Need in Haiti: inexpensive portable projectors for OLPC/XO classrooms

WavePlace and other Haiti Education efforts keep asking me the same thing, in NYC and elsewhere--who can answer: How can in-classroom (and out-of-classroom?!) cheap portable overhead projectors be rigged to XOs -- by hook or by crook -- /and what models/arrangements are best?/ Aside from this

Re: Need in Haiti: inexpensive portable projectors for OLPC/XO classrooms

Mr frÿffe9dÿffe9ric pouchal wrote: RoyalTek RPJ-2000 Pico Projector and a usb-to-vga (sisusb) card work perfectly well http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Adding_USB_SVGA http://www.royaltek.com/ the projector is 640x480 , Osram’s LED that last over 2 hours , 3M optical engine

Activities won't auto-install from USB bundles folder onto 11.3.0?

Any reason auto-installation of Activities is failing on Release 11.3.0 = Build 883 XO-1s, from a USB stick's bundles directory? The bundles boot directories worked from the exact same USB stick onto build 860 (and build 874 too I think).  Very sadly these instructions suddenly seem not to

Re: Activities won't auto-install from USB bundles folder onto 11.3.0?

a ticket found at http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/11432 to track the issue. If you can provide more information about how it fails that would be appreciated. --- SJG On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 8:19 PM, Adam Holt canoe.be...@yahoo.com wrote: Any reason auto-installation of Activities is failing

Re: Activities won't auto-install from USB bundles folder onto 11.3.0?

From: James Cameron qu...@laptop.org I know that battery removal is required after reflashing XO-1 from certain older versions.  Perhaps that was it. That's what we hoped, but tested it, and unfortunately not =) ___ Devel mailing list

XS Community Edition 0.3 (Release Candidate 1)

A big thank you to anyone who can test RC1, almost three months after XSCE 0.2 -- we now have big changes for all to try out with the imminent XSCE 0.3: * XSCE runs on XOs' brand new OLPC OS 13.1.0, thanks to XSCE's fast migration from Fedora 17 to 18 these past weeks * XSCE now runs

Re: ANNOUNCING School Server Community Edition Version 0.4 Release Candidate 1.

Wow, it's been many months of hard-driving volunteer work, far beyond Friendly Manitoba, that seems so long ago in early July: https://plus.google.com/events/cosgiia7et0bvc7mmaeinv1ed40 http://blog.unleashkids.org/hangouts/school-server-sprint-hangout/ Who can please write the blog post to

Re: [XSCE] Rendrering maps on XO1 at Silar's Orphanage Haiti

, and now you are paying for it? On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 08:33:32AM -0400, Adam Holt wrote: We're trying Release 12.1.0 in Haiti later today, thanks to Anna's careful testing confirming IIAB maps work there, that is if our expensive OS download to Haiti actually succeeds, without blowing up en

Re: [support-gang] XO_Troubleshooting_Touchscreen

On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 2:13 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: A new Wiki page has been produced for troubleshooting the XO-4 touchscreen: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Troubleshooting_Touchscreen So cool. Thanks DanielD JamesC PaulF for your help here! -- James Cameron

can wiki.laptop.org not do sortable tables?

The sort buttons on the top of each column don't work here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Community_Edition/Features Nor do stock examples like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Table/Sortable_tables Any idea why? http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Releases is inspiring but doesn't provide any immediate

Fwd: [IAEP] [ANNOUNCE] Election Details for 2013-2014

From: Luke Faraone l...@sugarlabs.org Date: Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 10:43 PM Subject: [IAEP] [ANNOUNCE] Election Details for 2013-2014 To: IAEP SugarLabs i...@lists.sugarlabs.org, Sugar Devel sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org Hi all, It's that time of year again: oversight board election season!

