[svlug] olpc xo

[Edward Cherlin]

Wikis are just so awesome.

On Dec 7, 2007 10:11 PM, Paul Reiber <reiber at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hiya Daniel! ...and, hiya SVLUG!
>
> Daniel - Thanks so much for upgrading that XO unit that Google gave us
> to play with!  It's now doing different cool and interesting things as
> opposed to the last build's cool and interesting things.

Which build do you have? I have build 623, and firmware Q2D03. Have
you tried the Developer's Console (Alt+0)?

> Can you please aim me at the right URL to see if there's a newer build
> since that was a few weeks ago?

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Autoreinstallation_image

"You may choose between the the latest stable build
(http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/ship.2/latest/devel_jffs2/)
and the the latest unstable development build
(http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/latest/devel_jffs2/)."

> In hopes of being able to get the thing to work under some more
> traditional situations, I picked up a few USB-based products to see if
> we can get them working.  VGA and Ethernet were, to me, the biggest
> missing components from the system, unlike Mr. Gates, who seems to
> feel it needs a few more gigs of ram for his bloatware.

You can connect by wireless from a Linux machine with VGA to the XO
for display purposes.

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Remote_display

> Fortunately, there are USB based products that provide both the VGA
> and the Ethernet hardware.
>
> It'll be fun to see if we can adapt drivers to support these. The 'net
> dongle didn't work "out of the box"... haven't tried the VGA one but
> odds are it won't either - didn't really expect them to though.
>
> Once we've got something to show people, we'll share the details via
> the Tuesday-evening kernel walkthru sessions.

Ah, then I need to start attending. Now that we have all of these new
goodies (and apparently sales have crossed the half-million mark in
under a month), would the LUG like a video demo at a meeting?

It's too late to get one for Christmas, except on eBay at an inflated
price, but you can still order them for January delivery. My boss on
my last contract ordered one for her son. http://laptopgiving.org/

> -Paul Reiber,
> President, SVLUG

Note new donated Web space for Earth Treasury.org. This is a
side-effect of the Google Web Toolkit conference I won a pass to at
the November meeting. Actual pages to follow Real Soon Now.

GWT (pronounced by some 'gwit') is an awesome Java-to-Javascript
compiler that lets you create pages with drag-and-drop widgets (and
monster security holes, but they explained how not to do that).

They loved the laptop, and a number of them volunteered. Somehow, the
idea of helping millions of children learn Web design, and then go
into business with them creating truly international Web sites,
appealed to Web designers and Web toolkit designers alike.
-- 
Edward Cherlin
Earth Treasury: End Poverty at a Profit
http://www.EarthTreasury.org/
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."--Alan Kay