The OLPC XO shall Give One Get One Program shall return!
Wonderful! I hope everyone takes the opportunity both to pick up and donate an XO here!
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OLPC XO Give One Get One Program to Return
Friday, September 5, 2008
Programming in Education: OLPC Case Studies
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Ben blogged here about some stories about OLPC case studies. They are all worth checking out.
Listen to the following NPR articles (both found here):
Laptops for Kids in Small Towns May Not Be Panacea
Laptops Help Keep Migrant Workers’ Kids in School
And read this article One Laptop Per New York City Student a Success and report.
The company [...]
The XO has got too much Sugar
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
The XO’s default user interface, Sugar, is very interesting. Its goal is to allow for kids to collaborate, and in doing so, enhance their learning. It is a wonderful idea. The only problem is that it leaves them with a computer that has got barely any memory and no swap (XOs haven’t got swap).
I [...]
Wifi-radar hoses my wifi router
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
If you don’t run Sugar on your XO, you need to configure your wireless connection somehow, and a lot of folks use wifi-radar, myself included.
While experimenting with it tonight, I noticed that the wireless connection on my other computer quit working periodically. Eventually I did put two and two together and found that everything worked [...]
SD Cards on the XO
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Here is the page on the OLPC website that documents secure digital cards on the XO.
The XO supports SDHC (high capacity). I use a 16GB AData card on my XO without problem.
Here is a little reminder: when you insert the SD card into the XO, do so with the screen, and the shiny part of [...]
XO Critical Configuration 1
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Until a recent trip, I hadn’t used the XO very hard, or configured it at all. Before heading out, I read Bill’s article and found some real gems that, along with my own preferences, make using the XO a much more pleasurable experience. They follow:
Disable the terrible hot-corner feature
Disable Alt-Tab to the Journal activity
Install the [...]
An image viewer for the XO
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Feh is the only image viewer that is both easy to install and use on the XO.
I never thought I would use the XO as an image viewer until I found how convenient it was to pass around to folks in lieu of a much larger laptop.
OLPC XO OS build 703 changes
Saturday, June 28, 2008
OLPC XO OS build 703 has at least two significant changes:
The first is that it automatically suspend when closed, with this caveat:
the system can’t suspend when the USB bus is in use by an external device (unless it’s a USB mass storage device and has been fully allowed to write any cached info and quiesce [...]