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You know they had an incident around that time where they 'lost' customer data
on a slew of orders? You may have to call them to see if you are REALLY getting one.
Bill Hance wrote:
> I bought one thru their G1G1 (give one get one) program
> on 12/31 and have yet to receive mine.
>
> It does have a terminal program:
>
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Terminal_Activity
>
> -Bill
>
>
>
>> My dad bought a couple of the OLPC mini-laptops (You buy 2. You get 1,
>> the other is
>> donated). He messed around with it for a while, then sent it to me to
>> try. I was
>> not very impressed. Here are my thoughts on the unit.
>>
>> - It's fairly small, and looks like a Fisher-Price toy. Definitely aimed
>> at kids.
>> - It is amazingly non-intuitive in almost everything about it. (at least
>> to this 50
>> year-old kid)
>> - I couldn't get the blasted thing open at first. The latches that keep
>> it closed are
>> well hidden.
>> - It's physically robust, and probably very resistant to being damaged
>> through misuse.
>> - I couldn't get the networking to connect to my WAP, although it saw lots
>> of other
>> WAPs in the neighborhood.
>> - The Black & White display was small, but very crisp.
>> - I couldn't get to a "Linux" prompt. They've hidden the OS pretty well
>> behind the
>> custom GUI.
>>
>>
>> The biggest disappointment for me was that I couldn't connect to my
>> Wireless Access
>> Point. I have a rather old WAP, but have no trouble connecting to any
>> other machine,
>> but the OLPC never did see it. it did see several other Wireless ports in
>> my
>> neighborhood, but could not connect to them when they were encrypted. It
>> reported
>> that it saw lots of "mesh" network points (my WAP may have been one of
>> them. Who
>> Knows?), but even tough it said it was "connected" to one of them, I never
>> got any
>> networking action. If I could have gotten to a CLI, I might have been
>> able to figure
>> it out, but the GUI hid every drop of Linux from me. <sigh>
>>
>> I thought perhaps I was just missing something since I'm too darn old, but
>> my 13
>> year-old nerdette daughter got nowhere either.
>>
>> All in all, a great disappointment.
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>> Casey Bralla
>> Chief Nerd in Residence
>> The NerdWorld Organisation
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