[IAEP] IAEP Digest, Vol 13, Issue 73

[Gary C Martin]

On 24 Apr 2009, at 18:44, Caryl Bigenho wrote:

> Hi Caroline, Bert, and everyone else,
>
> About 5 minutes ago I got SoaS to run on my MacBook. :  ) I followed  
> Bert's fine instructions again, adding one tiny detail
>  (if Virtual Manager doesn't open, click on the little yellow folder  
> at the right of the pull down bar...if it doesn't open,
> double click again).
>
> All I tried was Speak.  It worked fine with English and Spanish.  It  
> seems like the mouth doesn't open as wide and it talks
> a little faster, but maybe that is my imagination. I have to  
> refinish a 9 drawer dresser now, so I will have to wait until evening
> to play more with SoaS on the MacBook.  BTW...how do I add  
> activities? (Greedy I guess).

Using Browse, the default page has a link to the Activities web site,  
though only a portion of activities have been migrated there so far.  
Old, likely unsupported and untested activities, can also be  
downloaded from the wiki.laptop.org site as before.

It's worth noting that the current Soas distributions come pre- 
installed in such a way that you can not update some of the activities  
from within Sugar... Though, if you know your way around terminal it  
is easily fixed. I think this currently covers all "Fructose" core  
activities. One way to tell is to hover your cursor over the activity  
icons in Home view, you'll notice some have "Erase" greyed out, these  
are the locked ones.

Regards,
--Gary

> I will take my MacBook, 5 XOs, and the nice SoaS stick Walter sent,  
> to the InfoTech event tomorrow. Someone there
> will probably have a PC we can use the stick on.
>
> I have been following the discussion about the length of time  
> schools would continue to use PowerPC Macs.
> In my experience schools keep machines until lots of their keys fall  
> off or they totally die. Then if they are thrown out,
> some enterprising teacher will go dumpster diving and rescue them to  
> set up a computer lab in their classroom.
> I know of at least one instance of this actually happening!
>
> So, yes, IMHO it is worth it to spend the time to get to run on the  
> PowerPC.
>
> Caryl
>
> P.S. In Latin America they call USB sticks "pens."  That means SoaS  
> there would be SoaP!
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