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
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.
- download the the ASCII text file.
- open the ASCII file in MS Notepad.
- Select all & copy.
- Start MS Word.
- Page size 7x9 inches
- All margins .5 inch
- Mirror margins
- Use Bitstream Vera or DejaVu (Bitstream Vera variation) open font faces.
- Paste ASCII into new document.
- strip out PG small print
- Tools menu. Options. View tab. check to view paragraph marks.
- 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":
- Loaded 656 from USB
- Set the time
- Disable the hot corners.
- 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)
- Install Midnight Commander using yum. (i.e., yum install mc)
- Sugar-coat both SeaMonkey using the scripts by the goddess CatMoran.
- Mod Write to enable access to the full AbiWord.
- Install the Sweet SocialCalc spreadsheet.
- Change the XO Guy.
- Add the MP3 drivers for Totem and Sugar-coat Totem.
- Connect to a Boston MA jabber server at bos.ma.us.xochat.org
- Install the Map activity that ties into GoogleMaps.
- 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.
- Install the latest version of Speak. I have to have something that kids will want to play with.
- 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.
- Remove Acoustic Tape Measure, EToys, Measure, Memorize, NewsReader, Pippy, TamTam, and Turtle Art. They are all great activities, but I don't use them.
- Edit /usr/share/sugar/data/activities.defaults to re-order the Activites list at the bottom of the home page (paths can be found at /home/olpc/.sugar/default)
Preinstalled stuff I removed
- Etoys -- yum remove etoys
Stuff that might be cool to add to the Velveteen XO
gqview (yum install gqview)- an image viewer