Interestingly enough... e ink screens CAN fold. They are just too slow for
general tablet use.
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 9:33 PM, John Gilmore g...@toad.com wrote:
[Summary: 2-screen laptops need fairly deep software support because 2
screens don't look like 1 screen. I excerpted freely below;
I wonder how a tablet really fits the Xo mission beyond PR?
The G1G1, while flawed in a few ways, made an attempt at least to put a
programmable machine in the hands of third world children and
empower them to be content creators.
A tablet is inherently a content consumer device, not a creator
Gotta get rid of those horrible war simulations like chess
Some people just need lives.
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Martin Langhoff
martin.langh...@gmail.comwrote:
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 2:55 AM, Paul Mclean pm2...@comcast.net wrote:
What about Sid Meier's Civilization?
32% of all noise on all mail lists is people announcing they are leaving due
to the signal to noise ratio.
(67% of all statistics are made up.)
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Mitch Bradley w...@laptop.org wrote:
I regret that I must once again unsubscribe from devel, as the noise
level
Honestly, I think the lack of Java on the XO has more with python
defensiveness then anything else.
I draw this conclusion partly from the fact that it has been pretty
crippling lack since initial inception of the XO, but one that there is
great resistance to fixing nonetheless.
On Mon, Aug 31,
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Carlos Nazareno object...@gmail.com wrote:
e of the economic crunch.
This is completely wrong and low-power + efficiency is exactly where
all computing should go. multicore GHz monsters should be sold to
people who really need them and not to joe average who
Like instant messaging each other during quizzes?
The easiest way would be to have the teacher stand at the back of the
class looking for anyone doing so. If network access is not needed
during the quiz, you could also tell the children to turn on Extreme
Power Management in 8.2.0
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 10:35 PM, Carlos Nazareno object...@gmail.com wrote:
Since when is more equipment then a pencil and a sheet of paper
necessary for a school quiz??
When they are not available.
Im confused if the basic necessities like paper and a pencil arent
available, what is any
I agree. You need a better way to track your hits. Id suggest Google
analytics as
fast and free. Make a special web page for the landings from the
email and track
hits.
Jk
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Chris Marshall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote:
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2008/10/16 Sebastian Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
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The link http://www.crosswire.org/sword/publisher/index.jsp seems to suggest
they would be open, for at least putting it on the Cult / Unorthodox
module add-on section.
The irony being that this is a world-project and, buy the numbers,
when
SO, let me clarify my own POV... if anyone cares :)
XP on the OLPC does not bother me so much, for all the reasons
mentioned. As long as it
DOES still run Linux/Sugar then its up to us to make that compelling.
I'm sure no third world country WANTS to spend another $7.00 a machine
if there is no
This may be obviosu to everyone, but just a note if it isnt
I have a lot of experience *trying* to tlak Win32 into doing things
other then its own way from my time in the Sun Java Performance tuning
team. Java has a very X inspired window system. Retting that to run
reliably on Windows has
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Jeffrey Kesselman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 12:01 PM, NoiseEHC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You mean everything that actually calls into GDI.
Right, my mis-speak. Given that almost all my interaction with
Windows has been through GDI I
I'm not a security expert and won't even BEGIN to comment on that aspect.
My only comment is that one true measure of success is the prominence
of your detractors.
SO rather then getting noses out of joint, I'd suggest taking it as a
compliment and true measure of success that the project was
This is supposed to be an open project. I say that should include
hardware information.
Its one of the things that distinguishes it from such cynical attempts
to enter this market
as the things intel pulled...
JK
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For what
Randy Kommisar
Former head of Lucas Arts (during its great period)
Former head of Cyrstal Dynamics (a ship that had to much water tkaen
on before he got there)
Last I heard he was doing venture consulting in Silicon Valley.
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On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Charles Merriam
+1
The more famous you become, the more nuts you will attract.
Just learn to tune them out. In a free society its their right to display their
own ignorance/boorishness.
JK
2008/1/24 Sue Welsh [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Blatant troll...ignore.
Sue W.
Warning: Political Rant
Every so often I'm embarrassed to be a citzen of the US... oh hell,
that every so often has been the past 8 years, but thats another
topic.
