Re: [OLPC-AU] Determining developer lock status

2011-03-10 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 15:22 +1100, James Cameron wrote: On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 03:06:10PM +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: We find this to be a bit hit-and-miss - sometimes the prompt shows and sometimes it doesn't. I normally turn on the XO while either holding down the Esc key or tapping

Re: Determining developer lock status

2011-03-10 Thread Daniel Drake
On 10 March 2011 04:06, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: We find this to be a bit hit-and-miss - sometimes the prompt shows and sometimes it doesn't. This can happen on some laptop models if you press esc too early. Wait for the sound, then press it. Daniel

[ANNOUNCE] XOpup-2.1

2011-03-10 Thread Yioryos Asprobounitis
XOpup-2.1, puppy linux for the XO-1 and XO-1.5 is released It includes on the latest 2.6.35 kernel and chrome driver from the OLPC git. Thanks to the replacement of wxCam with Guvcview, that works much better, is now only 88MB. It also includes a first attempt of a Spanish language pack. See the

Re: Lego WeDo + TurtleArt - Screenshot Code!

2011-03-10 Thread Walter Bender
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 9:19 PM, Ian Daniher it.dani...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All! I'm writing with good news. I successfully have integrated the Lego WeDo with TurtleArt. Here's a screenshot: http://itdnhr.com/static/WeDoScreen.png The code needed can be found in my git repo at 

Re: XO-1.1 differences

2011-03-10 Thread John Watlington
While more testing is good, I would point out that Jon's frankenstein machine is much more different from the hardware you will be installing onto than the original XO-1 (CL1). The ONLY differences between the CL1A and CL1 laptops is the single-mode capacitive touchpad instead of the dual mode

Re: XO-1.1 differences

2011-03-10 Thread Jon Nettleton
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 7:57 AM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: While more testing is good, I would point out that Jon's frankenstein machine is much more different from the hardware you will be installing onto than the original XO-1 (CL1). The ONLY differences between the CL1A and

Re: [OLPC-AU] Determining developer lock status

2011-03-10 Thread Richard Smith
I'm still awaiting feedback from the school (getting information out of remote schools is often hard). I'm trying to ascertain whether their CL1As are developer locked. According to the production info on your SKU (SKU 67) all your CL1As where shipped unlocked. -- Richard A. Smith One Laptop

Load testing the XS school server

2011-03-10 Thread Sameer Verma
Benjamin Tran (one of my students) has been working on his Masters thesis for over a year, load testing different hardware configurations running XS 0.6 school server. He defended his thesis successfully and his work is now up on the OLPC wiki. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Load_Testing The

Re: os-builder: could we roll a 1.3.1?

2011-03-10 Thread Daniel Drake
On 3 March 2011 22:21, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote:  - Very clearly, the changes I am proposing do _not_ affect the build of 10.1.3 -- they don't change the .ks file prep, or anything after. I am happy to run test to verify Sorry for the delayed response, I haven't had

Re: [OLPC-AU] Determining developer lock status

2011-03-10 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 06:13:04PM +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: I was out there a year ago to assist in the initial deployment, but at the time I was quite green and so didn't know what to look for. I do remember that we used NANDblaster clone an installation from one of our own CL1 XO-1s

Re: os-builder: could we roll a 1.3.1?

2011-03-10 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: Sorry for the delayed response, I haven't had much OLPC time this week :( np - we're all busy! I agree that all your changes are safe. I was just worried about the general idea of allowing further commits after a released

Re: Memory replacement

2011-03-10 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 10 March 2011 05:51, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: kevin wrote:   and having my anti-static wrist guard properly attached - advice please: go,   no-go, spend the extra pennies and get a Class 4/6/8/10.  All I know for   sure is the 2GiB card in there has to be replaced.  There are

Re: Memory replacement

2011-03-10 Thread John Watlington
On Mar 9, 2011, at 2:23 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: On Wednesday 09 March 2011 17:31:24 Kevin Gordon wrote: go, no-go, spend the extra pennies and get a Class 4/6/8/10 Note that Class 8 does not exist (except fakes) and class 10 is usually not faster than class 6 if you run ext3 on it.

Review of sound card photogates

2011-03-10 Thread James Cameron
An interesting paper on arXiv ... http://arxiv.org/abs/1103.1760 - shows various photogate sensor designs for attachment to microphone inputs, - describes variations in how microphone inputs on sound cards are wired, - points out some of the value of purpose-built software as opposed to

Re: [OLPC-AU] Determining developer lock status

2011-03-10 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 11 March 2011 06:02, Richard Smith rich...@laptop.org wrote: I'm still awaiting feedback from the school (getting information out of remote schools is often hard). I'm trying to ascertain whether their CL1As are developer locked. According to the production info on your SKU (SKU 67) all

Re: XO-1.1 differences

2011-03-10 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 11 March 2011 04:22, Jon Nettleton jon.nettle...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 7:57 AM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: While more testing is good, I would point out that Jon's frankenstein machine is much more different from the hardware you will be installing onto than