On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote:
http://vimeo.com/8709616
Fantastic. Like I always dreamed of the XO-1+wikipedia being used --
kids who read through the encyclopedia to find out about their world,
like I did as a kid.
--scott
ps. the older man says he's
Incidentally, I think it's important to distinguish between palm
detection and tap to click.
In my experience, most users who are used to tap to click, expect it
-- and get frustrated when it doesn't work. On the other hand, I've
been using a litl webbook with tap to click enabled since leaving
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote:
On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 14:48 -0400, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
For a future release cycle, we may want to re-evaluate yum-updatesd as
an alternative to olpc-updates which provides different trade-offs in
terms of
Clear network settings does have other uses, even in the absence of
bugs: you may want to remove a network from being autoselected, or
remove a password for a home network before lending your device to
someone. In the absence of a per-connection editor (like nm-applet
has), clear network settings
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 1:51 PM, John Rigdon jrig...@researchonline.net wrote:
I have not seen the XO, but I think we should be rather thinking about these
new cheap netbooks for these other tasks and use the XO for what it is
designed. I am now evaluating a netbook I bought on Ebay for $79 and
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote:
On 30 January 2010 08:38, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote:
Does this build have the patch for http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8104 ?
No, this bug still plagues every mainstream Linux installation that exists
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote:
On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 20:57 -0300, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
In fact, this might not even be a 2.6.31 regression. To my (somewhat
fuzzy) memory, automatic power management always has been disabled in
OLPC's official
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:54 AM, da...@lang.hm wrote:
On Tue, 26 Jan 2010, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:31 PM, da...@lang.hm wrote:
I've read through these, and they have a lot of useful info. I do have
good RF experiance (and even some halfway decent tools
OK, I'm sorry but your assumptions are mostly wrong, and you don't
seem interested in rethinking them. Chris Ball gave you the most
useful information. Please re-read the pycon articles he pointed you
to, especially the bits from 2008 about contention and spectrum.
It would probably be most
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:31 PM, da...@lang.hm wrote:
I've read through these, and they have a lot of useful info. I do have
good RF experiance (and even some halfway decent tools for looking at
things), but I didn't know what, if any limits there were on the number of
clients other than
On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 1:35 AM, Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com wrote:
I don't have wireless - my XOs are on ethernet (using interface eth1).
Currently I am running without a DNS server - meaning that I need to
issue explicit commands at each XO to set its eth1 IP address.
Just now I've been
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com wrote:
Speaking of android, has anyone heard anything about google's other OS,
chrome OS?
Installed Chrome OS on my XO-1.5 when I was using os64 - the install
pulled in a whole barnful of dependencies. Did not find Chrome
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 10:07 AM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote:
Ahem. With XO-1.5, I feel that I AM shipping a full-fledged Linux
PC to every child.
Since when did it take more than a GB of RAM and 4GB of disk to host
an IDE ?
I think that was Emacs 23.
j/k. ;-)
--scott
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From: sl...@juno.com sl...@juno.com
Date: Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 9:26 PM
Subject: Switching from Sugar to Xfce
To: csc...@laptop.org
Hi!
I hope you can help me with a problem I'm having switching between
Sugar and Xfce on the olpc I just acquired. I've
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Martin Langhoff
martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote:
= Startup / shutdown =
Two bugs related to the shutdown process have been fixed. Rebooting
side-by-side, you should see 802B1 shutdown much faster, and never
hang in the switch to the ul-warning screen.
If it
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 4:46 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote:
On 24/11/2009, at 2:19 AM, Daniel Drake wrote:
This saved some disk space and presumably made olpc-update run a bit
quicker (this file tends to change on a rebuild even if nothing else has
changed).
I've not looked into
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 4:11 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote:
Or alternatively we could mount the boot partition at /bootpart, /boot
would not be a mount point (i.e. would show the contents
of /versions/run/x/boot). Then olpc-update would perform its final
manipulatations on /bootpart
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Mitch Bradley w...@laptop.org wrote:
In the secure case, initramfs discovers the root device by looking in
the /chosen node of the /ofw device tree.
I remember writing initramfs code with the proper algorithm to parse
the /ofw tree and discover the root device.
Keep in mind that some of cron's duties are done by anacron (or were
when I had a hand in the distro), which is laptop-friendly.
Anacron only handles daily/weekly/monthly tasks, though; you do need
cron running if you want tasks with sub-day scheduling.
