Ignore this one!  Don't know where it has been for the past six weeks since it 
was sent or why it has suddenly resurfaced.  The problem has been resolved.
Caryl

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Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 21:16:38 -0700
Subject: [IAEP] 12-Year-Old XOs (even 18-yesr-olds)








Hi Folks,


This afternoon I started getting 10 XO-1s ready to deliver to an elementary 
school in rural Montana. They were part of a stalled Contributors Program 
project and are being transferred to an elementary school in rural Montana 
where the middle school science teacher and the elementary tech teacher are 
very interested in using them. I have a meeting scheduled for Tuesday morning 
to orient the teachers.


Since the machines hadn't been used since I updated then to 10.1.2 (os652) and 
added a few science Activities Hi Folks,


This afternoon I started getting 10 xXO-1s ready to deliver to an elementary 
school in rural Montana. They were part of a stalled Contributors Program 
project and are being transferred to an elementary school in rural Montana 
where the middle school science teacher and the elementary tech teacher are 
very interested in using them.I have a meeting scheduled for Tuesday morning to 
orient the teachers.


Since the machines hadn't been used since I updated them to 10.1.2 (os652) and 
added a few science Activities last summer , I figured I could just charge them 
all, check for updates, and be good-to-go.  I figured while I was there I might 
as well get developer keys for all of them too.  I had decided not to reflash 
them all to 11.2.0 (os874) to save time.


What I ran into in the process was pretty wild!


Some of the machines worked fine. I was even able to add Labyrinth and Fototoon 
to several of them.  On one, I was actually able to install a developer key. 
However, I got some strange error messages and really unusual Journal entries 
on others.


For example, some of the laptops were trying to go to a place called 
"activation.laptop.org" when I signed on and tried to go to the Activities page 
(see image 1).  It offered the option of "adding an exception", but that didn't 
work. However, surprise, the Back button took me to the Activities page where I 
was able to download Labyrinth and Fototoon.


On some of the laptops I was not able to access the internet at all. See image2.


Later, when I looked at the Journal entries on some of the machines, I found 
they were incredibly old.... like 12 years! (Image3). There was one that said 
"18 years ago" also, but I seem to have misplaced the image.


One more image... When I clicked on the Browse icon on many of the machines I 
got the choices shown in Image4. I haven't encountered the "OLPC Activation 
Service" before. Tell me about it....


I think I will take the easy way out and just do the reflash update from a usb 
drive and then transfer the Activities I want to add from a usb drive.


I am curious, however, about these strange things that were happening.  I also 
wonder if I will have problems with the reflashing. I will know more tomorrow!


Caryl (aka Grannie B or SweetXOGrannie)                                         
  

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