Many children don't have access to books, internet, tv and the laptop will be the only
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If you send the XO laptops to your donators, why don't you enclose a poster to this delivery? There is still a letter from Mr. N
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* Some cards don't work,
* Try a new card; if new cards don't work, there may be a fault with the laptop.
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.../papers/edutainment.pdf Playful Learning instead of Edutainment]. Also, we don't want kids to be [http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/pbracwak.htm punished
...re final editing by an expert in the subject and in the language). But we don't
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We probably don't want (but may be stuck with these if applications have not been converted
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All OLPC laptop current models(XO-1, XO-1.5, XO-1.75) don't have 3D acceleration hardware (GPU/ 3D graphic card) commonly
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...d is '''round''' and the PLUGSPSET3 adapters are '''rectangular''' so they don't mate out of the bag (if you look at the pictures closely, you can see the
..., solar panels might be built into the laptop lid to charge the battery. I don't know if this is possible, but I am sure that the sun is the most readily
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...with Red Hat. But since the OLPC project is open we cannot (and maybe even don't want to) stop other people from developing and supplying alternate softwa
=== The laptop is new so we don't know whether or not one laptop per child will work ===
36 KB (5,905 words) - 23:20, 20 January 2014
...would be a good idea to spend some time surveying previous efforts. If you don't have experience using a PDA, then buy an old Palm or [[Zaurus]], install
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...available online in PDF format, so you can see the characters even if you don't have a matching font installed on your computer.
...working on hardware and some softwware developers can get laptops, but you don't need the hardware to develop applications, just the [[Sugar]] development
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...ed primarily for use with the OLPC. In some cases, such as languages which don't have a lot of Wikipedia content, this could be coupled with other Interne
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...stems]] that people are talking about if you want to use the applications. Don't let the lack of a unit keep you from helping, getting something, or emula
-- suggested by Don Ferris, San Diego, CA
43 KB (7,490 words) - 20:04, 5 August 2013
...laptops to China or Brazil has nothing to do with success as long as they don't reach their destination. Financing and technology is one side. Psychology
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...s to take into consideration the cost of electric power of each device and don't discharge hand-powered nodes, if power line connected machines are near
...rts hard links (although this is apparently not widely known), although we don't support shared writable mmap (and there are no plans to, since its a bad
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...plement and accellerate each other and be a saviour for some students that don't "fit" too wel in the only formal-learning circuit. To understand the imp
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...omplement and accelerate each other and be a savior for some students that don't "fit" too well in the only formal-learning circuit. To understand the im
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Don't forget the save the configuration when you leave the setup.
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...thing far more useful to me (a Hyper- modifier) many many years ago, and I don't miss the functionality of capslock in the least. -kp
...for hands. Is moving standards and design forward good policy for olpc? (I don't know but I ask. Little changes that work well maybe.) --[[User:Rogerhc|Ro
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...them in some way to a "usual gadget" which it shouldn't be. These machines don't deserve to be "usual", they deserve better. I think these colors are actu
...effect with the current time. I think in these targeted countries children don't usually own a watch. A watch could be very useful though, for meeting up
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...cluster tracking in the case where the number of free clusters is set to "don't know".
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<CanoeBerry> will begin doing a LOT of work, I just don't have the time right now.
<CanoeBerry> will begin doing a LOT of work, I just don't have the time right now.
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* If you or your school want to work with XOs in the classroom (and don't yet have any), see the page for [[Interested schools]].
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...however OS X allows hiding of libraries inside an application folder so I don't know if this will install a usable GTK+.
...he GIMP toolkit for Mac OS X is still 1.2, so it won't work with Sugar, so don't bother with the MacGIMP site, either. All-in-all, I'd suggest working on
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Warning: don't install the Python from Cygwin. This will only confuse your system.
