Monthly Archives: October 2006

Field Day 2006 - Success!

October 30, 2006 – 11:45 am

Saturday’s field day was a success! The alki group got together around 11:30 and quickly had a link to the folks at magnolia.
The primary form of communication between sites was FRS, which was absolutely horrible. Apparently everyone else could here us fine, but we could barely hear anything, and had to constantly ask the [...]

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SeattleWireless Field Day - October 28th, 2006

October 27, 2006 – 12:48 pm

This Saturday (October 28th, 2006), SeattleWireless is holding our
second Field Day.
From the website:
Field day is a free hands-on, all-day exercise for those interested in
learning about wireless networking and community wireless networks.
We will be setting up a mesh network at three parks around Seattle:
Alki, Magnolia and Gasworks; as well as directional wireless links
connecting them all together. [...]

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Adobe Photoshop developer talks about the linux desktop

October 8, 2006 – 6:46 am

A photoshop developer named Chris Cox over at Adobe had this to say (Bugmenot Required) about the linux desktop, in response to a user’s request for a linux port:
Is the time approaching when Linux has standards for fonts, color management, printing, etc.?
What’s all this then?

Fonts: Freetype
Color Manaegment: OpenIcc
Printing: CUPS

Is the time approaching when Linux has [...]

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Day Against DRM 2006 in Seattle

October 7, 2006 – 3:14 am

Tuesday was the official Day Against DRM. I met up with a few people downtown at pike place market and handed out lots of stickers and flyers.

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