On Oct 06 2008, at 19:12, Michael Stone was caught saying:
> On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 02:46:58PM -0700, Deepak Saxena wrote:
>> - Get ubi-utils into our buildsystem so that we can use it for building
>> official UBI images. This means either doing our own builds, or
>> preferrably, packaging it
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 8:25 PM, Gary C Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi folks, was just reading about POPEYE today, sounds real familiar to
> a certain collaboration model:
>
>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081003123244.htm
>
> The article even ends with the quote:
>
> "
Hi,
> I recall some free code that tracks battery performance over time,
> and produces increasingly accurate predictions of when your battery
> will run out, after watching your particular battery and your
> particular system for a few full power cycles. But a bit of
> searching d
> I've just noticed that release candidate 765 when fully charged tells me I
> have 2 1/2 hours of usage. This is a major concern, and something we really
What exactly is your concern?
* That the power display includes a time remaining?
* That the time remaining is wrong?
* That the time
Hi folks, was just reading about POPEYE today, sounds real familiar to
a certain collaboration model:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081003123244.htm
The article even ends with the quote:
“In the EU, where the ultimate aim is a laptop for every child, the
potential for
>
>
>
> > The whole concept of Sugar is that the user doesn't need to
> > explicitly "save files". They are automatically kept in the Sugar
> > datastore, and are accessed through the Journal interface. [In other
> > words: Don't use the traditional hierarchy of directories to locate
> > the s
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2509
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On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Erik Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 11:20:04AM -0400, elana langer wrote:
>> This is not a unique experience. This is a culture that lives close to
>> the land. Action- reaction. No one is used to "waiting" for an
>> computer to load o
Hi Elena,
I agree with your points about the way that children and professors can
perceive the XO and Sugar..and i agree that this issues are of capital
importance and the technical community is aware of those problems.
But i have to report an experience made in the field also, specifically in
> Here we come against "initial expectations".
> The whole concept of Sugar is that the user doesn't need to
> explicitly "save files". They are automatically kept in the Sugar
> datastore, and are accessed through the Journal interface. [In other
> words: Don't use the traditional hierarchy
>
>> 4) Mesh problems - my sense is that you are all pretty aware of those issues.
>
> I think we should start looking into software-level mesh protocols using
> the libertas thin firmware. This is not a solution to this problem, but
> it will at least move us to a place where we can have collabor
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 02:46:58PM -0700, Deepak Saxena wrote:
>- Get ubi-utils into our buildsystem so that we can use it for building
> official UBI images. This means either doing our own builds, or
> preferrably, packaging it into fedora as an official package.
I think this might be spelle
Hi Greg!
Thanks for your insight. Currently, the scope of our project is restricted
to the application (id est Moodle) layer, and my question was directed towards
authentication at that level.But your notes are very relevant for
installations in the future. Thank you!
In reply to your comm
mikus wrote:
> - First off, every Activity has a 'Name Field' in its top menu.
> When running any Activity, the user should enter there a short
> "Title" to identify the resulting Journal entry from all others.
>
> - Then, upon leaving that Activity, the user should "reflect" on
> w
On Oct 05 2008, at 10:50, Jim Gettys was caught saying:
> On Sat, 2008-10-04 at 16:32 -1000, Mitch Bradley wrote:
>
> > I have considered something like that off and on. It's sort of nice to
> > have a definite length for the images. There are ways around that, but
> > they are a bit ugly at s
[cc:ing devel to keep everyone in the loop]
On Oct 06 2008, at 13:01, Erik Garrison was caught saying:
> 1) drop ubifs module into initramfs
>
> 2) take initramfs and build ubifs image of / into redboot partitioned image
I'm working on the updates to the initramfs, getting a kernel image,
and a s
Disclaimer: these are my personal opinions
A feeling I have had all along is that it is not easy for a user to
develop a sense of "how to use my machine effectively". For
instance, the wiki seems to have so much information that the
visitor can get overwhelmed.
I've tried to help by putting
New Feature of the Weekly Report.
Greg's User Feedback URL of the Week (English):
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Academic_papers#Evaluation_of_the_Teaching_Matters_One_Laptop_Per_Child_.28XO.29_Pilot_at_Kappa_I_V
This is a great evaluation of an XO pilot in a NYC school.
Greg's User Feedback URL of th
Thanks for the update on how to install kqemu on Vista.
libusb0.dll is from the libusb-win32 project on Sourceforge:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/libusb-win32
Right now I am on travel in Europe through the end of the month.
