xo-laptop xo-education: The War Against Ignorance

I believe that:

The events we call “wars” are among the battles in the only true war, the universal struggle that is The War Against Ignorance.
Education is key to reducing the duration, frequency, and intensity of these battles.

I made mention of one such battle over a year ago, in the post Thomas Friedman Islam [...]

OpenDS: On Being Bitten By The Hand That Once Fed You

[Note: My next post on this topic can be found here]
I first learned, courtesy of a link from Redmonk’s James Governor, about the latest brouhaha from Sun in matters open-source. James’s comment was that this was “incendiary stuff”. Scenting the whiff of a firestorm in the making, I then sped off [...]

links for 2007-11-30

OLPC G1G1 (Give One, Get One) – O’Reilly ONLamp Blog
There is OLPC LIve CD, tho it seems out of date. Need to dig into this.
(tags: xo-laptop olpc to-do)

Red Hat Magazine | Building the XO: Introducing Sugar
Some info on the “Sugar” environment for the XO
(tags: gnome laptop linux software python to-do open-source xo-laptop)

Digital library exceeds 1 [...]

XO-Laptop Hardware Summary

I will make mention of some of the hardware features of the XO Laptop in forthcoming posts. I have previously cited Wikipedia’s XO description. However, I just came across a description at the OLPC site that is more authoritative, so I am taking the liberty of summarizing some of the key information from [...]

xo-python: The Farmer in the Dell

Programming is a form of writing. Poets write poetry, novelists write novels, dramatists write plays, and programmers write computer software code.
Programming has its own rules and practices, as do the writing of plays and poems.
Programmers tend to get paid more than poets and dramatists because of the way in which their writing is used: to [...]

Early orders for XO-Laptop to be delivered Dec. 14-24

I ordered my first XO laptop on Nov. 12th, soon after the “Give 1 Get 1″ program began.
I just got the following letter from the OLPC Team today, November 28th:

Thank you for being one of the first to participate in Give One Get One.
All of us at One Laptop per Child were inspired by [...]

xo-laptop: Targeted Donations of XO Laptops

I just got the following note from an IBM colleague to whom I had recommended the new XO Laptop:

hey dave,
i’m trying to get 100 donors together from my daughters school in support of this, SF One World: 24 Hours to Make a Difference, because i found this in the faq of laptopgiving:
Can I designate where [...]

xo-ubuntu: Installing Ubuntu on the Lenovo T60 Thinkpad

I got a spiffy new Lenovo T60 Thinkpad yesterday. I spent last night installing and configuring Windows XP Pro on it, as described in my post Windows XP Configuration and Migration on the T60 Thinkpad.
The only problem with the T60 was that it came with Windows XP Pro. I fixed that earlier this morning, when [...]