Monthly Archives: August 2006

Why support free networking?

The goal of the SeattleWireless project is to create a community owned and maintained wireless network around the city. The network is being built using standard protocols and open-source mesh routing software, making it easy for anybody to participate using inexpensive off-the-shelf hardware. SeattleWireless is completely free to use, and does not rely on the [...]

Easy serial communication on osx and linux

Most people don’t think OSX comes with a program to interact with serial devices, but they’re wrong! Someone showed me this brilliant tip a few days ago:
screen /dev/tty.usbserial 9600
It’s useful on Linux too, since minicom can be quite a pain to set up. And by the way, this cheap AirLink101 AC-USBS Serial Adapter from Fry’s [...]