Archive for ‘OLPC’

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Mar29

OLPC XO Build 656 and WiFi WPA

by todd on March 29th, 2008 at 10:39 am
Posted In: Mobile Devices, OLPC

I finally got around to playing with the OLPC XO in an effort to get it to work with WPA on a wireless LAN. It turns out that the build 656 update back in January added WPA support. The OLPC wiki has detailed instructions at… Olpc-update …but here’s the condensed version. Open up terminal window […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Jan10

Amazing Flash Prices

by todd on January 10th, 2008 at 10:14 pm
Posted In: Mobile Devices, OLPC

I gave my spare 2GB SD card to my daughter last night to put into her OLPC XO. The SD card showed up right away and was usable from applications such as the word processor. I’m not sure how Fedora generated the card name (model number?). But, it was definitely not user friendly (e.g., /media/flash). […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Jan09

Dual Booting Linux/Windows OLPC in the Future?

by todd on January 9th, 2008 at 10:58 pm
Posted In: Mobile Devices, OLPC

Computerworld’s article… OLPC developing dual-boot Windows, Linux OS for laptops …reports that there are plans to produce an OLPC that can dual-boot Linux or Microsoft Windows. When I first heard people suggest this, I was against it. I couldn’t imagine how to shoehorn something as huge as Windows Vista or even Windows XP into the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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