A few weeks ago, Julie Bryce came up to OLPC from Red Hat in North Carolina and did a series of interviews with people inside of the OLPC organization that are doing the on the ground work to make the project successful. The first part of that story can be found here. You [...]
Greg DeKoenigsberg, based on a lot of good work by Owen Williams, put up a Red Hat Magazine article about how to build a simple activity for the OLPC XO laptop. The article itself is good, of course, but I want to point at something deeper here. Something that been pretty fundamental to [...]
I guess someone had to do it. It was only a matter of time. A Novell ad for Linux that is a parody of the Mac vs. PC ad. And they chose the obvious: a hot girl to play the part of Linux.
A few weeks ago, without knowledge that such a campaign [...]
While waiting for a late night meeting to start a bunch of us watched the spacex launch of their Falcon 1 rocket. It was pretty neat, watching it live on the Intertron. But it wasn’t the fact that it was launching that was neat, it was the fact that all I did was [...]
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EXT. BUSY STREET – DAY
We see a 4-door sports sedan pull out of a driveway onto a busy two lane road. It cuts across two lanes of traffic to get into a left turn lane and makes a u-turn into the other direction. On the corner where the u-turn takes place there is a [...]
marco: we are getting flamed by interesting people :)
Has anyone been successfully reimbursed for LCA travel expenses? So far I just hear a lot of sad stories from, uhh, everyone.
I’m often accused of “being a good note taker” during meetings. I recently did a talk at NYLUG about OLPC and someone blogged about it. It’s probably the best overview of anything that I’ve seen of what we’re doing, largely as a result of crazy amazing note taking.
Note: I said “creepy” because it felt strange [...]
Matthew is completely right about the difference between the LX and the GX. It’s not just about clock speed. There are also huge differences on the video side of the house. The LX supports accelerated rotation, can convert between different bit depths, and the the size difference between the caches has a vast impact on [...]