Monthly Archives: April 2006

gpsd for pyramid linux

By Ken | Published: April 28, 2006
At the request of Darrin, I just built gpsd for Pyramid Linux. I don’t have all the gps gear to test it fully but I loaded it up on a soekris board at home and it starts up with no problems. I stuck here for now: http://ken.ipl31.net/pyramid/   I stripped out all the man pages per usual, [...]
Posted in /geek, pyramid | 1 Comment

Softball!

By Ken | Published: April 27, 2006
Well we are a little over one week into the Softball Season. So far so good. Our team made a fine first showing, we beat The Garage Team both games of the double header. The Garage took the championship away from us in the final round of the playoffs last year, so this is a [...]
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LayerOne Pics

By Ken | Published: April 18, 2006
Well the pictures from LayerOne are starting to hit flickr. I only took a couple but a bunch of people were running around with cameras, so I expect there to be quite a few.
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LayerOne Talk Wrap Up

By Ken | Published: April 15, 2006
So I just wrapped up my presentation for LayerOne. I think it went really well and people had some great questions. As promised to the audience here are a bunch of links for further reading on the subjects we discussed: Community Wireless: Seattlewireless.net Freenetworks.org Mesh Routing: OLSR: Optimized Link State Routing Protocol Hazy Sighted Link State Routing [...]
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Hack Night Summary – April 12

By Ken | Published: April 12, 2006
Getting ready to head out from hack night but things still appear to be going strong. So far this evening: -Some update on the status of the Node at the Ambassador building. -Eric Butler’s friend whose name I can’t remember was dissecting an Iriver h320 and replacing the battery with a higher capacity third party Ipod gen 2 battery.  -Discussing [...]
Posted in /freenetworks, /geek, /seattle, /seattlewireless | 1 Comment

Mind Camp 2.0

By Ken | Published: April 11, 2006
I briefly mentioned Seattle Mind Camp 1.0 when I attended about 6 months ago. Seattle Mind Camp 2.0 is coming up in just over two weeks. They are seeking to expand their geek diversity , so if you can think someone that should been there last time and wasn’t let’em know. Technorati Tags: mindcamp, mindcamp2.0
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LayerOne this weekend

By Ken | Published: April 11, 2006
Myself and bunch of people from DC206 are flying down to LA on Friday for LayerOne. LayerOne is whats generally referred to as a Hacker Con, with topics including things like lock picking, hardware hacking, and information security. I will be leading off the festivities on Saturday morning with a talk about Seattlewireless and Freenetworks in general. Community Wireless/Freenetworks [...]
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When google tells you your spelling sucks

By Ken | Published: April 11, 2006
So I did a google search “Net Nuetraility” looking for some specific papers on “Net Neutrality”.  Of course I spelled it wrong. According to google I am one of  the very few people on the web who spelled it this way, you can imagine my initial confusion when my blog came up first on the results page, woops. Its not so much [...]
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Quality Inn Survey

By Ken | Published: April 6, 2006
So one of the running themes this past weekend was the Quality Inn Hotel. This is where Matt and I stayed. The Canadians stayed there one night and then checked out after being less than impressed with “Quality” of the Quality Inn. When asked how the hotel was, my response was “They definitely got the [...]
Posted in /National Wireless Summit 2006, /travel | 2 Comments

Ecto Borkage

By Ken | Published: April 6, 2006
I have been evaluating Ecto for the past two days as my main interface to updating this site. I find it much easier to use than the standard wordpress web gui, and its good for working offline as well. So this morning I spent a decent chunk of time on a post and went back [...]
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