Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] ANNOUNCE: Sugar on a Stick 7 (Quandong)

2012-06-05 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Peter; Wiki page is updated with your announcement: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Quandong Now we need to move and update it to left Projects menu on the wiki: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick Tom Gilliard On 06/05/2012 05:41 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: I'd like

[IAEP] [Announce] [Sugar-devel] Mageia-2 has task-sugar 0.95.1 and sugar-emulator

2012-05-25 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Great News; Mageia-2 has task-sugar 0.95.1 and sugar-emulator. [1] This is another Community Distribution for sugar [2] Ranked 6 in Distrowatch [3] (Mageia is the independent fork of Mandriva built by a majority of the Mandriva developers.) -there are some missing headers in applications,

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar Creation Kit pages on the wiki are strange

2012-05-08 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
On 01/19/2012 02:55 PM, Eduardo H. Silva wrote: P.S. - The link is http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit and I really think it should be moved to the users wiki page. I am hoping that this tutorial will be usefull enough to be linked/moved to a page of the new sugarlabs web page

[IAEP] Set_up_MacBook_to_Open_VirtualBox_automatically_when_you_power_it_on

2012-05-08 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Caryl; Glad you could sucessfully burn the Trisquel CD. It sounds like your Mac Graphics Card is incompatable. You may be able to start it by modifying startup parameters by adding nomodesetor vesa to boot line . (esc tab at boot menu (after language selection on Trisquel)- edit boot line

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar Creation Kit pages on the wiki are strange

2012-05-08 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
On 01/19/2012 04:01 PM, Eduardo H. Silva wrote: James, but the thing is, everything needs rewriting, not just some words or phrases. Thomas, what you just explained isn't what is in the wiki. Also, in another page linked from the main Sugar Creation Kit page: To clear Sugar of these keys

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar Creation Kit pages on the wiki are strange

2012-05-08 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
On 01/19/2012 04:19 PM, Eduardo H. Silva wrote: 2012/1/20 Thomas C Gilliardsatel...@bendbroadband.com: On 01/19/2012 04:01 PM, Eduardo H. Silva wrote: James, but the thing is, everything needs rewriting, not just some words or phrases. Thomas, what you just explained isn't what is in the

[IAEP] 4 GB USB stick of tuquito-5-gnome-dvd-32bit.iso with sweets-distribution (sugar 0.94.1) installed

2012-05-08 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
I just made a 4 GB USB stick with ubuntu (Trisquel 5.5) startup disk creator of tuquito-5-gnome-dvd-32bit.iso http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/tuquito Then installed sweets-distribution (sugar 0.94.1) using drag-drop of group commands for 11.04

[IAEP] Cautions on using a f17 beta DVD to upgrade a f16 hard disk installed with sugar-desktop

2012-04-02 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Caution; Just using the f17 Beta DVD to do an upgrade from f16 to f17 will leave an incomplete upgrade. DVD upgrade of F16 - to F17 requires yum update on Reboot to complete. [1] This is a very large update. There is no indication after you reboot after the DVD upgrade that this is required.

[IAEP] Using EPUBReader in an install of Ubuntu plus sweets-distribution sugar 0.94.1

2012-03-11 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
This works very well: epub reader [1] EPUBReader is a Firefox addon which lets you read ePub-files just in the browser. You don't need to install additional software! Suggested uses: Example: in an install of Ubuntu plus sweets-distribution sugar 0.94.1 [2] *Download an epub book with Get

[IAEP] Adding_Sugar_0.95.1_to_Mageia_Beta_1

2012-03-10 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
wiki page detailing install: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Mageia#Adding_Sugar_0.95.1_to_Mageia_Beta_1 Build:Mageia release 2 (Cauldron) for i586 Sugar:0.95.1 Firmware: Virtualbox We have another OS with sugar. Thank you; Tom Gilliard

[IAEP] Progress Report: Looks like Mageia is close to having sugar-desktop

2012-03-09 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Mageia Linux Distribution ported from Mandriva 2010.2 Many contributors from Mandriva are building this Distribution. Progress; https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1969 Wiki Page http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Mageia Tom Gilliard satellit_

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] sweets-sugar-emulator cannot be found in my Xubuntu 11.10 64 bits

2012-03-08 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Distribution as session to open But I got instead an xfce session. Maybe all these troubles come from the fact that it is an xfce system. Regards Le 8 mars 2012 16:50, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com mailto:satel...@bendbroadband.com a écrit : Try this [1]: It will give you

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] RFC:Simple Help widget for activities

