Kurt Gramlich wrote:
* Steve Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080516 07:55]:
I am doing a talk in front of a large audience and would like to show
the XO's screen on a projector. I have a laptop which
can be projected and ideally would like to show the XO's screen on the
laptop. Other solutions
Bernie Innocenti wrote:
a serious problem in the most underserved areas --- the price trend
is for the second
generation of the low cost laptops to head back to $500.
The Asus 900 has a suggested list of $550 ?
That's weird marketing... ASUS and Intel know they will have to
beat OLPC's
Mitch Bradley wrote:
But in the steady
state, the
web is the high-order bit, sufficient to qualify as education in and of
itself.
Well ... it *was* at one time -- a university library made up of
electrons. But in my mind, that was long ago in a galaxy far away. Oh,
sure, you can still
Michael Stone wrote:
Friends,
At long last, we have a new Update.1 Release Candidate, signed and
waiting for your attention at
http://download.laptop.org/xo-1/os/candidate/703/jffs2/
Release notes continue to develop at
Chris Ball wrote:
Hi Ed,
OK ... I installed it on my G1G1 XO (via the GamePad / USB
method). It boots up into Sugar, and I can see the frame, but not
icons to start up any activities. Is there something I need to do??
Yes:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Testing_Update.1
John Gilmore wrote:
== Who's the best manager or CEO you ever worked for?
Hands down, C. Norman (Norm) Winningstad!
[snip]
OLPC has already changed the world in a small
way, by teaching us that there's a vibrant world market for low cost,
high function portable computers, and reminding
Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
For the fun of it, started a resource-intensive task (100% CPU,
sporadic floods of disk writes) on my G1G1 XO. Eventually, it
failed with a severe (38) fortran error trying to write its
checkpoint file {mikus note: many quick small write operations}.
Why? This
James wrote:
Hello OLPC people!
I am working on a Snakes and Ladders game for the XO, to help young
children learn to count. You can find my first draft of the game
here: http://olpc-dev.fuelindustries.com/snakes_080116.zip.
I'm looking for help in getting Fedora 7 to run on a Sony
Ian Bicking wrote:
I'm not sure his summary here is true. You can do efficient operations
over sets of data in Python (actually due to some small tweaks to the
language requested by NumPy/Numeric users back around the time of Python
2.1). So if you do something like array * 6, it actually
Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero wrote:
2008/1/28 C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Jan 28, 2008 5:24 PM, Ivan Krstić
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Jan 28, 2008, at 8:04 PM, Cleve Moler wrote:
(I doubt that
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
R has several server options, although I've never used them.
http://www.rforge.net/Rserve/
http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Descriptions/R.rsp.html
and if you absolutely positively *must* use Windows,
http://cran.r-project.org/contrib/extra/dcom/RSrv135
william romsay wrote:
Hershey Felder, Zulu Musical Instruments, Essential To Develop Musical
Traditions In Africa
African music is the music of Africans who live in a large region of 50
nations, each with a special culture, history and language, South of
Sahara. Zulu musical
imm wrote:
On 22 Jan 2008, at 3:43, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
By the way -- as far as microtonal and xentonal and world music
scales
are concerned, MIDI's pitch bends are an awkward hack. Serious
*microtonal* algocompsynth practitioners either have to spend time
working around MIDI
Albert Cahalan wrote:
imm ian writes:
On 22 Jan 2008, at 4:11, Albert Cahalan wrote:
You don't need to abuse pitch bends. MIDI lets you
redefine the pitches of the notes. You can redefine
middle C to be 1234 Hz if you like.
Mmm, well, yes, but...
No but. You can redefine at will, for
Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves wrote:
[snip]
I gave up on OSS years ago, when I discovered that there were dozens of
high-quality sound cards without free OSS drivers! Alsa was release 1
back then, and there was very little documentation. That's been fixed,
and I am not going back to OSS!
Albert Cahalan wrote:
On Jan 21, 2008 12:27 PM, Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(b) as has been pointed out repeatedly, CSound is an open standard
(which incidentally predates the MIDI standard).
It may be open, but it isn't much of a standard.
I've only found one implementation,
Albert Cahalan wrote:
On Jan 19, 2008 4:33 PM, victor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can't speak for TamTam because I am not involved in their
design details, but I can say this, Csound's standard score
preceeds MIDI by at least a decade (or two if you consider where
it came from). It is much
Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
The 2008-1-12 OLPC News says ... so that we can finally disable the
root and olpc passwords.
