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A few (or was it several) of us braved TEH BLIZARD OF 2K6 to discuss AT&T microwave sites, optics, apache upgrades and the drinking of milk. In other dairy related news, the Online Coffee Company serves coffee with shots of Irish Cream. Phear.

Another week of Arlan at HackNight. We’ve got some 900Mhz antennas, jumpers, and enough power supplies to actually test things out. A few bricks aside, the transition from 630 access point to 640 bridge firmware works well enough. Copies of all needed firmware and instructions are now mirrored here, rescued from archive.org and other sources.

Our first field test is a shot from Bryan (NodeAwfulShark) to Ken at 2608. It’s a fairly short distance, with some trees and houses obstructing.

Midnight Research Labs noticed some more wireless vulnerabilities have been released as part of the Month of Kernel Bugs (MoKB). The broadcom exploit has been brought to you by Johnny Cache (as pictured above).

We’ve moved once again, this time to the Online Coffee Company at 1404 East Pine. The Internet connection is faster, the tables are bigger, but we’ve definitely taken a hit on coffee quality. Regardless, it’s HackNight, and we’re there to do things. This week we formulated our plan for putting up NodeTulane, cracked open an Arlan 630-900, and fought with fwcutter.  We’ve entered the rainy season too, so if you don’t want to get soaked trying to figure out just where HackNight is, you should check the EventCalendar before you leave the house.

Dan Marsh made some loud claims that he can drink a gallon of 2% in an hour (the milk bet) back at the first mindcamp. I didn’t believe him then, and I don’t believe him now. We were told by mindcamp organizers that we couldn’t do it there, so the subject was dropped. Tonight we picked it back up. He is convinced that his gut hides a higher than average milk tolerance, whereas the rest of us are convinced it just holds hot air. Perhaps next week we’ll have a video entry, but I really think this is a case of all hat, no cattle.