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...to settle the question based only on the stated preferences of adults who don't know all of the languages concerned, that is through [http://mindprod.com
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**I don't mind having to add spaces between words: 1 + 2, instead of 1+2 (as in UCB
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This sound to me like [[#Logo]]. Anyway I don't think this should turn into a language-war. I guess the laptops could com
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...tional experience. Try only to calculate or render in response to events, don't render 30fps if your data only changes once every 10-20 minutes.
For Python development, don't import modules at the top. Instead, import them just where they are neede
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...ld use one of these platforms for development, though as of 2007-12-15, we don't see any compelling reason to recommend doing so, unless your '''goal''' i
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''I suspect (but don't know) it is a silkscreen sort of process. Keyboards for other scripts ar
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...a for distribution), VoIP Gateways to regular phone networks. Things that don't '''necessarily''' run on the the laptops themselves, but which provide se
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...d in and having a battery present if it needs to update the firmware. (You don't have to do anything; just watch.)
* The numbers don't matter, but be sure that you type things after the $ sign.
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You don't have to wait until XOs are announced for your country to start localizing
You don't need to be a geek or hacker to help translate. You need to know two langu
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** ''I don't actually agree with this restriction, but thought it might be something t
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...built-in so their use doesn't add wire spaghetti, cables/conversion boxes don't get lost, is "fumble free" and always available. In short, it must be '''
...n-place when the laptop closes. This would not solve the RAM issue (as you don't want to swap to the flash), but it might be the lowest-cost way to give c
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Why don't we develop a creativity activity that leapfrogs OLPC users past the brigh
...cts and why not global... (or at least hemispheric given that school years don't start/end homogeneously in order to have summer holidays at the end of th
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Also, think about [[frameworks]] rather than just individual applications. Don't build MySpace. Instead, build a toolkit that could be used to build MySp
...ds project (Tux Paint and Tux Math), which is a Schoolforge member. I just don't know if it can run on Linux. Those of you who understand the prgram spec'
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...receive more detailed information about any aspect of the project, please don't hesitate to ask
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...ng-8.2-images-on-QEMU-for-windows-td1115692.html OLPC forum at Nabble]. (I don't know if QEMU Manager supports the newe emulator+accelerator versions that
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...sure where to start? This section should answer some of your questions. Don't be afraid to ask questions & collaborate - we're better as a team. Keep
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...rs, they are 5 months ahead in reading skills in comparison with kids that don't have the XO's.
...e to be developed, as the traditional monitoring and evaluation techniques don't capture data that is very relevant to Ministers of Education, Grant / Loa
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...count it is impossible to demonstrate the corruption. These corrupt people don't hesitate to kill you of course if you press charges too much. So you bet
...untries: the newspapers are full of OLPC stories. People in poor countries don't know much about OLPC but maybe the children will receive a laptop in near
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...sts]], [[educators]], and [[Developers program | programmers]] — you don't need to know ''everything'' about making an activity to be a part of the
...(with contact information), and what specific kind of feedback you want. Don't worry about the technical details for now (like code repositories, versio
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...ng application. Enabling LID events will be complex, because presumably we don't want to wake up on the LID down event.
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...d other deployments) are doing teacher training in emulators, because they don't want to divert any XOs from the kids
*Developers who don't have an XO also like to use emulators.
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...nd using pointing devices difficult, or even unimpaired young children who don't yet have fully developed fine motor skills, a USB mouse or trackball with
...n with deuteranopia don't see green and 1% of European men with protanopia don't see red. A sample of the differences [http://www.btplc.com/age_disabilit
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...u don't have to type anything. Just wait and it will start the GUI. If you don't want to wait for the GUI to load, you can log in with username "root" and
Move your mouse on the icon but don't click.
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...o assurance is made that this won't permanently harm your hardware. If you don't understand any of these steps, please stop and ask for clarification on t
...ate''' - buildrom now builds ROM images for the SPI flash by default. You don't need to change anything from the default configuration.
