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

2009-04-23 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

[IAEP] More Questions

2009-04-23 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

Re: [IAEP] More about SoaS on a MacBook

2009-04-23 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
[adding fedora-olpc to cc] On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 23:27, Carol Farlow Lerche c...@msbit.com wrote: 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

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

2009-04-23 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 04:22:14PM -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: 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. Thanks for your answers, Walter and Edward! I've written an email to First Mile Solutions,

[IAEP] Fwd: On Classroom 2.0: Open Content in Education Thursday Future of Education Interview

2009-04-23 Thread Caroline Meeks
This might be of interest to people. -- Forwarded message -- From: Classroom 2.0 m...@classroom20.com Date: Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:44 AM Subject: On Classroom 2.0: Open Content in Education Thursday Future of Education Interview To: carol...@solutiongrove.com

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: On Classroom 2.0: Open Content in Education ThursdayFuture of Education Interview

2009-04-23 Thread Kathy Pusztavari
Last time I tried to use Elluminate I wasn't allowed in after it is closed. Am I to assume that I can't be late or I won't be allowed in? -Kathy _ From: iaep-boun...@lists.sugarlabs.org [mailto:iaep-boun...@lists.sugarlabs.org] On Behalf Of Caroline Meeks Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: On Classroom 2.0: Open Content in Education ThursdayFuture of Education Interview

2009-04-23 Thread Caroline Meeks
Last time I tried it it said it was all full at about 5 minutes before. But I asked Steve if it was and he said no, it was a technical problem. So I don't know what to expect but we can hope for everything to go smoothly this time. On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Kathy Pusztavari

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: On Classroom 2.0: Open Content in Education ThursdayFuture of Education Interview

2009-04-23 Thread Kathy Pusztavari
Okleydokley. It sounds really interesting so I hope I can get on. -Kathy _ From: Caroline Meeks [mailto:solutiongr...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 6:45 AM To: Kathy Pusztavari Cc: iaep Subject: Re: [IAEP] Fwd: On Classroom 2.0: Open Content in Education ThursdayFuture of

Re: [IAEP] mini developer tutorials

2009-04-23 Thread Kathy Pusztavari
Stupid question on #sugar channel. I take it this starts in 10 minutes. I got onto irc.freenode.net but I can't get on #sugar - like it doesn't exist or is locked or something. Any suggestions for a newbie? I'm using Mirc in XP and usually don't have problems but connect to a different server.

Re: [IAEP] mini developer tutorials

2009-04-23 Thread Walter Bender
Sorry. I should have said #sugar-meeting The command: /join #sugar-meeting should take you to the proper room. There are 80+ people in #sugar right now. Not sure why you cannot join. -walter On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Kathy Pusztavari ka...@kathyandcalvin.com wrote: Stupid question

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar 0.84 on video

2009-04-23 Thread LASKE, Lionel (C2S)
Hi Caroline, Thanks. Walter put a link on these video on Deployment_Team/Resources page in the SugarLabs wiki. Do you imagine something different ? Lionel. De : Caroline Meeks [mailto:solutiongr...@gmail.com] Envoyé : lundi 20 avril 2009 17:08 À : LASKE, Lionel (C2S) Cc :

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

2009-04-23 Thread Hal Murray
One can use a 3D accelerator to greatly improve human factors in the GUI. Smooth transitions in the GUI are vital to reducing the user's sense of disorientation and confusion. This isn't just an issue for less-clueful users; you might not realize it but poor transitions are forcing needless

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

2009-04-23 Thread 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 use some form of retained

[IAEP] Group Protocols that support group learning and learning communities

2009-04-23 Thread Caroline Meeks
One of the topics in my class at HGSE this semester is the use of protocols to support group work by teachers and administrators in schools. What is a Protocol? It took me half the semester to figure this out! It is such a common practice in schools that apparently nobody bothers to definite it.

Re: [IAEP] More about SoaS on a MacBook

2009-04-23 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
Eben, welcome to the world of K-8 education IT. There will be G4 machines in schools for years to come. Schools seldom junk hardware because they have little or no budget to replace it. On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Eben Eliason eben.elia...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 3:46 AM,

Re: [IAEP] More about SoaS on a MacBook

2009-04-23 Thread Sean DALY
I have a dozen PPC Macs, they are workhorses which function for years on end (currently running Tiger v10.4), any info concerning how to run Sugar on them will be appreciated thanks Sean On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Carol Farlow Lerche c...@msbit.com wrote: Eben, welcome to the world of

[IAEP] Sugar on MacBook...still no go

2009-04-23 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi, I tried all sorts of things with the file that I have downloaded twice now. I seem to be able to unzip it, but it converts to .vdi and when I click on it to open it, this is the message I get: The document “soas-beta-1.vdi” could not be opened. The file is too large. This is the file that