This Saturday, Luke leaves us for good to embark on a new adventure as
a firmware hacker. He has been with us since early September 2007. He
stayed at my house, drank all my beer, stole my girlfriend(s), and
made an invaluable contribution to the cause of OLPC in Nepal and
perhaps internationally.
When Luke arrived, we were struggling to [...]

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We lost electricity for a period this afternoon and were at a loss about how to occupy ourselves without Internet access. Om ji volunteered his camera for some team photos. The OLE Nepal team spends so much time together and come so far that it was time we document how the team has grown. Nepal’s [...]

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We are very excited to have two new volunteers working with us to
advance the OLPC project in Nepal. They come from very different
backgrounds but with the common goal to improve education for the
world’s poorest, and umm, of course they are also excited to work with
super cool technology.

Dev Mohanty (left) and Ties Stuij (right)
Ties Stuij comes [...]

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Here is the network structure for the school server with proxy setup.
# vi /etc/sysctl.conf
make
net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1
service network restart
Then ip-forwarding through ip-tables
# iptables –table nat –append POSTROUTING –out-interface eth0 -j MASQUERADE
# iptables –append FORWARD –in-interface eth2 -j ACCEPT
squid
install and cofigure squid
——————–squid.conf————————————-
http_port 3128 transparent
hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ?
acl QUERY urlpath_regex cgi-bin \?
cache deny QUERY
acl apache rep_header Server ^Apache
access_log /var/log/squid/access.log [...]

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Today Ace Institute of Management hosted the second OLPC game jam organized by OLE Nepal. Students and enthusiasts from various schools got a chance to learn the basics of Suqeak to create simple applications. Participants were shown how to make a simple car game. Each participants had to get a car moving, with a [...]

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