernel? Can I safely assume that SugarLabs is the current keeper of
the flame and has all the latest hardware-support bits (I hope so!).
Gonzalo pointed me to a
Anyone have any suggestions for my six year old friend? IIRC startup volume
is persistent, but I can't remember how it is adjusted. The rest might be
helped by upgrading to the latest XO4 build?
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Date: Nov 24, 2013 12:00 PM
Su
The following mostly-critical article was mentioned on IRC:
http://www.popsci.com/gadgets/article/2013-07/one-laptop-childs-de-evolution
It's worth keeping the criticisms in mind while working to invalidate them.
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I mentioned this project a while ago on IRC, and cjb has spread it around,
but manuq reminded me that I never actually posted it to a mailing list.
The mozilla Tow Truck project:
https://towtruck.mozillalabs.com/
is a very nice framework for real-time collaboration in the context of web
apps. I
The build I installed on my beta-tester's XO4 is about a month old.
I'm hoping the following are known issues, and all I have to do is
update the build. (Can I use olpc-update to do that?)
* The sound in Scratch and Memorize is scrambled; sound appears to be
piped from /dev/random and "hurts my e
IIRC its only the CJK fonts which really bloat the build. There's an old
bug in trac which discussed fonts at length; it might be worth digging that
up to ensure we're still covering all the languages we were covering then.
--scott
On Sep 5, 2012 6:58 PM, "Chris Leonard" wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 5
-0400, Walter Bender wrote:
> > File a ticket and someone may jump in to tackle it.
> >
> > -walter
> >
>
> see http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/11004
>
>
> > On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Martin Langhoff
> > wrote:
> > > On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 a
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Samuel Greenfeld wrote:
> In any case if OLPC or Sugarlabs wants to formally integrate NTP services
> into our products, we should be polite and ask ntp.pool.org if we need our
> own vendor subdomain. These allow the NTP pool to shut off misbehaving
> clients wit
Surely we can distinguish secured from unsecured laptops and allow
unsecured laptops to set the date?
I know I implemented this once...
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A friend has 11.3.0 installed on his son's XO 1.5. The kid complained
that the date was wrong on his XO, and he couldn't figure out how to
set it. Indeed, the "Time and Date" control panel only has time zone
selection, and no sort of network time program seems to be included in
the build. Was th
I have about 20 XO Sticks and XOrduinos to give away to developers. Details at:
http://cananian.livejournal.com/66654.html
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On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:44 PM, John Watlington wrote:
> I'd love to see serial terminal preloaded, but also acknowledge that I'm the
> one pushing against a 2MB SPI Flash ROM. How about specifying
> a location in the main build, where another 20KB of example OFW code
> isn't as important ?
Presumably with the standard multi-touch X support, which is landing
in Linux all over. That's how the XO-3 worked, at least, although
that was traditional capacitive touch; I don't think there's an actual
Neonode driver in existence anywhere yet.
--scott
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 8:54 PM, Bert F
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Martin Langhoff
wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Lester Leong
> wrote:
> > Scott - could you point me in the right direction as far as a good
> > JS/HTML5 framework?
>
> Keep in mind that _today_ XOs don't ship with a workable JS runtime
> environment ot
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 9:15 PM, Lester Leong wrote:
> As for Javascript, how? Javascript can't handle backends without some
> significant running around - everything's gotta be database driven.
>
I think you need to look again at modern Javascript/HTML5 toolkits.
There are databases. There are
..and if you can replace the php with javascript, your life will be
even easier. ;)
--scott
On 6/12/12, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
>>
>>
>> Another thing is, with regards to webapp implementation - I have
>> thought of using PHP/HTML5/Javascript.