Re: build an activity

On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 12:36 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: Marked {{dated}}. Perhaps Sugar Labs could give us a replacement on their Wiki? I don't think this content needs to be hosted on

Re: latest HaitiOS-0.6 very close

On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 11:24 PM, Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn alan...@hotmail.com wrote: Who decides wich activities are included on the image? 6 people who have contributed tremendously to HaitiOS 6.0 are listed here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/HaitiOS (others who have contributed should add

Re: latest HaitiOS-0.6 very close

On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 12:29 AM, Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn alan...@hotmail.com wrote: as our more English/Intl version This activity is on Pootle, written in English and translated to French, Spanish, Chinese etc. I found that you are using Jump!! :-)

Re: latest HaitiOS-0.6 very close

On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 2:52 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 02:26:05AM -0500, Adam Holt wrote: On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 12:29 AM, Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn alan...@hotmail.com wrote: as our more English/Intl version This activity

Re: [support-gang] latest HaitiOS-0.6 very close

On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 6:33 AM, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote: For the intl version you can consider the Wikipedia Simple activity [1], instead of Wikipedia EN. The text is best suited for primary school students, and have more articles. If size is a concern, is possible prepare a

Re: [support-gang] latest HaitiOS-0.6 very close

On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote: try do the following changes in searchtoolbar.py replace the line: self._entry = iconentry.IconEntry() by: self._entry = Gtk.Entry() remove or comment the lines:

constant power add-tag CP fails on XO-4?

We've relied on this for many years on XO-1s and XO-1.75s (etc) to ensure small XO servers auto-boot after the inevitable power failures -- and yet today it (apparently) no longer works. Is it possible this does not work on XO-4s, or are we somehow entering add-tag CP incorrectly at the ok

Re: [Server-devel] constant power add-tag CP fails on XO-4?

Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: On Jan 24, 2014, at 6:36 PM, Adam Holt wrote: We've relied on this for many years on XO-1s and XO-1.75s (etc) to ensure small XO servers auto-boot after the inevitable power failures -- and yet today it (apparently) no longer works. Is it possible this does

Re: [Power] constant power add-tag CP fails on XO-4?

Thanks James. The 3rd XO-4 in Haiti (Port-au-Prince this time) worked correctly, auto-booting-on-application-of-power after adding the CP tag. Its serial number was something like something like SHC3102 On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 6:59 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: I've just

[Server-devel] XO-1 classrooms don't reliably connect to many/most Wifi AP's

*[Terry Gillett summarizes his weeks of testing, **with this very revealing report below. That's tgill...@gmail.com tgill...@gmail.com of the Village Telco project: can we/Nepal/Lesotho/others help him add the key takeaways to http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wifi_Connectivity

is rolling back firmware dangerous? (on XO-1s especially)

I used to do this all the time while testing XO-1s with different firmwares, but want to check if the _process_ of rolling back firmware on XO-1s is dangerous to the machine in general: 1) Are there risks to the _process_ of rolling back XO-1 firmware, EG from q2f19 to q2e48 (Release 11.3.0) as

Fwd: [support-gang] is rolling back firmware dangerous? (on XO-1s especially)

From: James Cameron qu...@laptop.org Date: Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 7:17 PM Subject: Re: [support-gang] is rolling back firmware dangerous? (on XO-1s especially) To: Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to \help AT laptop.org\ support-g...@lists.laptop.org Cc: Adam Holt h...@laptop.org

Re: [support-gang] Does Your Project Need Volunteers?

Thanks Caryl: In my opinion, here are the TOP 10 COUNTRIES with the most immediate, meaningful and structured OLPC/Sugar volunteer opportunities today: - Cambodia - http://cambodiapride.org - France - http://olpc-france.org - Ghana - http://ghanatogether.org - Haiti -

Re: Announcing the development of OLPC OS 13.2.1

Courageous Tony, speaking up for the uncountable voiceless around the world keeping XO-1s in operation, long after their stated 5-year design life. In Haiti as in other places, derivatives of Release 12.1.0 have been found to be a genuine lifeline for XO-1s, with Releases 13.* too slow for

Re: Bitmap at the power off of the XO

/usr/share/plymouth/themes/olpc/shutdown.png On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Lionel Laské lio...@olpc-france.org wrote: Hi all, Is there a place where I can find the last bitmap display just before the power off of a XO ? I mean the one with advice regarding charging, don't drop it, be

