[Testing] [support-gang] 12-Year-Old XOs (even 18-yesr-olds)

Mitch Bradley wmb at laptop.org
Tue Sep 13 13:28:36 EDT 2011



On 9/13/2011 4:48 AM, Caryl Bigenho wrote:
> Hi All...
>
> Translations for "the rest of us":
>
> DHCP: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/D/DHCP.html
>
>
> OFW: http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/OFW  (pick one out of 12!)
>

How about the OLPC wiki as a source? http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OFW

>
> NTP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Time_Protocol
>
>
> ESSID: http://www.cryer.co.uk/glossary/e/essid.htm
>
>
> RTC: Real Time Clock
>
>
> Caryl ;-D
>
>
>
>
> > Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:24:58 +1000
> > From: quozl at laptop.org
> > To: wad at laptop.org
> > CC: cbigenho at hotmail.com; iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org; 
> testing at lists.laptop.org; support-gang at lists.laptop.org
> > Subject: Re: [Testing] [support-gang] 12-Year-Old XOs (even 
> 18-yesr-olds)
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 02:03:45AM -0400, John Watlington wrote:
> > > On Sep 1, 2011, at 12:55 AM, James Cameron wrote:
> > > > I searched for ntp-set-clock using Google:
> > > >
> > > > site:wiki.laptop.org "ntp-set-clock"
> > >
> > > I learn some new function of OFW every week!
> > > It looks like that function requires the presence of an access point
> > > called "OLPCOFW" which provides DHCP and connectivity to an NTP server
> > > with name "time", "172.18.0.1", or one of the various NTP pool
> > > servers. Did I misrepresent it ?
> >
> > Only slightly. It works great with a supported USB to ethernet adaptor,
> > or if you type the ESSID of your WiFi first:
> >
> > ok wifi thingamebob
> > ok ntp-set-clock
> >
> > If no ESSID is given, the default is OLPCOFW.
> >
> > --
> > James Cameron
> > http://quozl.linux.org.au/
>
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