From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 16 20:50:14 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A324316A401 for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:50:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17C2A13C4B9 for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:50:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l3GKpqCi090694; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 13:51:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1/Submit) id l3GKppjB090693; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 13:51:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 13:51:50 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Sergio Lenzi Message-ID: <20070416205150.GA90612@thought.org> References: <17949.54850.460169.717849@whale.home-net> <1568562575.20070413025045@ghirai.com> <17951.8134.821939.357082@whale.home-net> <1176662623.13267.2.camel@localhost> <20070416034744.GA83862@thought.org> <1176745242.2453.11.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1176745242.2453.11.camel@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing twenty years of service to the Unix community Cc: Gary Kline , questions Subject: Re: The OX laptop... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:50:14 -0000 On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 02:40:42PM -0300, Sergio Lenzi wrote: > > > > > Comments pleaase???? > > > > > > I heard/read that these will be "networked" by transceiver going > > peer-to-peer. With a range of a few miles. The school or > > university would serve at the link with the Internet. Yes? > > If other, please explain. > > Yes they are networked using WI-FI in ibcss... really works... does not > need any access > point and can communicate at about 50 meters away each other... in a > kind of "mersh" > network... really simple and functional. > 50 m isn't that much. I was guessing more in the range of one to five km. (Maybe with an outside antenna??) > > > > I think this kind of universally affordable and endlessly > > useful computer will give us countless thousands of wizards > > and other scholars who would be wedged in a hopeless situation. > > In a word:: Yes! > > > > gary > > > > The point is that will start a new world where things will be > "reinvented" in new > ways. without proprietary software. With all open architeture will be > able > to make the "children" work together in preparing for a new world > where > the need of "group" working will be more and more important... Yes, to both points! > > Just imagine about 5 milion consumers... Or 5 million people being producers; having them not only consume bbut contribute to the greater good of thw world! I think 5 million is just the beginning; in a few years, 50 millions, and then 500m. Maybe in another generation it'll bring at least a couple of billions (thousand millions) into the cooperative world-force. > > Here my nepheys are already in college and they now have to work and do > all work using Linux at school and FreeBSD at home... That is a good > point for > the govern that by forcing them to use open source, makes them think and > overcome problems that otherwise would be solved by pressing a button in > the > screen. This really makes my day. Thanks for the story. gary > > Sergio > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix