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Qwest’s new Acceptable Use Policy for it’s DSL system is Un-Acceptable Policy.

If you are a Qwest DSL customer, even through a third party ISP, Qwest is setting the rules on what happens on their wire. Take a gander and see what the effects of Brand X really look like.

Sascha Meinrath has a writeup and a copy of the agreement here.

Another late night working hard on upgrades. This time it’s the SeattleWireless Wiki. It’s been a long time coming for this one, and the amount of change that’s happened is really too long for my frazzled brain to write down. One thing I would like to point out is that the new version of Moin has Anti-Spam support. Hopefully that will slow them down and speed things up enough for us to get some of the new network changes documented.

Another thing I should mention, is the revision history. Due to the changes in the data storage format over the years, it was impossible for us to move the years of changes over to the new software. I have kept a copy of the old wiki running, and it is now a read only archive for those of you who are interested in the history or want to migrate some change that was lost to the new wiki.

http://archive.seattlewireless.net/

I’m sure that we’ve busted some things in the process, but just drop a comment here or send me a mail or IM and I’ll get right on it… After I get some sleep.

Tonight at HackNight, I connected briefly to KingCountyMetro, the free WiFi service that Metro is testing. When I tried to hit a website, I was redirected to a survey.. Looking at the URL, I realized that they’re using NoCatSplash. Too funny.

Aside from that, we talked about the Tower project for a while, hacked on a Soekris/UMTS setup and Joe is going to hit the Home Despot for some parts after we break up tonight.

Casey brought in the VOIP phone he’s been testing and we made a few phone calls. There is a little delay, but it’s not too bad for a free service that has to cross the Atlantic twice.

Meeting at RedLine has been nice. There’s much more space to move around, even though we’ve been sharing the meeting space with the Ruby on Rails user group, the food is tasty (and affordable), and they even serve beer. As long as there are no ‘electrical problems’, I think we’ll be meeting here for a while.

I just couldn’t stand it anymore. I’ve moved from blosxom to wordpress. It will take me a few days to make the site look decent and link to all the non-bloggy content, but it looks like the post import went fairly well…

On a completely unrelated note, we’ve got pretty much all the gear for the tower install, but we need to fashion a real mount for the antenna. Note to antenna manufacturers: Hose clamps are not really mounting kits.

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