[OLPC-SF] What To Do When You Get Your XO ... continuing

[Valerie Taylor]

I checked the sites you suggest but they didn't get someone going -
too basic or way too much detail for the Givers of the G1G1 program.
It is about first impressions.

What To Do When You Get Your XO covered the topic well, even if there
were problems with the actual content - which is why it should be
public on the wiki.

..vt


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: rihoward1 at gmail.com <rihoward1 at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 9:02 PM
Subject: Re: [OLPC-SF] What To Do When You Get Your XO
To: Valerie Taylor <vtaylor at gmail.com>
Cc: "rihoward1 at gmail.com" <rihoward1 at gmail.com>


I am not even going to go into the specific problems with that website
other than to say that some of the advice there was so bad it could
lead you to having permanent problems with the laptop. It was so bad I
found it offensive.

The leaflet the comes with XO has enough information to get you
started. including a URL for more information
http://laptop.org/en/laptop/start
Also you can find information at
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Getting_Started .  In a school deployment
there would be some support at the early stages.  The idea is for the
community to take part and share.

/rh

On Jun 4, 2008, at 8:45 PM, Valerie Taylor wrote:

> You say http://frombob.to/XO/ web page has disappeared as it had
>>
>> some dreadful advice
>
> I can' t find it and don't remember the specifics. What was so bad?
> What do you suggest that would be more appropriate?
>
> It is pretty frustrating to get that little green machine out of the
> shipping box and then have no idea what to do next.
>
> Perhaps the specific suggestions had problems, but there should be
> something that is the Readme.. It needs to be easily accessible and
> linked from the "obvious" locations that someone will check first.
>
> I didn't ever find anything else that addressed these needs.
>
> ..vt
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 7:49 PM, rihoward1 at gmail.com <rihoward1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I am glad that the http://frombob.to/XO/ web page has disappeared as it had
>> some dreadful advice and I mean absolutely dreadful advice.
>>
>> Robert H.
>>
>> On Jun 4, 2008, at 10:27 AM, Valerie Taylor wrote:
>>
>>> There was a great resource page - What To Do When You Get Your XO
>>>
>>> http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/community-support/2008-February/001716.html
>>>
>>> http://frombob.to/XO/
>>>
>>> Does anyone know where there is another copy? WaybackMachine doesn't have
>>> it!
>>>