This was caused, for me, by Norton Internet Security. I have had lots of network problems be caused by firewalls in the past, but I didn’t even know Symantec was running on this computer because its icon didn’t appear in the taskbar. This is a frequent problem on Windows XP, but this is Windows Vista [...]

Microsoft has released a Virtual PC hard drive image with Windows XP Professional SP2 (evaluation, expires December 7, 2007) and Internet Explorer 6. By default, it has proxy settings which make it not work with Microsoft Virtual PC 2007. Turn off the proxy settings to get online.
The purpose of this image is for web developers [...]

Wired: Much of your research at the Architecture Machine lab in the 1970s, right after the Vietnam War, was financed by the military - the Office of Naval Research and the Advanced Research Projects Agency. Did you have any reservations about working for the government?
Negroponte: Unlike the National Science Foundation, which has turned down every [...]

Take a look at this excerpt from an interview he did with Wired Magazine, November 1995!
Wired: What have you changed your mind about in the last five years?
Negroponte:
Open-architecture television. Five years ago, I thought TVs would be the home information appliance. I was wrong.

Wired: Why do you think computers are [...]

Here’s what Wikipedia says.
 
Project page

One Laptop per Child

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Classmate PC, a low cost machine developed by Intel
Linutop is another Geode LX -based computer meant for emerging nations.
Longmeng or Dragon Dream is a low-cost computer being designed in China
Tianhua GX-1C, part of a line of affordable machines [...]

They ripped off OLPC’s idea, and they’re a monopoly…
But we have no other choice.
And, of course, Microsoft sucks:

This year, Mr. Gates announced in China that Microsoft would offer developing countries a $3 software package that includes Windows, a student version of Microsoft Office and educational programs. Mr. Negroponte said the move was a direct response [...]

Small is back!
I remember many years ago I’d spent hours reading about the Toshiba Libretto. It was maybe 5 years ago. I would use Google and find everything about it I could. I’d read everything I could find on every fansite.
I searched for it on eBay and went on forums to find people who were [...]

What is this? I don’t remember ordering it.

Apple Store

Shipment Notification

Hello Elliot Lee,
We wanted to let you know that your order has shipped. If you ordered multiple items, you may receive separate shipments with no additional shipping charges. All shipments except those delivered by the U.S. Postal Service require a signature on receipt. Visit Order [...]

Here’s what’s coming in the next version of Firefox. There’s been a lot of buzz about it lately, and it’s looking pretty good.

Better download manager

You can now filter completed downloads with a search box
Anti-virus integration
Better resume support

One-click bookmarking via stars
Better security
Supposedly patched memory leaks
Better “Save Password” dialog

Displays password-saving buttons in a thin bar at the [...]

How to Use Lynx for CentOS
Lynx is a text-based Web browser. It supports just about everything that’s been approved as standards for HTML, including frames (indirectly) and images, animations, etc. (if you set up proper external programs to act like “plug-ins” to handle these types). Also, it has the virtues of being faster than any [...]