Re: WDS problems observed in today's testing

2008-03-01 Thread Sameer Verma
Javier Cardona wrote: > Kim, Michail, > > The conclusion to all of this is that we should not use WRT54G in > deployments, regardless of whether mesh is used or not (in fact, if we > *only* use mesh we don't have this problem as the AP ignores mesh > multicast traffic now). The WRT54G will forward

Re: networking scenarios

2008-04-12 Thread Sameer Verma
as this is the situation most of our existing laptops are > deployed in, and it's likely that upcoming deployments will be similar. Our > secondary priority is improving support for the second case, as this is what > will tend happen when laptops are taken home from school.

Re: Airlink 101

2008-04-18 Thread Sameer Verma
wahida mansouri wrote: > Is the Airlink 101 which is used to test > 802.11s supported by OLPC ? > Can you provide a link for the product in question? Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132

Re: Adding mpeg playback

2008-04-18 Thread Sameer Verma
aptop. > > I said we'd have to convert it to theora. They asked me how could > they do it on Windows. I said I was not sure such a converter > existed for Windows. > > On Linux, I use ffmpeg2theora or just ffmpeg. > > VLC on Windows should be able to do this (note: I

Re: What about Sugar? (Was: Mtg with Nicholas at 3pm on Thursday)

2008-04-19 Thread Sameer Verma
John Watlington wrote: > On Apr 18, 2008, at 2:27 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > > >> On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 5:48 PM, John Watlington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >>> On Apr 18, 2008, at 6:24 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 8:04 AM, John Watlington <[E

Re: What about Sugar? (Was: Mtg with Nicholas at 3pm on Thursday)

2008-04-19 Thread Sameer Verma
Edward Cherlin wrote: > On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 10:10 AM, Sameer Verma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Sorry for jumping in the middle of this thread, but I is the >> consideration for different SoC types based on being able to run Windows >> at some p

Re: Walter leaving and shift to XP.

2008-04-22 Thread Sameer Verma
eficial via a proprietary stack? The web is what it is because it conforms to open standards. HTML comes to mind... Speaking of proprietary stack, remember AOL and Compuserve? Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 9

Re: Walter leaving and shift to XP.

2008-04-22 Thread Sameer Verma
cope of OLPC (via a fork as suggested elsewhere). The news in the last couple of days feels like Star Wars Episode II :-) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0121765/plotsummary). Anyway, I'd like to thank you, Walter, for your excellent leadership and service to the project and in attempting to f

Re: Sugar on Windows

2008-04-24 Thread Sameer Verma
ht very well be virtualized (VMWare, VirtualBox, QEMU, VirtualPC, etc.) See more at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OS_images_for_emulation This approach will not provide the benefits of power saving hardware, mesh, etc. (those issues will be between the host OS and its relationship with i

Re: what matters

2008-04-24 Thread Sameer Verma
ength. Presents a nine-cell directional policy matrix as an alternative form. http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContentItem.do;jsessionid=4C2BD0F55E3CB5F4C4F15AD390AB6E62?contentType=Article&hdAction=lnkpdf&contentId=864777 Of course, the key dependencies are that you actually *know* w

Re: what matters

2008-04-26 Thread Sameer Verma
Edward Cherlin wrote: > On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Sameer Verma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Albert Cahalan wrote: >> > It's clear that we aren't all here for the same thing. >> > Some wish to help all kids, or poor kids, or non-Weste

Re: [Olpc-open] jumpy cursor problem and sugar issue

2008-04-27 Thread Sameer Verma
Steve Holton wrote: > Do you have a way to accurately measure relative humidity? > > I saw pretty severe trackpad issues on one of my XO's on a single day > and haven't seen a re-occurrence yet. > At the time, it looked clearly related to static fields. > > On the other hand, I have seen (and fixe

Re: A small present. (PenTablet-support installation script for 656/703)

2008-05-02 Thread Sameer Verma
> ___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > Hi Michael, I ran your script without a hitch, but I am unable to see it work in Paint. Which activity will support its use? Sameer -- D