>>
>
>
> If you can replace PHP by python, your live w
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 4:16 AM, Chris Ball wrote:
> Hi Lester,
>
> On Mon, Jun 11 2012, Lester Leong wrote:
> > I think it could just be as easy as having a collection of multimedia
> > and gamifying it. I thought of having a set of flashcards with audio -
> > then many things could be done with
Chris Ball, Michael Stone, and I submitted a short paper about Nell's
design for the 2012 Interaction Design and Children conference. It
contains a much more coherent description of our ideas and goals than
the random fragments at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Nell.
The paper is posted at http://csco
Just to reinforce a few points which maybe might not be clear to
people who haven't played with the new hardware:
1) the switch point is set that *you cannot tell when we turn the
backlight off*. Ie, the threshold is so high that by the time we turn
it off, you couldn't never have told whether th
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Martin Langhoff
wrote:
> The "suspense resume" build, featuring suspend resume that may or may
> not resume.
IIRC, some of the resume crashes are in fact suspend crashes. So it
may not even suspend. More suspense!
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And note that Jon's original advice was based on the absence of *EGL*
support in clutter at the present time. The fact that you can run/not
run gnome-shell on desktops with full *GL* support is not relevant.
This thread has diverged. GTK3 is not gnome3 is not gnome-shell; EGL
is not GL; Sugar is
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 12:49 AM, wrote:
> For what its worth, the XO-1.75 is currently about half the speed of the XO1.5
>
> Measured with Turtle Art
>
> repeat 5000
> fwd 100
> back 100
> print time
>
> but as said, its early days for the 1.75 with optimization to come
Yeah, this is almost ce
Graphics drivers aren't fully optimized yet for XO-1.75, and we're not
using hardware floating point at all in our builds yet, so
measurements using present builds may greatly undersell the XO-1.75's
capabilities.We're working on it!
The ARM chipset is very similar to that used in
http://www.v
I just posted an announcement for some invited talks we're having at
OLPC's new offices this Friday:
http://cananian.livejournal.com/64747.html
It will all be live-streamed at:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/cscottnet
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On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 8:11 PM, John Gilmore wrote:
> Don Hopkins worked on a PostScript-based window system (HyperLook)
> that would let you "flip over" an object on the screen to see "behind
> it" a control panel with the guts of its implementation visible. You
> could modify those, then "flip
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Alan Kay wrote:
> Smalltalk actually got started by thinking about a way to make a child's
> Logo-like language with objects and pattern matching that could express its
> own operating system and environment.
>
> It is very tricky to retain/maintain readability (s
To sweeten the pot, I'm offering a delicious stone soup for anyone who those
who pitch in on the port. You need only supply a few extra ingredients.
--scott
On May 21, 2011 10:35 PM, wrote:
> FYI. Anybody who would like to port Sugar to a $25 computer (requiring
> only monitor, mouse, and keybo
I'm familiar with the processors designed for specific high-level
languages. There was another generation of them built for Java
(microblaze, picoblaze, etc) and some of those are even still
commercially significant (they run Java subsets on smart cards).
I'm not terribly interested in those proc
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 2:28 PM, John Gilmore wrote:
> separation. This is why they never learn to modify the real programs
> that hide behind the fluffy interfaces on their real XO computers.
I hope to show you a system where the real program *is* the fluffy
interface (and vice versa). I'm not
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Alan Kay wrote:
> This is nice!
>
> Smalltalk actually got started by thinking about a way to make a child's
> Logo-like language with objects and pattern matching that could express its
> own operating system and environment.
>
> It is very tricky to retain/maint
2011/5/20 NoiseEHC :
> 1. Why do the bytecode stuff? JS seems to be a perfectly good code
> representation to me and it can be run much faster compared to a naive
> bytecode interpreter or compiler written without the resources of the
> Chrome/V8 team.
