On Tuesday 19 Apr 2011 12:03:38 am Cherry Withers wrote:
> I had much success with the Veho 004, but at now $99 a piece I can't afford
> to buy more of them for my trip to the Philippines this June.
This is actually good because it serves as a warning sign of going off-track
;-). Lasting learning
On Tuesday 07 Sep 2010 5:03:00 am Hal Murray wrote:
> I think there are two approaches.
>
> One is for /home to live on the file server and XOs to access their files
> via NFS. There may be interesting alternatives to NFS, but I'm not
> familiar with any of them.
>
> The other is to have a work
On Saturday, May 15, 2010 07:07:39 am Becky Young wrote:
> Has anyone tried using a document camera to display the XO screen on a big
> screen? Teachers have started using them at my school although there is
> only one to share among 10+ teachers.
You could remove the top seal of a used light bulb
On Tuesday 23 March 2010 08:44:06 pm Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> >test -f $HOMEDIR/.dontrestore || tar xjvf /var/lib/home-save.tbz -C
> >
> > $HOMEDIR ./
>
> Users tend to fill up their home very quickly and we don't have
> 400-500MB of free space for an extra copy.
The backup would only contai
On Tuesday 23 March 2010 07:28:05 pm Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> All we need is a fast way to recover from disasters. A "panic button"
> which would reset all settings. It could be implemented in
> olpc-configure with 3 lines of code. In the absence of a recovery
> option, technicians resort to flash
On Wednesday 03 February 2010 11:58:27 pm Adam Holt wrote:
> Aside from this wonderful home-made prototype, that unfortunately
> overheats, what's achievable?
> http://blog.laptop.org/2008/11/16/hardware-hacking-first-pass-at-an-xo-proj
> ector/
Have you considered LED monitors? Monitors (>= 23")
On Thursday 12 November 2009 08:36:58 pm Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> IMHO separating the meta-data from the file itself is a good idea. Having
> one database at the root of the stick is just too fragile. Better store
> meta data next to the file in question, like myimage.jpg and
> myimage.journale
On Wednesday 02 Sep 2009 7:27:15 pm Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
> I tried that. [Note that the syntax of /etc/environment is
> key=value (and is not interpreted), whereas in the other places in
> /etc it is a "normal bash command" that gets sourced.] But even in
> /etc/environment, the variable did no
On Wednesday 02 Sep 2009 4:33:47 pm Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
> I've modified some system files in /etc to define some global
> environmental variables ( export WHAT=foo ). ..
> Please - is there a way to ensure that that a particular global
> variable __does__ get passed to an Activity ?
Which /e
On Saturday 16 May 2009 10:48:18 pm Mitch Bradley wrote:
> The reason why people haven't seen a public discussion about the
> F11/Gnome thing is because the decision was made internally within OLPC
> (the hardware organization - not Sugar Labs). OLPC has to ship
> something on the hardware that we
On Saturday 16 May 2009 01:47:49 am Chris Ball wrote:
> We have some good news: OLPC has decided to base its software release
> for the new XO-1.5 laptop on Fedora 11. Unlike previous releases, we
> plan to use a full Fedora desktop build, booting into Sugar but giving
> users the option to switc
On Friday 10 April 2009 8:25:23 pm Martin Langhoff wrote:
> While I am not expecting the SD card to deal with a heavy write
> workload (the recommended strategy is to use an external disk for
> /var/lib and /library ), I am still keen on avoiding early SD card
> death...
What about journal updates?
On Thursday 02 Apr 2009 8:21:27 pm Mitch Bradley wrote:
> I guess the main disconnect is that, for the FOSS community, the point
> of view is more important than the product. The commercial world is
> just the opposite.
This is too broad a statement and rather unfair to those who have worked hard
On Saturday 31 Jan 2009 11:24:55 am Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
> But I have *not* been able to assign a static ip address when a
> "real" network was involved - Network Manager intervenes and
> "destroys" whatever setup I've configured.
Network Manager does not handle interfaces which have an entry
in
On Wednesday 17 Dec 2008 4:58:26 am Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> this is the first release of Etoys 4.0. The major version jump
> signifies the end of our two-year relicensing effort.
Wonderful! and thanks to all who made it possible.
Is a corresponding Squeakland release in the offing?
Subbu
On Monday 10 Nov 2008 10:15:16 pm Tony Anderson wrote:
> I have my XO set up to switch between us and np keyboard layouts. What I
> need is a way in Python to find out which of these layouts is currently
> selected.
Try get_keyboard_mapping(). Clients get a MappingNotify event when the
keyboard la
On Tuesday 21 Oct 2008 7:03:23 pm Yama Ploskonka wrote:
> When I am asked about whether the XO handles printing, I present that
> the fact it does not is a feature, not a bug.
+1. CUPS is designed for office LANs. Trying to put it on XO intended for
educating children in remote areas is an overkil
On Saturday 30 Aug 2008 5:37:07 am Mitch Bradley wrote:
> A lot of the OFW functionality is targeted toward the task of managing a
> large collection of possibly-plug-in I/O devices, then booting a general
> purpose OS.
Like Squeak for example :-). Honestly, I think Squeak makes a very good shell
On Friday 01 Aug 2008 8:22:01 pm Zarro Boogs per Child wrote:
> I'm not sure this is a bug and not a feature ... It's easy enough to
> rotate a morph when brought into another project?
