Re: disabling root and olpc passwords

2008-02-04 Thread Chas. Owens
On Feb 4, 2008 11:37 AM, subbukk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 13 Jan 2008 4:48:08 am Mikus Grinbergs wrote: The 2008-1-12 OLPC News says ... so that we can finally disable the root and olpc passwords. The way I have my G1G1 system set up (I have no wireless) I *need* to ftp in.

Re: EBook Reader (was Re: [PATCH] RFC: ReadActivity fullscreen, paging changes)

2008-01-27 Thread Chas. Owens
On Jan 27, 2008 8:37 AM, Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We had a real ebook reader written by John Resig in the days of the B2 hardware. I thin the project has sat untouched ever since. It would be worth reexamining. snip Where might the source be? I took a look on the activites page

Re: PDF reader not really user friendly...

2008-01-26 Thread Chas. Owens
On Jan 26, 2008 1:16 PM, Eben Eliason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, the page-up (O) and page-down (X) buttons should move to the start of the next and previous pages not scroll a fixed amount. Could you provide some justification for this approach? Paging exactly one screen height seems

Re: New joyride build 1591

2008-01-25 Thread Chas. Owens
On Jan 26, 2008 12:38 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Build Announcer v2 wrote: http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1591 Changes in build 1591 from build: 1590 this build appears to break WEP (I upgraded from build 689) the firmware does seem

Re: New joyride build 1591

2008-01-25 Thread Chas. Owens
On Jan 26, 2008 12:47 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 26 Jan 2008, Chas. Owens wrote: On Jan 26, 2008 12:38 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Build Announcer v2 wrote: http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1591 Changes in build 1591 from

Re: power management experiences with joyride-1572

2008-01-23 Thread Chas. Owens
On Jan 23, 2008 2:47 PM, Hal Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, the resume operation is triggered by user input, or a wireless packet addressed to the host (or some battery-related events). It can't be triggered by anything in software unless that's organized ahead of time; the CPU is

Re: Hershey Felder, Zulu Musical Instruments, Essential To Develop Musical Traditions In Africa

2008-01-23 Thread Chas. Owens
On Jan 22, 2008 2:18 PM, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip There is a murder mystery set in the music business (Sorry, I don't know its name.) An executive mentions AR (Artists Repertory). The detective says, Wait a minute. In my business AR means assault and robbery. What is it in