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OLPC networking is pretty cool. Like most of the OLPC dogma, it's made to be used in cooperation with other OLPCs in a group setting. This is really a groupware wireless setup. The OLPCs speak to one another, and share their networking. In addition, if one gets connected to a WAP, all the OLPCs in that group share the Internet access, and the ( Read more... )

I had a lot of time to tinker with the OLPC during a terribly boring meeting. I tried to use it as a laptop to take notes, but ran into a few snags ( Read more... )

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Well, I got my OLPC last night. If you browse the OLPC forums, it's full of posts of angry people who have not gotten theirs yet, along with some first hand accounts of really bad communication issues on the part of volunteers at OLPC. Having been in volunteer situations many times, I felt bad for all involved. I think there was no official face ( Read more... )

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Apparently power loss freaks Widget out. He was on the bed, shivering. We didn't get power back until I think 3 or 4 the next morning, which was fine with me because it went out at 10pm, and I wanted to sleep anyway. Kudos to me for buying a new, atomic clock synchronizing clock radio last month. It came back up, set itself, and my alarms went ( Read more... )