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 6.75x9 inches
   • All margins .5 inch, gutter 0
   • 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
   • replace " with " (this will create curly quotes)
   • replace ' with ' (for curly apostrophes)
   • replace -- with emdash

notes to myself

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

UI colors

more color stuff

Munsell

XO_colors

Colors

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

MassXO notes

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 yumex, a GUI for yum. yum install yumex
5. 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. yum install seamonkey
6. Install Midnight Commander using yum. yum install mc
7. Sugar-coat SeaMonkey using the scripts by the goddess CatMoran.
8. Mod Write to enable access to the full AbiWord.
9. Install the Sweet SocialCalc spreadsheet.
10. Change the XO Guy.
11. Add the MP3 drivers for Totem and Sugar-coat Totem.
12. Connect to a Boston MA jabber server at bos.ma.us.xochat.org
13. Install the Map activity that ties into GoogleMaps.
14. 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.
15. Install the latest version of Speak. I have to have something that kids will want to play with.
16. 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.
17. Remove Acoustic Tape Measure, EToys, Measure, Memorize, NewsReader, Pippy, TamTam, and Turtle Art. They are all great activities, but I don't use them.
18. 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

Creating an Adult Activity Pack

this section is still very much a work in progress. I plan on filling in the details later.

I was recently (July 2008) asked by a novice user to reconfigure their XO to make it an "adult PC" that was still kid friendly for her 6-yr-old. I decided to install the laest build (703) so when and if she decided to upgrade again she wouldn't loose all her activities. But then I remembered that 703 has a bug that will corrupt SD cards, so I opted for 708 -- which is the candidate for the next release and has the SD card bug fixed.

Here's how I created a 708 (next release candidate) build with a customized activity pack by follow in these instructions. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Customization_key

1. I formatted (FAT32) a USB thumb drive on a Windows machine.
2. On that same Windows machine I downloaded the customization key http://dev.laptop.org/~mstone/customization-2.zip and unzipped it to the root of the USB thumb drive.
3. I downloaded the 708 img and fs.zip files and placed them in the root of the USB drive.
   • I surfed the Activities page and downloaded the latest version of every activity I wanted to add to the XO. The .xo file for each of these activities was placed in the /bundle directory on the USB drive.
     1. Journal
     2. Browse (even if you don't use it to surf the web its necessary for other stuff to run...)
     3. Write
     4. Calculate
     5. Terminal
     6. Watch and Listen (Helix Media Player w/RealPlayer codecs) -- doesn't work!
     7. At her request I added the following games for her child:
        • Cartoon Builder
        • Childsplay
        • Colors
        • Flipsticks
        • Pacman
        • Speak
4. I inserted the USB drive into the XO and held down the 4 game keys (circle, check, x, and square) while powering up the XO. The XO chimes, then the screen says to release the game keys. The XO flash (i.e. the hard drive) is erased, the XO reboots itself and my custom build was installed. The XO then powers down. I removed the thumb drive and powered up and voila -- a custom 708 installation!
5. I also added
   • Seamonkey (must be launched from terminal) using yum tum install seamonkey
   • Midnight Commander using yum yum install mc
6. Disabled the hot corners