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...ease provide a reference to "School Sector Reform Plan (SSRP) Phase 2". I don't see how your speculation about EU has any relevance for OLPC Nepal. Plea
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Don't assume ashtyn+braeden=<3 there is spite where there may only be ignorance
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== Please don't use this system! ==
...ous people or people performing maintenance/development on the system. You don't need to understand this if you just want to use the dropbox system.
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''When adding or updating this list, don't forget to give your [[How_to_check_the_OS_and_firmware_versions|build ver
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...every sense. While we don't expect every child to become a programmer, we don't want any ceiling imposed on those children who choose to modify their mac
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If you don't want to completely wipe the USB stick or hard drive, you can also try tra
Don't follow this set of instructions if you don't know how to partition your disk or create filesystems. There are some thi
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...me part is supposed to be rooted in some actual DNS-rooted namespace. You don't need to own this domain; you just need to have a reasonable claim on some
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...er things. The Forth system automatically manages the return stack so you don't have to think about it for the most part (but you can get at it if you ne
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<GrannieB> diditalmind1 yours seems reasonable except we don't have many broken X)-1.5s yet
<Ian_Daniher> netbooks break easily, XOs don't. :)
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* '''On linux''': todo (or see other methods below if you don't need the browser integration of squeakland)
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...-ShareAlike 2.5. If you don't want your work to be used by everybody then don't submit it here.
If any developers don't have their SSH2 keys on the web, please attach them
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...change their names to squeak.image, squeak.change, and squeak.sources. (I don't yet know if this last is necessary. Anybody?)
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...trol Center on the main menu, in order to turn on the toolbar icon, if you don't like setting it up from the command line.
etc) have special names too (but most often you don't need to redefine
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...(Recovery Connector) on the Btest boards (CN20 on Atest) "G1G1-"C" Boards don't have CN24 (Recovery Connector) or Recovery Mode Jumper Block (as Squared
...jumpers horizontally or vertically; either orientation will work. If you don't have any jumpers the right size, you can wedge a metal object into the bl
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...laining that there is no plan for training teachers to use OLPC laptops. I don't believe that this is so, but there is no page on this Wiki explaining wha
...ck of IT knowledge and many of the youngsters between the ages of 12 to 19 don't know what a computer is.
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...hat will better cater to the needs of young children (especially those who don't yet read) and older children who can handle many more operations and comp
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...is particularly since such units will almost certainly be stolen property. Don't expect to buy a 2B1 on Ebay before the retail units come to market.
This means you don't have to do your part of the pledge.
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...utsmart Microsoft, and Linux is growing steadily without such shenanigans. Don't forget, the 800 lb. gorilla doesn't have to outsmart ''you''.
...he lowest possible cost. Shipments to developed countries, such as the US, don't count toward the mission. OLPC management doesn't have time to work with
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...ect people to secury these laptops, especially children, when they usually don't have locks, doors, and in some cases houses?
...amera (or digital camera whatever it so be called) help educate children? Don't get me wrong, I think education is extremely important and I use computer
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...g a space for sharing files and ideas surrounding the activity itself that don't have a place within it.
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...for several other languages are also misconfigured, pointing to fonts that don't exist on the OLPC.
...ork in AWT, although accelerator keys do. The Menubars are displayed, but don't respond to clicks.
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..., 35 Abel Smith Street on Saturdays from 10.30am/11.00am until our fingers don't work anymore. Check out [http://thecross.co.nz/ the Cross]
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...u don't have to type anything. Just wait and it will start the GUI. If you don't want to wait for the GUI to load, you can log in with username "root" and
Move your mouse on the icon but don't click. Hover there for a moment.