2012-03-07 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Build a Remix .iso for Soas Help files as included .pdf? Example from Floss Manuals http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/floss_manuals/TurtleArt_06Sep08.pdf http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Build_Your_Own_Remix_with_Fedora Include Documents in Books directory?: and link from activity? (From

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Sweets Distribution

2012-03-06 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Page updated; http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Sweets_Distribution#Ubuntu_and_its_derivates Testing: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Ubuntu-Tests Thanks; Tom Gilliard satellit_ on #sugar On 03/06/2012 03:43 AM, Aleksey Lim wrote: Hi all! Initial

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar is available for download in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS; 10.10 11.04 with sweets_distribution. Wiki Page updated

2012-03-05 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
On 03/04/2012 09:21 PM, James Cameron wrote: Thanks. I've simplified http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Ubuntu some more, concentrating on how an Ubuntu user should try out Sugar. I've removed the sections that cover prior Sugar versions where Browse won't work, because

Re: [IAEP] play dvds

2012-03-05 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
+1 Distribute as .iso or usb.img files for making USB's locally. Saves mailing USB-sticks On 03/05/2012 11:11 AM, Yamaplos . wrote: +1 or SD cards. Easy to build, replicate, scale a full library of resources that way. Per-piece cost higher than DVDs, but more than worth it as you can save

[IAEP] Sugar is available for download in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS; 10.10 11.04 with sweets_distribution. Wiki Page updated

2012-03-03 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Sugar is available for download in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS; 10.10 11.04 with sweets_distribution. Easy install just copy paste scripts listed on wiki page: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Ubuntu I have tested all three in VirtualBox 4.1 and they work. I have uploaded a

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Can we be a little more friendly to Ubuntu users

2012-02-26 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
On 02/26/2012 05:49 PM, Ma Xiaojun wrote: Hi, all My main reference is http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Ubuntu , I assume its accuracy. Please correct me when needed. The BIG picture I got: Install Sugar 0.90 is easy, but it is obsolete. Sugar is 0.94 is recommended, but,

[IAEP] Fix for Browse 131.xo on XO-1 os833- (how to remove it)

2012-02-08 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
If you drag-drop Browse 131.xo to an XO-1 on os833 (sugar 0.94) you will find that browse will not start and you cannot erase it (greyed out option). Effectively you have lost your Browser. (browse 131 and 130 are not compatible uses gtk +3**) There will be a lot of releases of new

Re: [IAEP] How to add autostart apps to your Fedora Remix

2012-02-07 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
FYI http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Build_Your_Own_Remix_with_Fedora some notes on how I am doing it . (I took the liberty to add Valent's article to it.) On 02/07/2012 09:46 AM, Hedayat Vatankhah wrote: Hi Valent, /*valent.turko...@gmail.com mailto:valent.turko...@gmail.com

Re: [IAEP] Nice tool for learning Python

2012-01-29 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Sugar-Activity Python Tute-29 (#4476) looks nice also. Easy to follow interactive tutorial for Python and Pygame. http://download.sugarlabs.org/activities/4476/python_tute-29.xo runs on f16-SoaS v6 (Sugar 0.94.1); XO-1 os833 (sugar 0.94.1) ; and sugar 0.88 running in Debian squeeze.

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] 3 Questions From A New Sugar User Age 21

2012-01-26 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
On 01/26/2012 01:40 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On 25 January 2012 03:13, Thomas C Gilliardsatel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: On 01/24/2012 07:49 AM, Ma Xiaojun wrote: 1. Can I install SoaS to hard disk? enter liveinst from the sugar-terminal Is there a reason why this isn't exposed in

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] 3 Questions From A New Sugar User Age 21

2012-01-26 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
On 01/26/2012 02:07 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On 27 January 2012 08:55, Thomas C Gilliardsatel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: On 01/26/2012 01:40 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On 25 January 2012 03:13, Thomas C Gilliardsatel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: On 01/24/2012 07:49 AM, Ma

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] 3 Questions From A New Sugar User Age 21

2012-01-26 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
On 01/26/2012 02:07 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On 27 January 2012 08:55, Thomas C Gilliardsatel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: On 01/26/2012 01:40 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On 25 January 2012 03:13, Thomas C Gilliardsatel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: On 01/24/2012 07:49 AM, Ma

[IAEP] 2 new tutorials: Liveinst from f16 Soas and f16 Netinstall Sugar-desktop only

2012-01-24 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Hi; I just composed 2 tutorials - annotated screen-shots of f16 Sugar installs: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit#F16_Sugar_Install_from_a_Booted_Live_CD_with_liveinst http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit#f16_Sugar-Desktop_Install_with_a_netinstall_CD I hope that

[IAEP] Announcing: ASLOxo-6-3 DVD -Updated: Added new activities from the sugar-devel list up to: 01/21/2012

