>> This could work: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_stick
>> It might be possible to mold it right into the keyboard, preventing
>> entry of liquids or grit while cutting costs.
I've been following the MAKE-and-friends articles / blog posts about
homemade multitouch controllers with some
> I have ran into a problem, though. During the OFW "ok" prompt, I type
> "flash u:\q2d07.rom", the systems reads the new firmware, but then gives
> me the following message: "AC not present" and stops. What am I missing
> here? What is AC exactly?
Alternating Current -- you really want to
> On a simmilar vein, would it be much of a perfomance hit to be running
> denyhosts on these machines?
What would it do with the mesh network interface?
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> I'd like to draw devel@'s attention to trac bug 5537, which might land
> sometime soon:
> http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5537
> The upshot would be that, instead of logging in directly as root with
> no password, you would log in directly as *olpc* with no password, and
> then sudo to root (if y
> Yeah. The OpenSolaris Governing Board voted unaminously earlier this
> year that it would be against that community's interests to dual-license
> OpenSolaris under CDDL/GPL, so such a move is certainly not a matter of
> "go ahead and get around to".
The OGB membership changes (elections ar
>> This thing obviously doesn't scale and in the long term we may end up
>> reinventing a full blown package manager with dependency tracking, plus
>> tools like apt for downloading and installing them.
>
> But seriously, does the XO really need two package managers? What's
> wrong with Fedora
Yes, it sounds very much like what was reported earlier.
Maybe different, though.
Here's a a dmesg dump of the things-going-insane on my ubuntu laptop, from
eth1 getting ifconfig'ed up to crash (I had to do a full-on
hold-down-the-power-button reset...).
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This is ticket 5439, component wireless.
I have to go away for a few hours tomorrow afternoon (to review a draft
with my committee chair, yay!), but can do further testing either before
or after that point.
--elijah
On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Kim Quirk wrote:
> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:35:21 -0
> This thing obviously doesn't scale and in the long term we may end up
> reinventing a full blown package manager with dependency tracking, plus
> tools like apt for downloading and installing them.
It seems to me that the ideal thing would be for Sun to go ahead and get
around to releasing c
> So, once this is fixed, are there any plans to upgrade to Fedora Core 8
> for everyone else?
I seem to recall absorbing the fact that a re-basing onto FC8 was
intended... and this was some time back.
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today i updated my b4 to the latest firmware, then installed ship-2 via
usb, then olpc-updated to the latest joyride build that i could find.
[the impetus for the updates, today, beyond the RTC bug, was that the
wireless on the B4 didn't seem to want to come on. Empty neighborhood
screen, etc
developers who need to be given accounts so that they can commit
> to your project's code repository, or push their own. There is no need
> to list non-committer developers.
>
>Username Full name SSH2 key URLE-mail
>
> Subject: Re: Project Hosting request
>
> Nice. The world's greatest word game. You might consider a handicap
> system where players can be restricted from playing short or common
> words.
>
> And of course in digital boggle one isn't limiited to 6-sided cubes...
Yes, Boggle definitely roc
x27;s code repository, or push their own. There is no need
to list non-committer developers.
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> Albert Cahalan mentioned SIL Andika. I would like to elaborate a bit
> for those unfamiliar with this font.
> SIL's Andika font is specifically designed for literacy. Here's what
> SIL says:
Speaking of designed for literacy... has anyone investigated moving Paolo
Freire-inspired literac
I loaded it on a B4 (with an .es keyboard...) a few minutes ago.
So far, everything seems to work.
Do we have a set of 'known bugs' that are tending to exacerbate
suspend/resume-y issues?
thanks,
--elijah
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Richard A. Smith wrote:
> Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:29:46 -0500
> Subject: Re: Patent infringement lawsuit against OLPC in Nigeria
>
> Call me too wary, but discussing these things in the open on the
> developer's list may provide information that lawyers may further find
> as fodder.
I imagine that if the XO is in violation, a lot of other products
Question.
How is this intended to interact with the mesh connectivity intended for
the laptops? I'm of the understanding that the mesh being powered and on
is more or less a baseline design feature of the XO-as-platform.
Or is this an "airplane mode" feature that's going to get a button-push
> Subject: Bitfrost Activity Isolation being turn ON.
BITFROST TURN ON.
LAUNCH EVERY ZIG.
MAKE YOUR TIME.
:-)
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> If you agree, a different runlevel could be used for that, ie the olpc
> could be switched easily between sugar mode and non sugar mode - call it
> salt or pepper if you want :)
I don't see much point in diverging from the sugar model - it works for
everything else, and having stuff integra
I suppose that I have effectively opened my mouth and inserted foot, so
perhaps I should volunteer to start a bit of work in this direction.
Any other volunteers? We'll work something out. ;-)
--elijah
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Jim Gettys wrote:
> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:35:46 -0400
> From:
> Subject: Re: Console Mode, DOS Emulator on OLPC
>
> OLPC does not support VGA/EGA/CGA graphics, so the display code for all
> those old programs will not work.
IIRC xdosemu provides vga support within an X window.
I sympathize with folks who want to run ancient dos educational apps on
the
>> It turns out that there is a GPIO driver - the source is in
>> char/drivers/cs5535_gpio.c - and it is available as a kernel module:
>> And in any case, accessing this behind alsamixer's back is not a good
>> idea, because then alsamixer will be confused about the state.
> Hmm, ok. We sur
> http://squeakland.org/pipermail/squeakland/2007-August/003717.html
>
> This discussion might make you think that claiming a video chat app as
> "the killer app" is not a very compelling pitch as an educational
> project...
video chat alone, not so useful.
video chat combined with lots of othe
> I think a critical point is to make sure they get at least the chance to
> learn responsible/safe behavior first.
Yes - whatever that happens to be for their particular locale and
sociocultural positioning. This is not something that I am particularly
comfortable with the notion of us peop
good.
looking forward to seeing you write up your ideas w.r.t. it - I guess it
really *is* somewhat related to the things you're doing. :-)
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> Precisely.
>
> Precisely.
>
> ... and precisely.
>
> Anyway, I'm pretty comfortable with my thinking about this set of
> problems for FRS and ho
>> does anyone see danger in letting nonXOs talk to XOs, these are
>> handled by 8 year olders
>>
>> Yes, we recognize there are very real dangers. Various security
>> settings and UI elements will likely be used to make it clear to the
>> user, and
>
> You must be kidding me. We are tal
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