Monthly Archives: October 2006

the numbers game

From IEBlog: Just in case you missed it somehow, we released IE7 last Wednesday. In the first four days over three million of you have already downloaded the final release. Thank you! And from Mike Beltzner’s web log: Apparently, people … Continue reading

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interview on citynews

(Other possible titles: “shameless self-promotion” and “this post is for my mom.”) I did an interview at the conference today with Amber Mac for citynews. The full interview is available here and the short snippit that they apparently played during … Continue reading

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positive directions

It looks like the interview that I did yesterday with Jim and Walter is up and it’s one of the better articles I’ve seen lately. We really are going to be able to do an OS that takes up less … Continue reading

Posted in Design, OLPC | 7 Comments

these are a few of my favorite things

This week saw the release of a few of my favorite things: Firefox 2 was released. I’m a bit sad about this one. This is one of the first releases where I didn’t have anything to do with it. No … Continue reading

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welcome to my weekend

Number of movies rented: 4 Items purchased at store: Whipped Cream (7oz) Hot Fudge (11.75oz) Butter Scotch Caramel (19oz) Butter Peacan Ice Cream (1 pint) Maraschina Cherries (10oz) Vanilla Ice Cream (1/2 gallon) Reese’s Pieces (1 lb, 1.25oz) Popcorn (3 … Continue reading

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get your camera on

Today Andres in the OLPC office in Cambridge managed to get all the pieces together and got one of the cameras working on one of our test-B boards using Jonathan Corbet’s driver. And it looks great. Good frame rate, Xv … Continue reading

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lord vader, your car is waiting

When I read Greg’s recent entry all I can think of is this line from Star Wars: The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.

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transparency matters

I was reading Kathy Sierra’s weblog earlier and thinking about a meeting that I had yesterday with some Lotus engineers about what we’re doing for One Laptop per Child. (Yes, Lotus has a lot of good ideas, even if we’re … Continue reading

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latest laptop design

The design of the laptop has changed over time. It started with the green laptop with the crank. Then we had the blue laptop with the hinge on it. The most recent design, which will be used for the build … Continue reading

Posted in OLPC, Red Hat | 14 Comments

one laptop on the streets of new york

A terrible picture taken in front of that building they always blow up in movies. Mary Lou and Robert look at the test unit. Last month we took one of the test display units down to the design firm we’ve … Continue reading

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