What the heck else can you do for 20 minutes in the crapper ... browse Readers Digest. That's the real reason geeks are willing to pay extra for paper magazines...

From Intel's AppUP website here is a writeup/guide about how to create a multi-boot environment on the Atom based ExoPC

http://appdeveloper.intel.com/en-us/blog/2011/07/07/creating-multi-boot-exopc-tablet

This shows how to multiboot Ubuntu, Windows, MeeGo on the ExoPC.

NOTE: the ExoPC is exactly the same h/w as the European WeTab tablet. BOTH are made by a subsidiary of ASUS.

I have an ExoPC which is ATOM N450 based. Being Atom cpu Ubuntu 11.10 installed easily and required NO chroot.

I've looked for quite a while and as far as my searching has found there are no ARM based linux for tablets out there "yet".

Ubuntu 12.04 (april 2012) is going to support OMAP4 ARM devices. Tegra2 cpu included so alot of the current flock of ARM Tegra 2 Tablets should be able to run it and any derivatives (mint etc) when that is released next spring.

There's also been alot of work by Canonical/Ubuntu and others that you can find at www.linaro.org

are you saying you had replaced android with linux... or you created a chroot environment that the linux installed into

I'd like to know how many of these sponsors have EVER had a job where they were expected to
- work 4-5 weeks or more straight with no breaks
- consistently be on-call 24x7x365
- sleep in their office or cube and eat takeout for days

All this will do is make it even easier to put even more pressure on people. Even some IT person making $75k-125K/year needs time off, time with their families/kids.

Take away any restraints and Corporations will just flog their mule-workers to death until they get sick, quit or get divorced instead of hiring more people (which would be a good thing for employment in the U.S.).

Then the corporation will just outsource the job to some 3rd world person that will work like that... and in this economy sending even more jobs overseas really helps the U.S.A. ! NOT !

I wonder if ANY of those Senators bothered to even talk to IT workers about their lives and work environments.

cloudstack is a cloud orchestration toolset/api that supports multi-tenant cloud provisioning & services. it appears to be a fairly complete architecture but is also in a transitional phase as they try to implement support for further cloud hypervisor environments.
They are contributing to OpenStack and from what I understand will include OpenStack as an component of CloudStack's future development.
Here's a good writeup & summary:
http://cloudstack.org/blog/cloudstack-the-best-kept-secret-in-cloud-computing.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+open-source-cloud-computing+(CloudStack%3A+Head+in+the+Clouds)&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

Microsoft is so far behind in cloud/virtualization that they'll have to start paying people to use 365. What's the old saying... "Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me" The "cloud" has very rapidly evolved and Open Source is a gigantic force there. Look at AWS EC2 and just check how many AMI's are linux based...

My search shows of ALL AMI's on EC2

-- only 820 are Windows
-- 5,762 are Linux (ubuntu, debian, redhat, centos etc)

Since AWS is by far the largest IaaS Public Cloud ... what does that tell you about what's being adopted in "cloud"

As an IaaS it is YOUR responsibility to design security etc into YOUR servers on EC2. I think the title of this thread is misleading in that it makes it sound like AWS is at fault for implementation of someone's poor practices. "Amazon's Cloud is Full of Holes" That's like saying Intel's processor's are Full of Holes because people do stupid things using machines that have them.

So just one more reason why people will leave IE behind ... when they find out that there are tons of websites they won't be able to watch videos from in the future.

why do people keep saying -- "anybody concerned with security and privacy will most likely not touch it with a 10-foot pole."

In ANY IaaS SP's architecture its up to the organization that utilizes that IaaS cloud to implement security ... just as they would have to do if it was their own datacenter.

If you do a crappy job with firewall, access lists, user accounts/password mgmt etc in the IaaS cloud you would probably do the same crappy job in your own datacenter.

Over just the past few weeks there have been any number of company's that have been hacked ... in their own datacenters.

Poor security implementation no matter were its at always is susceptible to failure & breaches.

Now if some company say.. Dropbox... does a poor job implementing their security process/policies on AWS... its not AWS's fault for that it would be DropBox's responsiblity. Those servers in an IaaS are configured BY those customers NOT the IaaS Service Provider.

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look at the technology being used in projects like Linux4Afrika. Although I don't think they are using OLPC they have been doing a great job and really utilizing low cost technology.

And as for Indonesian Web Design education & classes...
It appears from the Directory Indonesian Web Designers) website that they have a growing industry.

Back to OLPC. I think one big problem being solved by OLPC is that in some of these regions are so incredibly large in population. China and India alone have a huge job ahead to educate the hundreds of millions of children. Let alone continuously educate millions of teachers for those kids. And finally connect the teachers to those kids over such large geographically dispersed areas.

Any solution to be developed had to be inexpensive enough to scale to vast numbers of children that have to be reached out to.

Will their Internet be the same experience as someone Japan etc. No, probably not.
But perhaps their internet (note the little "i") may allow Teachers to help educate more kids spread over greater geographic areas.
Wireless technologies are big in these areas because they often don't have any existing communications infrastructure.
The ARM processor choice is also great. Very low power.