Dracut RTC development

2011-10-28 Thread Esteban Bordón
Hi all, Is there any development of RTC anti rollback in dracut modules? Which should be its behavior? cheers, Esteban. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

NOW: OLPC Contributors Program Mtg (on #olpc-meeting, Fri Sep 28, 11:15AM EDT)

2011-10-28 Thread Holt
Please all join us now, voting for the latest OLPC/Sugar community projects over IRC Live Chat, to make the best project allocations & mentoring relationships--starting right here: http://forum.laptop.org/chat Then type at bottom: /join #olpc-meeting ASIDE/CLARIF: XO-1.75 prototype laptops will

Re: NOW: OLPC Contributors Program Mtg (on #olpc-meeting, Fri Sep 28, 11:15AM EDT)

2011-10-28 Thread Holt
All 5 positive verdicts posted below! http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Contributors_program/October_28,_2011 For the 1st time ever (I think) all were approved, in full or in part, across 4 continents -- affirming the unwavering strong heartbeat of our deployment/learning conrtibutor community. Hot Ne

Basic Electricity Text in French?

2011-10-28 Thread George Hunt
Hi everyone, While working with Adam Holt in Haiti, I met a few "go-getter" teens who already are doing basic house wiring. They could help diagnose battery and solar array problems if they had a little more background. I learned basic electricity reading and re-reading the first few chapters of

Re: Basic Electricity Text in French?

2011-10-28 Thread forster
Hi Turtle Art on the XO can work as an AC or DC voltmeter or ammeter or oscilloscope. There are a number of experiments at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/TurtleArt/Using_Turtle_Art_Sensors that could be use to support instruction. Maybe that page is worth translating too. Tony > H

Re: [BULK] Re: harvesting energy

2011-10-28 Thread Hal Murray
rich...@laptop.org said: > Speaking from experience measuring the power draw of a single XO with these > low cost power meters is tricky. They can be very inaccurate at lower > power measurements. The kill-a-watt for example has a typical accuracy of > 1% with a max of 4%. Full scale is 1800

Re: [BULK] Re: harvesting energy

2011-10-28 Thread DJ Delorie
> Good point. Thanks. It's even worse than that. In the power mode, the > Kill-a-Watt only shows whole watts, no fraction. It's worse than that. IIRC mine only shows 6, 12, or 18 watts at that low a value. Useless for really low power. I ended up using a test board for a switching power su

Re: [BULK] Re: harvesting energy

2011-10-28 Thread Richard A. Smith
On 10/27/2011 11:45 PM, Richard A. Smith wrote: In this specific case the question was about human power so its reasonable to assume that the setup would use a direct DC input. Otherwise you are losing 30% or more of your power in conversion losses. The number I use for the DC input is 25 watt-