Contributed by deanna on from the it takes a laptop dept.
I recently spent two weeks using OpenBSD in a jungle village in Guatemala. I came with a group of 52 to help finish building a new Church of the Nazarene in La Esperanza Chilatz, few miles outside of Coban. We also planned to operate medical and dental clinics, and teach a number of workshops on various topics ranging from small engine repair to puppetry. I didn't have any specific assignment before our arrival, other than to help our group leader with projection equipment.
Read more about how one guy's ingenuity and old Thinkpad running OpenBSD helped make the operation a success.
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By Anonymous Coward (199.18.139.77) on
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By Ben (mouring) mouring@nospam.eviladmin.org on http://eviladmin.org
> about a trip like that...
Hmm... I think I'd rather go back down to Jamaica... I didn't need computers, lights or motor cars. Good people, fresh food and cute women.
But if I had to do a working holiday I think I could have fun doing such a thing. =-)
- Ben
By Anonymous Coward (151.188.247.104) on
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I sure do. Actually, I just got back from Peru demonstrating GNU/Linux and LTSP to someone who's about to set up an Internet cafe down there. After I got his attention with my GNU/Linux laptop, I mentioned OpenBSD to him for the firewall. I explained what I was doing with spamd (he knows all about spam) and how he could have his own nearly spam-free email server on the cheap as well, all nice and legal-like. He seemed quite receptive to this, and it may actually come to pass.
This wasn't in the jungle, but it was way up in the Andes mountains, so hopefully it qualifies as a "dream" geek trip. :-)
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By frantisek holop (165.72.200.11) on
is it working?
i have a kouwell cardbus usb2 card, and on 4.0 nothing happens
when i insert the card. not a letter in dmesg...
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By Philip Munts (207.88.115.107) phil@munts.net on
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> is it working?
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> i have a kouwell cardbus usb2 card, and on 4.0 nothing happens
> when i insert the card. not a letter in dmesg...
I got a noname card on eBay that works fine:
Feb 28 13:55:25 joppa /bsd: ohci0 at cardbus1 dev 0 function 0 "NEC USB" rev 0x43: irq 11, version 1.0
Feb 28 13:55:25 joppa /bsd: usb1 at ohci0: USB revision 1.0
Feb 28 13:55:25 joppa /bsd: uhub1 at usb1
Feb 28 13:55:25 joppa /bsd: uhub1: NEC OHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
Feb 28 13:55:25 joppa /bsd: uhub1: 3 ports with 3 removable, self powered
Feb 28 13:55:25 joppa /bsd: ohci1 at cardbus1 dev 0 function 1 "NEC USB" rev 0x43: irq 11, version 1.0
Feb 28 13:55:25 joppa /bsd: usb2 at ohci1: USB revision 1.0
Feb 28 13:55:25 joppa /bsd: uhub2 at usb2
Feb 28 13:55:25 joppa /bsd: uhub2: NEC OHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
Feb 28 13:55:25 joppa /bsd: uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
Feb 28 13:55:25 joppa /bsd: ehci0 at cardbus1 dev 0 function 2 "NEC USB" rev 0x04: irq 11
Feb 28 13:55:25 joppa /bsd: usb3 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0
Feb 28 13:55:25 joppa /bsd: uhub3 at usb3
Feb 28 13:55:25 joppa /bsd: uhub3: NEC EHCI root hub, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1
Feb 28 13:55:25 joppa /bsd: uhub3: 5 ports with 5 removable, self powered
My informal performance testing indicates USB 2.0 disk I/O just as fast as on a 1.7 GHz Windows machine.
By gb (195.64.88.75) gbertz@gmail.com on
is it possible to try your photoslurp script ?
sounds like a usefull thing
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By jb (jb) on
> is it possible to try your photoslurp script ?
> sounds like a usefull thing
Agreed. I'm always interested in things to make my life as a photographer easier.