On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 8:45 PM, John Gilmore g...@toad.com wrote:
I talked with one of the 802.11 experts I know. He's quite sure
that there should be no problem on Atheros hardware at least.
He has no problem transmitting arbitrary packets at arbitrary
times and no problem receiving packets
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote:
2009/10/26 Albert Cahalan acaha...@gmail.com:
The issue is that A and B are both hosting their own networks, they
are both beacon masters, spewing beacons based off their own clocks.
How is this any different than the mesh
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 7:09 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote:
2009/10/23 Albert Cahalan acaha...@gmail.com:
Thus, properly done, the XO labled C might have either of:
a. wlan0 to reach A, and wlan1 to reach B (same hardware)
b. wlan0, from which wlan0_0 and wlan0_1 are instantiated
Daniel Drake writes:
Another laptop C comes along
A C -- B
This laptop can see both of these independent laptops (each having
its independent network). It can join one or the other. It cannot
join both. Hence this XO can only communicate with A or B, but not
both (even
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Martin
Langhoffmartin.langh...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 4:42 AM, Albert Cahalanacaha...@gmail.com wrote:
First partition: FAT16 with 4 KB clusters
Second partition: LVM with ext4
Gentlemen, before LVM can be considered, we need
- fs resize
First partition: FAT16 with 4 KB clusters
Second partition: LVM with ext4
In the LVM, filesystems should be 50% to 80% full. This leaves some
extra space unused. As filesystems fill up, the filesystems can be
expanded to use the extra space.
Don't shrink filesystems unless they drop down to 15%
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Sameer Vermasve...@sfsu.edu wrote:
This is largely because you aren't doing normal Linux development.
Normal. Now there's a term that's relative. Is GNOME normal? Or is it KDE?
Or XFCE, LXDE? Enlightenment, maybe?
For this purpose: all of the above plus FVWM
Ed McNierney writes:
We've tried many times to make the very simple story about Windows
support on the XO clear. The conspiracy theorists don't really care.
If you don't live in a fact-based universe, facts are irrelevant.
Mitch is quite right, but we've said just about all of that before to
It's getting more and more important to be able to detect XO hardware
from userspace. One can no longer assume that Sugar implies XO because
Sugar runs elsewhere and because non-Sugar is getting common on the XO.
Considering the 1.5 hardware, assuming that Geode implies XO is not
going to be
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Walter Benderwalter.ben...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Albert Cahalanacaha...@gmail.com wrote:
I suppose the real needs are:
1. detect that the screen has XO-like blur
2. detect that the keyboard has XO-style keys
2a. detect that there
Martin Langhoff writes:
The short version of it is that canvas (and image rendering in
general) is hurting lots due to the dpi being hardcoded to 134
which forces Gecko into image scaling games. Just setting
layout.css.dpi to 96 makes Browse much snappier in general,
and incredibly faster in
Martin Langhoff writes:
2009/5/9 david david at leeming-consulting.com:
They have better luck (maybe my fingers are sweaty more than most)
and I have noticed students often wrapping cloth around their
finger to use the touch pad. It remains a real problem, but people
do get by.
The devel@
I have a bad feeling about swiping the CRT I2C. It kind of leaves
a needless landmine for video driver authors who would prefer to
unify their code (XO and non-XO hardware) as much as possible.
Suppose a video driver attempts E-DDC. Is it going to confuse
some non-compliant I2C device or actually
Hal Murray writes:
I've always thought of slide into view as annoying. I have to
wait around for the thing I want to look at to finish dancing.
Me too, which is why I specified fast and rapid. Animations
commonly suffer from various problems:
a. You really do have to wait, because the
John Watlington writes:
- The SD slot and USB ports may be powered in suspend
This is just in case some SD cards or USB devices don't handle
being suspended
aggressively. We will support laptop wakeup on interrupt from any
of these ports (SD or USB). Under software control
Christoph Derndorfer writes:
I honestly can't think of a use-case for including any sort
of 3D acceleration into the basic Sugar and activities. There's
about a million significantly more important things that people
should be working on before even thinking about 3D (IMHO).
