Category Archives: /seattlewireless

Nocat Auth is dead, long live WifiDog

By Ken | Published: April 2, 2006
Nocat Auth was the first and for a while the only open source captive portal, written specifically to address needs in community wireless networks. WifiDog is a open source captive portal project written by some folks from the Ile Sans Fil community wireless networking project. WifiDog really shines in aggreating content and making it available [...]
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Network Neutraility

By Ken | Published: April 2, 2006
Network Neutrality I have been long wanting to get more involved with Network Neutraility discussion, so this weekend at the Community Wireless Summit I went to a great panel discussion with: Ben Scott Victor Pickard Harold Feld Mark Cooper In short network nuetraility basically entails keeping packets under common carriage. Network providers should not be [...]
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Community Wireless Summit 2006 – Soundbites

By Ken | Published: April 1, 2006
So I have heard some funny and interesting sound bites in various prensentations and Q and A, I will try and keep updating this over the weekend. “Infinite Scalability, Totally Secure” - Jeffery King, Northrup Grumman IT, in reference to the Tropos based municipal wireless network being built out in Corpus Christi “Infinite Scalability, Total [...]
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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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SeattleWireless Node Raising

By | Published: November 28, 2005
SeattleWireless has been graciously granted access to one of the highest radio towers in Seattle. This is a great step for the project and will facilitate connecting many other nodes to each other advancing the idea of an open city wide wireless network. In order to make this happen $2500 needs to be raised to [...]
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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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