Nokia N810 Running OLPC Sugar May 1, 2009
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- Sugar running on the Nokia N810
Hey all,
This past week I managed to do something quite interesting. I got sugar, running on my Nokia N810, compiled for armel.
The trick that made it work was thanks to easy Debian chroot, that got me access to installing sugar without a few good hours of compilation for arm (and I did that before).
Touchscreen is cool!
The first thing that I found pretty neat was running sugar on a touchscreen device. It really felt better, since most people that I let play with my XO and flip its screen 180 degrees naturally try touching the screen, expecting it had a touchscreen. Sugar was actually quite good with it on the Nokia.
A trip to the North and some GPS fun April 15, 2009
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Tracking with the Nokia N810.
Hey all,
This Passover, I went on a trip in the North of Israel in the Golan heights.
However, apart from enjoying the beauty of nature I thought I might do a little experiment with my Nokia N810, a Linux device with a GPS receiver.
What I did was switch it on at the beginning of the tour and put it back inside my bag, ignoring it most of the time.
The result was a complete GPX file of our tour.
On the Nokia it looked nice, however I wanted to see if I can extract more data at home with the GPX file.I found 3 tools I could do with it.
OLPC Israel’s New Debian Based System for Pilot February 7, 2009
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OLPC Israel Debian Desktop View
Hey All,
I am Happy to update we have now a working prototype OS for the OLPC pilot here in Israel.
As explained in my last post, we have only B2/B1 laptops that are not compatible with the current sugar version. Because of this we had to develop our own OS that we will put on SD cards and in to the laptops (in the full project we want to use sugar, we did this for the B2s only really).
This system works well also with the normal OLPC units. And I’d be glad if anyone would like to use it copy, and modify.
The system is based off Debian and runs on XFCE. The B2 laptops work with only 128 RAM so we really reduced the memory usage. The kernel on the system is from build 711, which is the last to work with the B2. Still, it works fine on any OLPC. I hope we will have Kernel Headers for the release someone in the future.
I’d also like to take the opportunity for give a huge thanks to Ram-on Agmon who really got the system up and running.
We have 24 Old OLPCs in Israel, for our pilot! December 18, 2008
Posted by GuySoft in Crictor, ITU, olpc, open source.Tags: b2, olpc, pilot
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Hello all big news:
B2 OLPC boxes
I have in my room, 24 B2 laptops!
Dima (ITU alumnai), Netzach (head of Ilan Ramon Center) and I had a meeting with Peres Center for Peace. To our great surprise, the center had 24 B2 laptops, which were laying there for more than a year without any use (if you are yelling “but why?!” then the quick answer is that none had the technical ability to get them truly working).
So to sum up: the pilot can start! .. but wait, there is a catch.
Cellphones in Israel – No collaboration on infrastructure leads to bad quality of service December 6, 2008
Posted by GuySoft in Crictor, ITU, open source.Tags: carriers, cellphones, GSM, ITU, Pelephone
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In Israel we have no problem when it comes to cellphone reception, even in deserts you will find that the reception is at full gain. However when the access is antiques, quality and reliability of that access the becomes the really important issue.
Part of a jungle of models
It seems that the service models are quite different around the world, and this seems to directly effect the usage pattern in the country. A common problem in Asia is when one has a monopoly, where a single company is in charge of the cellphone service, usually derived by an agreement with the government. This usually creates dis-connectivity in places where there is a low concentration of people, or remote places that are hard to reach.
Israel is different
OLPC pilot in Israel – We Need the Community November 30, 2008
Posted by GuySoft in Crictor, ITU, open source.Tags: Bedouin, Hebrew language, Israel, ITU, olpc, One Laptop per Child
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Hey all,
I am happy to tell that in the last few days there were talks between OLPC and the “Ilan Ramon Youth Physics Center” with a goal to start an OLPC pilot in Israel.
The plan
The Ilan Ramon Center already has an ongoing project for mathematical thinking and programing in the Be’er Sheva area (aka the Negev desert), where they mostly help poor families, and also Bedouin. This is a perfect place to help with OLPCs (some Bedouin even live in tents!). There is a lot to do to help. This past week I had to help the people in the Center get a C and Java IDE to work on the green laptop.
Debian repository for Sugar-jhbuild November 8, 2008
Posted by GuySoft in open source, programming.Tags: debian, olpc, open source, sugar
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Hey all,
I am happy to announce that we have a Debian repository of weekly builds of sugar-jhbuild.
You can see its wiki page here.
You can get it by adding the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://download.sugarlabs.org/sugar/liveimages/debian-jhbuild/apt/ sid main
Then type:
apt-get update
apt-get install sugar-jhbuild
Now you can try sugar in a seprate window:
sugar-jhbuild-emulator
Live CD that turns any computer to an OLPC October 14, 2008
Posted by GuySoft in Crictor, linux, open source, programming.Tags: debian, linux, live cd, olpc, programming, sugar
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Day Seven, The last – Secondlife, Closing forums and Back to Israel October 12, 2008
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Hey, here are today’s events:
Day Six – Climate Crisis Forum, The main Exhibition and 3 Parties October 12, 2008
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hey,
I unfortunately lost my notes list so I don’t have all the quotes for today.
Here is the day:
