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On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 23:19 +0000, Tom Brough wrote: > > > The guy I am shipping them to aparently has a set of operational 486's > so I guess the answer is yes they have the juice to run them. That's better than the couple of projects I was involved in a few years back, where they only had a solar panel or two (disconnect the water pump at the appropriate time...) and a couple of water lifting windmills that had been generatored. Watts rather than kilowatts. Someone here in the small town/village we've just moved to has an involvement with The Gambia, and in the place he's focussed on there are just some solar panels. Wonder if someone has ever rigged up a bicycle generator? Or an animal powered generator? > But I will > suggest that in order to save power he disconnects the hard drives and > uses them as thin clients only :-) another plus for LTSP technology ;-) > Can only help, but would the biggest contribution be flat screen? Must be older generation small flatscreens around 14", 15", people are ditching in favour of larger or higher resolutions ... they've been around a few years now. Must admit I've stuck my high-end mitsubishi diamondtron monitor into a cupboard just in case I even need something with excellent colour rendition (until such time as I can afford/prices drop/tech improves) flat screen stuff can reproduce colours accurately enough etc. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html