Comments for BeanWorks

Comment on Too much marketing and not enough meat by Carol Bean

Carol Bean — Fri, 09 May 2008 18:35:56 +0000

Very true.

Hopefully they would get some help getting it set up and learning to use it (the program, anyway), but I get an awful lot of people who are frustrated with the experience of having computer-savvy people try to teach them how to use a computer.

Comment on Too much marketing and not enough meat by sharon

sharon — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:56:55 +0000

A resolution of 1280×1024 also implies a relatively new computer. I suppose some in the target audience will have a new computer, but I’ll bet that many more of them will be trying to use their children’s cast-offs.

Comment on DeLi Linux! by Carol Bean

Carol Bean — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 16:25:48 +0000

hmcahyo:

With 128MB RAM, I don’t think you need deli linux. Have you tried using the search at Linux.org’s site?

Carol

Comment on DeLi redux by fsw

fsw — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:00:27 +0000

Hi,
have you try to put in /etc/resolv.conf your name server?
I’ve DeLi 0.7.2 up and running on a 486DX2 with 20 Mo of RAM and Internet is working.
In /etc/resolv.conf, it has to be written like this:

nameserver dns.of.your.provider1
nameserver dns.of.your.provider2

where you replace by the IPs if you know them or by the IP of your router if you use one (192.168.0.1 or 192.168.1.1).

Good luck!
fsw (writing articles in the french magazin Linux Pratique)

Comment on DeLi Linux! by hmcahyo

hmcahyo — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 02:57:10 +0000

i’m newbiee in linux.. and i look for some distro for my old PC (Pentium II 128 MB).. i found deli linux and try to install.. i ve done all the instruction as in DEli’s site. but after finishisng install all the file to my PC… and the i boot… nothing happen i’ve try other distro like ZEnwalk/Zencafe… but the instalation is too long… for my PC .. i use Puppy live CD and try to install but failed.. so i just can use linux with live CD.. so far i use Alixe and Puppy linux.. you have sugestion for me?

Comment on Excellent training guide by Isabelle Fetherston

Isabelle Fetherston — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:35:06 +0000

I agree with your comments about the NIH toolkit. I have just written a blog post about this toolkit and discussed one of your comments about the toolkit here: http://seniorfriendlylibraries.blogspot.com/2007/11/nih-toolkit-for-teaching-older-adults.html

Comment on Online video clips by Carol Bean

Carol Bean — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 13:30:38 +0000

Sam,

I found the transitions were one of the important details in exporting to Quicktime. First, I checked that all the transitions were uniform (followed the same “pattern”), then I looked very carefully at each transition. Some required just a few second, some longer, and the timings were not always the same in Quicktime as they were in Keynote. I exported several times to check the results before I got it right. Finally, I had to adjust *where* the timings were (before, within, at the end). Having a lot of transitions on one slide didn’t work very well, so I took all the transitions out and made individual slides out of those transitions. Bottom line: just because it turns out great in keynote doesn’t mean it’s going to work as beautifully in Quicktime! You may need to change the way you have it in keynote to make it work the same in Quicktime.

Comment on Online video clips by Sam

Sam — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 13:11:06 +0000

I find that every time I export to Quicktime all my transitions are lagging. It looks crap. Do you know what that would be from?

Comment on How to do that visual stuff in handouts (OpenOffice.org) by Carol Bean

Carol Bean — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 20:16:46 +0000

Yep, Jing, as in http://www.jingproject.com

For Windows or Mac, but no Linux version : (

Comment on How to do that visual stuff in handouts (OpenOffice.org) by Laurie

Laurie — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 19:06:36 +0000

You should check out Jing for making screenshots and notes. It works so well…I’m a total addict now that I’ve been informed of its existence.