Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Fwd: unique activities TamTamMini-60 . . .

2011-09-02 Thread Sean Linton
Hi Reading the through the upgrade process I think I will leave this machine alone. I dont want to risk the upgrade not working and returning the machine without a usable OS. It is used by his daughter. S On 3 September 2011 03:41, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi... Exactly

[Sugar-devel] Fwd: unique activities TamTamMini-60 . . .

2011-09-01 Thread Sean Linton
-- Forwarded message -- From: Sean Linton s...@lpnz.org Date: 2 September 2011 12:17 Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] unique activities . . . for Oceania XO's, or other regions. To: Aleksey Lim alsr...@activitycentral.org I have borrowed an XO for the week from Wayne MacIntosh who

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Turn your frequency generator into a super powerful mosquito repeller

2011-07-21 Thread Sean Linton
Good to know, I wont be trading in my net just yet then. Cheers Sean On 21 July 2011 11:20, Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: So my verdict, so far, is there seems to be a possibility of

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Turn your frequency generator into a super powerful mosquito repeller

2011-07-20 Thread Sean Linton
Hi Caryl, Just curious to know if you tried any experiments with your computers and insect problem. I note that some antenna are useful at fractions of the wave length too, like 1/2 or 1/4 so there is a broader spectrum that could be experimented with there. Sean On 8 July 2011 18:08, Caryl

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Turn your frequency generator into a super powerful mosquito repeller

2011-07-08 Thread Sean Linton
Thanks Paolo, didn't see your message there, good to have some more info. Sean SL Otago, New Zealand On 8 July 2011 20:58, nanon...@mediagala.com wrote: ** * James Cameron wrote: Is there any evidence base for repelling mosquitos using low frequency sound?

[Sugar-devel] Turn your frequency generator into a super powerful mosquito repeller

2011-07-07 Thread Sean Linton
Has anyone looked into using the free from malaria activity to include a tone generator to use the XO as a mosquito repellent? http://www.quantumbalancing.com/mosquito.htm ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org

[Sugar-devel] unique activities . . . for Oceania XO's, or other regions.

2011-02-03 Thread Sean Linton
Hi: One of the things I would like to know is that even at the current level of deployment the OLPC project doesn't get attacked for eroding the indigenous cultures of places when with some careful planning and insight it could contribute to the opposite. The sort of thing I am thinking about is

Re: [Sugar-devel] unique activities . . . for Oceania XO's, or other regions.

2011-02-03 Thread Sean Linton
of making sense of a new experience, perhaps with a specific activity? Sean On 4 February 2011 00:21, Aleksey Lim alsr...@activitycentral.org wrote: On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 10:32:28PM +1300, Sean Linton wrote: Hi: One of the things I would like to know is that even at the current level

[Sugar-devel] Cradleboard teaching project

2011-01-05 Thread Sean Linton
was modified and by whom. It would be great if we could see programs like this, and develop something similar, for the indigenous music cultures of more places. Sean Linton ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org

[Sugar-devel] best options for sugar emulation

2010-10-09 Thread Sean Linton
Hi I have read in the documentation that Sugar on a Stick does not work so well on Mac computers and that from a testing point of view the best thing is to use a virtual machine. I am wondering if anyone can give me advice on the best option for testing sugar activities using a Mac and virtual

[Sugar-devel] Audacity issues on Sugar

2010-09-05 Thread Sean Linton
There are a couple of issues in the way of Audacity running smoothly on Sugar. The lame issue persists. The Sugar and XO disk limit requires that substantial recording is written directly to an external media drive. The install from the website, the xo file, requires a bug fix yum install

[Sugar-devel] video conversion tools

2010-08-25 Thread Sean Linton
Can anyone comment on the best video conversion tools for Sugar, and how best to install them? -- *Sean Linton * Ph D Student, Department of Music University of Otago, PO Box 56 Dunedin 9054, New Zealand Tel: +642102322848 Solomon Islands Indigenous Music Foundationhttp://groups.google.com

Re: [Sugar-devel] Audacity under Sugar

2010-07-29 Thread Sean Linton
/Activities/All I dont know if this bundle has all the feature of the last audacity. On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:34 AM, Sean Linton s...@lpnz.org wrote: Dear All, I am working on a conference presentation on ICT enabled networking for indigenous music foundations. I have been working on some

Re: [Sugar-devel] Audacity under Sugar

2010-07-29 Thread Sean Linton
, Jul 29, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Sean Linton s...@lpnz.org wrote: The audacity.xo download is not loading on the computer I have. Is it known to work elsewhere? I am on: build 802 Sugar 0.82.1 Firmware Q2E41 On 30/07/2010, Daniel Castelo dcast...@plan.ceibal.edu.uy wrote: In this page you could

Re: [Sugar-devel] Audacity under Sugar

2010-07-29 Thread Sean Linton
, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 12:19:59PM +1100, Sean Linton wrote: Any joy on the libmp3lame.so resolution? I'm curious. Have you tried http://www.rpmfusion.org/Configuration for Fedora 11? Running Transaction Installing : compat-expat1

[Sugar-devel] Audacity under Sugar

2010-07-28 Thread Sean Linton
journal? ) I have also been looking at introducing new insruments to the tamtam suites, ethnic instruments based on the local instruments of the XO distributions, eg Panpipes on Tamtam for computers in the Solomon Islands? Can you suggest a way to implement this? Sincerely Sean Linton Ph D