Re: Bitmap at the power off of the XO

2014-09-06 Thread Frederick Grose
On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Adam Holt h...@laptop.org wrote: /usr/share/plymouth/themes/olpc/shutdown.png ​and http://wiki.laptop.org/go/File:Ul_warning.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

Re: [support-gang] can wiki.laptop.org not do sortable tables?

2013-11-01 Thread Frederick Grose
On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 7:05 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: I've checked. For Releases, the Semantic Wiki plugin emits HTML with a call to SMW_sortable.js, and the table has a class of smwtable which implements the sort. For other tables, the click on the sort button is causing a

wiki.laptop.org Robot Spam surge

2013-04-24 Thread Frederick Grose
I deleted over 225 robot spam pages today. About 200 of those were following a new page creation pattern. Recently, the usual number of deletions have been 30 to 50 such pages a day. (A year ago or so, I usually deleted about 15 spam pages a day.) I suggest we change the wiki configuration now

Re: Outdoor Light Sensor

2012-06-13 Thread Frederick Grose
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 9:27 PM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: We are looking for a better place for the outdoor light sensor in a future laptop, where we have a chance to make minor changes in the mainframe tooling. The problem with the current location is: interference from LEDs

Re: Turtle Art sensor xo 1.75 range voltage

2012-06-02 Thread Frederick Grose
On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 12:59 AM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: On Jun 1, 2012, at 9:24 PM, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: We should test the calibration again. Walter, Guzman Testing with TA140 It looks like the 1.75 audio circuit was changed between the preproduction and

Re: New boot animation for 12.1.0

2012-03-23 Thread Frederick Grose
Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote: I compared os5 and os883 side by side and os883 is a lot faster to boot. I understand is not all plymouth time, but would be good if we can avoid

Re: [Server-devel] XS stats script...

2012-03-14 Thread Frederick Grose
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 1:29 AM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: Wondering if anyone has used this script and if you were able to run it successfully.

Re: [OLPC Engineering] [Techteam] 11.3.1 build 11 released for XO-1.75

2011-12-02 Thread Frederick Grose
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 12:55 AM, S Page skierp...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry to butt in What is the recommended way to identify the type/model of keyboard/trackpad? Good question. This should be put on a Wiki page. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Support_FAQ/Mouse,_Touchpad ? -- =S

Re: 11.3.1 build 15 released for XO-1.75

2011-12-01 Thread Frederick Grose
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Martin Langhoff mar...@laptop.org wrote: OS 15 is additionally understood to fix #11416 C1 XO 1.75s may not wake up due to RTC from suspend #11462 Kernel crash seen initializing EC support on a 1.75 B1 Please help us test in build! I shut down os15, but

Re: 11.3.1 build 15 released for XO-1.75

2011-12-01 Thread Frederick Grose
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Frederick Grose fgr...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Martin Langhoff mar...@laptop.orgwrote: OS 15 is additionally understood to fix #11416 C1 XO 1.75s may not wake up due to RTC from suspend #11462 Kernel crash seen initializing EC

Re: 11.3.0 release candidate 1 (build 880) released

2011-10-08 Thread Frederick Grose
On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: Hi, We're pleased to announce our first release candidate of our new 11.3.0 software release. {...} XO-1.75 firmware was updated to Q4B11. This fixes the camera and other things. From

Re: Re: [Testing] New prototype XO-1.75s in Auckland, New Zealand

2011-08-28 Thread Frederick Grose
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 11:51 PM, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: Thanks I'll try the modification, fitting tape to the heatspreader underside near the power connector Tony I slipped a piece of electrical tape in under the heat spreader with the help of a toothpick to press the tape to the

Re: New F14-arm build os40 - Are we there yet? I'm hungry!