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...ance, and a lot more seem to come from people who want the idea to fail. I don't understand that. --[[User:Mokurai|Mokurai]] 00:47, 11 January 2007 (EST)'
::<i>We don't have enough money to buy into both the OLPC project and another project w
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...en different capital gear is used? When we use the steam-driven machine we don't need John Henry's muscles: duh. Instead, Prof. Cuban's "experimental cont
I don't think Mark Cuban believes one need not learn and remember anything. If yo
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...s, nationalities, and levels of computer experience. At the same time, we don't wish to impose unnecessary limitations on the software either. Instead,
...ns(Windows XP & Vista offer an "accessibility wizard" for this purpose; we don't have good upstream technology from GNOME we can take for this unfortunate
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Of course, we don't mean to impose arbitrary limits on the types and number of activities tha
...ses the modified base. Such names only serve to indicate superiority, and don't provide any useful feedback about the particular activity which makes it
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...sk drive - but not those named '''usbupgos.img''' or '''usbupgrd.img'''!. (Don't forget to "Empty Trash.")
...USB key, hold down the X and the 'check' button (use the 'O' button if you don't have a check button) and while holding them turn the power on. Leave the
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If you note, you will see that we don't include the activity's directory, this is not needed as the <tt>bundle-bu
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...via JTAG (XDB). You can "dl" memory setup and test scripts into it. You don't need SPI FLASH - you can JTAG it right into SRAM very quickly.
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* Keyboard (i.e. in writing webmail): accents don't work, é, à ü etc. ends as e´, a`...
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...five by five grid--there are only 24 squares, and the the problem squares don't line up neatly over the answer squares. Each group is still marked by '1
...irs matching '''2 different items''' but distributed '''at random''': just don’t click on the previous icon.
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...slot and it will start recording when it begins to hear sound (meaning you don't need to hurry after you have clicked on the red dot).
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<s>Dan</s> ''Don'' is a summer intern from the UK. Daniel is working on software projects fr
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Pages in the 'blues' don't necessarily imply 'unworthiness', as they could be young pages (particula
| align=left | ''don't use {{tl|translations}} on a category page!''
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...What about [[Ask OLPC a Question about Hardware#|size & weight]]? If you don't find the answer in the [[hardware specification|specifications page]] you
Questions here should be about current hardware; questions like "why don't you include gizmo XYZ" should be asked/discussed in [[Hardware ideas]].
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Why don't you include '''one copy of Wikipedia'''. Then each child/student has acce
...d up? (That's how things are done in Free Software. If you want a program, don't wait for someone else to write it. Do it yourself, or organize some frien
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If you placed bin-xfer somewhere other than your home directory, don't forget to use the correct pathname! Save the configuration.
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...a Documentation Lead to get these projects organized. In the meantime, why don't we just do it? Please add your signature if you are working on any docume
Don't just make suggestions. Improve the many documents and pages we have.
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...this mailing list. Set it to Disabled if you want to stay subscribed, but don't want mail delivered to you
* Don't [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Top-posting top post]. Includ
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:From OLPC directly, or the government or other regulators. I don't think you should rely on what contributors to a community Wiki might tell
My xo is hooked up to the internet but I still don't know how to chat with other people in the world could you tell me how ple
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...cessary to explain how to abort an infinite loop in OLPC Open Firmware. I don't know how to do this, and so my first OLPC Open Firmware program may still
Don't worry about the words you don't yet know. Just notice that "factorial" calls "factorial" recursively, wh
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of the algorithm that the callfinder uses. So don't believe the list
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Don't use bare "@" and "!" for accessing memory-mapped I/O registers,
don't, so you usually end up having to do the
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Why did it display 1, since up-counting loops don't execute when the
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If you just want a literal string for use later, i.e. you don't want
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Don't hesitate to add your own community's OLPC project and voice!
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===What if I don't like my country's color?===
If your country is color-coded in a hue with which you don't agree, you should lobby '''that country's''' government to start talks wi
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...the Actions edge of the frame, function slightly differently. While they don't represent an activity that the child can join, they do come as messages f
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...erstand why they don't even mention OLPC in their partner list. Heck, they don't even mention OLPC.
...hrough a longer trail, offer us information on other target countries that don't have similar university programs.
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* Please don't subscribe to our old OLPC-NL mailingslist here: http://lists.lo-res.org/m
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