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Today’s MobiHoc day consisted of some panicked preparation for tomorrow’s panel, watching Sascha trudge through his crazy todo list, eating an excellent lunch (and drinking an entire pot of coffee) with David Young at the bar under the OJC/CUWiN office and hanging out in a dimly lit alley drinking lambic on tap with Sascha and FCC guy Ken Carter where we talked about many subjects that may or may not have included the relaxation of part 15 and type acceptance, open source, intellectual property, wardrobe malfunctions, disney toys with no FCC IDs, japanese vending machines of questionable authenticity and Indiana Jones style warehouses full of statistical data.
Back at the actual conference, there was tasty Vanilla Flan, some very un-adhoc queuing and some introductions to friends I hadn’t met yet. Tomorrow morning’s Panel looks to be extremely interesting, and I am getting more and more sure that I am the token crank.
We finished off the night crashing a going away party for a local college professor, and ended up talking politics and wireless with some very nice African women.
Flatland isn’t really what I expected, and I don’t think I’ve seen a single stalk of corn.
I’m pretty sure nothing of any interest happened yesterday, but I did start up a couple of imob topics, flatland and mobihoc, and hopefully I won’t be the only person contributing to the pile.
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After a day of travel, I’m in Urbana, IL. Home of cuwireless, and host to MobiHoc 2005. I’ll be speaking on a panel titled ‘Openness’ and the Public Airwaves thursday as an open source / free software type wireless nerd, and I imagine, starting many an ad-hoc conversation with the rest of the attendees. Checking out the schedule, it looks to be a pretty fun time, and since it’s been moved to the Seibel, I’ll get a first-hand look at The World’s Smartest Building
Sascha has been kind enough to show me a little bit of Champaign and Urbana, including the old Urbana post office, which is now the de-facto “global headquarters” for Indymedia
In Laptop News, my iBook showed up at the house while I was sitting at Seatac this morning. Hopefully when I get back next week, it won’t need to be sent back. Lucky for me, my Thinkpad240 I abandoned when I got my first Mac still runs like a champ. I did some drive juggling (no CDROM on my 240) on Saturday and installed ubuntu linux, a distro that I’ve been meaning to try out for some time now, and for the most part, I’m pleased. It’s got all the makings of a nice distribution, including a slick package manager. I still haven’t worked out all the kinks in my Bluetooth/GPRS setup yet, but I was able to ping the phone and do a basic file transfer late Sunday night.
Since I knew I was going to need to do some heavy wireless action, and Atheros is really a must, I gutted out my modem jack (with wire cutters!) and dropped in a CM9 with a U.FL->RP-TNC bulkhead. Probably not the smartest thing to do on the eve of leaving, but it works like a charm, and I won’t have to worry about snapping pigtails or bad signal strength ever again.
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