2011-08-27 Thread Frederick Grose
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote: On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 3:59 AM, Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.de wrote: On 08/26/2011 07:02 PM, Peter Robinson wrote: {...} All of the code around view source seems to be working properly :) And adding

Re: Patch to speed up hover menus

2011-07-30 Thread Frederick Grose
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 5:46 AM, Samuel Klein s...@laptop.org wrote: Testing out 11.2 - in general, it is just great :-) I recall a lovely patch that sped up hover menu response significantly -- is that being considered for inclusion in a future release? That's the UI issue I would most

OPENPAD tablet designed for children

2011-06-01 Thread Frederick Grose
See http://www.sbwire.com/press-releases/sbwire-94821.htm ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Fwd: [fonc] Visual 6502 microprocessor

2011-01-07 Thread Frederick Grose
Have you ever wondered how the chips inside your computer work? How they process information and run programs? Are you maybe a bit let down by the low resolution of chip photographs on the web or by complex diagrams that reveal very little about how circuits work? Then you've come to the right

Re: Calculate-33 request for activities wiki update page

2010-09-12 Thread Frederick Grose
On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 8:49 PM, Gary C Martin garycmar...@googlemail.comwrote: Hi Folks, Not sure where this email should be going, but now that the http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/G1G1 and equivalent update pages are locked down, could I request the links for Calculate be updated to

Re: Exiting Activity started from Home returns to Journal view or another Activity view

2010-08-28 Thread Frederick Grose
...@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg15409.html : On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 12:46 AM, Frederick Grose fgr...@gmail.com wrote: Sugar 0.84.x seems to have a regression in behavior from 0.82 See http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10264 http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10264Perhaps someone knows of a quick fix

Exiting Activity started from Home returns to Journal view or another Activity view

2010-08-02 Thread Frederick Grose
Sugar 0.84.x seems to have a regression in behavior from 0.82 See http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10264 http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10264Perhaps someone knows of a quick fix for this. Efforts to pin the cause have not been fruitful so far. An Activity launched from the Home view, when exited,

Re: Disabling pretty-boot

2010-07-28 Thread Frederick Grose
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: On 28 July 2010 15:22, Hal Murray hmur...@megapathdsl.net wrote: {...} Is there a simple edit/whatever I can do to disable pretty-boot? sed -i -e 's: boot$: visible unfreeze boot:g'

Re: [Server-devel] Journal and Google

2010-07-18 Thread Frederick Grose
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 5:04 AM, Tabitha Roder tabi...@tabitha.net.nzwrote: Hi Has anyone tried backing up the Journal to Google docs? A school told us they are using google apps (for education) and would like Sugar to store the Journal in Google clouds. Really, what they would like is a

Re: [Server-devel] XO Registration Failed with XS

2010-06-17 Thread Frederick Grose
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Hamilton Chua hamilton.c...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Ganesh, I wrote this down a while back when I was figuring out how to get SoaS to register and backup with an XS, hope this helps you. The registration process begins when an XO laptop user clicks on the avatar

Re: Alternative to Create a new wireless network

2010-04-22 Thread Frederick Grose
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.dewrote: On 04/22/2010 06:10 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Mikus Grinbergsmi...@bga.com wrote: To me, the greatest drawback to the existing icon(s) is that they do not show the channel. If

Re: Alternative to Create a new wireless network

2010-04-22 Thread Frederick Grose
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Frederick Grose fgr...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.dewrote: On 04/22/2010 06:10 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Mikus Grinbergsmi...@bga.com wrote: To me, the greatest

Re: Sugar Labs logo in bottom-left corner of olpc-bootanim

2010-04-21 Thread Frederick Grose
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Ed McNierney e...@laptop.org wrote: Folks - It's my impression that the boot animation in grayscale is an equally important part of the XO design. IIRC, we went to some effort to use a non-standard Fedora badge in order to retain the grayscale color scheme.

Re: [Server-devel] OLPC Moodle use

2010-04-16 Thread Frederick Grose
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 6:41 PM, David Leeming da...@leeming-consulting.com wrote: Is there an existing Wiki page where we can all add our contributions? This is a very good idea. I would suggest also some suggestions or approaches to training teachers to use it, i.e. a training curriculum

Re: Laptop Serial Number Format

2010-04-09 Thread Frederick Grose
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 5:41 AM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: The XO serial numbers are structured as follows AABYWWS AA - Area, where SH is QSMC (Shanghai), and CS is CSMC (Changshu) B - Factory Y - Last digit of year of production WW - ISO week number of production S

Re: [Server-devel] [Sugar-devel] scalability in the neighborhood view

2010-03-24 Thread Frederick Grose
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Eben Eliason eben.elia...@gmail.comwrote: ... Yeah, definitely. We did a lot of thinking on this topic way back when, so there is some documentation already describing a proposed model: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team/Specifications/Groups We

Re: [Sugar-devel] Children want Sugar 0.84, for the wrong reason

2010-03-13 Thread Frederick Grose
See http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/535#comment:5, Expose Journal, Home, Group, Neighborhood, Frame Sources, where it's suggested that we extend the 'Show Source' facility to more of Sugar. Learners like to exercise and demonstrate their knowledge by customizing or changing their environments.

Re: [Server-devel] Pushing Activities to XOs

2009-12-22 Thread Frederick Grose
Another possibility might be http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Multicast_NAND_FLASH_Update#Cloning_the_Sender.27s_NAND . ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel

[Invitation] Activity Team Meeting @ Fri Jun 26 1pm – 2pm (devel@lists.laptop.org)

2009-06-24 Thread Frederick Grose
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Fwd: An interesting project I stumbled across

2009-06-12 Thread Frederick Grose
Forwarding to the community... -- Forwarded message -- From: William Schaub Date: Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 6:31 PM Subject: An interesting project I stumbled across To: Frederick Grose fgr...@gmail.com This looks like something that is right up the alley of the OLPC groups and sugar

[Server-devel] Fwd: An interesting project I stumbled across

2009-06-12 Thread Frederick Grose
Forwarding to the community... -- Forwarded message -- From: William Schaub Date: Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 6:31 PM Subject: An interesting project I stumbled across To: Frederick Grose fgr...@gmail.com This looks like something that is right up the alley of the OLPC groups and sugar

Re: [Server-devel] [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] collaboration testing session

2009-06-05 Thread Frederick Grose
Is there a wiki page to sign up and coordinate, or what's the procedure? - Bert - http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Collaboration_Testing is available for event references, documentation, etc. It is transcluded for now at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/BugSquad/Meetings --Fred

Re: rotate button sucks on the XO

2009-03-01 Thread Frederick Grose
By opening the XO in its traditional laptop configuration and then holding it by the handle as if it were an opened book (twist 90 degrees), results in a portrait mode configuration that is more ergonomic for a standing user and perhaps more comfortable for casual use while sitting on a couch or

Re: power consumption after shutdown

2009-02-16 Thread Frederick Grose
In a discussion thread like this, it would good to have a source code link for all to reference, now and in the future. Thanks for all the contributions! On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 3:36 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 12:19:41AM -0500, Richard A. Smith wrote:

Re: [sugar] OLPC's bizarre behaviors

2008-05-22 Thread Frederick Grose
Thank you Martin for your insightful perspective. The teams' excellent work has produced such high expectations that they can easily run away and lead to temporary disappointments. Remember the alternatives, be encouraged, and keep up your best efforts. We applaud you all. On Thu, May 22,

Re: typing tutor activity

2008-04-28 Thread Frederick Grose
. Best wishes, Frederick Grose, MPH, CIH ... The goal of this project is to deliver an activity that allows teachers to create typing lessons for children that are written in the kid's native language using age-appropriate words and sentences. The application will do this using

Re: [Server-devel] [OLPC Networking] RSSI value questions

2008-04-04 Thread Frederick Grose
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 10:18 PM, John Watlington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...I still prefer the idea of using audio... The effective acoustic range is probably similar to the line of sight for XO users. Far more interesting, in my opinion, would be locating other users in radio or network

Re: [sugar] Mini-Conference Proposal: Toolbars Tabs

2008-04-03 Thread Frederick Grose
The win-win is when this piece of Greg's advice is followed: ...Just make sure its not a surprise to existing users. Also make sure they are bought in, understand the benefit and are ready to make the move. ... Greg Smith (gregmsmi) Thu, 03 Apr 2008 06:24:10 -0700 And Bryan seems to have

OLPC Usability Testing Class Project

2008-03-13 Thread Frederick Grose
This note is a request for the broader community to consider potential topic areas that might be prime for some usability testing. (Here is a quick review of usability testing, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usability_testing.) Professor Keith Karn in the Information Technology Department,