Many children don't have access to books, internet, tv and the laptop will be the only
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If you send the XO laptops to your donators, why don't you enclose a poster to this delivery? There is still a letter from Mr. N
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* Some cards don't work,
* Try a new card; if new cards don't work, there may be a fault with the laptop.
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.../papers/edutainment.pdf Playful Learning instead of Edutainment]. Also, we don't want kids to be [http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/pbracwak.htm punished
...re final editing by an expert in the subject and in the language). But we don't
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We probably don't want (but may be stuck with these if applications have not been converted
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All OLPC laptop current models(XO-1, XO-1.5, XO-1.75) don't have 3D acceleration hardware (GPU/ 3D graphic card) commonly
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...d is '''round''' and the PLUGSPSET3 adapters are '''rectangular''' so they don't mate out of the bag (if you look at the pictures closely, you can see the
..., solar panels might be built into the laptop lid to charge the battery. I don't know if this is possible, but I am sure that the sun is the most readily
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...with Red Hat. But since the OLPC project is open we cannot (and maybe even don't want to) stop other people from developing and supplying alternate softwa
=== The laptop is new so we don't know whether or not one laptop per child will work ===
36 KB (5,905 words) - 23:20, 20 January 2014
...would be a good idea to spend some time surveying previous efforts. If you don't have experience using a PDA, then buy an old Palm or [[Zaurus]], install
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...available online in PDF format, so you can see the characters even if you don't have a matching font installed on your computer.
...working on hardware and some softwware developers can get laptops, but you don't need the hardware to develop applications, just the [[Sugar]] development
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...ed primarily for use with the OLPC. In some cases, such as languages which don't have a lot of Wikipedia content, this could be coupled with other Interne
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...stems]] that people are talking about if you want to use the applications. Don't let the lack of a unit keep you from helping, getting something, or emula
-- suggested by Don Ferris, San Diego, CA
43 KB (7,490 words) - 20:04, 5 August 2013
...laptops to China or Brazil has nothing to do with success as long as they don't reach their destination. Financing and technology is one side. Psychology
40 KB (6,833 words) - 05:22, 22 May 2013
...s to take into consideration the cost of electric power of each device and don't discharge hand-powered nodes, if power line connected machines are near
...rts hard links (although this is apparently not widely known), although we don't support shared writable mmap (and there are no plans to, since its a bad
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...plement and accellerate each other and be a saviour for some students that don't "fit" too wel in the only formal-learning circuit. To understand the imp
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...omplement and accelerate each other and be a savior for some students that don't "fit" too well in the only formal-learning circuit. To understand the im
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Don't forget the save the configuration when you leave the setup.
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...thing far more useful to me (a Hyper- modifier) many many years ago, and I don't miss the functionality of capslock in the least. -kp
...for hands. Is moving standards and design forward good policy for olpc? (I don't know but I ask. Little changes that work well maybe.) --[[User:Rogerhc|Ro
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...them in some way to a "usual gadget" which it shouldn't be. These machines don't deserve to be "usual", they deserve better. I think these colors are actu
...effect with the current time. I think in these targeted countries children don't usually own a watch. A watch could be very useful though, for meeting up
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...cluster tracking in the case where the number of free clusters is set to "don't know".
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<CanoeBerry> will begin doing a LOT of work, I just don't have the time right now.
<CanoeBerry> will begin doing a LOT of work, I just don't have the time right now.
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* If you or your school want to work with XOs in the classroom (and don't yet have any), see the page for [[Interested schools]].
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...however OS X allows hiding of libraries inside an application folder so I don't know if this will install a usable GTK+.
...he GIMP toolkit for Mac OS X is still 1.2, so it won't work with Sugar, so don't bother with the MacGIMP site, either. All-in-all, I'd suggest working on
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Warning: don't install the Python from Cygwin. This will only confuse your system.
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...to settle the question based only on the stated preferences of adults who don't know all of the languages concerned, that is through [http://mindprod.com
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**I don't mind having to add spaces between words: 1 + 2, instead of 1+2 (as in UCB
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This sound to me like [[#Logo]]. Anyway I don't think this should turn into a language-war. I guess the laptops could com
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...tional experience. Try only to calculate or render in response to events, don't render 30fps if your data only changes once every 10-20 minutes.
For Python development, don't import modules at the top. Instead, import them just where they are neede
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...ld use one of these platforms for development, though as of 2007-12-15, we don't see any compelling reason to recommend doing so, unless your '''goal''' i
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''I suspect (but don't know) it is a silkscreen sort of process. Keyboards for other scripts ar
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...a for distribution), VoIP Gateways to regular phone networks. Things that don't '''necessarily''' run on the the laptops themselves, but which provide se
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...d in and having a battery present if it needs to update the firmware. (You don't have to do anything; just watch.)
* The numbers don't matter, but be sure that you type things after the $ sign.
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You don't have to wait until XOs are announced for your country to start localizing
You don't need to be a geek or hacker to help translate. You need to know two langu
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** ''I don't actually agree with this restriction, but thought it might be something t
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...built-in so their use doesn't add wire spaghetti, cables/conversion boxes don't get lost, is "fumble free" and always available. In short, it must be '''
...n-place when the laptop closes. This would not solve the RAM issue (as you don't want to swap to the flash), but it might be the lowest-cost way to give c
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Why don't we develop a creativity activity that leapfrogs OLPC users past the brigh
...cts and why not global... (or at least hemispheric given that school years don't start/end homogeneously in order to have summer holidays at the end of th
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Also, think about [[frameworks]] rather than just individual applications. Don't build MySpace. Instead, build a toolkit that could be used to build MySp
...ds project (Tux Paint and Tux Math), which is a Schoolforge member. I just don't know if it can run on Linux. Those of you who understand the prgram spec'
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...receive more detailed information about any aspect of the project, please don't hesitate to ask
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...ng-8.2-images-on-QEMU-for-windows-td1115692.html OLPC forum at Nabble]. (I don't know if QEMU Manager supports the newe emulator+accelerator versions that
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...sure where to start? This section should answer some of your questions. Don't be afraid to ask questions & collaborate - we're better as a team. Keep
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...rs, they are 5 months ahead in reading skills in comparison with kids that don't have the XO's.
...e to be developed, as the traditional monitoring and evaluation techniques don't capture data that is very relevant to Ministers of Education, Grant / Loa
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...count it is impossible to demonstrate the corruption. These corrupt people don't hesitate to kill you of course if you press charges too much. So you bet
...untries: the newspapers are full of OLPC stories. People in poor countries don't know much about OLPC but maybe the children will receive a laptop in near
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...sts]], [[educators]], and [[Developers program | programmers]] — you don't need to know ''everything'' about making an activity to be a part of the
...(with contact information), and what specific kind of feedback you want. Don't worry about the technical details for now (like code repositories, versio
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...ng application. Enabling LID events will be complex, because presumably we don't want to wake up on the LID down event.
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...d other deployments) are doing teacher training in emulators, because they don't want to divert any XOs from the kids
*Developers who don't have an XO also like to use emulators.
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...nd using pointing devices difficult, or even unimpaired young children who don't yet have fully developed fine motor skills, a USB mouse or trackball with
...n with deuteranopia don't see green and 1% of European men with protanopia don't see red. A sample of the differences [http://www.btplc.com/age_disabilit
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...u don't have to type anything. Just wait and it will start the GUI. If you don't want to wait for the GUI to load, you can log in with username "root" and
Move your mouse on the icon but don't click.
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...o assurance is made that this won't permanently harm your hardware. If you don't understand any of these steps, please stop and ask for clarification on t
...ate''' - buildrom now builds ROM images for the SPI flash by default. You don't need to change anything from the default configuration.
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...ease provide a reference to "School Sector Reform Plan (SSRP) Phase 2". I don't see how your speculation about EU has any relevance for OLPC Nepal. Plea
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Don't assume ashtyn+braeden=<3 there is spite where there may only be ignorance
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== Please don't use this system! ==
...ous people or people performing maintenance/development on the system. You don't need to understand this if you just want to use the dropbox system.
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''When adding or updating this list, don't forget to give your [[How_to_check_the_OS_and_firmware_versions|build ver
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...every sense. While we don't expect every child to become a programmer, we don't want any ceiling imposed on those children who choose to modify their mac
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If you don't want to completely wipe the USB stick or hard drive, you can also try tra
Don't follow this set of instructions if you don't know how to partition your disk or create filesystems. There are some thi
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...me part is supposed to be rooted in some actual DNS-rooted namespace. You don't need to own this domain; you just need to have a reasonable claim on some
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...er things. The Forth system automatically manages the return stack so you don't have to think about it for the most part (but you can get at it if you ne
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<GrannieB> diditalmind1 yours seems reasonable except we don't have many broken X)-1.5s yet
<Ian_Daniher> netbooks break easily, XOs don't. :)
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* '''On linux''': todo (or see other methods below if you don't need the browser integration of squeakland)
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...-ShareAlike 2.5. If you don't want your work to be used by everybody then don't submit it here.
