Re: Impossible to set date in 11.3.0?

2012-08-27 Thread James Cameron
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 01:07:35PM -0400, Samuel Greenfeld wrote: To the best of my knowledge this is an intentional omission for antitheft reasons. Instructions on how to set the clock from OFW or the command line are at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Fix_Clock . I think the task of setting the

Re: Firmware issu

2012-08-27 Thread Kevin Gordon
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 1:42 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: Q2F12 added support for automatic power down if lid is closed while at ok prompt, per ticket #11095, svn 2991. If you have been using previous firmware, you may never have seen this message. It has been a feature of

Re: Firmware issu

2012-08-27 Thread Kevin Gordon
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 8:21 AM, Kevin Gordon kgordon...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 1:42 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: Q2F12 added support for automatic power down if lid is closed while at ok prompt, per ticket #11095, svn 2991. If you have been using previous

Re: Impossible to set date in 11.3.0?

2012-08-27 Thread Kevin Gordon
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 4:43 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 01:07:35PM -0400, Samuel Greenfeld wrote: To the best of my knowledge this is an intentional omission for antitheft reasons. Instructions on how to set the clock from OFW or the command line are

Re: Setting the time

2012-08-27 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, In a school deployment, it is desirable that all of the XOs have the same time. This time should be synchronized with/by the school server (even if the school server is wrong). It is not reasonable to base this capability on access to the internet. Casio sells 'atomic' watches that

Re: Setting the time

2012-08-27 Thread Samuel Greenfeld
If anti-theft is used with delegated leases (so the school server can give leases for a few weeks at a time), the XOs will trust a signed timestamp provided from the school server. However olpc-update-query will only reset the XO's clock if it is off by more than a day. According to a comment

Re: Setting the time

2012-08-27 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Samuel Greenfeld greenf...@laptop.org wrote: In any case if OLPC or Sugarlabs wants to formally integrate NTP services into our products, we should be polite and ask ntp.pool.org if we need our own vendor subdomain. These allow the NTP pool to shut off

Re: Impossible to set date in 11.3.0?

2012-08-27 Thread Hal Murray
qu...@laptop.org said: date followed by a successful normal shutdown should work, because a normal shutdown runs hwclock ... but hwclock --systohc is handy in case you aren't sure that a normal shutdown will happen next. It used to do that on shutdown as part of /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt and

Re: Setting the time

2012-08-27 Thread Hal Murray
In a school deployment, it is desirable that all of the XOs have the same time. This time should be synchronized with/by the school server (even if the school server is wrong). It is not reasonable to base this capability on access to the internet. How closely do you need them to be

mainstream media take on linux desktops

2012-08-27 Thread Kevin Gordon
http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/27/tech/web/apple-linux-desktop/index.html ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [OLPC-AU] long-press touch actions in Sugar

2012-08-27 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Sridhar wrote: It appears that long-press is becoming part of the Sugar user experience on touchscreens: In my opinion the XO product is notably limited in that its front panel buttons will only register a 'press'. The opportunities for use of the XO in e-book configuration would be greatly

Re: [Server-devel] antitheft:: avoiding the need - cont.

2012-08-27 Thread Sameer Verma
On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 12:32 PM, jbalc...@laptopstolesotho.org wrote: I plan to attend the OLPC conference in San Francisco in October. I will be available there to anyone who wishes to discuss our Laptops to Lesotho model in more detail. You can see the Rules Regulations, Contracts, and

[Server-devel] registering an xo for second time

2012-08-27 Thread vanessa ramos da cruz
Halo! I am Vanessa; I am working in Angola with this project. I am new on the project so I have a little concern: I had a server with XS 0.6, I registered on it some XO’s just for tests. Now I have a new machine on witch I installed the XS 0.7. I would like to register the XO‘s on this new

Re: [Server-devel] [OLPC-AU] Registering an XO for the second time

2012-08-27 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 27 August 2012 20:14, vanessa ramos da cruz v.ramosdac...@gmail.com wrote: Halo Martin, I am Vanessa; I am working in Angola with this project. I am new on the project so I have a little concern. I had a server with XS 0.6, I registered on it some XO’s just for tests. Now I have a

Re: [Server-devel] registering an xo for second time

2012-08-27 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Mon, 2012-08-27 at 15:48 +0100, vanessa ramos da cruz wrote: Halo! I am Vanessa; I am working in Angola with this project. I am new on the project so I have a little concern: I had a server with XS 0.6, I registered on it some XO’s just for tests. Now I have a new machine on witch I

Re: [Server-devel] registering an xo for second time

2012-08-27 Thread Samuel Greenfeld
If the OS/Sugar build is new enough, the Register option never disappears from the Right click menu of the XO character in the home view, and re-registration is possible with no editing required. The Register option only appears on the screen which has the application Circle/Spiral present, and