Between,
I live in germany so you can send it to me or you can use
me as node to your laptop ;)
cheers
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Von: doc-admin at arabeyes dot org
[mailto:doc-admin at arabeyes dot org] Im Auftrag von Anson
David Parker
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 3. April 2003 12:30
An: doc at arabeyes dot org
Betreff: laptop game
"the net takes care of its own"
well ya'll, it's been a busy week - couple of setbacks,
nuthin serious. You all seem quite active. Great.
Here's the plan. I have a pretty standard laptop (Compaq
Armada) - I bought it three months ago off ebay, it has
128 mb ram, 10 gig hd, cruddy cd player, functional 3.5,
ethernet, dialin card etc pII 366... (approx $350 bucks)
OK, so the game rules
1)Get this machine over to an Iraqi library, primary, or
secondary school
2)without the use of UPS or any such.
3)with arabic OS installed + with a bunch of chemical
modeling software on it too... a modular "RADLab"
see the deal is this - I am pretty much broke. I don't
have a car, no phone, and rent is coming off my credit
card. etc... but I live in America, so chances are no
one will leave me to rot in the streets... whatever, I
can't afford postage, and besides which, the goal is to
begin open sourcing package transit and promote certain
connections to be established (ie I am going to be
contacting my friends from here to europe, I think I can
get the machine accross the atlantic, but you guys are
the first people I have told about this new "game" and
any help would be cool) ... I want to see if using
trusted connections we can track this package the whole
way over there. The whole system has to be worked out
before it happens, maybe nobody will think it's worth
it, maybe the laptop will make it halfway there and get
stolen. Maybe a rad laptop can make it all the way to
iraq? waddya say? I think it sounds like a hell of an
intellectual excercise to coordinate this whole thing
to facilitate this procedure:
I am installing tutos (I am still trying to get the
arabic fonts managed properly there) I am about to
start working with some GPS software to make it really
clear how the package moves around, follow its journey
etc...
I am open to suggestions...
Anyhow - if this game goes well I am going to start
shopping auctions and we can get some other machines out.
www.aladigital.net should be up soon (tomorrow) (I am
sleepy).
ps - it's just a game, but not a joke, there will be
coming a section (online) for people to donate $'s for
shipping & handling, for other machines, but for dream
purposes I want to see if it can be done freely just
once...
ps - rock on / kick ass
Anson
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