Sunjammer is back online.
Apologies for the prolonged outage. This machine hadn't been rebooted in
a very long time (over 500 days), therefore I took the opportunity to
upgrade the kernel, and migrate the filesystems to ext4.
As a result of these and other performance tweaks, all services should
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 2:30 PM, wrote:
> Just now I received an email with technology recommendations from Susan
> Barton (who I think is a pretty cool dyslexia advocate) and they total
> between $500 - $1000, depending on what type of RFB&D book reader player you
> choose.
>
> That is why I am
Just now I received an email with technology recommendations from
Susan Barton (who I think is a pretty cool dyslexia advocate) and they
total between $500 - $1000, depending on what type of RFB&D book reader
player you choose.
That is why I am so fanatical about getting open
source software
James,
Ah . . . I think I understand. The thing about
RFB&D/Learning Ally is that their books are free for students who have
been diagnosed with dyslexia or other reading impairments by a doctor.
It has to be really official and documented. However, most dyslexic
students will not have the op
Although the message below is focused on school health issues, the
links within to the SABER program may be of great interest as an
assessment framework.
SABER: System Assessment and Benchmarking for Education Results
http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTEDUCATION/0,,contentMDK:22710
Sorry for the short notice, at the FSF we have to reboot the XEN machine
which hosts sunjammer for about 1 hour.
The following public services will be temporarily unavailable:
activities.sugarlabs.org
activities-devel.sugarlabs.org
activities-testing.sugarlabs.org
activities-lb0.sugarlabs.org
act
Marilyn,
The only free source of material in Daisy format that I know of is the
Internet Archive. For example, one of the books I donated:
http://www.archive.org/details/BigAviationBookForBoys
Looking at the Daisy file it seems to have no advantage over a plain
text file. I understand that the
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan
wrote:
> On 30 May 2011 22:24, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
> > Well, you are describing our solution :)
>
> Great to hear! We are excited about this :)
>
> > Read can open PDF, EPUB, DejaVu and text files. Can do text to speech
> > with word highligh
