Many children don't have access to books, internet, tv and the laptop will be the only
8 KB (1,346 words) - 09:27, 2 January 2014
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
9 KB (1,634 words) - 06:07, 4 September 2012
* 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
15 KB (2,390 words) - 12:02, 30 October 2012
We probably don't want (but may be stuck with these if applications have not been converted
6 KB (873 words) - 08:45, 6 January 2007
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
12 KB (2,085 words) - 11:51, 15 October 2012
...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
10 KB (1,541 words) - 11:13, 4 September 2013
...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
6 KB (1,041 words) - 21:59, 13 August 2013
...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
40 KB (6,833 words) - 05:22, 22 May 2013
...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
36 KB (6,099 words) - 01:43, 6 September 2011
...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
1 KB (210 words) - 13:37, 24 July 2013
...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
1 KB (216 words) - 13:37, 24 July 2013
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
16 KB (2,710 words) - 20:32, 28 February 2014
...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.
22 KB (3,372 words) - 15:07, 23 April 2010
* 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
8 KB (1,427 words) - 13:14, 3 August 2013
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
13 KB (2,026 words) - 01:45, 25 July 2011
This sound to me like [[#Logo]]. Anyway I don't think this should turn into a language-war. I guess the laptops could com
5 KB (726 words) - 17:12, 20 February 2012
...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
13 KB (2,012 words) - 22:37, 30 May 2011
...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
21 KB (3,238 words) - 11:23, 1 June 2012
...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
32 KB (4,872 words) - 13:57, 17 June 2011
** ''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
16 KB (2,670 words) - 00:14, 25 April 2010
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
31 KB (4,869 words) - 19:54, 29 May 2013
...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
25 KB (4,038 words) - 08:48, 3 August 2013
...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
26 KB (4,327 words) - 10:51, 4 March 2014
...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
16 KB (2,614 words) - 17:31, 11 December 2013
...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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