--scott
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On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote:
c. scott ananian wrote:
Keep in mind that some of cron's duties are done by anacron (or were
when I had a hand in the distro), which is laptop-friendly.
Anacron only handles daily/weekly/monthly tasks, though; you do need
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com wrote:
Do we really want to be running something like update which (I assume)
takes significant resources without consulting with the user?
Yes! Remember, these are not designed as normal laptops. They are for
young children and
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 7:30 AM, Daniel Draked...@laptop.org wrote:
The server will respond with: time01: TIMESTAMP sig0x: xxx
I don't understand why this is necessary; there is already a 'time'
field in the server response for this purpose:
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 6:37 AM, Martin
Langhoffmartin.langh...@gmail.com wrote:
A while ago, Daniel fixed a bug in my changes to olpc-update, and that
left me with a to-do item on the xs-activation side.
Reviewed the situation on the OAT proto concept of always sending a
stolen token, with
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Martin
Langhoffmartin.langh...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:45 PM, C. Scott Ananiancsc...@laptop.org wrote:
so you should probably return a
lease which is valid except for the fact that the signed string has an
randomly-chosen UUID
Exactly my
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 6:37 AM, Martin
Langhoffmartin.langh...@gmail.com wrote:
A while ago, Daniel fixed a bug in my changes to olpc-update, and that
left me with a to-do item on the xs-activation side.
Reviewed the situation on the OAT proto concept of always sending a
stolen token, with
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Martin
Langhoffmartin.langh...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:45 PM, C. Scott Ananiancsc...@laptop.org wrote:
so you should probably return a
lease which is valid except for the fact that the signed string has an
randomly-chosen UUID
Exactly my
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Michael Stonemich...@laptop.org wrote:
d) rewrite as an NSS module?
e) rewrite in an external DNS resolver?
Either of these would make it much easier to play with your patch,
eliminating the whole now recompile your C library from scratch
step. ;-) (d) would
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote:
Hi Ben,
Of course, this equation gets still more complicated depending on
whether we have MTD or FTL flash. Choosing a filesystem will be
an interesting exercise.
I think it's clear that we'll be using an FTL of
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Reinder de Haan r...@mveas.com wrote:
Absolutely not. The A/D is eight bits, with an input range spanning
0 - 3.3V, so the best you
can hope for is about 13 mV per LSB. I would guess actual accuracy
to be closer to 26 mV.
I think the actual
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 3:21 AM, Martin Langhoff
martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 6:24 AM, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote:
the plan is to implement real EC-based security for
Gen 1.5; I recommend ditching the init-based plan completely
Any hints or references
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Reinder de Haan r...@mveas.com wrote:
C. Scott Ananian wrote:
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Reinder de Haan r...@mveas.com wrote:
Absolutely not. The A/D is eight bits, with an input range spanning
0 - 3.3V, so the best you
can hope for is about
On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 8:38 AM, p...@laptop.org wrote:
By the way, has anyone really thought about this feature ? I grok
the intent, but you have to make
sure that kids who happen to be in brightly lit rooms (glaring
fluourescents aren't uncommon)
don't loose their backlight, and
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 11:59 PM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote:
Oh, yeah, you should be able to wire the top side of the LED directly to
the LED and measure the photovoltaic current directly; that's not patented:
battery voltage
Q1 |
---from EC--|
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 8:51 PM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote:
All of our LEDs are dual (one on the inside and one on the outside).
Instead of running these in parallel, and throwing away the extra
voltage, I run them in series directly from the battery voltage
(ever notice that
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 8:38 PM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote:
I don't have time to take a look at this right now,
but we have a A/D input to dedicate to this, if it helps work around
the patent.
We can talk to MERL if needed. I probably still know a handfull
of people around
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 12:12 AM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote:
This is the current power distribution diagram for A-phase CL1B, identifying
what we can power, when, and how.
I wonder if one could easily support running an LED backwards as an
ambient light monitor in Gen 1.5 - it seems
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Greg Smith gregsmit...@gmail.com wrote:
The video decompression acceleration will be a huge value. The primary
test is of course YouTube which I think means Flash flv. I would put
that on an early test list and I hope there's no driver incompatible BS
like with
I'd suggest just uncompressing the various image files and re-timing
as a start. The initial implementation was uncompressed, but people
complained about space usage on the emulator images (which are
uncompressed). The current code supports both uncompressed and
compressed image formats. For
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 2:18 PM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote:
Is this really true ? If you've removed /versions, how does alt-boot
find the other image ?