One can use a 3D
Aaron Konstam writes:
Unfortunately, currently it seems to be only able to
translate whole pages not words or paragraphs.
The more you have, the better you can translate:
I offered several different types of foods. They liked
a banana more than onions, roast beef, garlic, or beets.
In
pgf writes:
so: i've packaged a new version of powerd. the big change
is that it now allows for the two modes of operation i mentioned
last week on the list:
dim
sleep, screen on
sleep, screen off
shutdown
or:
Bobby Powers writes:
2009/2/2 Tiago Marques tiagomnm at gmail.com:
Python is killing the XO, what's being done in that regard?
The $100 laptop will always be hardware limited, how can
python be a benefit and not a *huge* burden? I for one can't
get my head around that.
The idea is to give
In case any low-level hackers are included in the layoffs, note
that my employer can hire a good number of them. (if US citizen)
In case you know somebody appropriate who no longer reads devel,
please let him know. People might unsubscribe when laid off, or
might have been subscribed via a
Peter Robinson writes:
I've found it very cpu intensive on Fedora 9 and 10 with a penryn
dual core processor. It basically pins one of the cores to 100% CPU
That could be good. 70% would be more worrisome,
because we'd have to assume the CPU was really
doing the rendering. At 100%, it becomes
[multiple people]
I recently learned a few very important things about Linux memory
management (I'm speaking about how its supposed to work, irrespective
of any bugs). Operating systems experts already know all of this,
but I did not.
This is a good reminder for those of us who tend to
On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Benjamin M. Schwartz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Albert Cahalan wrote:
Memory reservations are a different beast entirely. Running
out of memory becomes approximately impossible because
the user is blocked from starting too many activities.
This seems like
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Benjamin M. Schwartz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Albert Cahalan wrote:
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Could the oom-killer have a hook to enable this functionality to be
invoked instead of simply killing the application
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Did you continue down this path (auto-saving application state to NAND
when we run out of memory)? How tenable is the idea of saving
application state to NAND on our system?
Could the oom-killer have a hook to enable
S Page writes:
HTML in Browse integrates cleanly with the library/home page,
can use advanced CSS for attractive layout, takes you from a
link to a document without the download-Journal-Read steps,
avoids PDF's fundamental broken-ness rendering a paper page
on a screen, has JavaScript to add
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It was a very poor experiment and the article had a number of items
of misinformation. The author of the article did not take advantage
of the fact that she had 2 XOs . She did not boot both in Sugar to
observe the collaboration capabilities of Sugar and
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 7:57 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
File sharing is not an active real time collaboration tool by any means.
Right. Active real-time collaboration is nice, and I wish my
own editor had it, but I think you're overvaluing it greatly.
In sugar multiple
Edward Cherlin writes:
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 7:15 AM, Carlos Nazareno object404 at gmail.com
wrote:
3) Basically - The journal is really hard for people/ kids to
use over a longer period of time. Kids and teachers can't find
things that they did unless it was done within the last 30
C. Scott Ananian writes:
The response usually is that additional context is sufficient to
disambiguate tag sets, you don't actually need ordering. That is,
it's okay if a/b is indistinguishable from b/a -- in practice one
will really be c/a/b and the other will be b/a/d or whatever, and
you
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 6:04 PM, Jim Gettys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Note that more current Linux kernels, such as that in 8.2, are much
better at being able to account for what process is using what memory.
It's probably worth a little experimentation after 8.2 ships to see if
the original
C. Scott Ananian writes:
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 9:48 AM, Samuel Klein sj at laptop.org wrote:
Coloring something certainly helps remember it. And changing the
colors of shapes/objects in a drawing or scene or skin is one of
the simple pleasures in life. A simple implementation of coloring
For the zillionth time, my kids brought my XO to a halt. They started
up two copies of Tux Paint and two copies of Colors! (BTW, boy do I
hate names with built-in sentence-ending punctuation) The end result
is that the activities die (unacceptable), usually via power button.
