{"id":25,"date":"2007-12-23T00:56:48","date_gmt":"2007-12-23T04:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/23\/more-genreal-information-about-the-olpc\/"},"modified":"2012-08-25T08:22:51","modified_gmt":"2012-08-25T12:22:51","slug":"more-genreal-information-about-the-olpc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/23\/more-genreal-information-about-the-olpc\/","title":{"rendered":"More General Information about the OLPC"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are a few things that I have noticed over the course of the day using the OLPC, the XO Laptop, or the $100 Laptop<\/a>. One of the big ones is that if you take it to a coffee shop people will look at you and then the laptop and look at the laptop some more.<\/p>\n

I had a lot of people come up to me and ask if it really worked. I said “Yes, it does and you can get one for yourself even” and went into how they can order the OLPC themselves from OLPCs Give 1 Get 1<\/a> website.<\/p>\n

I had a lot of people ask “Is that one of those green laptops”\u009d, or “Is that one of those $100 laptop”\u009d.\u00a0 I got the most questions from older people asking “Isn’t that the laptop we saw them talking about one CBS”? I assume they saw the “60 Minutes”\u009d piece on the OLPC<\/a>. Each time I would stop reading about the laptop and offered them a chance to use it.<\/p>\n

One lady I guess was going to order one for someone or she already had, so she wanted to see it and touch it. She had a young girl who was eleven if I remember correctly use it. The young girl said it was easy for her to type on. Of course she tried to go to one of the Disney websites<\/a>, which asked for the latest Flash plug-in to see most of the website, not that accessible of a website. A Disney website<\/a> is probably not the first place someone from third world country would go or at least it shouldn’t be.<\/p>\n

Another gentleman asked what kind of software you could put on it, since someone he knew or he was going to a third world country and wanted get a few to let people there use it if it could do a bunch of activities.<\/p>\n

One women I know asked if you could look up porn on the laptop. I told I figured you could, since I had not heard that they had software to stop it. Really wanted to know if kids could look up porn. So when she got hold of the OLPC\u00c2\u00a0she went to the Playboy website and started laughing when she got to their home page. I grab the OLPC back from her to get rid of it, since we were sitting the middle of the coffee shop with a lot of little kids and older adults.<\/p>\n

I did get some reading done about the OLPC on how to<\/a> get started<\/a>, how it works, and what activities the OLPC has on it<\/a>. They even have a wiki<\/a>, which contains information about hardware, software, content, testing, educators, developers, and a whole lot more. They have some cool rollovers explaining what certain parts of the machine are for. One of the ones I just found was the page that has information on what the keyboard does<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0They also have a page that shows which features the OLPC <\/a>has.<\/p>\n

With all the question and people playing with it I did not get to do as much as I wanted today on learning about the activities on the OLPC. It was like three different “Tam Tam”\u009d activities. They are:<\/p>\n