[olpc-help] A pleasant surprise and a question

[Sameer Verma]

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> 7150 wrote:
>   
>> The instructions are here:
>>
>> http://www.laptop.org/en/laptop/start/battery.shtml
>>
>> George
>>
>> ---
>>
>> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
>>     
>>> I just received my XO!! The doorbell rang, and there's a FedX guy with a
>>> package from Brightstar.
>>>
>>> The question is, "Where on the web page are the instructions for putting
>>> the battery in the slot?" Either it's a very tight fit, or there's
>>> something I'm missing.
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> community-support mailing list
>>> community-support at lists.laptop.org
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>>>
>>>       
>>     
> Got it!! I'm on the air!! First impressions:
>
> 1. Everything seems to be working mostly like the virtual ones I've been
> playing with for the past couple of weeks. I haven't attempted to do
> anything on the T-Mobile part yet -- that will be Wednesday.
>
> 2. Out of the box, there's about 700 MB of free space on the main flash
> drive. That's way more than I'll need -- all I really plan to install on
> it is Maxima, gForth and the Linux-ported OFW Forth.
>
> 3. The keyboard is amazingly sensitive. I was expecting to need to "push
> harder". The smallest QWERTY keyboard I ever used successfully was on
> the HP-100LX, and that had HP's famous tactile feedback keys.
>
> 4. It takes a long time (several minutes) for my 4 GB USB stick to be
> fully recognized and cataloged in the journal. But once that's done, I
> was able to open the PDFs on it. It's my "portable reference library".
> It has hundreds of performance and other papers, dozens of programming
> books, etc., on it -- about a GB total.
>
> So ... off to Staples/CompUSA/Office Depot for a USB NIC!
>
>   
Make sure you take this list with you. All USB Ethernet adapters may not
work. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/USB_ethernet_adaptors

Sameer

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Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Information Systems
San Francisco State University
San Francisco CA 94132 USA
http://verma.sfsu.edu/
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