I hate saying this, but the last few months of news have not been good for the OLPC. First, they had horrible issues getting out the laptops they promised people in the US right around Christmas (and many still have not gotten them). Then their Chief Technology Officer, Mary Lou Jepsen, left to form her own company in January. Intel backed out, ( Read more... )

One of the things I first reported about my OLPC is the fact that I couldn't type anything. A quick diagnostic showed the control key was stuck down. Jiggling it fixed it.

For a while. Sadly, this became more and more of a problem until last week when I couldn't get it to "unstick" for more than a few keystrokes. I already knew this was a bug ( Read more... )

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At work, and some other sites, to connect to the wireless, you get a popup that asks for a login or password. The XO browser sucks at this. Plain and simple, it doesn't block popups: it simply doesn't render them. So when you have to log in to a wireless connection or a password site that uses a simple Javascript authentication popup, you never ( Read more... )

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The community is abuzz with the OLPCs as people finally get them. I see reviews on The OLPC News boards that seem to generally sort people like this ( Read more... )

Glad you asked. Quite a bit, actually. More than half the time I do a "top," the load is from 0.89 - 2.00. That's pretty heavy for a little laptop, this thing is chugging away pretty hard. Some items of note:

• What is the "rainbow-daemon?" I's run on Python.
• Why is /usr/sbin/sshd running? Can I ssh into this box (will try it out when I have ( Read more... )

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