One of our Corvallis Lug members has a cob hut in the middle of 40 acres with solar for power....
His only connection to the grid is his phone line, which he runs DSL out of, and does a pretty good business hacking linux code out in the middle of the woods. Ben Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: % Well, Ken, you know what they say: Different strokes for different folks. % % Some people actually *live* "in the woods", and have telephones and sometimes even % broadband. Some people run servers from "the woods" entirely off-the-grid. % % At the Oregon Country Fair, where I represent our user's group, we have had 802.11b % wifi coverage across the entire site for years, connected to a satellite uplink % that is roughly megabit. Most of the Fair Family shares your satirical sentiments, % but many folks truly appreciate the ability to be connected, like those boothies % who do business online, and some others of us who spend a lot of work and play time % online also. % % I don't know eactly what you mean by "communing with Natue": to some this means % urinating or defecating, to others it means ingesting halluciogens; it could also % mean taking a nice walk on a path, or driving up the paved mountain road in their % SUV (possibly with a DVD playing for little Johnny). Since Per was speaking of % mountaineering, it sounds like a superb idea to have some chance of communication % in case of emergency! Go read about rescue teams' changes over the past years, % the proliferation of cellphones and some new coverage into rural areas has made % their job a whole lot easier. IIRC, they can even track a cellphone that is % out-of-range but trying to connect, by its own signal (as opposed to central % network-based tracking). % % And since you want to play the sarcasm game, I'll offer that I post to this list to % get away from civilization :)) % % cheerio and smiles to y'all, % % Ben % % % % On Tue, 25 May 2004 13:24:30 -0700 % Ken Barber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: % % | On Tuesday 25 May 2004 08:57, perdurabo wrote: % | % | > It's not a good mountaineering phone, as evidenced by the % | > fingernails-on-chalkboard screeching that occurs whenever I % | > open the keyboard swivel now, due to the fine volcanic powder % | > of the Cascades. % | % | And while you're communing with Nature in the woods, don't forget % | to bring along your TV set. And your microwave oven. % | % | Sheesh. Taking a phone into the woods. <shaking head> I go % | there to get away from all of that stuff. % | % | Ken % _______________________________________________ % EUGLUG mailing list % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug ----- John Sechrest . Helping people use . computers and the Internet . more effectively . . Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] . . http://www.peak.org/~sechrest _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