Re: [UKids] Re: XOs cannot act as WiFi access points

On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 10:36 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 09:30:30PM -0500, Jerry Vonau wrote: On March 16, 2015 at 9:23 PM James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: There's no need to go as far as configuring as an access point when ad-hoc networking

XOs cannot act as WiFi access points

Can someone remind me the reason that XO laptops (if I'm remembering correctly) cannot use their antennae/ears as a self-contained WiFi AP server? (e.g. for tiny community/village libraries in very offline developing countries. A very typical situation being: local librarian wants to use

Re: Fwd: [UKids] XOs cannot act as WiFi access points

Progress Report: unlike most Android devices, Sugar/Gnome can't easily become wifi hotspots (for now) as poor countries' remote offline libraries would like. But Anna/James have some ideas 17 months regardless: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/server-devel/2013-October/006909.html

Re: XOs cannot act as WiFi access points

On Mar 20, 2015 4:58 PM, T Gillett tgill...@gmail.com wrote: Some information here on devices we looked at as part of the VT project. http://wiki.villagetelco.org/Using_USB_WiFi_Devices_for_Dual_Radio (scroll to the bottom of the page) There are several Ralink chips used in these devices,

Re: Community OS 14.1.0 Version 2

On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 6:55 AM, Samuel Greenfeld sam...@greenfeld.org wrote: I have updated the XO-1/1.5/1.75/4 images I previously made. The updated images can be found at http://www.greenfeld.org/xo/community/builds/14.1.0/build_2/ Profound Thanks Sam, and the Many Others behind this

Re: [Sugar-devel] XO Fedora 22 Beta work

On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Gonzalo Odiard godi...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 1:10 AM, Samuel Greenfeld sam...@greenfeld.org wrote: At James' suggestion I looked a bit into a Fedora 22 beta build. I have found the following problems so far getting the RPM dependencies

Re: Community XO software builds

On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 12:54 AM, Samuel Greenfeld sam...@greenfeld.org wrote: I saw some discussion last week about the community XO software builds. This seems to be something which gets many people excited. However according to my web server, there have not been very many downloads of

adding codecs to 13.2.3 on XO-1.75

Is it normal that the following command fails with a series of no such file or directory messages? Here's the command suggested by http://wiki.laptop.org/go/GStreamer#Adding_codecs sudo yum localinstall -y \ http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E

School Server Summit/Sprint Oct 10-13 in Toronto!

Mark your calendars if you care about school servers and offline digital libraries of any kind! The Community Edition of OLPC's XS school server (XSCE) has made tremendous advances over the past year, as more countries (Ghana, Rwanda, Fiji etc) now have emerging deployments, while the work in

Re: unlock xo 1.5

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 6:06 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 01:37:16PM -0400, Tim Moody wrote: I installed 32016r1.zd on an xo 1.5 (SHC049002BA). I sent the s/n and uuid from /home/.devkey.html to Adam and got back a develop.sig that looks OK. I gave

Re: [Server-devel] Two (minimal) goals for a kernel for XO1.5 based upon fc22?

On May 27, 2015 11:18 PM, Samuel Greenfeld sam...@greenfeld.org wrote: Given I looked into this before with F22 Beta(*), I ran OLPC OS Builder tonight, excluding nothing from all repositories, and let it loose. Profound Thanks. Please involve Tom Gilliard who did a ton of work QA'ing F22

ext2 vs ext4 vs exFAT for XO content SD cards?

What filesystem would people recommend for ~128GB SD cards inserted into XO laptops or XSCE servers heading far afield, to insert very large (evolving?) digital libraries just like Internet-in-a-Box? Multiyear reliability for all this content would be important, but some say ext4 (slow journaled

Re: [XSCE] Re: [Server-devel] ext2 vs ext4 vs exFAT for XO content SD cards?

A Custom_Content folder is eventually demanded by almost every IIAB-like deployment. The reason is that every local school / librarian quite naturally wants a Non-Bureaucratic process, to add their own language/videos/curriculum, copying their own file-tree onto the SD card, using their own

Re: [UKids] ext2 vs ext4 vs exFAT for XO content SD cards?

