There is no mention of OLPC or Sugar, but I think it's good background info
as well as a good news story.
http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201311011630/b
The audio is 6 minutes.
For those of you not familiar with Oakland, they have lots of troubles, close
to Detroit, and the schools
qu...@laptop.org said:
However, don't be deceived; the number of tickets isn't a meaningful
quantity. It doesn't represent anything in real life.
I'm not sure about that.
Dough Clark wrote a wonderful paper: Bugs are good. The context was
hardware. The idea is that when you stop finding
walter.ben...@gmail.com said:
(2) The chat is displayed from the top (most recent) down so that the recent
messages are not occluded by the OSK and so that the recent messages are
proximal to the text entry
How well does that work out? How long does it take to learn to read
bottom-to-top?
jvo...@shaw.ca said:
Are all the images stored on the same server? Is the collection of images
available for download? How large is the collection? Seems like this might
be a good addition to a schoolserver, enabling users the ability to view
images while not really connected to the internet
walter.ben...@gmail.com said:
Or may be ask the user (while exiting), that whether the user
wishes to save the game?
Not a very Sugary approach.
What is the right way for Sugar to handle that problem?
I get annoyed when I start an activity and it pops up in some strange state
rather than
qu...@laptop.org said:
You can find the version of Maze on you XO by pressing F3, then Ctrl/2, then
searching for Maze. The version number is shown in a column of the result
set. For 13.1.0 build 14 it is version 22.
I didn't know about ctrl-2. Is there a wiki page that covers all that
cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com said:
In my experience, programmers are typically able adept at thinking of
variables in the abstract, thus the preponderance of foo and 'bar when
conversationally describing programming with variables.
I think that's misleading.
I consider sensible names (variables
martin.langh...@gmail.com said:
Checking in the progress bar... it's optional. Up to you if you want to
check there _as well_.
Sometimes, you don't know at the start how big a download will be.
In that case, if you want to stop before filling up the disk, you have to
check often-enough
cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com said:
One element that is critical in all of this, of course, is taking some care
to investigate the range of languages that any given font can represent.
I'm sure that much of the discussion will focus on Latin-based alphabets,
which is fine as far as it goes, and
Many wives is not a problem but brothers marrying with sisters (b)
is not supported thought I saw it too on Egyptian Pharaon dynasty.
Accidents happen. Software should not set policy. Stick to a model based
on evidence rather than a model based on assumed reality.
Don't overlook
On the laptop, it would be easy to set up a quota for the datastore in
which the demon could remove documents from the local store on an LRU basis
when the datastore exceeds the quota. This would avoid having the student
get involved in managing the Nand.
I'd be really annoyed if some
- Discussion on using luggage tags so that we can identify which computer
belongs to who from the outside
A magic marker works fine. (Or Sharpie or whatever they are called in your
location.)
You want the permanent kind. Non-permanent ink may get smudged off.
If you don't want to
No activity allows a user to destroy old version,
I assumed destroy meant overwrite the old name with new data.
I think there are 3 possible actions when exiting an activity:
update an old name with new data
save the current state in a new name
discard the current state
The
d...@laptop.org said:
When we discussed this while I was in Peru, one requirement they identified
is that the kid would log onto an XO one day and do some work, and then log
onto another XO the following week and continue the same work.
Assuming this still stands, this strongly calls for a
Go-home would be the button I press most often, to counteract
auto-resuming.
FWIW you can hold Alt while clicking on the activity to start a new
instance instead of resuming the most recent one.
Neat/thanks.
Where is that documented? What else have I missed?
It didn't work for me. Is
On top of that, ntpd doesn't get along with power saving mode.
I haven't noticed anything odd. Either it's been fixed in the meantime or it
was only subtle misbehaviour. Do you have a ticket number or link to a
description of the problem that has been experienced before?
Are you running
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ber...@codewiz.org said:
* Date not being updated
One laptop booted with clock set to the Epoch.
Is that one of the old XOs that had troubles with the tiny battery feeding
the TOY/RTC clock when the main battery and wall power
Here, we reach the end of my tale. You see, my friend and I agreed that our
desired next step would be to send our change to sugar-devel@ along with,
well, this story.
-1: Unfortunately, there's no obvious way to do this with Sugar and
Pippy today.
I don't want to spoil the
Actually these are the exact same problems that could be solved much better
with some kind of per activity DS (not the Android one, which would be a
little bit overkill). I mean that even making or not making deltas is
dependent on the object the activity stores and the deltifier is also
I often let an XO-1 sit powered up but not doing anything for a week or more.
Occasionally, after it's been idle for a while and I try to do something, it
acts like it's out of memory.
This has been happening for a long time, but until recently, I haven't looked
in the right place to get
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
The fqdn from backup server or jabber server. Either will do until we
fix the registration stuff.
Please state exactly which one you want - I want this to be your call.
How about adding a layer of indirection and letting DNS do the binding?
--
I'm not a DNS wizard.
DNS has C
note that if the XS is acting as a proxy the cache issue can be
addressed. The XS can get a copy of the XO client cert at
registration time, and with it can decrypt the HTTPS traffic and
cache the unencrypted version. this is a lot of cpu, but it's on the
XS not the XO, so it shouldn't be
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