The way I have my G1G1 system set up (I have no wireless) I *need*
to ftp in. For that, I have set a password for olpc. It would be
ok with me to set up a different
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The other option is to write implementations of the codecs that avoid
the patents. Whether that is possible depends on the exact wording of
the patent, and sometimes it takes a few weeks working with a good
patent attorney to work out exactly what the patent really
Dave Belfer-Shevett wrote:
I've just received my, er, my son's XO, and he's ecstatic with it,
enjoying fiddling with Python programs and other tidbits. I've heard
that the Jabber 'chat' functions are disabled on the US XO's, mostly
because the existing jabber hosts can't really take the
David W Hogg wrote:
FWIW, I started a wiki page (on my research group wiki) about setting
up my G1G1 XO for scientific writing on the road (and, eventually,
research, but right now my job is to write a grant proposal on the XO
as I travel around this weekend).
Mitch Bradley wrote:
This is all documented on the wiki. See:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Airplane_mode
and
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Support_FAQ#How_do_I_disable_wireless_when_flying.3F
If you don't want the wireless to restart automatically after a reboot,
renaming
John Richard Moser wrote:
I'm also noticing some things like KALLSYMS and BUG(), BSD process
accounting, and the like. KALLSYMS, BUG(), and printk() are useful; on
a true embedded device I'd say remove 'em but I can't justify it here...
BSD process accounting and auditd support though?
Mitch Bradley wrote:
From a security standpoint, there is an advantage to building in
everything. The main kernel is verified with a crypto signature before
it is executed. Loading a module without first verifying a
similarly-strong signature weakens the security.
Modules are a good
Edward Cherlin wrote:
Does anybody know of a documentation tool for Open Firmware, or for
FORTH more generally? Exploring using 'words' and 'see'
Are you looking for automated documentation generation, or FORTH coding
and documentation standards? I don't know about the former, but there is
a
Chris Hager wrote:
Hi all!
From now on, the channel #olpc-groups is open with the ambition to
connect local communities from everywhere! I can imagine a lot of
potential for collaborations, projects, problem solving and
not-reinventing-the-wheel :) !
SJ and I have talked about the
I signed up for a developer key, so I have one now. But what can I do
with it? How can I be sure I'm not going to nuke the XO beyond all
recovery? Is there some kind of documentation on what's risky and what's
safe?
___
Devel mailing list
Chris Ball wrote:
Hi,
I signed up for a developer key, so I have one now. But what can I
do with it?
You can do anything that you'd expect to do with a standard laptop;
install any operating system, and flash a new BIOS.
How can I be sure I'm not going to nuke the XO
Gerard J. Cerchio wrote:
In the short time I have been working with olpc I have had my Fedora
VMware machines curdle their ext3 disks 3 times.
I have been running 2.4 and 2.6 Redhats and Debians for over a year with
no such problems. Once the first Fedora 7 machine broke its disk I have
Gerard J. Cerchio wrote:
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
1. Define curdle their ext3 disk.
I use the word curdle to describe a disk with lost inodes, sectors that
are multiply allocated, and other such problems that fsck valiantly
tries to correct but winds up with a non-working system
Jim Oser wrote:
I am trying to make a developer system with the source code.
I downloaded and installed ship2-olpc-653.vmdk and ship2-olpc-653.vmx
This is working fine in my VMWare Fusion setup.
Where are the prebuilt vmdk and vmx on the Internet? I've been
downloading the .img files and
1. My typical use of laptops is nearly always with the AC adapter
plugged in. I don't travel a lot, and when I do, I generally don't
operate the laptop in an aircraft. I've been told that this is harder on
batteries than allowing them to discharge and recharge.
With the XO, though, I'm planning
Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
Jeffrey Kesselman wrote:
Think VERY carefully about his. Your opening up a world of potential
hurt for 2D game developers and similar kinds of apps.
I designed a few 2D arcade games myself and I've found that it
only takes a minimal amount of thought to make
Danilo Câmara wrote:
I'm a student at State University of Campinas, Brazil. I'm researching
efficient implementation of Elliptic Curve Cryptography in constrained
environments. I'm working with an ARM XScale PXA270 platform but would
like also to work with a x86-based constrained platform. I
Rob Savoye wrote:
2. Native develop and test on the XO itself.
GCC and G++ are both used with the XO.
