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Comment Use rubbing alcohol (Score 4, Informative) 545

by Armon on Thursday July 03, 2008 @07:59PM (#24052911) Attached to: What Is the Best Way To Disinfect Your Laptop?

Get some cotton balls wet with rubbing alcohol, something with a high concentration (e.g. > 70%). Rub it all over your laptop. Wait about 2 minutes and all of it will evaporate, and your laptop will be clean. I use this on my keyboard/mice/macbook all the time.

OLPC To Be Distributed To US Students 338

Posted by kdawson on Saturday January 12, 2008 @08:19PM from the seizing-the-initiative dept.

eldavojohn writes "The One Laptop Per Child Project plans to launch OLPC America in 2008 , to distribute the low-cost laptop computers originally intended for developing nations to needy students here in the United States. Nicholas Negroponte is quoted as saying, 'We are doing something patriotic, if you will, after all we are and there are poor children in America. The second thing we're doing is building a critical mass. The numbers are going to go up, people will make more software, it will steer a larger development community.'"

Submission + - Intel slinks away from OLPC (pcworld.com) 1

Submitted by TTest on Thursday January 03, 2008 @09:37PM

TTest writes: Intel has decided to resign from the OLPC board in order to more freely push their pet knock-off, the Classmate. A brazen move considering that the Intel website still claims "Intel [is unequivocally] committed to making the XO better."

Submission + - HD-DVD or Blu-Ray: which is more F/OSS friendly?

Submitted by filbranden on Thursday January 03, 2008 @09:30PM

filbranden writes: I'm no expert on the formats for hi-def DVDs, and I have no opinion on which is better. But I wonder which of them is more open and friendlier to F/OSS. That means, which of them has less DRM, which is less patent-encumbered, are there open source software players for any of them? HD-DVD? Blu-Ray? Both? None of them?

Submission + - Dell Announces Stylish New LCD Monitors Ahead of C (pcworld.com)

Submitted by Bad Boy Marty on Thursday January 03, 2008 @09:26PM

Bad Boy Marty writes: http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140934/article.html

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