<div>John,</div>
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<div>No contract is required. </div>
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<div>Please try upgrading the XO with the latest build. The steps are pretty simple.</div>
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<div>You can get connected from any internet cafe in Mumbai. Please have a look at <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Upgrading_the_XO">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Upgrading_the_XO</a> and <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/8.2.0">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/8.2.0</a> (read "I<span class="mw-headline">f your XO is not connected to the internet" as you might not get wireless easily). You just need any USB storage device>=1Gb, which you can get easily.</span></div>
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<div><span class="mw-headline">It</span><span class="mw-headline"> should work out. </span><span class="mw-headline">If not, please let us know.</span></div>
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<div><span class="mw-headline">Thank you.</span></div>
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<div><span class="mw-headline">Manu </span></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">John Kauffman</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:John@kauffmans.org">John@kauffmans.org</a>></span><br>Date: Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 12:32 PM<br>
Subject: Seeking OLPC / XO advisor - Paid contract<br>To: <a href="mailto:manu@laptop.org">manu@laptop.org</a>, <a href="mailto:india@lists.laptop.org">india@lists.laptop.org</a><br><br><br>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">I am seeking someone familiar with the OLPC XO to provide a few hours of Email advice and troubleshooting for pay. I can send payment by bank transfer, check, PayPal or other, as you wish. Let me know if you think you can help me & what you charge. If you can not help me, please pass to someone that can help me. </span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">I live in Mumbai and bought an XO from the States through the G1G1 program. My goal was to show it around to my friends and give them a chance to try the tool that they had read about. But now I am having some problems using the unit and I also need some help implementing a project on the XO.</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Thanks, John.</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The XO:</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">I have not plugged any devices into USB.</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">I do not have connection to internet</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">I have not done any updating of software</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">I had inserted a SD card for file storage but removed the card.</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">History of use:</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">When I got the unit ( ~ Jan 2008) I had no problems.</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">I used record, write, TamTamJam, Pippy without problem</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">I lent it to friends to try.</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">I put it away for six months.</span></font></p>
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<p><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Problem #1 – activities will not start</span></font></b></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">It boots without problems. </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">When I click on an activity (Write) the activity icon opens in the ring</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The logo gets lighter and darker</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">When I position the mouse over the logo it says "starting…"</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">After waiting ten minutes it has still not started.</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> </span></font></p>
<p><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Project "Fish"</span></font></b></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">I have a project set up as a local website on a PC to identify fish. </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Pages ask students questions about features of the fish and then use those questions to identify the species. </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Website can be copied to a CD and run on a PC with browser with no internet connection</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">All of the pages are static and very simple - a few pictures and links to other pages within the site.</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The website has about 500 pages with questions to identify the species of fish. </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">I'd like to get this working on an SD card on the XO (total size of site is under 256 Mb).</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Let me know if you think you can help me & what you charge. If you can not help me, please pass to someone that can help me. Thank you.</span></font></p>
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