יום שלישי, אפריל 17, 2007

OLPC

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I got late to the lecure at the Haifa Linux Club. However, it was worth the effort.
Zvi Devir gave an excelent talk about the project and the highlight was
that the talk was given on a real OLPC machine (through a VNC to another laptop
connected to an overhead projector).

After the talk we had a few minutes to play with the beast (well, as very small beast ;-)
and take some photos.

It was quite impressive. Excelent screen resolution (better than Zvi's own laptop),
A very nice builtin camera (the blur in photo is due to my out-of-focus shot).
There was a really nice music "activity" called Tamtam and the small speakers were audible.

Yes, I want to be a kid again...


יום רביעי, פברואר 28, 2007

MS: new products, old tactics.

..."Microsoft seems to intend to deter customers from leveraging virtual machine mobility (a technology which Microsoft does not have) by levying an economic tax on the use of such functionality."

Same old MS, same old tactics. Just to show how (in)effective is the judicial supervision that supposedly "controls" their behaviour.