Posts by Michael Gartenberg from August 06, 2008

Michael Gartenberg | August 06, 2008, 05:34 PM
Typing one handed is not fun

Typing this with just my right hand. Yesterday my left hand started acting oddly (i am of course a lefty) and with enough pain that I actually called and made an app't with a doctor for today. This morning, my fingers were not working well at all, I did a few meetings this morning in NY and then went to see the doc. After a long wait for an X-Ray and some tests, doc says it doesn't *seem* to be a big issue and is likely related to long sessions with laptops in coach as well lots of mobile device use (he yelled at me when I was twittering waiting for the X-Ray). Looks like I will likely need a cortizone shot and was told to stay off the keyboards for a few days... what this all means is posting and twittering as well as email responses are going to be light. Going to see how well Vista speech recognition really is.

UPDATE - just dropped my coffee cup... hand couldn't hold it. That was not good. Might call doc back tomorrow.

Michael Gartenberg | August 06, 2008, 05:27 PM
Laptop Mag's XP OLPC Experience is Not Mine

Cant' speak to the exclusive nature of Laptop Mag's running an OLPC running XP as I've been running one here for several weeks. I am finding a totally different experience with performance and load times much different  and much better than the Laptops folks are getting. I checked with MSFT and it seems there's came from the OLPC folks directly (mine came from MSFT) and our builds it seems are different. Overall, I think the hardware itself is just lacking (my first unit developed keyboard problems after a few days and needed to be swapped out) and the overall performance is hardly going to meet the needs of the uber user. It is much better than the stock OLPC OS IMHO and I imagine much more useful as well.

I have had a few students use the machine and my next phase of testing will be to give it to an elementary student to use for a bit when school starts. Will keep you posted here.