Common idiots in thsi country don't know the difference between
socialism, communism, and atheism-- which they have been taught and
The wordprocessor that ships with the OLPC was too limtied for my uses
so I went lookign for something stil lsmall but a bit more complete
and compatible with my desktop, which is OpenOffice.
I found Abi word. After fixing one conflict it installed onto the XO
and works great!
I'll add it to
On Jan 18, 2008 4:06 AM, Antoine van Gelder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jeffrey Kesselman wrote:
The fundamental flaw in this line of reasoning Jeffrey... and this is a
flaw which any sophomore would have been able to spot in the days when
they still taught logic and critical reasoning skills
On Jan 18, 2008 6:17 AM, Chris Hager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Chris Hager wrote:
Noah Kantrowitz wrote:
I don't see why breaking this up by tags (some of which can be things like
PG13) isn't a good enough solution. We all know kids will seek this
stuff out no matter what, lets at
2008/1/17 Bennett Todd [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
2008-01-17T21:09:22 Ties Stuij:
What's wrong with erring on the safe side with a controversial
topic like video game violence in a learning setting like the
OLPC project.
[...]
As was mentioned earlier in this thread, there are always
Its good you found an hack... but this is definitely a hack. As it
stands Java wouldn't pass verification on the OLPC and thus cannot be
said to be working yet.
Does this throw some light on what might be wrong at the matchbook level?
JK
On Dec 31, 2007 1:00 PM, Steve Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Short answer Java GUI apps don't work with Matchbook yet.
Long answer:
Each Java Window will be a ful l creen display, use alt-n/alt-p to
move between them.
HOWEVER
Layout doesn't work quite right, it thinks the window is much smaller
then it really is.
Pull down menus don't work at all.
On Dec 29, 2007 3:04 PM, Cay Horstmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It is much worse than that for the two apps that I tried. In the
WebStart app, there was a giant gray window containing only the Java
Application banner. In the other app, there was an empty white window.
Did you try ctl-n/ctl-p
Hey all,
Quick question. I need a bit more then rgbpaint will give me for game
development, but
gimp seems way too heavy for the OLPC (yum install gimp ended up
blowing up with out of memory, never mind the app itself.)
Has anyone done a build of mtpaint for the OLPC I could snag?
Thanks
JK
On Dec 28, 2007 6:37 PM, John Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I negotiated with a lot of companies as co-founder of Cygnus, which
develops and supports free software for companies that use it. (It's
now part of Red Hat.) Licensing your code under Apache, GPLv2,
GPLv2+, or GPLv3+ protects
look at it and where your politics lie. I've
honestly always been somewhat uncomfortable with the coercive nature
of GPL. though in the specific case of the PD server it matched
exactly what I wanted.
JK
On Dec 28, 2007 7:41 PM, Jeffrey Kesselman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Dec 28, 2007 6:37 PM
On Dec 27, 2007 5:01 PM, Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alas, try logging into the WiFi system at Boston's Logan Airport.
Can't you use the T-Mobile hotspot?
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Hrm.
Well... I updated my G!G! to 653 and it *seems* to have worked...
caveat being that i have not done detailed testing... just use
testing...
JK
On Dec 26, 2007 1:46 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Dec 26, 2007 12:27 PM, ffm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
According to the
Someone have a virus?
JK
On Dec 25, 2007 6:35 AM, Duncan Patton a Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Listen up there Geof, I know the difference between
consistent and complete and so do you. So let's not
bullshit each other too much, ok?
Dhu
--
~~ Microsoft help desk says: reply hazy,
Innocenti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(cc sugar@, eben)
Jeffrey Kesselman wrote:
On Dec 24, 2007 4:57 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bernie has the details to get a 1200x900 screen in the emulator on the
wiki somewhere (right?);
All I could find was a qemu cant do
On Dec 25, 2007 6:28 PM, Bernardo Innocenti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jeffrey Kesselman wrote:
Now this isnt to say that a minimum resolution cant work in the same
way it works on PCs... it works IF you can go full screen at that
resolution and if the game can request that resolution
Sorry, I know I read somewhere an explanation of ship v. joyride etc
but I can't remember it all.
if I want to keep my olpc at the most up to date stable version, whatt
updates do i install when?
Is there an automatic update mechanism for the released software? if
not, will there be some day?
