Interactive whiteboards

2011-04-13 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Now that we have USB2VGA adapter support, has anyone tried an XO with an interactive whiteboard? These things are in every classroom here in Australia. I understand that there are different models that each work differently, and their proprietary nature makes compatibility even more difficult.

Re: Interactive whiteboards

2011-04-13 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: Now that we have USB2VGA adapter support, has anyone tried an XO with an interactive whiteboard? These things are in every classroom here in Australia. I understand that there are different models that each work

Re: XO-1.75 RAM

2011-04-13 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Might 1GB of RAM become a performance bottleneck? I myself am skeptical of efforts to use the OLPC where a desktop system might be more effective. I've run various large applications on an XO-1.5 system, and have not myself experienced memory shortage. Unless the RAM chips on the XO-1.75

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] XO1 | Same hardware, slower internet

2011-04-13 Thread Anish Mangal
[cc+=olpc-devel] Hmm, it'd be interesting to see how much of a performance improvement webkit offers. Also, should we consider loading mobile versions of websites on the XO-1? I don't know how good an alternative that might be. Could be leverage the school server in some way? Any other ideas?

Re: Interactive whiteboards

2011-04-13 Thread James Cameron
I think the best way to use an interactive whiteboard is to use Sugar as a VirtualBox guest in full screen mode. I would not expect to use an XO ... schools with interactive whiteboards tend also to have far better laptops and computers available for teachers to use. For learner display via

XO-1.75 - Flash, Java?

2011-04-13 Thread Carlos Nazareno
Will Flash Flash Player Java SE (not JavaME) run on the XO-1.75, it being non-x86? For Android, Flash Player requires an ARMv7 (Cortex) + to run. Flash Player 9 was running on the N900 which ran Maemo. Video calls streaming over internet is now one of the most important uses for developing

Re: XO-1.75 RAM

2011-04-13 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 14 April 2011 06:16, Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com wrote: Might 1GB of RAM  become a performance bottleneck? I myself am skeptical of efforts to use the OLPC where a desktop system might be more effective.  I've run various large applications on an XO-1.5 system, and have not myself

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] XO1 | Same hardware, slower internet

2011-04-13 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Hmm, it'd be interesting to see how much of a performance improvement webkit offers. It's no big deal to run webkit-based browsers on the XO. For instance, all of my XO-1s have Midori installed. The question is - what is this performance improvement that you are looking for? I believe that

Re: XO-1.75 RAM

2011-04-13 Thread James Cameron
On 14 April 2011 06:16, Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com wrote: Unless the RAM chips on the XO-1.75 are socketed (and thus easily replaceable), This seems unlikely. Socketing adds cost up front, and low cost is a primary goal. Also the demand for upgrade would be relatively low. ...

Re: XO-1.75 - Flash, Java?

2011-04-13 Thread Alan Eliasen
On 04/13/2011 05:47 PM, Carlos Nazareno wrote: Will Flash Flash Player Java SE (not JavaME) run on the XO-1.75, it being non-x86? You may look into trying to get Java SE For Embedded working. It supposedly supports ARM architectures, but that's all I know about it.

Re: XO-1.75 - Flash, Java?

2011-04-13 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Alan Eliasen elia...@mindspring.com wrote:   I considered it also a serious problem that the then-shipping configurations of the OLPC completely lacked fonts with glyphs for many languages (e.g. there were no fonts with Chinese or Japanese characters) so these