Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] SoaS For Dummies?

2010-04-18 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Caryl; I just bought a G1G1 XO-1 on e-bay for testing. * I requested and downloaded a developer key * disabled security (very important!) * installed f11-xo-1-py (fedora 11 gnome and sugar) http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/olpc/f11-xo1-py/os140py.img

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] SoaS For Dummies?

2010-04-18 Thread Gerald Ardito
I am excited about trying this. I manage a deployment of 140 XO-1's in a school in Westchester County, New York and have really wanted to upgrade our software from the official build. How do I disable security? Many thanks. Gerald On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Thomas C Gilliard

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] SoaS For Dummies?

2010-04-18 Thread Dave Bauer
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.com wrote: I am excited about trying this. I manage a deployment of 140 XO-1's in a school in Westchester County, New York and have really wanted to upgrade our software from the official build. How do I disable security?

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] SoaS For Dummies?

2010-04-18 Thread Gerald Ardito
Dave, Thanks. I will probably train my 20 Tech Team students to do this, which will empower them and help the process. Gerald On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Dave Bauer dave.ba...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.com wrote: I am excited

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] SoaS For Dummies?

2010-04-18 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Look at: IAEP Digest, Vol 25 Issue 23 Message #1 Plus http://wiki.laptop.org/go/F11_for_XO-1#Installation_instructions http://www.olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=4768.0 ( part copied below:) Tom Gilliard satellit April 15, 2010,

[IAEP] Quake Catcher Network

2010-04-18 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi... Here is something intriguing I heard about on NPR yesterday. It is a Seismic Monitoring program that can run in the background on computers that have built-in accelerometers (newer Macs) or PCs with an external one with usb connection. The hope is to have a world wide network of

Re: [IAEP] Quake Catcher Network

2010-04-18 Thread Yamandu Ploskonka
Caryl, I think it is wonderful you do share about this. It is always interesting to see how some idea can have unreached effects and become a wish for more I have been quite involved in seismic monitoring in my day, and to imagine personal computers could be used for that, beats everything

[IAEP] [SLOBS] Notes SLOBS Trademark Discussion 4-12-10

2010-04-18 Thread John Tierney
Typed Copy of John Tierney written Notes of Key Points from SLOBs Trademark Discussion Monday night April 12th 2010 at OLPC Offices-Cambridge, MA. I believe I have cc'd everyone who was at meeting plus Bernie, sorry if I missed someone. (Please understand these were not minutes but

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Quake Catcher Network

2010-04-18 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Nick, Thanks for the link to the Science For Citizens site. Sounds like most of these projects are for the US only. I wonder if there are similar projects in other countries? Some really nice lessons could be developed for students to do with their XOs with web access. Does anyone know

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Quake Catcher Network

2010-04-18 Thread Yamandu Ploskonka
Provincia San Luis in Argentina is doing an amazing project of calculating the carbon footprint of every community in the Provincia, the kids go house byhouse interviewing the families on what kind of appliances they have, number of lightbulbs, etc. Classmates running winnows, alas.