If any developers don't have their SSH2 keys on the web, please attach them
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...change their names to squeak.image, squeak.change, and squeak.sources. (I don't yet know if this last is necessary. Anybody?)
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...trol Center on the main menu, in order to turn on the toolbar icon, if you don't like setting it up from the command line.
etc) have special names too (but most often you don't need to redefine
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...(Recovery Connector) on the Btest boards (CN20 on Atest) "G1G1-"C" Boards don't have CN24 (Recovery Connector) or Recovery Mode Jumper Block (as Squared
...jumpers horizontally or vertically; either orientation will work. If you don't have any jumpers the right size, you can wedge a metal object into the bl
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...laining that there is no plan for training teachers to use OLPC laptops. I don't believe that this is so, but there is no page on this Wiki explaining wha
...ck of IT knowledge and many of the youngsters between the ages of 12 to 19 don't know what a computer is.
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...hat will better cater to the needs of young children (especially those who don't yet read) and older children who can handle many more operations and comp
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...is particularly since such units will almost certainly be stolen property. Don't expect to buy a 2B1 on Ebay before the retail units come to market.
This means you don't have to do your part of the pledge.
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...utsmart Microsoft, and Linux is growing steadily without such shenanigans. Don't forget, the 800 lb. gorilla doesn't have to outsmart ''you''.
...he lowest possible cost. Shipments to developed countries, such as the US, don't count toward the mission. OLPC management doesn't have time to work with
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...ect people to secury these laptops, especially children, when they usually don't have locks, doors, and in some cases houses?
...amera (or digital camera whatever it so be called) help educate children? Don't get me wrong, I think education is extremely important and I use computer
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...g a space for sharing files and ideas surrounding the activity itself that don't have a place within it.
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...for several other languages are also misconfigured, pointing to fonts that don't exist on the OLPC.
...ork in AWT, although accelerator keys do. The Menubars are displayed, but don't respond to clicks.
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..., 35 Abel Smith Street on Saturdays from 10.30am/11.00am until our fingers don't work anymore. Check out [http://thecross.co.nz/ the Cross]
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...u don't have to type anything. Just wait and it will start the GUI. If you don't want to wait for the GUI to load, you can log in with username "root" and
Move your mouse on the icon but don't click. Hover there for a moment.
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...ance, and a lot more seem to come from people who want the idea to fail. I don't understand that. --[[User:Mokurai|Mokurai]] 00:47, 11 January 2007 (EST)'
::<i>We don't have enough money to buy into both the OLPC project and another project w
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...en different capital gear is used? When we use the steam-driven machine we don't need John Henry's muscles: duh. Instead, Prof. Cuban's "experimental cont
I don't think Mark Cuban believes one need not learn and remember anything. If yo
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...s, nationalities, and levels of computer experience. At the same time, we don't wish to impose unnecessary limitations on the software either. Instead,
...ns(Windows XP & Vista offer an "accessibility wizard" for this purpose; we don't have good upstream technology from GNOME we can take for this unfortunate
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Of course, we don't mean to impose arbitrary limits on the types and number of activities tha
...ses the modified base. Such names only serve to indicate superiority, and don't provide any useful feedback about the particular activity which makes it
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...sk drive - but not those named '''usbupgos.img''' or '''usbupgrd.img'''!. (Don't forget to "Empty Trash.")
...USB key, hold down the X and the 'check' button (use the 'O' button if you don't have a check button) and while holding them turn the power on. Leave the
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If you note, you will see that we don't include the activity's directory, this is not needed as the <tt>bundle-bu
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...via JTAG (XDB). You can "dl" memory setup and test scripts into it. You don't need SPI FLASH - you can JTAG it right into SRAM very quickly.
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* Keyboard (i.e. in writing webmail): accents don't work, é, à ü etc. ends as e´, a`...
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...five by five grid--there are only 24 squares, and the the problem squares don't line up neatly over the answer squares. Each group is still marked by '1
...irs matching '''2 different items''' but distributed '''at random''': just don’t click on the previous icon.
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...slot and it will start recording when it begins to hear sound (meaning you don't need to hurry after you have clicked on the red dot).
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<s>Dan</s> ''Don'' is a summer intern from the UK. Daniel is working on software projects fr
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Pages in the 'blues' don't necessarily imply 'unworthiness', as they could be young pages (particula
| align=left | ''don't use {{tl|translations}} on a category page!''
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...What about [[Ask OLPC a Question about Hardware#|size & weight]]? If you don't find the answer in the [[hardware specification|specifications page]] you
Questions here should be about current hardware; questions like "why don't you include gizmo XYZ" should be asked/discussed in [[Hardware ideas]].
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Why don't you include '''one copy of Wikipedia'''. Then each child/student has acce
...d up? (That's how things are done in Free Software. If you want a program, don't wait for someone else to write it. Do it yourself, or organize some frien
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If you placed bin-xfer somewhere other than your home directory, don't forget to use the correct pathname! Save the configuration.
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...a Documentation Lead to get these projects organized. In the meantime, why don't we just do it? Please add your signature if you are working on any docume
Don't just make suggestions. Improve the many documents and pages we have.
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...this mailing list. Set it to Disabled if you want to stay subscribed, but don't want mail delivered to you
* Don't [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Top-posting top post]. Includ
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:From OLPC directly, or the government or other regulators. I don't think you should rely on what contributors to a community Wiki might tell
My xo is hooked up to the internet but I still don't know how to chat with other people in the world could you tell me how ple
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...cessary to explain how to abort an infinite loop in OLPC Open Firmware. I don't know how to do this, and so my first OLPC Open Firmware program may still
Don't worry about the words you don't yet know. Just notice that "factorial" calls "factorial" recursively, wh
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of the algorithm that the callfinder uses. So don't believe the list
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Don't use bare "@" and "!" for accessing memory-mapped I/O registers,
don't, so you usually end up having to do the
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Why did it display 1, since up-counting loops don't execute when the
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If you just want a literal string for use later, i.e. you don't want
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Don't hesitate to add your own community's OLPC project and voice!
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===What if I don't like my country's color?===
If your country is color-coded in a hue with which you don't agree, you should lobby '''that country's''' government to start talks wi
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...the Actions edge of the frame, function slightly differently. While they don't represent an activity that the child can join, they do come as messages f
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...erstand why they don't even mention OLPC in their partner list. Heck, they don't even mention OLPC.
...hrough a longer trail, offer us information on other target countries that don't have similar university programs.
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* Please don't subscribe to our old OLPC-NL mailingslist here: http://lists.lo-res.org/m
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...s.3F What should we do to ensure our materials are available to people who don't yet have internet access, or who may never have internet access?] (strate
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If you don't know the mapname/code for your keyboard layout, go to /lib/kdb/keymaps, s
If those examples don't fit your keyboard layout exactly, please have a look into the directories
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fixing bugs in their scripting engine implementations. And don't forget e-mail:
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...list in color.py and that's your permanent color. This only happens if you don't have a config file, so if you delete that file, you can change your nickn
...ks like it's due for future change (I wouldn't actually do this unless you don't have a sugar shell running yet):
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...s, nationalities, and levels of computer experience. At the same time, we don't wish to impose unnecessary limitations on the software either. Instead,
...d (Windows XP & Vista offer an "accessibility wizard" for this purpose; we don't have good upstream technology from GNOME we can take for this unfortunate
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...g a space for sharing files and ideas surrounding the activity itself that don't have a place within it.
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'''NOTE: Please don't update the tables themselves''' if you disagree or have a 'better' transl
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Of course, we don't mean to impose arbitrary limits on the types and number of activities tha
...uses the modified base. Such names only serve to indicate superiority, and don't provide any useful feedback about the particular activity which makes it
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...and rpm steps complete successfully, simply running 'x11vnc' as user olpc (don't forget an 'su - olpc' if you're still root from before!) on the XO (e.g.,
Don't forget to make the script executable.
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...disciplines, health-related or not, professionally trained or not. If you don't find a place in any of these projects you can always contact [[User:Arjs|
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...ts out [[Munsell]] with a palette! :) A richer palette would be nice. We don't need to use Munsell's colorspace-smushing coordinates. There is also a M
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...sions are still fixing bugs in their scripting engine implementations. And don't forget e-mail: anyone can send a user an executable program, and for many
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...who can read. It is important that education can continue there, so kids don't loos a whole school-year. In the [[RDCongo]] - Kivu Region where you hav
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* q4a11 - 2011-01-21 [[OLPC Firmware q4a11]] A2 post-bringup baseline - don't use on A1 boards.
* q4a10 - 2010-12-20 [[OLPC Firmware q4a10]] For A2 build - don't use on A1 boards.
