Andrew Swan wrote:
>
> Wow, why is everyone being so hard on the guy? Keep it up if you want to make Aussies look like a
> bunch of unhelpful, ****-taking wankers.
Something about a sign I've seen on a farm gate "the lord helps those who help themselves"
So he could have done this by doing a little bit of research about powering his laptop from a
bicycle dynamo, or from a solar panel, or .... then started asking the questions.
People respond better to people who have shown some thought behind their questions.
> Anyway, I've read about some guy who cycle tours with an Internet connection, laptop, solar
> panels, the whole nine yards, so it's not as stupid a concept as some of you are trying to
> suggest.
Yes, but he designed it from the ground up and he did his own research. He was also a working
journalist who didn't want fancy gui's and didn't expect to plug into the internet in the
outback. He didn't come here with a breezeway between the ears wanting someone else to tell him
how he did it.
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