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Entries for the ‘Open Source’ Category

How to temporarily disable the touchpad while typing

In linux if you have a laptop with a trackpad just below the keyboard sometimes you can be typing away and then suddenly you touch the trackpad/touchpad and find your cursor appears elsewhere so you have to stop typing and put the cursor back in the right place. Its a bit of a pain [...]

OLPC, Open Source and Microsoft

I wrote the following in September 2007, and it may well be overtaken by recent annoucements by Microsoft about their interoperability: http://www.microsoft.com/interop
The OLPC project (One Laptop Per Child) aims to give one laptop per child in the developing world. Some people in the media haven’t really understood what the project is about and think it [...]