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OLPC Library – Trying to get XOs out of people wardrobes

January 20, 2009 – 1:40 pm

This time last year was a very exciting time at linux.conf.au 2008. The conference organisers had arranged for 100 XO laptops to be given away to conference attendees. The XOs came with the following message attached. Please do something wonderful with this XO, or inspire someone else and pass it on. I was fortunate enough [...]

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OLPC Wireless packet loss

November 25, 2008 – 11:34 am

Last week Pia asked me to help her out with her yet to be name Australian OLPC deployment. The deployment involves two remote sites connected by an ADSL WAN and one of the key applications across this LAN is the use of the VideoChat activity. The children at the site were experiencing audio blips and [...]

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