User:NeoAmsterdam/Notes to Self

• A temping recipe for booting Plan 9 (and the evidence to prove it's possible)
• Radio streaming? (transmitting from "...somewhere in the mesh"?)
• Rebuild Mini vMac (multiple drives, 576x448 or 1184x900 screen, max speed by default; X11 v. GTK builds)
• Write a "hack ~/.sugar/default/config" note (builds before 852; after ~/.gconf/desktop.sugar/user/%gconf.xml) fairly self-explanatory.
• Extracting XO splash sound (possibly replace) from w/in OFW
• SOS/Post-catastrophe app (how to fit a collaborative documentation effort into ≤512MB? or make it decentralized?)
  1. Each XO gathers info, establishes pt-2-pt comm links with nearest 2 neighbors (min. for msg. relay)
     • Is there a way to make long-distance multi-node pt-2-pt contact?
  2. As users enter information, suggestions could be given to the user (how much water x number of people need, how to recognize possible water-borne diseases, triage how-to)
  3. Once a relief center shows up (w/ hard drives), acts as XS/server…
     or a real one - it would make sense that schools would become impromptu first-aid and triage stations
     …XOs spot it in the mesh (?) or by mesh-relay and U/L upon discovery (deltas thereafter)
     • But how long until relief shows up? How much data captured in that time? What data would be the most urgent?
  4. Comms are transient (vid/pic/voice), but written info (chat/DIY wiki) would need context awareness - geo/GPS, people/relations, needed items, status (Injured/killed/infirm)
  • Caveat emptor: Batteries might drain before relief arrives, and there might not be any power source.
• Running sugar-emulator on F12/PPC64
  (/usr/share/sugar/activites??) Horrible. Just plain horrible. Shame on Fedora.
• Build KDE 3 from scratch (because KDE4 is almost Java-like in resource hogging).