A
Question: Should I summarize what I did to get Eric3 up and put it on
the wiki somewhere?
JK
On Dec 24, 2007 12:18 PM, Jeffrey Kesselman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
-- Forwarded message --
From: Jeffrey Kesselman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Dec 23, 2007 8:14 PM
Subject: Re
can I just hack an x-config file to reset this?
I have a big monitor 8)
JK
On Dec 24, 2007 4:03 PM, Albert Cahalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jeffrey Kesselman writes:
I have an image of eric3 on VMWare emulation attached. (Majorly Jpeg
compressed so pardon for the artifacty-ness) It all
On Dec 24, 2007 4:57 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bernie has the details to get a 1200x900 screen in the emulator on the
wiki somewhere (right?);
All I could find was a qemu cant do this on the emulation page and a
very confusing discussion of multiple different drives on the
1:22 PM, Jeffrey Kesselman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(1) I have a 2 gig SD card in my card slot. I can see it in the
journal, but I can't figure out how to use it for anything.
Journal serves as file manager for XO.
In particular Id like to dowload stuff to it But when I download
On Dec 22, 2007 3:25 PM, Jeffrey Kesselman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks Guys.
I decided to try something a bit lighter weight so i installed JEdit.
I discovered that alt-p/alt-n and at elast for JEdit that works to get
my editor window up front.
Two oddities in mtachbook/java pairing
On Dec 23, 2007 2:25 PM, Yuan Chao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Dec 24, 2007 2:21 AM, Jeffrey Kesselman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was plugged into a USB slot on thr ight not the left.
Interestingly enough, on the current software, if you do that the
journal will still see the usb stick
The discussion thread rather looks like it suffered from a 'too many
cooks problem.
Aren't there any existing small ide's written in pyton for python?
JK
On Dec 23, 2007 3:57 PM, Jake B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Dec 23, 2007 3:50 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Danilo
23, 2007 4:24 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jeffrey Kesselman wrote:
The discussion thread rather looks like it suffered from a 'too many
cooks problem.
Aren't there any existing small ide's written in pyton for python?
The two main IDEs for Python are Eric and Idle
Thanks Guys.
I decided to try something a bit lighter weight so i installed JEdit.
I discovered that alt-p/alt-n and at elast for JEdit that works to get
my editor window up front.
Two oddities in mtachbook/java pairing still.
(1) Although the system window is full screen its not resizing the
Well, FWI
and realizing its not my projct so my opinion means nthoing...
I've thought sicne i first fired up the emulator and got a good look
at it that the OLPC project is probably missing a bet for funding.
I'm willing to bet if it was licensed to someone like Mattel to sell
in the first
On Dec 22, 2007 9:33 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well ...
1. A recent news item stated that some countries that are heavily into
hosting on line gambling casinos are asking the World Trade Organization
to fine the USA because we have legislation to protect our
I've been familairiazing myself wioth my OLPC but there are a few
thinsg I havent figured out yet.
(1) I have a 2 gig SD card in my card slot. I can see it in the
journal, but I can't figure out how to use it for anything.
In particular Id like to dowload stuff to it But when I download it
No... reformatting to Fat32 didnt help :(
On Dec 21, 2007 1:49 PM, Jeffrey Kesselman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hmm.
It is a FAT file system.
But it isn't automounting :( And I can't figure out what it name
would be to manually mount it...
Maybe its the weird U3 Cruiser software. I'll
On Dec 21, 2007 5:00 PM, Mike C. Fletcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jeffrey Kesselman wrote:
On Dec 21, 2007 2:36 PM, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 02:05:29PM -0500, Jeffrey Kesselman wrote:
...
I'd really like to keep using VMWare. On my machine its both
Okay,
I have a JDK installed and it seems to work. For grins i put netbeans
on my USB stick and fired it up.
It seems to be working however I get no main display. I do get pop up
dialogs though.
My suspicion is that Netbeans is asking the X wm for a Window and,
sicne from what I cna see the
Well, i understand. :)
I was very surprised to find that by default root has no password on the OLPC!
This seems a mite dangerous to me. I can just imagine OLPC viri
springing up, propagtating through the mesh...
I'd love to have a proper sudo on the thing. It would make me feel a
lot mreo
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