Chrome XOs?

running Fedora 17 with SugarOS UI on an older netbook.

found I could run google-chrome from the Sugar terminal.

The menu and tabs are not "sugarized", so you can maximize chrome, and it seems like it has taken over the system:

XOpup-2 installed and running

updated my OLPC G1G1 XO 1.0

see if I can get same setups working;

notes:
needed to manually add symlinks to libvlc*
Sound works out of box!

streaming from MythTV files via vlc working great!

sagemath on XO --> viewer=tachyon

sage math works on the XO, as long as you avoid java;

so need to use the tachyon viewer.

OLPC XO-1 Puppy Blue Snowball

hello., testing 1,2,3

got the blue snowball running on the XO-1 with puppy.

default sound editor mhwaveedit working with alsa.

set input to hw:1,0

XOpup 5.1.1

got XOpup-1.0_RC3.tar.gz

running on the old XO 1.0;

works great!

much faster than the recent update to 10.1.2 of the default sugar os

took a few minutes to get the wireless working, but now is running great!

Can watch jumpy youtube videos at 240 resolution out of the box.
Good for lectures, like the TED talks, not so much for things needing smooth animation.

Need to see if I can get the VLC pup installed, then can stream my MythTV...

olpc XO-1 + mythTV

playing mythTV recorded shows; with a bit of transcoding;

initial files play full screen, but no sound; needed to re-encode with different audio codec, and then drop the frame rate to make playable.

but they are quite playable!

1 hr of David Suzuki: Nature of Things, easily fits on a 2G usb key.

now wondering if I could use the olpc directly for the mythTV box...

XO cloud control?

running solaris, from the XO via amazon aws.

not quite perfect; the default amazon web control panel is a bit too big for the screen, but is just usable.

did not try the java command line utils.

XO bean sprouts

got a webcam program running, pointing at our bean sprouts.

using:
fswebcam-20070108-1.i386.rpm
manually extracted onto a usb key;

did need to also extract one library:
gd-2.0.35-5.fc9.i386.rpm

working like a charm:

#!/bin/sh
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH={above lib on usb key also}
MYDATE=`date +20%y%m%d%H%M%S`
fswebcam --verbose --no-banner --no-timestamp --save tw_$MYDATE.jpg

olpc xo Physics Activity

Very cool;

liked by all; dropping blocks and balls on top of each other and watching them roll and bounce away elicits giggles...

Sugar on Fedora 10

Finally got around to updating kpc to Fedora 10

and running sugar-emulator !

so have sugar running on the downstairs system, and the upstairs actual XO laptop.

is bigger, brighter and faster on the kpc, but a bit less stable;
not everything works.

New XO Keyboard

finally giving up on hacking the old "sticky keys" keyboard.

found online supplier for OLPC parts:

XOExplosion.com

they seemed legit; and take paypal, so filled out the online form to order a new one.

<$20

Keyboard arrived Friday!

(was away this weekend)

will try to replace... this week?

here's how...

wiki
or video:

Skype voice on OLPC

got the current skype_static-2.0.0.72 running voice only mode on the OLPC.

notes:
the missing xscreensaver library was a bit hard to find;

running from a USB flash drive, don't yet have an SD card;

looked at postings on getting the video running;

is similar to my K6, so may work...

TOTEM (media player) on OLPC

TOTEM works from commandline !

ok, not sugar -ized but is there.

found the cbc ogg stream links, typed them in and they work!

also transferred a few oggs from the iMac (Raffi)

now all I need is to figure out python and create an "activity" so totem
is on the bottom of the screen for the kids.

now, is an external hard drive, or usb key sticking out the side too
clunky?

do I need to purchase an SD card?

or perhaps just nfs mount my linux share?

hmmmm...

Setting up Adult screen/keys on OLPC

ok, now how do I work on the OLPC?

using Xming on windows, or just X on my linux machines (which have adult style keyboards)

I go to the terminal activity and export DISPLAY=myhost:0.0

then xterm
that works.  Also lets me give the laptop back to Tara;)

Have not added passwords or setup system so I can ssh into it directly...

Got firefox 2.0.0.11 running, with my own local copy of the older libraries I had on another system.

also "mc"

should I put Perl and gcc on it?
that may be overkill, I think I'll use my other linux system to compile, and just make sure I use the correct flags.

Now need to find a good python game site...

head 2 head: olpc vs iMac edubuntu

cold day here, so stayed indoors for some inside activities...
had both systems running; Rohan on iMac, Tara on olpc

Rohan running gcompris and tuxpaint;

Tara playing with video and making movies, and painting.

I'd say it came out a draw; Tara did want to play with the iMac, and Rohan did like the olpc.

today's fun:
animations and paint
(on both)

Truly Tara's OLPC

ok, found the sugar-control-panel command

so now the laptop does say "tara" and is red and pink themed.

Tara really liked the turtle art, but I didn't help her as much as she would have liked (Rohan needed to brush his teeth)

also found out how to hook up a jabber server to get friends on the network.
tara's laptop is set to a (likely) null server, so as to keep people out.

will likely put the jabber server on the imac.

may need to update the imac; perhaps it is time to put my idle 80 gig drive in there...

OLPC panic attack #1 touchy touchpad!

ok, the kids got to see the OLPC today...

Tara immediately adopted it; Rohan seemed to accept this, so it is now "Tara's computer"

(Rohan tends to dominate the previous two, iMac and Flatscreen, due to them having his music)

first panic attack: the touchpad is broken!

or so we thought.

fiddling with it, slowly using it, twirling... all seemed to fail.

it jumped to the lower right corner without fail, whenever we tried to use it..

finally resorted to GOOGLE... found there is a "4 finger salute" to recalibrate...

and then full power cycle seems to have fixed it:

it is capacitive detector, so if you are touching it on bootup...
this can cause calibration problems...

did a full power cycle, and seems better now...

whew.

OLPC Arrived!

OLPC arrived today!

didn't let the kids see it, as I'm paranoid, and if it was a "green brick" I didn't want them to be as dissapointed as me!

so, after they fall asleep...

took it for a spin.  Connected to my wireless, browsed the web, and found "gcompris.activities.xo"

so now it has the same set of activities as the iMac, plus the new ones.

now I have to hide it, and see if it survives the pair, 4 and 6...

I  didn't get "one laptop per child" so we'll see if it gets killed tomorrow.... ;)

but hey, it is supposed to be able to withstand kids ;)

general impressions:
screen fantastic!
keyboard: really too small for me to even try to touch type, I'm back at my other system now.
wireless; works like a charm.

did drop to the command line.  Neat.

didn't stream from the cbc .ogg site by just clicking on the link :(

looks like I'll have to install something.