Daily Archives: November 30, 2006

OLPC in QEMU under Linux

The OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) people have made available a VMWare image to show off their software.

I don’t run VMWare, but I do use QEMU which can open VMWare disk images. Here’s what I did to make it work.

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Channel 4 Restrictions On Demand

So the people at Channel 4 are testing out their new On demand service http://test.geo. channel4.com/ 4od/get4od/index.jsp for watching TV programmes on your computer.

(I have deliberately broken that link so as not to help drive traffic to their site.)

Lets look at the minimum requirements:-

Windows XP
A broadband internet connection
Internet Explorer 5.5 or …

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