Having received a lot of publicity, the OLPC project is a great
candidate for criticism, sometimes constructive, other times done in the
absence of other serious academic research.
Potentially weak security models in windows is no news, but in OLPC...
Now this is worth taking a shot at!
John R.Hogerhuis wrote:
Let me take a crack at it...
The closest thing to a valid criticism here is that bitfrost does not protect
political dissidents from government monitoring and control. Similarly, a
valid
criticism of my shampoo is that it doesn't protect me from falling satellites.
Bryan Berry wrote:
howdy,
I am training two teachers from our pilot schools how to maintain the
XO, XS, and networking equipment.
I have create a wiki page of the training program I have put together
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Nepal:_Support_Training
i would very much appreciate the
Ah, the old days were cutting out the images and putting the whole
thing on one's cell phone.
Seriously, one might consider: http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Simple is about 10,000 articles written in simple English, aimed at
children trying to learn English.
FYI, Charles.
On Tue,
2008/4/9 Charles Merriam [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hmm.. More details?
Hi, google told me this may interest you ;)
http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/ch-rpm-reloc.html
Cheers,
Tomeu
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On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 6:21 AM, Mitch Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It would have been nice if the criticisms had been delivered directly to
OLPC, instead of broadcast in a public forum, where enemies of OLPC can
cite and expand on them as evidence that OLPC is hopelessly screwed up,
so
It depends on the contents of the rpm. In some cases you would need to
rebuild...
Marco
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 6:20 AM, Benjamin M. Schwartz
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I am trying to construct an activity that is simple, but depends on a
Fedora
I'm a bit slow, being a bugbear of very little brain.
I read the paper, and it seems to summarize as:
1. The BitFrost Specification is documentation, not detailed
implementation. The author does not read code.
2. BitFrost does not promise anonymity.
3. BitFrost does not cover how to
Pushed, will be in next sugar release.
Thanks, Martin!
Tomeu
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 4:41 PM, Eben Eliason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, I'm fine with this.
- Eben
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 6:53 AM, Martin Dengler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Eben,
There's been a trac bug open for a
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 6:21 AM, Charles Merriam
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ah, the old days were cutting out the images and putting the whole
thing on one's cell phone.
:-)
Seriously, one might consider: http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Simple is about 10,000 articles written in
[fixed the server-devel list address]
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 6:21 AM, Charles Merriam
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ah, the old days were cutting out the images and putting the whole
thing on one's cell phone.
:-)
Seriously, one might consider: http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 3:38 AM, Bryan Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The XS guide would be extremely useful. I am concerned about creating a
guide for it when it is still under rapid development. Please make sure
you are in close contact w/ Martin Langhoff so you don't have to
document a
Charles,
An attempt to answer some of your questions:
Could someone let me know if *all* the BitFrost implementation is opensource?
yes
Long lived photograph/name/laptop pairing is made.
In current implementations, there is no photograph, so any discussion
of the implementation details is
benjamin m. schwartz wrote:
I am trying to construct an activity that is simple, but depends on a
Fedora 7 RPM that is not installed by default. The security system
prevents my activity from installing any RPMs, as it should. However, I
would like to include this software within my
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Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
| It depends on the contents of the rpm. In some cases you would need to
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OK, how about instructions starting with a SRPM?
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On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz
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Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
| It depends on the contents of the rpm. In some cases you would need to
| rebuild...
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OK, how about instructions starting with a
Hello all you fabulous people. After much review and consulting an
electrical engineer who owed me a favor I was able to get into the XO and
figure out what had happened. The Zener Diode D13 had indeed fried, I
removed it and the system works again. I will replace it with something
suitable
Charles Merriam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I read the paper, and it seems to summarize as:
1. The BitFrost Specification is documentation, not detailed
implementation. The author does not read code.
[...]
It seems like OLPC F. should issue an immediate (preemptive) response saying:
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/faster/build1847
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On 09.04.2008 05:50, Jaya Kumar wrote:
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Joshua N Pritikin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 10:24:34PM -0400, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote:
A paper called Freezing More Than Bits: Chilling Effects of the OLPC XO
Security Model will be
It's nice to see a python toolchain for this (though I don't see any code at
that url?) They exist in other languages as well. We've been working with
Linterweb's Kiwix (kiwix.org) and the Schools-Wikipedia, which use their own
toolchains.
Alecu, take a look at the [[wikislice]] project on the
I'm not a security expert and won't even BEGIN to comment on that aspect.
My only comment is that one true measure of success is the prominence
of your detractors.
SO rather then getting noses out of joint, I'd suggest taking it as a
compliment and true measure of success that the project was
My terminology in the preceding letter was bad. Rather than resend the fixed
version, I put it on the wiki:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Bundles_and_updates. Please read that
instead of the letter above: it has all the same content,
but with better clarity, and one added paragraph near the end.
Sorry for clogging people's inboxes, but, in the spirit of having a livelier
discussion on the mailing list, here are the most-changed sections from the
wiki page. If we reach some conclusion here, I will take responsibility for
keepint the wiki page up-to-date.
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Martin Langhoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yesterday we had a mini-sprint with argentinian pythonistas and we
discussed Alecu's CDPedia which is a Python toolchain that does are
good job of cutting a slice of wikipedia and cutting off the least
interesting
Chris
Thank you for the feedback and for sharing your experience.
I'm glad to know your XO is fine now.
Please do include what voltage you used (and approx how long if
possible) that made this happen.
many thanks
Arjun
2008/4/9 Chris Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hello all you fabulous people.
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Samuel Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's nice to see a python toolchain for this (though I don't see any code at
that url?) They exist in other languages as well. We've been working with
Linterweb's Kiwix (kiwix.org) and the Schools-Wikipedia, which use their
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Samuel Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's nice to see a python toolchain for this (though I don't see any code at
that url?) They exist in other languages as well. We've been working with
Linterweb's Kiwix (kiwix.org) and the Schools-Wikipedia, which use their
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1849
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2007/9/14 Arjun Sarwal [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Measure Activity on the XO
(The Activity which converts the XO into an oscilloscope, a spectrum
analyzer and a data logger !)
[Improvements snipped]
How can you help ?
I wrote a report some years ago under the title Personal Instruments,
talking about
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/faster/build1850
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On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 9:00 PM, Richard A. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Edward Cherlin wrote:
Use the stereo input channels as sources for XY plots and for
two-channel input, either in half-screen windows or on the same axes.
The two data sources can be plotted in different colors.
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