Re: A small present. (PenTablet-support installation script for 656/703)

2008-05-05 Thread Sameer Verma
Sameer Verma wrote: > Michael Stone wrote: >> Friends, >> >> Over a month ago, Blake and I pieced together some software to turn on >> PenTablet support. At Kim's and SJ's urging, I have prepared >> >> http://teach.laptop.org/~mstone/fix-tablet.sh

Re: Sugar on the EEE PC

2008-05-10 Thread Sameer Verma
d be naïve to credit them for all the shenanigans. Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ ___ Devel mai

Re: [sugar] Microsoft

2008-05-16 Thread Sameer Verma
> Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > Its nothing like what I see at http://laptop.org/vision/mission/ Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information System

[Fwd: [OLPC-SF] Configuring the XO for the Framebuffer console]

2008-05-16 Thread Sameer Verma
Forwarding this from the OLPC-SF list. Some of you may find this useful. Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ --- Begin Message --- I finally

Re: XP on OLPC - a contrarian view

2008-05-16 Thread Sameer Verma
Albert Cahalan wrote: > Robert Myers writes: > > >> The folks that are buying them, Ministries of Education, governments, >> charities all have their own agendas. They do not necessarily line up >> with the agendas of our real customers - children and educators, or our >> own. If we have to give

Re: XP on OLPC - a contrarian view

2008-05-17 Thread Sameer Verma
et the critical mass for coherent activity. A combination of both works really well. I am expressing this as anecdotal observation but there is good statistical research on this. Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Franc

Re: XP on OLPC - a contrarian view

2008-05-17 Thread Sameer Verma
When we read a paper-based book, many readers don't care about the book-binding process, printing inks, typesetting, etc. They just read the story. Moving to a digital domain affords us that peek-ability under the covers to see the code in action and that needs to stay - I would be very disapp

Re: XP on OLPC - a contrarian view

2008-05-17 Thread Sameer Verma
Albert Cahalan wrote: > On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 2:24 AM, Sameer Verma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Albert Cahalan wrote: >> > > >>> Watch the video. XP boots fast, >>> >> What does a fast boot up have to do with the over

Re: XP on OLPC - a contrarian view

2008-05-17 Thread Sameer Verma
Richard A. Smith wrote: > Sameer Verma wrote: > >>>> The other thing that was strange was that when he captures video, the >>>> camera light did not come on. Isn't the camera wired in series with >>>> the >>>> LED? If that's the ca

Re: Reminder: Tuesday Release & Wednesday Software Meetings -- 2:00 PM EDT, #olpc-meeting on irc.freenode.org

2008-07-08 Thread Sameer Verma
he agenda, nitpicking pointlessly or being contrarian for the fun of > it. > > What's not to like? :-) > > > > Ubuntu uses Gobby for its UDS (Ubuntu Developer Summit) meetings and it works quite well. Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Inform

Re: Reminder: Tuesday Release & Wednesday Software Meetings -- 2:00 PM EDT, #olpc-meeting on irc.freenode.org

2008-07-08 Thread Sameer Verma
la/Participate and Boston UDS at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UDS-Boston/Participate Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ ___

Re: Reminder: Tuesday Release & Wednesday Software Meetings -- 2:00 PM EDT, #olpc-meeting on irc.freenode.org

2008-07-08 Thread Sameer Verma
ment. Someone (probably pre-assigned) has to save it locally. Gobby does support chat, but UDS uses IRC and VoIP (as far as I know). Gobby screenshot http://gobby.0x539.de/screenshots/gobby-0.4.5-linux.png Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate

Re: Tuesday Release Meeting - Notes

2008-07-10 Thread Sameer Verma
r modify existing ones) and build our own model. The hardest part in using such scoring models is in determining the weights for each attribute. Weight implies importance and contribution to the composite metric. In case of attributes such as blocker bugs, we have a number to plug in. In case