It's true. As described in my blog post, the
I've done a little more work on "Turtles All The Way Down", which I
(very briefly) discussed at EduJam. I actually wrote a garbage
collector in TurtleScript for TurtleScript on Sunday. Brief writeup
here:
http://cananian.livejournal.com/64140.html
and exhaustive mind-numbing detail here:
ht
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 1:56 PM, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 6:09 PM, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
>> I've posted a four week plan for XO-3 software exploration at
>> http://cananian.livejournal.com/62667.html
>>
>> Briefly:
>> April 4-8: A
Note that Quozl's version also works better on images created with
image-builder tools which delete files during the image creation
process (ie, on just about anything which involves mounting the
filesystem image during the image creation process; as opposed to
(say) squashfs, which is a read-only
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 10:10 PM, James Cameron wrote:
> As an alternative, consider identifying the unused blocks in the
> filesystem, and avoid including them in the .zd file. This would make
> it unnecessary to know whether the bits will be set or cleared by the
> card. ext2, ext3, and ext4 c
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Alan Eliasen wrote:
> I considered it also a serious problem that the then-shipping
> configurations of the OLPC completely lacked fonts with glyphs for many
> languages (e.g. there were no fonts with Chinese or Japanese characters)
> so these languages could not
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Peter Robinson wrote:
>> And, again, I have to remind folks that this is only *one* possible
>> forward path for Sugar-on-Tablets. This week I am examining a
>> ChromeOS-based option. http://cananian.livejournal.com/62667.html
>> describes the current plan of wor
2011/4/12 NoiseEHC :
> What I do not get is this: what is the goal?
An excellent educational experience on tablet devices, within the
resources of the current Sugar community.
> Having an environment running on Android which can run the same XO bundles
> which are run by XO-1.x?
Ideally, yes. I
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 6:09 PM, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> I've posted a four week plan for XO-3 software exploration at
> http://cananian.livejournal.com/62667.html
>
> Briefly:
> April 4-8: Android
The report on the first week of work is now up at:
http://cananian.livejo
Thanks for your links to the mailing list threads. That's handy to
have at my fingertips.
I agree that the activities are key. "Transparent" compatibility is
probably impossible, but I hope that porting the activities will not
be too hard. Minimizing unnecessary API changes and writing a good
p
This is a corollary with my recent post on "things to do" -- here are
the people I've like to get OLPC talking/working more closely with.
Google teams:
- ChromeOS (Ed has contact info already for the ChromeOS on ARM
project manager)
- Android
- NativeClient
Networking teams:
- OLSRd (we've go
I've posted a four week plan for XO-3 software exploration at
http://cananian.livejournal.com/62667.html
Briefly:
April 4-8: Android
April 11-15: Chrome/ChromeOS/NativeClient
April 18-22: Get down & dirty with mesh
April 25-29: Yanking legacy Sugar codebase into the future
May 2-6: in Uruguay to p
On Apr 1, 2011 11:03 AM, "Samuel Greenfeld" wrote:
>
> Hello all:
>
> As many of you are aware, work is being done to improve the graphics
performance of various XO laptop platforms.
>
> So in an attempt to improve things further, I looked into optimizing the
data Sugar sends to the video subsyste
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Christoph Derndorfer
wrote:
> Hi all,
> the folks from the Austrian pilot project want to equip the XO-1s there with
> SD cards. Are there any restrictions wrt size, speed, etc. that they should
> be aware of when purchasing the SD cards? I'm particularly asking af
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 11:38 PM, John Gilmore wrote:
> Meraki are also doing mesh related things with the APs etc.
>
> Its my understanding (not that I've had much time to play) that mesh
> has improved greatly over the last couple of year
You might also try just using python's implementation of tar (the
'tarfile' module), which can probably be hacked to support rsync's
--fake-super as well. Might kill two birds that way. Although I'm
sure that fixing fakeroot will benefit more people.
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On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 1:01 AM, Daniel Drake wrote:
> On 19 March 2011 17:16, Daniel Drake wrote:
>> updates.laptop.org now offers this stream. Instructions are on the
>> 11.2.0 page above.
>
> Unfortunately this doesn't work.
>
> Files such as /etc/shadow and /etc/gshadow are now installed from
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 1:56 AM, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
>> I used to run rsyncd inside fakeroot, which solved these problems
>> neatly. There's also a --fake-super option to rsync which can work.
