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- Who will win open source professor cage match?
- In this corner, the challenger, the former executive director of MIT's Media Lab, software guru, now with Sugar Labs, the champion of Linux, Walter Benderrrrr! And in this corner, the champion, the co-founder of MIT's Media Lab, best-selling author, founder and chairman of One Laptop Per Child OLPC,...
- Tags: Professor, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Hardware, One Laptop Per Child Project, Nick Negroponte, Walter Bender, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- WinXP on XO laptops OK as long as Linux runs, too
- WinXP on XO laptops OK as long as Linux runs, tooThey should double the RAM as well, and that would be good for XP and Linuxboth. Actually, if they put plenty of flash and RAM on these things, that would drive a lot more volume and get the prices down....
- Tags: Operating systems, Memory, Very few people, Microsoft Windows XP, XO-laptops OK, Linux-run, Linux, operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-05-16
- That one laptop is now running $150
- The now infamous $100 laptop of the One Laptop Per Child OLPC has just gotten a dubious promotion to $150, but is slated to ship out in 2007, reports News.com The prototype laptop was shown off this week at the Silicon Valley Challenge Summit, held...
- Tags: Education Technology, DigitalDivide, laptop computer, One Laptop per Child
- Blog posts 2006-11-17
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- Microsoft addresses 9 security vulnerabilities with 4 "Important" bulletins
- Microsoft addresses 9 security vulnerabilities with 4 "Important" bulletinsAlways Update - ALL Software!!It's also a good idea to check all your applications against manufacture recommended updates, Adobe, Java, etc... Windows Vista / XP isn't the only update that we should be concerned. - Walter Anderson, MCSE, A+, Network+, Sharepoint ConsultantAnyone...
- Tags: Patches, system restore, security vulnerability, patch management, Microsoft Corp., desktop, security
- Discussion threads 2008-07-08
- MySpace plays more spam Whac-a-Mole; Wins $6 million settlement
- MySpace has won a $6 million spam settlement against an affiliate network called Media Breakaway and its CEO Scott Richter. The MySpace victory comes a month after it won a $230 million settlement against well-known spammers Stanford Wallace and Walter Rines. In its latest victory,...
- Tags: Settlement, MySpace, Cyberthreats, Spam, Litigation, Security, Spam And Phishing, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-16
- Microsoft warns Web site owners to prep for IE 8
- Microsoft warns Web site owners to prep for IE 8They should publicly ignore the catcalling.The louder people complain, and the louder MS doesn't care and simply push developers for more and more compliance, the more respect they will garner. I like this early warning they gave. No matter...
- Tags: Web browsers, Web site development, Web technology, Quality, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Internet Explorer, IE 8, Web site, standards, Mozilla Firefox, Web
- Discussion threads 2008-06-12
- Sugar coming to an EeePC or Classmate near you?
- BetaNews reported Thursday that Walter Bender, founder of Sugar Labs, is in informal talks with four ULPC manufacturers to bring Sugar to their products. "The goal [now] is to make the Sugar [software] platform agnostic to whatever extent possible, so that Sugar doesn't have to be coupled to any...
- Tags: Software, Business Structures, Corporate Governance, Tools & Techniques, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
- SugarLabs in talks with low-cost PC makers
- OLPC's embrace of Windows has opened the door for other manufacturers to consider the innovative Sugar interface. OLPC software boss Walter Bender left the organization last week in conjunction with the announcement that the XO would dual boot Windows and Sugar. Bender says he's talking to four low-cost computer makers...
- Tags: One Laptop Per Child Project, Bender, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
- 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
- Who will win open source professor cage match?
- Who will win open source professor cage match?I'd like it to be BenderBut I fear it will be Microsoft. Windows XP on the OLPC defeats the purpose, as indeed would any desk Linux in the machine.Python is used for very many successful OSS projectsthere are VERY many python-based open source...
- Tags: Scripting languages, Programming languages, Development tools, Python, scripting language, open source
- 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
- XP meets XO: Will Linux get an equal shot?
- Updated: The One Laptop Per Child program will put XP on its XO laptop and children in the developing world will have a choice between Windows and Linux. On the surface, a little choice isn't going to kill anybody. In fact, choice is good. And if some...
- Tags: Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, XO, XP Screen, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- WinXP on XO laptops OK as long as Linux runs, too
- Microsoft's agreement to offer Windows XP on OLPC's XO laptop is appropriate and long overdue. It was pure hypocrasy for Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates to publicly decry the so-called "Digital Divide" while privately refusing to support the XO simply because Linux was a supported operating system. ...
- Tags: Operating System, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, XO, Gates Foundation, Linux, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Microsoft Windows, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Flash Player 10 codename "Astro" goes beta
- We made available a prerelease version of the Flash Player last night which has a lot of new features. There isn't yet a tooling release we just posted a new Flex SDK that works to support the Flash Player beta so for the time being this is primarily so that...
- Tags: 3D, Macromedia Flash Player, Flash Player 10, Complex Effect, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Spam king, phishing buddy hit for $200m
- Spam king Sanford Wallace and phishing buddy Walter Rines hijacked some 300,000 MySpace accounts and sent hundreds of thousands of spam messages and comments across the service. They got their punishment today: a whopping $225 million judgment in favor of MySpace, Information Week reports. "By using hijacked...
- Tags: MySpace, Phishing, Spam, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Frequent open source miles
- Matt Asay's piece on "open source free- riders" got my goat this morning because we're on opposite sides of the market. Matt's a vendor, a high-ranking executive with Alfresco who by his own testimony spends a heavy chunk of his life in hotels and airports. ...
- Tags: Matt, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- MySpace's big spam win: Will it really be a deterrent?
- MySpace won statutory damages of more than $230 million against spammers Stanford Wallace and Walter Rines, but the big question is whether this ruling--delivered in the Federal District Court in Los Angeles--will act as a deterrent. To be sure, MySpace's win see court order PDF has some...
- Tags: MySpace, Stanford Wallace, User Engagement, Cyberthreats, Spam, Phishing, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Intense (and really thoughtful) ranting from the OLPC front
- Ivan Krstić has made his way into this blog before. As OLPC's former director of security architecture and one closely involved with their Peru rollout, his posts offered great insights into just how the XO worked or was supposed to work on the backend. Now he,...
- Tags: One Laptop Per Child Project, Ivan KrstiÄ, Nicholas, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Sugar on Windows looking inevitable
- Now that Walter Bender has resigned from OLPC, Technology Review featured an article on the group's new president, Charles Kane. The article makes it very clear that OLPC, under the direction of Kane and Nicholas Negroponte, will definitely be seeking to deploy Windows on XOs and future products from...
- Tags: One Laptop Per Child Project, Nicholas Negroponte, Bender, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-04
- What One Laptop Per Child lacks
- An entrepreneur. (Read to the end for the story of this picture.) Nicholas Negroponte is a brilliant man, a futurist of high rank, an idealist, and an all-around nice guy. He is not an entrepreneur. Neither, for that matter, is Walter...
- Tags: Entrepreneur, One Laptop Per Child Project, Tycho, Entrepreneurship, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
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