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2011-01-27 Thread James Cameron
We've seen a large increase in spam tickets in the past couple of days [1]. I've reacted to those by deleting the tickets, and adding patterns to wiki/BadContent. I'm not confident that the latter is working, because I've seen further tickets. I'm fairly certain accounts could be created without

Re: foot power

2011-01-27 Thread Alan Eliasen
On 01/27/2011 08:18 PM, Nathaniel Theis wrote: > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 07:54:16PM -0700, Alan Eliasen wrote: > >>Again, I will note that the only way to make the XO reasonably >> powerable by a child (or an adult) is to reduce its power consumption. > > Well, this isn't entirely true. For e

Re: foot power

2011-01-27 Thread Nathaniel Theis
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 07:54:16PM -0700, Alan Eliasen wrote: >Again, I will note that the only way to make the XO reasonably > powerable by a child (or an adult) is to reduce its power consumption. Well, this isn't entirely true. For example, something like a potter's wheel pedal could poten

Re: foot power

2011-01-27 Thread Alan Eliasen
On 01/27/2011 04:08 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: > Looking at this thread reminded me of clocks with weight pulleys. I > saw one recently outside UCSF hospital. > http://www.flickr.com/photos/revger/4381874187/ > The weight unwinds the pulley slowly. This is also seen on roasting > jack (For those who a

Re: foot power

2011-01-27 Thread Sameer Verma
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 6:41 AM, Ian Stirling wrote: > Carlos Nazareno wrote: >> Hey guys. >> >> I haven't taken that much look into foot pedal chargers and do know >> what their internals look like -- I just remembered coming across the >> link I posted so I shared The efficient way to do a foot

Re: [support-gang] DSD: Feature requests for 11.2.0 - seeking deployment and community input

2011-01-27 Thread Dr. Gerald Ardito
Adam and Daniel, I remember some time ago seeing (I cannot remember where just now) about possible functionality to include the ability for users to Chat from any activity as a way of collaborating. I would like to add that to the list. I am happy to put together requirements, if need be. Thank

Re: [Server-devel] Adding puppet to the school server.

2011-01-27 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 5:03 PM, David Farning wrote: > Our initial goal will be create puppet modules to setup and maintain > these key services. Very interesting - thanks and welcome! As I've mentioned to David Van Assche recently, you can think of "initial setup" as something that the rpms th

Re: [OLPC-AU] hwclock accuracy

2011-01-27 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 15:30 +1100, James Cameron wrote: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 06:09:02PM -0600, Jerry Vonau wrote: > > That actually makes things worse, try installing ntpdate and run it with > > the stock /etc/adjtime file, now the real time clock is set to localtime > > as that is the first t

Re: foot power

2011-01-27 Thread Ian Stirling
Carlos Nazareno wrote: > Hey guys. > > I haven't taken that much look into foot pedal chargers and do know > what their internals look like -- I just remembered coming across the > link I posted so I shared The efficient way to do a foot pedal powered > generator would probably be to have a small

Re: [OLPC-AU] hwclock accuracy

2011-01-27 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 09:01 -0500, Martin Langhoff wrote: > Very interesting. Strange. Unexpected. > > On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:30 PM, James Cameron wrote: > > Until these problems are fixed, please change your build; > > Could this be added to http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OS_Builder#Recipes ? I

Re: [OLPC-AU] hwclock accuracy

2011-01-27 Thread Martin Langhoff
Very interesting. Strange. Unexpected. On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:30 PM, James Cameron wrote: > Until these problems are fixed, please change your build; Could this be added to http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OS_Builder#Recipes ? cheers, m --  martin.langh...@gmail.com  mar...@laptop.org -- Softw

Re: foot power

2011-01-27 Thread Alan Eliasen
On 01/26/2011 10:05 PM, Carlos Nazareno wrote: > Hey guys. > > I haven't taken that much look into foot pedal chargers and do know > what their internals look like -- I just remembered coming across the > link I posted so I shared The efficient way to do a foot pedal powered > generator would prob