=PrqcaxsyK0E Please keep us in the loop Ian Now to clear some misconceptions and classify some limitations. On 16 August 2015 at 13:05, Adam Holt h...@laptop.org wrote: What filesystem would people recommend for ~128GB SD cards inserted into XO laptops or XSCE servers heading

Re: [XSCE] Re: [Server-devel] ext2 vs ext4 vs exFAT for XO content SD cards?

On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 10:57 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: LFN (long filename) support is present in all the operating systems you've mentioned, and works fine with FAT32. Thanks for the correction. FAT32 is indeed about as universal/tolerable of a standard as possible in 2015.

intermittent keyboard mismapping: 13.2.5 on XO-1 SKU39

I haven't figured out the pattern yet, but perhaps 50% of the time these XO-1s boot with an unusable keyboard (it's a US Intl keyboard, but the keys end up mapped to all the wrong places, showing the wrong letters/numbers, such that not even the ESC key works to get to the Ok prompt). This

Re: intermittent keyboard mismapping: 13.2.5 on XO-1 SKU39

not appear to show the problem at all, so newer firmware may be available in future to solve this annoying-but-less-serious-that-I-imagined problem. For all using SKU39 XO-1s (or perhaps other/similar XO laptops having the modern touchpad?) On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 7:03 PM, Adam Holt h

Re: intermittent keyboard mismapping: 13.2.5 on XO-1 SKU39

shall see :-) On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 9:28 AM, Adam Holt h...@laptop.org wrote: Just an update that I've narrowed in on the/a pattern which triggers the problem, with the help of James Cameron, and some workarounds: - Tapping the ESC key very rapidly during bootup causes the keyboard

XO-1.5 MicroSD replacement speed? External SD?

Does anybody have recommendations for minimum read/write speeds of MicroSD cards, inserted in/on the XO-1.5 motherboard? And external full-size SD card speed requirements similarly! Disregarding SD cards' well-known reliability failures :). Many suggest "use Class 10 SD cards" and I get that the

Developer Keys delayed?

Just a warning it appears activation & developer keys for XO laptops are currently being delayed due to the failure of owl.laptop.org, also affecting http://download.laptop.org since Friday Nov 6. Certainly the self-service site https://activation.laptop.org/devkey/post/ is currently offline.

is it ok to change the passwd for user 'olpc' ?

Is it generally OK to change the password of user 'olpc' on an XO laptop, e.g. to set up remote ssh access to that XO? Or is it somehow safer to create or set up a brand new Linux user for this purpose? Thanks if u know! -- Unsung Heroes of OLPC, interviewed live @ http://unleashkids.org

Re: Announcing OLPC OS 13.2.6 with Sugar 0.107

Thanks James, Will there be an equivalent to http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/13.2.5#XO-1_with_SD_card ? Just curious as http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/13.2.6#XO-1_with_SD_card seems blank for now. On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 6:26 PM, James Cameron wrote: > G'day

Re: how to remove WiFi credential/history from Sugar?

On Sep 28, 2015 6:00 AM, "James Cameron" <qu...@laptop.org> wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 03:59:38PM -0400, Adam Holt wrote: > > But I finally got it! WiFi password was ALSO cached in: > > > >/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/keys-WAN > > You'r

Re: [support-gang] [Sugar-devel] how to remove WiFi credential/history from Sugar?

On Sep 25, 2015 1:23 PM, "Kevin Gordon" wrote: > > not at an XO at the moment but > > check the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ directory > > Or maybe a command line thingy like nmcli connection delete id will do what you want? My thoughts exactly. I tried the 2

Re: [support-gang] [Sugar-devel] how to remove WiFi credential/history from Sugar?

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 3:01 PM, Kurt H Maier wrote: > So, it's not in the gnome keyring. is it in > /home/olpc/.sugar/default/nm/networks.cfg ? > Nothing obvious in /home/olpc/.sugar/default and no nm within /home/olpc/.sugar/default on this XO-1.5. In fact when I did "rm

Re: how to remove WiFi credential/history from Sugar?

