Would it be possible to set up an inexpensive data center in china, put an
application server together, and serve windows xp and ms office (at the $3
educational pricing), and then serve them through VNC on the xo, treating it as
a thin client, to address those in some countries who may feel it
On Nov 16, 2007, at 6:15 , Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:
http://dev.laptop.org/~yoshiki/etoys/Clock.004.pr
One way or another, please load it onto Etoys (on a non-XO
environment, drag-and-drop from Finder or Explorer. On XO, access the
URL with browse, copy it to a USB memory and resume it
hi,
I am not in front of my XO. As I could remember I did
CTRL+ALT+F2
root (enter)
yum -y install python-imaging
CTRL+ALT+F3
yokoy
On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:12:25 +0100
Cihan Akkurt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Can someone explain how to install the PIL library on the olpc, for Image
On Nov 16, 2007, at 14:10 , Ed Montgomery wrote:
As
mentioned, any poster who wants to discuss education,
philosophy, etc. email me personally, and stop
cluttering up a dev conference with such drivel.
Too bad there is no forum I am aware of that discusses education in
this education
treating it as a thin client, to address those in
some countries
who may feel it is important to have children learn
ms office and windows
for employment purposes?
Schools should be teaching the concept of word
processing not a
specific
word processor but that is as far as I will go with
Hello,
I developed a new activity for OLPC and I would like that someone can check
on a real machine. I need this test to find out if I have to install modules
/ packages before using the software.
In my code, I use import Image (PIL), and I do not know if it is already
installed by default OLPC
For that matter, Google docs lets you import .doc, .ppt. and .xls
files. They are already running a server. And they include sharing.
Better to put our efforts in to continuing to improve our own
offerings: Abiword (Write) is more than adequate for most needs; there
is a simple spreadsheet program
On Nov 16, 2007, at 13:44 , Walter Bender wrote:
Etoys can view Powerpoint
Not quite (but I admit Etoys is so rich that even I cannot remember
everything). As far as I know, you can export Powerpoint slides to a
series of images, and import them in Etoys to recreate the presentation.
and
You can see what software is installed in the build logs, e.g.
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build286/
devel_jffs2/build.log
and you can verify it works by emulation:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Emulating_the_XO
The cwd is set to your activity's bundle directory, so you
Nick,
At Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:13:34 -0500,
nick knouf wrote:
Bert Freudenberg writes:
I question the very assumption that continuously telling
the time is even remotely important on a learning machine
for kids in elementary school age.
Dealing with time is a critical life
http://dev.laptop.org/~yoshiki/etoys/Clock.004.pr
One way or another, please load it onto Etoys (on a non-XO
environment, drag-and-drop from Finder or Explorer. On XO, access the
URL with browse, copy it to a USB memory and resume it from Journal,
Ugh, is downloading and resuming
I've just posted a bunch of stuff about OLPC SimCity, including some
exciting discussion with Alan Kay about eToys, Robot Odyssey, Visual
Programming, and teaching kids to program, to my blog:
http://www.donhopkins.com/drupal
Enjoy!
PS: If you want to sign up to my blog to comment on the
Peace to you Ed. It is true that I have a fantasy of getting Bill Gates,
Steve Jobs and Linus Torvaalds to join forces and work with OLPC, but I am
not an M$ troll. My PhD original dissertation topic is on open source
multilingual content management systems -- exactly because I want to make it
What I was suggesting though is
that there should *not* be a clock in the Sugar frame visible all the
time.
+1 to including hooks to Sugar for frame-resident mini-apps.
+1 to making the frame clock optional (turned on from the clock activity -
another reason to keep it an activity) and
thanks - yes - and because of the silly idea in my head of MS lowering price
of MS office to $3 a copy.
On Nov 16, 2007 12:38 PM, Seth Woodworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The big question to ask is if you have any experience with education in
China or if this is just your perception of what
On Nov 16, 2007, at 1:57 PM, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:
Well, it seems that you are responding to a wrong message.
Not really; if the question is whether or not there is a clock
application that is standard on the laptop, implicit there is a
decision as to _what kind_ of clock application.
On Nov 16, 2007, at 21:13 , nick knouf wrote:
On Nov 16, 2007, at 1:57 PM, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:
Well, it seems that you are responding to a wrong message.
Not really; if the question is whether or not there is a clock
application that is standard on the laptop, implicit there is a
-1 to the idea that we should deliberately leave out features in order to
encourage kids to program. O, ye of little
faith.
I don't see anybody said this, but yes, that would be bad. The
environment should come rich set of tools/widgets etc. that make the
environment rich. Several clock
This is a Color of the Bikeshed issue.
Give it a rest.
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Just a couple of quick examples, if you care about
kids, and you care about their education, etc., then
supporting M$ in any way, shape, or form, is not the
way to go:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gatesx07jan07,0,6827615.story
On Nov 17, 2007, at 0:21 , Mitch Bradley wrote:
This is a Color of the Bikeshed issue.
Give it a rest.
The clock discussion is, you're right.
Reminding everyone that we set out to create an environment for kids
to explore and construct is not. It's perplexing how few developers
seem to
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