[IAEP] 3D engine uses in a no-nonsense GUI (was: XO Gen 1.5)

2009-04-21 Thread Albert Cahalan
Christoph Derndorfer writes: I honestly can't think of a use-case for including any sort of 3D acceleration into the basic Sugar and activities. There's about a million significantly more important things that people should be working on before even thinking about 3D (IMHO). One can use a 3D

Re: [IAEP] 3D engine uses in a no-nonsense GUI (was: XO Gen 1.5)

2009-04-21 Thread Martin Dengler
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 05:02:23AM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: Christoph Derndorfer writes: I honestly can't think of a use-case for including any sort of 3D acceleration into the basic Sugar and activities. One can use a 3D accelerator to greatly improve human factors in the GUI. [...]

[IAEP] Sugar Digest 2009-04-21

2009-04-21 Thread Walter Bender
===Sugar Digest === 1. Five Google Summer of Code projects have been selected for 2009. We are excited about all five proposals; our only regret is that we were unable to accept any more of the promising proposals we received. Thank you to everyone who participated in the selection process—the

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar 0.84 on video

2009-04-21 Thread Caroline Meeks
Great! Maybe we should also be able to get to these from the Getting Started page. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Getting_Started On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 1:03 PM, LASKE, Lionel (C2S) lla...@c2s.fr wrote: Hi Caroline, Thanks. Walter put a link on these video on Deployment_Team/Resources

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2009-04-21

2009-04-21 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
Kathy, this should get you started: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Installing_Software Do note though that me and David spent 3 hours on Friday afternoon just to get ejabberd running on a vanilla Ubuntu installation. Your millage may vary but just be aware that it's definitely not a 1-click

[IAEP] XS (was Re: Sugar Digest 2009-04-21)

2009-04-21 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 7:00 AM, Kathy Pusztavari ka...@kathyandcalvin.com wrote: Walter, is there a link on how to set up a school server? The basics are in the Laptop Wiki, at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Installing_Software I have created a qemu image of XS for

Re: [IAEP] XS (was Re: Sugar Digest 2009-04-21)

2009-04-21 Thread Kathy Pusztavari
Good to know. I didn't realize XS is the school server. -Kathy -Original Message- From: iaep-boun...@lists.sugarlabs.org [mailto:iaep-boun...@lists.sugarlabs.org] On Behalf Of Edward Cherlin Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 7:59 AM To: Kathy Pusztavari Cc: IAEP SugarLabs Subject: [IAEP]

Re: [IAEP] [Grassroots-l] OLPC - Parsons Collaboration

2009-04-21 Thread Caroline Meeks
hi Becky, Thank you very much for your interest. Did you get hooked up with the resources you need to move forward? Caroline On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Frederick Grose fgr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Becky, I've taken the liberty of forwarding your inquiry to a few other OLPC and Sugar

Re: [IAEP] soas beta mouse and WAP

2009-04-21 Thread Caroline Meeks
Hi Mark, I'm catching up with old emails. Is this still an issue? Do you know if a bug was put in on it? Thanks, Caroline On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 12:27 AM, Mark Ahlness mahln...@comcast.net wrote: I might as well add another issue, as long as I'm sending in bugs: Using soas-beta, I am no

[IAEP] SoaS on a MacBook?

2009-04-21 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi... I've been trying to get the SugarLabs usb stick, Walter so kindly sent, to boot on my MacBook. I can get it to recognize the stick but when I try to boot from it, following the instructions from Apple Tech Support, it goes instead into OSX. The stick shows as a third drive on my

Re: [IAEP] SoaS on a MacBook?

2009-04-21 Thread Luke Faraone
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi... I've been trying to get the SugarLabs usb stick, Walter so kindly sent, to boot on my MacBook. I can get it to recognize the stick but when I try to boot from it, following the instructions from Apple Tech

[IAEP] Fwd: SoaS on a MacBook?

2009-04-21 Thread Dave Bauer
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi... I've been trying to get the SugarLabs usb stick, Walter so kindly sent, to boot on my MacBook. I can get it to recognize the stick but when I try to boot from it, following the instructions from Apple Tech

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: SoaS on a MacBook?

2009-04-21 Thread Caroline Meeks
I'm pretty sure you will definitely need the CD Helper. But I was able to boot my iBook with one so I'm very much looking forward to your results! Thanks, Caroline On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Dave Bauer dave.ba...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Caryl Bigenho

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2009-04-21

2009-04-21 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Christoph Derndorfer e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote: Do note though that me and David spent 3 hours on Friday afternoon just to get ejabberd running on a vanilla Ubuntu installation. Your millage may vary but just be aware that it's definitely not a 1-click

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2009-04-21

2009-04-21 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
Martin Langhoff schrieb: On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Christoph Derndorfer e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote: Do note though that me and David spent 3 hours on Friday afternoon just to get ejabberd running on a vanilla Ubuntu installation. Your millage may vary but just be aware that

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: SoaS on a MacBook?

2009-04-21 Thread Gary C Martin
On 21 Apr 2009, at 21:38, Caroline Meeks wrote: I'm pretty sure you will definitely need the CD Helper. But I was able to boot my iBook with one so I'm very much looking forward to your results! Just a quick report on trying to boot Soas2-200904161412.iso on a MacBookPro without luck.

Re: [IAEP] soas beta mouse and WAP

2009-04-21 Thread Mark Ahlness
Walter did follow up on this, esp. the wireless problems, for a bit. I have given up on trying soas for now. Had a great first experience with soas1. It worked across platforms, even. Seems like the later the revision, the less it worked for me. I have 5 XO's, 12 desktops, and 5

[IAEP] Virtual Box?

2009-04-21 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi...Well, the soas-boot.iso hasn't worked yet for me. Now I am trying the Virtual Box. I downloaded it and tried to follow the directions and ended up with a message that says:FATAL: Could not read from the boot medium! System halted.When I try to set it up it offers the option of