Re: XO-tablet development? [Devel Digest, Vol 90, Issue 8]

2013-08-14 Thread Yioryos Asprobounitis
  By proposing that further development work be native to Android, you are locking the fruits of that labor away from: - Any child using a current XO laptop - Any child using any other Linux laptop, such as the millions of children in Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina, etc... - Any child

Re: XO-tablet development? [Devel Digest, Vol 90, Issue 8]

2013-08-14 Thread James Cameron
I no longer understand your question, sorry. On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 01:52:33AM -0700, Yioryos Asprobounitis wrote:   By proposing that further development work be native to Android, you are locking the fruits of that labor away from: - Any child using a current XO laptop - Any

Re: XO-tablet development?

2013-08-14 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 2013-08-14, at 05:02, Andrew McMillan and...@morphoss.com wrote: Andrew McMillan, VP Software, One Laptop per Child Association Inc. Hi Andrew, just noticed your new title. Congrats! Short of importing an XO Tablet (I don't live in the US), is there a way to look at your software? The

Re: XO-tablet development?

2013-08-14 Thread Frantisek Dufka
On 14.8.2013 5:02, Andrew McMillan wrote: Hi, Hi Andrew, thanks for your answers. it is intended that the tablet UI will be able to run on hardware other than the currently available tablet. At present it runs more or less fine across a variety of Android tablets from 7 @800x480 through

Re: [Server-devel] Questions for today

2013-08-14 Thread David Farning
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:39 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 05:51:55PM +1000, James Cameron wrote: I like Sugar Network, because the problem of content sharing is examined from a top down design perspective, including the constraint that internet

Re: [Server-devel] Western Digital hard disk data

2013-08-14 Thread George Hunt
James, et al, Monitoring the transient voltage minimums, running on battery, not charging, with 2 ethernet dongles as additional load I get the following in my testing of WD external my passport drive: XO4 -- voltage droops to 4.51 -- spins up reliably XO1.75 -- voltage droops to 4.56 -- spins

Re: [Server-devel] Western Digital hard disk data

2013-08-14 Thread James Cameron
Thanks, that all sounds reasonable. It is not practical to make clear recommendations from these tests, because of the number of dimensions in the phase space that have not been explored: - how other external drives of the same model draw power and respond to the bus voltage, (manufacturing

Re: [Server-devel] Questions for today

2013-08-14 Thread James Cameron
Oh, it was the latter paragraph that I retract. I still think Sugar Network is a pretty cool idea that should be considered further by both XS and XSCE developers. On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 05:51:55PM +1000, James Cameron wrote: I like Sugar Network, because the problem of content sharing is