There are a number of
Here is a list, most important first:
Journal required
Browse needed for tech support
XoIRC needed for tech support
Terminalneeded for tech support
Record kids love taking pictures
DOOMkids love shooting monsters
SimCity kids like destroying cities
Ruler
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 10:01 AM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 1:41 AM, Albert Cahalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The case of b/a being distinct from a/b is necessary. You may call
it a necessary evil, but in any case is is necessary.
Surprisingly, it's
Eben Eliason writes:
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Eduardo H. Silva hoboprimate at gmail.com
wrote:
2008/9/19 C. Scott Ananian cscott at laptop.org:
Eben, Eduardo, and I have been chatting about this some over IRC.
What I find most interesting here is how *filesystem paths* (well,
URL
Martin Langhoff writes:
In that sense, it is very simple - as a programmer, if I am going to
spend significant time working on a feature like this I want it to
1 - work for the deployments - this is the most important thing!
2 - work for G1G1 users too - they are the donors and enthusiasts!
Aaron Konstam writes:
Someone in a recent message suggested that people should learn to
routinely erase Journal entries to prevent the NAND from filling up.
Unless I have missed something that is a very tedious task to lay on
someone using the current GUI interface for erasing journal
On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Gary C Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 3 Aug 2008, at 23:03, Albert Cahalan wrote:
This is rather unfair. I take it you've just filled up all available space
and jffs2 is now thrashing (as would happen on almost any file system)?
df -m . reports 1024 blocks
Morgan Collett writes:
We didn't get to discuss this activity developers' mailing list
at the Sugar meetings. However I've had no negative feedback.
If anyone is opposed to this list, please speak up quickly and
loudly. Otherwise I will get it created in the next week,
publicize it and
Look, there is no reason to care about hashes. What is the fear
here, that the jffs2 filesystem will fail? We have pathnames.
Permissions are granted by the user. The only exception is when
the OS is initially installed, or when the whole OS is upgraded.
Permissions are tied to an inode. Since
Jordan Crouse writes:
Video is muxed to the visible screen through the use of a color key -
given a rectangle of some size, the hardware compares all of the pixels
in that rectangle against a set color - if they match, then a pixel of
the video frame is shown, otherwise not.
That should have
Michael Stone writes:
One of our present security difficulties is that the Terminal activity
is not isolated. It is de-isolated so that it can serve the dual role of
root terminal and 'general exploration' terminal. Perhaps reviving the
Quake Terminal for the root-terminal role and isolating
Michael Stone writes:
On the other hand, it would be rather trivial for activities which
cared to check their dependencies in a adhoc fashion (by running
rpm themselves if they wish) and by reporting errors if necessary
dependencies are unsatisfied.
This is far from trivial. Sure, I could do
Mikus Grinbergs writes:
There are people like me who like TuxPaint better than Oficina.
However, to run TuxPaint, users of current Joyride need to
re-install SDL_mixer and libmikmod.
I hope you've filed a bug to request that those libraries
be put back.
I could use libpaper as well; the
Daniel Drake writes:
I'll look into why SDL_mixer went away, and what it is used for...
It's for audio. Reasons for use include:
* Nicely compatible with other SDL stuff
* Cross-platform (BeOS, MacOS X, Win95, Vista...)
* Easy support for stereo positioning
* Handles *.ogg files
* Good enough
FYI, the Tux Paint port is mine. I have CVS commit rights to
the main Tux Paint code base. Probably 5% to 10% of the code
is mine.
Mitch Bradley writes:
The filesystem layout for the tuxpaint activity has a lot of
boilerplate that contributes to it taking up a lot of space on NAND.
