Re: olpc-update for arm

2011-12-21 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: According to the release notes for 11.3.0 this should work but doesn't: sudo olpc-update official_xo1.75-883 I think it's just that the update server doesn't know about xo-1.75 hw model. m --  martin.langh...@gmail.com  

Re: [OLPC Engineering] [Techteam] New F14-arm build os21

2011-12-21 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: It's a recognition that no software is bug-free, and that users (especially children) will always find a way to make a system difficult to use. For example, children often load activities without closing previous

Re: [OLPC Engineering] [Techteam] New F14-arm build os21

2011-12-21 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 22 December 2011 11:23, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: It's a recognition that no software is bug-free, and that users (especially children) will always find a way to make a system difficult

announcing 1.75 firmware Q4C08

2011-12-21 Thread Paul Fox
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q4c08 mostly this has fixes for the keyboard and touchpad data path, so that hopefully locked up and/or jumpy touchpads won't be an issue any more. if you filed a bug about one of those things earlier, it would be great if you could update it either way.

Re: [OLPC Engineering] [Techteam] New F14-arm build os21

2011-12-21 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 22 December 2011 11:32, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: On 22 December 2011 11:23, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: Do you have any other end-user use cases that have Ctrl-Alt-Erase as a solution? I'll check with our education team and get back to you. This

Re: [OLPC Engineering] [Techteam] New F14-arm build os21

2011-12-21 Thread Anish Mangal
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 07:21, Bernie Innocenti ber...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Thu, 2011-12-22 at 11:32 +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: That's exactly the feedback I was looking for, thanks. That's a UI bug in Sugar. I would strongly prefer the Sugar environment to behave more like

Re: [OLPC Engineering] [Techteam] New F14-arm build os21

2011-12-21 Thread Gary Martin
On 22 Dec 2011, at 00:23, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: It's a recognition that no software is bug-free, and that users (especially children) will always find a way to make a system difficult to use. For example,

Re: [OLPC Engineering] [Techteam] New F14-arm build os21

2011-12-21 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On Thu, 2011-12-22 at 08:10 +0530, Anish Mangal wrote: Its interesting. Uy dropped it. Py loves it. One change that does need to happen is replace the 'Cry [ :'( ]' icon with a 'Tired' one [ :'S ] . I won't say anymore than this here, there have been LONG *excited* discussions on the merit

Re: [Server-devel] OLPC and Khan Academy: Project page

2011-12-21 Thread Samuel Klein
Caryl writes: FYI... my granddaughter's algebra teacher at a private school in TX is now using the KA videos as a supplement for her Algebra class. I don't know if she got the idea because I suggested it to my gd or if it happened some other way. My gd has agreed to take notes about how the