2012-01-22 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
This is what I have been using to test activities with in a DVD format: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit/sck/Activity_Matrix#Most_Recent-Activity_Test_Results Cordially; Tom Gilliard satellit_ on #sugar * http://download.sugarlabs.org/images/ASLOxo6-3.iso 3.2 GB (DVD)

[IAEP] Fedora-17-Nightly-20120120.10-i686-Live-soas.iso is first Nightly Compose to Boot. (Testing report)

2012-01-21 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Finally the Nightly Composes work. First look at f17 Soas: -liveinst fails -no wireless AP or Ad-hoc -Cat-5 wired network OK. -liveusb-creator makes live USB's Preliminary report; http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Fedora-SoaS#Fedora-17-Nightly-20120120.10-i686-Live-soas.iso

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar Creation Kit pages on the wiki are strange

2012-01-19 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
On 01/19/2012 02:25 PM, Eduardo H. Silva wrote: Take one example: Exporting/Importing files from the sugar-journal with Drag-Drop with a 2nd USB-stick. And it even doesn't show how to do that. Eduardo: I do not understand why you think this. A brief synopsis of the process: 1)You need a

[IAEP] Fwd: Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Creation Kit pages on the wiki are strange-first message with held do to commands

2012-01-19 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Original Message Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Creation Kit pages on the wiki are strange Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:12:17 -0800 From: Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com To: Eduardo H. Silva hoboprim...@gmail.com On 01/19/2012 04:01 PM, Eduardo H

[IAEP] Fwd: Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Creation Kit pages on the wiki are strange

2012-01-19 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
held for moderator approval so forewarded again Original Message Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Creation Kit pages on the wiki are strange Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:33:19 -0800 From: Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com To: Eduardo H. Silva hoboprim

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Odp: Sugar versions - Activities

2012-01-15 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Alan; I have finished my testing of sugar 0.92.1 and 0.94.1 on Live CD's: (All of the activities on ASLOxo Cd plus most of the newest activities posted to the devel list) http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit/sck/Activity_Matrix#Most_Recent-Activity_Test_Results (I am used to

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Odp: Sugar versions - Activities

2012-01-15 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
On 01/15/2012 02:03 PM, Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn wrote: I am not sure if it is OK for me to edit your google spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AntaXnq4oy2_dHpvZHhLeGRQYzc1cDlRZU9Mc1NldGc#gid=0 I find that a lot of the activities listed do run well on 0.94.1 and

Re: [IAEP] Crunch Time

2012-01-15 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
On 01/15/2012 09:44 PM, Caryl Bigenho wrote: OK. I'll make a Pineaple Live CD for the Mac on my Mac. Can I make a live CD on my Mac that will run on a PC? You can burn an .iso file on the Mac in DiskUtility.app that works on PC's and Intel Mac's Trisquel 5-sugar will boot on the Mac (mac

Re: [IAEP] [ASLO] Result of test activities on Sugar 0.94.1

2012-01-14 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Alan: This is a very nice set of tests. Since I last responded to your previous set of tests; I have continued to work on very recent activities versus Soas-v5; Trisquel 5 Sugar (Toast) and SoaS-v6 using a live CD and XO-1 and XO-1.5 with the latest software. [1] I tested activities using

Re: [IAEP] SoaS Breakthrough!

2012-01-12 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
On 01/12/2012 11:21 AM, Iain Brown Douglas wrote: On Wed, 2012-01-11 at 03:21 +0100, Rubén Rodríguez wrote: The method I think would be a breakthrough for a school is to use a thin client environment. One server is enough to run a typical school, you only need to manage one standard

[IAEP] Here are the Ideas we discussed on the cell phone today. I tested it and it works with a Trisquel 5 Toast LIve Cd and a 2nd USB

2012-01-10 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Caryl http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit/sck/Backup-restore#Backup-Restore_files_from_the_sugar-journal_with_a_2nd_USB-stick Regards; Tom Gilliard satellit_ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)

Re: [IAEP] SoaS Breakthrough!

2012-01-10 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
On 01/10/2012 07:06 PM, Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi Ruben and All, Tom has warned me that the persistent usbs really _/are/_ persistent and that eventually they fill up and fail! Not good. That would not be a problem with a Live CD as nothing is written to it. Therefore, the extra usb for

[IAEP] Announce: a Sugar Creation Kit wiki on a USB-stick for the Mac - works without an Internet connection

2012-01-06 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
* *For MacBook Only* - This Image contains the same content as SCK-USB (CD.iso) - Listed below * How to USE * Download: http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/SCK-USB-MAC-Folder.iso to Mac Desktop 108 MB 1-)Burn to CD or 2-)Open with DiskImageMounter.app

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Odp: Sugar versions - Activities

2012-01-06 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
I have set up a new wiki page for testing reports of the current Activities on XO-1; SoaS-v5; and SoaS-v6. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit/sck/Activity_Matrix#Most_Recent-Activity_Test_Results (The older results are also on the same wiki page) feel free to edit the wiki page.

