Re: Uruguay violates GPL by deleting root on OLPCs

2010-07-07 Thread Stanley Sokolow
Please explain your statement that lack of root violates GPLv3. Couldn't the owner of the system insert a SD card with a developer's version of Linux, mount the internal drive of the XO, and tinker with the installed packages as root from the external OS? Does GPLv3 expressly mention root

Re: tap-to-click feedback

2010-04-15 Thread Stanley Sokolow
I have an old HP laptop with tap-to-click turned on by default when there's no external mouse. It is annoying to be typing text and have your thumb accidentally brush the touchpad and suddenly you're typing in a totally different location in the text, wherever the mouse pointer happened to be

Re: using XO for Internet Math Tutoring

2010-04-13 Thread Stanley Sokolow
Hi, Martin, Thanks for your reply. When you said to just install Flash, your brevity actually was helpful. It made me think that maybe getting FlashPlayer to run correctly on Sugar is a non-issue by now. I plan to retry the Flash and browser downloads from the wiki. They seem to have been

Re: Flash + AIR on OLPC

2010-04-12 Thread Stanley Sokolow
Sorry, guys, but I just don't see why the content is somehow corrupted or limited by deployment on the Flash platform.The FlashPlayer implements a virtual machine that is customized by Adobe to run on various hardware and OSs. They're extending it now to ARM-processor-based devices (cell

Re: Flash + AIR on OLPC

2010-04-12 Thread Stanley Sokolow
You can see the Xubuntu system running on our XO-1 at: Internet Math Tutoring / OLPC Project http://internetmathtutoring.com/olpc/static.php?page=static090711-100100. On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Stanley Sokolow overb...@earthlink.netwrote: Sorry, guys, but I just don't see why the content

Re: Flash + AIR on OLPC

2010-04-12 Thread Stanley Sokolow
, Apr 12, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Stanley Sokolow overb...@earthlink.netwrote: ... interfaces and binding data to them, has an open-source free-to-use (from Adobe) compiler, has a free-open-source IDE (FlashDevelop) from a community, does this run on the XO? paul

Re: Flash + AIR on OLPC

2010-04-12 Thread Stanley Sokolow
I guess I don't understand constructionism. Is it reasonable to require that the development system run on the target machine?If Apple had this requirement, all of the iPhone/iPod/iPad applications would be gone. We wouldn't have any of the millions of devices (mp3 players, routers, modems,

Fwd: Flash + AIR on OLPC

2010-04-12 Thread Stanley Sokolow
-- Forwarded message -- From: Stanley Sokolow overb...@earthlink.net Date: Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:02 PM Subject: Re: Flash + AIR on OLPC To: Paul Fox p...@laptop.org Sorry, Paul, I just can't accept the idea that the target audience of the OLPC projects must necessarily include

Re: Flash + AIR on OLPC

2010-04-12 Thread Stanley Sokolow
AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) is a desktop application that runs the FlashPlayer virtual machine outside of a browser. You know that Flash is usually thought of as a plug-in to run Flash content inside of a web page being displayed on a browser. To maintain web security, the Flash plug-in

Fwd: Flash + AIR on OLPC

2010-04-12 Thread Stanley Sokolow
Sorry, I keep forgetting to put the list manager in my addresses. Here's my latest message: -- Forwarded message -- From: Stanley Sokolow overb...@earthlink.net Date: Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 4:05 PM Subject: Re: Flash + AIR on OLPC To: mi...@bga.com I forgot to answer your

Re: Flash + AIR on OLPC

2010-04-12 Thread Stanley Sokolow
So, I guess you don't install any software that you download and run, like Firefox or OpenOffice.org or Google Earth? An AIR program doesn't just sneak itself onto your system -- the user decides to buy it, or trust the source of it, downloads it, and runs the installer. The point about AIR is

Re: using XO for Internet Math Tutoring

2010-04-12 Thread Stanley Sokolow
card on the XO which my husband Stanley Sokolow made for me. I hope that soon in the future I won't have to use the SD card anymore. That is, I am hoping that the XO's will become compatible with Flash. -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect

Updating my prior comments about FlashPlayer on the XO-1

2010-04-12 Thread Stanley Sokolow
After writing my explanation of why I turned to a Xubuntu system last year to get FlashPlayer going on my XO for my wife's Internet Math Tutoring project, I thought I ought to see what improvements have been made since that decision.I see on the Wiki that there are Sugarized activities now for

Re: [Sugar-devel] New release of F11 for the XO-1 - Build11

2010-01-11 Thread Stanley Sokolow
installation? Stan == On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 6:36 AM, Stanley Sokolow overb...@earthlink.netwrote: I wasn't aware of that development effort to add ePub format to the capabilities of Read. According to SugarLabs web site, Read does not yet support ePub: Read is an ebook reader based

Re: [Sugar-devel] New release of F11 for the XO-1 - Build11

2010-01-10 Thread Stanley Sokolow
My thoughts about Firefox. Even if it uses more resources than Midori, it's worth the extra bytes. I am running Xubuntu (Teapot edition) from a 2GB SD card in my XO, and I have Firefox on it. I installed the ePubReader plug-in for Firefox. This runs nicely and allows you to view eBooks in

Re: XO-3 super-o-fficial

2009-12-24 Thread Stanley Sokolow
I'm with Bert. What problems has Android solved that Sugar was created to solve, in your opinion? On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 6:04 AM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.dewrote: On 24.12.2009, at 12:59, NoiseEHC wrote: You know, Android OS solves exactly the same problems Sugar has been

Re: XO-3 official

2009-12-23 Thread Stanley Sokolow
My personal experience tells me that it wouldn't help to have this piece of vaporware come into being.The limiting factor in bringing computing to the poor masses on this planet is the high cost of connecting them to the Internet. Even wireless service is beyond the reach of rural villages

Re: [OT] Test run of 2009/05/25 image

2009-06-10 Thread Stanley Sokolow
Mikus, I've been using the Ubuntu version customized for the XO for a couple of days now. (See www.olpcnews.com for info about Teapot's XO-customized Ubuntu 8.10 release.) It is a little slow compared with my other computers, as expected for a computer running at less than .5 GHz, but much

Problems with Adobe Flash player on the XO.

2009-01-01 Thread Stanley Sokolow
Hi, I'm having problems: Adobe FlashPlayer doesn't detect the XO's built-in webcam so it can't transmit video out to the Internet on Flash-enabled web sites, and the Adobe Flash player on the XO freezes the popup right-click control panel. Gnash didn't work at all with a Flash-based web

[Fwd: Problems with Adobe Flash player on the XO.]

2009-01-01 Thread Stanley Sokolow
Subject: Problems with Adobe Flash player on the XO. Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2009 14:20:38 -0800 From: Stanley Sokolow overb...@earthlink.net To: Nirbheek Chauhan nirbheek.chau...@gmail.com CC

Re: [Sugar-devel] Wacom Bamboo with XO?

2008-12-09 Thread Stanley Sokolow
I tried the new installation instructions on the wiki, first installing the Colors activity, then running the new shell script as per the wiki: wget http://dev.laptop.org/~wadeb/setupwacom.sh sudo sh setupwacom.sh It seemed to run ok without errors. I restarted the XO. Colors installed ok and

Re: [Sugar-devel] Wacom Bamboo with XO?

2008-12-09 Thread Stanley Sokolow
Stan, Try a 'depmod' and then 'modprobe wacom' from the Terminal, and see if that helps.nbsp; Feel free to grab me on IRC (as wadeb), I can help troubleshoot it. -Wade On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Stanley Sokolow lt; [EMAIL PROTECTED] gt; wrote: I tried the new installation