Albert Cahalan wrote:
> Ton van Overbeek writes:
>
>
>> This version (TuxPaint-2) of TuxPaint for the OLPC-XO fixes several issues
>> with the original version (TuxPaint-1) by Albert Calahan.
>>
>
> Uh, are you intending to take over? I haven't seen any discussion on
> the tuxpaint-devel ma
Folks -
There have been a number of questions about press coverage late last week
from Peru concerning the introduction of XO laptops running XP and Office.
Microsoft has previously ordered a number of XO laptops for XP testing and
pilot deployment. The usage and distribution of these machines fo
For consideration in your testing: there are some ways to tune the
performance of Flash, such as the video playback hack described here:
http://olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=845.0
I don't know if there are similar hacks for improving general
performance of Flash (or Gnash) on lesser-powered
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Walter Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> For consideration in your testing: there are some ways to tune the
> performance of Flash, such as the video playback hack described here:
>
> http://olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=845.0
>
> I don't know if there are s
all my comments are directed at Gregs email, so I suppose I should
have replied to him... I hope this doesn't cause too much confusion...
bobby
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Bobby Powers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Walter Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
Hi!
It seems that B2s do not have the serial recovery connector. I opened
one that seems really bricked (when turned on only the power light is
on, and removing battery and AC for some time do not fix it) and found
just the place holder for the connector. Is that a way to save this
B2?
By the way
> Message: 5
> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:58:14 -0400
> From: "Ricardo Carrano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Recovery connector?
> To: Devel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Hi!
>
> It seems that B2s do not have the s
Mitch,
Thank you for the answer. Yes, no doubt it is clearly stated in the
wiki that this firmware is not to be used on B2. And it was just
confirmed that this B2 was updated to a recent build with q2e14. There
you go.
Let's see if the team have good skills with an iron...
Thank you so much!
Ch
Thanks for talking to us.
This would be even more useful as the basis for an article or
editorial in one or more of the computer magazines or Web sites, or a
fact-filled press release. All of the media people I have talked with
say they would like to hear from OLPC.
We don't have to frame it as u
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 6:13 AM, Douglas Bagnall
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In an effort to test the activation server on the new Fedora 9 based
> XS, I enabled security on a couple of laptops without leases.
>
> I was expecting them to go through their routine of checking USB, SD
> and network f
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2443
Changes in build 2443 from build: 2442
Size delta: -0.14M
-sugar-update-control 0.12-1
+sugar-update-control 0.13-1
-sugar-toolkit 0.82.7-1.olpc3
+sugar-toolkit 0.82.8-2.olpc3
--- Changes for sugar-update-control 0.13-1 from 0.12-1
So far the semantic form for activities is very rough in actual data-points
and very rough in layout.
On the actual form, I think that there needs to be some small changes; a
drop down for languages, ability to add wiki-pages in certain fields instead
of urls, etc.
On the form's display, it would
Ton, in talking to Seth and SJ, it seems like the 'registered users
only' option has a few more tweaks in practice. You need to be
registered *for at least four days* and you need to have made N number
of edits already (I think N is three). I poked them to respond to
this thread with the exact de
The Help activity is about to be used on a bunch of laptops (via the
G1G1 activity page/activity updater)!
The activity itself was originally written by marcopg, and its content
is being (manually) generated from the FlossManuals remix system:
http://en.flossmanuals.net/remix . It is a combination
Ricardo Carrano wrote:
> confirmed that this B2 was updated to a recent build with q2e14. There
> you go.
> Let's see if the team have good skills with an iron...
Ricardo,
I'm sorry you missed my post on devel that e series firmware would brick
B2's.
Let me encourage you to replace that B2 w
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 8:04 AM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You need a signed build if you are going to enable security. 759 is
> not signed. 714 is the most recent signed build.
Odd. I am pretty sure we tested the simple lease server (on port 191)
before with machines that ha
Am 16.09.2008 um 22:27 schrieb Seth Woodworth:
> So far the semantic form for activities is very rough in actual data-
> points and very rough in layout.
>
> On the actual form, I think that there needs to be some small
> changes; a drop down for languages, ability to add wiki-pages in
> cert
John Gilmore wrote:
>
> I don't know why my power measurements are much higher than Richard's
> from February (he got 3.9W to 4.9W where I got 5.9W). I tend to trust
> his more, since mine are one-shot samples, but my dimmer measurements
> do tend to corroborate each other (i.e. none of them got
Gary C Martin wrote:
> I just have a B4 here to test but I was curious to try some power
> measurement to see how they differed. I seem to have a slightly worrying
> status that's not listed on the wiki page.
Kernel bug. Fixed in current joyride. Also the status values changed
and the overall
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2444
Changes in build 2444 from build: 2443
Size delta: 0.14M
-etoys 3.0.2141-1
+etoys 3.0.2147-1
-rainbow 0.7.22-1.fc9
+rainbow 0.7.23-1.fc9
-sugar 0.82.6-1.olpc3
+sugar 0.82.7-1.olpc3
--- Changes for etoys 3.0.2147-1 from 3.0.2141-1 -
Hey Richard!
