I have one!!! Finally I get to play with the OLPC laptop. It was a gift, and it was given to me in a restaurant, where it created a stir, so there's a story to tell you.
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Hands-on with the OLPC XO laptop -- and loving it
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The XO laptop I received last week as part of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Project's "Give One Get One" (G1G1) promotion is unlike any other laptop I've ever used, both in appearance and functionality
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Mepis 7.0 initial impressions
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Simply Mepis 7.0 got released on December 23rd. The release announcement proclaims it to be a holiday present and surely it looks like one.
A quick look at the packages reveal a detailed list containing 2.6.22.14 kernel, Xorg 7.1.0, KDE 3.5.8, OpenOffice 2.3.0, Firefox
2.0.0.11, Thunderbird 2.0.0.6, Digikam 0.9.2, Sun Java 6.00, Amarok
1.4.7, mplayer 1.0.rc1, fuse driver 2.7.0, ntfs-3g 1.710, madwifi-ng
Atheros driver 0.9.3.2, wpa-supplicant 0.6.0, ALSA sound drivers
1.0.15, libglib2.0 2.14.0, libgtk2.0 2.10.13, and QT 4.3.1-1.
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Mozilla takes on del.icio.us with new web syncing Weave platform
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"del.icio.us, Mozy, and other social and personal data storehouses should take note: Mozilla is entering the competitive landscape with some visionary ideas. The organization aims to keep the online user experience customized wherever, and however the web is accessed with its new Weave platform..."
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What AOL (and Mozilla) Should Do With Netscape
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"Now that AOL (TWX) has officially killed the already dead Netscape browser, here's what the company should do with the brand and portal that remain: Sell them to Mozilla/Firefox..."
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New format revitalizing boring presentations
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"...In the third Pecha Kucha Night in Montreal, earlier this month, a Concordia University researcher talked about her clothing line embedded with computers. A video-game developer showed how to use free software tools to create simple home-made games..."
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2007 SPARC Awards for Student Activist
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"SPARC has started their own Innovator Awards to recognize students who are helping move scholarly communication towards an open access model. SPARC, Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, is an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to correct imbalances in the scholarly publishing system. This years SPARC awards were heavily pervaded by students in the Free Culture movement..."
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Submit FKI Launch registration
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"The Free Knowledge Institute will be officially presented in a New Year's Party, on January 16th at the old Volkskrant building in Amsterdam. Please scroll down and tell us if you plan to attend."
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XGL and XEN Can Mix on a T61p
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I write this post from my cube-spinning phenom of a laptop, my Lenovo T61p. Owing to it’s newness, there were a few hiccups configuring SLED 10 SP1. One that caused no small annoyance was getting X working when running the Xen kernel. I tried all kinds of sax2 command line permutations to get even a basic VESA frame buffer configuration working …. all to no avail :(. Thanks to a few wikis at opensuse.org and some great pointers from some fellow geeks, I’m able to use the Nvida driver with the Xen kernel … wait for it, with XGL enabled!
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Emacs: Make SLIME load faster
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"I have joined up with some of the guys from ODYNUG who have started meeting for breakfast and learning Common Lisp together. We are all using some version of Emacs, SLIME, and SBCL. Blaine shared a cool way to make SLIME load much faster..."
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Annvix 3.0-RELEASE (Freya) now available
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"Annvix 3.0-RELEASE (Freya) is now available! Today marks the fifth public release..."
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How Microsoft (and Apple) will respond to very-low-cost Linux systems
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My blogging colleague Robin Harris on Storage Bits poses an interesting question “How should Microsoft respond to very-low-cost Linux systems?” Here’s how - by trying to make cheap systems irrelevant.
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Hacker's Database
http://www.leetupload.com –
This site is dedicated as a repository for "hacking" programs for Windows and Linux.
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Linux matches across CIS
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The first stage of developing the nation operating system in Uzbekistan on the basis of Linux has finished. The project has been initiated by the Uzbek agency on informatization and communication and the Center for training and supporting young programmers.
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Clocking Time with Emacs Org
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"Many professionals bill clients for their time. Even if you don't, keeping track of the time you actually spend on tasks can help you improve your time estimates and check if you're spending enough time on the things that are important to you. For example, keeping track of the time you spend on tasks might show you that you spend two and a half hours each day just responding to e-mail. If you can identify problem areas like that, then you can look for more effective ways to perform the tasks that take up a lot of your time. I love Org's timeclocking support, and I think you will too. Because it's integrated with your task list, you don't have to switch to separate application or reenter data. You can get more detailed time reports, too.
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