Archive for January, 2008

OLPC XO-1’s from the “Give 1, Get 1″ program arrive in Mongolia

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

We participated in the OLPC Foundation’s “Give 1, Get 1″ (G1G1) program while it was open this last fall (although it was over-subscribed and we have yet to receive our units), BUT! But: I just received an update from OLPC and it included a link to a page they recently put up where they provide […]

I Done Left Los Windows…

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

So as is fairly explicit in a couple of prior posts, I’ve pretty much quit using Microsoft Windows on my personal machine, and am running (K)ubuntu 6.10 “Edgy Eft” natively on it. I’ve been doing this for about 9 months now and haven’t looked back. When I mentioned to a Microsoftie colleague that I’d done […]

Ubuntu 7.10 DVDs available at Barnes & Noble and Borders

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

I was browsing in the newsstand section at my local Barnes & Noble recently, and noticed a bright red & white magazine with “Ubuntu 7.10 + edubuntu, kubuntu, xubuntu” across its cover. Upon reading further I noticed it contains two bootable DVDs, one with the aforementioned four distributions in 32-bit, and the other with the […]

A Fool’s Errand? I don’t think so — Beyond War

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

I attended this talk entitled “Inventing Public Key Cryptography: A Fool’s Errand: Act 2″ yesterday at Stanford’s CS department. It was given by Martin Hellman, one of the inventors of public key cryptography, and also a participant in the Beyond War effort in the 1980’s, which has recently been re-launched. The 80’s Beyond […]

My new keyboard

Monday, January 21st, 2008

Ohmigawds, I haven’t blogged here for almost a year. Yikes! Guess I’ve been too busy with “work” and “life”. Apologies dear readers (mebbe two of you out there?).

Anyway, I hacked up my personal and work computer environment in several ways over the last almost-year. The most obvious hack to me being the one whose results […]