Archive for November, 2007
Monday, November 19th, 2007
"Uh-oh!" I thought as I saw that the Creative Commons website wasn't coming up (I'd clicked on a link to it from a wiki page I was proofreading; more about that in an upcoming entry). I did a Google search and checked the cache to make sure that ...
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Friday, November 16th, 2007
Thinking about these two machines again, there are a few observations I can make even though I didn't actually drive an ASUS Eee myself.
Learning and Discovery: That's what the XO is all about, and it shows, for good or ill. The ASUS Eee seemed more of a scaled-down ...
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Thursday, November 15th, 2007
... even if the XO mesh/wi-fi wasn't. At the peak of the get-together, there were 25-30 people talking with each other and looking at all the different laptops, tablets, e-book readers (and one step-powered portable emergency power generator). OLPC News write-up, pictures, and links to many more pictures will give you the ...
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
I'm going to the One Laptop Per Child meetup in DC tomorrow night (6 pm). They'll have 3 or 4 XOs there (formerly known as 100-dollar laptops), demonstrating the mesh networking and other delights. Mike Lee is also bringing an ASUS Eee PC for comparison. They're encouraging ...
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
Woke up early yesterday to order an XO through the OLPC Give One, Get One program. For why, see my One Laptop Per ... Christmas? entry. Bonus: now one gets a year's free T-Mobile WiFi subscription along with one's XO! The previous mail from laptopgiving.org had specified ...
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