Glossary

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

sugar, content and activity terms

Activity

a Sugarized application that can have an icon in the taskbar;

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;

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

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

Content

ebook;

content bundle

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