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 ha
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 find
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 intern
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
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
moku...@sugarlabs.org said:
> I believe that far more is going on than we see. I have considerable faith
> in children discovering how things work for themselves, and sharing the
> information they discover.
Anybody interested in children discovering how things work should google for >
hole-in-t
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 (vari
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 dur
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
> I too rather like the waveform display - it does have some pedagogical
> value; it just *must not* interrupt smooth audio flow.
Is it possible /reasonable/??? to run the audio on a high priority
thread/process and/or run the display updater on a low priority
thread/process?
How about shrink
csc...@laptop.org said:
> I'm not certain that editing the existing gtkrc will be sufficient (although
> it would certainly be a good start). As my history briefly explained, Sugar
> was not designed to be 'colored' in the sorts of ways a kid might want. (We
> might care whether the text/icons a
> - 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 me
> 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 save-to
>> Go-home would be the button I press most often, to counteract
auto-resuming.
> FWIW you can hold 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 t
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
>> 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 runni
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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 a
> 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 th
> 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 al
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 usefu
> 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 needl
>> 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'
I thought it was good. The second half is tomorrow.
Laptops May Change The Way Rural Peru Learns
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96510072
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