Microsoft has joined forces with the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project in a bid to provide inexpensive portable PCs to schoolchildren in developing countries. The announcement means that the XO notebook will run Windows as well as the OLPC’s home grown Linux-based operating system. OLPC will be hoping that the partnership with Microsoft will help kick-start demand from education ministers for its XO laptop, which has thus far received orders for just 600,000 systems. The project has also struggled to drive down the price of its laptop to the highly publicised $100 mark; the current version is priced at $188.

OLPC and Microsoft said in a joint statement that trials of laptops loaded with Windows will begin in “four to five” countries from next month, with a broader release in August or September. “Transforming education is a fundamental goal of Microsoft Unlimited Potential, our ambitious effort to bring sustained social and economic opportunity to people who do not currently enjoy the benefits of technology,” said Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer at Microsoft. “By supporting a wide variety of affordable computing solutions for education that includes OLPC’s XO laptop, we aim to make technology more relevant, accessible and affordable for students everywhere.”

Source: Vnunet

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Hey, everybody, my name’s Mike, but I go by the handle of Chinballs (it’s a South Park reference). I live in beautiful Buenos Aires, Argentina, and was one of the high finishers in the music contest RLSLOG ran last week. I hope to bring you guys some of the best musical posts and keep a high standard in what you see my name attached to here.

This is the new Scarlett Johansson album, Anywhere I Lay My Head. The album consists of 10 Tom Waits covers and 1 original song, and has created quite a buzz, not only because of the performer, with Scarlett arguably being the most beautiful woman in Hollywood but because of the content, as Tom Waits songs are pretty revered among some crowds. The project has interested me, and I’m actually going to listen to this almost as soon as I post it.

You’ve heard what Scarlett has to say about covering Tom Waits, you’ve read what Bowie has to say about her covering Tom Waits, shit you’ve even seen what Tom Waits has to say about ScarJo covering Tom Waits. NOW IT’S TIME TO HEAR HER COVER TOM WAITS.

The record’s called Anywhere I Lay My Head, and the first cover to convert its way into internet friendly streamability is the title track. As Sitek told us on a snowy night a few months back, he was going for a “cough syrup/Tinkerbell” vibe throughout. That night we complained that Sitek’s dense production tended to bury her vocal — drowning Tinker Bell in the cough syrup, to fuck with the metaphor. We walked out thinking it was a swell sounding Sitek album, and Scarlett was guesting. This is just the first helping, but see how the syrup suits you.

Track List

1. Fawn 2:32
2. Town With No Cheer 5:03
3. Falling Down 4:55
4. Anywhere I Lay My Head 3:38
5. Fannin Street 5:06
6. Song For Jo 4:09
7. Green Grass 3:33
8. I Wish I Was In New Orleans 3:59
9. I Don’t Wanna Grow Up 4:11
10. No One Knows I’m Gone 2:57
11. Who Are You 4:20

ARTIST: Scarlett Johansson
TITLE: Anywhere I Lay My Head
LABEL: Atco
GENRE: Alternative
BITRATE: 192kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 44m total
RELEASE DATE: 2008-05-20
RIP DATE: 2008-05-13

Release Name: Scarlett_Johansson-Anywhere_I_Lay_My_Head-2008-RTB
Links: myspace, Wikipedia, torrent, rapidshare

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Well, since Lost just got released a while ago I thought I’d grab your attention while you’re all here (sneaky right?). We’ve had a few competitions in the past and we’ve always gotten a great response from all our lovely readers, so I thought of a new one for you all.

Basically what I’m looking for is a new banner for the Dark theme on the RLSLOG Forums. I like the old banner which Flawz edited together for me (much love), but I think its time to go for something simpler, more iconic. The following requirements NEED to be met in order to even give you the chance to win this competition:

1. The banner needs to have the right dimensions. The height needs to be exactly 127 pixels. The width must be between 550 pixels and 800 pixels. Feel free to send in larger resolution images, but they must be resizable to the right dimensions.
2. The banner should blend in with the forum. The way we did it with the current theme was that we have the main banner image, and then a tiny image which repeats itself to make it look like a line which continues no matter what size your screen is. Be creative, but its very important that it all looks slick. The colours should fit in with the theme as well (Dark_RLSLOG), but this dosen’t mean you can only use blue and black.
3. The banner should be a logo. Something like “RLSLOG”, “Releaselog” or “RLSLOG Forums” must be included. You may use the font which is used for the logo here on the mainsite, but its not a requirement (Download Font: mirror#1, mirror#2).