It could be true. It's easy to remove /versions from the namespace
of the kernel/shell/etc.
It just makes it more difficult to
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Martin Langhoff
martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 9:34 AM, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote:
You could either (a) mount
/versions read-only
Do you mean having it on a separate partition? How do you decide space
dedicated
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:22 AM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote:
Should we care ? I just proved that it is possible for any kid in
Peru to slag their laptop by
simply typing sudo rm -rf /* in a terminal window, a similar feat
of child-like naivete.
Alt-boot could recover from most
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 8:10 AM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@laptop.org wrote:
IEEE chose to make wi-fi networks look like 802.11 LANs, similar to
ethernet. It might have been a bad idea in retrospect, but now we
have to live with it.
AFAIK, the bulk of the problem with multicasts over 802.11s
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@laptop.org wrote:
Morgan Collett wrote:
Also don't blame avahi for the fact that we send out updates every
time you alt-tab between shared activities, so that your icon can jump
to the appropriate snowflake on everyone else's Neighborhood
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@laptop.org wrote:
C. Scott Ananian wrote:
This is irrelevant, really. Protocols are designed with certain
assumptions. Those assumptions (mostly having to do with the behavior
and cost of broadcasts) were true when the protocols were
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Martin Langhoff
martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 1:17 AM, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote:
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=/iel5/4489030/4489031/04489571.pdf?temp=x
I don't want adventure. I want something old
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 5:13 AM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@laptop.org wrote:
Martin Langhoff wrote:
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 6:39 PM, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote:
My suggestions: DNS-SD and libepc (http://live.gnome.org/libepc/).
There's no need for Sugar-specific solutions here; we
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 1:15 AM, Martin Langhoff
martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 6:39 PM, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote:
My suggestions: DNS-SD and libepc (http://live.gnome.org/libepc/).
There's no need for Sugar-specific solutions here; we just need to use
2009/2/2 Wade Brainerd wad...@gmail.com:
take better advantage of the excellent hardware that is the XO-1. I'd
really like to see someone try to build a tiny LFS based XO specific distro
which runs Sugar, and boots in 30sec :) I've got my personal XO booting in
around 45sec just by hacking
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Eben Eliason e...@laptop.org wrote:
Scott (CC'd) has already come up with some really nice proposals for
adding VNC as an alternate colaboration mechanism for all activities.
In my mind, this would work perfectly with the above scheme, whereby
any activity that
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:26 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote:
Happy to be proven wrong, and I guess it could be a Sugar feature not really
intended for XOs.
Let's let the flowers bloom: I don't doubt that there are many ways to
make *better* collaboration, on an activity-by-activity
On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Martin Langhoff
martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Martin Langhoff
martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote:
So this depends on a simple service-announcement scheme. I'll sidestep
the how of it, and say:
In terms of getting a service
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
marc...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
* rpm does not work. It complains about mmap failure when reading the
db, jffs2 related?
As far as I know, jffs2 doesn't support writable mmaps. In the debian
ports, we add some special magic to tell apt not to
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:00 AM, John Gilmore g...@toad.com wrote:
I'm very interested on this, as it would give us also for free a FUSE
interface. Why I haven't pursued it yet is because the API for
developing new gio backends is still private and our new backend would
then need to live
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Bastien bastiengue...@googlemail.com wrote:
Victor Lazzarini victor.lazzar...@nuim.ie writes:
[...] In other words, it would be useful to get a who's who for the
project.
+1
Please have some consideration for the recently unemployed. Not
everyone wants this
Like many others, Friday will be my last day employed by OLPC. I've
enjoyed working on the project a lot, and hope to find some way to
continue the work that has been begun.
Although I expect that the @laptop.org addresses will continue to work
for some time, you should probably use
2008/12/29 shivaprasad javali jbs...@gmail.com:
Hi,
I am trying to install Adobe Flash Player on my OLPC. I followed the
instructions on this page http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Adobe_Flash#Installation
to install the flash player. According to it, I have to remove the GNASH
plugin which
Linux Weekly News has a paragraph about OLPC in its year-end retrospective
which is it useful to ponder (http://lwn.net/Articles/312000/):
Your editor included a rosy prediction about the One Laptop Per Child
project and where it would go over the course of the year. In fact, OLPC has
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Ed McNierney e...@laptop.org wrote:
Thanks for the help! I think we seem to be in a state where the first
option (making one RC build with all fixes) is reasonable. It also seems
like getting a staging build for early testing today would also be helpful,
as
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Ed McNierney edmcnier...@gmail.com wrote:
Are we able to promptly and regularly generate 8.2.1 builds that
reflect the work being done?
