<div class="gmail_quote">Testing summary: Saturday 25 June 2011 - Auckland, NZ<br>
Who: Abishek, Josie, baby Oliver, Tabitha<br>Two sections - AU98 build test for Jerry and 11.2.0 release candidate<br>
build 870 test for Daniel Drake<br>*<br><br>
au98 on two XO-1.5s - Ivy running 98 OLPC-AU 0.84.31 Q3807 wireless<br>
9.70.7.p0 and Shadow running 98 OLPC-AU 0.84.31 Q3A62 wireless 9.70.7.p0<br>
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Music painter<br>
After loading several existing compositions and making a small, new<br>
composition, the playback speed slows and quality degrades, although the<br>
speed slider is set to full. However, switching out of Music painter and<br>
back restores its performance for the same open composition.<br>
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Paint - it appears to halt when converting a drawing to black-and-white<br>
(some feedback would be good).<br>
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Scratch seems fast on XO-1.5 (perhaps used to using it on XO-1.0). Save<br>
to Journal works.<br>
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Maze works<br>
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Record works<br>
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Memorize works<br>
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Speak 18 works, and the robot can answer questions which is great.<br>
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Record 86 works. It would be good to be able to adjust mic levels in<br>
Record.<br>
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Arithmetic - on difficulty 10 (easiest?) was surprised by "5-9". We had<br>
a ten year old and she wasn't sure what to do with that, put 4. Can't<br>
see a way to not have negatives.<br>
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We let one XO-1.5 go to sleep on first restart (hadn't even named it<br>
yet) and it froze. Cursor does not respond nor does keyboard. Restarted<br>
and played with it. Let it go to sleep again and same problem - keyboard<br>
and cursor not responsive. This was probably Shadow which is a prototype<br>
and has some hardware issues with suspend and resume, with power saving<br>
turned off, it is stable.<br>
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*****<br>
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os870 on two XO-1.0s - "Twilight" build 870 0.92.2 Q2E45 wireless<br>
firmware 5.110.22.p23 and "Shrek" build 870 0.92.2 Q2E45 wireless<br>
firmware 5.110.22.p23<br>
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Record 92 - has new buttons for image capture, video and audio! The<br>
black outline makes them much more clear, great improvement. When you<br>
record video or audio the start button is in the centre but the end<br>
button is to the left, this requires you to move the cursor which means<br>
you might record more than you wanted while you navigate to the stop<br>
button. It would be good to be able to adjust mic levels in Record.<br>
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Implode works<br>
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Maze 9 works<br>
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Speak 25 - when first starting there is a polite "please type<br>
something", lovely. Robot cannot answer basic questions. Can change<br>
pitch and rate. Can change eyes and mouth. Note that the Speak in the<br>
Australian build does have a working robot.<br>
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Clock - is the "nice" clock numberless to help kids learn to read the<br>
time without the numbers? Digital clock has a cute colour coded display<br>
that appears to show time as percentage of a bar. Display time in full<br>
letters does not fit on the screen so at "12:27:30AM" all you can read<br>
is "twenty-seven minutes past m" because it aligns too far to the right.<br>
Display weekday and date moves the writing to the centre which means you<br>
can read it all :-) and the colour display for hours, minutes and<br>
seconds seems to carry through, but the red colour is used again for day<br>
and date which might be better in another colour. Talking clock is a bit<br>
odd when it says "twenty nine minutes past midnight am"; it would make<br>
more sense if it said "twenty nine minutes past twelve am", but then<br>
"twenty nine minutes to one am" does work. Overall this is a nice<br>
activity (I had a digital watch given to me by my parents when I was six<br>
and had to learn to read analogue clock at teachers college which was a<br>
bit embarrassing).<br>
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Memorize works, tested all 3 preconfigured games and also created a<br>
game, played it successfully.<br>
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Abacus 19 - broke it! managed to get the beads to fall off the bottom of<br>
the abacus by changing the factor. Changing rows to 1 and then<br>
increasing fixes it but reset button does not.<br>
This was weird enough that I retested it at home. Messed with all the<br>
settings in create your own abacus and broke it again. You have to move<br>
beads first then change the base or factor, eventually it breaks.<br>
Photos:<br>
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Paint 34 - massive improvements since last time tested. Image importing<br>
works, as does manipulation like resizing and flipping. Can change the<br>
fill and outline colours of shapes - yay! and can change the brush size<br>
- yay! Really happy with performance of this activity and all its new<br>
features.<br>
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Tamtam mini - works<br>
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Pippy - played some examples successfully<br>
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Ruler - surprised no inches, but happy to see the right measurement<br>
units being used<br>
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Calculator - inverse of a number is misleadingly shown as, for example,<br>
4.5-1, in the results pane, where "-1" is not a superscript.<br>
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Thanks<br>
Tabitha<br>
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