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:I don't recall there being a screencapture facility in 406 Builds, so you'll eith
:I don't believe that the animations on laptopgiving.org were generated from a 3D
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...modules being used by the School server. They are development boards, and don't have the "proper" MAC address prefix for the laptops to associate with.
...ch identifies modules to load and the behavior of the startup script -- we don't ever save out the running configuration) and <tt>/etc/sysconfig/iptables<
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(and will show up when users don't specify a language they want to view in,
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FLoad the "batman.fth" script as described above, but don't run "bat-check-and-recover".
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...e plain bin option arrive as a 15 byte file containing "File not found." I don't see them anywhere else on the web, either. Maybe 1_5_0_15 would work?] ->
If you don't know the name, you can find out by typing:
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.../people.redhat.com/dcbw/olpc/xo-mpp-server-0.1-1.src.rpm is here], but you don't need it to setup the MPP)
<b>The laptops don't connect to the mesh portal!</b>
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We don't have the means to let developers create their own trees on the OLPC serve
For subsequent pushes, you don't generally need to use the --all parameter anymore, so
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If any developers don't have their SSH2 keys on the web, please attach them
As a general rule, we don't provide shell accounts to developers unless
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speakers don't have enough air-moving capacity (cone diameter times
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If you have older (A,B1,B2,B3) laptop hardware, and don't know whether it is running a firmware version older than Q2C11 (2007-05-0
...d <tt>.crc</tt> files from the boot directory of the flash or disk drive. (Don't forget to "Empty Trash.")
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...he Internet using the school's wireless mesh network. Individual machines don't need to be within direct wireless range of the school; other XO laptops m
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...y been reported will be very helpful to us. Problems cannot be fixed if we don't know what you encounter, or how often they are encountered; if you find c
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...[http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/ PDFCreator]. When you do so, don't forget to include a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ Creative Common
...e's [[Talk:Read#Feature Requests|Talk page]] (click the "discussion" tab), don't put them here.''
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...to-iris features inside the software. That might be a nice feature, but I don't know if it's possible depending on the hardware.)
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...running a stripped-down Red Hat linux, running [[Sugar]]. But what if you don't have a real olpc laptop? There are a several options, which can each be u
:I don't really believe the development option of Windows/Mac developer/live CD.
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...of the virtual terminals (e.g. <tt>ctrl-alt-f1</tt>). Note this means you don't need the Sugar GUI to be running to access the camera.
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...deployment. The OLPC project does not seem to share these qualities. So I don't think the Guinea's GLOBE project justifies OLPC at all. Also, the second
...chest, demand study groups and research, and provide negative opinions. I don't know about these meetings you are concerned about, I'm not an official OL
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Want something a little less specific? If you don't want to (or can't) commit to an individual project, you can still be help
...ne (or if you don't know anything about it but want to, make the page)! '''Don't''' feel obligated to do the entire thing in one go; you can always write
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...he Internet using the school's wireless mesh network. Individual machines don't need to be within direct wireless range of the school; other XO laptops m
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don't like to use that name for Open Firmware, because the "flavor" of OFW
It's usually unnecessary to type the whole thing, even if you don't
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value has been set, which can be an advantage in scripts where you don't
You can omit fields you don't need. If everything is on the same subnet,
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...class breaks into an argument about how to approach a school project. They don't seem to be reaching an agreement, so Andrea quickly sets up a vote on her
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(Don't forget the "." at the end of the line; that is what prints the answer.)
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...e so you can see what you are doing, and keep small parts in bowls so they don't fall off the table. Use common sense - if you find yourself yanking real
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...also some hardware switches that detect what mode the screen is in, but I don't think they're hooked up yet in the current B2 system. Since the activity
...if you push the wheel in you can also reset to the start of the document. Don't take my word for it here is what many other people say about this neat fe
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You don't need to be [[root]] in either case.
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...the same or nearby addresses, you don't have to rewrite address bytes that don't change.
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...recalibration failed, then we'll discover that in due course, and that we don't need to try and intuit whether a finger was near the pad during the criti
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...laining that there is no plan for training teachers to use OLPC laptops. I don't believe that this is so, but there is no page on this Wiki explaining wha
...ck of IT knowledge and many of the youngsters between the ages of 12 to 19 don't know what a computer is.
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:''We should add instructions for having it run automatically on boot, so you don't have to manually run it again. [[User:MitchellNCharity|MitchellNCharity]]
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:i don't think i did anything else than what was suggested by the wiki with dd --
:I don't have sound thou
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...e, you can play around with some of the settings, like enabling the audio (don't use SoundBlaster 16 emulation though!) and the cd. Click the green Start
I don't know about windows or unix but in the history of mac not one singly piece
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...the shell. The shell stores your recently executed commands, so that you don't have to retype them. Press the "pg up" up arrow key (second from the rig
...et the Amharic Y consonant, and which gives you the Amharic y vowel if you don't press Shift. The OLPC keyboard gives you a Y consonant when you press th
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...t disadvantage that the environment tends to get cluttered with things you don't need, while making importing of files into the environment from another a
...re image (likely triggered by the backup scripts for the laptop so that we don't lose information when doing the coalescing (only coalesce if the versions
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**don't want 300 uploads at 08:00 and none at 08:01
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.../www.ea.com Electronic Arts] under the GPL for distribution on the XO (See Don Hopkins' [http://www.donhopkins.com/drupal blog] for more background).
* DUX Software contracted Don Hopkins to port SimCity to Unix, and he developed "SimCity HyperLook Editio
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**I don't mind having to add spaces between words: 1 + 2, instead of 1+2 (as in UCB
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...left on the keyboard [[Image:Key esc.jpg]]) during the countdown. If you don't press the "X" game key, the firmware goes into fastboot mode, in which:
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...e line" and not "rock the boat" if they want to stay employed. "After all, don't ''all'' children deserve the ''best'' education (as if we knew what that
...nt of use, whose potential was ''never'' realized, even for a short while. Don't think that national political leaders of developing nations are incapable
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...hat it is unwinnable. And the ball appears to be stuck in a cycle where I don't have to move the paddle for a while and keep hitting the ball. You have
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'''AGAIN, OUR OLPC DERIVATIVES ARE JUST AN EXPERIMENT. PLEASE DON'T BE CONFUSED WITH AN ALREADY FINISHED MOCK-UP FOR MASS PRODUCT'''
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...left on the keyboard [[Image:Key esc.jpg]]) during the countdown. If you don't press the "X" game key, the firmware goes into fastboot mode, in which:
** Don't use this firmware. ATest support has been removed.
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<tr><td>1~0</td> <td>0</td> <td> Set PLL frequency count don't care bits
* 1: don't care bit 1
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I also noticed that the brightness and volume buttons don't work if you are on the console -- David Lang
: Unfortunately, I don't believe it's possible to get the super-crisp sharpness with only the back
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:* Sugar now handles gettext initialization (gettext.install, etc) for you. Don't add it to your activity.
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...mation. The hardware section below discusses it, but most activities just don't care.
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If it can't even pass the Smoke Test, you probably don't want to waste time loading it.
If you don't see anything here on the latest build, please add your notes on smoke tes
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...n it calls gtk.main(). The D-bus service is created in the same process (I don't know why), so the message is enqueued and when gtk.main() is called, D-bu
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....xo Considered renaming project to Ruler from Rule. Haven't yet. People don't like the current name. And as this is more of a tool than an "activity",
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...left on the keyboard [[Image:Key esc.jpg]]) during the countdown. If you don't press the "X" game key, the firmware goes into fastboot mode, in which:
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...USB sticks. There is also a [http://hg.olenepal.org/NEXS_scripts Boot CD] (don't see an iso here, only scripts) which is used when the server is not able
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** Treatments that don't need a doctor. See "Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Healthcare Handbo
...h, blink, and swipe of a big wet nose with a long flexible tongue. What I don't want is fifteen minutes of wading through the internet, google, youtube,
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*Ubuntu Live-CD + 1 GB USB stick = emululated xo. Camera and TamTam sound don't work. Some other issues. But $300 might make a school computer lab into
...various components such as garbage collection which would allow us to say 'don't garbage collect now'
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...that the laptops should not be given to the primary students because "they don't know how to use laptops." However, they have been very keen and helpful r
...the children are lacking in good nutrition, clothes, and housing, and some don't even have a family to give them care, affection, and love. Some children
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If you don't know what you are doing or are unsure, don't do it. Electricity can be dangerous.
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...e by keyword; a post-filter might be a transparent redirect for links that don't exist locally; keys that are resolved locally or externally.
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...s. We can ask the artists to switch some tracks to a BY-SA license if they don't have it already.
