eric’s extremeboredom

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

Today was the first annual Seattle Power Tool Race & Derby. If you weren’t there, you should have been. More photos on flickr.

The latest war to plague the planet appears to be between Israel and Lebanon. The BBC has coverage on their website, including a useful page about who the hezbollah are, but I always try to get more than just the media’s view of what’s going on. There’s also the wikipedia page, but someone has already [...]

From http://freedomhec.pbwiki.com/: Coming to Seattle in May for that other hardware conference? On your way out, stay for the hardware unconference where you’ll learn how easy it is to make your hardware compatible with free, open source operating systems such as Linux, and available to new markets such as servers, next-generation entertainment devices, and more. [...]

Since the weather has been so nice, we met at a park for HackNight. From the park matt blogged all of the details and some photos using free WiFi from a nearby café: Tonight we met on Teletubby Hill at Cal Anderson Park, enjoying the sunshine and ripping through some Axis Digital Media Managers that [...]

Rode the Pogo Linux bus up to Linuxfest Northwest today. It’s nice to see that there are in fact a lot of linux/open-source fans in the area, even though we’re so close to them. I attended the following talks: Linux And Virtualization – Ilya Baimetov Incoming! What’s on the EFF’s radar – Danny O’Brien The [...]

Yesterday I watched a very good presentation about multicast dns service discovery (aka bonjour aka rendezvous aka zeroconf) given by Stuart Cheshire who happens to be the person at apple that created it. One of the things mentioned that I had not previously heard of was the fact that bonjour supports unicast dns service discovery [...]

I came across the Nintendo ON video – a video about an “upcoming” VR product from Nintendo. While the video is (obviously) not from nintendo and was actually created by a student in his spare time, it was extremely well done and very fun to watch. Google Video Link The video also has a very [...]