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Paul Fox wrote: > adam wrote: > > "rm /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/key_" does not fully delete a > WiFi > > credential, even after reboot of the XO-1.5 with Sugar 0.106.0, the > > password is clearly still buried+working in the system

B-52 Bomber of EduTech?

Will the XO become the B-52 B.U.F.F. "Butt Ugly Fat " of educational technology, as disposable tablets come and go? Amazing story on the history of technology -- how 1950s technology (with all its faults) can be more reliable, more capable, and dependable -- than generations of "Tesla Toys" built

how to run script upon/after XO's 1st boot?

1) Can a script be run at the end of Sugar's first boot? Or really anytime after gsettings name/gender/grade stuff? (After every boot if nec.) I tried inserting a script very late within /usr/bin/sugar (however that runs too early during Sugar's 1st boot) but I'm now remember an

jffs2 vs ubifs vs ext4 space-efficiency question

Any ideas why Release 13.2.6 placed on ext4 instead of jffs2 appears to almost double in size? Starting with 13.2.6 on XO-1 on jffs2 per usual, "du -s /* | sort -nr" yields these contents for a stock/vanilla XO-1: 1070992 /usr 239060 /home 117623 /var 18780 /etc 15382 /boot

Re: Announcing OLPC OS 13.2.6 with Sugar 0.107

he idea and I wish I knew! I've sent quite a few to Haiti, and trained several people to install it. It's early days, but so far so good. > On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 10:42:24AM -0500, Adam Holt wrote: > > Thanks James, > > > > Will there be an equivalent to [1] http://wiki.laptop.org/g

Rapberri Pi/clone(s) most ruggidizable for OLPC fieldwork?

Dogi & All, You are the expert here (on the low end especially, with $5 Raspberri Pi Zeros!) leading OLE refugee camp deployments across many countries. Whereas most OLPC-like schools I talk to want to spend $100 (or more) for a mini-server that's truly resilient for years in tropical

Re: Raspberri Pi/clone(s) most ruggedizable for OLPC fieldwork?

On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 3:35 PM, Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote: > Dogi & All, > > You are the expert here (on the low end especially, with $5 Raspberri Pi > Zeros!) leading OLE refugee camp deployments across many countries. > Whereas most OLPC-like schools I t

Re: Raspberry Pi/clone(s) most ruggedizable for OLPC fieldwork?

) firmware, u-boot, kernel issues for Pine64 and similar, do you know? (http://wiki.pine64.org is coming to life, which is a great start!) On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 10:55 AM, Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote: > > On Feb 7, 2016 9:59 AM, "Peter Robinson" <pbrobin...@gmail.c

Re: [UKids] StarTech USB2VGA discontinued--XO laptop to Smart Board ideas?

required to use it to be not worth my effort." Tony > > > On 02/06/2016 08:15 AM, Adam Holt wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 7:09 PM, Tony Anderson <tony_ander...@usa.net> > wrote: > >> The problem with projectors and white boards is $. The s

Re: Raspberry Pi/clone(s) most ruggedizable for OLPC fieldwork?

On Feb 7, 2016 9:59 AM, "Peter Robinson" <pbrobin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 2:07 PM, Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote: > > On Feb 7, 2016 3:22 AM, "Peter Robinson" <pbrobin...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> thin

StarTech USB2VGA discontinued--XO laptop to Smart Board ideas?

1) Both the USB2VGA and USB2VGA*2* are now discontinued, to drive projectors (or Smart Boards etc) from an XO laptop: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Adding_USB_SVGA Do others recommend holding out with StarTech (buying used for about $15 is certainly an option) or rather, looking to another

Re: [UKids] StarTech USB2VGA discontinued--XO laptop to Smart Board ideas?

