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 monicer) what I though said my G1G1 XO-1 was an "no longersupported". So I so emailed for help commenting i felt a little had. And naturally we softies are concerned about a program which appeares determined to put third-world children at a console hopefully enjoying the community of OLPC but rather than growing strong in legs and arms and spirit relative to their communities and their families. Oh yes, add their eyes will suffer. But my little XO-1 has worked its magic and once I was into the wiki and after I had gotten further than I's expected in the Forth lessons let me say right now I do not intend to spend my remaining years writing code.

I want to participate though. I am even now going through stages of anyone or any child faced with the XO-1 challenges ... let me pop "learning_opportunities" instead of "challenges" since challenges in my context is a bit imprecise. "LO" on the other hand can be addictive to the hungry mind.

(Comment: love your keyboard, why isn.t mine glo-in-the-dark or lit by small leds from the screen border. With nil power management I use the hi-contrast B/W often lite up just one notch. I'm getting shortcuts down now BUT where's "alt-left" to backup and "alt-right" to go forward? And how about a "Favorites" list we could save and manage.

I look forwsard to the SD card from Microsoft just for durable favorites and XP-like shortcuts. 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 navigating back to what I had found and liked in wiki improves my focus. Journal just hasn't hacked it yet for me.

But then I was slow figuring out Dos "Mode". And little batch files and Lotus macros got me soaring with self esteem. Always taught those little batch files when I was the Bookrioom clerk at public HS right when the IBM's came into the buildings and nobody including me knew how they worked but I was a self-taughter always have been. So much for the past. What I want to do is participate in a spearhead ... the introduction of the XO-1 in my home town Soulard (STL) MO USA. I have time, resourses, property, space therein, and a fetish for gadgets. I recognize your preference in OLPC must be for skilled folk who will manage their own shit ... oh yes, I also 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 as it draws in more and more XOs or whatever improvement we can get to come out opf the woodwork. I like the idea of a rubber case as a better seal and shock absorber but please make it grey ... dark gun-metal would be nice. AND how about a personal alarm device so one can locate little XO in the brushpile?

I just connected to a Mesh 6 site (the wi-fi only gets a station when my cable router is in the XO but I get no Lan CONNECTION TO THE INTERNET. wEIRD. I loaned my wireless router to my daughter over Xmas when everybody out at her get-together had a laptop with them, and forget to get it back). I'll study "sharing" and try to get more XOs into town. But ... we all need someone to lean on ... err, delegate to. I'm rather old now and there's less reason for me to get too excited about the problems in the world.

IN CONCLUSION, I think ... USA interest and USA hands-on skills with the XO and with the OLPC Community could well become of crucial importance to a successful and comfortable orbiting of the operation following this spectacular though variously reported liftoff. I leave

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.