On Apr 25, 2008, at 1:02 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
is Software activation critical? If the XOs are deployed in the
poorest towns then there is small possibilities for theft and
robberies. In those small villages (with 100 families
approximately) all of them know each other: you can
These might be stupid questions since I just joined the newsgroup today so
my apologies in advance but I wasn't able to find an answer on the site.
When you're talking about running Sugar on Windows XP, are you talking about
a running the retail version of XP or a version of Windows XP Embedded
why climb aboard a sinking ship, particularly when yours is moving fast...
On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Raymond F. Hayes Jr. wrote:
These might be stupid questions since I just joined the newsgroup today so
my apologies in advance but I wasn't able to find an answer on the site.
When you're talking
On 25.04.2008, at 04:05, Michael Stone wrote:
Over the last few weeks, I've spent a fair bit of time producing
several
essay drafts and transcriptions of IRC conversations. Something you
may
not have known is that I did so on top of olpcfs [1,2]. Yesterday, 1cc
experienced a power
On Apr 23, 2008, at 1:25 AM, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
By my judgment, I'm glad Richard Stallman isn't running OLPC. He would
have delayed the launch until we have a GPL'd replacement for the mesh
firmware. As it is now, we have a laptop which is more pure license-
wise
than any other
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 11:05:10AM +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
On 25.04.2008, at 10:46, Martin Dengler wrote:
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 12:07:12AM -0400, Eben Eliason wrote:
It's clear to me that it would be quite useful to have a bright
backlight AND black white mode for reading a book at
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 09:47:29AM +0100, Martin Dengler wrote:
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 10:54:34PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
my machines are out on loan right now. is this monochrome mode the
high-res mode, or is this still using multiple screen pixels per display
pixel like color
Bert Freudenberg wrote:
On 25.04.2008, at 10:46, Martin Dengler wrote:
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 12:07:12AM -0400, Eben Eliason wrote:
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 10:43 PM, John Watlington [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Bert misread the spec. When the backlight is switched off, the
I try to copy a repositery of 258Mb.
I get an error of lack of space.
while rebooting I get this message:
OSError: [Errno 28] No space left on device
and the XO freeze.
Any help?
best regards
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Bert Freudenberg wrote:
| One thing that someone (Albert IIRC) proposed was doing a better
| filtering job than the DCON does - it uses a simple 5-tap filter which
| adds a noticeable amount of blur. It is still vital to do filtering,
| otherwise a
bert wrote:
On 25.04.2008, at 15:07, Paul Fox wrote:
unlike a traditional display, every pixel has a single color.
given this, it seems wrong to talk about the red channel of the
first pixel. you either use some of that pixel, or you don't.
in effect, the display is implementing
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 10:25:53AM +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
On 25.04.2008, at 04:05, Michael Stone wrote:
[1]: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Olpcfs
This is not a technical assessment, but I like the olpcfs idea.
I like it too.
I wish I had more time to study the implementation.
What is
I've been reading Cross-Platform Development in C++ by Syd Logan. It's a
fun read if you like coding for fun. I've got all the source; just want all
the information before I start playing.
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Below is exactly my attitude about getting in Bed with Microsoft. They
are not in the business of helping to distribute OPEN Software.
On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 15:00 -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote:
Thanks, Scott, for taking us away from the direction of flamage to
many of the real issues. I have
On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Raymond F. Hayes Jr. wrote:
I've been reading Cross-Platform Development in C++ by Syd Logan. It's a
fun read if you like coding for fun. I've got all the source; just want all
the information before I start playing.
Seems like most everyone involved currently considers
On Apr 24, 2008, at 10:39 PM, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
Opportunistic use of the on-board camera and the time-of-day clock
could yield such heuristics.
Just for reference, in my mind the best mechanism to do this on the
current hardware would have been to use the battery-status LED in
reverse to
This may be obviosu to everyone, but just a note if it isnt
I have a lot of experience *trying* to tlak Win32 into doing things
other then its own way from my time in the Sun Java Performance tuning
team. Java has a very X inspired window system. Retting that to run
reliably on Windows has
You mean everything that actually calls into GDI. The kernel is fully
thread safe and preemptive on NT.
Since as I know GTK is thread affine as well, probably it is not a problem.
Jeffrey Kesselman wrote:
This may be obviosu to everyone, but just a note if it isnt
I have a lot of
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Joshua N Pritikin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wish I had more time to study the implementation.
What is stored in Berkeley DB? Only the indexes? The dependency on
Berkeley DB makes me nervous. I recall the Subversion Berkeley DB
backend suffered from the
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Jeffrey Kesselman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 12:01 PM, NoiseEHC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You mean everything that actually calls into GDI.