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs Website Revamp IRC Mtg 1-8-12 11:00amEST(16:00UTC)

2012-01-05 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
On 01/05/2012 04:10 PM, John Tierney wrote: Hello All, Happy New Year! As the New Year starts we are making another effort to restart the Sugar Labs Website Revamp. Designer and community member Christian Marc Schmidt has put together a Design Template along with a Sugar Labs Website

[IAEP] Announcing: An off-line working copy of the Project: Sugar Creation Kit

2011-12-31 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
This works well; Have nice new-year.. Tom Gilliard satellit_ on #sugar IRC Link: http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/SCK-USB.iso *This is an '''offline '''working copy of the Project: '''Sugar Creation Kit''' :A set of Annotated screen shots as .html files with the accompanying folder

[IAEP] Announcing 2 New Items

2011-12-27 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Announcing 2 Items I took advantage of the lack of activity on the wiki on Dec 24-25 to work on the following: 1-) Introduction to the sugar interface.iso [1] A set of Annotated screen shots as Web Page.html files with the accompanying folder containing the files for the .html Intended to

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Network discussion group

2011-12-27 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
On 12/27/2011 01:24 PM, Aleksey Lim wrote: Hi all! (Texto en Español está por debajo de) One useful feature I found in Google groups web interface, you can click Translate to.. for messages that are not in your language. This also works from this link: http://translate.google.com/#auto|es

[IAEP] Set_up_MacBook_to_Open_VirtualBox_automatically_when_you_power_it_on.....Nice school set up for 1 Mac with multiple student's Sugar.

2011-12-27 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit#Set_up_MacBook_to_Open_VirtualBox_automatically_when_you_power_it_on * Open Accounts preferences Click Add(+) button to the right of the accounts list Select an application (VirtualBox) and click add. * Boot Mac Mac opens

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Free Terminal?

2011-12-25 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
; is there any reason not to ship them? http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5161 http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5640 SJ On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 8:38 PM, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com mailto:satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: On 12/20/2011 04:07 PM, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: Ok, returning

Re: [IAEP] non-existent link

2011-12-20 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
http://booki.flossmanuals.net/discovering-discovery/ There used to be a read-only version of the manual here. It has been disabled because this view was never meant to be the readable view of the manual and too many people are pushing their readership here. This view used to display the very

Re: [IAEP] Update: Persistant SoaS on new Mac Persists!

2011-12-15 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
On 12/15/2011 03:55 PM, Caryl Bigenho wrote: I just tested the f15 SoaS usb Tom Gilliard sent me on my brand new MacBook Pro and it works there too. Still can't connect to the net, but otherwise seems to work as well as it did on my older MacBook. Still haven't tried the PC version on my

Re: [IAEP] [Testing] I would like feedback on the How_to_use_the_IRC_Application wiki page

2011-12-13 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
as a geological oceanographer, so my writing style may reflect this.) On 12/13/2011 02:20 PM, James Cameron wrote: On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 07:41:07AM -0800, Thomas C Gilliard wrote: I just wrote this wiki page: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit#How_to_use_the_IRC_Application

Re: [IAEP] [Testing] I would like feedback on the ''How_to_use_the_IRC_Application'' wiki page

2011-12-13 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
was composed last night, after a request for such a guide on #sugar IRC Cordially Tom Gilliard satellit_ on #sugar (I was trained as a geological oceanographer, so my writing style may reflect this.) On 12/13/2011 02:20 PM, James Cameron wrote: On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 07:41:07AM -0800, Thomas C

Re: [IAEP] Persistant SoaS on Mac Persists!

