On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Patrick Jahenr
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Hi there,
We are a group of 15 collegians, studying 'Applied Computer Science'
at the University of Applied Sciences in Iserlohn (Germany) and we
Wilkommen!
are looking for a project for the OLPC within the scope
I was perhaps under the mistaken impression that OLPC was dumping
machines to developers like candy again after a hiatus due to a
logistical snafu. Hmm.
-walter
2008/4/29 NoiseEHC [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Actually it is a funny proposal since without real XO machines it is a
little bit hard to
I've been told that machines will be sent to the people that provide a
convincing description of what they want to work on.
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developer_program#How_to_apply_for_an_XO
Thanks,
Tomeu
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was perhaps
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Jacob Haddon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
First, forgive the suggestion if it is thought up, or implemented or just
plain a bad idea. I am still running 652 so i can be of help to other G1G1
users.
One thing that strikes me is multiple journal
Hi,
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 9:26 PM, James Simmons
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I, too have suggestions for the Journal:
1). The Journal should show, as a percentage perhaps, how much disk
space is free in the Journal, or in whatever removeable media (SD card,
Thumb drive) the user is
It seems the latest updates to Joyride is not propagated to where ever
olpc-update get its update info from. It stopped working after 1898
http://dev.laptop.org/~rwh/announcer/joyride-pkgs.html
Karl
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On 29.04.2008, at 15:11, karl wrote:
It seems the latest updates to Joyride is not propagated to where ever
olpc-update get its update info from. It stopped working after 1898
http://dev.laptop.org/~rwh/announcer/joyride-pkgs.html
According to my log, the last 10 joyride builds simply did
2008/4/29 NoiseEHC [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Okay, it seems that I extrapolated my attempt to the current situation.
~9 months ago I have applied for a physical machine (or for a login to a
physical machine) since the databook missed a lot of information
regarding assembly instruction scheduling
Okay, it seems that I extrapolated my attempt to the current situation.
~9 months ago I have applied for a physical machine (or for a login to a
physical machine) since the databook missed a lot of information
regarding assembly instruction scheduling on the Geode. I was told to
look up
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 7:23 PM, Martin Langhoff
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On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 5:14 AM, Eben Eliason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 10:33:13AM -0400, Eben Eliason wrote:
I am sorry but I cannot recall a message from you about this (can be
eaten by the spam filter or simply lost?). I mean that you have always
answered my questions about the video driver and similar thing (thanks
again) just not those processor core questions so I supposed that it is
not your
On 29/04/08 17:41 +0200, NoiseEHC wrote:
On this page
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Geode_LX
I have named some instructions as Synchronized ops (in the MMX
section). Are those real or did I mismeasured something?
That section is very difficult to understand. I'm not sure which
operations you
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 7:42 AM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 9:26 PM, James Simmons
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I, too have suggestions for the Journal:
1). The Journal should show, as a percentage perhaps, how much disk
space is free in the
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 5:18 AM, NoiseEHC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have just found this link:
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~driscoll/fuse-nt.pdf
This is a report about a failed IFS-FUSE attempt.
They ended with a loopback SMB server what should the Sugar windows port
should follow IMHO.
Hello Kim,
I just talked with the people of OLPC Italia. They asked me
again if they could roll their own build on all laptops after
they receive them.
They'be put the translations in Pootle already. I can help
them creating the custom build. They say they will test it
themselves of course.
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Bernie Innocenti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A few dumb questions that I've been forgetting to ask for weeks:
- Is there anyone who maintains the activity packs to keep
them up to date for new deployments?
We just had this discussion with Kim yesterday.
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Bernie Innocenti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just talked with the people of OLPC Italia. They asked me
again if they could roll their own build on all laptops after
they receive them.
They'be put the translations in Pootle already. I can help
them
I could very well be way off target with this suggestion, but an
implementation of Groups (background reading, though not quite up to
date:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Human_Interface_Guidelines/The_Laptop_Experience/Zoom_Metaphor#Groups)
seems like a perfect place for some additional help.
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz
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| On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 3:25 PM, James Simmons
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| Eben,
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| You bring up some points I hadn't considered.
