Albert Cahalan wrote:
Ton van Overbeek writes:
This version (TuxPaint-2) of TuxPaint for the OLPC-XO fixes several issues
with the original version (TuxPaint-1) by Albert Calahan.
Uh, are you intending to take over? I haven't seen any discussion on
the tuxpaint-devel mailing list,
Folks -
There have been a number of questions about press coverage late last week
from Peru concerning the introduction of XO laptops running XP and Office.
Microsoft has previously ordered a number of XO laptops for XP testing and
pilot deployment. The usage and distribution of these machines
For consideration in your testing: there are some ways to tune the
performance of Flash, such as the video playback hack described here:
http://olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=845.0
I don't know if there are similar hacks for improving general
performance of Flash (or Gnash) on lesser-powered
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For consideration in your testing: there are some ways to tune the
performance of Flash, such as the video playback hack described here:
http://olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=845.0
I don't know if there are similar
all my comments are directed at Gregs email, so I suppose I should
have replied to him... I hope this doesn't cause too much confusion...
bobby
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Bobby Powers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For
Hi!
It seems that B2s do not have the serial recovery connector. I opened
one that seems really bricked (when turned on only the power light is
on, and removing battery and AC for some time do not fix it) and found
just the place holder for the connector. Is that a way to save this
B2?
By the
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Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:58:14 -0400
From: Ricardo Carrano [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Recovery connector?
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Hi!
It seems that B2s do not have the serial recovery
Mitch,
Thank you for the answer. Yes, no doubt it is clearly stated in the
wiki that this firmware is not to be used on B2. And it was just
confirmed that this B2 was updated to a recent build with q2e14. There
you go.
Let's see if the team have good skills with an iron...
Thank you so much!
Thanks for talking to us.
This would be even more useful as the basis for an article or
editorial in one or more of the computer magazines or Web sites, or a
fact-filled press release. All of the media people I have talked with
say they would like to hear from OLPC.
We don't have to frame it as
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 6:13 AM, Douglas Bagnall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In an effort to test the activation server on the new Fedora 9 based
XS, I enabled security on a couple of laptops without leases.
I was expecting them to go through their routine of checking USB, SD
and network for
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2443
Changes in build 2443 from build: 2442
Size delta: -0.14M
-sugar-update-control 0.12-1
+sugar-update-control 0.13-1
-sugar-toolkit 0.82.7-1.olpc3
+sugar-toolkit 0.82.8-2.olpc3
--- Changes for sugar-update-control 0.13-1 from
So far the semantic form for activities is very rough in actual data-points
and very rough in layout.
On the actual form, I think that there needs to be some small changes; a
drop down for languages, ability to add wiki-pages in certain fields instead
of urls, etc.
On the form's display, it
Ton, in talking to Seth and SJ, it seems like the 'registered users
only' option has a few more tweaks in practice. You need to be
registered *for at least four days* and you need to have made N number
of edits already (I think N is three). I poked them to respond to
this thread with the exact
The Help activity is about to be used on a bunch of laptops (via the
G1G1 activity page/activity updater)!
The activity itself was originally written by marcopg, and its content
is being (manually) generated from the FlossManuals remix system:
http://en.flossmanuals.net/remix . It is a
Ricardo Carrano wrote:
confirmed that this B2 was updated to a recent build with q2e14. There
you go.
Let's see if the team have good skills with an iron...
Ricardo,
I'm sorry you missed my post on devel that e series firmware would brick
B2's.
Let me encourage you to replace that B2
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 8:04 AM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You need a signed build if you are going to enable security. 759 is
not signed. 714 is the most recent signed build.
Odd. I am pretty sure we tested the simple lease server (on port 191)
before with machines that had
Am 16.09.2008 um 22:27 schrieb Seth Woodworth:
So far the semantic form for activities is very rough in actual data-
points and very rough in layout.
On the actual form, I think that there needs to be some small
changes; a drop down for languages, ability to add wiki-pages in
certain
John Gilmore wrote:
I don't know why my power measurements are much higher than Richard's
from February (he got 3.9W to 4.9W where I got 5.9W). I tend to trust
his more, since mine are one-shot samples, but my dimmer measurements
do tend to corroborate each other (i.e. none of them got
Gary C Martin wrote:
I just have a B4 here to test but I was curious to try some power
measurement to see how they differed. I seem to have a slightly worrying
status that's not listed on the wiki page.
