a team here at our institute developed a Linux-based terminal to replace/serve as alternative to a proprietary communications terminal being used by PAGASA in their weather stations to send meteorological data through their meteorological telecommunications system (currently HF radio-based). they were being charged something like P200k per replacement terminal (overcharge! - it was an LCD terminal based on a Z80 CPU if i remember correctly). they wanted a terminal that would interface with their existing system and with the same user interface as what their observers were trained to use. we hired some students to implement it using Linux, postfix, uucp, ncurses, and some programming to implement the communications and (WMO standard) messaging protocol. there's an article about this work in an issue of the Phil Eng'g Journal last year. btw, one of the developers (ivy cabeza) is on this list.
--- Migs Paraz wrote: > On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 05:42:58PM +0800, Horatio B. Bogbindero wrote: > >>lots for the philippine government sana but seems that they are turning >>a blind eye to OSS. sob. sob. sob. thinking about things to optimize processes >>and reduce bureaucracy and red tape. just no support. >> > > actually I wasn't thinking about business problems, and not even about the > Philippine Government. I was thinking about problems that affect the > Philippines. > > I was thinking more of research problems for say, agriculture, or > helping to develop small-scale industries. > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Denis F. Villorente Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Advanced Science and Technology Institute http://www.asti.dost.gov.ph Voice: +63 2 4351071 Fax: +63 2 4351052 _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
