User:Rostauber

OLPC you can ignore my email the day after I opened my XO-1. Somewhere in the wiki I read (before I even knew my xo's full deliniation) what I though said my XO-1 was an "no longersupported" so emailed for help commenting i felt a little had (no sic) since $400 would get a fancy phone and naturally we softies are concerned about a program which appeares determined toput our third-world children in front of a screen and hopefully enjoying thecommunity of OLPC but rather than growing strong in leg andarm and mind our in the real world. Oh yes, add eyes. But the xo-1 worked well and sucked me into your literature and a start on Forth although let me say right now I do not intend to spend my remaining few years writing or debugging code. I want to participate though, as one faced with a lot of the challenges an initial child student would confront ... let me pop "learning_opportunities" instead of "challenges" for now since challenges in my context is a bit imprecise compared to "LO" which can be addictive to the hungry mind. (Comment: love your keyboard, why isn.t mine glo-in-the-dark or lit by a small led from the screen border cause with nil power management I use the hi-contrast B/W often lite up just one notch. I'm getting shortcuts down BUT where's "alt-left" to backup? And how about a "Favorites" list we could save and manage. I look forwsard to the SD card from Microsoft just for favorites and XP-like shortcuts. My forays into Forth lingo need to be edited my you all so I can learn without reviewing. At 71 my short term memory sometimes leaves me at a loss for what I was trying to do a second before. It will be interesting to see if my wiki travels improve focus. Again, where's a keystroke forward and backward?

I was slow figuring out Dos "Mode' command. Simple batch files and Lotus macros were useful. So much for the past. What I want to do is participate spearheading introduction of the XO-1 here, Soulard STL MO, and I have time, resourses, property and space therein, and a fetish about gagdgets. I recognize your preference for individuals who will be adequately skilled and manage their own shit ... oh yes, I have a lot of shit that I've wanted to eBay for a few years which would easily make more cash AND living and working space. I just connected to a Mesh 6 site (the neirby wi-fi is too distant and I loaned my Neatgear wireless router to my daughter over Xmas and forget to get it back). I'll study n"sharing" and try to get more XOs. But we all need someone lean on ... i.e. delegate to. I'm rather old now and there's less reason to get excited and involved in things of the world.

I think ... that USA interest and USA hands-on skill with the XO and the OLPC Community could well become of crucial importance. I leave leave similarly hunched people to fill in reasons themselves. I was delighted to make my own (2GB) USB Key stick and risked putting OS653 on it and over-wrote my stable 650, right? So can I get back to 650? If I but 650 zip and img on the stick? Just trying to indicate my level of exposure and drum up some local activity in STL so we can perhaps get some adults and teen out there helping in the field where as little help and supervision could mgo a long way AND slop over into other 3rd World efforts.

Wish there was a better file manager than Journal, but maybe I'll get it together soon and start dabbling in Terminal. But that's not what I want to do. Let Joe Geek to it please. I'm ordering with upgrades the USB media with the best fixes and shortcuts and which will even erasure the kid-crap off the Gig we got. Who's working on that? Guy on eBay claims the USB ports will recognize a printer. Any truth to that or is he himself uninformed. XOs still bring over 500 on eBay but they also go for under 300 regularly. I can get rid of all I can get AND am not in this for any profit.

I need a SYSTEM folder. And a DOS-like file manager, where you can rename things, and copy and move and delete, when I'm trying to get a young person interested in how a computer works.