problems using the measure activity.

[david at lang.hm]

obviously I meant the distance utility not the measure (scope) utility.

David Lang

On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, david at lang.hm wrote:

> Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 23:06:48 -0800 (PST)
> From: david at lang.hm
> To: devel at lists.laptop.org
> Subject: problems using the measure activity.
> 
> several of us took our XO laptops to the SCALE conferance this weekend. We
> got a LOT of attention (you couldn't walk down the hallway with one
> without people asking about them, I stepped out of a class at the
> afternoon break on friday and didn't make it down to the registration desk
> for 5 hours)
>
> however when we attempted to demo the measure activity we just could not
> figure out how to make it work. we got it working three times over the
> weekend (among a dozen or more tries).
>
> we has laptops with the 650 build, the -rc2 build, and the signed build
> released in Jan (one of them started with a joyride build as of
> mid-week). no matter which combinations of builds we tried, we were not
> able to repeat a sucess.
>
> could somone explain step-by-step what is supposed to happen (and what
> screen we need to be on when to see the result) I have a pair of boxes
> which are now on the -rc2 build, so I can try and see if I can get this to
> work reliably.
>
> we also had problems with recent builds that while the laptops were taking
> measurements they would go to sleep, breaking the connection and
> terminating the joint activity, the one sucess we had with -rc2 machines
> required that the person holding each laptop keep masaging the mouse pad
> to keep the machine awake.
>
> we looked in the application bar for the activity to show up as the result
> of an invite, useually it wouldn't show up at all, and sometimes when it
> showed up we still weren't able to get the two machines to work togeather.
>
> when it works it's a great demo, but it's extremely frustrating thing to
> try and get it to work and fail.
>
> David Lang
>
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