'Til All Are One http://www.dhanapalan.com/blog Freedom is the right of all sentient beings Wed, 09 May 2012 06:15:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Australia CC BY-SA AUCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Australia CC BY-SA AU Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-05-09 http://www.dhanapalan.com/blog/2012/05/09/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2012-05-09/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=twitter-weekly-updates-for-2012-05-09 http://www.dhanapalan.com/blog/2012/05/09/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2012-05-09/#comments Wed, 09 May 2012 06:15:00 +0000 Sridhar Dhanapalan http://www.dhanapalan.com/blog/2012/05/09/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2012-05-09/
  • moved to new flat, bought furniture and appliances, set up utilities, got engaged, enrolled at uni, went to jury service… all in 2 weeks! #
  • $11.7m for OLPC Australia in the federal govt budget! Huzzah! http://t.co/zgmqAnMP #
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  • Music was better back when it was performed by talented people who could write, play and sing. #
  • Why raise something in conversation if you _don’t_ want to talk about it? #
  • Bombarded with pop/urban/rap music clips. I knew that the industry was mysogynistic, but OMG there is something seriously wrong with society #
  • I don’t want to see your underwear. Please for the love of god pull up your trousers. #
  • We’re selling out our children
    http://t.co/tdyHVyzN #
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  • “Love is like a lost fart, if you have to force it. It’s probably shit.” — Stephen K. Amos, Melbourne International Comedy Festival #
    • ]]>     http://www.dhanapalan.com/blog/2012/04/04/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2012-04-04/feed/ 0     XO-AU OS 12.0 Release Candidate 2 released http://www.dhanapalan.com/blog/2012/03/30/xo-au-os-12-0-release-candidate-2-released/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=xo-au-os-12-0-release-candidate-2-released http://www.dhanapalan.com/blog/2012/03/30/xo-au-os-12-0-release-candidate-2-released/#comments Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:18:17 +0000 Sridhar Dhanapalan http://www.dhanapalan.com/blog/?p=678 Release Candidate 2 of the 2012 OLPC Australia operating system, XO-AU OS 12, has been released. We hope to make a final release in two weeks, in time for the start of term 2 of school in Queensland and Northern Territory.

    To get started, visit our release notes page.

    Installing the Release Candidate is no different from installing the XO-AU USB 3 stable release: extract the zip file to a USB stick and you’re ready to go.

    The “What’s New” section outlines the changes in this release.

    To provide feedback, please join our technical mailing list.

    Following this, you can send your comments or ask questions on the list. The OLPC Australia Engineering team are active participants on this list, and we will reply. Remember, the better you can help us with quality information, the better we can make the product for you :)

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  • Great work Channel 11 for butchering Team America to the point where it made no sense #
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  • A slash is not a backslash! How difficult can it be??? #
    • ]]>     http://www.dhanapalan.com/blog/2012/03/14/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2012-03-14/feed/ 0     OLPC Australia Education Newsletter, Edition 9 http://www.dhanapalan.com/blog/2012/03/10/olpc-australia-education-newsletter-edition-9/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=olpc-australia-education-newsletter-edition-9 http://www.dhanapalan.com/blog/2012/03/10/olpc-australia-education-newsletter-edition-9/#comments Sat, 10 Mar 2012 02:11:50 +0000 Sridhar Dhanapalan http://www.dhanapalan.com/blog/?p=669 Edition 9 of the OLPC Australia Education Newsletter is now available.

    In this edition, we provide a few classroom ideas for mathematics, profile the Jigsaw activity, de-mystify the Home views in Sugar and hear about the OLPC journey of Girraween Primary School.

    To subscribe to receive future updates, send an e-​​mail to education-​newsletter+subscribe@​laptop.​org.​au.

    ]]>     http://www.dhanapalan.com/blog/2012/03/10/olpc-australia-education-newsletter-edition-9/feed/ 0     OLPC Australia training resources http://www.dhanapalan.com/blog/2012/02/28/olpc-australia-training-resources/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=olpc-australia-training-resources http://www.dhanapalan.com/blog/2012/02/28/olpc-australia-training-resources/#comments Tue, 28 Feb 2012 04:56:04 +0000 Sridhar Dhanapalan http://www.dhanapalan.com/blog/?p=664 Underpinning the OLPC Australia education programme is a cache of training resources. In addition to our Online Course and Learner Manual, we have a set of help videos, hosted on our Vimeo channel. I have updated the OLPC Disassembly instructions for the top and bottom of the XO with links to the videos.

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  • Funny things kids say: http://t.co/bboiN5rd #
  • Laptops improving school attendance on Palm Island http://t.co/fqKniq54 #olpcau #olpc #
    • ]]>     http://www.dhanapalan.com/blog/2012/02/22/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2012-02-22/feed/ 0     OLPC Australia Education Newsletter http://www.dhanapalan.com/blog/2012/02/21/olpc-australia-education-newsletter/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=olpc-australia-education-newsletter http://www.dhanapalan.com/blog/2012/02/21/olpc-australia-education-newsletter/#comments Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:08:57 +0000 Sridhar Dhanapalan http://www.dhanapalan.com/blog/?p=655 Editions 7 and 8 of the OLPC Australia Education Newsletter have come out in the past few weeks. In each edition, we will provide news, tips and tricks and stories from the field.

    To subscribe, send an e-mail to education-newsletter+subscribe@laptop.org.au.

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