This is pretty neat, I was checking the inbound links to fncon on technorati.com, expecting to find some blogger commentary about the upcoming conference when I stumbled on http://fncon03.blogspot.com, which is a site put up by Charlie(?) in anticipation of the conference. Charlie is going to be running around with a Tablet PC, a digital camera, and an MP3 recorder blogging everything you say. Excellent
Monthly Archive for May, 2003
| This has nothing to do with freenetworks, but it’s cool nonetheless. Washington State is passing legislation to allow Neighborhood Electric Vehicles on the road. This is good stuff. I totally dig electric vehicles (I’m the proud owner of a denali) and hopefully we will see more innovation in this space. For those of you who want to see the coolest electrics out there, check out electricmoto’s new bike, the blade |
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| Casey is giving his snownet presentation at the SeattleWireless general meeting. Unfortunately, we’re not streaming this meeting due to encoder station problems, but it’s pretty cool. There are about 20 people here, which is suprising to me because it’s Mother’s Day. Talk covers the MtBaldi installation, a 38 mile link, the proposed Tacoma link (28 miles) and the test setup which included a VOIP phone call, file transfers, and fun driver tricks. |
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| The FreeNetworks Conference Schedule is online! Tim O’Reilly and Cory Doctorow have confirmed that they will be Keynoting, Speakers include experts from all over the FreeNetworks world and the finalized schedule is getting pieced together as we speak. Check out the Conference site for more details. |
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Rendezvous is a great technology for advertising services with little or no configuration. The only drawback to using it of course, is that it is generally thought of as an Apple only solution. Luckily, there are some open source projects out there working on bringing it to the rest of us.
Rob has written up a howto for using mDNSProxyResponderPosix on the SWN.
pebble v.30 release
Just trimming away some of the fat. No other changes. No reason to
upgrade. Maybe some day it will make it down to 32 megs.
v.30
- deleted some more unnecessary files, thanks to Rob Flickenger, down to 42megs
some of what was trimmed.
/usr/lib/gconv (iconv?) 4Mb /usr/bin/localedef 295k /usr/share/zoneinfo/ 473k
| It’s HackNight in Seattle, and I’ve just seen a copy of Rob Flickenger’s book Building Wireless Community Networks translated into japanese. It’s available on www.oreilly.co.jp. Pretty cool if you ask me. Anyone else seen good resources for the rest of the non-english speaking world? |
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Pebble v.29 has been released. Go get it.
v.29
- updated to 0.0.2 HostAP drivers & utils
- supposed to fix some kernel crash problems under certain situations)
Pebble v.28 is released. http://www.nycwireless.net/pebble/
No major changes. Added Elan kernel modules, updated HostAP drivers, added
HostAP utilities, fixed NoCat log rotation, fixed update scripts, rename
update scripts to .hdc and .hde (I’ve been doing more installs from my
toughbook, and it has the compact flash appear as hdc, this is more for my
ease than anything else, it also make it explicit what drive it is trying
to install onto).
v.28
- added updated kernel with Elan watchdog drivers
- updated to 0.0.1 HostAP drivers
- added HostAP utils and HostAP sniff to /usr/local/sbin
- updated install scripts, fix serial
- standard typo
- changed to pebble.update.net4501.hdc instead so that you know which device
- updated lilo install scripts to specify device lilo
- serial
- hdc.conf
- fixed log rotation stuff again. not using logrotate, instead using savelog
- updated documentation
- clean out some unnecessary files from doing apt
- get, now down to 55megs
What I’m hoping to have in future versions:
- Cleaned up Documentation (Dustin Goodwin)
- Possibly a windows based firmware writer and image (Dustin Goodwin)
- GUI configuration (Derek)
- rsync exempt list for doing rsync updates
- Smaller size due to deleting unnecessary files (Rob F)
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