Stuck in tin cans again, I've been looking at building an OLPC kernel
based on 2.6.24, starting by going through the diffs between our stable
tree and 2.6.22 (on which it's based).
Ideally, we should be committing almost nothing directly to our tree --
it should _all_ be going upstream. As much
Dear all,
I did reflash my OLPC NAND into joyride 1501, and afterward rebooted
it. When I did login as root, it asked me password. Can you kindly
let me know what the password is?
Thanks,
Sung-Hyuck
On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 20:45 -0500, Albert Cahalan wrote:
Bernardo Innocenti writes:
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 07:42:55AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear all,
I did reflash my OLPC NAND into joyride 1501, and afterward rebooted
it. When I did login as root, it asked me password. Can you kindly
let me know what the password is?
root's locked -- log in as olpc and
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1535/
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David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If we don't do it like that, we need to remember to chase our changes
upstream. Here's a quick summary of what looks like it needs to be
(cleaned up and) pushed upstream...
[...]
Jon Corbet:
Some cafe_ccic.c changes
Actually, I've sent all of
Hello all,
we finally managed to finish the first few chapters of the Activity
Handbook that we've been working on. The purpose of this handbook is to
provide you with all the information you need in order to get started
with software development for the OLPC XO.
The current draft includes
The idea of activity sharing supports several important forms of classroom
interaction, and can be stretched to accommodate many more. However the
focus on constructionism means there's a lack of support for teacher-centric
interactions, even ones which are useful in constructionist learning.
On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 06:48 -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
Actually, I've sent all of my changes into the mainline; I *believe*
that things need to go the other way. There were some things I put in
which ran afoul of a freeze on the OLPC side.
Sounds good to me; I'll just drop any cafe_ccic
On 14/01/08 19:21 +0800, David Woodhouse wrote:
Jordan:
[PATCH] Add a configuration option to avoid automatically probing VGA
I still stand by this - but I'm not sure how it will be received upstream -
and it will have to be aggressively refactored for the brave new world of
the combined
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 07:42:55 -0500
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: devel@lists.laptop.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: xo root passwd
Dear all,
I did reflash my OLPC NAND into joyride 1501, and afterward rebooted
it.
My mother-in-law is an 8th grade teacher in Nobleboro, ME. Maine has had an
Apple laptop program for the past few years in which all 8th graders receive
personal iBooks that they can take home with them.
She has a feature where she can silently watch a single student's screen at
a time via a VNC
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Wade Brainerd wrote:
My mother-in-law is an 8th grade teacher in Nobleboro, ME. Maine has had an
Apple laptop program for the past few years in which all 8th graders receive
personal iBooks that they can take home with them.
She has a feature where she can silently watch
Yeah, I was thinking along these lines with the Pop Quiz activity.
The teacher (the activity initiator) gets a screen showing a box for a
question, a box for the answer, and a box for every student that is sharing
the activity.
She types in a question, it is posed to the children, they type in
I'm the student Mike mentioned who will be working on this project.
Does anyone have any more details on how much low level work needs to
be done? I know there will need to be work done to map the input from
the tablet to X events. Is the device driver fully functional?
I'd appreciate any more
You can watch the output of the PT by downloading and compiling evtest:
wget http://david.woodhou.se/evtest.c
gcc -o evtest evtest.c
./evtest /dev/input/event5 0
It's event5 on my XO, you might have to use a different number.
Anyway, then drag something around on the PT and watch the output.
I'm still noodling around, trying to settle on a good design for develop. It
looks as if libglade would be nice to have. The interfaces it uses are
loaded directly from XML, which makes them separate from the source code. I
did a naive 'yum install libglade' and my XO pulled 100k for the library
Teacher screen grab: that would be good. A view of which people use what
applications is also useful, because it can fit the whole class on screen -
and it's pretty close to what you already get in the friends view. So, is it
possible under Bitfrost for a background activity to grab the screen AND
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From: Benjamin M. Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Until you have released the above, please avoid spending time on version
control
(which might be solved by the Journal), translatable code, fancy
automatic typo
detection, GUI builders, and all the other proposed
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From: Jameson \Chema\ Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(note that this also protects against student hackers who would like to
write a version that always shows the teacher the screen the student
wants...)
It most pointedly doesn't. Bitfrost activity signing is not a
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Jameson Chema Quinn wrote:
I'm still noodling around, trying to settle on a good design for
develop. It looks as if libglade would be nice to have.
