On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 4:02 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i _really_ think we need to make the XO base _and_ sugar be a
place that developers are comfortable living in. our needs
aren't quite the same as a school kid's, but i think there's a
much bigger overlap than we often think. with the
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 8:15 PM, Bert Freudenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Am 08.10.2008 um 16:14 schrieb Sayamindu Dasgupta:
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Bert Freudenberg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We could shave off a few seconds of Etoys start-up time if, e.g., the
Spanish translation
Not yet... if someone wants to make a pdf from that page, this would
rock. Something to discuss on Friday. As for window manager v.
learning platform... an updated [[Glossary]] isn't a bad idea.
SJ
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 6:26 PM, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
is there
Hi Andres,
Looks like I answered the wrong question, sorry :-(
Can you tell us more about where the Moodle and EduBlog will be deployed?
Will it go on the existing Debian based servers in Uruguay or will it go
on a server which is in a data center and access from Uruguay schools
via WAN
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 7:58 AM, Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I prefer the Sugar learning platform
+1 from me as well. (I'm torn on platform vs. environment; the
latter actually sounds a little friendlier, to me.)
- Eben
-walter
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 4:35 AM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL
as a follow-on to my use your XO more thread, here's a useful
way of sharing your main system's keyboard and mouse (including
copy and paste) with your XO, in a fairly natural way. these
instructions assume a linux desktop machine, but you can do this
with a mac or windows as well. see
I prefer the Sugar learning platform
And my laundress prefers fabric revitalization consultant.
Sugar isn't about learning. Sugar is a user interface. It draws
icons and decorations on the screen, starts and stops programs, and
lets you turn control knobs. The things Sugar competes with
Please enter a ticket for this issue. It is conceivable that
we might rely much more heavily on SD based storage
in the future. If it isn't rock-solid, we need to find out
why (or at least be aware of the issues.)
Thanks,
wad
On Oct 8, 2008, at 12:38 PM, Denver Gingerich wrote:
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On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 8:42 PM, John Watlington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually, Walter, we still hold hope for XOs as school servers
for very small schools.The problem with this is insufficient
memory and insufficient disk space. While an external disk
may alleviate the second
Paul -
Thanks very much for this help. I've been wanting to be a real user of my
XO more and this all helps me get pointed in the right direction. I'm also
hoping the two hours I spend each day working on my XO on the commuter train
will be a tiny little marketing pitch prior to G1G1 Day on
Sameer,
We currently do not recommend that an AA be used in schools.
Scalability with AAs is a problem, due to problems with the mesh
protocols. Hence my comment about likely needing an external
USB/network interface for the upstream connection.
This might make the physical security
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On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 1:19 PM, John Watlington wrote:
Please enter a ticket for this issue.
Done: http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8791
Denver
http://ossguy.com/
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Recommend: lockable, secure case, with built-in securement loops that could
attach to a bike chain or cable.
--HH.
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 1:37 PM, John Watlington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sameer,
We currently do not recommend that an AA be used in schools.
Scalability with AAs is a
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 8:21 PM, Nia Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks, MArco. I still think talking to Erik like that isn't very nice
either:)
Nia,
this kind of flames are customary in a technical mailing list and I
don't really think Erik should take personal offence about them. If
you
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 8:21 PM, Nia Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks, MArco. I still think talking to Erik like that isn't very nice
either:)
Nia,
this kind of flames are customary in a technical mailing
On Wednesday 08 October 2008 13:34:53 Greg Smith wrote:
Hi Andres,
Looks like I answered the wrong question, sorry :-(
Can you tell us more about where the Moodle and EduBlog will be deployed?
Will it go on the existing Debian based servers in Uruguay or will it go
on a server which is in
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Greg Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm going with XO Software Release 8.2.0 as the name of the next major
release.
I prefer OLPC release 8.2, until such time as OLPC either (a) makes
hardware other than the XO, or (b) ships/supports software other than
Sugar.
