Re: OLPC XO 1.5 overheating problems

2009-10-05 Thread John Watlington
On Oct 3, 2009, at 12:16 PM, Tiago Marques wrote: > On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Ed McNierney wrote: >> Tiago - >> >> Well, everyone gets to contribute something to thermal problems :-) Actually, the average heat sources are (in descending order): the companion chip (graphics engine, memor

Re: Woodhouse on flash storage

2009-10-05 Thread Mitch Bradley
David might be right in principle, but when component price matters, you have to buy the hardware that the mass market offers. Right now the sweet spot is "smart" devices with embedded Flash Translation Layer firmware. I'd place my bet on that trend continuing. Linux does not "drive" the mass

Re: Woodhouse on flash storage

2009-10-05 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, > http://www.advogato.org/person/dwmw2/diary/211.html Ah, and now cscott has written a post in reply: http://cananian.livejournal.com/58238.html - Chris, your personal RSS reader. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing list De

Re: Woodhouse on flash storage

2009-10-05 Thread John Watlington
On Oct 5, 2009, at 11:56 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: > On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Martin Langhoff > wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Chris Ball wrote: >>> I don't think there's much we can use Dave's advice for given the >>> choice of microSD. The fact that Woodhouse is right doesn'

Re: Woodhouse on flash storage

2009-10-05 Thread Peter Robinson
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Chris Ball wrote: >> I don't think there's much we can use Dave's advice for given the >> choice of microSD.  If a microSD card that had a passthrough mode >> to access the raw flash existed, his argument wou

Re: Woodhouse on flash storage

2009-10-05 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Chris Ball wrote: > I don't think there's much we can use Dave's advice for given the > choice of microSD.  If a microSD card that had a passthrough mode > to access the raw flash existed, his argument would be that we > should consider using that mode. Exactly. To

Re: Woodhouse on flash storage

2009-10-05 Thread Chris Ball
Hi Martin, > How might the outcome of these debates affect the use of the > microSD "internal" storage on the XO-1.5? I don't think there's much we can use Dave's advice for given the choice of microSD. If a microSD card that had a passthrough mode to access the raw flash existed, his argu

Re: Woodhouse on flash storage

2009-10-05 Thread Martin Dengler
On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 01:59:29PM -0400, Chris Ball wrote: > > http://www.advogato.org/person/dwmw2/diary/211.html Thanks for the links - it's nice to keep up with what's going on in the flash-expert world. How might the outcome of these debates affect the use of the microSD "internal" storage

Re: [Sugar-devel] Quick notes from a lazy smoketest of os30

2009-10-05 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Art Hunkins wrote: > Just wondering: > > Is sound (csound) working in any of the activities? TamTamMini works a charm :-) cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted

Re: My view of OS7 on XO-1

2009-10-05 Thread Paul Fox
hal wrote: > > smparr...@gmail.com said: > > These builds now use powerd for power management. What you described > > is normal for when the system sleeps. To wake it up just press the > > power button. > > Thanks. right. the biggest behavioral difference with powerd is that the sleep

Re: [Server-devel] Student Information System

2009-10-05 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hello Nicolas, and welcome! Sorry about the delay in answering... On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 3:26 AM, Nicolas Ganivet wrote: > Centre SIS (http://www.centresis.org) is an Open Source Student Information > System deployed in hundreds of schools worldwide. Yep! I've reviewed it a couple of times. The

Re: [Server-devel] Name server operation

2009-10-05 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 11:24 +0200, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Jerry Vonau wrote: > > dnsmasq on lo only and point bind to the use lo as the forwarder. This > > requires dnsmasq to listen on 127.0.0.1 and bind on 172.18.0.1. The > > resolv.conf.in file wound need to be

Re: client to exercise an XS

2009-10-05 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Tim Moody wrote: > I am looking for a good environment to use to exercise/test an XS install, > given that I don't have an xo.  I prefer emulation rather than soas because > I hope to run multiple clients on one host os, and I also prefer windows as > the host os. >

client to exercise an XS

2009-10-05 Thread Tim Moody
I am looking for a good environment to use to exercise/test an XS install, given that I don't have an xo. I prefer emulation rather than soas because I hope to run multiple clients on one host os, and I also prefer windows as the host os. I'm not clear whether I should I try to emulate an xo o

Re: Quick notes from a lazy smoketest of os30

2009-10-05 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: > That's strange. Is it just the 2 issues you listed (pippy, recording > sound) or are there more? That's all, but it's 2 of 4 activities explored :-/ - I didn't get much time. I plan to go through a full smoketest later. > Bugs should be file

Re: Quick notes from a lazy smoketest of os30

2009-10-05 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/10/5 Martin Langhoff : > Got my 1.5-B2 prototype in the mail last week. (Yay! Toys!) I used it > a bit over the week (it is nice and fast), and then yesterday I had a > bit of downtime, so I updated it to cjb's os30. > > Overall, lots of things work (wohoo!). Also, lots of things don't > work,

Quick notes from a lazy smoketest of os30

2009-10-05 Thread Martin Langhoff
Got my 1.5-B2 prototype in the mail last week. (Yay! Toys!) I used it a bit over the week (it is nice and fast), and then yesterday I had a bit of downtime, so I updated it to cjb's os30. Overall, lots of things work (wohoo!). Also, lots of things don't work, to a puzzling extent: the F11-based So

Re: complex langs/scripts in abiword

2009-10-05 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/10/5 Daniel Drake : > Hi, > > I've been working on various bugs related to Nepali/Sanskrit text in > AbiWord which likely fall over to other languages too. There were > several pretty big bugs before, and now it is much more usable. > > I'd be interested to know if this solves any problems for

complex langs/scripts in abiword

2009-10-05 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, I've been working on various bugs related to Nepali/Sanskrit text in AbiWord which likely fall over to other languages too. There were several pretty big bugs before, and now it is much more usable. I'd be interested to know if this solves any problems for other deployments. Here's a summary