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...to test the visual display of your material is to view it on an XO. If you don't have access to an XO — or to another person who has one — you
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...and kernel headers. I got "gcc" and "make" in there, but the repositories don't seem to have the right kernel headers.</li>
* Mac hosts: don't even think about this on a G4 or even a G5: use an Intel-Mac
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...ng OFW networking in the OLPC offices, DNS name resolution didn't work. I don't know why. But DNS in OFW is working just fine on my home network as I am
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...it's suspended like this, the suspend will keep trying to trigger. Oh, and don't forget to "chmod +x mysuspend" and "./mysuspend" to use it!
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...left on the keyboard [[Image:Key esc.jpg]]) during the countdown. If you don't press the "X" game key, the firmware goes into fastboot mode, in which:
* Command completion - don't erase back to longest possible match. This helps when you try to complet
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...rator would be able to control the update process, perhaps so that updates don't happen until the end of a semester (This functionality is implemented, bu
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...knowledge rather than doing it ourselves. Of course, that doesn't mean we don't develop specific [http://www.okfn.org/projects projects] but we believe t
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...a lot of fun... but does it aggregate? What about Google Docs? Sure they don't work offline...
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...after each sound-processing action (insertion of gap, etc), so that people don't do more pre-processing work than is necessary.
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If contributing your change back to OLPC, don't forget to <tt>git add</tt> the <tt>Makefile</tt> and the <tt>package.spec
Don't forget to manually run
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...e hard way in a rush to demo(lish) at FOSE, and sharing the warning so you don't have to lose an entire drive's data as well...]''
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...g in an open source project, sometimes it can be a little difficult if you don't have an updated documentation about "how this piece of software works ?",
...dules, etc. Take a look at the code, you'll need some Python knowledge but don't feel scared, it's just Python!
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<title><!-- stupid title has to exist, but we don't have to actually
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...left on the keyboard [[Image:Key esc.jpg]]) during the countdown. If you don't press the "X" game key, the firmware goes into fastboot mode, in which:
** Don't use this firmware. ATest support has been removed.
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...left on the keyboard [[Image:Key esc.jpg]]) during the countdown. If you don't press the "X" game key, the firmware goes into fastboot mode, in which:
** Don't use this firmware. ATest support has been removed.
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The questions and answers don't have to be like plain-text flash-cards...
.../Linux program called Gradint http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/ssb22/gradint/ I don't know if that's useful as a starting point. Gradint itself is audio only
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...n or perfectly accurate dates, there is overlap and missing gaps, and they don't have an interface for browsing.
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**I don't mind having to add spaces between words: 1 + 2, instead of 1+2 (as in UCB
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...ng application. Enabling LID events will be complex, because presumably we don't want to wake up on the LID down event.
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...left on the keyboard [[Image:Key esc.jpg]]) during the countdown. If you don't press the "X" game key, the firmware goes into fastboot mode, in which:
** Don't use this firmware. ATest support has been removed.
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...left on the keyboard [[Image:Key esc.jpg]]) during the countdown. If you don't press the "X" game key, the firmware goes into fastboot mode, in which:
** Don't use this firmware. ATest support has been removed.
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...left on the keyboard [[Image:Key esc.jpg]]) during the countdown. If you don't press the "X" game key, the firmware goes into fastboot mode, in which:
** Don't use this firmware. ATest support has been removed.
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and some error condition only occurs about 1 in a thousand cases. You don't
and the method (open). If you don't remember, you can use the 'r' command to
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...of files that don't qualify as either of the above -- either because they don't have the superstructure of an activity with a single executable, or that
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...MaMaMedia team, John Huang, Bruno Coudoin, Eduardo Silva, H&?kon Wium Lie, Don Hopkins, Muriel de Souza Godoi, Benjamin M. Schwartz..',
...l commented, even at the expense of space. I also made sure that the lines don't wrap in Pippy, as that looks quite ugly.
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...u don't have to type anything. Just wait and it will start the GUI. If you don't want to wait for the GUI to load, you can log in with username "root" and
Move your mouse on the icon but don't click. Hover there for a moment.
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...a for distribution), VoIP Gateways to regular phone networks. Things that don't '''necessarily''' run on the the laptops themselves, but which provide se
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.... Well, you could ask each of your 500 employees to install VirtualBox but don't you think we deserve some money in this case? We'd even assist you with a
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If you don't have a debian system, download a prebuilt xo-debian.tgz [http://dev.lapto
:To boot to the default os with this method, just don't enter Open Firmware, or just type boot at the OF prompt.
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...left on the keyboard [[Image:Key esc.jpg]]) during the countdown. If you don't press the "X" game key, the firmware goes into fastboot mode, in which:
** Don't use this firmware. ATest support has been removed.
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Clippings, which don't have an associated title, will be titled with the name of the clipping ty
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Some pre-test machines don't have valid manufacturing data. This isn't too much of a problem, but the
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In a new emulator image (you likely don't want to do this on a real OLPC as it will fill up your flash ram). Start
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...rting, is a big task for us... I don't want to be hypocrite to say that we don't feel over burn and sometimes feel discourage - thank God "quiting" is not
...some improvements that can be implemented on the XO machine. In OLPCPH we don't usually report on a website since Tim has limited access to internet, tha
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>>> I know its memory offset is 004h but I don’t know how find the base
Mode: 73 Dirty Accessed Don'tCache Supervisor R/W
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...ou've downloaded and installed the plugin on a regular fedora machine, you don't have to do anything.<br/>
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**don't want 300 uploads at 08:00 and none at 08:01
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...t disadvantage that the environment tends to get cluttered with things you don't need, while making importing of files into the environment from another a
...re image (likely triggered by the backup scripts for the laptop so that we don't lose information when doing the coalescing (only coalesce if the versions
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* Don't cut the trace underneath U48, or add the 4.7K resistor and 0.1uF capacito
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...functional-access to the internet but olpc-upgrade returns the message "I don't think you're connected to the internet." check the hotspot's firewall is
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** Don't use this firmware. ATest support has been removed.
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This section should be used to describe peripherals that don't fit into any other categories or are unlikely to be appropriate for OLPC
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* '''Languages''' you wish to collaborate in. If you don't find your language, as an administrator you can associate it to the proje
After configuring, don't forget to hit the <tt>[Save changes]</tt> button to make them effective,
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...illing in the blanks using code snippets and adding images. But they also don't restrict the student from going above and beyond by extending the templat
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*They do move around according to some voodoo I don't completely understand.
*Don't worry if you can't get the formatting just right! Just enter plain unform
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** Don't use this firmware. ATest support has been removed.
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...an take part in the OLPC Opan hard and software EDUCATIONAL initiative ? I don't think so. One can talk about it to the educational community. Maybe the
...r hand up? ^_^ I would be delighted if any BSDers took up the challenge. I don't speak for OLPC, but according to their hardware policy, you could probabl
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...ere are two local groups in [[OLPC Argentina|Argentina]] with test boards (don't know if anybody has the 2B1/XO prototypes though). They are [https://www.
...orks now. The research is going on now, and you can participate. Exciting, don't you think? -[[User:Jcfrench|Jeff]] 21:47, 9 March 2007 (EST)
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...share properly over the internet using the Jabber server. Activities that don't share well across the internet (G1G1) include Record photos and video (au
...document works well for text, but if you add too many images (large docs) don't share properly.
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...on-Sugar IM clients (like Pidgin) that are registered on the Jabber server don't show up on the XO Sugar Neighborhood View, but the XOs (and other Sugar c
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** Don't use this firmware. ATest support has been removed.
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: I don't speak for OLPC, but my guess is that they're going to gather up all the o
: I don't know the details of any country restrictions for the Give One Get One pro
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* Don’t rotate
...es of the don't rotate.|| User is in Scratch activity window||Click on the don't rotate button
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* Don’t rotate
...es of the don't rotate.|| User is in Scratch activity window||Click on the don't rotate button
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...: everybody starts somewhere random and needs to meet at the same place. I don't like the race to the finish idea.
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...y it. It can survive an occasional accidental soaking in a rain storm, but don't dip it all the way into water.
*If you don't name something, it will be called "Write Activity" in the Journal list.
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...ww.ea.com Electronic Arts] under the GPL for distribution on the XO. (See Don Hopkins' [http://www.donhopkins.com/drupal blog] for more background.)
Don Hopkins breaks it down like so:
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...some of us may believe that. Even if that were 100% true, the governments don't know it. And it isn't 100% true.
You don't have to wait until XOs are announced for your [[Countries|country]] to st
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** Don't use this firmware. ATest support has been removed.
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...eyboard is in English, even when the interface is in English, even when we don't speak each other's language, and even when they are so new to computers,
..., but I sense that the villagers support the project, including those that don't have children at the school. And everybody is welcome to come and partici
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...r to LinuxPrinting.org is likely to prove overwhelming to many new users. Don't assume that the reader has a Linux background.
...g cups with printers attached (say a school server or a home desktop), you don't need to install cups or printer drivers on olpc at all. This is good whe
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...dget on the top left is used to search for a specific option. Options that don't match will be greyed out (e,f).
