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Here I am, exploring the cutest little computer on the planet |
Here I am, exploring the cutest little computer on the planet. |
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Mine arrived well before Christmas. I've been watching the online docs,[http://www.olpchelp.org/forums/member.php?u=581] wikis and forums[http://olpc.osuosl.org/forum/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=95] develop while I traveled with the XO from Virginia to New York City, Connecticut, Rhode Island, back to Virginia and as far south and west as Knoxville, Nashville and Memphis... making extensive use of T-Mobile at Starbucks. |
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Ah: First, I'll go read http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User_Guide, which eluded me until a session today browsing with my home computer. I'm putting the address here for now while learning how to use the bookmark feature of the olpc browser |
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First major discovery: |
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I've also managed to get the t-mobile hotspot registration working after a little fussing. I think it might have been trying to do some things with pop-up windows that turned into a loop until I opened fresh instance of the browser... On my next visit, login and browsing were fine with no workaround needed. |
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Related SAD discovery, two weeks later: |
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My alt-key sticks at times, creating much randomness. See [http://www.olpchelp.org/forums/showthread.php?t=200 my symptoms] and the official |
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[http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5658 bug track] discussion and [http://olpc.osuosl.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2224 RMA verdict]. |
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Meanwhile, if you |
Meanwhile, if you want to know who I am, Robby is the "inner child" of Bob, whose home page and blogs are a different shade of green, here: |
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http://stepno.com |
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http://boblog.blogspot.com |
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http://couranteer |
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Home includes an authentic Robby picture that documents the beginning of my interest in news reporting: http://www.stepno.com/nanarobnews48-250x233.jpg |
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XObservation: Was someone from MIT making an inside joke when they called xo programs "activities," including the UNIX terminal... which makes working directly in unix the "terminal activity"? It's actually the area where I'm learning the most from the XO, exploring its Linux understory to copy files and fix [http://www.olpchelp.org/forums/showthread.php?t=174 small problems like the system date]. |
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Revision as of 19:23, 6 January 2008
Here I am, exploring the cutest little computer on the planet.
Mine arrived well before Christmas. I've been watching the online docs,[1] wikis and forums[2] develop while I traveled with the XO from Virginia to New York City, Connecticut, Rhode Island, back to Virginia and as far south and west as Knoxville, Nashville and Memphis... making extensive use of T-Mobile at Starbucks.
First major discovery: An early version of the keyboard-shortcuts wiki page was wrong: alt-tab, not ctrl-tab, cycles among running programs (activities, in OX speak)
Related SAD discovery, two weeks later: My alt-key sticks at times, creating much randomness. See my symptoms and the official bug track discussion and RMA verdict.
Meanwhile, if you want to know who I am, Robby is the "inner child" of Bob, whose home page and blogs are a different shade of green, here:
Home includes an authentic Robby picture that documents the beginning of my interest in news reporting: http://www.stepno.com/nanarobnews48-250x233.jpg
XObservation: Was someone from MIT making an inside joke when they called xo programs "activities," including the UNIX terminal... which makes working directly in unix the "terminal activity"? It's actually the area where I'm learning the most from the XO, exploring its Linux understory to copy files and fix small problems like the system date.
Robby 14:23, 6 January 2008 (EST)