Yes. All completed work should be packaged and put in
public_rpms/staging for testing, with an appropriate changelog.
Staging
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Samuel Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Bernie Innocenti
Sorry if I reacted defensively, sending notifications to devel@ was
our best practice in the good old pre-G1G1 days, but, clearly, it's no
longer sufficient now. Establishing
Also, bernie checked 'secrets.php' into git during his upgrade. Thank
goodness this wasn't pushed to dev!
--scott
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On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 2:47 PM, David Farning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was speaking of larger communication issues.
Whoa, David -- is it necessary to assume malice? I don't think your
tone is helpful in this case.
The thanksgiving holidays intervened, and Michael Stone isn't even
back from
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 1:27 AM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* startup time seems okay, but the initial query takes about 10s to
return results. I have about 300 MB of data indexed under
/home/olpc, plus a bit of other junk. (~/.pinot is ~ 35 MB).
Yes, that's because pinot is
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 11:13 PM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Casual inspection of http://pinot.berlios.de/ suggested that the main
'pinot' GUI can be used to instruct the pinot-dbus-daemon to start
indexing useful things like /home/olpc. In the future, it would be
helpful if
Re: Scratch etoys: the problem with updating translations in
place is that it doesn't support distributed work on translations:
OLPC might do basic translations; they might be further developed in a
country or region, etc. Each might be updated individually.
Further, you want to be able to
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Ed,
Folks - I'm investigating steps that can make it easier to get
developer keys for XOs for users who desire them. At the moment
the developer key request page at file:///home/.devkey.html
contains content
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Martin Langhoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 6:58 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have been thinking of having a separate place in the filesystem for
_new_ translations, and using RPM to manage the installation and
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Martin Langhoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 6:49 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Fedora does not have a standard solution either, so I'm not sure
where you're going with this. We have to invent something. RPM is
not obviously
In my thanksgiving XO demos, people often neglected to close
applications and kept opening activities until the XO ran out of
memory and froze.
We can debate the right solution for 9.1, but I'd like to suggest
that we add a you're out of memory, please close an activity warning
like we have for
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Eben Eliason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As an asset on our main website, it aims to be as authoritative as
possible. The current numbers were populated via the wiki
(http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployments), which I believe is kept
mostly up to date (but I could
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 9:18 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, Eben Eliason wrote:
As an asset on our main website, it aims to be as authoritative as
possible. The current numbers were populated via the wiki
(http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployments), which I believe is kept
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Jeffrey Kesselman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I agree. You need a better way to track your hits. Id suggest Google
analytics as
fast and free. Make a special web page for the landings from the
email and track
hits.
The way google.com does it on their search
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 9:28 PM, Bryan Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Deployment is Hard! Notes from Nepal's Deployments
Summary: Bryan Berry (that's me) will talk about Nepal's
deployments with help from Tony Anderson. Will talk about tough
stuff like teacher training,
I've been preparing a static pull of wiki.laptop.org to send to
bandwidth-challenged regions, as well as to use as a failover in case
of high load.
It's basically a simple:
wget -EkKm http://wiki.laptop.org
of the site.
Interesting fact: the root directory contains 1,061,633 separate
files,
In the interest of trying to make room for the unexpected around the
Nov 17 G1G1 launch, I've tried to compress most of the technical talks
into a single day, Wed. Nov 19. There will be plenty of flex time
during the rest of the week to get to topics not covered, delve in
depth, or try to hack
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:07 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does this schedule seem reasonable to others? (Esp. those I've
pencilled in for talks?) If you are going to be in town, made a 9.1
proposal (or forgot to), and aren't listed above, let me know.
I should have also
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:18 PM, David Farning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It looks like Bernie start a on-line schedule at
http://sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Sugarcamp
Yes, Bernie and I are working together on this. I just thought I'd
post a proposal to the list in general to find out if I'm totally
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:29 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 3:07 AM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
4pm: Internationalization (Marco, C. Scott, possibly Saymindu by
phone and/or cjb on language learning)
I'm not giving talks about i18n
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:03 AM, Samuel Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I hope there are gobby sessions for all events, and that they are more
brainstorming and writing than presentation and recording video.
