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  1. Ok can someone explain? by shomon2 · · Score: 1 · on Novell and Intel Team Up For Moblin On Netbooks

    What do I need to read and where do I need to go to get android running on one of those old oneTs? Or whatever - it's a testing ground, sold to a very generic audience. I would love to be able to run an ubuntu distro on there, although android sounds worth trying on a netbook.

    One thing about netbooks though is they are half way between a phone and a computer, so they shouldn't need to be so complicated - both in interface design and in expectations. Another is this reliance on google docs or youtube and other commercial free-as-in-beer (I never thought I'd say that) services that just don't seem to have a proper funding model in a very unstable economy.

    We really need to develop distributed software models that we can use to keep this kind of thing going. Projects like opengoo, or various mesh network wifi projects and organisations seem really useful, and ones that could easily adapt towards it, but I think the netbook will eventually be their playground...

    I would love to find out for sure if at 30-50 watts we're finally at something I can attach an exercise bike or a couple of solar panels to and actually get enough power to run it. In environmental terms it would be a huge breakthrough. And I wouldn't spend so much time reading email.

  2. Basic Telecommunications... by liam_p · · Score: 1 · on Philadelphia Considering Municipal Wi-Fi

    This quote from Kofi Annan seem's relevant - "People lack many things: jobs, shelter, food, Health care and drinkable water. Today, being cut off from basic telecommunications services is a hardship almost as acute as these other deprivations, and may indeed reduce the chances of finding remedies to them."

    I pinched the quote off http://www.bristolwireless.net/.

    Liam.

  3. The old spider omni by adelayde · · Score: 2, Informative · on Wide Area Wireless on a Shoestring Budget?

    Try this simple and trusted design of the good ol' spider omni http://flakey.info/antenna/omni/quarter/. Been using it a lot and will extend an AP's range to between 300 and 500 metres (that's around 900 to 1,200 feet).At the Bristol Wireless project we've used them on roof-tops to hop from point to point in a mesh network, I'd imagine it'd work just as well for greenhouses.

  4. Bristol, UK by gbjbaanb · · Score: 1 · on Persuading A City To Go Wireless?

    Bristol City (not the football team ;) ) went wireless recently, and won an award for it.

    That article also has an interview with reasons why and how they did it. It cost £3.2m which was funded by the government, local business and HP. It isn't however, just free wireless access for everyone, it is mainly for businesses and projects to make use of it - eg The first wireless application, Schminky, was launched in March 2003, at the Watershed Art Centre's caf. It allowed tourists to interact using mobile devices to play a 'Simple Simon' style game.

    Other applications followed such as Savannah, a project involving the BBC's Natural History unit to help children from six Bristol schools learn about the ecology and ethology of African plains.

    The strategy-based educational adventure game using wireless iPaq PDAs allowed children to become 'virtual lions', with predators and prey mapped onto the virtual landscape which overlayed school playing fields.

    Further projects include the world's first global positioning system (GPS) 'radio play' recreating the 1831 riot for tourists walking around Queen Square and last November's Harbour Trials, giving tourists a multimedia tour with Bristol Ferry Boat Company.

    Artciles about the Savannah project is here

    Other links: here and at the BBC