Hi, I was involved in that project (minimal involvement, enough to get a free bag of top quality coffee beans).
they used lunix (I think that was the name), a Lao variant of linux, based on (mandrake, redhat - details escape me) Those people wanted a way for the villagers to ring up the market, and find out what the fish price was. If the fish price was good, the villagers would take their fish to market and make a good price. My involvement was getting the Quicknet ISA linejack cards to work for them. They were using 486 computers I think. The ISA cards were hooked up to the local telephone network. They wanted to be able to detect when there was an incoming phone call to the card. > The river's flow volume and speed would easily drive a turbine. Not really - what happens in monsoon time? Derek. ======================== On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > Don't tempt me! > > > >should we get Zane to bring his ihug dish? > > > > And power it with what? > > One of the last IEEE Spectrum reported on a no-budget project to give > internet connection to a remote village in Laos. > > http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/6/27552/01228008.pdf?isNumber=27552&arnumber=1228008&prod=JNL&arSt=+40&ared=+45&arAuthor=+Applewhite%2C+A. > > (Sorry it's members only, and the IEEE always need 3 months to put the > abstract up after putting the paper online, haha.) > > They decided that solar panels weren't such a good choice in those > particular conditions, but found the village children more than willing > to ride the treadmill, eh bicycle. > > > I've carried a car-battery tramping before (for the stereo, if you must > > know), > > Yeah I remember that - man that was a fun trip! Ball gowns, booze, ... > > > There are no handy waterfalls around (and I have no generator), > > The river's flow volume and speed would easily drive a turbine. > > > couldn't the hot pools used for some kind of steam engine? > > They're called *steam* engine because they don't go on 40�C water. > You'd need >>100�C steam, which in theory could be obtained by way of > a heat pump. > > What all this has to do with Linux? It runs on that specially-made > hardware in Laos. :) > > Volker > > -- Derek Smithies Ph.D. This PC runs pine on linux for email IndraNet Technologies Ltd. If you find a virus apparently from me, it has Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine ph +64 3 365 6485 Please do not notify me when (apparently) receiving a Web: http://www.indranet-technologies.com/ windows virus from me......
