Author Archives: Ken

Climbing in Nepal

By Ken | Published: December 10, 2008
A friend of mine is climbing some previously unclimbed peaks in Nepal. He has a blog describing their adventure, but the sickest part IMO is this video.
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“Do what you love”

By Ken | Published: December 8, 2008
*note: the shortcut to the end of this post is to read the essay “How to do what you love” by Paul Graham. Well almost a year to the date since my last post. I figure I should probably get at least one post on the record for 2008 and if I stay motivated maybe [...]
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CUWiN Homer Mesh Project

By Ken | Published: December 13, 2007
The CUWiN folks spent some time recently adding new equipment to the Homer mesh network. My company Metrix has provided them with all the gear for this project to provide the Village of Homer with a low cost tubes.
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Shmoocon Labs 2008

By Ken | Published: December 13, 2007
Recently I have been getting all the stuff for Shmoocon Labs off the ground. In case you don’t know Shmoocon Labs is an event held one day prior to Shmoocon. The basic idea is as follows. Get 30 or so geeks, a handful of vendors with cool gear and spend a day hammering out the [...]
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EaKiu: Eye Candy for the Wi-Spy

By Ken | Published: August 7, 2007
While at WWDC John and Daniel turned me on to EaKiu. Its a cool piece of software for the Wi-Spy 2.4Ghz USB Spectrum Analyzer. It touts some pretty cool 3D graphs. Unfortunately its OS X only. For Windows you can use manufacturer provided software, and for Linux you can use Dragorn’s software. Which both sport [...]
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Wifi in the wall: Karo WEJ-11G

By Ken | Published: August 3, 2007
At work we just carrying this cool new device, an access point that fits in a wall box. Looks like it would be great for outfitting apartment buildings and/or condos with wifi coverage. It supports all the usual AP/Bridging/WDS, POE, SSL web management etc… Even supports remote syslog and SNMP.
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Learn something new every day

By Ken | Published: August 1, 2007
Usually in a bash script when I want to parse a file line by line I do something like this: exec < foo.txt while read LINE; do SOMEVAR=$SOMEVAR,$LINE done This evening I was writing a bash wrapper for debootstrap to automate the building of chroot environments and for some reason I chose to stray away [...]
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Updated Pyramid LiveCD Installer

By Ken | Published: August 1, 2007
I mentioned in this email a little while back that I released a new Pyramid LiveCD Installer with the 1.0b5 version of Pyarmid. This CD provides a simple method for boot strapping a Soekris net45XX/net48XX single board computer. Some models accept normal compact flash cards for the operating system media in which case you could [...]
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Fire @ the Kincora…err Manray

By Ken | Published: July 31, 2007
  After hacking on a Koolu today at the office I noticed the smell of something burning. Concerned we had shorted some hardware we frantically sniffed around the office looking for fire. Turns out the back of the building that is home to Kincora and Manray was on fire.
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New Digs

By Ken | Published: July 31, 2007
Alot of things have happened in 2007 with my company. We completely revamped our online store to start of the year, we have added a ton of new products and we moved in to a new address located on pine in Capitol Hill. June 16th marked an entire year since I left my full time [...]
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