Coredump

She’s spiffy and shiny. And she’s got a Core Duo and 1GB RAM. I love her already.

She runs Windows XP Media Center Edition (whatever that is), though. But in a while, I’ll be giving her the respect she deserves — nothing less than a Fedora Core 5 or Ubuntu Dapper will do for her.

She’s a Dell Inspiron E1505, by the way. Pics to follow.

Taken at 11:43 AM on May 23, 2006; cameraphone upload by ShoZu. 1st working model (OLPC). Originally uploaded by Pete Barr-Watson.

Sweet.

The first working models of MIT’s $100 laptop (the One Laptop Per Child project) are out and were presented at the Seven Countries Task Force Meeting last 23 May 2006.

The colors are nice — how very, uhm, Ubuntu. (The prototype runs on Fedora Core 5, though. ;))

View the rest of the Flickr set. Via Boing Boing.

Wanna learn how to make a PC out of gingerbread? This Swedish site shows you how. Time to crank up Babelfish. UPDATE: Alas! Babelfish doesn’t do Swedish. This other translation site spews rubbish as well. *Sigh!* Good thing there are pictures. [via Boing Boing]

Warning: don’t try these at home.

These and more, over at TechRepublic.

Now, that is cool indeed.

Nicholas Negroponte and several colleagues from the MIT Media Lab are developing a low-cost notebook to help bridge the widening digital gap in developing countries.

Specs for the laptop:

• Modest processing power and storage.
• Battery capable of being recharged using a hand-crank (similar to hand-cranked radios used in Africa).
• “Electronic ink” or rear-projected 12″ display.
• Wi-Fi access.
• USB ports for peripheral devices.
• Powered by Linux (what else? ;)).

Worth looking into for our project, methinks.

Update: They have a prototype already, and a wiki, too.