5/16/2023 0 Comments Kiwix search bar not working![]() ![]() Is it up and running? These things are easy to send in a team for and have running for a few months. Where? The Dominican Republic video was 4 years ago. Once you pay someone to set IIAB up, giving them Starlink would be around the same price. Their FAQ is on OLPC's site which had a horrific attitude of not allowing others to use their products and locking them down. A movies section, comics section, a books section they can make pretty, they need ownership in their collations. To do this, what's vital is cafe owners and teachers and students can buy this product and easily dump stuff on. Wikipedia not clear IIAB is this and I didn't see it from the web site. But couldn't (at the time) work out an easy way to distribute the AVI's once randoms connected. Years ago we did this with a wireless access point 'Login for free movies" in our apartment. A wireless hotspot, anyone can setup to distribute terabytes of material to others, preferably with a charge/login option. If this is what it is, then I'm totally wrong. Official Sneakernet is terrabytes of TV (Government 'sanctioned' without porn or politics). > Similar setups have been working in Cuba for a long time. Related: see related info about installing Kolibri and Kiwix in this comment (these are two of the apps that are available via the IIAB install scripts) Of course nothing prevents you for copying content over to individual mobile phones and tablets (like takeout), but centralized setup of a "learning resources hotspot" that people can connect to is very efficient first start. You just need to bring one beefy hard disk and you suddenly have access to all of Khan Academy, wikipedia in dozens of languages, and all kinds of other collections of educational and reference materials. The IIAB scripts,, make setting up such servers very easy (including best FOSS apps, wifi hot spot, networking, and web admin interface). I have seen a IIAB device used in a school in a remote area (one IIAB for several clients on the WLAN, old PCs with wired network, phones, and tablets). > Does this solve real people's actual problems? I wonder, though, why it died so quickly while Juno is still around 20-something years later! Freemium is a better business model? So, to me, the Internet-In-A-Box product was a cool thing that didn't last that long because most people migrated from dial-up to broadband as quickly as they were able. I think it was around the late 90's that Time Warner and a few other cable companies started testing out high-speed cable. Shockingly, they're still doing it today! I had no idea there was a market for free dial-up internet in 2021! That is so cool.Ī lucky few within a certain distance from their CLEC's CO could get DSL or would spring $800/mo (or a lot more!) for a 1.5Megabit/s T1. Juno did this even better - for free, with ads: Other than AOL, most people in the country could only do dial-up to gain access to the World Wide Web (it sounds so quaint when you write it out now!). In that box was a browser and list of dial-up POPs and designed to compete with AOL, which offered AOL's version of the Internet and was peppering the country with free floppies (and later CD-ROM's). It probably didn't seem far-fetched, since most (all?) products were basically tangible things that could fit into a box, and it probably bridged the gap. I don't think it was ridiculous, except perhaps for the name, but non-tech people back then didn't even really know what the Internet was. To really extend it you'd need a PC at which point. Not on phone, you can maybe automate stuff with the likes of Tasker (see counterpoint 6 about UI/UX though) Easy to code to extend functionality any way you like. ![]() That's very dependant on the app developers if we go with point 2, I know plenty of apps with terrible UI/UX. ![]() Touch friendly, kid friendly, low IQ requirement UI/UX. Solar power I will give you, but you'll be hard pressed to find a phone suitable as server/hotspot with a removable battery. Solar powerable, with removable and replaceable battery. ![]() MicroSD slot for massive and switchable data store. Very dependant on the phone make/model, and server/hotspot wouldn't be that performant. Wifi hotspot functionality + FTP + server hotspot. Has screen - (strong, tested, replaceable).īroken/scratched/hard to read in sunlight/draining power.Īll the android apps for that old version of android, presuming they work without a wifi connection. Ignoring the other comments point that this is meant as a server rather than a direct kiosk, lets smash each of these points. ![]()
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