They just released FreeBSD 8.1with G5 support and with a bootloader that can boot from a ZFS file system. So make it into a power hungry ZFS file server.
I have fibre to my house connected to the 2 Gbit ring that my local government owns (i.e. I am a co-owner of this). I subscribe to a 100 mpbs service on my fibre and when I connect a laptop directly to the fibre hub I get over 85-90 mbps download speed. I am not sure why I didn't get full upload speed during these tests, but it doesn't bother me too much.
Now I am connected through a Buffalo Technology WHR-HP-G54 WIFI router, running Tomato Firmware so the actual throughput in the Buffalo is never more than about 40 mbps. But even when my s/w development team is here in the house, all 12 of them, nobody ever complains over bandwidth. (But we don't run torrrents all of us normally.)
I live in a suburb of Stockholm, Sweden. Our local government has built the local fibre infrastructure and I can subscribe to 100 mbps IP services from four different ISPs for about US$33/month.
Swimming across Lake Rathe I used to occasionally fall through the cracks between the water texture tiles. Disturbing when it happened as the perspective changed abruptly and unexpectedly. Normally you would fall for some time and then end up zoning to a safe spot close to South Karana zone line.
I work on open source software and get paid. So there!
Actually we are looking for a really experienced HTML / CSS programmer/designer preferably with a background Python and Django. Some PHP experience is of curse useful. Provable work on open source code is a large merit. If you are based in Europe is better than any other continent for us. If you are based in Stockholm or Delft you can probably hopp over for an interview.:)
No you don't. You can watch it on a computer as well. And no, it doesn't have to be connected to the internet. Furthermore, many villages have communal TVs.
It is true that it is hard to find things really long lived which are quick to implement. However, I would give them the benefit of the doubt here. I think they mean "can this idea be implemented [reasonably well] within a year or two". And if it is at that point and it is good, I hardly see the idea being abandoned.
If they accept "The $10 per year health insurance system" you have me beat. That would be 4 Bn people, more than my entry, which is only about 3 Bn.;)
Akvo.org - the open source for water and sanitation Lack of safe water to drink and adequate sanitation affects nearly half the worlds population. More than 1.1 billion people have no safe drinking water and 2.6 billion people lack basic sanitation around the world. Each year lack of water kills more children than all the ongoing wars in the world do together. Every year 1.8 million children die of diarrhoea or other water related diseases, 440 million school days are missed, and in sub-Saharan Africa alone US$28.4 billion is lost in productivity and opportunity costs.
The poor of this world will benefit the most. According to the WHO and other UN organisations, investing in water and sanitation is the most effective way to combat poverty for those at the bottom of the poverty scale. Local economic benefits per $1 invested are estimated to range from $3 to $34, depending on the region and technologies applied. Investing in small-scale water and sanitation solutions is therefore 'good business'. Water and sanitation investments have been shown to boost health, improve agricultural production and generate local business all at the same time.
So we propose Akvo. Akvo is like a Wikipedia, eBay and YouTube for water and sanitation projects, rolled into one.
The purpose of Akvo is to accelerate the implementation of sustainable water and sanitation solutions. Akvo is an internet-based open source knowledge platform dedicated to small scale water and sanitation solutions; easy to access, great to work with and delivering practical information. Akvo makes it possible to connect funds directly to local initiatives. By doing so it significantly reduces transaction costs, and makes it easier to attract additional sources of funding to provide the poor with water and sanitation. Through Akvo you see how money is spent and how projects develop in a transparent and visually appealing way.
Because Akvo is an open platform, the initiative can be replicated in other areas, such as health care, agriculture, sustainable energy, natural resource management, eduction etc. Why invent the wheel again and again?
We have started down the path of building Akvo already, but to truly reach scale, and affect many millions of people we would be helped by more people being aware of the effort and more people helping. Helping to build the platform, help to donate money, help to train people to use the system, help with mobile phones and internet access for the organisations who need to access the platform. And because it is an open source effort it is easy to help.
The optimal outcome is that everyone in the world who does not have access to clean water and adequate sanitation gets it. As reporting on the progress of projects is part of the Akvo platform, we can measure the impact. The community that is helped, rowing reporters and everyone involved can help report on the progress of the implementation projects.
Additionally, the platform should become used in other areas of work, for example to combat AIDS or to preserve natural resources.
Akvo.org is already working with more than 50 partners to implement this plan. However, the problem is really huge, so we need more help. You can help, so can many others as we are already showing. Please join us!