On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 7:09 PM, Tony Anderson wrote: > The problem with projectors and white boards is $. The schools in Rwanda, > for example, do not have funds to acquire them. > For sure. http://www.rwandagirlsinitiative.org/ggast/ is one exception, where Smart Boards

Re: Announcing OLPC OS 13.2.7 with Sugar 0.108

Tremendous news, Profound thanks James & the Sugar 0.108 Team!! Aside: i haven't given up (yet) on a wider array of quality learning videos (from Internet-in-a-Box 2.0 etc) becoming playable on XO-1 in 2016 so many years later. Issues you've well-documented @

Re: XO-4 firmware upgrade blocked by EC 0.3.04 ?

conferences, an engineering sample John Watlington generously sent to her, derived from SKU294, perhaps dangerously so! But hopefully all hope is not lost?? (Certainly it booted until we just tried reflashing to 13.2.6...) On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 5:23 AM, Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote:

Re: [support-gang] XO-4 firmware upgrade blocked by EC 0.3.04 ?

it goes. > > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Forth_Lesson_23#Forcing_EC_Code_Update_on_XO-1.75_and_XO-4 > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 01:11:25PM -0500, Adam Holt wrote: > > Clarif: XO-4 does not boot anymore, as a result of installing Release > 13.2.6 > > (oops! wishful

Glueing SD cards into XO laptops

As many thousands of SD cards are now being considered to be retrofit into legacy XO's, in quite exciting new experiments with content-packed OS's, Kevin Gordon is way ahead of us all as usual: What glues do people recommend, to reduce temptation from young kids who fidget/grab anything they can?

Re: [UKids] Glueing SD cards into XO laptops

; > Depending on your user stories, to quote the vernacular, your mileage may vary. > > KG > > > > On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 10:32 AM, Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote: >> >> As many thousands of SD cards are now being considered to be retrofit into legacy XO's,

Re: Non-Network Time Protocol for Haiti?

In short, http://NTP.org - by - sneakernet, not carrier pigeon :> On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 12:06 PM, Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote: > Clarifs below~ > > On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 11:51 AM, Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote: > >> In Haiti many teachers and k

Non-Network Time Protocol for Haiti?

In Haiti many teachers and kids would prefer the time was set correctly on their XO-1 laptops, no matter if the time is off by a couple minutes. So they could really use a script that creates the following /boot/olpc.fth, writing it out to an attached USB stick: \ Open Firmware select /rtc

Re: [UKids] Re: Non-Network Time Protocol for Haiti?

Haiti that do not and will not have school servers -- for the forseeable future -- so let's attack this problem from both angles -- thanks! Tony > > > On 03/07/2016 01:19 AM, Adam Holt wrote: > > (Apologies I forgot to mention that auto-mounting and auto-dismounting the > USB stic

replacement RTC batteries for XO-1 and XO-1.5; which are recommended?

Does anyone have recommended RTC battery model number(s) handy for XO-1 and XO-1.5? In context with these very useful RTC (Real-Time-Clock on motherboard) rescue/maintenance tips here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Fix_Clock/Background Evidently some schools prefer a clean start, replacing all

Re: [Power] replacement RTC batteries for XO-1 and XO-1.5; which are recommended?

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 5:08 PM, Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 4:54 PM, Paul Fox <p...@laptop.org> wrote: > >> it's an ML1220. >> >> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Fix_Clock#Check_the_battery_and_holder > > > Than

Re: [UKids] re:new member

On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 9:07 AM, Dave Crossland wrote: > > On 24 April 2016 at 07:34, Xo Tom wrote: > >> [I also use the xo4 indoors in black/white mode because for longer texts >> reading and writing the monochrome display is more convenient than >> conventional

Re: [support-gang] Fwd: Re: [UKids] Best GCompris for OLPC OS 13.2.8?

On Feb 12, 2017 4:08 PM, "Adam Holt" <h...@laptop.org> wrote: FYI those who want TuxMath on XO-1: run Nathan's wrapper (TuxMath-3.1.xo, 126KB) after installing the following on XO-1... http://download.unleashkids.org/HaitiOS/bundles/tuxmath-3.xo (7.0 MB) (Without Nathan'

Re: [support-gang] Fwd: Re: [UKids] Best GCompris for OLPC OS 13.2.8?