2011-12-11 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
On 12/11/2011 02:53 PM, Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi Tom and All, After puzzling over the instructions for a while, I decided to just put the SoaS for Mac that Tom sent in, and try to boot from it. It works! Wonderful. : ) Great News Tom Gilliard satellit_ on #sugar on IRC Here is how It is

[IAEP] Introduction to the Sugar Interface-(3 wiki linked pages of annotated screenshots)

2011-12-09 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Caryl; I just wrote these 3 wiki pages of annotated screenshots which I hope will be helpful for beginners learning how to start and navigate the Sugar-Desktop: The pages are linked with a blue top/bottom page bar with links to the previous and next pages: Annotated Screen-shots covering

[IAEP] New: Linked wiki pages with annotated screen-shots of Sugar

2011-12-08 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Take a look at these 3 new linked; annotated; screen-shot filled wiki pages: Sugar Creation Kit/sck/Introduction to Sugar Interface http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit/sck/Introduction_to_Sugar_Interface, Sugar Creation Kit/sck/Connecting to the Internet

[IAEP] Notes from Installing sweet-sugar in f16 gnome3-shell

2011-12-03 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Here are my preliminary notes on installing alsroot's sweets-sugar 0.88 and 0.94 in f16 gnome3-shell. With much help from alsroot. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Platform_Team/Guide/Sugar_via_Sweets#Installing_sweets-sugar_in_Fedora-16_gnome3-shell Works; Tom Gilliard satellit_ IRC #sugar

[IAEP] Announcing 3 USB .img files of SoaS to write with dd

2011-11-30 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Here is a new Soas-v6-Pineapple .img file to use to dd write to a 2GB USB http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Fedora-SoaS#dd_writable_2GB_USB_Soas-v6-Pineapple-USB_.img There is also

Re: [IAEP] Need Help With SoaS! (Including Mac)

2011-11-20 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
On 11/20/2011 11:06 AM, Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi Folks... I finally have a couple of days with access to both PCs and my Mac, so now is the time to try SoaS! I need to be able to test it on both the Windows machines and the Mac. After about an hour of reading confusing, conflicting,

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] SoaS v7?

2011-11-10 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
This is an example of a dd writable SoaS-v2.img file which produces a fully functional Conventional install on a USB. This is equivalent to a liveinst install to USB.[1] It was first suggested by bernie [2] in early 2010 as a better alternative to the currently used live USB SoaS

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] MacBook_Persistent_SoaS_v5_and_SoaS_v6_EFI_Boot_USB ( boots directly from USB )

2011-11-02 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Caryl: look at: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Fedora-SoaS#Soasv6-Desktop_EFI_USB_Builder_prebuilt_Virtualbox_Appliance I am uploading it now (This should be available to download in several hours) after I finish testing the Download here. This is an importable

[IAEP] MacBook_Persistent_SoaS_v5_and_SoaS_v6_EFI_Boot_USB ( boots directly from USB )

2011-11-01 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
We now have a persistent EFI boot USB for Macs... http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Fedora-SoaS#MacBook_Persistent_SoaS_v5_and_SoaS_v6_EFI_Boot_USB works with f16 RC4 x86-64 Soas.iso

[IAEP] Announce: Soas_Coconut: tests, links, Soas_Coconuts.img plus an importable Virtual Appliance available.

2011-10-10 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Available now: 1-) http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Fedora-SoaS#Soas-v5-Coconut Tests http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Soas_Coconuts.img use .img to dd write a 2 GB USB built with liveusb-creator in f16 with persistence file 2-)

Re: [IAEP] XO Tam Tam Resources

2011-09-03 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Caryl: I hope you will not mind that I took the liberty of editing this nice compilation and putting it on the wiki: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit#Tam_Tam_Resources Please edit. Tom Gilliard satellit Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi Folks, I spent most of yesterday hunting up

Re: [IAEP] Help needed..

2011-08-13 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
I would suggest Chat as a way to test sharing. Here is a simplified step by step to get you going. Start Chat in the F3 Ring of applications of sugar -click on the Chat top bar (O with a single dot ) -Set it to sharing by selecting the (O with multiple dots) that drops down under your

[IAEP] New VirtualBox appliance; Trisquel-Gnome-sugar_5.0_Alpha with sugar 0.88.1

2011-07-28 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
New VirtualBox appliance: Trisquel-Gnome-sugar_5.0_Alpha with sugar 0.88.1 http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Emulator_image_files#Trisquel-Gnome-sugar_5.0_Alpha Look at this link for included activities This Virtual Machine: sugar 0.88.1; surf115-xo; updated; cleared of identity; autostart starts in

Re: [IAEP] Advertising Sugar

2011-07-26 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Artwork: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit#DVD_covers.3B_artwork_.26_screenshots http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:CCC-StartingLine.jpg http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:CCC-after.jpg moku...@earthtreasury.org wrote: On Tue, July 26, 2011 11:05 am, Rita Freudenberg wrote:

Re: [IAEP] Sugar minimum set

2011-06-30 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
moku...@earthtreasury.org wrote: On Wed, June 29, 2011 2:29 pm, Valerie Taylor wrote: Is there a minimum set of Sugar teacher/tutor training, hardware and software that could be implemented by a community supported remedial program that works with kids outside regular elementary school? Is

[IAEP] on-d...@on-disk.com as a Commercial Source of USB sticks?

