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White LEDs for a Brighter World
deepfry writes "CBC radio today featured an interview with Dr. Dave Irvine-Halliday, an engineering professor at the University of Calgary, who's developed a home lighting system for the developing world using a combination of white LEDs, pedal generators and rechargable batteries. This type of "pico-power" can make a huge difference in the lives of villagers in rural areas where being connected to a power grid is not an option and probably never will be. Read about the Light Up the World project and make a donation."
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so, is this a way for all those afganistan boys to power their c64's they surf the web with?
"I don't need a compass to tell me which way the wind shines." - Mr. Furious, Mystery Men
Forget white LEDs, give me bright blue ones. The power on light for UV Networks web appliance is a bright blue LED. I think I will buy one just for the cool blue LED. I need these blue LEDs on all of my puters!
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
I suppose if you can't get connected to a power grid, you probably are going to have a hard time getting wireless Internet serverce, making this a non-issue. But still, let's not be short-sighted!
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Repeal me, NOW!!!
Thank you.
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has drpped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Fact: *BSD is dying
I thought the page was never going to finish loading..
"I can't give you a brain, so I'll give you a diploma" - The Great Oz (blatently stolen sig)
Not to mention, I need a nice Gandalf wallpaper (well, okay, maybe not "need"...). I want a close-up where he looks pretty stoned, like in most of the movie. I would prefer his pipe to be featured, if at all possible, and no writing (titles, copyright notices, etc). 1024 or larger, please. I know someone reading this has the perfect image for me!
I'm of the opinion that the light bulb filament has been as like a Chain unto Humanity, even as fluorescent bulbery has been a Poison'd Gas which Chokes at Our Throats.
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My cat's breath smells like cat food.
News flash: cats eat cat food.
Please go away, I do not want this thread to get a bad reputation as a place where trolls hang out.
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actually responding to sig.
Can't remember...is that from the Dead Milk Men?
"Stuart" or something.
That monologe is a riot!
Props!
Gwen Stephani is so hot.
yeah, it would be like a sweat shop!
+1: ZING!
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