I have been looking for this for ages. It used to be that if I didn’t
have my mouse plugged into my laptop I couldn’t paste to a cygwin
terminal (where I spend most of my time). By middle clicking the mouse I
got a paste - but on laptop, there are only two buttons on the trackpad.
But [...]
Wow this looks like just what I have been looking for. Every other day
someone in Malawi asks me about getting a VSAT internet connection. Now
I have a resource to point them towards (and hopefully a resource to
help me find an affordable VSAT!)
The VSAT Buyer’s Guide
What steps do organisations and individuals take when faced with the
prospect [...]
Thanks to the ITMalawi
mailing list (which I have been trolling quite a bit lately)
I came across this excellent website that is capturing all of the
information and advocating for getting a fiber connection to Africa:
Fibre for Africa
Africa currently has to pay for some of the most expensive bandwidth in the
world. The region currently only has one [...]
From People
magazine:
A Village of Hope In the African nation of Malawi, families toil in
fields as malaria, tuberculosis and other diseases go untreated. But
hope is within reach: The Millennium Promise, a philanthropy run by Dr.
Jeffrey Sachs and supported by Angelina Jolie, is working with 60
villages (so far) to make them healthily self-sufficient through such
simple tools as [...]
Robin Mayfield, aka BlogDog and I
used to work together at DecisionSoft (DerisionSoft for
disgruntled ex-employees of which I am not) in Oxford. We both
commiserated and then wept in joyous rapture as we were forced to learn
vim and fully embrace using Linux for everything. At any rate, I enjoyed
Robin’s post today and as a google shareholder look [...]
I am taking a hard look at Ruby, since I think we are going to standardize around Ruby for future versions of the Baobab system. So far I am very impressed. I think it will be powerful, fun, and easy to learn. I have read two different presentations on Ruby for Perlers - and they [...]
I love the simplicity of this:
More info here
