UUCP is what most of these systems all boil down to... -walter
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 6:02 AM, Sascha Silbe <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 04:22:14PM -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: > >> They are in Cambridge. Why don't you call them? I'll ping them on >> behalf of Earth Treasury. Let me know if you find any more like them. > > Thanks for your answers, Walter and Edward! > I've written an email to First Mile Solutions, waiting for their reply now. > Their web page already contained some pointers and even some material > (photos and descriptions of Sneakernet equipment) I can use. > > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 04:18:16PM -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: > >>> The title of the original >>> proposal (given to me) was "Disruptive Tolerant Networking for the >>> Amazonas" >>> (**). >> >> Sneakernet is the correct geek term. I see no point in creating yet >> more euphemisms, especially bafflegab euphemisms. > > It's the original title, not mine. :) > >> I can't help you with the literature, but I can help imagine a >> solution, and a social movement to get it working, with historical >> examples. > > Would be interesting as well, though I also need a certain amount of > "scientific" work (i.e. referencing and quoting other papers). > >>> Do you operate a proxy for intermittent internet access (like wwwoffle)? >> >> Resumable data transfers, such as wget? Torrenting? FidoNet? It's >> still in everyday use. > > I couldn't help snickering at some part of the topic presentation, since it > was all presented as brand-new. I've run a Fido node myself for several > years some time ago. :) > References to "old" solutions will be part of my talk as well, of course. > > CU Sascha > > -- > http://sascha.silbe.org/ > http://www.infra-silbe.de/ > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJJ8DyjAAoJELpz82VMF3Da3lsH+wTLk8mni2FLwiyAYlemK8Bm > AB0ZKpkErRLKLOoCQoWENO5bRZWMNXOWww8TvfwgfdQ9kf+7m8rlYV6wmaeY9Low > WWpCCfXGEi/0ePuI/wQUt62z11xliVtEN2pizXw3DmT8ZUiaqX+hRac2MGCEzm+a > th40EBBu0vbNDauirv5szFUiqu7LpWq9kaOUXVxZDT616rym+D4XjZUWp8NwzBWE > qYephRjpHfolNw8OTgV3xeG3Npd5BTDVXFb9nR0nLKATmHRG8ORGyMRptCwQMOoA > b2ZtK+0f/ZIm9/+mM0SIN6tUpFAPujwIqzOhXpDDQI0xl2jKO3N/ikiEsLPOXWg= > =uPa2 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
