[OLPC-SF] Fwd: OLPC XO PC

[Kristian Erik Hermansen]

Is there some way to connect remote mesh networks via some VPN or
other tunneling link?!?!  :-)


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From: John Chambers <jc at trillian.mit.edu>
Date: Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 4:17 AM
Subject: Re: OLPC XO PC
To: discuss at blu.org, discuss at blu.org



Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:
| I'm trying to get someone from the OLPC project for the August meeting.
| I'd like to do a hands-on with some of us who have XO's connect on a
| mesh network.

That could be interesting.  I got one, too, but I've found it  rather
difficult  to  get a feel for what it's capable of.  Mostly, since it
only shows one window at a time, it just  seems  like  the  clumsiest
computer  I've used since I worked on some IBM mainframes back in the
70s.  So far, I haven't been too tempted to carry it around, since it
doesn't seem to do any of the things I usually do on a laptop.  Maybe
I'm too accustomed to working in N different windows at a time.

In particular, the mesh idea seems like it should be useful, but it's
not  very  useful  if  your  mesh has only one computer.  I wonder if
there's a way to build something like a VPN tunnel to connect several
meshes  that are some distance apart.  (We got a second one, but it's
in the hands of a grandson out in San Diego.  It'd be nice if the two
OLPCs could collaborate on something ...  ;-)

People should bring theirs along to the picnic in a couple of weeks.


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