[sorry to mix unrelated topics here...]
First, is there a cleaner way to get a partition type id than:
fdisk -l $DEVICE | grep $PARTITION | awk '{print $5}'
???
Real topic: anyone thinking of getting one of those $100 laptops? I hear
we can get one as an adult first-worldians if we buy three and donate one
to the cause, or something like that.
Quotes of the day, from Nicholas Negroponte:
"In fact, one of the saddest but most common conditions in elementary
school computer labs (when they exist in the developing world), is the
children are being trained to use Word, Excel and PowerPoint,"
Negroponte wrote in an e-mail interview. "I consider that criminal,
because children should be making things, communicating, exploring,
sharing, not running office automation tools...
""I have to laugh when people refer to XO as a weak or crippled machine
and how kids should get a 'real' one," Negroponte wrote. "Trust me, I
will give up my real one very soon and use only XO. It will be far
better, in many new and important ways."