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What is it about software companies and lawyers? How can anyone think that a license agreement like this is going to be acceptable? The Register has an article about it.
The data does not support your argument. Most European countries have stricter gun control laws than the U.S but despite this we have lower homicide rates than the US. The United States has the highest rates among developed countries, which some account to the loose firearm laws in the U.S. compared to other developed countries. Source United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, via Wikipedia.Very nice clickable tables for sorting on.
This works in most of urban Sweden as well. The one company that owns the last mile is the local municipality (which also owns the local electricity network, plumbing, roads and other infrastructure). Which is owned by me, as I live here. The difference when you compare to electricity networks is that fibre can carry lots of different content from different suppliers. I have IP provided by one ISP (could be from several different ISPs, my fibre switch has 4 ports), VOIP from another supplier, TV over broadband from a third. I can select from a bunch of different providers for most services. The majority of apartments have been connected and they are working on individual houses. (The houses that don't have fibre yet tend to be connected via ADSL, where one telecom owns the last mile, but you can buy your ADSL from a bunch of providers.)
The local municipality owns the last mile, and I own the last 35 meters, which I paid for. Now I can get 100 mbps broadband for the home for US$40/month, one month contract. A commercial use 100 mbps connection would cost me US$60/month for a 12 month contract (for my basement startup;) ).
This sounds much like what Palm's CEO said previously: "We've learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone," he said. "PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They're not going to just walk in." Indeed not. Where are Palm now?
But in a school environment you'll run across hundreds of teachers who simply don't want to re-learn how to use a word-processor. Well, that means that they are stuck between a rock and a hard place. The new MS Office 2007 and a version later for OS X will require substantial re-learning. Maybe it is just as easy to re-learn something which is free rather than something you pay money for...
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They just released FreeBSD 8.1with G5 support and with a bootloader that can boot from a ZFS file system. So make it into a power hungry ZFS file server.
I have fibre to my house connected to the 2 Gbit ring that my local government owns (i.e. I am a co-owner of this). I subscribe to a 100 mpbs service on my fibre and when I connect a laptop directly to the fibre hub I get over 85-90 mbps download speed. I am not sure why I didn't get full upload speed during these tests, but it doesn't bother me too much.
Now I am connected through a Buffalo Technology WHR-HP-G54 WIFI router, running Tomato Firmware so the actual throughput in the Buffalo is never more than about 40 mbps. But even when my s/w development team is here in the house, all 12 of them, nobody ever complains over bandwidth. (But we don't run torrrents all of us normally.)
Here is a link to an online test result: http://www.speedtest.net/result/264255518.png
I live in a suburb of Stockholm, Sweden. Our local government has built the local fibre infrastructure and I can subscribe to 100 mbps IP services from four different ISPs for about US$33/month.
+1 Indeed. No mod points though. :)
This is my internet connection at about US$40/month. Advertised speed is 100 mbps and achieved speed is around 80 mbps, Stockholm, Sweden. So yes.
Use the MS Office tools with the paperclip a lot?
Care to describe those "different issues"? Curious minds want to know.
Swimming across Lake Rathe I used to occasionally fall through the cracks between the water texture tiles. Disturbing when it happened as the perspective changed abruptly and unexpectedly. Normally you would fall for some time and then end up zoning to a safe spot close to South Karana zone line.
World of Warcraft allows modding of the UI. That hasn't exactly destroyed the user experience.
"Remember people the "world" isn't "the US". Warrants, probable cause, and presumption of innocence aren't universal."
Good point. Not even in the US does it apply to all people.
I can't mod as funny, as I already posted in the thread.
Subscribe to a VPN service with an exit (servers) in the UK and watch BBC's 6 hour coverage of the US election using iPlayer.
I work on open source software and get paid. So there!
Actually we are looking for a really experienced HTML / CSS programmer/designer preferably with a background Python and Django. Some PHP experience is of curse useful. Provable work on open source code is a large merit. If you are based in Europe is better than any other continent for us. If you are based in Stockholm or Delft you can probably hopp over for an interview. :)
I don't find these electric cars ugly:
The Tesla is not very ugly, and the Think Ox is not to shabby either.
No you don't. You can watch it on a computer as well. And no, it doesn't have to be connected to the internet. Furthermore, many villages have communal TVs.
It is true that it is hard to find things really long lived which are quick to implement. However, I would give them the benefit of the doubt here. I think they mean "can this idea be implemented [reasonably well] within a year or two". And if it is at that point and it is good, I hardly see the idea being abandoned.
