Re: XO-1.75 progress, touchscreen, developers, audience

2010-11-13 Thread Jaya Kumar
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Carlos Nazareno object...@gmail.com wrote: Another thing I find sad is people raving on the different screen technologies like with Kindle its incredible sunlight readability when Pixel Qi much, much superior. Horses for courses.

Re: OLPC hardware: what if there was an SDR modem / chipset?

2010-01-26 Thread Jaya Kumar
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 12:17 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton l...@lkcl.net wrote:  miniPCI assumes there's a PCI bus.  ARM SoCs don't have PCI (that i know of).  the only SoC x86 chip i've heard about is the 1ghz IEC The Marvell Armada series, specifically for example the PXA168 has on-chip

Re: [Its.an.education.project] Sugar on the EEE PC

2008-05-07 Thread Jaya Kumar
2008/5/6 John Watlington [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The XO has a good reason for existance (MLJ's display, and attention to low power design). I'm just curious. I was wondering if you have a pointer to specific data about the MLJ display like exact specs on power consumption, brightness,

Re: [Its.an.education.project] Sugar on the EEE PC

2008-05-07 Thread Jaya Kumar
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 8:08 PM, Carol Lerche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Display ...and several pointers to further info in the reference section at the end Thanks Carol. Some of the data was there. Appended ?? marks the info I haven't been able to fill in yet. MLJ

Re: Chilling Effects paper at USENIX

2008-04-08 Thread Jaya Kumar
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Joshua N Pritikin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 10:24:34PM -0400, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: A paper called Freezing More Than Bits: Chilling Effects of the OLPC XO Security Model will be presented next Monday at USENIX UPSEC'08 [1]. The

Re: Chilling Effects paper at USENIX

2008-04-08 Thread Jaya Kumar
Moved the top post down. On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 9:21 PM, Mitch Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would have been nice if the criticisms had been delivered directly to OLPC, instead of broadcast in a public forum, where enemies of OLPC can cite and expand on them as evidence that OLPC is

Re: Why can't i access /dev/dsp or /dev/snd on my XO

2008-01-21 Thread Jaya Kumar
On Jan 21, 2008 1:30 PM, Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This thread started because 1) ALSA is awful, 2) There is no OSS emulation in the XO which breaks some programs, and 3) IMO, I would love if we could seriously discuss switching OSS for ALSA. See, ALSA is a worse

Re: Devel Digest, Vol 23, Issue 2

2008-01-01 Thread Jaya Kumar
On Jan 1, 2008 5:10 PM, Arjun Sarwal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a telemedicine kit from India for about $200, and there are other possibilities. I have been encouraged by developments in blood chemistry measurements that do not require a needle stick. The first such product is

Re: OLPC News 2007-12-30

2007-12-30 Thread Jaya Kumar
On Dec 31, 2007 3:23 AM, Mitch Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: resetting without the EC's knowledge. There is a 2-line patch in the ticket; it makes the kernel reboot using the approved EC interaction. Looking at your trac entry, I see: The change is in arch/i386/kernel/reboot_fixups.c :

Re: Changing Name of Alsamixer controls 'Analog Input' and 'V_REFOUT'

2007-09-07 Thread Jaya Kumar
On 9/6/07, Arjun Sarwal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. There is a control 'Analog Input' which when enabled essentially allows us to switch to a DC coupling by shorting a coupling capacitor on the motherboard. To the user, it simply allows one to put a DC signal into the Mic input and thus

Re: Changing Name of Alsamixer controls 'Analog Input' and 'V_REFOUT'

2007-09-07 Thread Jaya Kumar
On 9/7/07, Arjun Sarwal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jaya, Thank you for your email. The changes that I have proposed seem OLPC specific to me. Oh, ok. I assumed you were going to change the AD1888 AC97 mixer control names in sound/pci/ac97/... Those are not OLPC specific at the moment.

Re: Changing Name of Alsamixer controls 'Analog Input' and 'V_REFOUT'

2007-09-07 Thread Jaya Kumar
On 9/8/07, Andres Salomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 8 Sep 2007 13:02:01 +0800 Jaya Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/7/07, Arjun Sarwal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I can understand wanting to decouple analog input kcontrol (which currently pokes both HPF and VREF

Re: Nepalese have right attitude

2007-09-05 Thread Jaya Kumar
On 9/6/07, John Watlington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Haven't we all had products that demanded live sacrifices ? Goats sacrificed to fix Nepal jet http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6979292.stm I never splurged on a goat, much less two. Maybe on XO suspend/resume On behalf of all