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Submission + - Hands-on with Pixel Qi screens in full sunlight (olpcnews.com)

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on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @09:11AM

griffjon writes: "Side-by-side comparison of the OLPC's screen and an Acer with the new Pixel Qi screen installed, both of course sharing Mary Lou Jepsen's screen technology:

"The XO's dual mode screen still rules in terms of pixel resolution at 1200 x 900 vs. the Acer's 1024 x 600. It was amazing to see Windows 7, Amazon Kindle software, the New York Times web site and a QuickTime video in direct sunlight. Shades of gray and some color tints are visible. Besides the XOs and e-ink based Kindle ereaders, no other color screen device I own can be seen as clearly in sunlight. Not even the famed iPad. In the video, you can see that at a certain angle where line of sight and sun are aligned, the new Pixel Qi screen glows as if backlit!""

Submission + - New OLPC Laptop 1.5 dual-boots (olpcnews.com)

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on Thursday September 24, 2009 @12:38PM

griffjon writes: "The new hardware release (you can read about the upgrade here) also comes with a dual-boot option. Start rejoicing now; it's not XP or Sugar (the native, education-centric OS) — it's Sugar or Gnome. And of course there are other homebrew distributions like Xtra Ordinary, built off of Debian."

Submission + - OLPC 1.5 Hardware Upgrades Details (olpcnews.com)

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on Wednesday September 09, 2009 @01:12PM

griffjon writes: "OLPCNews covers the sneak-preview of the updated One Laptop Per Child 1.5 hardware version. The good news is: full-screen YouTube videos, Java, and access to the gnome desktop. Read more about the updated hardware and chipsets in the fine article."

Submission + - Negroponte sees SugarOS as OLPC's Biggest Mistake (olpcnews.com)

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on Monday July 20, 2009 @12:12PM

griffjon writes: "In an interview, Nicholas Negroponte claims that the biggest mistake OLPC made was the revolutionary Red Hat-based SugarOS — instead he says they should have built Sugar as an application that ran on a "vanilla" Linux OS. Some disagree."

Submission + - Comparison of XP vs Linux/Sugar on the OLPC XO (olpcnews.com)

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on Saturday July 26, 2008 @06:54PM

griffjon writes: "OLPCNews has a comparison of Windows XP to the Sugar/Linux OS on the One Laptop per Child XO-1, based on the Microsoft Unlimited Potential video, touching on video recording, power usage, boot times, and mesh networking. An interesting, if saddening, read."

Submission + - Multilingual URLs (washingtonpost.com)

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on Thursday October 11, 2007 @10:34AM

griffjon writes: "The Washington Post is reporting that ICANN is testing out fully multilingual domain names (not just [non-western-language].com, but with TLDs translated into other scripts, fixing annoyances for non-English speaking audiences such as "speakers of Hebrew, Arabic and any other language written from right to left must type half of the URL in one direction and the other half — the .com, .net or .org postscript — the opposite way." Let's hope it goes better this time around; "Next week's experiments use the domain name "example.test" translated into 11 languages. A previous model, however, used "hippopotamus" instead of "test." These plans went awry when an Israeli registrar realized the Hebrew word ICANN thought meant "hippopotamus" was an expletive and threatened to involve the Israeli government.""

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