>> Or you can just run rsync as root.
>
> http://dev.laptop.org/gi
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 1:52 AM, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 1:01 AM, Daniel Drake wrote:
>> On 19 March 2011 17:16, Daniel Drake wrote:
>>> updates.laptop.org now offers this stream. Instructions are on the
>>> 11.2.0 page above.
>>
&
Originally you could override by putting frames in ~/.bootanim.
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Tweaking_the_boot_animation
Don't know if that's still the case.
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On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Sascha Silbe wrote:
> Excerpts from C. Scott Ananian's message of Sun Mar 13 16:41:36 +0100 2011:
>
>> I apologize; I think the code that sets timezone "correctly" might
>> have been code I wrote for litl, not OLPC.
>
> No problem. Do you remember how it worked at
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 1:00 PM, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Andrei Warkentin
> wrote:
>> Sorry to butt in, I think I'm missing most of the context
>> herenevertheless... I'm curious, ignoring outer packaging and
>> product na
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Andrei Warkentin wrote:
> Sorry to butt in, I think I'm missing most of the context
> herenevertheless... I'm curious, ignoring outer packaging and
> product names, if you look at cards with the "same" CID (i.e. same
> manfid/oemid/date/firmware and hw rev), do
I apologize; I think the code that sets timezone "correctly" might
have been code I wrote for litl, not OLPC.
--scott
On Sunday, March 13, 2011, Daniel Drake wrote:
> On 13 March 2011 03:21, Samuel Greenfeld wrote:
>> Sugar reports only relative times in its core GUI, so I don't know how
>> co
Last I knew we used standard Linux conventions for timezones and sugar
called the standard Linux commands (via sudo) to set the timezone.
But that should make 'date' report the correct local time (unless you
use '-u') so maybe someone broke that sometime in the past two years.
Check /etc/timezone?
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> I've had four cards with a Sandisk label that had unusual characteristics
> and manufacturer/OEM IDs that refer to other companies, three Samsung ("SM")
> and one unknown ("BE", possibly lexar). In all cases, the Sandisk support
> has confirm
Canonical related blog post: http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=918
Mandatory reading for anyone who has to deal with flash memory.
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On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 2:16 AM, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
>> why am I getting different readings for each method?
>
> My guess is that file /home/.devkey.html was copied in from some other
> system, and shows the serial number and UUID of the copied-from system.
It would be interesting to investiga
Posting your machine's serial number as well as then contents of your
develop.sig might help; your developer key might be malformed or
correspond to a different XO than the one you are trying to use it on.
You can also try the collection key method, as one more check on the
process by which you ar
FWIW, the original intent was *only* to allow SRPMS in the dropbox; we were
going to explicitly rebuild the RPMs from the SRPMS in mock and use only the
built RPMs. In addition to ensuring compliance with licensing provisions,
this was also intended as a developer aid: at the time, it was often ea
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Michael Stone wrote:
> In my mind, the best reason to continue to use DNS and IP routing to locate
>> resources (as in the Network Principles document) is that deployments
>> understand them.
>>
>
> In my mind, a stronger reason for sticking with XMPP, HTTP, DNS,
Recapping for the list: Jim Gettys sent me a pair of papers to read
yesterday, both linked from
http://www.ccnx.org/content/content-centric-networking-resources
1) V. Jacobson, D. K. Smetters, J. D. Thornton, M. F. Plass, N. H. Briggs,
R. L. Braynard (PARC) Networking Named Content, CoNEXT 2009, R
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Daniel Drake wrote:
> mock.laptop.org, our server for "frozen packages" i.e. a clone of the
> latest Fedora and OLPC RPMs frozen for each software release, is out
> of disk space and somewhat unloved, and I'd like to use the
> opportunity to make some changes to the
On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Carlos Nazareno wrote:
> Accelerometer?