Remember that often the simplest designs are the nicest. Take a look at the winner of our Birthday Competition.

The winner of the competition will win a 1 YEAR Premium Rapidshare account (courtesy of our generous member ThatOneGuy from the #rlslog channel). I will choose the winner. Important: If nothing suitable is sent in, nobody will win! But don’t worry about that, I believe in you all.

The competition will end in ONE WEEK (Friday the 23rd of May), so make sure you don’t procrastinate.

Send your entries to: forums.rlslog[at]gmail.com

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Watching Lost is truly a great experience (especially in HD). The fourth season has had such a great atmosphere so far and its only getting more and more intense. Check out the episode description from Wikipedia of this episode. How could it get more exciting? Enjoy it people, this just pred a second ago.

Edit: Lost.S04E12.720p.HDTV.x264-CTU has been released.

The face-off between the survivors and the freighter people begins.

Lost.4×12.Theres_No_Place_Like_Home.HDTV_XviD-FoV
640×368 - 23.976 - 569kb/s [sample, will update] - VBR mp3 128 kb/s - 355 MB
SearchTorrent - NFO - Samples: #1, #2, #3, Video Sample

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Its the last episode of The Office of this season. I’m gonna miss Dwight and Michael a lot. Not sure what I’ll do without them! On a brighter note, this weeks episode is a special one hour long one. One last laughing spree before it all ends. Enjoy it people.

It’s Toby’s goodbye party at Dunder Mifflin and Michael demands a huge celebration that matches the joy in his heart. Angela, sick of Michael’s unreasonable last minute demands, refuses, and Michael turns to Phyllis to take over the party planning committee. Meanwhile, Dwight and Meredith haze the new HR woman, Holly (guest star Amy Ryan).

The.Office.S04E14.HDTV.XviD-XOR
624×352 - 23.976 - 1433kb/s - VBR mp3 128 kb/s - 362 MB
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Since the scene is starting to get flooded with the usual TV releases, I figured its time to start a TV roundup. Mainly all the shows have either ended this week or will end next week, and we’ll have to wait until after the summer for them to come back .

CSI.S08E17.HDTV.XviD-DOT .::. TV.com .::. Torrent .::. NZB
My.Name.Is.Earl.S03E21-E22.HDTV.XviD-XOR .::. TV.com .::. Torrent .::. NZB
Smallville.S07E20.HDTV.XviD-0TV .::. TV.com .::. Torrent .::. NZB
Ugly.Betty.S02E17.HDTV.XViD-DOT .::. TV.com .::. Torrent .::. NZB
ER.S14E19.HDTV.XviD-0TV .::. TV.com .::. Torrent .::. NZB
Home.And.Away.S21E79.HDTV.XVID-KuDoS .::. TV.com .::. Torrent .::. NZB

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Well tonights episode of Smallville is brought to us by 0TV and hopefully this rls won’t fall in with the few other recent releases that had problems with commercials not being cut out . Anyway enjoy!

Kara tells Lex he is destined to defeat the Traveler and offers to take him to the Fortress to learn how. Clark is stunned that Kara would go to Lex but it is revealed that Brainiac is impersonating Kara and she’s actually trapped in the Phantom Zone. Chloe is arrested by the Department of Domestic Security and Lana awakens from her comatose state. Meanwhile, in an epic turn of events, Clark and Lex face off in the Fortress and Lex learns Clark’s secret.

Smallville.S07E20.HDTV.XviD-0TV
624×352, 987kbps, 23.976 FPS, MP3 131kbps, 42min, 350MB
TV.com, NFO, Torrent, NZB

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