perceiving connectivity

2008-02-23 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Have G1G1. Today for the first time was in a room with multiple XO users. The chief thing that was __NOT__ evident to me from moment-to-moment was: "What is connected to what"? I do not claim to understand the big picture. [I completely agree with the 'danw' comment to Ticket #1385.] To me

Common Exhibit XO questions/answers

2008-02-23 Thread Ixo X oxI
David, I recently did a presentation at our local Bellingham Linux User Group (BLUG), and staffed a table at a 'Technology Festival at Western Washington University'. You aren't kidding, I was talking non-stop about the XO , OLPC, demoing the laptop, and sharing the various features with crowds of

Re: Preparing the XOs for next week's test

2008-02-23 Thread Kim Quirk
Agreed that Read sharing is the highest priority application. My concern is if there are a lot of other things in joyride, then it will take us a long time to get a release out based on joyride. If we pull the fix for Read back into update.1, (and other things that we find next week), then we won

Re: Salut and Suspend/Resume issues

2008-02-23 Thread Jameson "Chema" Quinn
Just some bikeshedding here: Quasi-synchronising the avahi peer "still there?" queries so that they all happen together - say, within a 1-minute period every 10 minutes - was proposed as a solution so that laptops could wake up in anticipation (Benjamin Schwartz). The fact that this solution did n

Re: Preparing the XOs for next week's test

2008-02-23 Thread Walter Bender
Read sharing is a critical feature. Please do test it. -walter On 2/23/08, Morgan Collett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Giannis Galanis wrote: > > 2. I will try to update all of them with the build we will agree to > > initially test with. This would be 693/D13? > > There is a new version of t

Re: Alternative power/recharging source?

2008-02-23 Thread Jure Koren
On Friday 22 of February 2008 22:08:45 Richard A. Smith wrote: > Ed Montgomery wrote: > > hours...using gravity! :-) (Consider the XO using > > about 2 watts...) > > Where did you see that the XO uses only 2 Watts? Thats only when > suspended. > > Suspended: 2W > Running: 5-7W > Charging the bat

Re: Preparing the XOs for next week's test

2008-02-23 Thread Morgan Collett
Giannis Galanis wrote: > 2. I will try to update all of them with the build we will agree to > initially test with. This would be 693/D13? > There is a new version of telepathy-salut in 1721, which apparently only > fixes smth related to stream tube flush(which i dont know what it is). I > dont bel

Re: Alternative power/recharging source?

2008-02-23 Thread John Gilmore
There has long been a lot of confusion about power consumption. Many statements were made over the years about the *design goal* for power consumption. The XO did not actually hit that design goal -- but since suspend/resume was the last major feature to debug in the hardware, until it got to the