2011-05-02 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
The last one submitted to us was called Strawberry from Sep, 2009. Hope this helps, Todd on-d...@on-disk.com On 04/22/2011 01:17 PM, Thomas Gilliard wrote: what versions of Sugar on a Stick do you ship on 4GB USB Media? http://on-disk.com/product_info.php/cPath/28_310/products_id/908#!tab6

Re: [IAEP] What's on SoaS?

2011-04-20 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi All Is there a link that tells what is included (Sugar Activities, Gnome(?)) etc. on each build of SoaS? I poked around a bit on the Sugar Labs wiki, but couldn't find it. Thanks!Caryl 1-)Soas v1 strawberry thru Soas v4 (sorry it so hard to

Re: [IAEP] [realness] Re: S050 - Informática para Tontos / E050 - Computer Science for Dummies

2011-04-08 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Carlos Rabassa wrote: Frederick, I am not familiar with WIndows. I switched to Macintosh in 1993. Last May a few nice knowledgeable guys tried to put SoaS in my Mac but it wouldn´t work. They concluded SoaS was not yet ready for MacOS. Does SoaS work now in Macs? Has anyone tried it

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: New booki for replacing textbooks with OER

2011-04-01 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Edward Cherlin wrote: Please take a look at http://booki.flossmanuals.net/ a site for collaborative authoring and publishing of manuals for Open Source software. Sugar Labs has set up another trial instance of the same booki software for OER development. I am arranging for some further

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: New booki for replacing textbooks with OER

2011-04-01 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Edward Cherlin wrote: On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 23:59, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: Edward Cherlin wrote: Please take a look at http://booki.flossmanuals.net/ a site for collaborative authoring and publishing of manuals for Open Source software. Sugar Labs has

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Wish this little PC was an XO! :-(

2011-03-04 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Caryl Bigenho wrote: Thanks Mike, I tried what you said and there was no proxy set. I played around with a few other things and did another Network Diagnostics. This time I got a huge long list of reports. One category was Red, the rest were green. The HTTP, HTTPS, FTP connectivity was

[IAEP] VirtualBox Appliances Must Be Cleared or Cloned before use or collisions on f1 neighborhood view of the jabber, or local network, will occur between separate copies of the identical appliance.

2011-03-02 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
VirtualBox Appliances Must Be Cleared or Cloned before use. This has been confirmed today in tests and discussion on #sugar with silbe; Cerlyn; dogi; satellit; and Robot101: This MUST BE DONE or collisions on f1 neighborhood view of the jabber, or local network, will occur between separate

Re: [IAEP] Tests of applications on booted Trisquel 4.1 sugar installed to a 8Gb USB (2nd version 02/18/2011)

2011-03-01 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Thomas C Gilliard wrote: Bernie Innocenti wrote: On Sun, 2011-02-20 at 15:16 -0500, Sean DALY wrote: Hi Bernie we are working on getting a French variant of Tom's image working for a charitable foundation project I am personally convinced VMs are the way forward for solving our ease

Re: [IAEP] Resources in Spanish

2011-02-22 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi All, My good friend, Gonzalo Odiard (of Fototoon fame), in Buenos Aires sent me this link to an updated list of resources in Spanish. It is much better than the old version we used to have. Enjoy! http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Recursos_en_espanol FYI:I added

Re: [IAEP] Tests of applications on booted Trisquel 4.1 sugar installed to a 8Gb USB (2nd version 02/18/2011)

2011-02-20 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
for SoaS Sean [1] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/marketing/2011-February/003188.html On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 14:08 -0800, Thomas C Gilliard wrote: This is a great sugar! I have uploaded the New 02/18/2011

Re: [IAEP] Tests of applications on booted Trisquel 4.1 sugar installed to a 8Gb USB (2nd version 02/18/2011)

2011-02-18 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
This is a great sugar! I have uploaded the New 02/18/2011 VirtualBox Appliance here: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Emulator_image_files/Trisquel#Trisquel-4.1-sugar Please do a Down Load and test it. Thomas C Gilliard wrote: I look at spreadsheet: http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Test

[IAEP] Updated ASLOxo.iso (DVD) available for Download

2011-02-08 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Updated ASLOxo.iso (DVD) available for Download (1.3 GB) Download: http://download.sugarlabs.org/images/ASLOxo-5.iso Info: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit#ASLOxo-5.iso ASLO-4 (1) Updated with new activities through 02/08/2011 Including these large Programs:

[IAEP] Announcing a VirtualBox 4.5 Gnome-sugar sweets 0.88.1 appliance with about 30 sugar applications after CP/software update

