Category Archives: /dev/random

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

By Ken | Published: July 31, 2007
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

By Ken | Published: May 2, 2007
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Novatel Merlin u730 HSPDA Card in Linux

By Ken | Published: January 21, 2007
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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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 came [...]
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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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When google tells you your spelling sucks

By Ken | Published: April 11, 2006
So I did a google search “Net Nuetraility” looking for some specific papers on “Net Neutrality”.  Of course I spelled it wrong. According to google I am one of  the very few people on the web who spelled it this way, you can imagine my initial confusion when my blog came up first on the results page, woops. Its not so much [...]
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Ecto Borkage

By Ken | Published: April 6, 2006
I have been evaluating Ecto for the past two days as my main interface to updating this site. I find it much easier to use than the standard wordpress web gui, and its good for working offline as well. So this morning I spent a decent chunk of time on a post and went back [...]
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More on the twister

By Ken | Published: April 2, 2006
So it looks like the storm we experienced left some serious devastation in its wake.
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Beware the green clouds

By Ken | Published: April 2, 2006
So a few moments ago the Community Wireless Summit was wrapping up and a bunch of us were hanging out saying our goodbyes. In the course of 5 minutes a beatiful sunny day with people going shirtless turned into a complete grey sky with large green clouds rolling through fast enough to make everyone turn around and [...]
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I hope that someone gets my SOS

By Ken | Published: February 28, 2006
Ah… I love dealing with customer support. I am trying to get an issue resolved with a product I use at work. After doing the polite thing and sending an email, I get a response a few hours later saying that due to the nature of the request I need to talk to someone else. [...]
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