Coming to a watering hole near you: OLPC's mesh networking
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| James Cameron works for a computer company in support for enterprise Linux
| customers, and is deeply immersed in electronics, radio and software
| engineering. For the past two years Cameron has devoted his diverse technical
| talents to testing the wireless network component of the One Laptop Per Child
| project.
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1228527977;fp;16;fpid;1
Hands-on with the 9-inch Eee PC
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| If you hadn't guessed from the headline, and as rumored just an hour ago,
| there's 9-inches of LCD on this thing. Actually, 8.9, but who's counting?
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| [...]
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| No word yet on US pricing, but we're trying to pry it out of them.
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http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/03/hands-on-with-the-9-inch-eee-pc/
Related and recent:
One Laptop Per Child: one trainer prepares
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| Few computing projects cry out so much for an open, grassroots-driven
| strategy for deployment, but the government ministries that procured the XO
| systems and arranged for their disbursement have operated in a traditional,
| top-down fashion. There have been complaints about that in the media and the
| Peruvian blogosphere. Sebastian himself is talking to ministers, and they’re
| making progress in getting more transparent.
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http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/02/one_laptop_per_child_one_train.html
Related:
Intel: doing the dirty on OLPC
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| Intel’s agreement with the OLPC Foundation included a ‘non disparagement’
| clause, under which Intel and One Laptop promised not to criticize each
| other, according to Nicholas Negroponte in the latest article in the Wall
| Street Journal.
|
| Still Intel tactics have violated that repeatedly to kill OLPC efforts in
| Nigeria, Libya, Pakistan, India, China and Intel is also still trying to pull
| those tactics in Mexico, Brazil.
| This is simply disgracefull of Intel, scandalous.
|
| But Negroponte has signed an agreement saying that he is not allowed to
| criticize Intel, so he is not allowed to talk about these shameless tactics
| even though Intel is the one violating the agreement.
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| So only independant voices on the Internet can get those messages of truth
| out about Intels tactics.
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| In Nigeria, Intel came and donated 3000 laptops to counter OLPC efforts, then
| sells 17 thousand Classmates to Nigeria at a loss.
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| Then Microsoft corrupted Nigerian officials with 400 thousand dollars to
| install Windows XP on those instead of Mandriva Linux.
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http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14124
Negroponte says Intel should be "ashamed of itself"
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| He is furious that Intel's CEO Craig Barrett called the One Laptop a
| gadget. The Negroponte initiative is caught in the middle of a vicious
| fight between AMD and Intel, he said.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39733
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