paul you catch that ol man he says your age is catching up with your iq and gaining rather quickly warmest regards,
Chris Yarger Founder Yarger Designs web: http://YargerDesigns.org skype: cpyarger msn: [email protected] aim: patyarg yahoo: christoyarg ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) against HTML e-mail X / \ Charles de Gaulle<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/charles_de_gaulle.html> - "The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs." On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Stanley Brinkerhoff <[email protected]>wrote: > OLPC runs Windows XP.[1], but even before that, Sugar was a hibotchory of > poor design. > > XBMC is depreciated (and cant run content over 480i) and Boxee is the best > branched codebase. > > Tell Flint hes 6-9 months behind the curve, but I still want to use his > soldering iron. > > Cheers, > Stan > > 1: http://gizmodo.com/391054/windows-xp-on-olpc-xo-laptop-now-official > > > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 9:01 PM, chris yarger <[email protected]> wrote: > >> during todays adult swim meeting in barre paul brought up the one laptop >> per child sugarlabs python based 'sugar' OS >> maybe something along the lines of this, or other non desktop based >> interfaces for the x display system such as the XBMC (Xbox Media Center) >> program interface >> >> >> warmest regards, >> >> Chris Yarger >> >> >> >> Founder >> Yarger Designs >> >> web: http://YargerDesigns.org >> skype: cpyarger >> msn: [email protected] >> aim: patyarg >> yahoo: christoyarg >> ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) >> against HTML e-mail X >> / \ >> Henny >> Youngman<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/h/henny_youngman.html> - >> "I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going >> to those places." >> >> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Josh Sled <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Kevin Thorley <[email protected]> writes: >>> > Several of the things that were discussed at the hackerspace council >>> > on Tuesday are quite applicable to future VAGUE meetings, so I thought >>> > in the middle of all this great hackerspace talk, maybe we could come >>> > up with some ideas for VAGUE's summer meetings. >>> >>> I think – especially after Kurth's recent email – these are all great >>> ideas. Some of them are along similar lines to the presentations that >>> VAGUE has been trying to do, some are a little more interactive versions >>> of a traditional presentation, and some are not at all presentations, >>> but purely interactive sessions. >>> >>> Regardless, it seems like there's consensus that "business as usual" >>> with VAGUE meetings isn't meeting people's needs. Maybe a non-VAGUE >>> venue will, but in the mean time – and since converstation started here >>> – I don't see why VAGUE can't try to be closer to what people want. >>> >>> >>> > - Open source bug fixing party: I forget who brought this up (Josh, >>> >>> I've been trying to get more involved with Gentoo testing and >>> bug-fixing, and that sort of things might lend itself well to such an >>> environment, especially since it seems like a large part of distribution >>> work is looking at what/how *other* distributions work, and either doing >>> the idiomatic thing in your distro, or promoting their solution. Heck, >>> just having a "figure out how to fix your most annoying desktop issue" >>> would be a good topic that everyone could probably contribute to. >>> >>> > - Arduino presentation. Arduino may not be UNIX, but it is open >>> >>> As I mentioned, I have a Diecimila and some basic spare parts I could >>> bring to a similar event, so I'm totally down with this. But we should >>> have a micro-presentation, I think, with most of the time being >>> hands-on, instead. The Mac Lab at UVM might be kinda perfect for this, >>> if available, since it's already a lab (no food, clean surfaces, power, >>> &c.) environment. >>> >>> > - Ruby/Ruby on Rails: Has this topic been covered before? If not it >>> >>> I don't think Ruby/ROR has been covered, no. >>> >>> -- >>> ...jsled >>> http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo $...@${b} >>> >> >> >
