On Jan 8, 2008 9:10 PM, Steve Holton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > -- > Steve Holton > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ > Olpc-open mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open > > -- Edward Cherlin Earth Treasury: End Poverty at a Profit http://www.EarthTreasury.org/ "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."--Alan Kay _______________________________________________ Olpc-open mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open