2011-02-06 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Emulator_image_files#Trisquel-4.5_-Gnome-sugar_BETA Install Instructions: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Trisquel_On_A_Sugar_Toast#Install_Sugar-desktop_0.88_.22SWEETS.22 Be sure to do update-manager in sugar root terminal and refresh it to get latest updates

[IAEP] CD livecd-fedora-live-desktop-201101311532.iso Boots into F14 Gnome Desktop using the C key on MacBook Air and a Burned DVD

2011-02-01 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=528232 Luke Macken mailto:lmac...@redhat.com 2011-01-31 18:08:44 EST I updated our patch to support the following models: iMac9,1 MacBookAir2,1 MacBookPro5,5 MacBookPro6,2 I also spun up an F14 x86_64 live image with this patch. Testing

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Another Etoys Question

2011-02-01 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi Rita... Thanks, I guess I will have to sign up again. You asked: Can you read/edit it? I'm wondering where to find the spanish translation you worked on ... Read... yes, edit... no. Here is the link for the Spanish translation I, and several folks from Latin

Re: [IAEP] Better links bar for wiki.sugarlabs.org

2011-01-23 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Bernie Innocenti wrote: On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 17:08 -0800, Thomas C Gilliard wrote: I personally think the download link on top is important and should be kept. Ok, if it could be changed into something that won't get clicked first thing by novice users who are trying to download

[IAEP] caixamagica-linux-live-15-final-GNOME has sugar0.88.0 and installs in VB4

2011-01-22 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
I found another Distribution where sugar can be installed Installed it to VirtualBox 4 Works nicely Details here: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Magalh%C3%A3es#caixamagica-linux-live-15-final-GNOME-int-cdrom-i586_with_sugar_0.88.0 Installs in symantic with task-sugar

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Local download page for 16 Sugar Related Floss Manual .pdf files

2011-01-21 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
, but if there is no way I can give you relief aid 2011/1/20 Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com I have uploaded 16.pdf files to: http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/floss_manuals/ Links have been added to: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit#Floss_Manuals I hope

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Local download page for 16 Sugar Related Floss Manual .pdf files

2011-01-21 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
/ActivitiesGuideSugares-es-2011.01.21-18.28.05.pdf Be sure and copy this somewhere, as I don't think this link will work forever. James Simmons On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: James; Thanks. It does look much better. I like the multiple

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Local download page for 16 Sugar Related Floss Manual .pdf files

2011-01-21 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Thomas C Gilliard wrote: Downloaded. I will post it to sugarlabs link tonight. Done: http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/floss_manuals/ActivitiesGuideSugares-es-2011.01.21-18.28.05.pdf Thanks Tom Gilliard satellit James Simmons wrote: Thomas, I have generated a PDF for the Spanish

Re: [IAEP] Better links bar for wiki.sugarlabs.org

2011-01-21 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Bernie Innocenti wrote: Dogi noticed that we had two Download links in the Wiki: one on the sidebar, leading to the download page, and one in the links bar on top of the page which leads straight to download.sugarlabs.org. I personally think the download link on top is important and should

[IAEP] Local download page for 16 Sugar Related Floss Manual .pdf files

2011-01-20 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
I have uploaded 16.pdf files to: http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/floss_manuals/ Links have been added to: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit#Floss_Manuals I hope that this is an appropriate thing to do. Having a local copy of the latest Manuals seemed like a good thing to

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] Announcement: New Virtualbox Appliances of Trisquel-3-sugar and Debian-squeeze-sugar available for download

2010-12-08 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
On 12/6/10 2:54 PM, James Cameron wrote: On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 02:30:49AM -0800, Thomas C Gilliard wrote: The new Virtualbox appliances have been uploaded to: http://download.sugarlabs.org/images/VirtualBox/ Suggestion: in the .txt files in that directory, wrap the text to about 80 columns

[IAEP] Announcement: New Virtualbox Appliances of Trisquel-3-sugar and Debian-squeeze-sugar available for download

2010-12-06 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
The new Virtualbox appliances have been uploaded to: http://download.sugarlabs.org/images/VirtualBox/ Current appliances are listed here: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Emulator_image_files#Other_virtual_machines They were built on a MacBook Air with Oracle VM VirtualBox (3.2.10-r66523) then

[IAEP] Annoucement: Appliance of Sugar on a Stick v3-Mirabelle uploaded to: download.sugarlabs.org/images/VirtualBox/

2010-12-03 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
There is a new Virtualbox Appliance for downloading and importing into Virtualbox3.2 This should be OS and hardware agnostic. I have tested it on Ubuntu and a MacBook Air after downloading. Please test. Thanks; Tom Gilliard satellit on freenode #sugar IRC Link:

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] the 4 GB USB containing Soas-v3-Mirabelle appliance can be run interchangeably on a PC or a mac with VMPlayer or Virtualbox

2010-11-27 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Raffael Reichelt wrote: 2010/11/25 Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com Raffael; I just built a f14-Desktop 2nd USB using the same method and it boots fine on the MacBook Air. I then did yum groupinstall sugar-desktop and then yum install sugar-emulator. (took 2 hrs because

[IAEP] workaround for soas-v4 f14 CP: Update until it is fixed.

