[OLPC India] Thanks for Khairat visit

[Marc Valentin]

We bought the 9 XO on Ebay US. Now I am in India for 2 weeks and I am
checking the material and talk to the teachers to have their opinion
about the XO.
It looks the keyboard problem I had with one of the XO is well known
(ticket #5658) and I am surprised the people at Khairat didn't have
it, having 22 laptops...
Here are a few links :
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Stuck_keys
http://www.olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=1961
http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5658

The Ctrl key was "sticky" and that was causing the problem. I managed
to fix it temporarily by running the diagnostic tools (Rocker left,
below speaker). (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Cheat_codes). And by
pressing the Ctrl key several times till it was not sticky any more. I
hope it will remain ok.

-marc-


On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 7:26 AM, Pari <parimalai at niit.com> wrote:
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> Lets see if Reliance/OLPC has an answer.  I have been interestedly reading
> your posts.  BTW when did you get your XOs?  I just got one myself to
> explore.
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> regards,
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> Parimala
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> Parimala Inamdar
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> -----Original Message-----
>  From: mlgvalentin at gmail.com [mailto:mlgvalentin at gmail.com] On Behalf Of
> Marc Valentin
>  Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 11:46 AM
>  To: Pari; india at lists.laptop.org
>  Subject: Re: [OLPC India] Thanks for Khairat visit
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>
> Lucky you !
>
> We, in Asmoli (U.P.) we have 9 XO and one has a problem with the
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> keyboard not working properly.
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> I take the chance to ask here what we are supposed to do when we
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> notice a problem like this one.
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> Where can we get support ?
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> Thanks.
>
> -Marc Valentin-
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> http://www.OeuvreDesPains.org
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> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 6:43 AM, Pari <parimalai at niit.com> wrote:
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> > Hi
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> > Some of us had a chance to visit the project at Khairat.  Thanks Amit and
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> > Mukesh, for making this possible!  It's always a fabulous learning
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> > experience to be with rural Indian children.
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> >
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> >
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> >
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> > Here's just one striking finding I'd like to share on this list -  the
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> > school teacher, in this single room, single teacher, multigrade rural
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> > school, reports not a single hardware or software breakdown Sept 2007-Feb
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> > 2008 in any of the 22 XOs given to the children.  As of now, this is not
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> > trivial information about a children's machine in tropical, dusty
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> > environments and a project that hopes for large scale implementation.
> (Ps:
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> > the children reportedly carry the XOs back and forth from school to home
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> > everyday and continue chat with each other from home over the mesh
> network).
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> >
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> >
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> > There seem to be, to my mind, a number of other challenges to the project
> –
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> > pedagogical, social, technical, and administrative.  I will be curious to
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> > know the findings from Reliance/OLPC as they become available.
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> >
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> > regards,
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> >
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> > Parimala Inamdar
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> >
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> > Cell: 9820314308
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