>
> Sweet! :)
It looks like the XO-1.75 has the LIS33xx, which is roughly the same
accelerometer as used in the iPhone, Android phones, etc.
Our ODM suggested replacing our LIS33DH with an accelerometer from
Kionix (we went
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 12:04 AM, James Cameron wrote:
> (You'll notice that on a good sound system it is quite different to
> playback on an XO ... it takes a bit of equalisation to reproduce the XO
> speakers.)
The converse, actually. The sound file was extensively EQ'd so that
it is *accurate*
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Daniel Drake wrote:
> On 24 November 2010 22:40, Kevin Gordon wrote:
>> Is this recommendation against yum and rpm for all software, or just the
>> oplc repo packages, the kernel and the firmware? I'm certainly happy doing
>> just safe builds for the core.
>
> To
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 6:52 AM, Sascha Silbe
wrote:
> 2. The voltage I see with bias off is probably generated internally by
> the codec chip. [...]
> Unless someone finds a magic way to disable this from the digital
> side of the chip (which I doubt), we'll have to cope with it. This
> m
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
> If "indistinguishable" is true, then there is as much wear to the SD
> card from one file-block written as there is from one swap-block
> written.
Yes.
> I have no measurements whatsoever - but my gut feel is that
> the majority of my SD
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
>> Downsides
>> - Increased SD card wear
>
> For about two years now, I've been defining a swap partition on the
> (external) "permanent" SD card I use with my XO-1 systems. So far, I
> have never experienced any problems with that setup.
A
As my own clarification: I wasn't dismissing possible performance
improvements (of any kind). I was just commenting on the old "lockup"
bugs, saying this might not actually be related to no-swap-space,
although it's possible memory pressure exacerbates the problem. For
performance issues, you hav
Assuming OLPC isn't using TRIM support on the SD cards, writes to the
swap space are indistinguishable from writes to any other space on the
card. That means that writes to the swap "partition" could
potentially corrupt other data on the card, especially if it occurs
less than 30s before removal o
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Martin Langhoff
wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 3:08 PM, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
>> I think you'll have more success with the latest skype using pulseaudio.
>
> No need for speculation. I can tell you: in general terms, F11
> pulseaudio ai
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Martin Langhoff
wrote:
> - Flash pays a hefty price for its refusal to use Xv. Don't install
> pulseaudio.
> - Skype 2.0.0.72 works reasonably well once you set the right
> microphone input. Latest Skype (2.1.0.81) doesn't play well with our
> ALSA implementatio
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 2:46 PM, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> As a wild stab at a first guess, it sounds like a software problem to
> me -- seems like xoscope is not successfully turning off either the
> bias voltage or the decoupling capacitor (high pass filter). Perhaps
> a silent fai
As a wild stab at a first guess, it sounds like a software problem to
me -- seems like xoscope is not successfully turning off either the
bias voltage or the decoupling capacitor (high pass filter). Perhaps
a silent failure of some sort?
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From: Krishnan R.S.
Date: Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 2:48 AM
Subject: Upgrading a _very_ old OLPC
To: csc...@laptop.org
Hello,
I managed to get my hands on a very old OLPC XO laptop for my
daughter. I've been trying, unsuccessfully, to upgrade the OS to
somet
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Walter Bender wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 11:19 AM, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 4:19 PM, wrote:
>>>> Just make sure you keep in mind the difference between the specification
>>>> and what is likel
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 4:19 PM, wrote:
>> Just make sure you keep in mind the difference between the specification and
>> what is likely to be acceptable. One value is better suited to personal
>> tinkering, the other to widespread propagation.
>
> Good point. As background to my questions Tu
Hey, that looks a lot like the conference rooms *I've* been spending
weeks in! ;-)
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On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Daniel Drake wrote:
> On 28 October 2010 15:54, Martin Langhoff wrote:
>> On XO-1, we have a long painful history with synaptics and the EC,
>> that's led to it being disabled. Instead we use the PS2 protocol.
