Re: OLPC News 2007-10-27

2007-10-29 Thread Edward Cherlin
In some Irish family and place names Kill means boy (Gilroy, Kilroy, MacGillivray, etc. E.g. Irish Gaelic Mac Giolla Ruaidh 'son of the redhaired lad', similar to the name of the Scottish dance tune An Gillie Ruach, The Redhaired Boy). So "Killjoy" can be thought of as "fun for children", entirely

Re: OLPC News 2007-10-27

2007-10-27 Thread Bert Freudenberg
> 14. Schedule: The upcoming releases have been renamed and re-purposed: > > Oct. 26: "Trial-3" (Build 622) are the bits being loaded for mass > production. This was completed this week. > > Nov. 16: "Reload" are bits that could possibly be loaded before > shipping laptops to individuals.

OLPC News 2007-10-27

2007-10-27 Thread Walter Bender
1. New York City: United Nations Under-Secretary-General/High Representative for Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Countries and Island States, Mr. Cheick Sidi Diarra of Mali, hosted a two-hour meeting exclusively devoted to OLPC. Miguel Brechner and Oscar Becerra presented, respectively, the e