Category Archives: /geek

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 [...]
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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 [...]
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DrmFree.org

By Ken | Published: October 3, 2006
Today is “Day Against DRM” , and in celebration I project that I have been helping bootstrap went live today, DrmFree.org. DrmFree.org is a federated search engine that can help you find music to purchase or download for free that does not use DRM. The basic principle is simple, if consumers are educated and shown [...]
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Linux Tablet: P1510D

By Ken | Published: September 27, 2006
Back in January I bought a Fujitsu P1510D sub-notebook tablet PC. I had been using a powerbook at a previous job and had become quite fond of OS X, however when I decided to buy a laptop on my own dime, I really lusted for something extremely small and something not apple. A long time [...]
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Toorcon Workshop

By Ken | Published: September 14, 2006
Myself and Matt will be doing a workshop at Toorcon 8. It will be a one day workshop covering the basics of boot strapping an embedded wireless device ( Soekris based ) and setting up a wireless mesh using OLSR. Participants in the class get an embedded wireless device from my company Metrix that they [...]
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MadwifiNG at Hacknight

By Ken | Published: August 23, 2006
So tonight at hacknight we are sitting at Cal Anderson park, I was able to fire up a Metrix box running Pyramid Linux with a lithium ion laptop battery to act as a repeater from the local cafe. The cool part is that we are using a single radio which is simultaneously a STA (client) [...]
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Freenetworks.org move

By Ken | Published: August 15, 2006
The server hosting freenetworks.org moved last week. Those of you on the unwired and nycwireless mailing lists may have noticed some glitches, however they should all be resolved. My ex-employer who graciously hosted the box for over six years has dismantled their rack at Internap. Luckily I was able to move into the Seattle Community [...]
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Metrix.net

By Ken | Published: August 15, 2006
So a while back I took over part ownership of a company. As of June 16th I left my full time Security Engineer to become part engineer, part sales person, part support person and part bean counter.  Running your own business is something I would suggest everyone do at least once, even if its in [...]
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