Category Archives: /freenetworks

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 [...]
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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 [...]
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SeattleWireless Hacknight Details 02-26-2006

By Ken | Published: February 22, 2006
The usual suspects met up at Redline for Hacknight. Alright, well not all of them.Usually Matt or Rob blog the hacknight details. Rob is in Italy at ICTP eating cake and drinking much espresso I am sure. Matt is busy hacking parenthood. As I mentioned in a previous post we installed the asterisk server. I [...]
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SeattleWireless Asterisk Server

By Ken | Published: February 22, 2006
This past weekend Casey and I installed an Asterisk server at Seattle Community Colo Project. The intention is to have this be the backend for voice and text messaging on Seattlewireless. Casey is working on a dial plan to provide free outbound calling to toll free numbers, and potentially some outbound calling to regular pstn [...]
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LayerOne 2006

By Ken | Published: February 17, 2006
I will be presenting at LayerOne in Pasadena in a little under two months. The talk will be focused on SeattleWireless and what its been up to lately.
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I went to San Francisco and all I got was the anti-sco T-shirt, not really…

By Ken | Published: June 28, 2004
Updated to fix broken link to Geocoder.us So I am in the passenger seat of our rental car as we (Rob, Matt, Myself) pull out of San Rafael and head back to the highway for our 12 hour drive back to Seattle. So what did I do on my four day trip? I determined that [...]
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2004 Freenetworks Summit

By Ken | Published: June 19, 2004
So this weekend I am in San Francisco at the 2004 Freenetworks Summit. The event is a gathering of Freenetworkers/Community Wireless Groups from various places. The groups represented at the Summit are: Seattlewireless.net BAWUG Bay Area Wireless Users Group Third Break Santa Cruz, CA Nocat Sebastopol,CA PersonalTelco Portland, OR SFlan San Francisco Consume LondonWe are [...]
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