Via Slashdot:
A teacher came upon a student demonstrating Linux to other kids and handing out LiveCDs. The teacher confiscated the CDs and wrote an angry email to HeliOS’s founder, Ken Starks: “Mr. Starks, I am sure you strongly believe in what you are doing but I cannot either support your efforts or allow them to [...]
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Douchebag teacher of the year
December 10th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Linux
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5-year-olds repair OLPC laptops at Nigerian “hospital”
February 3rd, 2008 · Comments Off · Linux
Via Engadget:
During the recent Greener Gadgets Conference in New York, former OLPC CTO (and XO challenger) Mary Lou Jepsen discussed the real-world difficulties with using the kid-friendly laptops, including the creation of an XO “hospital” used to repair broken computers. Apparently, in the crowded conditions of schools in places like Nigeria, the little green laptops [...]
OLPC Software Update
January 26th, 2008 · Comments Off · Linux
Since I got my XO laptop, I’ve been frustrated by its incompatibility with WPA encryption for wireless connections, since I have my home network set up for WPA. Aside from reducing the security, changing it would mean changing the settings of my wii, Airport Express, and Slingbox, which isn’t too convenient.
Digging around in the OLPC [...]
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More OLPC notes
December 23rd, 2007 · Comments Off · Linux
After using the XO laptop for a few days, my opinion of it is mixed. On the plus side, it’s small, lightweight, easy for kids to use, and seems to be a good way to help kids learn programming. It’s a real Linux system (kernel 2.6.9) and it looks like it will run GCC-built x86 [...]
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OLPC Hacking
December 21st, 2007 · Comments Off · Linux
I got a developer key for my XO laptop, which enables booting into Open Firmware command mode and running unsigned development builds of the OS.
Coming soon: Your XO laptop
December 20th, 2007 · Comments Off · Linux
As my readers know, my XO laptop arrived two days ago. However, I received this email a few minutes ago:
Your XO laptop is on its way.
We’re happy to inform you that your XO laptop has shipped. In order to help you get the most out of your experience with the XO and One Laptop per [...]
My OLPC Laptop arrived!
December 18th, 2007 · Comments Off · Linux
Late this afternoon, UPS left a surprisingly small & heavy box at my door. It was my OLPC laptop! There are no printed manuals; instead a note directs you to a getting started page.
The laptop is much smaller than I expected. The keyboard is a little too small for adult hands to use it comfortably. [...]
My XO Laptop is on the way
November 28th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Linux
I just got an email from OLPC welcoming me to the community and letting me know that my XO Laptop is on the way.
Thank you for being one of the first to participate
in Give One Get One.
All of us at One Laptop per Child were inspired by the number of people who joined our Give [...]
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Trying the XO laptop’s interface
November 16th, 2007 · Comments Off · Linux
No, I didn’t get my OLPC yet, but I found a Sugar emulator that runs under Ubuntu (which I’m running under VMware on my MacBook Pro). When I run it, I can see other OLPC users on the internet.
Here are a few screenshots.
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A Python programming environment
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Turtle graphics to teach kids programming
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OLPC Update
November 15th, 2007 · Comments Off · Linux
I got an email update on the status of my OLPC “Give 1 Get 1″ order:
Thank you for participating in the One Laptop per Child “Give One Get One” program. Your donation of $399.00 will bring education and enlightenment to children of the developing world. $200 of each $399 “Give One Get One” Donation is tax-deductible [...]
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I Gave One and I’m Getting One
November 12th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Linux
I just ordered an XO Laptop from laptopgiving.org. The way this works is by purchasing two XO Laptops for $400, you receive one and the other one goes to a child in a developing country. $200 of the purchase is tax-deductable, plus you get one year of free access to T-Mobile HotSpots.
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Google OS
November 2nd, 2007 · Comments Off · Linux
I downloaded gOS, the operating system for Wal-Mart’s $199 PC and found that I can run it nicely under VMware. Unfortunately the developer’s page is down right now. The OS is available for download as a torrent.
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It’s pretty obvious that gOS is based on Ubuntu. Just before the desktop appears, there’s a quick [...]
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Kitchen renovation day 3
October 18th, 2007 · Comments Off · Linux, Personal
The guys moved the pipes behind the washing machine & dryer and did a lot of the electrical work. They do very neat work. Before they leave every day they pick up all of their stuff and vacuum.
The cats are pretty upset about it. They don’t like the noise and having things moved around.
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Cruel and unusual punishment
August 24th, 2007 · Comments Off · Linux
Via UNEASYsilence:
Scott McCausland was accused of and plead guilty to downloading Star Wars Episode III (Revenge of the Phantom Sith Enterprise Scotty?) and after serving five months in prison (Mind you Cocaine carrying Lohan got only hours) the court ordered that he must have monitoring software installed on his PC and that software is not [...]
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Is Debian doomed?
March 19th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Linux
I was running Debian on my home server for a few years before getting disgusted with the lack of updates and switching to Ubuntu. There still hasn’t been a new Debian release in several years, while there have been two Ubuntu releases since I switched. Many people seem to be defecting from Debian as it [...]
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NFS & iTunes on my TeraStation
February 17th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Linux, Macintosh
Today I installed new firmware on my Terastation which allowed me to add NFS support, iTunes library sharing, and Bonjour, which makes it a lot more useful. I found that Samba networking was extremely slow, had problems with files larger than 2GB, and the shares got disconnected when my Mac goes to sleep. NFS is [...]
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Server Trouble
February 12th, 2007 · Comments Off · Linux
Today was one of those days when everything breaks. When I sat down at my computer this morning I discovered that my server was down due to a disk error on the boot drive. After a few FSCKs and several reboots it’s working without any problems, but I’m still concerned since there were I/O errors.
This [...]
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Getting disgusted with Parallels
February 11th, 2007 · Comments Off · Linux
I’ve been using Parallels Desktop since the first public release. Although their Windows support gets better with each release – I love coherence mode in the recent betas, their Linux support remains abysmal. They still don’t have Parallels Tools for Linux, which keeps the virtual machine’s clock synchronized and lets you move the mouse in [...]
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Ubuntu passed off as Windows Vista
February 2nd, 2007 · Comments Off · Linux
The writer of degredo.net pulled a prank on his father by installing Ubuntu on his father’s PC instead of Vista, which he requested. He loves it and now brags about how much better Vista is than OS X.
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Linux ported to Sony PSP
January 30th, 2007 · Comments Off · Linux
Via LinuxDevices.com: A self-described “world famous celebrity hacker” has managed to boot uClinux on Sony’s MIPS-based PSP (Playstation Portable). Chris Mulhearn’s port so far lacks support for key PSP peripherals such as the screen, but could interest hackers able to connect serially to the PSP’s “remote headphones” port.
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