Kernel bug. Fixed in current joyride. Also the status values changed
and the overall
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2444
Changes in build 2444 from build: 2443
Size delta: 0.14M
-etoys 3.0.2141-1
+etoys 3.0.2147-1
-rainbow 0.7.22-1.fc9
+rainbow 0.7.23-1.fc9
-sugar 0.82.6-1.olpc3
+sugar 0.82.7-1.olpc3
--- Changes for etoys 3.0.2147-1 from 3.0.2141-1
Hey Richard!
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Richard A. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ricardo Carrano wrote:
confirmed that this B2 was updated to a recent build with q2e14. There
you go.
Let's see if the team have good skills with an iron...
Ricardo,
I'm sorry you missed my post on
Am 16.09.2008 um 23:14 schrieb Walter Bender:
You can add anchors to pages in the wiki, so you could do Activities#X
My wiki-fu is not strong enough ... and I do not see anchors
mentioned on
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Help:Editing
- Bert -
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Ricardo Carrano wrote:
Thank you for your care and advice.
This B2s belongs to a University in Rio, that actually has 23 B2s.
They are pretty useful devices for networking tests and I am helping
this group to mount a sparse mesh testbed with them. We already
saved this B2 by using his
On 16.09.2008 18:26, Mitch Bradley wrote:
E-series firmware prior to q2e17c will brick B2, as indicated by the
bright red warnings at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Firmware .
Could you perhaps add a warning for B1 as well (if appropriate)?
Regards,
Carl-Daniel
--
http://www.hailfinger.org/
Richard A. Smith wrote:
My measurements were taken with the CPU off across long periods so that
activity was minimal. (I spent an entire Sunday taking them as I did
other chores). With the CPU off the fluctuation of the power draw is
greatly reduced. This could be the reason. I will
Hi all,
quote who=Edward Cherlin
This would be even more useful as the basis for an article or
editorial in one or more of the computer magazines or Web sites, or a
fact-filled press release. All of the media people I have talked with
say they would like to hear from OLPC.
We don't have
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 3:27 AM, Pia Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
quote who=Edward Cherlin
This would be even more useful as the basis for an article or
editorial in one or more of the computer magazines or Web sites, or a
fact-filled press release. All of the media people I have
Jim took over my weekly community news digest for OLPC. It tends to
have a lot of information, not necessarily actionable, about
deployments. Alas, it tends to be more cheer leading than anything
else, where as the technical content has some depth (or at least
pointers to some depth).
-walter
On
On 16 Sep 2008, at 21:54, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
As an activity author I'd love to have a single place to edit when a
new release is made. The box appearing on the Activities page should
be automatically created from the the activity's page, if you know
what I mean.
I made an
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 6:38 PM, Richard A. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ricardo Carrano wrote:
Thank you for your care and advice.
This B2s belongs to a University in Rio, that actually has 23 B2s.
They are pretty useful devices for networking tests and I am helping
this group to mount
Actually, even more interestingly you could update data in any one of these
forms, and then call that data in a different format on the [[Activities]]
page, the [[/Activities/G1G1]] page, or even in another language.
Setting that the Property:LatestVersion for the page [[Help_(activity)]] can
be
Am 16.09.2008 um 22:54 schrieb Bert Freudenberg:
(hehe, wouldn't http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities#X be a nicer
link? No way to do that I fear)
Oh, thanks to Walter this works now :)
- Bert -
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Tried to install (on joyride 2442) with sugar-install-bundle. It
gave me the error message: MalformedBundleException: All files in
the bundle must be inside a single directory whose name ends with
*.activity
mikus
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I just uploaded a slightly tweaked Help-5.xo which has some minor
packaging-related issues fixed. That seems to upgrade fine (for me at
least).
There are some licensing issues with Help-5 -- it doesn't include the
licensing section from the original manual, and claims GPLv2 (only)
when
We are going forward recommending that medium-to-large networks are
based on conventional APs. However, we still have at least one
mechanism that works in mesh and not in conventional 802.11.a/b/g .
The mechanism I am thinking of is initial lease activation (over port
191) which uses mesh and
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Martin Langhoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
with some caveats... this is a developer preview, lots of things are
b0rken, but still...
some caveats, but now most stuff works. Wohoo! Updated instructions...