Re: Tuesday Release Meeting - Notes

2008-07-10 Thread Sameer Verma
n float a survey instrument with Likert scales to gather quantitative data for analysis, but in our case, we cannot expect 5 year olds to answer on a scale of 1 to 7. So, the methodologies will have to be more qualitative and interview driven. Additionally, if we can come up with a consistent method

Re: Definition of "Stable Enough To Release" for 8.2.0

2008-07-23 Thread Sameer Verma
on a wider scale (1 to 10 or 1 to 100) and then weight it so that different variables weigh in differently and give us a composite score. Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfs

Re: [sugar] Please help test our new 8.2.0 weekly beta, joyride-2263!

2008-08-11 Thread Sameer Verma
uble updating the activities *except* that it would keep looping back to "Scratch" telling me that I have version 2 and it needs to update to 5. After proceeding to update, it would continue to loop. Reboots don't fix it. I'm on 2263. Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Ass

Re: Project Management Tools meeting in #olpc

2008-08-15 Thread Sameer Verma
* Pia Waugh > * Jeff Waugh > * Sameer Verma > Sorry, but I couldn't make it. Meeting conflict on campus. Does anyone have notes/irc logs? Sameer > --Seth > > On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 9:18 PM, Mel Chua <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: >

Re: Request: Jabber server for developers

2008-08-25 Thread Sameer Verma
ites that need maintenance or tweaking. Having a canned solution reduces the barrier to entry for running servers. Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfs

Re: Speech to Text Support in OLPC

2008-09-13 Thread Sameer Verma
her's to get a [snail mail] letter read because they couldn't read or to write a reply by dictating it to someone. Or, imagine speaking into the XO and seeing the letters appear as you speak and being able to recognize the shape and form of basic and commonly words. Speech to text would be

Re: [Grassroots-l] G1G1 Pre-installed Activities Request for Help Testing

2008-09-20 Thread Sameer Verma
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Seth Woodworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What are your criteria? Are you ranking things by supportability and size? > If so Ruler is a no-brainer. It's 20kb and is unlikely to break easily. > > On the other hand SimCity is hard to make drastic changes and still

Re: [sugar] [Grassroots-l] G1G1 Pre-installed Activities Request for Help Testing

2008-09-20 Thread Sameer Verma
built-in community of support. They are learning-centric collections, > but presumably, those G1G1 purchasers who are interested in other > pursuits will run Fedora/GNOME or XP. > That makes sense. Do we have any data on G1G1 favorites? Sameer > -walter > > On Sat, Sep 20, 20

Re: [sugar] [Grassroots-l] G1G1 Pre-installed Activities Request for Help Testing

2008-09-21 Thread Sameer Verma
x27;ll see totals at the bottom. Sort for the totals in Descending order and skim off the top 10. There you have it. Multi-criteria decision-making made simple. Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 U

Re: [sugar] [Grassroots-l] G1G1 Pre-installed Activities Request for Help Testing

2008-09-21 Thread Sameer Verma
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 1:59 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Sep 21, 2008, at 11:12 AM, Sameer Verma wrote: > >> On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Seth Woodworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Sa

Re: [sugar] [Grassroots-l] G1G1 Pre-installed Activities Request for Help Testing

2008-09-21 Thread Sameer Verma
utility > Lines of code I'm not. I just pulled out a few items that came to me. Ideally, the Sugar team should be making this list. > > Good definitions of these terms noted in the spreadsheet will reduce > ambiguity. Agreed. Like a good data dictionary. Sameer -- Dr. Sameer

suspend resume strangeness...

