This month has clearly been an interesting one. Maybe, I should reserve it to be just this week.<\/p>\n
On the weekend, I went looking for a rack, and came back with an Asus Eee PC. Today, while there were about 70 OLPCs given away to lucky, random<\/em> linux.conf.au 2008 attendees, I wasn’t one of them.<\/p>\n However, I got one of the reserved units. Apparently, 100 units were shipped. Excellent.<\/p>\n Pack comes with a power supply, laptop, manual of some sort, and Jim gave me an Australian adapter (it comes with a US based plug).<\/p>\n Like I said in a previous post, I see great reason for the OLPC to rock. Now, I’ve got plenty of work ahead of me, to ensure thing do. Tasks include ensuring Fedora 9 boots off the Eee (I spoke to DaveJ about this, and the ideal plan is to make it installable by default – now its all driver hacking).<\/p>\n Excited, I am, naturally. Working on Fedora again. Whee!<\/p>\n The Eee has enabled me to work on the train and tram rides to get from South Yarra to Melbourne University. The OLPC, just got on my network (ifconfig -a eth0, find MAC, and voila! it works) and I’m sure to be using and hacking on it soon.<\/p>\n Time to sleep, these 9am keynotes are a killer. I am so not a morning person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This month has clearly been an interesting one. Maybe, I should reserve it to be just this week. On the weekend, I went looking for a rack, and came back with an Asus Eee PC. Today, while there were about 70 OLPCs given away to lucky, random linux.conf.au 2008 attendees, I wasn’t one of them. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-bs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}