In some
Benjamin M. Schwartz writes:
There have been periodic suggestions, including some by potential OLPC
buyers, that they would be more interested if the project offered a GUI
that more closely resembled the environments to which they are accustomed.
~ I strongly disagree with these people,
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 9:47 PM, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Albert Cahalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Smalltalk community is puzzled that anybody would
prefer to work on Smalltalk in something other than Smalltalk.
Unless you want to rewrite
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 11:13 PM, K. K. Subramaniam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 25 Jun 2008 12:08:44 am Albert Cahalan wrote:
*All the source code* for *every* piece of byte code in the
image is available, and not only that, we even *ship* it
No. This is not true. You ship
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 3:02 AM, Yoshiki Ohshima [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Before drifting to a new topic, let me make sure one thing; did you
get convinced that FSF's definition of software freedom doesn't
contradict with a binary image file with right tools to fully
Benjamin M. Schwartz writes:
There is a planned design to allow the user to grant extra privileges
to different Activities, but those privileges will probably never
extend to loading arbitrary kernel modules.
VMWare-1.xo
It's the only way to get usable performance on a system that
doesn't
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Bert Freudenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Am 26.06.2008 um 10:53 schrieb Albert Cahalan:
This idea of applying patch collections is disturbing. It reminds
me of the terrible mess that Minix was back in 1991, when the
license permitted people to share patches
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From what I gathered from my experiments, I think it makes sense for
us to go with Metacity + maximus. That would require no code changes
in metacity and minor changes in sugar. If we want to support activity
icons
I'm glad that Debian didn't break the rules for etoys.
You're claiming to be open source, yet you've LOST the
source code decades ago. Hacking up binary images is
shockingly horrible software non-engineering.
You've no justification for taking shots at gcc, which
is entirely capable of being
Here are some ideas that might help you fix some of the problems
with start-up performance, shut-down performance, open source,
and software engineering practices.
You're trying to do a persistant system image on an OS that wasn't
really designed for it. If you were on an exotic system with a
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Bert Freudenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Am 24.06.2008 um 20:04 schrieb Albert Cahalan:
I'm glad that Debian didn't break the rules for etoys.
You're claiming to be open source, yet you've LOST the
source code decades ago. Hacking up binary images
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 1:15 AM, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 8:45 PM, Albert Cahalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Albert Cahalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Albert Cahalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I do believe that, practically speaking, all of this is moot.
Windows uses both SD card storage and the NAND flash storage.
(NAND storage being
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 7:31 PM, Bobby Powers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 12:39 AM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* Windows runs from an SD card, but there is not much space left on
that SD card to store user files. User files are stored in NAND at
the
John Watlington writes:
The loss of a keyboard is mourned. But so much of the activities
the young kids that OLPC is targetting do are more manual and direct.
Kids too young for a keyboard? That would be below school age.
The desire to maximize display area (but clam-shell, not tablet, for
Note that we *cannot* share much of the information about the
possible alternatives we are examining for Gen-2 hardware
until decisions are final; it is the basis of serious negotiations
among competing parties, under non-disclosure agreements.
Lest rumors of more OLPC secrets get started,
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 8:10 PM, Alex Belits
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Eben Eliason wrote:
For what it's worth, I would be careful to portray the low-achievers
and the brightest as opposites. As I note below, I frequently find
that some of the brightest are also some of the low-achievers, due
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 3:47 AM, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Albert Cahalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 5:38 PM, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry, people can't learn Constructionism simply by reading
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 6:28 AM, Martin Langhoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Albert Cahalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Reason: it's not at all related to laptop computers
Fact: it's not universally valued by teachers
This *is* a project pushing the envelope
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 5:38 PM, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Albert Cahalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 6:28 AM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Stop here, and please _read_ on constructionism. (Hint: most
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 overall usability and
productivity of a system? You can always show a boot screen early in the
process and say its boots
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 4:14 AM, Martin Langhoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Albert Cahalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You don't need computers for constructionism. If pushing educational
theories of questionable value is your thing,
Can we stop beating
This is good, not bad. Adding glibc-headers is the proper response.