2008-09-21 Thread Sameer Verma
-- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo

Re: [sugar] [Grassroots-l] G1G1 Pre-installed Activities Request for Help Testing

2008-09-21 Thread Sameer Verma
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 6:54 PM, Walter Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 4:41 PM, Sameer Verma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 3:06 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Sameer thanks

Re: no color in the Neighborhood

2008-09-21 Thread Sameer Verma
. Clear the search box and they should all reappear. Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ ___ Devel

Re: [sugar] [Grassroots-l] G1G1 Pre-installed Activities Request for Help Testing

2008-09-25 Thread Sameer Verma
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Sameer Verma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Seth Woodworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Walter Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> >

Re: [sugar] [Grassroots-l] G1G1 Pre-installed Activities Request for Help Testing

2008-09-25 Thread Sameer Verma
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Sameer Verma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Sameer Verma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Seth Woodworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> O

Re: [sugar] G1G1 Pre-installed Activities Request for Help Testing

2008-09-25 Thread Sameer Verma
i > ___ > Sugar mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar > The numbers are just fillers. They don't mean anything. The idea is for you guys to fill in numbers based on a metric and not because i

Re: [sugar] G1G1 Pre-installed Activities Request for Help Testing

2008-09-25 Thread Sameer Verma
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Sameer Verma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Yoshiki Ohshima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> > BTW, the spreadsheet is at >>> > http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=p_Xhb6KcXLyEViA50CnCaDg&h

Re: [sugar] G1G1 Pre-installed Activities Request for Help Testing

2008-09-25 Thread Sameer Verma
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Yoshiki Ohshima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:37:09 -0500, > Sameer Verma wrote: >> >> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Yoshiki Ohshima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > BTW, the spreadsheet is

Re: Greg Smith's Weekly Report

2008-09-30 Thread Sameer Verma
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 5:41 AM, Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > Here's my weekly report for week ending 9/26. > > *** > Status against last week goals: > 1 - Hound engineers to close all 8.2.0 blockers (see > http://dev.laptop.org/report/28) and get a firm d

GentooXO

2008-10-05 Thread Sameer Verma
Had to happen sooner or later. Gentoo for the XO. http://www.gentooxo.org/ Its a Stage 4 build, so don't worry. You won't have to actually compile/build it on your XO ;-) cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State Univ

Re: GentooXO

2008-10-06 Thread Sameer Verma
. I plan on trying it out later today. -- Sameer > > 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 to happen sooner or later. Gentoo for the

Re: POPEYE open source project

2008-10-06 Thread Sameer Verma
> ___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > This is the project (I think)...http://www.ist-popeye.eu/ Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Fr

[Server-devel] physical security issue

2008-10-07 Thread Sameer Verma
server at the ISP/Data Center. Any ideas? cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ ___ Server-dev

Re: [Server-devel] physical security issue

2008-10-08 Thread Sameer Verma
hen anything develops on our end, I'll post it here. cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ > On Oct 7, 2008, at 11:25 PM, Walter Bender wr

Re: OLPC Sugar-Fedora OS name

2008-10-08 Thread Sameer Verma
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Carlos Nazareno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey all! Quick question: > > What's the official name/branding of the OS that ships with the OLPC? > > It's not Sugar as that's the GUI, and neither is it Fedora 9 anymore > as it's been forked. > > Can we clarify this a

Re: [Server-devel] physical security issue

2008-10-10 Thread Sameer Verma
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Pia Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > > >> We currently do not recommend that an AA be used in schools. >> Scalability with AAs is a problem, due to problems with the mesh >> protocols. Hence my comment about likely needing an external >> USB/netw

Re: using synergy

2008-10-10 Thread Sameer Verma
There's also talk about doing minimoo cards for G1G1 this year... Jamaica info slip: http://wiki.laptop.org/images/0/03/Infocard.pdf Minimoo cards: http://www.moo.com/products/minicards.php cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francis

Re: VideoChat is working now - hooray!

