I've just received my, er, my son's XO, and he's ecstatic with it,
enjoying fiddling with Python programs and other tidbits. I've heard
that the Jabber 'chat' functions are disabled on the US XO's, mostly
because the existing jabber hosts can't really take the load of all
these machines
Walter Bender wrote:
While we have ideas about how to scale up the jabber interface, it has
also always been the idea that local communities (schools,
neighborhoods), communities of interest (book clubs, chess clubs)
etc., would run their own servers. The more the merrier at this stage.
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