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  1. Linspot? by nandhp · · Score: 1 · on Wireless Hotspot Creation?

    Linspot was featured on slashdot. It does more or less what you want. It only runs on Mac OS X, but they are Beta-testing a Linux version.

  2. Re:Actually it's being developped! by phearlez · · Score: 1 · on Hacking the Linksys WRT54G
    I went and looked at http://www.linspot.com/faq.html and didn't make it past the first section:

    1.1 CAN ONE LINSPOT SERVE MULTIPLE WIRELESS ROUTERS?

    Hard to respect a FAQ that shouts at me.

  3. Actually it's being developped! by internet-redstar · · Score: 5, Interesting · on Hacking the Linksys WRT54G
    LinSpot for WRT54G will be launched soon.

    This means a WISP in a box for everyone - and LinSpot handles the roaming between all linspots and fills your PayPal account while you sleep (and while others roam).

    I guess it will take the LinSpot crew a couple of weeks to iron the bugs out and release this for your enjoyement.

  4. Pulverinnovations sells this already - without WEP by internet-redstar · · Score: 0, Redundant · on WiFi Phone Announced
    Am currently using the WiSipPhone from PulverInnovations.

    They don't do WEP or WPA encryption, and you have to wait about 6 weeks before you get your order, but it works nicely, also behind firewalls... Probably WEP is not such a idea good for latency as well...

    WiFi surely is interesting :) But I guess I'm biased.

  5. Re:Where's the code? by grocer · · Score: 1 · on Sell Your Wireless Bandwidth

    The FAQ at Linspot suggests more than simply packaging or including OSS (as Apple and Microsoft do):

    With it, we want to honour the OpenSource projects who are at the basis of LinSpot: the Apache Web Server, the ISC DHCP server, the ISC BIND Nameserver, the SQUID Web Proxy Cache and lots of other things created by motivated programmers across the globe.

    Either this guy needs a better Dutch/French/Standard German-English Dictionary *OR* all the code is hacked together and intergrated into the billing/gateway software...I highly doubt a download will yield anything other than a binary for Linspot.

  6. Where's the code? by grocer · · Score: 1 · on Sell Your Wireless Bandwidth

    Okay, someone needs to point out to Jasper (I couldn't find a reasonable contact, so I'm guessing investment@linspot.com will know what to with it...) that it's "free" as in speech, not as in beer...the whole point of the Open Source movement is to let the code be availible for evaluation and use. The GPL is copy left and this seems to be lost in the amueterish hyperbole of what could be a legitimate business model if 1) it didn't restrict the end user setting their own pricing and 2) didn't infringe / defame / violate the GPL and OSS movement.

    Other problems: No contact information, not a real company yet (to be incorporated in Belgium)

  7. Advertisements by lukej · · Score: 1 · on Sell Your Wireless Bandwidth

    Not sure I'll be putting Jasper's eye catching adverts around my neighborhood just yet.... :)

  8. Advertisements by lukej · · Score: 1 · on Sell Your Wireless Bandwidth

    Not sure I'll be putting Jasper's eye catching adverts around my neighborhood just yet.... :)

  9. Good choise Bruce by internet-redstar · · Score: 1 · on UserLinux May Go Without KDE
    Maybe my responce is a bit late for the slashdot reading people to notice, but I write it for you Bruce.

    Gnome is a good choice when you have to choose only one.
    KDE is with qt an interesting option when you want to create a simply ported multiplatform application with GUI. But if you look at the currently available important (from target population market share point) applications...
    You have to conclude that at this present moment most important Windows applications ARE NOT developed with qt and if they want to port to Linux, they have to choose a new GUI toolkit for their new 'Linux porting department' anyway.
    They have to choose for an entirely new GUI toolkit anyway!
    Would they choose for a crammy, not as widely used qt-toolkit with some commercial ties (to trolltech in one way or another - at least that's the perception). Or should they choose for an entirely free based, completely new GUI toolkit and different looking from Windows where they wanted to move from away?

    The answer is clear. And more importantly the result: all the new 'important' applications are written in GTK and not in QT. The KDE people have written perfectly good QT equivalents. Congratulations. But if you have to choose only one...

    It's only the GUI toolkit, not more...

    It's more efficient to target your programming differences into other fields! If you look at it from an efficienty point of view!
    So, ideally: the qt-designers should move forward to integrate the gtk toolkit into their own. Integration should be the ultimate proof that the OpenSource model works into a level which matches beyond the absurdity level of corporate software development.

    Probably I'm dreaming. And probably I used too much drugs...

    But what would happen if the KDE-core developer mailinglist and the core GLib mailinglist would suddenly merge into a new LinLib mailinglist....

    But I'm probably dreaming out loud...

    I would in any case send them a bottle of champaign to celebrate the move!

    By Jasper Nuyens.
    Founder Life - the linux company
    Former GM Europe Linux Services VA Linux Inc.
    CEO LinuxBe
    CEO LinSpot