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Richard A. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ricardo Carrano wrote:
>
>> confirmed that this B2 was updated to a recent build with q2e14. There
>> you go.
>
>> Let's see if the team have good skills with an iron...
>
> Ricardo,
>
> I'm sorry you misse
You can add anchors to pages in the wiki, so you could do Activities#X
-walter
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Bert Freudenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Am 16.09.2008 um 22:27 schrieb Seth Woodworth:
>
>> So far the semantic form for activities is very rough in actual data-
>> points and ver
Am 16.09.2008 um 23:14 schrieb Walter Bender:
> You can add anchors to pages in the wiki, so you could do Activities#X
My wiki-fu is not strong enough ... and I do not see "anchors"
mentioned on
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Help:Editing
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Ricardo Carrano wrote:
>
> Thank you for your care and advice.
>
> This B2s belongs to a University in Rio, that actually has 23 B2s.
> They are pretty useful devices for networking tests and I am helping
> this group to mount a sparse mesh testbed with them. We already
> "saved" this B2 by usin
On 16.09.2008 18:26, Mitch Bradley wrote:
> E-series firmware prior to q2e17c will brick B2, as indicated by the
> bright red warnings at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Firmware .
>
Could you perhaps add a warning for B1 as well (if appropriate)?
Regards,
Carl-Daniel
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Richard A. Smith wrote:
> My measurements were taken with the CPU off across long periods so that
> activity was minimal. (I spent an entire Sunday taking them as I did
> other chores). With the CPU off the fluctuation of the power draw is
> greatly reduced. This could be the reason. I will
Hi all,
> This would be even more useful as the basis for an article or
> editorial in one or more of the computer magazines or Web sites, or a
> fact-filled press release. All of the media people I have talked with
> say they would like to hear from OLPC.
>
> We don't have to frame it as us vs
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 3:27 AM, Pia Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>
>
>> This would be even more useful as the basis for an article or
>> editorial in one or more of the computer magazines or Web sites, or a
>> fact-filled press release. All of the media people I have talked with
>
Jim took over my weekly community news digest for OLPC. It tends to
have a lot of information, not necessarily actionable, about
deployments. Alas, it tends to be more cheer leading than anything
else, where as the technical content has some depth (or at least
pointers to some depth).
-walter
On
On 16 Sep 2008, at 21:54, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> As an activity author I'd love to have a single place to edit when a
> new release is made. The box appearing on the Activities page should
> be automatically created from the the activity's page, if you know
> what I mean.
>
> I made an ap
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 1:47 PM, James Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've 703 and 2311 available to compare. Here's a few things I found.
>
> --
>
> A test to compare available memory by eliminating buffer cache.
>
> Method: boot, wait for UI to be stable, switch to text console, echo 3 >
>
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 6:38 PM, Richard A. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ricardo Carrano wrote:
>
>>
>> Thank you for your care and advice.
>>
>> This B2s belongs to a University in Rio, that actually has 23 B2s.
>> They are pretty useful devices for networking tests and I am helping
>> this
Actually, even more interestingly you could update data in any one of these
forms, and then call that data in a different format on the [[Activities]]
page, the [[/Activities/G1G1]] page, or even in another language.
Setting that the Property:LatestVersion for the page [[Help_(activity)]] can
be a
Am 16.09.2008 um 22:54 schrieb Bert Freudenberg:
>
> (hehe, wouldn't http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities#X be a nicer
> link? No way to do that I fear)
Oh, thanks to Walter this works now :)
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Tried to install (on joyride 2442) with sugar-install-bundle. It
gave me the error message: MalformedBundleException: All files in
the bundle must be inside a single directory whose name ends with
"*.activity"
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On 16 Sep 2008, at 22:46, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
Tried to install (on joyride 2442) with sugar-install-bundle. It
gave me the error message: MalformedBundleException: All files in
the bundle must be inside a single directory whose name ends with
"*.activity"
Not sure if this is related, but j
I just uploaded a slightly tweaked Help-5.xo which has some minor
packaging-related issues fixed. That seems to upgrade fine (for me at
least).
There are some licensing issues with Help-5 -- it doesn't include the
licensing section from the original manual, and claims GPLv2 (only)
when apparently
We are going forward recommending that medium-to-large networks are
based on conventional APs. However, we still have at least one
mechanism that works in mesh and not in conventional 802.11.a/b/g .
The mechanism I am thinking of is initial lease activation (over port
191) which uses mesh and IPv6
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Martin Langhoff
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> with some caveats... this is a developer preview, lots of things are
> b0rken, but still...
some caveats, but now most stuff works. Wohoo! Updated instructions...