Rotation center is saved in the file but not the rotation value itself. So how
would the code loading the morph
On Saturday 28 Jun 2008 8:05:41 am Alan Kay wrote:
> The "sources" and "changes" files (the changes are the incremental history
> to the sources) don't have to be external to the image, but they have been
> made so since Smalltalk started to be implemented on computers that had
> fallen back to the
On Saturday 28 Jun 2008 4:51:47 pm Alan Kay wrote:
> It was realized that most computing of the 50s and 60s was rather like
> ...
> state in which they will become part of the ecology.
I propose that this overview be included as part of Squeak. Squeak is very
different from conventional programmin
On Wednesday 25 Jun 2008 12:08:44 am Albert Cahalan wrote:
> > *All the source code* for *every* piece of byte code in the
> > image is available, and not only that, we even *ship* it
>
> No. This is not true. You ship a binary blob. That doesn't
> count, even if so-called "source code" is viewable
On Tuesday 24 Jun 2008 5:18:52 pm shivaprasad javali wrote:
> The USB device that I am connecting is not a storage drive. so there is no
> way I can copy a file containing a unique UUID on the device. I just need
> one unique parameter for the device when it is connected to the system.
Have you tri
On Saturday 21 Jun 2008 4:11:52 pm Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> Anyway, the Debian ftpmasters did not even object to that, but they
> were concerned about how to be sure what changed from one image to the
> next. Squeak comes with all the necessary tools built into it, but
> this does not work well wi
On Wednesday 04 Jun 2008 1:21:34 am Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
> I don't have wireless - am using an USB-ethernet adapter instead.
Network adapters are given logical device names using udev rules. See for
rules matching "net" SUBSYSTEM in /etc/udev/rules.d (usually
*persistent-net-generator.rules).
On Monday 19 May 2008 8:59:01 am Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:
> If we are trying use the OLPC XO as the trojan horse of
> disseminating a better idea of computer including operating system, it
> is unfortunate that we needed to use Linux. It is the most practical
> system to use in the short term, but
On Monday 19 May 2008 12:16:40 am Albert Cahalan wrote:
> From what I can tell, constructionism (c13m) is a buzzword that
> vaguely refers to an age-old teaching practice: learning by doing.
> The idea appears to be extremely old, though not the norm. Ditching
> the buzzword would be appreciated; i
On Friday 16 May 2008 6:31:51 am Jim Gettys wrote:
> Ah, Windows needs more than 1GB to be useful; so to run Windows you need
> to pay extra for a SD card big enough to hold it.
Mmm Windows doesn't need to do anything useful. It just needs to rake in
$3. Once sold, you are free to load softwar
On Saturday 10 May 2008 4:40:30 pm Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> The Windows-based EEE PC is going to be cheaper than the Linux-based
> in Australia:
>
> http://apcmag.com/windowsbased_eeepc_cheaper_than_linux_one.htm
>
> I'd say this shows how scared M$ is ...
I am not sure. They are two different con
On Saturday 10 May 2008 5:07:22 am Jim Gettys wrote:
> 1:1 is really *very* important, for many reasons, not the least of which
> is the following:
>
> If a teacher cannot *rely* on a child having access to a computer for
> teaching their class and/or homework, you are, in essence, asking them
> to
On Friday 09 May 2008 9:33:26 pm Eben Eliason wrote:
> > Even if you were to provide an computer exclusively to each child, they
> > are unlikely to be in use all day long. Programmers in IT companies may
> > spend their whole day before a computer, but children do have a life
> > beyond the keyboa
On Thursday 08 May 2008 1:50:59 pm Albert Cahalan wrote:
> From time to time, you get "computer day". It could be
> a few times a year or once a week. Most likely this is
> decided by the teacher, who must then try to reserve the
> computers for the desired day. At the beginning of class,
> somebod
On Thursday 17 Apr 2008 6:43:16 am Steve Lewis wrote:
> title says is all Crtl-Alt has a special meaning in an emulator and
> Crtl-Alt-Backspace does not work in either windows or linux. On linux
> it does some very funky things to the host XWindows
See section "Restart Sugar" in
http://wiki.lap
On Tuesday 25 Mar 2008 10:35:25 pm John R.Hogerhuis wrote:
> > In any case, kids have a way of figuring out a way out of problems that
> > adults would perplex an adult. Ever seen a kid succumb to
> > analysis-paralysis ? In your place, I would just give her more time to
> > find her own way out on
On Monday 24 Mar 2008 9:50:49 am John R.Hogerhuis wrote:
> Based on my daughter, she does use two hands to paint. The problem is the
> need to constantly hold down the button (drag) while painting. With a mouse
> this is natural for her, but with the trackpad she has difficulty. Maybe
> the issue i
On Sunday 23 March 2008 3:59:31 am John R.Hogerhuis wrote:
> .. (actually it's not all that pleasant for me
> either given the button placement below the trackpad). Something modal or
> pressure based would be better. If a key on the keyboard held down were the
> "up/down" button that would be reso
On Tuesday 18 March 2008 7:44:00 am Walter Bender wrote:
> While the laptop can readily switch between up to four keyboard
> mappings at a time, the physical keyboard is probably only capable of
> supporting two sets of glyphs. We've opted to date to put Latin and
> one other set per keyboard. Any
On Sunday 09 March 2008 2:16:02 pm Bryan Berry wrote:
> Sulochan Acharya and I are keeping journals of Nepal's pilot schools on
> the wiki and the OLE Nepal blog.
>
> http://blog.olenepal.org/
>
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Bashuki_Journal
You report that "We will install power inverters in the scho
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