User:AuntiMame

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Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!

Current Activities

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activity_testing

Wikimedia Commons gallery

Graphics for OLPC wiki

File:Xo-music.svg
File:Xo-medicine.svg File:Xo colors.pdf

Formatting E-books

Steps for re-formatting Project Gutenberg ASCII text files into "beautified" PDF E-books on a MS Windows machine using MS Word.

1. download the the ASCII text file.
2. open the ASCII file in MS Notepad.
3. Select all & copy.
4. Start MS Word.
   • Page size 7x9 inches
   • All margins .5 inch
   • Mirror margins
   • Use Bitstream Vera or DejaVu (Bitstream Vera variation) open font faces.
5. Paste ASCII into new document.
6. strip out PG small print
7. Tools menu. Options. View tab. check to view paragraph marks.
8. Edit menu. Replace. More button. Special button. replace ^p^p (insert symbols) with "EndOfParagraph". Replace all button.
   • replace ^p with single-space
   • hide paragraph marks

notes to myself

http://dev.laptop.org/pub/content/library/games/xo-color.xml

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Human_Interface_Guidelines/The_Sugar_Interface/Colors

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Display#color_selection

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Munsell

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_colors

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Colors

http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php?title=Special%3AAllpages&from=&namespace=6 all images uploaded to the wiki

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What's on the Velveteen[[1]] XO

I spent several weeks playing with upgrades and such and found myself with an overloaded XO, so in late June 2008 I wiped the Velveteen XO clean and reloaded 656. Here's what I did to revert this XO back to a "First World, Adult User laptop":

1. Loaded 656 from USB
2. Set the time
3. Disable the hot corners.
4. Install SeaMonkey, an all-in-one Internet suite ( including firefox and thunderbird)
   • Installing SeaMonkey requires that you remove its exclusion from the XO's repository list. Follow these instructions for Firefox, but remove SeaMonkey from the list instead of Firefox.
   • After removing it from the exclusion list, you can install SeaMonkey using the yum package installer. (i.e., yum install seamonkey)
5. Install Midnight Commander using yum. (i.e., yum install mc)
6. Sugar-coat both SeaMonkey and Midnight Commander using the scripts by the goddess CatMoran.
7. Mod Write to enable access to the full AbiWord.
8. Add the MP3 drivers for Totem and Sugar-coat Totem.
9. Connect to a Boston MA jabber server at bos.ma.us.xochat.org
10. Install the Map activity that ties into GoogleMaps.
11. Install the latest version of StarChart. Apart from the fact that its cooler than heck, I know the guy who wrote it and I made the icon. It may not help me with any work related stuff -- but I want it on my machine.
12. Install the latest version of Speak. I have to have something that kids will want to play with.
13. Install the latest version of Physics. It can keep my attention for hours, while I'm stuck inside an airplane. Until there's a solitaire game on the XO, this will be my favorite time-kill.
14. Remove Acoustic Tape Measure, EToys, Measure, Memorize, NewsReader, Pippy, TamTam, and Turtle Art. They are all great activities, but I don't use them.

Stuff that might be cool to add to the Velveteen XO

gqview (yum install gqview)- an image viewer