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Still More on Connecting Laos
Rackemup writes "A story on Wired has some updated information on the progess made by the Remote IT Village Project attempting to connect several isolated villages deep in the Laotian Jungle to the rest of the world using wireless networks, pedal-power and Laonux (customized Linux installs translated into the Laotian language). Power surges can be a hassle when the nearest computer store is hundreds of miles away, but they're shooting for a May 18th "go live" date."
No one posts the IP of these networks to slashdot....
What would you rather have?
The Internet, or a flush toilet and potable drinking water?
I know what you will say: INTERNET!
Once again the Internet is more important than anything else. Do these people even want to be subjected to emails from AOLiens, spam from Japan, and know it all Canadians?
Why slashdot? Why not?
They better hope that their web server isn't running on a server in a remote Laos village - because here we come!
I can only sit in horror as I realize the idiocy that is to come once Stallman gets a Laotian dictionary and find their word for "GNU/Laonix".
In SOVIET RUSSIA... erm...NSA AMERICA, the Internet logs onto YOU!
Favorite Shutdown Method?
Has this story been sitting in the queue long enough for the poll to be made? No, the poll is almost a week older than the Wired story.
So the new poll people are both pre-scient and don't care about CowboyNeal? Mommy, I'm scared.
Irene KHAAAAAAN!