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Posts Tagged ‘netbook

How To: Ubuntu 8.04.1 on the MSI Wind U100

Posted by: Kat on: Sunday, 28 September 2008

I’ve decided to take what I’ve learned and put it into a tutorial. But just so you know, these things aren’t new. I’m just compiling information from other sources and presenting them here for other Wind users’ benefit. A more apt title for this post would be “How I Got Ubuntu 8.04.1 Running on the [...]

Care for some tea?

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 [...]

Windy days are here

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 [...]

More OLPC’s means more kids and parents educated

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 [...]