No. Wednesday talks are well-structured, compressed data, idea, open
question and
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:50 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 3:07 AM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does this schedule seem reasonable to others? (Esp. those I've
pencilled in for talks?) If you are going to be in town, made a 9.1
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 2:23 AM, Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not sure if (a) I understand how Bernie's schedule (Talk:Sugarcamp)
works; but (b) Friday morning at 9am is the only time that works for
Evangelina, who is able to jooin us for the Portfolio discussion. I
don't think we'll
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 2:14 AM, Joshua Minor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My daughter's XO is full, but mine has over 400 GB free. Both laptops
are running 767. I ran 'du -sk|sort -n' in various places starting
at / and as far as I can tell the difference is that her /versions/
pristine is
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Bert Freudenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
*bump*
Can we do something about the still-locked pages? Since joyride is active
again this part needs to be opened up too.
E.g., the 8.2 page should be made to include Activities/Etoys_(8.2) instead
of
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 4:34 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
of other good projects. I'm hoping that similarly-minded people
will pitch in to make the good ideas reality.
[...]
towards the conference, because I don't have a budget at OLPC. But I
can put $1000 of my own money
I've updated the 'Adopt a Developer' page at
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XOcamp_2/Fundraising with all the developers
who've made proposals for the XO camp on devel@ or sugar@ and who are
not in the Boston area.
If you're on the To: line of this email, could you check your entry
and add your
Walter's portfolio presentation should be very interesting. I've
spent a bit of time in Peru talking with him about it.
Briefly, the journal is a mechanism for finding and organizing
content, as well as serving a pedagogic role in allowing review and
reflection.
But what's also needed is a
Hi, folks. It seems that OLPC is having some cash flow problems. We
really think it's important to get as many people to the Nov 17
meetings as possible. I'd like to consider asking for donations to
cover travel costs for key developers, like the sugar team: marco,
tomeu, erikos, and morgs.
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 3:01 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
meetings as possible. I'd like to consider asking for donations to
cover travel costs for key developers, like the sugar team: marco,
tomeu, erikos, and morgs. The cost of their travel would be about
$2500. Including
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 3:01 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, folks. It seems that OLPC is having some cash flow problems.
By which I mean, can't get travel funding approved. Sorry if the
tone sounded alarmist. OLPC is a nonprofit, it's not some big company
rolling in cash
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 9:33 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
sure, that's fine. but i think we need to keep thinking about
how to support of non-, or not-fully-sugarized applications with
every new feature we do (as well as with every revision of old
features).
I've got a half-baked idea about
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 7:43 AM, Greg Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We are planning a mini-conference at OLPC headquarters November 17 - 21.
Starting at the end of the day US ET, Monday October 27th we will review
all proposals and begin setting the agenda for the conference.
It would
2008/10/22 Ian Daniher [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I'm curious what the DISPLAY variable is in os767 as I used to be able to
set it to 0:0 and launch gui apps(mplayer) from the command line.
I'm working on the mother-of-all media center scripts and could use some
help.
I'll share this script upon
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 8:02 PM, Victoria Blackaby
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We've spoken a few times on the IRC chat line. I'm Victoria from Chicago,
trying to deploy XO's for a tutoring center. I've spoken with you and Mitch
about using a fedora base with fvwm to handle our tutoring
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Greg Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We have a feature roadmap and miniconference planning meet set for today
from 2 - 3 PM US ET.
Meeting is on IRC, freednode.net #olpc-meeting channel.
I will likely not attend, since I think I'll be lunching with Hernan
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:01 PM, Justin Gallardo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Over at the OSL, we were able to get new printers showing in the MeshBox,
and had just started working on coming up with some interface for
configuration. We had some hang ups with some of the code used to detect
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 8:57 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
can's mdns/avahi help with discovery? it'd be a shame to have to
manually configure a server address or name.
DNS-SD is the Right Answer (which is not exactly the same thing as
mdns). But getting a standard one school server, and a
On 10/21/08, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 9:24 AM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
*But*, we should be able to:
* Print postscript (or pdf, or whatever, just pick *one*) to
school server via CUP (IPP?), and install a decent selection
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Mikus Grinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Flashed a G1G1 system (without developer key) with the signed 767-4
custom image. Unfortunately, was running as root and did not
immediately look at the olpc user home directory.
By the time I got around to looking at
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 4:21 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I pushed two packages yesterday but no joyride build was made. Did we
disable automatic builds?
Not that I know of, but I won´t be able to diagnose until later in the week.
'--scott
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As described at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Journal_reloaded, I've been
working on some next generation Journal code, borrowing liberally
from ideas presented by many people. I will present the current
status of the work, solicit ideas and feedback, and propose a roadmap
for getting as much as
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