2008-10-12 Thread Sameer Verma
edomday.org/ > >"We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be >free." - Bill Hicks > ___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel &g

Fwd: [vox] Tux Paint code_swarm'd

2008-10-21 Thread Sameer Verma
This is interesting. Bill Kendrick ran code_swarm against CVS logs of TuxPaint. Wonder what code_swarm of Sugar will look like... Code Swarm: http://vis.cs.ucdavis.edu/~ogawa/codeswarm/ Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University

MPP with two XOs and a pppd via GPRS

2008-11-07 Thread Sameer Verma
nnels and finally settles at mesh 1 (same as the MPP XO#1) but does not say "XO Mesh". XO#2 says "Simple mesh" and fails to get online via XO#1. Adding the nameserver t0 XO#2 does not help. Any pointers? Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Sy

Re: G1G1-2008 US machines delivered with 8.1 build 708, not with 8.2 build 767

2008-11-19 Thread Sameer Verma
) update to 8.2 with either a link to instructions or an automated push of the newer build? Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ > > On 11/1

Re: x11vnc and vncviewer for classroom

2008-11-23 Thread Sameer Verma
(and only) UbuntuLive and he said he had an XO in the mix of things that ran LTSP terminals. How he was doing this wasn't clear though. cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 U

Re: "Yay!, Bee, See" (ABC) software

2008-11-24 Thread Sameer Verma
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Ben Wiley Sittler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > yeah, i added a 1200x900 version with more agressive JPEG compression > which looks good both in color mode and in monochrome mode and is only > 4 MiB or so: > > http://xent.com/~bsittler/yay-bee-see-olpc.zip > > hosted

Re: Fedora 10 on XO

2008-12-05 Thread Sameer Verma
already have a primary computer and 2) given that Windows has a large market share, G1G1'ers are Windows users. The problem is to assess the needs of G1G1 users and *then* try to fit GNOME, XFCE etc. all within the constraints mentioned above. IMO starting with the supply side will be problem

Re: [Server-devel] stability of XS 0.5

2008-12-18 Thread Sameer Verma
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 3:42 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 4:48 AM, Sameer Verma wrote: >> Given that we still have issues cropping up with XS 0.5, are we still >> going to call it "stable"? > > It's great news that you care about t

What keeps me going...

2009-01-12 Thread Sameer Verma
nk some of us will still live in denial and hang on to our XOs like a worn blanket, but let's hope that day does not come. Please keep plugging away. Karma is a terrific attribute. I hope you all earn lots of it. OLPC-SF will meet on Jan 17, 2009 and celebrate our first anniversary (h

Re: HTML-based/Browser apps (was Re: anti-cheating)

2009-01-12 Thread Sameer Verma
h abysmal MS Internet > Explorer that's keeping the web stuck in 2004. > E.g. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/FindTheCountry -- why bother with crappy > static PDF atlases when interactive technology like that is available? > And you can View > Source it! > This is one of the c

Re: AMD to stop working on Geodes (Carlos Nazareno)

2009-01-27 Thread Sameer Verma
ion, etc.) and I think the frugality of XO's design has definitely lead to many innovations. I for one would *not* have thought that I would be using a 433MHz x86 laptop with 256MB RAM as my favorite machine :-) Hats off to the Geode! cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associa

Re: [support-gang] Uruguay: Using the XO with Developmentally Challenged Kids

2009-01-30 Thread Sameer Verma
tinfo/support-gang > > Wow! These anecdotes are terrific! Very encouraging. Thanks for the link, Caryl! cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ ___

booting from ext2 formatted SD card

2009-02-08 Thread Sameer Verma
Is it possible to boot an XO from an SD card with an Ext2 filesystem? This is an XO with a dev key. I've followed instructions from http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ubuntu_On_OLPC_XO but it sits at the OFW prompt saying "Unrecognized program format" Any pointers would be great. Sameer

Re: booting from ext2 formatted SD card

2009-02-08 Thread Sameer Verma
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 12:29 AM, wrote: > On Sun, 8 Feb 2009, Sameer Verma wrote: > >> Is it possible to boot an XO from an SD card with an Ext2 filesystem? >> This is an XO with a dev key. I've followed instructions from >> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ubuntu_On_O