On Feb 12, 2017 5:01 PM, "Adam Holt" <h...@laptop.org> wrote: On Feb 12, 2017 4:08 PM, "Adam Holt" <h...@laptop.org> wrote: FYI those who want TuxMath on XO-1: run Nathan's wrapper (TuxMath-3.1.xo, 126KB) after installing the following on XO-1... http://download

Re: [support-gang] Fwd: Re: [UKids] Best GCompris for OLPC OS 13.2.8?

The following creates 3 Sugar activity icons, on OLPC OS 13.2.8 on an XO-4 laptop, within 30min: - Terminal -> su -> "yum install gcompris" -> GCompris-0.31.xo - Terminal -> su -> "yum install tuxmath" -> TuxMath-3.1.xo - run TuxPaint-6.2.xo The 3 files ending in .xo are tiny wrappers

Re: [support-gang] Fwd: Re: [UKids] Best GCompris for OLPC OS 13.2.8?

o check its size. This weekend, GCompris was instsalled on 240 XO-1.5 with 2GB storage with no problem. Thanks Tony. I'll work on this Tuesday onwards, also with Nathan's many similar experiences to guide me hopefully :) Tony On 02/11/2017 06:36 PM, Adam Holt wrote: The following creates

Re: Best GCompris for OLPC OS 13.2.8?

ndations; let me give you one more to ignore; mount a USB drive over /var so that yum uses it for the downloaded .rpm files. That way, the downloads won't count against the root filesystem space. On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 12:40:31AM -0500, Adam Holt wrote: > Thanks James & Nathan. This "m

Re: [support-gang] support-gang Digest, Vol 109, Issue 15

..@lists.laptop.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > support-gang-ow...@lists.laptop.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of support-gang digest..." > > > Today's Topics: >

Re: Firefox on XO

Thanks much Terry - FireFox 50 will add its own eccentricities inevitably, but many deployments would prefer that over Epiphany and FF25/26 (if folks are miraculously able to get FF50 to a semi-stable state of known workarounds?) On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 11:12 PM, T Gillett

Re: [XSCE] 2007 -> 2017 browser experience on XO-1, XO-1.5, XO-1.75 and XO-4

On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 11:28 AM, Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 11:18 AM, Tony Anderson <tony_ander...@usa.net> > wrote: > >> measure the parameters of the video stream produced by the XO-1 after >> conversion to ogg. Any XO sho

Re: [IAEP] do OLPC browsers support WebRTC microphone audio input?

Hi Jim, On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 12:01 PM, Jim Salsman wrote: > On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 11:55 PM, Sam P. wrote: > > OLPC OS ships with an ancient (2011?) version of WebKitGtk+. I don't > even > > think that the current version supports WebRTC. > > > > Maybe

fyi wiki.laptop.org is currently down

http://isup.me/wiki.laptop.org says: "It's not just you! http://wiki.laptop.org looks down from here." PS long wkd coming here in the USA, but it is pingable so hopefully James Cameron might be able to do something about it later today when Australia wakes up :)

Re: fyi wiki.laptop.org is currently down

Fixed! On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 9:47 AM, Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote: > http://isup.me/wiki.laptop.org says: > > "It's not just you! http://wiki.laptop.org looks down from here." > > PS long wkd coming here in the USA, but it is pingable so hopefully Jame

Internet-in-a-Box 6.5 Released!

Internet-in-a-Box is a tiny device that brings the best of the Internet to offline communities around the world — Wikipedia, Khan Academy, OpenStreetMap, YouTube science videos, thousands of eBooks, etc — no Internet required! No longer just a school server, Internet-in-a-Box is now used in

"Can't open boot device" XO laptop firmware/OFW issue?

Attached photo (in-lined below) should be an easy firmware/boot issue to solve I hope! Can anybody remind me what's need / what I need to try next? Clarif: this is an XO-1.5 (SKU100) with: - up-to-date RTC clock - up-to-date firmware (Q3C17) - up-to-date OS (OLPC OS 13.2.9) And yet I can no

Re: "Can't open boot device" XO laptop firmware/OFW issue?

On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 3:17 PM, James Cameron wrote: > Either there is an SD card in the external slot with unsupported partition > table, or there is a fault with the internal microSD card or slot. > I reflashed it a 2nd time and it came back to life (boots properly, for

can one "dd" XO-1.5 internal microSD cards, to another XO-1.5?

