[Olpc-open] Learning OLPC

[Edward Cherlin]

On Jan 8, 2008 9:10 PM, Steve Holton <sph0lt0n at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jane-
>
> Start here:
>
> http://www.laptop.org/en/laptop/start/
>
> Then come back with your next question.  We're all friendly-types here.

Please post questions and problems on
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/New_Users. That way all new users get to
share new answers, and they get captured for the documentation
process.

>  On Jan 9, 2008 12:05 AM, Jane Bonwell <janeinindy at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I have a laptop,received G1G1.  I would like to understand it.  I have
> never done any networking, although I have used Windows computers.
> Presently I have an IBM XP Home edition.  I hope to get some literature from
> my library about Linux and about networking.
> >
> > I have managed to open the G1G1.  I expect the space at the top of the
> screen which shows an opportunity to type has a purpose, but nowhere do I
> find any suggestion of its use.  It may be that some code letters will get
> me further  but I have seen warnings about what one "posts"  and I don't
> want to ruin the computer.
> >
> > On the neighborhood I found three icons for mesh.  I also found some
> others,  not members, but stations, with padlocks.  I haven't found how to
> unlock them.  One said "Crestwood", which just might be mine!

This is all much easier for children in classrooms with lots of other
XOs, and with a school server waiting for them.

> I haven't
> found that  there are any members in Indiana yet.

Where are you? My wife's family lives in Columbus.

> > That Crestwood icon was gone today--what does that mean?
> >
> > Can you suggest where to go for the answers?  Thanks, JaneB

We're making a lot of this up as we go along. It's essential to do it
as part of a community. Collaborative discovery is the essence of the
laptop program.

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