Re: booting from ext2 formatted SD card

2009-02-08 Thread Sameer Verma
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 11:37 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: > On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 12:29 AM, wrote: >> On Sun, 8 Feb 2009, Sameer Verma wrote: >> >>> Is it possible to boot an XO from an SD card with an Ext2 filesystem? >>> This is an XO with a dev key. I'

Re: booting from ext2 formatted SD card

2009-02-09 Thread Sameer Verma
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Robert Howard wrote: > Sameer, > > Sure I do it all the time. If you can wait until the next OLPC-SF meeting I > will help you then. > > regards, > > /Robert H. > Figured out the glitch. On to the next step... Sameer > On Feb 8, 2

Re: [Server-devel] XS 0.5.1 RC - Last round of testing...

2009-02-11 Thread Sameer Verma
actually works. This is on a Fujitsu P2120 sub-notebook with a 900MHz Crusoe proc and 384MB RAM. Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ ___

Re: [Server-devel] XS 0.5.1 RC - Last round of testing...

2009-02-11 Thread Sameer Verma
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: >> was with eth0 not showing up. It looks like I am the victim of the >> dreaded Realtek 8139 bug. It worked in XS 0.4 but in 0.5.1 it refuses >> to show up. >

Re: [Server-devel] XS 0.5.1 RC - Last round of testing...

2009-02-12 Thread Sameer Verma
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Martin Langhoff > wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: >>> was with eth0 not showing up. It looks like I am the victim of the >>> dreaded Realtek 813

Re: [Server-devel] XS 0.5.1 RC - Last round of testing...

2009-02-13 Thread Sameer Verma
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 2:56 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: >> I've circumvented the realtek 8139 problem by appending irqpoll in >> grub.conf That seems to work, although I have to bring up eth0 >> manually and issuin

Re: [Server-devel] XS 0.5.1 RC - Last round of testing...

2009-02-13 Thread Sameer Verma
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Martin Langhoff >> wrote: >>> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: >>>> was with eth0 not showi

Re: [Server-devel] XS 0.5.1 RC - Last round of testing...

2009-02-13 Thread Sameer Verma
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Jerry Vonau wrote: > On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 10:19 -0800, Sameer Verma wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 2:57 AM, Jerry Vonau wrote: >> > On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 23:30 -0800, Sameer Verma wrote: >> >> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:37 PM, S

Re: [Server-devel] Please test - XS-0.5.2-dev01

2009-03-02 Thread Sameer Verma
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: >> dev02 is at 291 M while dev01 is at 547 M. Is it all there? Do you >> have checksums? > > dev02 is there now. And also at > > http://eduforge.eduf

Re: [Server-devel] Wireless Cards in the School Server

2009-03-09 Thread Sameer Verma
bels on the XS are eth0, eth1, etc). I haven't tried it, but its worth a shot. Can you report back and tell us if it worked? Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco C

Re: Announcing GuruFest: Come hear from OLPC experts, kicking off this Friday with Mel Chua

2009-03-09 Thread Sameer Verma
el > How about also putting it up on a justin.tv channel? Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Active Antennas...

2009-03-15 Thread Sameer Verma
What's the status on the moratorium on active antennas? Can we request these for small deployments (<40) ? Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.

Re: Active Antennas...

2009-03-16 Thread Sameer Verma
oing forth, given that if the numbers are appropriate, it allows for a mesh architecture. If the AA option doesn't work, we'll either ship an additional AP or swap the internal miniPCI on this schoolserver with a radio (engenius probably) that can become an AP and go from there. Any help+ideas wo

Re: Active Antennas...

2009-03-17 Thread Sameer Verma
; these for small deployments (<40) ? >> >> Sameer >> > ___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > We'll go ahead and do this anyway so that the deployment is visible on the contrib. pr

Re: Active Antennas...

