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;[[Forth]]: God's gift to terse programmers
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;[[Open Firmware]]: God's gift to hardware debuggers
;[[Open Firmware]]: God's gift to hardware debuggers
;System Firmware:The system firmware is made up of 2 parts: The EC and OFW.
; :
The first part is the software that runs the embedded controller (EC). The EC
handles the processing of the keyboard, touchpad, game buttons, power
button, and charging the battery. The second part is OpenFirmware (OFW).
OFW is responsible for initializing the
hardware and booting the operating system. OFW also handles boot
security so that it will only load "offical" OLPC operating systems.

;Wireless Firmware: The wireless firmware is software that controls the operation of the
wireless radio. It is downloaded into the wireless radio by the
Operating System.


== external storage device terms ==
== external storage device terms ==

Revision as of 23:25, 10 March 2008

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activity terms

taking a pic
reading a book
creating a page
annotating a page
animating a drawing
making sounds & music
measuring and sensing
sharing your favorites
inviting your friends
surfing on the web, etc...

XO terms

school server
a machine at each school that works as an access point and provides
serverless peer-to-peer
a wayof providing peer-to-peer sharing of data via peer-to-peer connectivity, from one XO to another.
XS server
see school server

networking terms

infrastructure
sometimes used to describe traditional network connectivity, with an access point
mesh
see mesh layer
mesh view (AKA neighborhood view)
A view of who is sharing the mesh network with you. See sugar terms
mesh layer
a layer that can run over peer-to-peer, over infrastructure, etc.
peer-to-peer
see serverless peer-to-peer
presence
jabber
networking protocol that the XO uses
tubes
tubes runs over the mesh and over traditional infrastructure.
simple mesh
school server mesh
mesh channel
access point
infrastructure mode
mesh portal point

terms for the outer case

dual-tone
the two-color nature of the icon on the outside of the laptop; one color or tone for the o and the other for the x

Hardware and firmware terms

Forth
God's gift to terse programmers
Open Firmware
God's gift to hardware debuggers
System Firmware
The system firmware is made up of 2 parts: The EC and OFW.

The first part is the software that runs the embedded controller (EC). The EC handles the processing of the keyboard, touchpad, game buttons, power button, and charging the battery. The second part is OpenFirmware (OFW). OFW is responsible for initializing the hardware and booting the operating system. OFW also handles boot security so that it will only load "offical" OLPC operating systems.

Wireless Firmware
The wireless firmware is software that controls the operation of the

wireless radio. It is downloaded into the wireless radio by the Operating System.

external storage device terms

Jumpdrive
A small, external storage device that plugs into one of the USB ports on a computer. They can store between 16MB (enough to hold several music files) up to 4GB (enough to hold several high quality full-length movie files) and a wide range in between. Jump drives are easily purchased at any electronic store starting as low as $5 to $10.
Thumb drive
see jump drive
USB drive
see jump drive
USB Stick
see jump drive
Memory Stick
see jump drive

sugar

dual-tone
see terms for the outer case;
home view
a view of what activities you are running, and how much memory they take—the starting view on the laptop;
group view
a view of your friends with whom you are working on shared projects;
neighborhood view
a view of who is sharing the network with you (mesh or otherwise) and what activities are being shared there;
taskbar
the bottom bar of the frame;

activities

Activity
a Sugarized application that can have an icon in the taskbar;
bundle
(also activity bundle, content bundle, collection)

content

library
content bundle
collection
book

linux commands and entities

man
sudo
root
(as in the user)
rpm

Power options

human power
solar power
multi-battery charger
power strip
hand crank
pulley system
XOctoPlug

Security

BitFrost
Rainbow
Activation
Activation key
Developer key
key generation
lease
passive kill
active kill
virus
malware

Documentation and support

Wiki
IRC
Email list

Localization

Pootle
translation
keyboard


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