When back, I will update my port (include libusb0.dll and document
Vista
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> mitch wrote:
> > >
> > > > On a related topic, I would like to see us start bundling the initrd
> > > > into the kernel image. It's certainly possible to do that with
> > > existing
> > >
> > > "into"? i'd rather see it simply concatenated,
> > B
Hey Tech Community-
I just wanted to give y'all some feedback from my experience in
Mongolia. Feel free to contact me with any questions. Please excuse my
lay language - it's how i roll.
1) Computers are slow - So I was in a Ger in the west part of Mongolia
and I thought I would show the computer
Ton van Overbeek wrote:
>
> In the kqemu-1.4.0pre1 directory right click kqemu.inf and select Install.
> See also http://bellard.org/qemu/kqemu-doc.html .
>
In Windows Vista, install KQEMU with this command line from an Administrator
CMD prompt:
rundll32.exe setupapi,InstallHinfSection De
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 11:20:04AM -0400, elana langer wrote:
> Hey Tech Community-
>
> I just wanted to give y'all some feedback from my experience in
> Mongolia. Feel free to contact me with any questions. Please excuse my
> lay language - it's how i roll.
>
> 1) Computers are slow - So I was i
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Guy Sheffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It says that GoogleEarth is a feature there, does that run on the XO?!
> I did not see direct acceleration in the other 3ed party distros.
>
I still haven't tried GentooXO, so I can't say for sure. I plan on
trying it out lat
Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:26:50 +0200, Antoine van Gelder <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
1. Project name : xo-lambda
Done. Your tree is here:
git+ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/git/activities/xo-lambda
Please follow instructions here for importing your project:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Importing_your_project
It says that GoogleEarth is a feature there, does that run on the XO?!
I did not see direct acceleration in the other 3ed party distros.
BTW, I am working on a debian-live cd. So I guess I am none the better :-S
Guy
On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 7:45 PM, Sameer Verma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Had
Mon, 6 Oct 2008 10:24:05 -0400, "Walter Bender" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
1. Project name : infoslicer
Done. Your tree is here:
git+ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/git/activities/infoslicer
Please follow instructions here for importing your project:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Importing_your_project
Let
On Oct 6, 2008, at 10:43 AM, Greg Smith wrote:
> Hi Bryan, Martin et al,
>
> Good input on content filtering, thanks.
Greg,
In existing deployments (not trials) content filtering
is being done upstream in the internet connection.
Content filtering is a very sensitive subject, and any
offeri
Hi Bryan, Martin et al,
Good input on content filtering, thanks.
Here's my take on the current state of affairs:
1 - We have a release called 0.5 which is almost done and should be
available in October. It does not include DanGuardian. The following URL
lists the work that is in or close to in
On 04/10/08 18:07 -0700, Deepak Saxena wrote:
> - Embedded systems often use a suspend image to speedup boottime.
> Basically load an image into memory and then jump into the
> kernel as if we are resuming from firmware. Another approach
> if we can't do a full suspend image this is to use t
1. Project name : infoslicer
2. Existing website, if any :
3. One-line description :a tool to enable teachers to
quickly and easily select web-based content to edit, package, and
distribute as teaching materials.
4. Longer description :
:
Hi Andres,
I missed one key one.
Have a known clean backup. Add user data to it if you can, but backup
regularly. Be ready to restore to a clean backup on short notice if you
are compromised and need to start from scratch.
Thanks,
Greg S
Greg Smith wrote:
> Hi Andres,
>
> A few comments to
Hi Andres,
A few comments to get you warmed up. I will ask the current EduBlog team
to give you more suggestions and details too.
1 - My understanding of the current XS design is that it has one
interface visible to the Internet and another visible to the school
only. It seems pretty secure th
mitch wrote:
> >
> > > On a related topic, I would like to see us start bundling the initrd
> > > into the kernel image. It's certainly possible to do that with
> > existing
> >
> > "into"? i'd rather see it simply concatenated,
> By "into", I mean "in the same file".
>
> The exist
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Martin Langhoff
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> And here we go: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=107550
One thing to note - I won't include this in mdl19-xs yet. If it gets a
bit of testing from other parties I will consider it for xs-0.5.
In other words, whe
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 6:55 PM, Douglas Bagnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Of the 118 activities linked from [[Activities]], the following have a
> pseudo linfo field, and the asterisked ones have actual pseudo-ised
> data.
great - I wonder how to activate one of these pseudo locales.
> * or
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