Hi Ties,
quote who=Ties Stuij
we need to base a release on the latest 8.2.1 changes here in Nepal,
however I can't find a public pilgrim repo that is actually configured
right.
If you wait about a day, cjb is doing a signed release based on staging
version 30 of 8.2.1, which is pretty good.
Hi all,
As a person running some OLPC trials, I have been struck by the lack of
communication and technical peer support of deployments. I thought it would
be useful to kick off weekly meetups between people doing deployments to
share knowledge, ask and answer questions, and to generally touch
Hi all,
Could someone please point me to any wireless certification the XO has
(European if possible) which should have been a requirement for selling them
in the UK. I urgently need this certificate to complete the registration of
the device in Australia and the Pacific. I completed the EMC
Hi all,
quote who=Martin Langhoff
OLPC XS 0.5 is ready! -- the release was quietly made available about
a week ago now but the week was insanely busy, so the announcement was
held a bit.
So if you haven'tdownloaded it yet, go now to
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/xs/
Yay!!! thanks to all,
Hi Douglas,
quote who=Douglas Bagnall
Do any files under /library/users/ have the wrong ownership? (perhaps
owned by a different laptop). If so, then the problem might well be
fixed by this patch:
Hi all,
quote who=Martin Langhoff
exactly. There's a lot of fun to be had, and a lot to learn with this.
Might be useful in some cases (perhaps growing number of cases, if
connectivity improves over time) and more things become viable.
For health purposes, it will probably not be useful,
Hi all,
quote who=Harshvardhan
true. plus a good broadband network connection,
The video is relatively small and the broadband requirements don't appear to
be ridiculously high. I guess I would ask that you all download and test the
app, see what it is capable, of, post to the list and
Hi all,
We now have Videochat v9 which works. This is a great thing that will help
children connect, and in particular help with remote support for children.
It could assist with eHealth, remote education, speech therapy and any
number of useful functions.
Anyway, it also needs more hacking, so
Hi all,
quote who=Sameer Verma
I'm doing a reasonable AA trial and I'll post how it goes to the list soon.
It seems to be working quite well though in initial tests.
How many XOs?
At the moment the most to one AA is 45, and it was weird because with an
earlier version of the XO software
Hi SJ,
quote who=Samuel Klein
We don't have to frame it as us vs. them. We can just announce the
state of current deployments, and discuss plans for future deployments
and G1G1, including whatever can be said in public about the Microsoft
trials. Everybody wants to know what's up with
Hi all,
I've just noticed that release candidate 765 when fully charged tells me I
have 2 1/2 hours of usage. This is a major concern, and something we really
need to fix for this release. As I tested it, it appeared to get about a
minute or two to each percentage of battery. Below are some
Hi Stephen,
quote who=Stephen Thorne
This means two laptops from neighbouring schools who each have their 'own'
schoolserver set up as their jabber server will not be able to share any
content if they are close enough to receive wireless signal to the internet.
Unless they join each others
Hi all,
quote who=Stephen Thorne
I'm pleased to announce that I've had a successful Video conversation, and
am releasing the .xo file that is the result of this weeks hard labour.
I just wanted to say a big thanks to Stephen for all his work. I believe
this app will really make a huge
Hi all,
quote who=Edward Cherlin
This would be even more useful as the basis for an article or
editorial in one or more of the computer magazines or Web sites, or a
fact-filled press release. All of the media people I have talked with
say they would like to hear from OLPC.
We don't have
Hi Guillaume,
quote who=Guillaume Desmottes
Few months ago I posted this mail [1] explaining the current status of
VideoChat. The situation didn't evolve since but I guess it should still
be basically usable.
[1] http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-April/013227.html
Cool, I saw
Hi SJ,
quote who=Samuel Klein
Alex looked into this in July, I don't think much has been done with
the original videochat code since the last git commit:
http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=projects/video-chat-activity;a=summary
Cool, we'll update the documentation and put up anything new we
Hi all,
quote who=[EMAIL PROTECTED]
It is my understanding that deployments with larger schools will be using
WAPs and possibly some active antennas (currently a shortage of these).
These large schools are more like the G1G1 situation as the pupil moves
from one area of the school to
Hi all,
I have a great need for the video chat application to use for remote speech
pathology and other services to remote communities through chat. Does anyone
know the status of this project:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Video_Chat
It looks like nothing has happened with it for several months.
Hi Michael,
quote who=Michael Stone
The final weeks of September seem more likely to me at the moment. If
you want to stay up to date, please watch
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/8.2.0
Then you'll receive instant notifications. :)
Erk. OK, thanks! I'll be travelling out to do the rollouts on
Hi Martin,
quote who=Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Pia Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Of course. I'll put the latest joyride on my devel machine now to test.
Go for 8.2-759 - that's pretty close to being a release candidate, and
it's fairly good. Two things that hit
Hi Martin,
quote who=Martin Langhoff
XS-0.4 is already out and done -- safe and sane to install, and
includes a facility that you can use to install the OS updates to the
laptops. There is also an extra rpm package (being finished now) that
you can use to serve activity updates. Both require
Hi all,
Is the expected release date for 8.2.0 still September 17th? I have a trial
that depends on this coming out (for various functionality, mainly the
software updates and flash) so I just wanted to see whether it was still
looking likely to be released then.
Thanks all! The joyrides are
Hi all,
Firstly thanks for all the feedback. I want to ensure everyone knows this
isn't about undermining the great work already done on Fedora, but rather it
about I guess scratching an itch that a few people have. I think that where
possible we post the existing XS packages so that people can
Hi Michael,
quote who=Michael Stone
Uruguay already uses a Debian-basex XS (which is quite different from
Martin's) and which includes some MAC-address filtering technology.
(They've also expressed great interest in expanding this technology into
a full 802.11i/802.1x/EAP/RADIUS
Hi all,
I'm getting the XO certified to the Australian power and safety standard
(which makes it legal and certifiably safe in Australia, Nz and the Pacific
with a little tweaking :)) and I need to know whether the testing page is up
to date. Are there any updates on the certifications pending?
Hi Walter,
quote who=Walter Bender
The most typical color-blindless is a red-green confusion. Black-green
should not be an issue as this is contrast in value, not chroma.
However, the point is well taken. Some of the on-screen color
combinations may well be problematic. The general rule of
Hi all,
quote who=John Watlington
I'm glad you found a solution. Can you provide more information (such as
exactly what model of AP are you using ? Which versions of firmware
worked/didn't work.)
Just wanted to give everyone an update. I bought a DLink DWL-2100AP which is
what David and
Hi all,
quote who=John Watlington
If one pulls the cable out on the LAN side of the AP the XOs cease to
share and quickly drop out and look for the mesh. So, this duplicated
the problem I described.
More and more interesting.
Have you been able to follow up on what Pia Waugh found
Hi there,
quote who=[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Our grassroot at OLPC France made a small deployment lately in a school
(so far with one XO, no more) and we would like to monitor the activity of
the users (activities, connections, load, etc.) as per day, week, etc.
We have a similar problem in OLPC
Hi David,
quote who=David Leeming
To see if we could duplicate our problem, we tried with another AP: We have
a VSAT set up near the village where we are deploying a trial with 50
children in PNG. It has a reliable wireless AP and you can associate both
grown up laptops and XOs no problems.
Hi,
quote who=Pia Waugh
I just found this which might help. Similar problem with that AP. Might
help.
http://forums.speedguide.net/showthread.php?t=223860
t works!!! I took a risk and went backwards in the firmware. First I
tried 2.10, which appeared to be just about the same
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