<span>t</span><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 15, 2007 8:52 AM, Mrs. J. McKeon <<a href="mailto:freekeon@yahoo.com">freekeon@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi!<br>I am wondering...is there an Idiot's Guide to OLPC for me - I bought 2 for my kids through gogo and I need assistance in setting the things up...</blockquote><div><br><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User_guide">
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User_guide</a><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">my first line of questions (and there will be many more) are - how do I change the mouse preference - one of my kids is a lefty
</blockquote><div><br>Go south paws!<br><br>I don't know if this is a supported feature (yet!). Part of the development process (what time we spend on writing new features) are directly responding to what our users (and other developers) have a need for. When a new request comes up, we "file a bug" and developers consider it as a task to work on next. Since not many adult computer programmers use the left handed mouse, it hasn't been added. You can go to our central development site, register, and create a New Ticket regarding left mouse support
<br><br><a href="http://dev.laptop.org">http://dev.laptop.org</a><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">- how do I set the home page to something other than the google search bar - is there a web address bar somewhere
</blockquote><div><br>In browse, go to the website "about:config" (no quotes). This is a special 'settings' page that the core software uses. This page works the same in Firefox. Use the search/filter to find:
<br><br>browser.startup.homepage<br><br>Select it, and change it to any website you wish.<br></div><div><br>The top text/title can be clicked on and used as your address bar. You can enter any website addres (say, <a href="http://yahoo.com/">
http://yahoo.com/</a>).<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> - can we default a group for immediate chat rather than having to go through the invitation process each time the kids log on? Is there any setting on the machine for parental controls once on the web, or is that something we will need to download from somewhere else, and does xo support it?
</blockquote><div><br>This is currently an after-the-fact product. Nothing is included to control web permissions by parents. The Journal can be used as an audit of what sites were visited though. Having the child know this is available may be enough.
<br><br>You can use <a href="http://opendns.com/">http://opendns.com/</a> and set your XOs to use them as their DNS (Internet phonebook server, for when a website name (<a href="http://laptop.org">laptop.org</a>)is translated to the numerical address (
<a href="http://18.85.2.148">18.85.2.148</a>). OpenDNS has free parental controls, and I have had good experience with them overall.<br><br>If you try OpenDNS and find it useful, please share your experience here. I'm sure other parents are in the same position you are.
<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Does xo support Flash (I have been seeing some conflicting info about that)?</blockquote>
<div><br>We support Gnash, an free and open implmentation of Flash. It works on some sites, but has slowdown problems. It should be possible to install the Linux Flash program (from Adobe) onto the XO. Could be a fun learning experience for you and your younge computer users. :)
<br><br><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Flash">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Flash</a><br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Gathering from previous posts, I get the feeling that olpc-open is not the list for these types of questions...</blockquote><div><br> Just in the last 5-7 days we've started <a href="mailto:Community-support@lists.laptop.org">
Community-support@lists.laptop.org</a> and have it connected to <a href="http://olpc.osuosl.org/forum">http://olpc.osuosl.org/forum</a> I've posted my reply to that thread, instead of olpc-open.<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
We have scoured OLPC's getting started web instructions, which seem light on details for
me. Any points in helpful directions will be greatly appreciated.<br></blockquote></div><br clear="all"><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Support">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Support</a><br><br>I hope these are helpful. Please feel free to ask questions if you run into trouble.
<br><br>-- <br>Michael Burns * Student<br>Open Source {Education} Lab