Right, my mis-speak. Given that almost all my interaction with
Windows has been through GDI I
Realistically this is a big project but I do have MAC/PC/Linux platforms to
work with so implementing and testing some of Mr. Logan's methodologies is
interesting. I'm also working with Sparx Systems's Enterprise Architect
which has a roundtrip software engineering feature that supports Python.
The question has come up from Peruvians who bought G1G1 machines:
how can we get Sugar to use Spanish, while keeping an English keymap
(because G1G1 machines have english keyboards) ?
Please pardon my ignorance...
wad
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On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 12:31 PM, John Watlington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The question has come up from Peruvians who bought G1G1 machines:
how can we get Sugar to use Spanish, while keeping an English keymap
(because G1G1 machines have english keyboards) ?
Bernie's got the canonical
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
The question has come up from Peruvians who bought G1G1 machines:
how can we get Sugar to use Spanish, while keeping an English
keymap (because G1G1 machines have english keyboards) ?
I'd edit
I understand your concerns. This is my work at home though which is far
enough away from what I do during the day to not be in conflict so I hope I
can contribute something useful. The aim of the OLPC organization is getting
more important with each passing day.
Ray
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If you have a G1G1 machine, just use sugar-control-panel -s language
Spanish/Peru to get the laptop to use the Spanish strings but keep the
keyboard settings.
-walter
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 12:43 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Chris Ball [EMAIL
Thanks for providing this summary!
What is not clear to me is whether we are talking about:
1. Windows on XO with Sugar
2. Sugar on Windows on any machine
3. Both
Also not clear what advantage could any variation provide to OLPC so
probably NN could be a little more concrete about Sugar on
Hi,
On Thursday 24 April 2008 01:27, John Gilmore wrote:
In ad-hoc mode, there is no forwarding of packets. It isn't a mesh.
It's just point-to-point communication between two radios, without any
intermediaries.
While this is true, it's also incomplete :-) Adhoc mode is not limited to two
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1. Project name : wine-activities
2. Existing website, if any : http://dev.laptop.org/~bemasc/DOSConsole-3.xo
3. One-line description : Turn your Windows application into a Sugar
Activity (if it runs in Wine).
4. Longer description
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Joshua N Pritikin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My other question about OLPCFS is how the versioning interacts with
activities which work with projects composed of discrete elements (such as
TamTam). I'm not sure whether there is a problem here. I'm just thinking
Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:22:25 -0400, Benjamin M. Schwartz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1. Project name : wine-activities
Done. Your tree is here:
git+ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/git/projects/wine-activitieshttp://[EMAIL
PROTECTED]/git/activities/imagetosound
Please follow instructions here for
My other question about OLPCFS is how the versioning interacts with
activities which work with projects composed of discrete elements (such as
TamTam). I'm not sure whether there is a problem here. I'm just thinking
out loud.
TamTam deals with sounds which are stored as independent self-contained
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 04:59:56PM -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
If you want a solid semantic solution to the problem, you're looking
at something like:
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1242520.1242521coll=dl=ACM
but that requires extending the filesystem API to support
transactions. I
The correct URL is git+ssh://
[EMAIL PROTECTED]/git/projects/wine-activities
--HH.
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Henry Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:22:25 -0400, Benjamin M. Schwartz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1. Project name : wine-activities
Done. Your tree is
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1897
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Rob, Daf, others,
This email is just to let you know that I haven't forgotten about you
and that I'm still working on collecting the actual feedback necessary
to authoritatively respond to your proposed work statement [1].
[1]: http://teach.laptop.org/~mstone/collabora.txt (temporarily
Ar 25/04/2008 am 22:50, ysgrifennodd Michael Stone:
In the mean time, I'm quite happy with Daf working on Gadget and with
Guillaume working on debugging Telepathy/presence-service issues. (Daf
-- we should have a chat with Martin about how to coordinate the testing
and deployment of Gadget
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/faster/build1897
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On Apr 25, 2008, at 8:29 AM, Stefan Reitz wrote:
Hi Y'all,
On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 14:57 +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 2:38 PM, John Watlington
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Proposed change to the hardware spec:
From one to four access points may use an simpler
I would prefer to see fairness in access to QoS. We are working with
oversubscribed networks. QoS simply ensures that one or two students
will have a good experience while the rest get nothing. Who decides
which students get the good experience ?And just wait until someones
On 4/26/08, John Watlington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I do dispute any claim that 1Gb/s network interfaces are over the top at
this point in time. The cost difference on the manufacturing side is
around $2.
How does it translate to market price? I would put a strong
recommendation for 1Gb
On 4/26/08, John Watlington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This deserves its own page, not just a discussion on another page.
Yes, and I think it's 2 pages. One about how to run an XS in an
existing infrastructure, the otherone is how to size a high-end XS.
Martin and I got started in this direction
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