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Sameer Verma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As if discussions on this list aren't lively enough, here's another
issue to look at.
This has been covered in many discussions - perhaps not so much on
this list but it's an important issue.
However, there is little we can
Hi Sayamindu,
Are you maintaining Read now or is Morgan?
I got a ping from Brian who is in Rwanda and he confirmed that this bug:
http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7090
was actually seen by kids there. Just as cjl predicted in Trac, it was
hit by kids on first exposure to the XO.
Can we get some
I prefer OLPC release 8.2
I think this may confuse people. Without the qualifier OS or
Software, people might thing this could be the XO's hardware
iteration (like B1, B2, B4)
Also, it might be good to toss in the XO's name in there to indicate
that this is the OS of the XO machine itself.
Or
Hi all!
What are the red dots on the NAND's disk cluster/block/sector
visualization map when one does an update via USB stick and wipes the
contents of the XO? Bad blocks?
-Naz
--
Carlos Nazareno
http://www.object404.com
interactive media specialist
zen graffiti studios
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
How would you compare this turtle module with the TurtleArt activity
in Sugar? It is available in .deb and .rpm packages for Ubuntu,
Debian, and Fedora, and also in .xo bundles, installable with
xo-get.py. Sugar Labs is working with other Linux distributions to
make Sugar packages available as
They are indeed bad blocks. I believe a block is a single cluster of eight
kilobytes, the smallest unit of NAND flash - can anyone confirm this?
--
Ian
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 5:09 PM, Carlos Nazareno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all!
What are the red dots on the NAND's disk
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 10:59 PM, Greg Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Sayamindu,
Are you maintaining Read now or is Morgan?
I got a ping from Brian who is in Rwanda and he confirmed that this bug:
http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7090
was actually seen by kids there. Just as cjl predicted in
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Carlos Nazareno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey all! Quick question:
What's the official name/branding of the OS that ships with the OLPC?
It's not Sugar as that's the GUI, and neither is it Fedora 9 anymore
as it's been forked.
Can we clarify this as I find
The red dots in the NAND display (scan-nand or copy-nand or its
equivalent) are bad NAND erase blocks.
An erase block is a 128K chunk that has to be erased as a unit. The
erasure process gradually wears out the block (charge accumulates in the
dielectric and shifts the thresholds to the point
Great, thanks. I was steered to the correct files and got it to work
from both the USB and command line. The files I used can be found at:
http://dev.laptop.org/~reuben/xs-xobuilds/
Out of curiosity why do we require the tree files which come from:
Hi Marco,
That was a really nice welcome. I work with Elana and the learning team
here at OLPC and one thing we are trying to do is increase communications
between our group and the technical side of the house. It seems the best
way to communicate this information from the field is to use
Thanks, MArco. I still think talking to Erik like that isn't very nice
either:)
Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED]
10/08/08 02:17 PM
To
Nia Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc
devel@lists.laptop.org, elana langer [EMAIL PROTECTED], Erik
Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED], Julia Reynolds [EMAIL
oh well, maybe it was just where we newbies entered the conversations - if
that's the way you all work then fine. My main concern is that the info
from the field gets to the right people.
Best,
Nia
Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED]
10/08/08 02:33 PM
To
Nia Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc
Carlos Nazareno [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
A spinoff from the name Sugar? Before Sugar was spunoff to run on
other platforms, I think journalists kept calling the XO's OS Sugar.
Mmm. Sugar-XO?
Xugar?
-- Bastien (who just agree a short sweet name would do.)
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2514
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On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Reuben K. Caron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Great, thanks. I was steered to the correct files and got it to work from
both the USB and command line. The files I used can be found at:
Cool. Are you doing this on xs-0.5? If you update to the newest rpms
from the
Martin Langhoff wrote:
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Reuben K. Caron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Great, thanks. I was steered to the correct files and got it to work from
both the USB and command line. The files I used can be found at:
Cool. Are you doing this on xs-0.5? If you
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