OLPC XO PC

[Tom Metro-12]

FYI, seen on Craigslist...

http://boston.craigslist.org/bmw/sys/735713797.html

OLPC, XO PC (One Laptop Per Child) - $225 (Lincoln, Rt 117)
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Date: 2008-06-28, 11:25AM EDT

Open-box XO-1 laptop, examined but unused.
No shipping. Must pick up at location.

More information on this model at http://laptop.org/en/laptop/ and also
at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/The_OLPC_Wiki. See also David Pogue review
and video
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/04/technology/circuits/04pogue.html.


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[Kristian Erik Hermansen]

On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Tom Metro <blu@...> wrote:

> FYI, seen on Craigslist...
>
> http://boston.craigslist.org/bmw/sys/735713797.html
>
> OLPC, XO PC (One Laptop Per Child) - $225 (Lincoln, Rt 117)
> Reply to: sale-735713797@...
> Date: 2008-06-28, 11:25AM EDT
>
> Open-box XO-1 laptop, examined but unused.
> No shipping. Must pick up at location.
>
> More information on this model at http://laptop.org/en/laptop/ and also at
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/The_OLPC_Wiki. See also David Pogue review and
> video http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/04/technology/circuits/04pogue.html.

I finally got my OLPC XO PC, but I'm not selling it :-)
http://picasaweb.google.com/kristian.hermansen/LailaSBabyVisit/photo#5219419701169466210
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[Jerry Feldman-2]

On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 04:12:07 -0400
"Kristian Erik Hermansen" <kristian.hermansen@...> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Tom Metro <blu@...> wrote:
> > FYI, seen on Craigslist...
> >
> > http://boston.craigslist.org/bmw/sys/735713797.html
> >
> > OLPC, XO PC (One Laptop Per Child) - $225 (Lincoln, Rt 117)
> > Reply to: sale-735713797@...
> > Date: 2008-06-28, 11:25AM EDT
> >
> > Open-box XO-1 laptop, examined but unused.
> > No shipping. Must pick up at location.
> >
> > More information on this model at http://laptop.org/en/laptop/ and also at
> > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/The_OLPC_Wiki. See also David Pogue review and
> > video http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/04/technology/circuits/04pogue.html.
>
> I finally got my OLPC XO PC, but I'm not selling it :-)
> http://picasaweb.google.com/kristian.hermansen/LailaSBabyVisit/photo#5219419701169466210

I took mine on my trip to Hawaii last year. The only problem I had was
that the wireless was very slow, and that was NOT the XO's fault.

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[Jerry Feldman-2]

On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 04:12:07 -0400
"Kristian Erik Hermansen" <kristian.hermansen@...> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Tom Metro <blu@...> wrote:
> > FYI, seen on Craigslist...
> >
> > http://boston.craigslist.org/bmw/sys/735713797.html
> >
> > OLPC, XO PC (One Laptop Per Child) - $225 (Lincoln, Rt 117)
> > Reply to: sale-735713797@...
> > Date: 2008-06-28, 11:25AM EDT
> >
> > Open-box XO-1 laptop, examined but unused.
> > No shipping. Must pick up at location.
> >
> > More information on this model at http://laptop.org/en/laptop/ and also at
> > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/The_OLPC_Wiki. See also David Pogue review and
> > video http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/04/technology/circuits/04pogue.html.
>
> I finally got my OLPC XO PC, but I'm not selling it :-)
> http://picasaweb.google.com/kristian.hermansen/LailaSBabyVisit/photo#5219419701169466210
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I'm trying to get someone from the OLPC project for the August meeting.
I'd like to do a hands-on with some of us who have XO's connect on a
mesh network.



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[Kristian Erik Hermansen]

On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 7:38 AM, Jerry Feldman <gaf@...> wrote:
> I took mine on my trip to Hawaii last year. The only problem I had was
> that the wireless was very slow, and that was NOT the XO's fault.

It's a great little machine.  I am able to utilize it when I go on
trips where I require a laptop, but I don't want to carry around
something bulky.  And it felt good to help some kids in Africa too.  I
just hope they won't be running Windows on them anytime soon :-(
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[Jerry Feldman-2]

On Sun, 06 Jul 2008 01:17:01
John Chambers <jc@...> wrote:

> People should bring theirs along to the picnic in a couple of weeks.

That's a good idea since In have not heard from my contact at OLPC and
JABR is scheduling another meeting for August.
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[Bill Bogstad]

On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 4:17 AM, John Chambers <jc@...> wrote:
> In particular, the mesh idea seems like it should be useful, but it's
> not  very  useful  if  your  mesh has only one computer.  I wonder if
> there's a way to build something like a VPN tunnel to connect several
> meshes  that are some distance apart.  (We got a second one, but it's
> in the hands of a grandson out in San Diego.  It'd be nice if the two
> OLPCs could collaborate on something ...  ;-)

Actually, the solution is to not use VPNs, but instead to switch to
using server based networking.    Mesh networking is builtin in so if
you don't have infrastructure things still work, this doesn't mean
that infrastructure isn't useful (better).  This page is a good place
to start:

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Jabber_server

If you don't want to run your own (private) server, there are some
public servers set up for this.  The OLPC_Boston user group page:

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Boston

has info about a public New England servers.

Have fun,
Bill Bogstad

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