...are two types of options. Some require a sugar restart to take effect some don't. For example changing the nick name in the 'About Me' section does requir
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=== I don't understand the nomenclature of the projects. Could you explain it to me ?
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** Don't use this firmware. ATest support has been removed.
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...the conclusion the expected amounts raised are not worth the efforts, then don't and use your time better in other niches in the OLPC community or OLPC pr
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If you don't want to mess with patching your server, we are periodically generating sn
Don't forget to set up the service to turn on after a reboot:
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...[[Totem]] plug-in tells [[Browse]] that it can play MP3 files even if you don't have the necessary codec installed, as you can verify by entering <tt>abo
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Don Hopkins did the work. I believe that Don stole some of it from the eToys glue code.
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* Kids still can send the e-mail eventhough they are away from their home (don't received by receiver)
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...cially true. In these cases many of the changes are just change noise and don't really add value to the history. Git allows you to merge these interim c
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Current behaviour which we don't intend to support any longer:
** RM: Don't know; what are the pros and cons? I'd like it if we could dissociate the
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A pretty stable version, while we don't release it officialy: http://dev.laptop.org/git/activities/gambiarra/snap
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:''I don’t know how many times we have to say it, ''“OLPC is a learning project,
...med this was a decision left to editors. Alas, if you want to eat sausage, don't ever visit a sausage factory. It is going to be hard to go back to ''The
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Later builds have these scripts already installed in /usr/bin already. You don't need to download them, you can just use them, as above, except that the -
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* OLPC trac 4981 - don't hang indefinitely if the suspend sequence fails to power down the CPU.
** Don't use this firmware. ATest support has been removed.
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...(Intermediate Language) that requires a runtime to be executed. Since you don't have the runtime installed on the XO, you need to create a Mono bundle so
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Photo decks are experimental, they don't work completely. Also, it takes about ten seconds to A. power on the came
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...ks tray; Children may also share links (with the globe button) )that they don't wish to bookmark.
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* <trac>8444</trac> Sometimes buddies don't show up
* <trac>8655</trac> MikMik and Gmail activities don't update properly via Software Update panel to continuously request that th
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...m the kinds of threats they may encounter online and appropriate behavior, don't give out personal information such as an address, phone number, etc. over
...afraid to pop in and have a look at what they are doing from time to time. Don't threaten... just be sure they know the dangers and that you really care a
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...participates in his family's annual check-up this year, and for once they don't have to spend a week's wages transporting the family to the regional heal
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:This works for my system. I won't guarantee other routers but I don't see why it wouldn't.
:You don't have to manually enter the key.
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...start writing who you are, what you can do, what you want to do, what you don't want to do anymore, how much time you have available, etc. Soon others wi
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...ids learning laptop-x-tablet out there and you want it for your kids. You don't want to give a kid a 750 € iPad. What if dad goes sit on it when he dro
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* svn 1622 Via diagnostics - don't fail the camera test if serial is preventing it from running.
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Luckily the books don't need to be translated to HTML:
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What!? Don't tell that WIFI-RADAR isn't working for ya! Well... Your in luck!
...nect to Wireless Access Points using WPA and WPA2 keys. Following solution don't require wifi-radar, thus work stand-alone for preferred WiFi-connection.
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If you don't hold anything down, you will probably get a "Pretty Boot".
...ook on USB memory sticks and SD cards.) If your laptop does this, and you don't have anything important stored on the laptop, I suggest doing a full refl
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* Don't store the picture (for privacy reasons) - instead, average the luminance
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...doing for us on the laptop. That said, I use Firefox 1.5.0.3, and while I don't like the fact that it opens a pop-up window and even though Tidy reports
...ject.com returned (550 User unknown). I cannot get access an imprint, so I don't know whom else to address there. From what I see with wget the site seems
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Note that [[Activities]] don't list their dependencies in rpm — the [[Read]] activity uses this [[
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Hint, '''don't''' try the OpenGL video mode.william direccion agraciada 2725
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[[Keyboard shortcuts]] lists special keys in Sugar. Some of these don't work in Terminal, or require that you press the Shift key as well.
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::OLPC OS 13.2.0 and earlier don't show networks quickly enough, especially when there are many hidden netwo
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...that comes in range of any of the senses, and then discovering ideas that don't exist in the sensory world.
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If you don't specify a network, the XO will attempt to join a simple mesh network, ena
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# Don't forget to publish your voices file to this wiki, and share your experienc
...Simply replacing the full text with an uppercased version should work. I don't have time to work on this at the moment, but you can give it a try. I wo
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...B keyboard driver - Load the usbkbd driver only for the keyboard subclass; don't load it for the generic hid subclass.
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* {{Ticket|6773}} TamTamJam: Recorded microphone slots don't playback. ?need to test
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# Type ''bash# mondoarchive'' note: don't type sudo, mondoarchive doesn't like sudo
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...the latest stable build before proceeding, see [[Olpc-update]]) – if you don't have an XO, read on.
...red. If reasonable, change your game resolution to the OLPC res. If not, don’t worry – they are working on fixing it so that your game view will be
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...epresents the partition number. Since we want to delete all partitions (I don't think we actually have to, but I think the XO wants the boot partition to
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but that would fail since you don't have permission. To get permission using sudo, you need to type:
...s, add it to your .xfce4_startup file (/home/olpc/.xfce4_startup). If you don't have the .xfce4_startup file (it should be there if you used the compress
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Save yourself some time. Don't make the mistake I made. Before you make an icon, see if it's already on
...rs to the wiki pages for the template icons. Click through to these pages (don't "save as", yet!)
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...to run the laptop and slowly charge the battery (about six hours). If you don't have full sun, then you will break even or slowly drain the battery.
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...ge who can connect to the network, can lock laptops that get stolen or who don't come to school, can provide a local software repository for laptop update
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...ns—there is tremendous interest and good will (take advantage of it, but don't try to control it);
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...o place. Then, rotate the XO 90 degrees and put the remaining screws back. Don't forget that the screws go in on both sides (right/left).
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...n all four gamepad buttons (X, O, square, and check) and power on. If you don't see the breakout game, then you might not be holding down all four button
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...o that even when the load at the school increases (for various reasons) we don't have any setback from the power sector side not only now but in the futur
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...what you're doing. Same goes for any such XO hack. You're on your own! (don't that feel good, eh?)
If you don't have a User page in the wiki with contact info, please contact me by emai
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** On secure/restricted machines you can turn the machine on; you don't have to hold down any game pad keys.
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I don't know why my measurements are much higher than Richard's (he got 3.9W to 4
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...ose partitions, but the user interface for that is clumsy at present and I don't want to publicize it until I can offer a better UI. If you need it right
<dwmw2> you don't need much in it
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<CanoeBerry> Let me know if you don't have access, and want to become a mentor/reviewer! (protecting privacy /
<CanoeBerry> If folks really don't have questions, we have a deal (I've already talked extensively with Petr
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...If your screen doesn't look like these screen-shots (for example, if you don't have an "About" tab), your version of StarChart is not up-to-date.
...an't do that if "now" isn't the right time. (This is only an issue if you don't plan to always use "specify time". But it's still an untidy way to opera
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...m the kinds of threats they may encounter online and appropriate behavior, don't give out personal information such as an address, phone number, etc. over
...rator would be able to control the update process, perhaps so that updates don't happen until the end of a semester (This functionality is implemented, bu
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* -1 bad don't do this, I will come with other proposal in 24 hours
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||[[User:Dhopkins|''Don Hopkins'']]
...birds, I took the freedom to put your information into the table. Hope you don't mind. [[User:Bine|Bine]] 07:47, 2 December 2007 (EST)<br>
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products I’ve learned, and then only asks for the ones I don’t know, so it saves me from wasting a
neighbors and companions don't do—and thus escape or break out of the cultures in which they
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...time, unpaid, on a project with people you've never met, in a language you don't speak, and in a land with terrible coffee... for 9 months? [[User:Bernie|
'''Adam Holt, OLPC Community Support Manager:''' (in the background) Don't make me look old, guys. XFree86 & Linux was like the 10th system I used.
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...Wine say they are almost there. Don't know when it will actually arrive. Don't know if we have the resources to run software in MS Windows emulation on
.... We NEED columns indicating components used by VistA front end clients. Don't know how up to date the Delphi and Lazarus columns are.
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...share the Earth Treasury booth at the next Linux World conference (Thanks, Don) and at other events which will showcase the OLPC XO, or to get your own bo
We don't have anything much on the OLPC Wiki about industrial and shop education,
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...component''' - use the pull down and try to identify the component. If you don't know, leave the default, 'not assigned'
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(Don't bother with this page if you're running 8.2, use RPM Fusion and yum as ab
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** B4 machines are NOT secured, and please don't bother to secure them.