- download all 759MB of iso here
http://xs-dev.laptop.o
C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> Ton, in talking to Seth and SJ, it seems like the 'registered users
> only' option has a few more tweaks in practice. You need to be
> registered *for at least four days* and you need to have made N number
> of edits already (I think N is three). I poked them to respond
Thanks Scott, and apologies to all -- I did a crap job bundling help-3
via zip (I was just told to get an activity bundle out quickly so
people can hack on/fix it). Using setup.py is much, much better -- and
look, it makes a MANIFEST :-D
And for the lazy, you can get help-5:
(1) through the activ
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 6:57 PM, Pia Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>
>
>> This would be even more useful as the basis for an article or
>> editorial in one or more of the computer magazines or Web sites, or a
>> fact-filled press release. All of the media people I have talked with
>
[I posted bug #8524 re lease activation not working on AP's.]
Another mechanism that only works on Mesh is sharing "under a tree".
It's perfectly feasible for four or five kids with laptops, all
sitting under a tree, to share over ad-hoc 802.11 mode. They don't
need a mesh that forwards packets;
Hi Pia,
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Pia Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> This would be even more useful as the basis for an article or
>> editorial in one or more of the computer magazines or Web sites, or a
>> fact-filled press release. All of the media people I have talked with
>> sa
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 12:46 PM, John Gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [I posted bug #8524 re lease activation not working on AP's.]
>
> Another mechanism that only works on Mesh is sharing "under a tree".
Ah, this is a bit of a misunderstanding :-)
- The laptops will continue to have mesh
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John Gilmore wrote:
| [I posted bug #8524 re lease activation not working on AP's.]
|
| Another mechanism that only works on Mesh is sharing "under a tree".
|
| It's perfectly feasible for four or five kids with laptops, all
| sitting under a tree, to
John,
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 9:46 PM, John Gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [I posted bug #8524 re lease activation not working on AP's.]
>
> Another mechanism that only works on Mesh is sharing "under a tree".
>
> It's perfectly feasible for four or five kids with laptops, all
> sitting unde
> (Actually, Sugar will also find
> any nearby Macs running Avahi, but doesn't quite know
> what to do with them.)
Chat between Bonjour clients works today. So the XOs know some things
to do with a MAC.
-walter
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The xs-config package creates a file called /fsckoptions (yes, in /),
to stop headless servers from stalling on fsck questions.
This file is deleted by anaconda, some time after the end of ks.cfg's
%post section. To be sure, I used:
%post
#[...]
if [ -e /fsckoptions ]; then
touch /root/
Sorry, can't connect to Trac atm as I'm dialing in via my mobile phone.
Why is the Activity Handbook depreciated? And what's the connection to
the help activity? The Activity Handbook (just like the Sugar Almanac)
is targeted at people who are interested in developing activities for
the Sugar p
And to add 2 cents further,. . . about public announcements and reports of
current events...
. . . about 6 months ago a handful of us "cheerful support-gang
volunteer types" started to put together a 'public friendly' newsletter of
the various happenings we got one issue out, and then no
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Martin Langhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> - under a tree using mesh+avahi, and
>
> - G1G1 users at a cafe with wifi using AP and avahi
>
When at a cafe with wifi, the laptops should be able to contact their jabber
server, which will mean they will be using
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 03:07:35PM +1000, Stephen Thorne wrote:
> This means two laptops from neighbouring schools who each have their
> 'own' schoolserver set up as their jabber server will not be able to
> share any content if they are close enough to receive wireless signal
> to the internet.
T
Ricardo Carrano said:
> There are technical challenges in the way, but OLPC should keep
> pushing this for the benefits it will bring. It seems a perfect fit
> with the Mission.
Mesh and the Marvell WiFi chip have been two of the big
disappointments of the OLPC. The mesh implementation simply doe
Hi Tarun,
I'm looking briefly at edublog's moodle code. Was hoping to be able to
cherry-pick the patches making the html editor changes, but your
"initial" moodle commit is with the _modified_ moodle already...?
I am looking at ab1232242ab51336e9b0fc9aed1443bc35fe1d49 - but from
what I can see, t
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 5:26 PM, John Gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> My understanding is that it
>> works automagically between XOs on the same AP -- but may have
>> limitations and possibly bugs as it's not something we push (and it's
>> not something we
Scott wrote:
> You need a signed build if you are going to enable security. 759 is
> not signed. 714 is the most recent signed build.
The 4 button install of 714 worked; thanks Scott and Mitch.
In the process, I noticed that it looks to download fs.zip from the
school server. That is quite ne
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2448
Changes in build 2448 from build: 2444
Size delta: 0.00M
-kernel 2.6.25-20080915.5.olpc.abe7a66b36f344a
+kernel 2.6.25-20080916.1.olpc.658c681b23bec45
-rainbow 0.7.23-1.fc9
+rainbow 0.7.24-1.fc9
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http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q2e18
This is the version that we hope to include in the 8.2 software bundle,
so please test it like crazy.
It won't brick B2s ...
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