RE: [Sugar-devel] 883 on XO1

2012-01-08 Thread Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn
"Having builds available via bittorrent or some other p2p tool would be very useful when the dev team in in China" In China and everywhere... Now, I not good connection (i'm using a 3G modem) but I can make .torrent of 883 and another image... When I try to make .torrents... ever have problems

RE: [Sugar-devel] 883 on XO1

2012-01-08 Thread David Leeming
Thanks to James, we successfully repaired the download. A very neat solution that I had not realised was possible. For others that may find it useful, we used the Linux split command (I used the XS) to chop the faulty download into 128 small chunks of about 5MB each and then did checksum with m

Re: [Sugar-devel] 883 on XO1

2012-01-08 Thread Richard A. Smith
On 01/06/2012 03:46 AM, Alec Muffett wrote: At the risk of sounding perverse you could do block-level repair on this by having someone put the same file up for Bittorrent somewhere, and David could start the torrent, pause his "repeat" download, install a copy of previously-downloaded file, resta

Re: OLPC XO-3 on slashdot front page right now

2012-01-08 Thread Chris Leonard
On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Walter Bender wrote: > On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 1:15 AM, Chris Leonard > wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 11:46 PM, Alexandro Colorado >> wrote: >>> We talked about it on the IRC chat, however there is a lot of >>> missconceptions like the crank meme, and now ando

Re: OLPC XO-3 on slashdot front page right now

2012-01-08 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On 1/8/12, Chris Leonard wrote: > On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 11:46 PM, Alexandro Colorado > wrote: >> We talked about it on the IRC chat, however there is a lot of >> missconceptions like the crank meme, and now andorid. >> >> Why would we want a >13yr old kid in 3rd world to go to the android >> sto

Re: OLPC XO-3 on slashdot front page right now

2012-01-08 Thread Walter Bender
On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 1:15 AM, Chris Leonard wrote: > On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 11:46 PM, Alexandro Colorado > wrote: >> We talked about it on the IRC chat, however there is a lot of >> missconceptions like the crank meme, and now andorid. >> >> Why would we want a >13yr old kid in 3rd world to go