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e.g. "c000.2001" so I don't have to count 0's when looking at the number. You can also embed ',' e.g
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...th regard to taking the computer home at night. Half the kids in the world don't have electricity at home - this is a real barrier for desktop computer us
...set, two major problems still exist: (1) half of the children in the world don't have electricity at home (and thus no television); and (2) standard telev
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...ome to send some "warm words of welcome" to the folks but also be careful: don't promise what you cannot deliver. Hard information is what they need, and
...equest an account with Team namespace access if you're in support-gang and don't already have a teamwiki account). Also see support-gang section of [http:
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This is true, our certificate has expired. We don't plan to fix it.
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* Some packages don't have a proper pgp key, so need to skip pgp installation with --nogpgcheck
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...loper, somewhere in the world. If you have questions after reading below, don't hesitate to write to us!
...eens can be replaced. Damaged XOs are often useful for spare parts. Please don't throw your XOs away...send them to us!''
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* Some wikipages don't have a discussion page yet, but if you have something to say about a page
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...t 2 to scanset 1, so that game key reports, which are always in scanset 1, don't confuse the up/down handler.
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...], and future talks will likely take place in the #olpc-groups channel. We don't have regular meetings (yet). Hang out in the channel if you are intereste
* You have the right to serve whom you please, and to turn down jobs you don't want. (For instance, a repair center may restrict itself to only serving
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...ere are tasks for a broad range of skill and commitment levels, and if you don't yet know how to do something for a task you want to take on, we'll work w
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# We don't yet need glade
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** If you don't know what to do with your old soldering iron, oscilloscope, or components
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I have the machines marked with colored tape on the handle. Red means they don't get checked out. Green means they do. I have numbered them and marked the
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14. Games: Don Hopkins has been working on the new Micropolis codebase
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...ux, correct? So, which browser upgrade do I click on? I'm a Mac user, so I don't know about Linux.
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* Don't use "Gorilla Glue"; that's polyurethane, which foams as it cures.
...ty releases corrosive acetic acid as it cures - if it smells like vinegar, don't use it on electronics.
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** People will often test new code on their OLPC-XO if you don't have one
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* Don't forget to unmount it before removal: <tt>$ umount /mnt/usb</tt>
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2.2 "Use USB memory"). If you don't have a USB memory handy or you
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===Fly-overs sometimes don't go away ([http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/4515 #4514]) ===
** Both video and audio files cannot be viewed with the browser. (don't just throw them out, as this bug may have been fixed, and they may work w
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'''Important:''' As said, we only support Ejabberd as XMPP server so don't try this in a production environnement. Really.
Currently the XOs don't do a very good job with authorisation because they assume that only other
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memory will be erased (your USB flash drive might indicate activity, but don't worry) and then will be overwritten
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...roviding the SSID, passphrase and WPA version of your Access Point. If you don't know the WPA version, try '1' first.
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...uters also use RPM), but the rpm command will immediately reject most that don't work here.
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** Don't use this firmware. ATest support has been removed.
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...serial debugging adapters (available only to select developers because we don't have any more of them), your only option is to return the machine for rep
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* How do you enumerate the available branches? I.e. if you don't want to rely on the documentation being kept up to date...
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* [[User:AuntiMame | AuntiMame]] - I don't live in VT, but I'm usually in state one weekend a month.
If you don't own a XO from the G1G1 program, you still can be involved equally as well
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If you don't have a good internet connection, you might not be able to get past this s
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If you just want the normal Linux text console on the OLPC screen, you don't really need and "console=<device>" arguments, because screen console is t
...ckslash space) are required for recognition, so if you're really lazy, you don't need much of a comment line.
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...the PHP5, now it is developed using Django and Python, because the Amadis don't had a good structured code. Think about this, the following structure is
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...s it's a different bundle. Yet actually there are some changes I generally don't care about. Using a different zip algorithm on the same set of files, for
::I don't understand you. I want bundlebuilder to do the work of building and packa
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Please don't delete the pre statements so the wiki keeps the per line formatting.
keys in center don't work now.
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School has a Dial-up Internet Connection available(Students don't have access to it). They are consideringa broadband connection.
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...d colored link, denoting a missing/broken link to your future translation. Don't worry, you'll fix that in the next step.
...g, any link you 'translate' will most likely point to a non-existing page; don't worry. There are two alternatives:
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: {{Ticket|6945}} - (m_stone:+) - MFG Problem: Ethiopian keyboards don't provide English characters
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M & E is a specialist skill and we probably don't have the resources to conduct full studies on the outcomes from OLPC, how
* ... and don't forget the children!
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...o place. Then, rotate the XO 90 degrees and put the remaining screws back. Don't forget that the screws go in on both sides (right/left).
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-q, --quiet Don't output anything if successful.
...ed with hardlinks built-in. The image builder script will complain if you don't have an appropriate mkfs.jffs2; never ignore this warning for production
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* 10 - reserved - most software should interpret as "don't use this block"
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...o place. Then, rotate the XO 90 degrees and put the remaining screws back. Don't forget that the screws go in on both sides (right/left).
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...or slide the keyboard/top part away from you. '''''Warning:''''' ''if you don't slide the bottom piece, you risk snapping some plastic tabs in the end op
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...hing, since it encouraged the kids to come to school every day. :-) They don't send the chargers home, since it's more important that the laptops be cha
...es, extra chargers, and the bulk charger, are very interesting. Many kids don't have power at home, meaning they have to charge their laptop when they ge
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...0 reset. This is only valid for XO-1 and XO-1.5 batteries at this time, <b>don't try it on a battery that originally arrived in a XO-1.75 laptop.</b>
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...ponents that do not affect the OLPC build, or for file rearrangements that don't change behavior.)
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...d creation step needs quite a bit of entropy for true randomness, which we don't have on a server that is undergoing installation. We can provide at insta
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...rest of the laptops arrive in the country late last year and are stored in Don Bosco College in Port Moresby.
Image:PNG-Nov08-3.jpg|Don Bosco Technology Institute (DBTI): David awarding training certificates to
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...are interested in contributing to shared, OLPC / Sugar Labs projects, but don't know how to get started...
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...cking on an open AP on the neighborhood view, waiting about half a second (don't wait for it to connect), then clicking on a mesh channel. The mesh connec
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.... Be sure to copy the files onto the new drive from a known good source - don't copy them from the bad drive to the new one, because that will just move
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...d like to transcode the file into a few different formats for the XO but I don't have the software nor know how to get it.
...to give to children. Djvu is a better format for this book than pdf, but I don't know how to convert the file.
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* {{Ticket|6773}} TamTamJam: Recorded microphone slots don't playback. ?need to test
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...status. My students have very limited access to the internet because they don't have home computers. We have computers at school. However, most students
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...ty releases corrosive acetic acid as it cures - if it smells like vinegar, don't use it on electronics. Ordinary "white glue" (PVA, or polyvinyl acetate)
...e "Page Fault" on the serial terminal, followed by an "ok" prompt. If you don't see "Page Fault", there are several possibilities:
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...e so you can see what you are doing, and keep small parts in bowls so they don't fall off the table. Avoid dropping metal objects on the motherboard. Use
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If after a few days you don't hear back from us, feel free to email us again.
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===Speakers and Headphones don't work===
...leshooting_AV#Speakers_and_Headphones_don.27t_work|Speakers and Headphones don't work]].
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If both the touchpad and keyboard still don't work (after the above firmware upgrade, followed by simultaneous removal
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The idea for portable drivers is that, while you don't know the overall system, you
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...the instructions that follow, the correct key indexes are included so you don't have to perform this step it is included here in case you want to map out
Don't worry if you don't understand the above script. You can just copy and paste the contents int
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If the methods described in [[Activity installation]] don't work for you, here are further methods.
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...velopment stages of the release. This can't be done if OLPC's own releases don't include the locales/translations in question; asking deployments to regul
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If you don't have a developer key, and your laptop has firmware security enabled, it w
...]])) and get an ok prompt, which lets you enter commands in Forth. If you don't press Escape, after a short countdown the firmware continues booting the
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...hese are identified at the factory (using an extremely sensitive test) and don't change over the life of the device. Occasionally, however, a device deve
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...an ov7670 kernel camera driver patch before it is merged upstream (plus I don't know that it is correct). The other option is to modify gstreamer like we
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#** If you don't want the first "within 30 minutes" wait, just run <tt>/usr/bin/ds-backup.
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...date in...." or "Update Succeeded!" on the screen. If you see the words "I don't think you're connected to the internet." see the notes below. <br>
...p 1 above) but the <tt>olpc-update</tt> command returns the error <code>"I don't think you're connected to the internet."</code>, you may need to open TCP
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* query for things like activities that don't have a translation status.
* ''Decide?'' Add <nowiki>__NOFACTBOX__</nowiki> to feature pages so they don't have a confusing factbox following the table?
