Monthly Archives: November 2006

Food Hacking Lab, dyno-mite

By Ken | Published: November 26, 2006
So I occasionally post some food related things. I think this weekend has inspired me to do some more. I was honored through a string of coincidences have my house be a stop on the 2006 West Coast FoodHacking tour.I was introduced to Marc via a good friend. After discussing the possibility of Hack Lab [...]
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Google and open source mesh…please?

By Ken | Published: November 18, 2006
There are some questions being asked about the Google wifi project in Mountain View, CA. It appears that the real world performance is not acceptable from some user complaints and the network appears to buckle under pressure! Imagine that, a wireless network buckling under pressure! The wireless portion of the network is powered by Tropos, a [...]
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DOD Access Points?

By Ken | Published: November 15, 2006
So we are at hacknight messing with some old Arlan 630 900mhz wireless access points we got off ebay. Our goal is to upgrade them to the “bridging” firmware so the devices can talk to each other and not just client cards. On a side note the boxes were bought off ebay. The access points came [...]
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Skill Crane from Shmoocon Lives!

By Ken | Published: November 3, 2006
Last ShmooCon we started the Hacker Arcade. This dude Ethan brought down a skill crane that was hooked up to a pc and available to control over the local wireless network and the Internet. Someone ended up winning most of the skill crane prizes by writting an automated script to hit every spot, it kicked [...]
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SeattleWireless Field Day

By Ken | Published: November 3, 2006
So I am probably the last person to post something about Field Day 2006 but eh, better late then never. The main idea behind field day is to rapidly deploy a wireless network at various points in the city and do so without relying the grid for communication or power. We do it mostly for [...]
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isimoin, easy MoinMoin wiki synchronization

By Ken | Published: November 3, 2006
I have been using Isimoin for a couple of weeks now and am quite happy with it. It does a couple of things: makes it really simple to setup some stand alone MoinMoin instances on your desktop without having to configure a web server allows you create a “slave” copy of wiki you have hosted somewhere else, [...]
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