Tag Archives: solar powered

ISS migrates to Linux

Posted on 10/05/2013 by Steve Woods

Laptops for crew use on the International Space Station (ISS) are being migrated from Windows to Linux, the Linux Foundation reports. The reason for the migration, given by Keith Chuvala of United Space Alliance, a NASA contractor deeply involved in … Continue reading →

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Solar power goes open source

Posted on 11/12/2011 by Steve Woods

From the heart of Leipzig in Germany, news reaches the lab of the establishment of Open Source Solar, a place for collaborative development of open source hardware for small photovoltaic systems, with the aim of assisting the construction of the … Continue reading →

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Indian company launches solar-powered Linux desktop

Posted on 22/07/2011 by Steve Woods

Here at Bristol Wireless we’re keen advocates on green ICT and have many times experienced the delights of providing off-mains event ICT powered by renewables (news passim), so were overjoyed to hear of a recent development in India. India’s Simmtronics … Continue reading →

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A trip to BarnCamp 2011

Posted on 15/06/2011 by Steve Woods

On Monday the advance crew – by now known as the tat-down team and consisting mostly of Bristol Wireless volunteers – arrived back tired but satisfied from the rural Barncamp site up the Wye Valley. Our journey began the previous … Continue reading →

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Linux Lounge – the bus takes shape

Posted on 01/07/2009 by Steve Woods

Our old friend John Palfrey has emailed us with an update and picture of his Linux Lounge bus, which is gradually coming together as a showcase for open source IT and green energy technologies. The bus is a 1984 MCW … Continue reading →

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St Werbians in Hoo St Werburgh

Posted on 24/08/2008 by Mike

On 31st July our mobile Internet suite set out from St Werburgh’s Bristol en route to this year’s Camp for Climate Action, pitched up near Hoo St Werburgh, on the Hoo Peninsula betwixt the Thames estuary and Medway river in … Continue reading →

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Near the hedge, but not ragged

Posted on 01/09/2007 by Steve Woods

Saturday at the Ragged Hedge Fair started bright and sunny, but to misquote the late Larry Grayson: “What a grey day”. As we’re running off solar, that’s not working at its full capacity due to cloud cover, although Clive, our … Continue reading →

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Another weekend, another field… with a hedge

Posted on 31/08/2007 by Steve Woods

It’s Friday lunchtime and the Bristol Wireless/Psand cybertent at the Ragged Hedge Fair at Abbey Farm near Cirencester has running for about 2 hours now; the suite and the site wireless access (which I’m using) are all running off wind … Continue reading →

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What’s happening? Read your crystal balls!

Posted on 24/08/2007 by Steve Woods

Our correspondent in a field in Cullompton writes: Bristol Wireless’ old friends, the Easton Cowboys, have all deserted their usual Bristol haunts (including the Plough and other watering holes, green flat places suited to the beautiful game and the like) … Continue reading →

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What we did at the Big Green Gathering

Posted on 15/08/2007 by sean

Our annual jaunt to the BGG geared up in July. We had plenty of volunteers and despite several weeks of unremitting rain, we were confident that the weather would be fine and that we would be having a wonderful bus … Continue reading →

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