// pictures and words
Jerritt Collord has created a really interesting hack to MoinMoin called MoinMap
This allows you to easily embed a map into a wiki page provided you have the backend setup. He does of course mention that like all mapping projects, you need to set up an extensive backend and collect/massage all your map data.
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If you haven’t submitted your paper, you need to do so NOW. We’ve got a lot of stuff planned, from heavy technical sessions to overview and status talks. Activities are getting pulled together, and they range from the straight social to the hardcore technical.
As far as pricing and registration goes, The Alexis Park has agreed on a new reduced room rate of $89.00 a night, and we’re dropping the conference rate to $250.00 for the three days. We’ve also gotten the registration company details all worked out, and it will be live as soon as we wade through the papers and confirm on talks. I know I’ve said it before, but if you are interested in wireless, you cannot miss this event. |
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I’ve already given an informal braindump at the SeattleWireless meeting, and will be giving a more formal presentation for work later on this month. It should read better, and have pictures. Hopefully the hangover wont show through.
I would say that this year’s etech was a lot better than last years. Maybe it’s because I didn’t really have to do anything other than hang out and learn, maybe it’s because I got to hang out with my friends and meet some really cool people. Maybe it was because the content was better. Who knows. Who cares really… it was better. If you weren’t there, you should have been.
He has been reading all the papers that relate to multi-hop wireless networking and writing summaries on his wiki page. His latest addition is on a paper by MIT called Capacity of Ad Hoc Wireless Networks.
If you haven’t been reading up on your specs, take advantage of Jonathan’s dilligence, and since it’s a wiki, feel free to correct his spelling if you’re so inclined.
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Adam Flaherty of Nocat put together this 802.11b powerline AP light fixture by piecing together a Seimens SpeedStream AP a couple of hardware store knick knacks (including eco-friendly flourescent bulb) and a tupperware bowl. I think this is just awesome and hope that it gets modded into something a bit more aesthetically pleasing.
Here is a picture of Rob Flickenger at the FreeNetworks Booth with the bulbous creation. |
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Down in Tacoma, Michael Pierce and Drake Diedrich, stood on a nice sunny roof and we successfully made a 28.2 mile link happen. 802.11b is cool.
This effort was just a test to see if we coud make the link, and Michael has more details at his site, but it looks like it’s going to be a permanent installation sometime in the coming month. It also looks like the snownet project is going to start moving faster now that the sun is coming out and it’s easier to get to sites. I have some pictures of our side of the link here |
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we found out that my Thinkpad 240 had a MiniPCI slot. We joked about swapping it out, and about 3 weeks ago, Peterson <a href="http://www.bawug.org/images/equipment/matt_hacks/ibm570_minipci/">tried it out</a> with his 570. He ran into some bios problems.
A couple of hack nights ago, we attempted to swap out the MiniPCI winmodem in my thinkpad with a MiniPCI linksys card (ripped from a PCI card) and see if we could get past the problem he was having. Sad to say, it didn’t work, but it wasn’t because of any software. There is a connector on the motherboard that probably needs to be there that is in the way. We could probably have solved this by cutting the board and doing manual jumps, but I think I’d rather wait for a smaller MiniPCI card to emerge. Hopefully something that does a/b/g like this atheros card.
Just got this link off of #wireless, think it’s probably on slashdot or somethingi
The BARWN is growing
So, this page replaces a page I built called panoramas gigantus. It’s located here
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