Monthly Archives: March 2006

St. Louis, MO – Day 1

By Ken | Published: March 31, 2006
After numerous airline complications, decending through a massive thunder and lightning storm, and a cabin full of applause for the pilots upon landing, I am finally in St. Louis for the National Summit for Community Wireless Networks. Matt and I spent the last couple of hours at the Waffle House drinking coffee and musing over various [...]
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HackNight 3/29

By Ken | Published: March 31, 2006
Better late than never…Some of the hacknight details. Rob discussed the release of Pyramid Linux, a replacement for the aging Pebble Linux that we have all learned to love and loath on embedded hardware. Pyramid is based on a Ubuntu and has all the lastest bits kernel and userland wise. We also renewed the SSL certificate [...]
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Hacknight Summary, Advertising to zero conf clients without Multicast DNS

By Ken | Published: March 15, 2006
Update: It appears we were overlooking a big thing here, the needed Preferences Pane to actually enable “Wide Area Bonjour”. Yet another hacknight. Seems that Eric, Rob, and I have spent most of our time trying to advertise services in Bonjour (Apple’s implementation of ZeroConf) via plain old DNS using SRV records. Bonjour, previously called rendezvous [...]
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