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  1. free wireless broadband by Yonder+Way · · Score: 1 · on Do We Still Need Telcos (and ISPs)?

    What you're proposing is getting off the ground in the Philadelphia area already (being lead mostly by the Philadelphia Linux Users Group right now), and is already in various stages of deployment in other major cities. I think the first trick is to get free wireless broadband to the last mile, and sort out the wide area connectivity later. Note I'm not implying free Internet here, but rather free high speed services to local or regional content.

  2. Philly picnic by reflexreaction · · Score: 3, Informative · on Slashback: Picnic, Neonapster, Microsoft

    I went to my first Philly LUG yesterday, and look forward to celebrating the 11 anniversary of Linux at a the FDR park in south Philly near the stadium. Check out the PLUG's webpage. For those of you who weren't there. There is also going to be a hardware swap on the Saturday before the picnic. Unupdated information is available here

  3. Alledgely Comcast Also Using Spyware by compumike · · Score: 4, Informative · on Is Comcast Intercepting Packets?

    Take a look at this thread from the Philadelphia Linux User Group. It sounds like the new software update that Comcast has asked its users to install contains spyware and changes internet settings...

    So now they can track you from your own (Windows) machine, and also through their transparent proxy.

  4. What do I do? by ArtEnvironment · · Score: 1 · on Earth Day And Lifecycle Environmental Costs
    What do I do? I (volunteer) work with an Arts & Environmental Nonprofit 501(c)3 organization called CARP, the Creative Artists Resource Project. Our major project is the Please Take M.E. (Materials Exchange) which we run in conjunction with a group called the Philadelphia Dumpster Divers. In the years 1998-2000 we saved approximately 7 tons of unwanted stuff from the waste stream with only a 3000 sq. foot space to run the Materials Exchange. We've been homeless (the organization, not personally) for little over a year and have finally gotten a small building for office space just THIS MONTH so we'll be ramping up activity greatly and supporting efforts both creative and technical in any way we can not to mention distributing information on arts and environmental techniques and ideas as much as we can.

    You can find out more about us at our temporary website, which of course needs some serious updating. There are some good links to some articles, a few of our members sites and a great exhibition we had at the local EPA office.

    If you want to know more feel free to email me and ask away! I'm also interested in all sorts of technology and communication issues that I feel suitably fit our purpose also (you can read a posting I just made today to our local LUG mailing list about some of this stuff.)

    [Plea to the Slashdot crowd: we are in need of just one or two decent computers or parts and peripherals & office equipment which will seriously help us to ramp up activity and gain productivity again. If you have anything which you might like to donate please drop me an email -- remember we're a non-profit so it's tax deductable too! 8)]

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  5. Re:What does ELF stand for? by cyberdonny · · Score: 2 · on Ethernet Sets To Bridge The Last Mile

    Nope. According to this page, it was the name of the first rock group that Ronnie James Dio performed with back in the early 1970's.