>>
>> I just realised that we still do that on XO-1.5
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Martin Langhoff
wrote:
> The "right fix" is just what we wanna do for the upstream dev branch,
> for the next cycle.
Sigh.
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Subject: Internal Server Error
From: *Pavel Stržínek*
Date: 2010/9/11
To: csc...@laptop.org
Hello Scott
I'm trying to apply for a developer key for OLPC v1 from Browser
activity right on XO device but I'm getting Internal Server Error
message.
I
I'm not 100% certain we've pulled in members of the OLSR mailing lists
on this thread yet.
But they've actually got a number of very impressive *real world*
demonstrations of OLSRd in the wild. You'll have to search the devel@
archives for 'olsr' to find the emails I sent years ago with all the
d
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 11:24 AM, John Watlington wrote:
> Our experiment with SD/MMC cards as main storage continues.
FWIW, I'm about two weeks into failure testing of 4G MLC compact flash
from a couple of vendors. I'll update the list when one or both of
them kick the bucket. Is OLPC looking a
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Reuben K. Caron wrote:
> deployments that would like to install content bundles. They package
> these files into .xol packages and these packages get installed into
> the "Library," which is contained on the left hand side of the Browse
> activity. Yes, you read th
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Martin Langhoff
wrote:
> I was aware that maybe we had different in scaling/dpi on our
> browsers, but Aliosh (from the Perú team) pointed out how large the
> difference is between Firefox and Browse.xo:
>
> Here shown between an XO-1.5 on 10.1.1 and an XO-1 on os3
It may be worth looking at http://trac.edgewall.org/roadmap for how
the trac team itself uses it.
In particular, if you check the "Show completed milestones" box, and
then on some old milestone (like, say,
http://trac.edgewall.org/milestone/0.11.3 ) you can drill down into
any component and see wha
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Chris Ball wrote:
> > What about the compiler? IIUC currently a commercial compiler is
> > required. If that continues to be the case (as I expect it to),
> > would it be possible for OLPC to provide the (probably very few)
> > users interested in hacking on
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 6:54 PM, John Watlington wrote:
>
> On Jul 7, 2010, at 5:07 PM, James Cameron wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 04:57:19PM -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
>>> Unfortunately, the software changes required are to EC code, which is
>>> diff
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Martin Langhoff
wrote:
> - It is slow and laggy. A VNC protocol expert may be able to help us
> optimise...
Might try some of the VNC encoding options, like those at:
http://www.realvnc.com/products/free/4.1/winvncviewer.html#ColorEncoding
Assuming you're using a
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 4:01 PM, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> * Updating exactly every hour is vulnerable to an attacker who
> arranges to remove the battery from the machine exactly 55 minutes
> after power on, every time. This is still quite awkward, but to avoid
> even this attack
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 2:16 AM, Aleksey Lim wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 01:18:04AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
>> Bernie wrote:
>> On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 12:02 -0400, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote:
>> >> I think you are missing an important requirement: installation without
>> >> elevated permiss
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 4:48 PM, John Watlington wrote:
> On Jul 7, 2010, at 4:01 PM, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
>
>> Since "RTC security" is being discussed again, I'm going to repost two
>> relevant proposals from "the good old days". First: on m
On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
>> NetworkManager used to call ntpdate when it setup a connection. Was that an
>> OLPC addition?
Yes, although it's now present in litl's software builds as well.
> We figured out that the ntp package has never been present on the XO
> ima
trusted computation to be done on the main
processor.
--scott
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From: C. Scott Ananian
Date: Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 3:11 PM
Subject: 9.1 Proposal: Improving antitheft
To: Devel List , sugar
I'd like our antitheft support to be more of a "feature&q
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Martin Langhoff
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> On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 11:52 PM, Daniel Drake wrote:
>> While we have your attention on this topic...
>> Do you not think that this is a security issue? In that a thief could
>> put a laptop on a network with rigged DNS and have control ov
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