From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 12 08:40:27 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19D7516A418 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:40:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from beech@freebsd.org) Received: from freebsd.alaskaparadise.com (freebsd.alaskaparadise.com [208.79.80.117]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E085413C481 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:40:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from beech@freebsd.org) Received: from 137-42-178-69.gci.net (137-42-178-69.gci.net [69.178.42.137]) by freebsd.alaskaparadise.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31F1623833B4; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:40:16 +0000 (UTC) From: Beech Rintoul To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 23:40:10 -0900 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <20071111195501.46d58539@p4> <200711120704.lAC744lR082341@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> In-Reply-To: <200711120704.lAC744lR082341@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> X-Face: jC2w\k*Q1\0DA2Q0Eh&BrP/Rt2M,^2O#R07VoT98m*>miQF9%Bi9vy`F6cPjwEe?m,)=?utf-8?q?2=0A=09X=3FM=5C=3AOE9QgZ?="xT3/n3,3MJ7N=Cfkmi%f(w^~X"SUxn>; 27NO; C+)g[7J`$G*SN>{<=?utf-8?q?O=3Bg7=7C=0A=09o=7D=265A=5D4?=@7D`=Eb@Zs1Ln814?]|k@'bG=.Ca"[|8+_.OsNAo8!#?4u MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200711112340.13107.beech@freebsd.org> Cc: Olivier Nicole , rmarella@gmail.com Subject: Re: One Laptop Per Child X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Beech Rintoul List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:40:27 -0000 On Sunday 11 November 2007, Olivier Nicole said: > > I am usually not the one to bring up these things but I feel very > > strongly about this. Starting Monday, November 12 this website is > > offering a give one get one deal. I believe the money will be > > well invested. YMMV > > > > http://xogiving.org/ > > That is a difficult issue, while this is an opportunity, I doubt > this is the most needed thing to provide education. We are talking > giving laptop to people who do not even have electricity in some > cases... > > Olivier =46rom what I've been reading they are addressing this issue. One way=20 was providing solar power recharging stations. The other was hooking=20 up carousel type playground equipment to a small generator to=20 recharge the laptops. The third was good old WWII vintage hand crank=20 power. I also read that these laptops are optimized for low power=20 usage. I live in Alaska and they have been using the internet for=20 education in rural villiages for many years with much success. I=20 personally think this is a great idea. Too bad they won't all be=20 running FreeBSD :-) =2D-=20 =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- Beech Rintoul - FreeBSD Developer - beech@FreeBSD.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | FreeBSD Since 4.x \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | http://www.freebsd.org X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Latest Release: / \ - http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/6.2R/announce.html =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D-------------