[OLPC-Chicago] OLPC- help requested

Mon Mar 24 22:55:22 EDT 2008

I know what you're saying. I have similar concerns on how to get the most  
out of my XO as well. I'm not ignorant on computers, but this is a different  
animal and much of what is discussed here I don't fully grasp. That's why I  
signed up, to see if there was ever a weekend meeting where the very technical  
people can help the less technical. I thought there was something on March 
29th,  is that the case? Then we can all help the kids. 

Curt J. 

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2. Re: XO help (Jeffrey A. Schwartz)
3.  Re: XO help (sheila  miguez)

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Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 16:56:49 -0500
From: Robert Myers  <rmyers7 at mindspring.com>
Subject: [OLPC-Chicago] We made the weekly  OLPC community news
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In the weekly OLPC community news  today, in the Presence section, 
there's a mention of community Jabber  servers. Ours is up there.

Thanks again  Harper,

Bob

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Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 09:18:12 -0500
From: "Jeffrey A. Schwartz"  <jasermd at comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [OLPC-Chicago] XO help
To:  "'Jason Rock'" <jrock08 at gmail.com>
Cc:  olpc-chicago at lists.laptop.org
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I appreciate the help that some of you  are trying to offer. My problem is
that I am not technical at all and for  the most part do not understand what
you are telling me, including the  advice from Jason. I have been able to
load on to the XO Opera but I am  only able to get it to launch from the
terminal. I have not been able to  get JAVA, Flash or a media player on the
XO, despite spending hours looking  at the wiki, reading posts in the help
and support groups, etc.  

Again, anyone that has some specific line by line instructions  on how to add
JAVA, Flash, a media player and getting Opera into the main  menu - it would
be greatly appreciated by me. I was also serious in  offering to pay someone
to do this for me if someone has the time  available. I also read about a
"batch script" on some sites. Is this  something that someone sets up and by
accessing it all of the correct files  will download and install correctly?
If so, maybe I can get someone to help  me in this way. 

Thanks again for your support.  JAS

Jeffrey A. Schwartz (708)  848-8880

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From: Jason Rock  [mailto:jrock08 at gmail.com] 
Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 2:41 PM
To:  jasermd at comcast.net
Cc: olpc-chicago at lists.laptop.org
Subject: Re:  [OLPC-Chicago] XO help

mpg123 or mplayer are both *nix media  players that can handle mpeg4 files.
I'm not sure how you could go about  getting them for the XO, but they are
both command line interface, so you  wouldn't have to do that much to make it
work.

Jason

On Sun,  Mar 16, 2008 at 6:36 PM, Jeffrey A. Schwartz  <jasermd at comcast.net>
wrote:

Looking for some help! I carry my  XO around the country with me and it is
always the topic of interesting  conversations and pledges by others to
contribute to the OLPC cause to make  them available to deserving kids
everywhere.

Here is my  problem - I must be incredibly dense because no matter how much I
have  tried I have not been successful in understanding how to program some
basic  stuff that would make the XO incredibly useful for me. For example,
the  following are things that I would like the XO to be able to do and  from
what I read it is possible if you know how to add the programs (which  I do
not).

-media player to play mpeg4 files  

-enhanced web browser of some sort

-ability to use a program  called GOTOMYPC so that I can connect into my
desktop when  traveling

Any ideas on how I can easily download this  type of stuff to a USB drive
that I can then just install on the  XO?

Anyone interested in earning a few bucks to program this  stuff on my XO for
me? 

Thanks,  JAS

Jeffrey A. Schwartz (708)  848-8880

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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 24 Mar  2008 10:10:12 -0500
From: "sheila miguez"  <shekay at pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [OLPC-Chicago] XO help
To:  jasermd at comcast.net
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On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 9:18 AM,  Jeffrey A. Schwartz
<jasermd at comcast.net> wrote:

> Again,  anyone that has some specific line by line instructions on how to 
add
>  JAVA, Flash, a media player and getting Opera into the main menu ? it  
would
> be greatly appreciated by me. I was also serious in offering to  pay someone
> to do this for me if someone has the time available. I  also read about a
> "batch script" on some sites. Is this something that  someone sets up and by
> accessing it all of the correct files will  download and install correctly?
> If so, maybe I can get someone to help  me in this way.

Maybe we could have a meetup for new users to walk  through these things?

I just got an XO and wouldn't mind walking  through typical scenarios
from the viewpoint of a naive user. Maybe this is  a good "Teach Me"
activity?

Another Teach Me activity I'd like is  one for setting up a developer
environment.

--  
sheila

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