Author Archives: Ken

How to give a technical preso…Do as I say, not as I do

Adam mentioned a mailing list discussion we participated in where I spouted off some suggestions for giving presentations. This is has a slight bent to hacker cons. Funny thing is I am sure I am guilty of quite a few things on that list when it comes to presentation throw down. But eh, I still [...]
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Trivia

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Novatel Merlin u730 HSPDA Card in Linux

Decided to try and get a friend’s u730 cellular data card working in Pyramid Linux last night. I thought it would pretty trivial since the card appears to use the same chipset as other EVDO/HSPDA cards already supported in the airprime module. But it turns out the device/vendor id combo is not in airprime. This [...]
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Soekris PXE installs via LiveCD and Pyramid 1.0b4

Just sent this email to the Pyramid Linux mailing list. Make a long story short there is a new image of Pyramid available. As well as a live CD that can PXE bootstrap and install the following Operating Systems on Soekris (and potentially other) hardware: Pyramid Linux M0n0Wall PfSense CuWin AstLinux
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Shmoocon: Tickets now on sale & Shmoocon Labs

Shmoocon tickets have been on sale now for a couple of days and early bird tickets for the first round have sold out! You can still get “Open Reg” and “I love shmoocon” tickets at the registration page. Myself and Cowboym have been organizing the NOC for the past two Shmoocons, this year in addition [...]
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Food Hacking Lab, dyno-mite

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?

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, [...]
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DOD Access Points?

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 [...]
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Skill Crane from Shmoocon Lives!

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

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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