For a lot of computer users, in an organization especially.. the security policy's hassles and troubles are appreciated only when they face this kind of problem.
The website seemed to be inundated with volunteers/hackers to help... overloaded to thepoint where it can't serve the pages anymore.. hmm?
Modems require computer and PSTN lines, which at most the remote places, there aren't even phone lines.
I believe the boats supposed to bring the computers to one village and another, giving them chances to learn about computers and connect to the outside world.
This is much faster than laying the cables to remote areas and islands where population is not enough to generate revenue for the Telco companies. No comapny would do that if there's no revenue in it... so I guess someone have to do something quickly that these people get connected.
Education is very important to developing country.
I'm surprised by the amount of idiotic and clueless postings in/. and these people, I presume are at least educated at some level.
I suggest that before you make a remark that'd make a complete fool of yourself, read and study the subject.
Not denying that some things are crappy in Malaysia, like the polical situations - it is being a non-perfect country, but hey - even US is crappy in many things including the political situations.
For reference, Borneo is a large island divided into three - Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia. The Malaysian part is scarcely populated and mostly jungle. In the cities even in some remote towns, ISDN lines are available and during the last Eco-Challenge in Sabah, they're using fiber-optic network provided by the national Telekom company.
Boats had to be used and the design of the boat differs because the the rainforest rivers in Borneo are different.
Why don't you study the geography of Borneo side of Malaysia before you make the statement?
Sometimes I just don't understand the level of idiocracy people could come up with without thinking in the first place.
Have a look at Advantech's website and you'll figure out that you don't have to be a rocket scientist to build one yourself.
Wearable computers are cool, that one fine day people'd walking around with their jacket being the webserver, fileserver or even the chatserver. Fiddle with FreeBSD or Linux to run on those things for all that... and Win(s) just won't be able to do it (economically).
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For a lot of computer users, in an organization especially.. the security policy's hassles and troubles are appreciated only when they face this kind of problem.
The website seemed to be inundated with volunteers/hackers to help... overloaded to thepoint where it can't serve the pages anymore.. hmm?
It's cool to have Linux as the workstations, running opensource stuffs from a mounted partition from somewhere. But consider the ASP model - webbased.
Modems require computer and PSTN lines, which at most the remote places, there aren't even phone lines.
I believe the boats supposed to bring the computers to one village and another, giving them chances to learn about computers and connect to the outside world.
This is much faster than laying the cables to remote areas and islands where population is not enough to generate revenue for the Telco companies. No comapny would do that if there's no revenue in it... so I guess someone have to do something quickly that these people get connected.
Education is very important to developing country.
I'm surprised by the amount of idiotic and clueless postings in /. and these people, I presume are at least educated at some level.
I suggest that before you make a remark that'd make a complete fool of yourself, read and study the subject.
Not denying that some things are crappy in Malaysia, like the polical situations - it is being a non-perfect country, but hey - even US is crappy in many things including the political situations.
For reference, Borneo is a large island divided into three - Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia. The Malaysian part is scarcely populated and mostly jungle. In the cities even in some remote towns, ISDN lines are available and during the last Eco-Challenge in Sabah, they're using fiber-optic network provided by the national Telekom company.
Boats had to be used and the design of the boat differs because the the rainforest rivers in Borneo are different.
Why don't you study the geography of Borneo side of Malaysia before you make the statement? Sometimes I just don't understand the level of idiocracy people could come up with without thinking in the first place.
Have a look at Advantech's website and you'll figure out that you don't have to be a rocket scientist to build one yourself.
Wearable computers are cool, that one fine day people'd walking around with their jacket being the webserver, fileserver or even the chatserver. Fiddle with FreeBSD or Linux to run on those things for all that... and Win(s) just won't be able to do it (economically).
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