Prior to this summer, I had never written a GUI. I was creating an Activity, so
I tried Glade and
On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 15:41 -0600, Jameson Chema Quinn wrote:
I'm still noodling around, trying to settle on a good design for
develop. It looks as if libglade would be nice to have. The interfaces
it uses are loaded directly from XML, which makes them separate from
the source code. I did a
2008/1/14 Wade Brainerd [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Yeah, I was thinking along these lines with the Pop Quiz activity.
The teacher (the activity initiator) gets a screen showing a box for a
question, a box for the answer, and a box for every student that is sharing
the activity.
She types in a
On Jan 14, 2008, at 18:03 , Wilhelm Fitzpatrick wrote:
I'm trying to understand the legal state of MP3 versus the OLPC
platform. Looking at this wiki page:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Restricted_Formats
Seems to indicate that handling MP3 requires a license, and thus an
MP3 decoders is not
I'm trying to understand the legal state of MP3 versus the OLPC
platform. Looking at this wiki page:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Restricted_Formats
Seems to indicate that handling MP3 requires a license, and thus an
MP3 decoders is not packaged by default, yet I know I can open and
play
On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 15:03 -0800, Wilhelm Fitzpatrick wrote:
I'm trying to understand the legal state of MP3 versus the OLPC
platform. Looking at this wiki page:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Restricted_Formats
Seems to indicate that handling MP3 requires a license, and thus an
MP3
2008/1/14 Wade Brainerd [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
My mother-in-law is an 8th grade teacher in Nobleboro, ME. Maine has had an
Apple laptop program for the past few years in which all 8th graders receive
personal iBooks that they can take home with them.
Is your mother-in-law interested in discussing
Thanks for the reality check. But:
I don't see any reason to include Glade, unless you also intend to include
complete a complementary graphical interface builder tuned for Activities.
That
would be a multi-year project.
I disagree, it's just a matter of making a widget catalog.
The
I'm happy to announce a beta release of the Creative Commons licensing
activity for the XO.
This activity is a comic reader that includes simple English text to
explain the images. This is based on a comic we published a few weeks
back that was written with the XO audience in mind:
I'd strongly suggest incrementally extending Pippy (making a Poppy)
to add functionality, instead of starting from scratch. That way, at
every point you will have a working application which is better than
what we have now, minimizing the chance that this will be Yet Another
Ambitious Develop
On Jan 14, 2008 7:10 PM, Asheesh Laroia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm happy to announce a beta release of the Creative Commons licensing
activity for the XO.
Do you have suggestions on integrating this with Pippy and (say)
Paint? For example, if you could copy the license choice to the
Actually I think you're assuming (incorrectly) that the text matching
feature is the only way questions are graded in my (hypothetical) activity
:)
In the description, the teacher has the ability to override whether or not
the answer is correct or partially correct before it is reported to the
There was a nice project done in Chile using Ipacks: the teacher
would pose a problem and the children would formulate an answer. Then
they'd gather in groups of four and pool their answers. Each group of
four would then reach consensus on an answer they thought was correct.
All of the group
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1536/
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-totem.i386 0:2.18.2-11
+totem.i386 0:2.18.2-12
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+totem-mozplugin.i386 0:2.18.2-12
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On 1/14/08, Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To be shipped on the OLPC platform, code and binaries must be a few
things:
1) Open Source
2) Free of known patent encumbrance
3) Redistributable/transferrable
You will notice that the XO laptop ships with support for three audio
codecs
On Jan 14, 2008 4:10 PM, Asheesh Laroia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm happy to announce a beta release of the Creative Commons licensing
activity for the XO.
This activity is a comic reader that includes simple English text to
explain the images. This is based on a comic we published a few
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Edward Cherlin wrote:
On Jan 14, 2008 4:10 PM, Asheesh Laroia [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I'm happy to announce a beta release of the Creative Commons licensing
activity for the XO.
This activity is a comic reader that includes simple English text to
explain the
Edward Cherlin wrote:
I am disappointed that there is no mention of CC-Developing Nations licenses.
The Developing Nations license is no longer recommended for use; it has been
retired. See:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/devnations/2.0/
Phil B.
Ed,
1. There are two kinds of good patent attorneys. One kind works pro
bono for free software and the other gets paid big bucks by patent
holders.
There is a 3rd kind - the kind that works for a law firm specifically
funded to assist free software projects. For example, the Software
2008/1/15, Jameson Chema Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
The idea of activity sharing supports several important forms of classroom
interaction, and can be stretched to accommodate many more. However the
focus on constructionism means there's a lack of support for teacher-centric
interactions, even
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