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*<b>Ramps</b> are fixed in space (they don't fall or move obstacles). They can be used as walls, or as ramps for thing
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...i18n-ed. Release of v.6 was planned for 1/1/09 but is slipping (because I don't understand how to get the mouse click event). -- [[User:Davewa|Davewa]] 1
...following activities are (misplaced) in [[:Category:Activity bundle]] but don't use the the semantic form; so they have a .xo file yet are not in many qu
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There are probably pages in [[:Category:Activities]] that don't have semantic markup.
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No one around to play? Don't have friends? No need to fear; bots are on the way.
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...most.<br><sub>[[USB_update#No_.22Release_the_game_key.22_message|what if I don't get that message]]</sub>
<br><sub>[[USB_update#No_grid|what if I don't see a grid]]</sub>
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* Sharing and collaboration don't work
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* svn 852 / trac #6967 - don't fail to boot if external device contains developer key for a different ma
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* '''Review/dev''': do we need an "I don't know you" response from the server?
* Dev - "I don't know you" responses?
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* Clean up the SCI delivery states so we don't issue them spuriously
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** we don't know what rpms it operates on
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** Don't add new links unless super appropriate, we're not spammers.
...f in the form '''<nowiki>[[OLPC:Pagename]]</nowiki>''', as interwiki links don't suffer from the "rel=nofollow" tag. '''Important''': Only add to Wikiped
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...enBox. There is an application menu loaded with many many options that you don't have, and one that you now do: xterm, under Terminals. Click on it and a
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* [https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9242 ejabberd:Users added to a shared roster don't see pubsub presence of existing users immediately]
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...sets (e.g. a reserved field or one you know you aren't going to use so you don't want to burn space to give it a name), you can just add to the running of
...a 4-byte field that is handled at a different level of the protocol, so we don't waste space naming it in this module, but the comment "\ >fw-req" reminds
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; <trac>6945</trac> Ethiopian keyboards don't provide English characters. : This was fixed in 708, but it fixes only ha
* svn 852 / trac #6967 - don't fail to boot if external device contains developer key for a different ma
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...age where you have all the kids waving their XO above their heads, but you don't get there just like that. It's not just a matter of ordering some contai
...nd out what books kids actually use at the first grade, second grade etc? Don't you want to put them on the XO's? If you think about it for 2 minutes, y
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|An OLPC School pilot with the primary school level with the Don Bosco Technical College is in the process of being prepared and organised i
...s Chief Mike!!! See you there, I'm excited to sit there in the Board Room, don't forget to remind them about our efforts. By the way, I'll bring my tools
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...ow, and we'll be happy to help you flash it to the latest version. If you don't have an XO bring a laptop and a USB key and we'll have a go at testing su
If you don't have an [[XO]] laptop, you can emulate the current build of the OLPC envi
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rw_RW ___ we don't yet distinguish between them.
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Links without story-based text don't work in such great manner we have learned in our praxis tests. --[[User:P
===Keyword: '''I don't know what I want'''===
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...t_comments=The font for numbers is weird...the character fonts are fine. I don't know how to test Right-to-Left -- we really need some good details in thi
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<sv3rma> this may be for a scenario when we don't have moodle?
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Don't unmount/unplug the USB stick: you'll be using it in some tests below
# If you don't want to reboot to connect, click on the Mesh Network Channel, which the s
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Don't unmount/unplug the USB stick: you'll be using it in some tests below
# If you don't want to reboot to connect, click on the Mesh Network Channel, which the s
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If you don't already have guppy on the XO you want to test, you'll have to download an
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...this mailing list. Set it to Disabled if you want to stay subscribed, but don't want mail delivered to you
* Don't [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Top-posting top post]. Includ
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1) learn python / pygame a little bit if you don't already know it, and plan to make games. If you know python but not pygam
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...paths; either (or both) KAGE's path or the executed script's path so users don't have to worry about it.
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<li>your up-to-date US or Canadian shipping address (sorry PO Boxes don't work!)
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...s good for rescue situations, or where you have a local package mirror and don't want to waste bandwidth downloading a graphical desktop image.
...to shut down X to finish the upgrade (doing it from a virtual console), or don't use gnome.
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...try it a few times as you make it shorter. If you screw up and go too far, don't worry -- you still have the other end of the toothpick so you can try aga
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...hat we will be erasing the entry to confirm that the restore works. Please don't do some extraordinary work that will make you cry if lost (back it up ont
#** If you don't want the first "within 30 minutes" wait, just run <tt>/usr/bin/ds-backup.
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...tain versions, you don't get subscribed to the G1G1 activity group, so you don't get certain activities. Testers should check that their <tt>~olpc/Activi
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...about:plugins</tt> in its location field and press the enter key. (If you don't see its location field, click its "Browse" menu.)
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If you don't wish to put your name/organisation publicly, you can always [http://www.o
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...date in...." or "Update Succeeded!" on the screen. If you see the words "I don't think you're connected to the internet." see the notes below. <br>
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...ing photos, changing the text, and other basic Write functionality if they don't already know.
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<NtugiMark> In a world where many wealthier countries still don’t make government data easily accessible and usable by the public, Kenya
<carolruthsilver> sorry, don't see agenda, how do I get it or can you post it here?
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...work game. Instead, if you want to play without an Internet connection, or don't want to use the official Wesnoth gaming server, you will have to run your
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deps in there we don't want, e.g.:
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...couraging / coaching OLPC XO-XS deployments, trying to understand why they don't spin out in nation wide deployments and trying to find ways around whatev
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that hold the screen (but don't disconnect the screen) in order
it's time to reassemble. You don't want to overuse the little
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You don't need to go into the terminal mode on either computer.
...internet connection. Just go do something else while it is happening, but don't do anything else on
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edmcnierney> I really meant, "Please don't expect me to run it,
edmcnierney> cjb: Right - I don't want to send the message that we
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...ost sensor to detect pathogens and contaminants in food, water and soil (I don't think it'll be possible, how to do it? -A.Indoria --Reply This could be a
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...s, the FTL must move data around so that repeated writes to a given sector don't cause too many writes to the same NAND page.
...art the first partition on a cylinder boundary, you lose. (Modern devices don't really care about heads and sectors at the interface level, but the legac
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* ISO9660 filesystem reader - don't force filenames to upper case
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...basically a upgrade camp to get lot of non-working XO machines right. You don't need to be a computer scientist to participate for this camp. All you nee
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...ould be done with the old TCL/Tk code for the short term. [[User:dhopkins|-Don Hopkins]]
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* svn 2325 - EC-SPI command protocol: don't complain if the EC has queued-up a couple of upstream events and extend t
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Why don't we first try to make a blog/forum thing so we can easily open discussions
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''wmb'' - I don't see SSP0_SRDY in the Armada docs. I see SSP1_SRDY and SSP3_SRDY .
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...sels office at meetings / events, ... that can explain newcomers the do's, don'ts and how to do it better, ... , management, knowledge management, project
...e best meetings you ever took part in, what can we adopt from them, do's - don's - can do even better suggestions.
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...cation where the dabates have taken place and they opted for the [[XO]]'s. Don't you want to give a kid a strong "box" that holds a laptop with keyboard a
...er on the pulses of the Ministers of Education here in Belgium, but I just don't see any informed educational community that can give me a pondered respon
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<carldani> CanoeBerry: I have to admit I don't know about that project yet, but give me a few seconds to read up
<carldani> CanoeBerry: hm. I don't have flash installed, so his site comes up empty anyway
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Our OLPCeu-Giulia asked "don't forget to:
- SoaS on the XO booted, but I don't have any further notes on this
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Don't post your questions on this wiki page, you can use the discussion page fo
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...ply the best educational laptop-x-tablet for any kid, including yours? You don't want to give your kid a 750 € iPad; you want a school reduced so it fit
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# reboots itself, but don't forget to escape next boot
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<mchua> CanoeBerry: don't know... I told him to follow the instructions on the contrib program wiki
<Caryl> I don't think he knows how large elementary school classes are
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For CPUs where I don't have a built-in emulator library (e.g ARM), I typically use QEMU or some
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If you have a laptop in a case, please don't operate it for long periods of time with the back cover of the laptop in
A few A1 boards don't power-on reliably. On some boards, and more frequently after the chipset
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These are some details about the A2 motherboards which generally don't impair functionality.
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The internal SD and WLAN power switches were hurriedly changed for B1, and don't work. All B1 motherboards have been ECOd to short the internal SD switch
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...and touchpad wakeups so that you can tell the difference between the 2 and don't wakeup on keyboard break codes.
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...a filtering proxy there (such as [http://dansguardian.org/ DansGuardian]). Don't forget to tighten the rules to avoid running an open proxy. And on the XS
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...te holt @ laptop . org and/or introduce yourself above on live chat if you don't yet have the number!
