Posted by: Kat on: Monday, 22 September 2008
This is officially the first Tala Ko blog post written on my netbook. :)
While I’m not wireless at the moment, I did manage to compile drivers for the wireless card using this guide. I was a little apprehensive at first, because I don’t often use the command line. I was afraid that I was going [...]
Posted by: Kat on: Saturday, 20 September 2008
Pardon the corny title. :) Yesterday, I was able to buy an MSI Wind U100 with some money from a savings account that my dad started when I was smaller (thanks, Dad). I needed to be more mobile, and he agreed that a laptop would be a good investment.
I’ve named it Teacup, after the ones [...]
Posted by: Kat on: Thursday, 18 September 2008
“In Uruguay the parents wait for the kids to go to bed so they can use the laptops. So you saw people move to rural communities… so their kids could take advantage of [the laptops]. In Rwanda the families brought electricity to the schools so that the kids could keep using the laptops.”
I find that [...]