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been taking the xo places lately: at the conference last weekend, xo made a tiny splash. self was overshadowed by the machine, and rightly so. the clip is from a youtube video someone cobbled together. well, ok, self's knee is lookin' good too...
spending some quality time with the xo lately: yumex ("yum install yumex", ~500kb) is a graphical yum front-end which is helpful digging through the repositories, already installed items, and available updates. still have to do something about...
so, y'know, i haven't done taxes, or even summarized cash flow from last year, and it's like one in the morning, so of course, being supremely rational, i decide it's time to install an http server on the olpc xo [1] . [2] your mission...
been spending some time trying to get this xo box more connected: remote desktop access ? i don't mean ssh or the like here, i'm talking something along the lines of vnc or rdp. there is some interesting info relating to this on the olpc wiki...
had a lot of flashbacks going back 10 & 25 years, to unix & dos times. i never really felt comfortable with a system until i could graphically browse the directory structure. getting around with cd & memory (that's "change directory"...
so it didn't take too terribly long to get this thing connected to my network, but i needed to dig around in their wiki first; i needed the mac address so that i could maintain security here. hey, if i had been just a little bit more of an experimental...
so me & self are pulling in the drive on the way back from the beer store, fog everywhere, and a nice cedar fire burning somewhere in the neighborhood, and self notices something on the dark porch. " what's that? " i wander over to take...
xo news - you get it when i do: From: service@laptopgiving.org Sent: 2008.02.20 18:30:25 Eastern Standard Time Subj: Update On Your XO Laptop Dear Donor, We wanted to update you on the status of your XO laptop. Our production schedule is still on track...
you'd think there'd have been an accountant or a production manager on staff there. it's a simple counting problem. something they want the kids to learn, maybe ? From: service@laptopgiving.org Sent: 2008.01.31 01:48:35 Eastern Standard Time...
more: From: service@laptopgiving.org Sent: 2008.01.24 02:30:26 Eastern Standard Time Subj: Your XO Laptop Dear Donor, We wrote you several days ago to let you know that your donation is in our shipping queue for the shipment of your XO laptop. We are...
so it took them a couple weeks / months to get their shit together, so what ? they're being responsive now , anyway: From: service@laptopgiving.org Sent: 2008.01.21 05:58:54 Eastern Standard Time Subj: Your Give One Get One Donation Dear Donor, We...
... kisses & hugs. but no, now it's olpc related. so i ordered one back in mid-december-ish. still waiting. received an email 2007.12.22 saying "we'll have it to you by 2008.01.15". still nothing. i go to track the shipment. i get...