Last week, I spent a fair amount of time stumbling through the various available methods for reading on a computer. Our current method is that of the .pdf. Well, if your are at all like me, you hate reading a .pdf soft-copy. I always end up printing the damn thing, so I can sit down [...]

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Bernie Innocenti arrived in Kathmandu a week ago and he has changed the OLE Nepal office in so many ways. For one thing, this guy knows linux inside and out, in so much more depth than anyone else on the team. He has already made a big impact on the sysadmin team by showing us [...]

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This week, Bernie Innocenti, Sunil Pokhrel, and Uttam Sharma joined the OLE Nepal Community. They are all extremely talented in their various fields, and welcome additions to OLE Nepal.

Bernie, as you may be able to tell from his last name, is from Florence, Italy. Bernie is a self-described geek, and will be with us until [...]

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Yesterday, I had an opportunity to read an Academic Commentary by our Education Director, Dr. Saurav Dev Bhatta titled “Tackling the Problems of Quality and Disparity in Nepal’s School - Education: The OLPC Model.” While I had developed a relative comprehension of the OLE Nepal project, Dr. Bhatta’s article truly captured the project, providing the [...]

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After three weeks in Kathmandu, volunteering for OLE Nepal, my impression of the project can be summed up in one word: wow!
Before coming to Kathmandu, my knowledge of OLPC and the XO was limited to what I had read in the news. I really have learned much in the last three weeks. My first lesson [...]

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I finally got redmine up and running on hosted server. Please do me a favor and check it out.
For those who aren’t familiar w/ it, redmine is a fantastic project management tool very similar to Trac but much, much more user-friendly and easier to set up. We wanted to use OLPC’s Trac set up but [...]

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Stress testing a web/application server is never an easy task. Having never done any intensive server testing before I got into load testing our e-library server with some obvious but important questions in my mind. What kind of tools are available? What kind of tests can i perform? Will I be able to make sense [...]

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