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 8:32 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1. Sugar design guidelines.
Windows developers would port existing applications (Word, for
example) and provide simplified interfaces matching the Sugar UI
guidelines, but these activities would not share any code or
The SD card
is deliberately made difficult to remove. If someone buys and installs
an SD card perhaps it should be considered a part of the Journal
itself. More like buying a second hard drive for your system than
plugging in something removeable. So now I have just one Journal with
2.5
Dear world,
In lieu of having an IRC meeting tomorrow to discuss software issues,
please reply to this thread with a status update on your work since last
week and with any issues that you feel need to be (re)triaged.
Thanks,
Michael
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On 30/04/08 01:21 +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
Jordan asserted on irc that all that was needed to enable lower resolutions
than 1200x900 on the XO was to add an appropriate mode line, all the
support should be in the X server.
Now, I made an xorg.conf with an 800x600 mode, but when
The action USB key offers the capability to customize the XOs nand image
automatically.
It is also possible to set certain function perform at every boot.
It is a very usefull tool to customize quickly many XOs, collect information
to the usb, transfer files to the XO etc..
The required can be
thanks giannis and mstone, I look forward to playing w/ this
On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 20:41 -0400, Giannis Galanis wrote:
**this mail was sent a couple of times, due to devel bounces
The action USB key offers the capability to customize the XOs nand
image automatically.
It is also possible to
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:11 PM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That would be _very_ costly on the server side. Let the rsync
complete, and do a bulk import.
Ok, we just have to take in account that the bulk import will block
all activity requiring the DS.
This is a once-only
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 3:37 AM, Eben Eliason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 7:23 PM, Martin Langhoff
I was actually referring to a case where the child wanted to do a
restore on their current laptop, rather than a new one, in which case
no new association is needed and it
[resend - now via the list properly]
This Sunday I will be hosting a small Happy Dev House event in
Wellington (NZ) and an ex-colleague who is a top-notch professional
software tester will be coming around with possibly some more testers.
Are there areas or builds that needs special focus? I
Hi Bernie,
Yes SKU 23 will come from Quanta with the 'ak' flag set (no activation lease
needed). To 'roll' your own builds, you will need developer keys.
I can make you the technical contact on the activation server to get the
developer keys, or you can designate someone else.
You can get the
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Eben Eliason wrote:
| In other words, the Journal and the interactions with it are so tied
| to the system already, that one would still have to manually copy
| pretty much anything one wants onto the SD card or external device
| anyway. The only
storage. The mechanisms required for handling removable media, USB hard
drives, and networked storage, are all essentially the same.
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Technically, I think this would mean that the metadata are stored on the
NAND, with some UID of the associated file. The file, if not present on the
NAND,
We are a group of 15 collegians, studying 'Applied Computer Science'
at the University of Applied Sciences in Iserlohn (Germany) and we
are looking for a project for the OLPC within the scope of our subject
Computer-Networks. Our professor (Prof. Martin Hühne) let us choose
our own topic,
Holger mentioned the Plat'Home machines recently featured on
Slashdot... Wad and myself looked at the specs recently. Overall, they
are good, I think the summary is:
- Good kit - sealed, fanless, flash RAM, lots to like...
- RAM ceiling is too low. 512MB would be the minimum workable RAM right
Hi Martin,
On Tuesday 29 April 2008 22:41, Martin Langhoff wrote:
If those same machines could be ordered with RAM ranging from 512 to
2GB... instant love ;-) -- add a fanless ext USB drive enclosure and
run run run.
did you contact the manufacturer?
regards,
Holger
2008/4/30 Holger Levsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Tuesday 29 April 2008 22:41, Martin Langhoff wrote:
If those same machines could be ordered with RAM ranging from 512 to
2GB... instant love ;-) -- add a fanless ext USB drive enclosure and
run run run.
did you contact the manufacturer?
Hi
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Holger mentioned the Plat'Home machines recently featured on
Slashdot... Wad and myself looked at the specs recently. Overall, they
are good, I think the summary is:
- Good kit - sealed, fanless, flash RAM, lots
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