''“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instea
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we don't hear anything about it here. The only thing I hear are some
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* PC Keyboard - Don't hang waiting for OLPC game buttons to be released.
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columns we don't need. Also make sure you don't include the 'column
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...how they can use the laptops. Maybe they have some specific needs that we don't know."
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nor virtualization chip support, so don't get me
based on your characteristics, and part of your name, but I don't recall mine, if ever had one)...
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* r1361 - don't debounce the power button as doing so causes the short pulse length to be
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Sorry, We don't have the source code currently in public. We will provide it on APRIL 13,
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...Fixed a "stack depth changed" warning that only happens on B3 systems. We don't have any real B3s yet, but the ECO-ed B2 revealed the problem.
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<harryb2> kjcole - thanks - i don't know that i can make it tomorrow ; but i'll check the schedule
<kjcole> rdyrussia: though I don't want to commit Jeff to anything, considering he over-commits himself. Ho
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The first 2.4K C2 laptops had a different set of component values and don't work as well with solar panels.
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...vices like mass storage devices and LANs work after resume, so long as you don't suspend/resume too many times. Eventually the system dies with "user are
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<GrannieB> Bozeman LUG has an XO library. I don't know where they are checked out at this time.
<CanoeBerry> I don't want this group to assume they will receive 10 XO-1.5's, but I'm happy to
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...as frequently as other points. Points can come and go from this list, so don't make a static copy of it. See ajaxpts in the Additional Properties secti
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...over on a lot of batteries that have charge balance a lot easier since you don't have to reload batman.fth every reboot.
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<CanoeBerry> You mispelled his name FYI, but generally don't use names here to protect privacy, unless the applicant has agreed we can
<GeorgeH> i don't see the contribution to the olpc community in this application
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...the board, extending its leads with 28ga solid wire. Be careful that you don't pull the pads off the PCB and break the traces. The copper plating is ve
...ware: q2e42 for XO-1 and q3a35 for XO-1.5. Earlier versions of firmware don't reliably detect the touchpad if there isn't a PS/2 keyboard present in th
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[[/Proyecto Café-Don Paco]] (LASNUVES, MATAGALPA, MANAGUA )<br />
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<GrannieB> still don't understand what these are for then
<cjb> (I don't see his name in the kernel commits anywhere.)
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...ems to be some video issues, some elements (window borders?) are goofy and don't repaint properly. I have not yet investigated how/if the Ubuntu Xorg driv
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<ndoiron> I don't know much about SoaS but it sounds useful +1
<ndoiron> I don't really know about powerd but I assume it is better power-management or mo
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...p the interfaces, mesh '''must''' be brought up first. This is because we don't have to adjust the MAC addresses on the beacons.
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...aged children are enrolled in school. 50% of Afghan girls and 40% of boys don't attend school. Schools must operate in “shifts,” the average being th
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...t a telco. The telco has a foundation supporting our OLPC deployment. We don't have to pay the fixed IP address e.g. Service level agreement - a free fi
...tering is on. So we can get an idea who is surfing to what. I'm happy we don't give access to the whole internet: e.g. kids surfing to sites on hero's a
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*If you don't see an appropriate section for your idea, start a new section (or subpage
...h, blink, and swipe of a big wet nose with a long flexible tongue. What I don't want is fifteen minutes of wading through the internet, google, youtube,
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<CanoeBerry> will begin doing a LOT of work, I just don't have the time right now.
<SharonE> The camp is set up for the 2nd to last week of June - so if we don't get moving and get computers soon, we need to cancel. Time's running sho
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...f 23-27V? but MPPT of 17V? Think of it as gear box, of car of bike. If you don't have gearbox, you can't get up to 55MPH.So you will be running in 1st gea
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...cluster tracking in the case where the number of free clusters is set to "don't know".
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...ion techniques for education, is the consensus these evaluation techniques don't apply / make visible what one laptopschools are provoking in a kids and f
And that you don't even ask for an indecent giant amount of money - say 1 billion € to edu
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...r places in the world, do care about them and are interested in them. Why don't you show them the questions and they help you finding the answers? Looks
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...i and look exactly as it currently appears in the Help Activity on the XO (don't use Firefox for this).
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<yomshalom> there are still people that don't have a facebook?
<yomshalom> on FB, i don't think so
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...routine receives the SCI event notifications and does the Right Thing. I don't think there is any need for downstream communication for SCI events, so
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...or context to bring older books up to date or more accessible for kids who don't know the material as well. The book might be able to detect what words t
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* Don’t rotate
...es of the don't rotate.|| User is in Scratch activity window||Click on the don't rotate button
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* Don’t rotate
...es of the don't rotate.|| User is in Scratch activity window||Click on the don't rotate button
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* Don’t rotate
...es of the don't rotate.|| User is in Scratch activity window||Click on the don't rotate button
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<jnettlet> Those are obviously XO 1's because the 1.5's don't have mesh
<jnettlet> I don't think so
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* olpc-kbdshim: don't rotate input on a failed screen rotation (<trac>9350</trac>)
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<cjb> I don't think this belongs anywhere near the contributors program.
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...ide the best placement, only an "appropriate" one. This case uses the "you don't get a Cadillac you get a working Chevy" metaphor. The parents are also re
...t said that the Arlington High School program was also appropriate so they don't need to pay.
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...y has to be done once --- if you update to a newer version of the JRE, you don't need to do this again.
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...a lot of active listening on the part of everyone involved. To ensure they don't go unused, used inappropriately, or used only by a select few, protocols
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...These Wiki tables may be hard to edit so if you want to make a change and don't know how, just leave a comment on the Discussion tab and I will make the
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* Respect the teachers' time. Start on time. End on time. Don't waste time. Have everything ready when they arrive.
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* It would be nice if there was a way to mark a block as don't care, both at the device level and the filesystem level.
[dsd] ''I don't think the "cloning the senders disk" option is very useful though, and Iw
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...They usually create lesson plans using "other software" that the teachers don't get
<cjb> sandrat: I don't understand; what does screen sharing have to do with the proposed activit
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...release. We would prefer not to work with damaged hardware as we currently don’t have a whole lot of expertise to deal with the issues.
If you don't have time to check please put "Pending tracker check" on the bugs column.
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<sandrat> wanja was connected, don't know if she is still. I have read her project and can represent it.
<sandrat> I have to leave momentariy. I don't know if Jane is still on line, but will get her back on
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* <ntt> Don't expect magic attitudes, expect magic issues sans magic answers.
* <ntt> If we don't do that, we say no.
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...or we talk about the kids producing their own content for themselves - we don't know
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If you need to update OFW but you don't have access to a mass storage device like SD or USB or the network, you c
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...ments for the extension of the room use til next week. Yey! That is, if we don't have enough SVs to finish the tasks til Fri.
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...ry coding practices like RAM variables and subroutine nesting using stacks don't work. To work around the lack of RAM, the early startup code must either
...command to the Embedded Controller to distinguish old board revisions that don't support the dongle-detection hardware signal. Eventually the code enable
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<joclemente> don't know if we have a linux machine. Can find out. Pardon my question but wil
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...If your screen doesn't look like these screen-shots (for example, if you don't have the indicated version as displayed in the "About" tab), your version
...an't do that if "now" isn't the right time. (This is only an issue if you don't plan to always use "specify date". But it's still an untidy way to opera
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* 14ebb88 2011-12-16 don't say we've fetched the host command until we've done so
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<Marina> projects dont work if you don't have local connections
<Marina> if you expect gratitude or self fulfilment, don't do it just for that
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These steps are easier if you know HTML, but you don't have to.
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In school server you don't have a login, to simulate the normal XO process, skip login as part of te
...er provided content on the XS. An additional factor is that many children don't have XOs due to damage and they would be left out of the Moodle courses.
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[10:29am] NinaStawski: it's useful to show kids a concept of size, cause they don't know whtat's big and what's small
[10:47am] NinaStawski: laptops already perform backups every day, so you don't loose a big amount of data anyway
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...espond at first || http://support.laptop.org || http://forum.laptop.org/|| Don't ask to ask || Read http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html ||
...ent can double - triple time on task and provide missing feedback teachers don't have time and are too overloaded to provide
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[11:46am] NinaStawski: if you don't have an XO you should definitely use that
[12:05pm] ntt: new developers don't want to maintain
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* Don't set the activity metadata property when save PDF file because Write can s
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...an't do that if "now" isn't the right time. (This is only an issue if you don't plan to always use "specify time". But it's still an untidy way to opera
...one or more small points of light to the left and/or right of Jupiter. (I don't plot possible "background stars", as this would only make the view confus
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...rviews and ensure people in the core team know who is talking to who so we don't confuse people by contacting them multiple times unnecessarily or without
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Don't unmount/unplug the USB stick: you'll be using it in some tests below
# If you don't want to reboot to connect, click on the Mesh Network Channel, which the s
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