Daily Archives: November 30, 2006

OLPC in QEMU under Linux

By | Published: November 30, 2006

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

By | Published: November 30, 2006

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 higher
Windows Media Player 10 (if itâ€™s not already installed on your PC, the installation process will help you get it)
Macromedia Flash 9 (this will be installed automatically if it is not already on your computer) Microsoft.net Framework 2.0 (this will be installed automatically if itâ€™s not already on your computer)
A minimum of 10 MB of free disk space to install 4oD. You will need 70 MB of free disk space if you need to install Windows Media Player, Macromedia Flash Player 9 and .Net Framework 2.0