Chasing Nuts » OLPC http://www.chasingnuts.com Life is complex: it has real and imaginary components. Wed, 19 May 2010 15:42:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Christmas comes early, my OLPC XO arives http://www.chasingnuts.com/2007/christmas-comes-early-my-olpc-xo-arives/ http://www.chasingnuts.com/2007/christmas-comes-early-my-olpc-xo-arives/#comments Thu, 20 Dec 2007 02:25:41 +0000 Aaron Thul http://www.chasingnuts.com/2007/christmas-comes-early-my-olpc-xo-arives/ Today was a very exciting day for me. This afternoon my OLPC XO-1 was delivered. I took several pictures while unboxing it and you can see them on my flickr account. The unit really is fun and small. It power up, asked me my name, I picked a color icon, and I was ready to go. The installed applications/activities are fun and I look forward to exploring them more over the coming holiday. I love the Turtle Art activity/application; it took me right back to middle school Logo.

One thing is that the programs on the XO are called activities. I have already installed some community activities from the web site. It is very simple, all one needs to do is download the .xo bundle file. The system takes it form there for you. The XoIRC is what I am using as I write this to talk in my favorite channels on IRC.

I have had one problem so far but it was not very significant. I am not able to have it join my home wireless with WPA enabled. I detected it as a secured network. I typed the password and click OK but nothing seemed to happen. I got frustrated after about 20 minutes of trying and waiting and just turned off wireless encryption on the WiFi for the moment. I will google around and see what I can find then turn it back on. I think I may just take the rout of having it off for the holiday. It will make it easy for my house guests to get online when they are in town.

Off to go play some more with my new toy!

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