The XO is really really close to having normal and standard tools
for software development.
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On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 5:28 AM, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Albert Cahalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just look at the deal. Dual-boot costs $7 extra. Governments will
not pay the extra $7 to allow dual-boot.
No, Windows costs about $7 extra
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 them some of what they want, so that
Seth Woodworth writes:
So as a fair practice I think it's clear that no special actions can
ethically be made to prevent Windows or any other OS from running on
the machine. So a Windows port for the XO isn't something that
could have been preventative.
Wrong. It's called tit-for-tat,
Child-safe web filtering on XO
Regardless of its merits, CIPA requires it for XO deployments
in US schools:
Here are the requirements: http://ifea.net/cipa.pdf
The easy way out is child ownership. The requirements only
apply to computers which are owned by schools and libraries.
Probably
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Joshua N Pritikin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That is totally half-assed. As a parent, I would be pissed off when I
became aware of the quality of such an OLPC web filtering solution.
How about if we place a DansGuardian transparent proxy on a public IP
Let's imagine this several ways, and see why it won't happen.
First consider what a faithful Sugar\Windows system would be like.
a. the familiar Start menu is gone
b. regular Windows programs like Word can't run
c. OS config GUI stuff is (must be) rewritten from scratch
I doubt anybody wants
Eben Eliason writes:
1. Toolbar buttons use icons instead of text as an identifier. Beyond
the icon, we depend on the content of the toolbar to help define the
tab, with a textual name being superfluous. This makes localization
easier (well, free) and prevents text from being cut off in due
Mikus Grinbergs writes:
... Performance, or for us, UI responsiveness, the most visible
and painful issue being start up time of applications is paramount.
I'm impressed by the start up time of the (giant) TuxPaint activity.
From the time I click on its icon in the Frame, it takes about
We have free firmware now:
git clone git://dev.laptop.org/users/albert/usb8388
I admit that it has some... bugs. The mesh doesn't work. Power management
doesn't work. Heck, it won't send/receive packets and it knows nothing
of this USB thing. However, we have a blinkenlight. Ship it!
BTW, what
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 11:24 AM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 3:26 AM, Albert Cahalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
BTW, what is killing my blinkenlight? I realize that it wouldn't do
to hang the boot forever because of some missing firmware features
James Simmons writes:
I agree I have no business inventing my own MIME type.
Yes you do, and you should ignore the x- disaster.
Pick something sane, descriptive but not too generic,
and be done with it.
(If you use x-, then you **still** face any collision
problems and you're expected to
Dan Williams writes:
No, you can't. One team reverse engineers the hardware and
creates a specifications document, the second team implements
(from scratch or from unencumbered FOSS sources) the firmware
The only unencumbered FOSS sources are public domain.
Creating BSD code from GPL code is
On Jan 23, 2008 6:22 PM, Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 21:03 +0100, Rózsás Gödény wrote:
I hope you can make options to start with any of the 3
firmwares.
Perhaps I wish to try writing a boot1 or boot2.
Um, Boot1 is burned into ROM on
imm ian writes:
On 22 Jan 2008, at 4:11, Albert Cahalan wrote:
You don't need to abuse pitch bends. MIDI lets you
redefine the pitches of the notes. You can redefine
middle C to be 1234 Hz if you like.
Mmm, well, yes, but...
No but. You can redefine at will, for individual notes.
If you
On Jan 21, 2008 12:27 PM, Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(b) as has been pointed out repeatedly, CSound is an open standard
(which incidentally predates the MIDI standard).
It may be open, but it isn't much of a standard.
I've only found one implementation, csound itself.
There are no
On Jan 21, 2008 1:31 PM, Antoine van Gelder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Albert Cahalan wrote:
On Jan 21, 2008 12:27 PM, Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(b) as has been pointed out repeatedly, CSound is an open standard
(which incidentally predates the MIDI standard).