Used with an XO, sure. But not *installed on* the XO by default. I run
virtual XOs in VMware Workstation 6. You can't install VMware Tools on
one because:
a. There isn't enough room for the
Jeffrey Kesselman wrote:
Figured it was time for a new thread for this
Idle is actually included on the olpc in /usr/lib/python2.5/idlelib
However trying to invoke idle.py gives this error...
** IDLE can't import Tkinter. Your python may not be configured for Tk.
Question for
Bert Freudenberg wrote:
On Dec 22, 2007, at 2:04 , Jeffrey Kesselman wrote:
Okay,
I have a JDK installed and it seems to work. For grins i put netbeans
on my USB stick and fired it up.
It seems to be working however I get no main display. I do get pop up
dialogs though.
My suspicion is
Tom Boonsiri wrote:
After reading the Bender update, I checked out Anna's recent effort
(http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Anna_B) which seemed to be similar to
Ian Daniher's Telehealth module effort and I noticed the following goal.
-Van on commercializing Our Stories: would consumers pay for
Jeffrey Kesselman wrote:
No... reformatting to Fat32 didnt help :(
On Dec 21, 2007 1:49 PM, Jeffrey Kesselman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hmm.
It is a FAT file system.
But it isn't automounting :( And I can't figure out what it name
would be to manually mount it...
Maybe its the weird
Jeffrey Kesselman wrote:
Hi Guys,
im trying to get started developign but ist pretty clear that my
development environment wont fit on the emulation image's disk.
No biggie, I figured, I'll put it on a USB memory stick.
I can tell my emulator (VMWARE) to make the USb memory stick
Jeffrey Kesselman wrote:
On Dec 21, 2007 2:36 PM, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 02:05:29PM -0500, Jeffrey Kesselman wrote:
More Diagnosis:
I bought an OLPC in the buy one/give one so i just tried the USB stick
on the real machine and it works fine.
So it just my
John Richard Moser wrote:
I just got my OX laptop (hopefully some kid gets the other one soon...
or not), and noticed it's slow and kind of buggy. I think I'll get a
$25 4GB SD card for a SWAP area...
I should run oprofile too, and have it write to the SD card. I
understand what an
John Richard Moser wrote:
(Note: most of this message isn't very useful probably; it's about
theoretical software architecture, that nobody's going to implement,
that I can't prove, that I'm not really 100% sure about. Still, if you
WANT to read it, hey... remember, bad ideas sometimes
Ivan Krstić wrote:
On Dec 18, 2007, at 6:27 PM, John Richard Moser wrote:
I like to think of programs like kernels, or kernels like programs.
Either way, I like to treat applications like microkernels. In the
embedded scene, this may actually be critical; maybe you should
think that
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd like to draw devel@'s attention to trac bug 5537, which might land
sometime soon:
http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5537
The upshot would be that, instead of logging in directly as root with
no password, you would log in directly as *olpc* with no password, and
then
Jordan Crouse wrote:
On 18/12/07 12:39 -0500, Chris Ball wrote:
Hi,
However, you appear to be correct about the oprofile kernel.
$ grep OPROFILE config*
config-olpc-generic:# CONFIG_OPROFILE is not set
It is enabled in our kernel:
-bash-3.2# grep OPROFILE
Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
(adding devel@ and Bernhard Rosenkraenzer to Cc list)
Samuel Klein wrote:
Two questions for you:
1) is anyone working on a slimmed-down version of QT? It looks as though
it would be 30M of code and dependencies not in our current image. (see
It's always
Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
Yesterday I tried upgrading yoyride to Fedora 8, to see
how much pain it would be.
After enabling the fedora repo in /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo and
tweaking it to make it fetch from version 8, I just did:
init 3
yum -y dist-upgrade --exclude poppler
Morgan Collett wrote:
Yes, the presence service operates either over the mesh, or via a Jabber
server if you have Internet access. However due to scalability issues,
the G1G1 software is not configured with a real jabber server by
default. There is no way we could handle the 100,000 G1G1
C. Scott Ananian wrote:
On Dec 5, 2007 10:15 PM, Albert Cahalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Finally we have the problem of NO systems programming language
being supplied. It's less than 9 MB for the whole C development
environment, including a decent collection of *-devel packages.
You even get
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