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Who decides which OS makes it onto an OLPC?

Who decides which OS makes it onto an OLPC?My replyAh, so you admit that Sugar is limiting because it's essentially for children. Perhaps third world countries want exactly what first world countries have and that is to be adults."Only on a limited basis because our district has invested a...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Office, operating system, Microsoft Windows, Sugar UI, Sugar, Microsoft Corp., One Laptop Per Child project

Discussion threads 2008-05-18

Who decides which OS makes it onto an OLPC?

A former ZDNet blogger, George Ou, blogged some thoughts on recent developments at OLPC and Larry Dignan's and my concerns about Windows XP on the XO. His blog was titled "Children won't have a say on whether Windows goes on the OLPC but so what?" and he asked, in...

Tags: Operating System, One Laptop Per Child Project, George, Sugar UI, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-05-18

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HTC announces the Hero with HTC Sense and Adobe Flash Player 10

HTC announces the Hero with HTC Sense and Adobe Flash Player 10RE:If this phone is under $200 I will buy it without hesitation, but it needs to happen soon. I have a SE phone that I've had for years, no web, no email...no sanity. I'm very close to just buying...

Tags: Keyboards, HTC Lancaster, High Tech Computer Corp., keyboard, Apple iPhone, HTC Sense, Adobe Systems Inc., phone, Adobe Flash Player

Discussion threads 2009-06-24

Should Sugar be put out to pasture?

A reader of the blog I posted yesterday ("Who decides which OS makes it onto an OLPC?") raised some interesting objections to the Sugar user interface originally developed for the OLPC XO laptop. While I'm not sure I entirely agree with him, it does give some food...

Tags: Operating System, Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-05-20

Should Sugar be put out to pasture?

Should Sugar be put out to pasture?Does someone wanna . . .tell me how, if you have a grand total of "2" people voting, you can get 150%???? . . . .Methinks that the survey script isn't working right (yet/again . . .) . . .RE: Should Sugar be put...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating systems, Sugar, pasture

Discussion threads 2008-05-19

What is the future of Sugar?

Walter Bender, who recently left OLPC amid ideological differences over the future of the Sugar interface and the use of Windows on the XO laptop, launched a new foundation last week to advance the UI independent of the XO. The Sugar Labs Foundation intends to continue working with OLPC,...

Tags: One Laptop Per Child Project, Sugar Labs Foundation, Sugar Labs Wiki, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-05-18

Redeveloping Sugar for Windows XP Home...yeah, great idea, Nick

Redeveloping Sugar for Windows XP Home...yeah, great idea, NickCome over to The Dark SideOLPC is to help break the chain of poverty, and pathetic decisions that so many billions of people have been making over the last CENTURY.Microsoft is all about selling Operating Systems (which never work well ... )which...

Tags: Linux, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, Microsoft Windows XP, Sugar

Discussion threads 2008-04-23

Redeveloping Sugar for Windows XP Home...yeah, great idea, Nick

PC World, among other outlets, is reporting on Nicholas Negroponte's call to make the Sugar interface used on the OLPC XO laptops "platform agnostic." In other words, redevelop it to run on top of Windows XP. Of course, since Microsoft will only allow Windows XP Home to be...

Tags: Developer, Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, One Laptop Per Child Project, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-04-23

News to know: Vista SP1; XO on Sugar; Macworld preview; AMD; KDE gallery

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: About-face: Microsoft makes new Vista SP1 test build public Christopher Dawson: Hands on with the XO Sugar OS. Gallery left. OLPC America David Morgenstern: Apple walks on water and WiMax Mobile. Jason O'Grady: MWSF08: 'Something...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, KDE, IBM Corp., Blogging, Telecommuting, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Security, Internet, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software

Blog posts 2008-01-14

A vision of fashionable Windows computers

A vision of fashionable Windows computersAmen.I spat cola on my keyboard at that line, too.Have you USED it?I think it's spectacular, and a lot of non-technical people I know think so, too. It's the power users who complain, in my experience...and they get used to it very fast, as...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Strategy, fashionable Windows computer, Microsoft Office 2007, vision, Microsoft Office, OSX, Apple Inc., Office 2007 UI, computer, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-01-10

OLPC spawns another non-OLPC

OLPC spawns another non-OLPCThe Main Issue For OLPC "Wannabes"Between Intel's offering and ASUS' offering, there are now two OLPC "wannabes" on the market. The question remains; do these computers actually do what the OLPC laptop was designed to do?Are they rugged enough to handle the bumps and jars that will...

Tags: hand-crank, One Laptop Per Child project

Discussion threads 2007-06-07

FitnessPlus 4.1 (Windows)

FitnessPlus is a diet and exercise tracking tool for Palm OS, Windows, and Windows Mobile devices. It monitors calories, carbohydrates, protein, fiber, fat, saturated fat, sugar, cholesterol, and sodium for over 7000 food items and tracks calorie burns for over 200 exercise activities. Other features include meals, exercise sets, schedule,...

Tags: Food, SmartCell Technology, FitnessPlus, Microsoft Windows, Food & Beverage, Palm OS, Operating Systems, Software, Manufacturing

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