Notes from inside the OLPC
I finally managed to follow the instructions about how to emulate the OLPC well enough to run it. (Download image,
convert it to vmdk, create a VMware machine, add to it a sound adapter, replace the hard drive with the OLPC converted
image, run thingy).
I wrote some notes from within it. In the end, I could not figure out how to paste them from inside the OLPC -- I mailed the
ODT to myself, opened it from OOo and pasted it here.
ETA: Both bugs I stumbled on are documented in the OLPC trac system: #3945 (no paste in Browse)
and #3957 (cannot switch between windows with the keyboard). I love it when bugs are well documented!
OLPC notes
It is kind of disconcerting. Everything looks different.
I am not properly sure I understood re: how to make the fonts not tiny,
where do I set the screen DPI? however! This should not effect actual users of the laptop.
So other questions: is it possible to force it to color mode, or will it go into greyscale automatically? Oooh, and apparently "Write" has automatic spell-checker, so some of my words are marked with a tiny red squiggle underneath it. The editor is so far proving pretty convenient, wooo.
OK, now for the first time I am wondering how do I make sure my stuff is saved? I realize that this is me coming from an old world "if I don't save the damn thing, it will go away".
Must...have...faith.
Moving to another activity now.
Wow -- weird.
I will now use "browse" to post it to my lj.
First of all -- apparently, the journal has no preview for "Write", which sucks. Wonder if it is fixed in the new versions.
convert it to vmdk, create a VMware machine, add to it a sound adapter, replace the hard drive with the OLPC converted
image, run thingy).
I wrote some notes from within it. In the end, I could not figure out how to paste them from inside the OLPC -- I mailed the
ODT to myself, opened it from OOo and pasted it here.
ETA: Both bugs I stumbled on are documented in the OLPC trac system: #3945 (no paste in Browse)
and #3957 (cannot switch between windows with the keyboard). I love it when bugs are well documented!
OLPC notes
It is kind of disconcerting. Everything looks different.
I am not properly sure I understood re: how to make the fonts not tiny,
where do I set the screen DPI? however! This should not effect actual users of the laptop.
So other questions: is it possible to force it to color mode, or will it go into greyscale automatically? Oooh, and apparently "Write" has automatic spell-checker, so some of my words are marked with a tiny red squiggle underneath it. The editor is so far proving pretty convenient, wooo.
OK, now for the first time I am wondering how do I make sure my stuff is saved? I realize that this is me coming from an old world "if I don't save the damn thing, it will go away".
Must...have...faith.
Moving to another activity now.
Wow -- weird.
I will now use "browse" to post it to my lj.
First of all -- apparently, the journal has no preview for "Write", which sucks. Wonder if it is fixed in the new versions.