Well, Vinay,
If they accept "The $10 per year health insurance system" you have me beat. That would be 4 Bn people, more than my entry, which is only about 3 Bn. ;)
Akvo.org - the open source for water and sanitation
Lack of safe water to drink and adequate sanitation affects nearly half the worlds population. More than 1.1 billion people have no safe drinking water and 2.6 billion people lack basic sanitation around the world. Each year lack of water kills more children than all the ongoing wars in the world do together. Every year 1.8 million children die of diarrhoea or other water related diseases, 440 million school days are missed, and in sub-Saharan Africa alone US$28.4 billion is lost in productivity and opportunity costs.
The poor of this world will benefit the most. According to the WHO and other UN organisations, investing in water and sanitation is the most effective way to combat poverty for those at the bottom of the poverty scale. Local economic benefits per $1 invested are estimated to range from $3 to $34, depending on the region and technologies applied. Investing in small-scale water and sanitation solutions is therefore 'good business'. Water and sanitation investments have been shown to boost health, improve agricultural production and generate local business all at the same time.
So we propose Akvo. Akvo is like a Wikipedia, eBay and YouTube for water and sanitation projects, rolled into one.
The purpose of Akvo is to accelerate the implementation of sustainable water and sanitation solutions. Akvo is an internet-based open source knowledge platform dedicated to small scale water and sanitation solutions; easy to access, great to work with and delivering practical information. Akvo makes it possible to connect funds directly to local initiatives. By doing so it significantly reduces transaction costs, and makes it easier to attract additional sources of funding to provide the poor with water and sanitation. Through Akvo you see how money is spent and how projects develop in a transparent and visually appealing way.
Because Akvo is an open platform, the initiative can be replicated in other areas, such as health care, agriculture, sustainable energy, natural resource management, eduction etc. Why invent the wheel again and again?
We have started down the path of building Akvo already, but to truly reach scale, and affect many millions of people we would be helped by more people being aware of the effort and more people helping. Helping to build the platform, help to donate money, help to train people to use the system, help with mobile phones and internet access for the organisations who need to access the platform. And because it is an open source effort it is easy to help.
The optimal outcome is that everyone in the world who does not have access to clean water and adequate sanitation gets it. As reporting on the progress of projects is part of the Akvo platform, we can measure the impact. The community that is helped, rowing reporters and everyone involved can help report on the progress of the implementation projects.
Additionally, the platform should become used in other areas of work, for example to combat AIDS or to preserve natural resources.
Akvo.org is already working with more than 50 partners to implement this plan. However, the problem is really huge, so we need more help. You can help, so can many others as we are already showing. Please join us!
What is it about software companies and lawyers? How can anyone think that a license agreement like this is going to be acceptable? The Register has an article about it.
The data does not support your argument. Most European countries have stricter gun control laws than the U.S but despite this we have lower homicide rates than the US. The United States has the highest rates among developed countries, which some account to the loose firearm laws in the U.S. compared to other developed countries. Source United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, via Wikipedia.Very nice clickable tables for sorting on.
An updated version of the book, "The Millennial Project" can be found online at The Millennial Project 2.0
To read about Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion go to: OTEC News
Yeah the FLAG issue was nearly twice as thick as a normal Wired issue of those days. :)
This works in most of urban Sweden as well. The one company that owns the last mile is the local municipality (which also owns the local electricity network, plumbing, roads and other infrastructure). Which is owned by me, as I live here. The difference when you compare to electricity networks is that fibre can carry lots of different content from different suppliers. I have IP provided by one ISP (could be from several different ISPs, my fibre switch has 4 ports), VOIP from another supplier, TV over broadband from a third. I can select from a bunch of different providers for most services. The majority of apartments have been connected and they are working on individual houses. (The houses that don't have fibre yet tend to be connected via ADSL, where one telecom owns the last mile, but you can buy your ADSL from a bunch of providers.)
;) ).
The local municipality owns the last mile, and I own the last 35 meters, which I paid for. Now I can get 100 mbps broadband for the home for US$40/month, one month contract. A commercial use 100 mbps connection would cost me US$60/month for a 12 month contract (for my basement startup
John Gruber had a good write-up about this at: One App at a Time
This sounds much like what Palm's CEO said previously: "We've learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone," he said. "PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They're not going to just walk in." Indeed not. Where are Palm now?
New Scientist had an article last week on the shortage, among other things Gallium.Subscription required.