Using OLPC XO as an ebook reader for O’Reilly’s Safari Books Online

Posted by Tom on April 6th, 2009 — in Hacks, Internet, Uncategorized, Web, XO

A year ago I received an OLPC XO (the “$100 laptop”) through their Give One Get One program. I played with it for a few days and found it essentially useless due to unstable and slow software (and lack of WPA support), so it quickly began gathering dust on a shelf (it has since improved).

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ropen: Remote “open” command for opening remote files locally on OS X

Posted by Tom on April 4th, 2009 — in Command line, Hacks, Linux, Mac, Programming, Uncategorized

The Problem

Most Mac OS X power users know about the “open” command line tool which opens the files specified as arguments in their default (or a specified) OS X application. Additionally, many OS X text editors, such as TextMate (”mate”) and SubEthaEdit (”see”), come with command line tools which can be used to open files.

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