It may be open
On Jan 21, 2008 10:43 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1. MIDI is limited but more or less universally spoken. Serious
algocompsynth *must* involve support of MIDI. CSound recognized this
years ago.
I think that means file storage, input, output, etc.
The keyboard produces
On Jan 19, 2008 4:33 PM, victor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can't speak for TamTam because I am not involved in their
design details, but I can say this, Csound's standard score
preceeds MIDI by at least a decade (or two if you consider where
it came from). It is much more flexible to convey
On Jan 18, 2008 4:06 AM, Antoine van Gelder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Albert Cahalan wrote:
Sorry to hear about your war.
Attitudes such as this sir, is the reason that America is viewed by many
nations as a belligerent and imperialistic monster.
I'm sure you misinterpreted me. Maybe you
On Jan 18, 2008 11:27 PM, Bill Nottingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Albert Cahalan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said:
You can read Hannu's take on the matter in his blog. This
entry is particularly informative, but note that the code
has since been released under the GPL.
http://4front-tech.com
Bryan Berry writes:
I feel very strongly that violent games should not be associated
with OLPC. Albert Cahalan points out that games like Doom can
teach geometry and other skills. There are ways to teach those
skills w/out involving violence. I work in Nepal, a country
recovering from an 11
Michael Stone writes:
I assume you're talking about the virtual terminal here; not the
Terminal activity. As root, you my try a command like:
setfont sun12x22
Many people report that that font is also too small.
You can try my 15x30 font, which many people love.
It's attached to this
On Jan 17, 2008 11:24 PM, Bernardo Innocenti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Albert Cahalan wrote:
Many people report that that font is also too small.
You can try my 15x30 font, which many people love.
It's attached to this email.
It's already the second time you attach your font.
It's only 4
On Jan 13, 2008 6:42 AM, David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 02:30 -0500, Albert Cahalan wrote:
David Woodhouse writes:
http://www.csr.com/products/unifirange.htm
They claim that that is a 1-chip solution. Is it really?
I have no reason to believe otherwise
Bernardo Innocenti writes:
Albert Cahalan wrote:
Bernardo Innocenti writes:
What we're actually doing is just to disable them in the
default installation so that malicious activities cannot
login as root or olpc and basically own the system.
This is NOT needed at all.
I wrote and tested
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger writes:
On 13.01.2008 01:45, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
Typical Linux practice is the following:
1. One *never* allows remote shell login as root -- *ever* -- even
behind a firewall. One allows only *one* user in the wheel group to
log in to a shell account, and
Bernardo Innocenti writes:
What we're actually doing is just to disable them in the
default installation so that malicious activities cannot
login as root or olpc and basically own the system.
This is NOT needed at all.
I wrote and tested an /etc/pam.d/su modification that will
prohibit all
Alex Gibson writes:
Need internetworking support (mixing of arm and thumb code).
Does gcc support that? I won't worry if not though.
With a good compiler and good hackers, plain ARM will
fit just fine.
Alternately, one can easily switch modes by hand.
For toolchains there are a few options
David Woodhouse writes:
http://www.csr.com/products/unifirange.htm
They claim that that is a 1-chip solution. Is it really?
Marvell uses a 2-chip solution.
If a 2-chip solution is OK, then one could start with a
1-chip softmac solution and add any arbitrary processor.
That CPU could be ARM,
Kent Loobey writes:
I am creating an activity for pre-literate children.
Two questions come to mind.
1. I will have sound entries that will need to be translated.
How do the translators want this to be laid out for them.
2. Since some images may not be meaningful/appropriate universally,
Peter Krenesky writes:
Greg Smith (gregmsmi) wrote:
Once the printer is installed you're close but
lpr -P fooprinter foodoc.ps will need a path to the
file and they may not be comfortable with the prompt.
a. Getting comfortable with the prompt is educational.
b. That command can be run from
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