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Thanks.
I heard about that, and was not in that group of customer data.
I've received emails every few weeks, letting me know that
at least they haven't forgotten about me. Last one said I'll
get mine some time in March.
> 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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