<html> <head> <style></style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> Hi James, Thanks for the great suggestions and offer.  I will work on this after Saturday.  I am busy reflashing 12 XOs from the CUELA lending library and all my Roadshow In A Box machines (including a bunch of M-stock I repaired).  Saturday is "showtime" at the LAUSD InfoTech at the LA Convention center.  I will be showing off SoaS running on a MacBook and the cutest little mauve and pearl-white eeePC you ever saw!  I will also have at least 1 XO-1 for folks to play with and one XO-1.5... probably showing off the Gnome desktop.  The twelve machines from the CUELA library will ba available to check out to CUELA members.  I will be very, very, busy! Caryl P.S. I bought a nice lavender netbook case for my pearl and mauve refurb eeePC today... but I guess you guys don't care about that sort of thing... ;-D (maybe Caroline would) > Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 21:19:45 -0500 > From: nicestep@gmail.com > To: support-gang@lists.laptop.org > Subject: Re: [support-gang] FLOSS Grannie's Guide > > Caryl, > > If I were you I would rewrite what there is until it does meet your > standards. If someone already knows things like what a BIOS is he > doesn't need a guide. The Wiki page we have already is adequate. > > BIOS is different for different kinds of PCs. Some have a "boot menu" > option, which lets you select the device to boot from. All have a > "setup" which more often than not will let you specify a boot sequence > (first try the USB, then the floppy drive, then the hard drive). > Older PCs don't support booting off a USB at all. > > I'll help you on this if I can. I should be able to provide screen > shots, digital pictures of BIOS screens, etc. I'm sure others will > help as well. > > In any case I would not worry about what is already there. I think > the people who wrote it would agree that it is not suitable for the > audience intended without some revisions. > > James Simmons > > > On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks for the link... > > > > Most of this was written by other folks and doesn't meet what I would call > > Grannie's Guide standards... i.e.,  it needs to be able to be used by folks > > who haven't a clue what BIOS is and it needs to stay out of complicated > > instructions.  Plug'n Play is the goal. For example, BIOS can be avoided > > completely in the eeePC by pressing the "esc" key. Is this true for most > > PCs? > > > > Unfortunately, I think that once a title is established in a FLOSS manual, > > it is there forever.  Maybe we can modify somehow or add a new  "Super > > Simple Sugar Guide" with a link.  The target audience is the average > > classroom teacher whose computer experience probably does not go beyond > > email, creating documents and maybe using a classroom management system like > > BlackBoard or Moodle. > > > > I am just being really, really realistic here. The FLOSS Grannie's Guide > > might work for the school IT person, but not every school can afford one and > > sometimes they are just a teacher who volunteers in exchange for a lighter > > teaching load, foolishly thinking it will be easier!  Not! > > > > Caryl (aka "Grumpy Grannie") > > > > _______________________________________________ > > support-gang mailing list > > support-gang@lists.laptop.org > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang > > > > > _______________________________________________ > support-gang mailing list > support-gang@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang </body> </html>