2009-03-17 Thread Sameer Verma
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: >> What's the status on the moratorium on active antennas? Can we request >> these for small deployments (<40) ? > > it's ok to request them

Re: [support-gang] you volunteers are nuts :)

2009-03-17 Thread Sameer Verma
d an IAX client on Sugar/XO as yet. Please jump in! I do have a Asterisk server set up, so let me know if I can help. cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.

mesh only

2009-03-23 Thread Sameer Verma
rhood. They don't want the children accidentally (or curiously) clicking on an open AP icon and getting online. Another local school that has 22 XOs has expressed the same concern. cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State Univ

format for lessons/content

2009-03-24 Thread Sameer Verma
nce I wrap up with OSBC. Thought I'd pass this along for comments. cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://open

I hear you

2009-03-29 Thread Sameer Verma
). cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.

Re: What`s going on with OLPC WIKI home page ?

2009-04-10 Thread Sameer Verma
then maybe it should be locked? cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ ___ Devel mailing list Dev

Re: Debugging booting problems with F9 on SD card...

2009-04-15 Thread Sameer Verma
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 2:41 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: >> What would it take to move the next XS Server release to either F10 or >> F11 as F9 will be EOL as soon as F11 comes out in a month or so (one >> month after F11 is out F9 will be

Re: plz test Build 802 + Firmware Q2E41 = Candidate Release 8.2.1

2009-04-30 Thread Sameer Verma
ool portal to 767-XO) works. cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists

Re: [support-gang] 2PM EDT Friday: BRIEF Contributors Program Mtg (#olpc-meeting)

2009-05-01 Thread Sameer Verma
Congratulations! Finally, something productive :-) Just kidding. Post some pics. Make him pose with an XO! I couldn't make it to the meeting either...faculty meetings :-( Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francis

Re: [Server-devel] RIT XS Teacher Reporting Project

2009-05-04 Thread Sameer Verma
is. Derail? What changes at OLPC would derail the Moodle integration? Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ __

dumping datastore to another filesystem

2009-05-12 Thread Sameer Verma
Is there a script that will dump all objects from the sugar datastore to another filesystem (FAT or ext2)? Dragging and dropping objects one at a time from the journal onto the USB icon is painfully slow. cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San

Re: [Sugar-devel] dumping datastore to another filesystem

2009-05-12 Thread Sameer Verma
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 9:52 PM, torello wrote: > Sameer Verma ha scritto: >> >> Is there a script that will dump all objects from the sugar datastore >> to another filesystem (FAT or ext2)? Dragging and dropping objects one >> at a time from the journal onto the

error uploading to wiki

2009-05-13 Thread Sameer Verma
I'm seeing an error on the wiki while uploading an image (png). Error creating thumbnail: Invalid thumbnail parameters Not sure where to post this, so here it is. does this have any thing to do with imagemagick? Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information System

Re: error uploading to wiki

2009-05-14 Thread Sameer Verma
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: > I'm seeing an error on the wiki while uploading an image (png). > > Error creating thumbnail: Invalid thumbnail parameters > Here's the problematic link. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Image:SFSU_ISAD_mindmap.png any ide

Re: [Sugar-devel] dumping datastore to another filesystem

2009-05-15 Thread Sameer Verma
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 5:14 AM, Carol Farlow Lerche wrote: > Martin, the last disk we bought, a few days ago, was $100 and half a > terabyte.  I understand that you are trying to fit the XS into the > preexisting XO hardware, but realistically it is unlikely to be a > configuration a real school

Re: [Sugar-devel] dumping datastore to another filesystem

2009-05-15 Thread Sameer Verma
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 5:54 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Carol Farlow Lerche wrote: >> Since you grant my premise, the corollary is that it wouldn't hurt to have >> mono installed.  See here about the mono footprint on disk and in memory. > > That's so simplified

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sharing to Groups

2009-05-19 Thread Sameer Verma
e no material relevance to Sugar/OLPC) but I'd rather use something more relevant. If we can set up courses on a central site, that would be great. That way, I can backup on the site and restore on the XS and go from there. Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information

Re: slow wiki?

2009-05-29 Thread Sameer Verma
vel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > It gets really slow on pages with several images...maybe because the wiki isn't thumbnailing anymore? Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State

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