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<DIV>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. </DIV>
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<DIV>Curt J. </DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 3/24/2008 11:00:27 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
olpc-chicago-request@lists.laptop.org writes:</DIV>
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Re: XO help (sheila
miguez)<BR><BR><BR>----------------------------------------------------------------------<BR><BR>Message:
1<BR>Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 16:56:49 -0500<BR>From: Robert Myers
<rmyers7@mindspring.com><BR>Subject: [OLPC-Chicago] We made the weekly
OLPC community news<BR>To: olpc-chicago@lists.laptop.org<BR>Message-ID:
<47E6D221.8020404@mindspring.com><BR>Content-Type: text/plain;
charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed<BR><BR>In the weekly OLPC community news
today, in the Presence section, <BR>there's a mention of community Jabber
servers. Ours is up there.<BR><BR>Thanks again
Harper,<BR><BR>Bob<BR><BR><BR>------------------------------<BR><BR>Message:
2<BR>Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 09:18:12 -0500<BR>From: "Jeffrey A. Schwartz"
<jasermd@comcast.net><BR>Subject: Re: [OLPC-Chicago] XO help<BR>To:
"'Jason Rock'" <jrock08@gmail.com><BR>Cc:
olpc-chicago@lists.laptop.org<BR>Message-ID:
<003501c88db9$e608c620$0202a8c0@JASEROFFICE><BR>Content-Type:
text/plain; charset="us-ascii"<BR><BR>I appreciate the help that some of you
are trying to offer. My problem is<BR>that I am not technical at all and for
the most part do not understand what<BR>you are telling me, including the
advice from Jason. I have been able to<BR>load on to the XO Opera but I am
only able to get it to launch from the<BR>terminal. I have not been able to
get JAVA, Flash or a media player on the<BR>XO, despite spending hours looking
at the wiki, reading posts in the help<BR>and support groups, etc.
<BR><BR><BR><BR>Again, anyone that has some specific line by line instructions
on how to add<BR>JAVA, Flash, a media player and getting Opera into the main
menu - it would<BR>be greatly appreciated by me. I was also serious in
offering to pay someone<BR>to do this for me if someone has the time
available. I also read about a<BR>"batch script" on some sites. Is this
something that someone sets up and by<BR>accessing it all of the correct files
will download and install correctly?<BR>If so, maybe I can get someone to help
me in this way. <BR><BR><BR><BR>Thanks again for your support.
JAS<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>Jeffrey A. Schwartz (708)
848-8880<BR><BR><BR><BR> _____ <BR><BR>From: Jason Rock
[mailto:jrock08@gmail.com] <BR>Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 2:41 PM<BR>To:
jasermd@comcast.net<BR>Cc: olpc-chicago@lists.laptop.org<BR>Subject: Re:
[OLPC-Chicago] XO help<BR><BR><BR><BR>mpg123 or mplayer are both *nix media
players that can handle mpeg4 files.<BR>I'm not sure how you could go about
getting them for the XO, but they are<BR>both command line interface, so you
wouldn't have to do that much to make it<BR>work.<BR><BR>Jason<BR><BR>On Sun,
Mar 16, 2008 at 6:36 PM, Jeffrey A. Schwartz
<jasermd@comcast.net><BR>wrote:<BR><BR>Looking for some help! I carry my
XO around the country with me and it is<BR>always the topic of interesting
conversations and pledges by others to<BR>contribute to the OLPC cause to make
them available to deserving kids<BR>everywhere.<BR><BR><BR><BR>Here is my
problem - I must be incredibly dense because no matter how much I<BR>have
tried I have not been successful in understanding how to program some<BR>basic
stuff that would make the XO incredibly useful for me. For example,<BR>the
following are things that I would like the XO to be able to do and
from<BR>what I read it is possible if you know how to add the programs (which
I do<BR>not).<BR><BR><BR><BR>-media player to play mpeg4 files
<BR><BR>-enhanced web browser of some sort<BR><BR>-ability to use a program
called GOTOMYPC so that I can connect into my<BR>desktop when
traveling<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>Any ideas on how I can easily download this
type of stuff to a USB drive<BR>that I can then just install on the
XO?<BR><BR><BR><BR>Anyone interested in earning a few bucks to program this
stuff on my XO for<BR>me? <BR><BR><BR><BR>Thanks,
JAS<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>Jeffrey A. Schwartz (708)
848-8880<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>OLPC-Chicago
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2008 10:10:12 -0500<BR>From: "sheila miguez"
<shekay@pobox.com><BR>Subject: Re: [OLPC-Chicago] XO help<BR>To:
jasermd@comcast.net<BR>Cc:
olpc-chicago@lists.laptop.org<BR>Message-ID:<BR>
<a68ced640803240810h6084ec2ek4a992e39487d5084@mail.gmail.com><BR>Content-Type:
text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252<BR><BR>On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 9:18 AM,
Jeffrey A. Schwartz<BR><jasermd@comcast.net> wrote:<BR><BR>> Again,
anyone that has some specific line by line instructions on how to add<BR>>
JAVA, Flash, a media player and getting Opera into the main menu ? it
would<BR>> be greatly appreciated by me. I was also serious in offering to
pay someone<BR>> to do this for me if someone has the time available. I
also read about a<BR>> "batch script" on some sites. Is this something that
someone sets up and by<BR>> accessing it all of the correct files will
download and install correctly?<BR>> If so, maybe I can get someone to help
me in this way.<BR><BR>Maybe we could have a meetup for new users to walk
through these things?<BR><BR>I just got an XO and wouldn't mind walking
through typical scenarios<BR>from the viewpoint of a naive user. Maybe this is
a good "Teach Me"<BR>activity?<BR><BR>Another Teach Me activity I'd like is
one for setting up a developer<BR>environment.<BR><BR><BR><BR>--
<BR>sheila<BR><BR><BR>------------------------------<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>OLPC-Chicago
mailing
list<BR>OLPC-Chicago@lists.laptop.org<BR>http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-chicago<BR><BR><BR>End
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