[IAEP] More Questions

2009-04-22 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hello Again, Still trying to get the SoaS going on the MacBook. This time I went back to trying the Stick and helper CD. I booted to the CD first, then inserted the usb stick. It went through the loading of Fedora all right (like before), then when I chose "boot" from the menu, it went into

[IAEP] .zip turned into .vdi What now?

2009-04-22 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hello Again, Still trying to get SoaS going on my MacBook. I downloaded the soas-beta-1.zip. It took a long time (almost 2 hrs on dsl). I finally had time to look at it and try to use it and discovered that it no longer is a zip file. Somehow it turned into "soas-beta-1.vdi" Was that su

Re: [IAEP] OT: Networking challenges in "developing countries"

2009-04-22 Thread Edward Cherlin
They are in Cambridge. Why don't you call them? I'll ping them on behalf of Earth Treasury. Let me know if you find any more like them. On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Walter Bender wrote: > Don't know if these guys are still in business, but it was a cute idea > at the time... > > http://www.fi

Re: [IAEP] OT: Networking challenges in "developing countries"

2009-04-22 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Sascha Silbe wrote: > Hi! > > Sorry for the slightly off-topic posting, but as some deployments might > actually be facing these issues I thought it might be worth a try. > > As part of my study, I'm going to give a talk on networking challenges and > possible sol

Re: [IAEP] OT: Networking challenges in "developing countries"

2009-04-22 Thread Walter Bender
Don't know if these guys are still in business, but it was a cute idea at the time... http://www.firstmilesolutions.com/about.php -walter On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Sascha Silbe wrote: > Hi! > > Sorry for the slightly off-topic posting, but as some deployments might > actually be facing t

Re: [IAEP] More about SoaS on a MacBook

2009-04-22 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
Caryl, the G4 has a powerpc processor, which executes an entirely different binary instruction set from the Intel-based Mac and Intel PC architecture machines. Since SOAS in all its incarnations contains binary executables prepared for an Intel processor, this won't execute on your G4 Mac. (I'm l

[IAEP] More about SoaS on a MacBook

2009-04-22 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Again, I downloaded http://www.sugarlabs.org/static/soas/soas-beta-1.zip. It took about 1 hr 45 min on a DSL connection. I haven't opened it yet...will get to that later today or this evening. But, I have a couple of questions. Is it possible to burn this file to a disk and boo

[IAEP] OT: Networking challenges in "developing countries"

2009-04-22 Thread Sascha Silbe
Hi! Sorry for the slightly off-topic posting, but as some deployments might actually be facing these issues I thought it might be worth a try. As part of my study, I'm going to give a talk on networking challenges and possible solutions in "developing countries" (*). The title of the original

Re: [IAEP] Virtual Box?

2009-04-22 Thread Dave Bauer
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > Hi... > Well, the soas-boot.iso hasn't worked yet for me. Now I am trying the > Virtual Box. I downloaded it and tried to follow the directions and ended > up with a message that says: > > FATAL: Could not read from the boot medium! Syste

[IAEP] Sugar on a Stick Beta-1 press release is out!

2009-04-22 Thread Sean DALY
http://news.prnewswire.com/DisplayReleaseContent.aspx?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/04-22-2009/0005010701&EDATE= Christian has done a super job of simplifying our press page (http://www.sugarlabs.org/press). Journalists can now tell at a glance what the Sugar Labs press release timeline looks like and

Re: [IAEP] soas beta mouse and WAP

2009-04-22 Thread Walter Bender
Sorry to hear about the regressions. Could you please send the models of the desktop and laptop machines so that we can try to debug on this end? thanks. regards. -walter On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Mark Ahlness wrote: > Walter did follow up on this, esp. the wireless problems, for a bit

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: SoaS on a MacBook?

2009-04-22 Thread Lucian Branescu
I have a macbook pro, I'll research this when I have some time. 2009/4/22 Tomeu Vizoso : > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 09:15, Lucian Branescu > wrote: >> I think if you have rEFIt, you don't need the helper. > > The Fedora live image stuff has several references to EFI, we should > ask them what supp

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] 3D engine uses in a no-nonsense GUI (was: XO Gen 1.5)

2009-04-22 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
2009/4/22 NoiseEHC : > I think most of those effects can be just as easily be done by the 2D engine > (like what the Geode has). Of course it would need a LOT of coding, like > killing the stupid X driver model with the X server process, using a > compositing windows manager, rewriting GTK+ to u

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: SoaS on a MacBook?

2009-04-22 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 09:15, Lucian Branescu wrote: > I think if you have rEFIt, you don't need the helper. The Fedora live image stuff has several references to EFI, we should ask them what support have macs with their live offerings. Regards, Tomeu > 2009/4/22 Gary C Martin : >> On 21 Apr

Re: [IAEP] 3D engine uses in a no-nonsense GUI (was: XO Gen 1.5)

2009-04-22 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Martin Dengler wrote: > Imagine if it actually looked like the demo: > http://www.sugarlabs.org/index.php?template=gallery&page=media_01 Exactly my thoughts. There are a couple of things we have to be mindful of as we step into the wild 3D world... - memory foot

Re: [IAEP] soas beta mouse and WAP

2009-04-22 Thread Martin Dengler
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 08:02:00PM -0700, Mark Ahlness wrote: > Seems like the later the revision, the less it worked for me. > > I have 5 XO's, 12 desktops, and 5 laptops. The latest soas-beta runs > properly on none of them. That's a shame about the issues. SoaS2 (actually rawhide snapshots usi

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: SoaS on a MacBook?

2009-04-22 Thread Lucian Branescu
I think if you have rEFIt, you don't need the helper. 2009/4/22 Gary C Martin : > On 21 Apr 2009, at 21:38, Caroline Meeks wrote: > >> I'm pretty sure you will definitely need the CD Helper.  But I was >> able to boot my iBook with one so I'm very much looking forward to >> your results! > > Just