- download all 759MB of iso here
C. Scott Ananian wrote:
Ton, in talking to Seth and SJ, it seems like the 'registered users
only' option has a few more tweaks in practice. You need to be
registered *for at least four days* and you need to have made N number
of edits already (I think N is three). I poked them to respond to
Thanks Scott, and apologies to all -- I did a crap job bundling help-3
via zip (I was just told to get an activity bundle out quickly so
people can hack on/fix it). Using setup.py is much, much better -- and
look, it makes a MANIFEST :-D
And for the lazy, you can get help-5:
(1) through the
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 6:57 PM, Pia Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
quote who=Edward Cherlin
This would be even more useful as the basis for an article or
editorial in one or more of the computer magazines or Web sites, or a
fact-filled press release. All of the media people I have
[I posted bug #8524 re lease activation not working on AP's.]
Another mechanism that only works on Mesh is sharing under a tree.
It's perfectly feasible for four or five kids with laptops, all
sitting under a tree, to share over ad-hoc 802.11 mode. They don't
need a mesh that forwards packets;
Hi Pia,
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Pia Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
quote who=Edward Cherlin
This would be even more useful as the basis for an article or
editorial in one or more of the computer magazines or Web sites, or a
fact-filled press release. All of the media people I have
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John Gilmore wrote:
| [I posted bug #8524 re lease activation not working on AP's.]
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| Another mechanism that only works on Mesh is sharing under a tree.
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| It's perfectly feasible for four or five kids with laptops, all
| sitting under a tree, to
John,
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 9:46 PM, John Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[I posted bug #8524 re lease activation not working on AP's.]
Another mechanism that only works on Mesh is sharing under a tree.
It's perfectly feasible for four or five kids with laptops, all
sitting under a tree,
(Actually, Sugar will also find
any nearby Macs running Avahi, but doesn't quite know
what to do with them.)
Chat between Bonjour clients works today. So the XOs know some things
to do with a MAC.
-walter
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hi,
The xs-config package creates a file called /fsckoptions (yes, in /),
to stop headless servers from stalling on fsck questions.
This file is deleted by anaconda, some time after the end of ks.cfg's
%post section. To be sure, I used:
%post
#[...]
if [ -e /fsckoptions ]; then
touch
Sorry, can't connect to Trac atm as I'm dialing in via my mobile phone.
Why is the Activity Handbook depreciated? And what's the connection to
the help activity? The Activity Handbook (just like the Sugar Almanac)
is targeted at people who are interested in developing activities for
the Sugar
And to add 2 cents further,. . . about public announcements and reports of
current events...
. . . about 6 months ago a handful of us cheerful support-gang
volunteer types started to put together a 'public friendly' newsletter of
the various happenings we got one issue out, and then no
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
- under a tree using mesh+avahi, and
- G1G1 users at a cafe with wifi using AP and avahi
When at a cafe with wifi, the laptops should be able to contact their jabber
server, which will mean they will be using
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 03:07:35PM +1000, Stephen Thorne wrote:
This means two laptops from neighbouring schools who each have their
'own' schoolserver set up as their jabber server will not be able to
share any content if they are close enough to receive wireless signal
to the internet.
Ricardo Carrano said:
There are technical challenges in the way, but OLPC should keep
pushing this for the benefits it will bring. It seems a perfect fit
with the Mission.
Mesh and the Marvell WiFi chip have been two of the big
disappointments of the OLPC. The mesh implementation simply
Hi Tarun,
I'm looking briefly at edublog's moodle code. Was hoping to be able to
cherry-pick the patches making the html editor changes, but your
initial moodle commit is with the _modified_ moodle already...?
I am looking at ab1232242ab51336e9b0fc9aed1443bc35fe1d49 - but from
what I can see,
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 5:26 PM, John Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My understanding is that it
works automagically between XOs on the same AP -- but may have
limitations and possibly bugs as it's not something we push (and it's
not something we test
Scott wrote:
You need a signed build if you are going to enable security. 759 is
not signed. 714 is the most recent signed build.
The 4 button install of 714 worked; thanks Scott and Mitch.
In the process, I noticed that it looks to download fs.zip from the
school server. That is quite
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