Comments on: Writing Essays and Creating New Games: Things We Should Do on Netbooks http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2010/03/08/writing-essays-and-creating-new-games-things-we-should-do-on-netbooks/ Weblog of Wesley Fryer Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:55:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mark Ahlness http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2010/03/08/writing-essays-and-creating-new-games-things-we-should-do-on-netbooks/comment-page-1/#comment-126683 Mark Ahlness Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:55:53 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/?p=4173#comment-126683 Wes, my experience with SOAS (Sugar on a Stick) was thrilling - at first. The idea of anybody carrying around a complete computer, OS and docs, on a flash drive that could plug in anywhere was intoxicating. But as Bender says, the biggest hitch was the issue of getting them to boot on the thousands of different bios setups possible. Despite great strides in many areas, I believe that problem still exists - and limits the idea from the get go... Even if they can boot, then trying to program for every possible ethernet adapter pops up, and on, and on... It's a shame Sugar and OLPC parted ways. Egos and visions... So my goal this year has been to get my fleet of (seven!) XO laptops ready to access that CLOUD. With a browser (not OS) like Google Chrome, my little XO's are ready - and they're even overclocked, moving along like OLPC and Sugar did not envision. Here are a few pics I just took as I set up the latest XO to move beyond Sugar: http://tinyurl.com/xoupgrade I'll keep my eyes on the big boys, but will also be on the lookout for independent great ideas for the here and now, like Xtra Ordinary 2010. Solid, stable, fast, free. Tough to beat. - Mark Wes, my experience with SOAS (Sugar on a Stick) was thrilling – at first. The idea of anybody carrying around a complete computer, OS and docs, on a flash drive that could plug in anywhere was intoxicating.

But as Bender says, the biggest hitch was the issue of getting them to boot on the thousands of different bios setups possible. Despite great strides in many areas, I believe that problem still exists – and limits the idea from the get go… Even if they can boot, then trying to program for every possible ethernet adapter pops up, and on, and on…

It’s a shame Sugar and OLPC parted ways. Egos and visions…

So my goal this year has been to get my fleet of (seven!) XO laptops ready to access that CLOUD. With a browser (not OS) like Google Chrome, my little XO’s are ready – and they’re even overclocked, moving along like OLPC and Sugar did not envision.

Here are a few pics I just took as I set up the latest XO to move beyond Sugar: http://tinyurl.com/xoupgrade

I’ll keep my eyes on the big boys, but will also be on the lookout for independent great ideas for the here and now, like Xtra Ordinary 2010. Solid, stable, fast, free. Tough to beat. – Mark

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