I love this tech talk about Ubuntu, however I want to share that it is also a humanistic-centered philosophy, which calls for global solidarity and a united struggle for social justice. Joan
Julie and Phil,I’m thinking that Sugar, indeed, will transform me into a Linux-centric geek.Is this true? Joan
‘Lil XO doesn’t come with a Spreadsheet Activity. Dan Bricklin (who is best known for bringing the spreadsheet to personal computers) has been porting his online Wiki spreadsheet to run under Sugar on the XO laptop. Built mostly on Javascript a very early test version is available at http://www.peapodcast.com/sgi/olpc/socialcalc
Other folks are creating a Python based spreadsheet. There is an early version that can be installed on an XO available at http://olivier.friard.free.fr/software/ppss/index.php
The XO has three buttons in the top row that may be used to get to the Neighborhood window 
, the Group window 
and Home 
I found it annoying to have the frame appear suddenly when I got the mouse close to a hot corner. Read the rest of this entry » »
I’ve started using a two button with scroll mouse. It has made everything much easier for me with my adult size fingers. I can also copy and paste between windows! This is really a wonderful feature as some of the commands we’ve been typing in the terminal window are long.
To share Write Activity documents with MS Office the activity must be modified. Once modified Write Activity documents may be saved as a MS Office file.
To modify go to
- Terminal activity
- type su -l
- type cd /usr/share/activities/Write.activity
- type the following all on one line
- mv keybindings.xml keybindings.xml.org