2010-11-27 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
root sugar-terminal yum update sugar* Seems to update activities well: sugar 0.90.3 sugar-browse 120-1.fc14 sugar-physics 7.1.fc14 sugar-pippy 38.1.fc14 sugar-write 72-1.fc14 Tom Gilliard satellit ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] the 4 GB USB containing Soas-v3-Mirabelle appliance can be run interchangeably on a PC or a mac with VMPlayer or Virtualbox

2010-11-25 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Raffael Reichelt wrote: 2010/11/25 Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com Running Soas files on a 2nd USB in Virtualbox 3.2 installed on the MacBook Air : In VirtualBox Make a new Virtualbox appliance where you specify the existing vmdk file on the 2nd USB as the Hard Disk. NOTE

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] the 4 GB USB containing Soas-v3-Mirabelle appliance can be run interchangeably on a PC or a mac with VMPlayer or Virtualbox

2010-11-25 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
. thanks for testing; Tom Gilliard Raffael Reichelt wrote: 2010/11/25 Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com Raffael Reichelt wrote: 2010/11/25 Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com satel...@bendbroadband.com Running Soas files on a 2nd USB in Virtualbox 3.2 installed

Re: [IAEP] [soas] the 4 GB USB containing Soas-v3-Mirabelle appliance can be run interchangeably on a PC or a mac with VMPlayer or Virtualbox

2010-11-24 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Running Soas files on a 2nd USB in Virtualbox 3.2 installed on the MacBook Air : In VirtualBox Make a new Virtualbox appliance where you specify the existing vmdk file on the 2nd USB as the Hard Disk. NOTE the same 4 GB USB; 2nd USB containing the students appliance files runs interchagably

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] [soas] the 4 GB USB containing Soas-v3-Mirabelle appliance can be run interchangeably on a PC or a mac with VMPlayer or Virtualbox

2010-11-24 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
James Cameron wrote: On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 05:16:48PM -0800, Thomas C Gilliard wrote: I just discovered the great feature that the 4 GB USB containing Soas-v3-Mirabelle can be run interchangeably on a PC or a mac with either VMPlayer or Virtualbox. This is an install using

Re: [IAEP] [soas] Running_Soas_files_on_a_2nd_USB_in_Virtualbox_3.2_installed_on_the_MacBook_Air

2010-11-23 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
I have been experimenting with my MacBook Air with Virtualbox 3.2 installed. I have discovered a neat way to answer http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/598: Another suggestion: Put the individual Student's Virtual Machine Appliance on a their USB stick and open it from the Mac or Windoz machine

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] SoaS 4 - Mango Lassi is out.

2010-11-19 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
I just built both a Soas-v3 and Soas-v4 Live USB which boots successfully on a MacBook Air with a Boot Helper Disk in a USB CD/DVD external drive: I detail the steps here: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit#Building_a_bootable_USB_using_a_MacBook_Air ( go the linked page

Re: [IAEP] Getting to BIOS (was Boot SoaS on Windows machines? Help!)

2010-11-11 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Note that the Boot Menu (Boot order) is the more pertinent selection to use as it selects the USB directly. hp Pavillion laptop Getting to BIOS F10 Boot Menu ESC EeePC1000HE Getting to BIOS F2 Boot Menu ESC Acer Aspire One 532 Getting to BIOS F2 Boot Menu F12 Acer Aspire One

Re: [IAEP] Getting to BIOS (was Boot SoaS on Windows machines? Help!)

2010-11-11 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
-for-various-oem-and-computer-systems/ On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: Note that the Boot Menu (Boot order) is the more pertinent selection to use as it selects the USB directly. hp Pavillion laptop Getting to BIOS F10 Boot Menu ESC

Re: [IAEP] Link for Maple Syrup?

2010-11-01 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Caryl: this page has details: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Ubuntu#Maple-syrup_Ubuntu_10.04_LTS_with_Sugar_and_many_other_applications_for_netbooks http://people.sugarlabs.org/it/OLD/ (original site) Enjoy; Tom Gilliard satellit Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi All, I have a

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