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There are a few problems with your assumptions. 1. Developing nations are at various stages of development. Some of these nations may have a reliable food supply, effective public health system, and ample resources to supply their own economy. What they lack are the skilled labor to maintain...

Motivations and, frequently, perceived motivations are very. One of my old roommates would always shop at big box stores and would always make purchases on credit or debit cards. He had a perception that small business owners and paying with cash was a sure way to get ripped off or robbed...

equant: Of course people will want to know about your solution. It's certainly applicable in a case like this since a lot of people are going to have a router. Will it work well in this configuration? I don't know. I took a quick look at my router and it is supported by OpenWRT. Sweet. I...

In this sort of case, I think it's fair to bundle in a Canadian with Americans. Our countries may be different, but there are sufficient similarities and enough wannabe Americans for the perceived motives to be the same. I'm also concerned about the Reverend in the mix, since they are often...

Uh, since when did Canada get on the list of developing nations? }:) And since when was NRC relevant? Or the University of New Brunswick?

equant: Some of us are ancient, back from the days when an Apple II could connect to the internet via a shell account from a local ISP. (Which is fairly rare these days, even with dialup.) So the idea of hooking up an old computer via a new computer seems a bit strange. After all, why...

To my knowledge, these boards will work independently of a microcontroller that would produce TCP/IP packets. So in a sense, you to have TCP/IP to serial bridges. You are correct though, they are protocols and you really need to layer protocols on top of TCP for it to be of any value (eg...

TCP/IP to serial bridges already exist. I think that there are some standalone ones out there, but the book that I'm reading has a couple of examples for hobby projects. That includes both wired and wireless. Here's the one that they're talking about...

Another option is to setup a machine that will host PPP or SLIP connections. But there is plenty of ethernet hardware for system 6 Macs. The most obvious one is a NuBus card in a modular Mac, but I'm fairly certain that a few of the SCSI to ethernet bridges worked under System 6. At any rate...

I'm sorry to say that you're the confused one. One of the moderators phoned me one night, and in a very feminine buzz, told me to smarten up or she would suck my blood to feed her babies.

A better approximation, sure. But something as simple as modifying font size and weight can make an almost unreadable page in lynx much more readable. And that is within the capabilities of a System 6 Mac. I've popped into the forums with elinks from time to time. I've found that with lynx...

The question is though: is that what they really need? I've heard horror stories relating to traditional computers in tropical climates. These range from over-heating (ask our friends in the southern US for a mild example of that), to various critters and molds growing in them. Clearly this...

Sorry, missed the follow up articles. :p I'm going to hold my tongue to avoid commenting on many of the teachers that I've met, but I think it's fairly safe to say that noone really understands learning. All that I know is how we do it feels wrong. We like to say that we are there to help...

If you're talking about India, well, they have the brain power to figure out the solutions themselves. It's not as though designing a decent computer is rocket science after all. A modern microcontroller offer more speed as well as internal flash memory and RAM. The I/O pins are a much more...

Teachers are in of a bit of a fickle here. The current pedagogical fad is based a lot on constructivism. Constructivism is one means of coming up with novel ways of doing something, because the student is expected to construct their own knowledge. Usually they are given the tools to figure...

I'm assuming that paws is referring to a LISP like notation, which is fairly straight forward to parse since almost anything can be part of a token (except parentheses IIRC). On the other hand, a structure like the UNIX mbox format may be more appropriate. Particularly if you have the server...

Kids are treating computers like cell phones and game systems. That has nothing to do with the computers themselves. Rather it has to do with society's attitudes towards computers. After all, anyone can stick a simple programming language like Logo, SmallTalk, BASIC, or Python on their...

Times change, and the skills that people need to survive change with those time. Consider some of the skills currently taught in school: we spend an inordinate amount of time teaching them how to read, how to do mathematics problems, understanding world history, and so forth. We spend next to...

Food prices are going up because of poor management, not because optimization makes things brittle. I agree that optimization can make things more brittle. That is particularly true when you design a system close to tollerances. On the other hand, optimization does not have to make things...

I'm going to suggest NOT implementing tables for two reasons: 1. A lot of layout is currently done with CSS, so a web page will look mangled even if you have table support. (Some modern web browsers support turning off style sheets. Try it to see what I mean.) 2. It is very hard (thus...