This all sounds like a great current solutinon, but shouldn't we be looking at more long term network ubquity solutions. It seems to be that having a telepathy backend and frontend would allow us to share files anty which wat inclydiung usb if that was desired. From my experience in schools, though they seem like god's gift at the beginning of the semester, teachers end up cursing the the things left right and center, through no fault of usb, but that of human error, where people forget/loose/haver them eaten by their pets, truly)<br>
<br>sorry so to sounds so pessimisitc today, mybe fell out of the wrong side of the bed,<br>David<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Martin Langhoff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:martin.langhoff@gmail.com">martin.langhoff@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Martin Langhoff<br>
<div class="im"><<a href="mailto:martin.langhoff@gmail.com">martin.langhoff@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
</div><div class="im">> Filed it as <a href="http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9657" target="_blank">http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9657</a> - can't find anything on<br>
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</div>And also related: <a href="http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9658" target="_blank">http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9658</a> about the<br>
impossibility of exchanging data between Sugar versions 0.82 and 0.84<br>
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This is rather awkward -- users cannot save their own files to a USB<br>
stick (pre upgrade) and expect them to work once upgraded.<br>
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I don't expect all deployments will use olpc-update :-/<br>
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