James & All, Will it work if one extricates an XO-1.5's internal microSD card and then places it inside another XO-1.5? e.g. allowing an Ace Teacher to make her own customized images offline in Haiti, with the power of a screwdriver, then simply re-assembling her very small collection of

"Show sample projects" button in Physics activity v32.1 on OLPC OS 13.2.9

Just FYI the Physics activity has a button in the top-right ("Show sample projects") that momentarily flashes a large black rectangle onto the screen, but does not proceed. This was tested in Physics activity version 32.1 on OLPC OS 13.2.9 on XO-1.5 and XO-1.75, by right-clicking and also with a

sugar-install-bundle fails to behave like Browse when installing .xol bundle

Clicking on http://download.unleashkids.org/HaitiOS/bundles/livreshaiti.xol works in Sugar's Browse activity on OLPC OS 13.2.9, correctly loading books into Sugar. However doing the same thing from the command-line ("sugar-install-bundle livreshaiti.xol") does not work :/ Does anyone have any

how to change Sugar's timezone+language after XO deployment

Can commands like the following be made to work? sugar-control-panel -s timezone America/Port-au-Prince sugar-control-panel -s languages French/France If not, is there some other clever way to do this programmatically, perhaps using the gsettings command? Thanks if poss! Example error

Re: [UKids] easiest way to automate install of a collection 12+ PDF's onto Sugar on XOs?

ction cpy(title) { >cp title /home/olpc/Library > } > > with the script: > > cpy first.pdf > cpy second.pdf > cpy index.html > poweroff > > > Tony > > > On Tuesday, 10 April, 2018 10:08 AM, Adam Holt wrote: > > Is building an .xol bundle/collect

Re: [UKids] easiest way to automate install of a collection 12+ PDF's onto Sugar on XOs?

On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 11:54 PM, Tony Anderson wrote: > A teacher should never 'rm -rf /home/olpc/.sugar'. If the intent is to > remove the Journal because of space considerations, 'rm -rf > /home/olpc/sugar/datastore' is sufficient. After this command the XO needs > to be

Re: [UKids] easiest way to automate install of a collection 12+ PDF's onto Sugar on XOs?

On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 6:58 PM, Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 11:54 PM, Tony Anderson <tony_ander...@usa.net> > wrote: > >> A teacher should never 'rm -rf /home/olpc/.sugar'. If the intent is to >> remove the Journal because of space

Re: [Server-devel] [UKids] easiest way to automate install of a collection 12+ PDF's onto Sugar on XOs?

On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 8:17 PM, James Cameron wrote: > without deleting the identity > key the activity collaboration feature will fail in strange ways. > What's the identity key, and how is it deleted? ___ Devel mailing list

ANNC: Internet-in-a-Box 6.7 lets you drag+drop Wikipedia, Sugarizer, Maps, Apps, Etc!

Announcing the release of Internet-in-a-Box (IIAB) 6.7 ! Please use it to "steal" the Internet's crown jewels and craft your own LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA using a $35 Raspberry Pi computer, or any old laptop. Our HOW-TO videos

[Server-devel] XS Community Edition 0.2 Release Invitation

Toronto-area School Server Hack Sprint This weekend, seven dedicated souls pulled together to solidify, plan and build -- getting to know each other much better en route. What will schools worldwide really want from a server in the coming 10 years? What's the most constructive community solid

[Server-devel] XS Community Edition 0.3 (Release Candidate 1)

A big thank you to anyone who can test RC1, almost three months after XSCE 0.2 -- we now have big changes for all to try out with the imminent XSCE 0.3: * XSCE runs on XOs' brand new OLPC OS 13.1.0, thanks to XSCE's fast migration from Fedora 17 to 18 these past weeks * XSCE now runs

Re: [Server-devel] 12 Volt power system for School Servers.

Just a reminder to include po...@lists.laptop.org if this discussion advances, the tightly focused electrical/energy list run by Richard Smith for many years to come God willing =) http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/power On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 8:46 PM, Anna ascho...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed,

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