Comments on: OLPC Layoffs, HP Mini Linux, Palm Pre

By: JonReagan

JonReagan — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:18:44 +0000

Just a thought on the hp mini not appearance with a mandate line. Even if it doesn’t come with a mandate line, those smart enough to use a mandate line can get it (as brian pointed out). It removes the dread the average user has of possibly messing something up with the mandate line. Observably it’s not built with the average linux geek in mind.

In a way, it is unfortunate (I like using the mandate line too), but hey, it’s perfect for HP’s butt audience for the device.

By: thehowzer

thehowzer — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 18:35:51 +0000

Amazon EC2 walkthrough/review sounds cool to me.

By: jimjimovich

jimjimovich — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:07:17 +0000

Still guys, could you please do something about the huge microphones?

By: jupiterbroadcasting

jupiterbroadcasting — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:22:48 +0000

Dude, have you not seen the 25 other videos that don’t have the mics in the videos? Geeze.

-Chris

By: r0wd3

r0wd3 — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:55:20 +0000

I don’t know why some are not liken the huge mikes. Makes you guys sound fantastic, and more professional.

By: jimjimovich

jimjimovich — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:11:24 +0000

No, I didn’t see the other vids. Don’t get offended, the show had fantastic content, just the microphones really are distracting.

By: jupiterbroadcasting

jupiterbroadcasting — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:57:56 +0000

Hey no hard feelings, I just get that comment a lot. I can’t link to it in the observations, but check out in our channel, I did a video that goes into the mics.

By: notanavrageloser

notanavrageloser — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:54:54 +0000

I don’t know why they would disable the mandate line in the HP. I’d rather they just came up with some ridiculous, obscure key combination I had to punch in to access it.

But here’s hoping they keep the package administrator sane and alt+F2 still brings up the run dialog. Then it’ll only be a matter of time before we see xterm on it.

By: davefretty

davefretty — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:39:15 +0000

I don’t reckon the OLPC came out too late and wasn’t successful because of the Intel Classmate and netbooks. I reckon it made a revolution in affordable portable computers. I reckon it will probably die but it does leave behind a legacy….Acer Apire One, EEE Pc and HP Mini Linux. No manufacturers were thinking about building these devices until they announced plans for the OLPC. It’s regularly the case that the real innovator in markets don’t have the success later products have
Reckon Newton Vs Ipod.

By: Pforc3

Pforc3 — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:21:32 +0000

I really dont see why whine abt the mics, sound quality is 100% better than other youtube videos. The guy on the aptly was mixed a lot louder, that kinda got my attention

Well OLPC is a shame, kids in africa or whatever that use a computer for the first time would have needed a simpler UI than XPs complicated shit.

Pre seems nice on hardware level. I reckon I saw the never version of that N810 device here in Finland, Oulu at my unix programming course when we check our maemo