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Just wanted to also add that the streams with live video and audio mixed by using PiDiP, then encoded into Theora and sent over Icecast2. Totally free software platform for video streaming. Was a bit experimental and still needs work, but nevertheless a great step forward.

More info at http://psand.net/wsf05/

Although I think this is great, the statistics from some servers that I manage and run show different and it depends greatly on the type of site. For example this link to a stats report for a site that was Slashdotted shows Firefox users as 26.8% of visitors and Mozilla 16.7%, a grand total of 43.5% against IE, which got 40.7%. All I can say here is well done Slashdotters for using a decent, and probably the best browser - it's excellent.

Looking at another site, not slashdotted, of general interest for all sorts of users, the stats reveal 9.1% Firefox and 5.4% Mozilla, which comes to 14.5% - a figure very close to that posted in the article. Good.

However, it's very different when moving to a commercial site selling a commerical product. For example, on site reveals just 1.6% Mozilla & Firefox users against 96.6% IE users and another, selling Jazz and Latino records, has 4% Mozilla against 87.9% IE.
I reckon that it depends greatly upon who your audience is as to what statistics you extrapolate.

http://psand.net/itrike/

Strictly speaking a hand-pulled version of this machine is a Rickshaw (or Jinrikisha - Japanese for Man propelled vehicle) and one pulled by a bike - i.e. a trike is a Velotaxi.

For a good idea of the sort of thing we do with this sort of thing, check out http://psand.net/itrike/.

In short two wireless networks are normally adequate, we use other APs in different locations as repeaters etc. Also this is to mount in a flight case or mobile vehicle, not a server room.

What the hell is that clickey link thingey? this is news for nerds, not news for internet bulletinboard script junkies. Learn HTML already. Psand

Sorry, that should of been a Tricycle with wierless internet access. Found the link to this iTrike

Three wheels AND music - still no ice cream though

iTrike

The average slashdotter must be now drooling at the sexy chicks . Whatever keeps women within 10ft and can be built from spare hardware in their parents' basement is OK for the average slashdotter.

The average slashdotter must be now drooling at the sexy chicks . Whatever keeps women within 10ft and can be built from spare hardware in their parents' basement is OK for the average slashdotter.

For those who are too lazy to read the entire article, I'll point you to the good stuff: Wifi Chick, complete with iBook.

Sounds like a cool project, nice one!

Debian's a good bet as it installs with a very small footprint and you can work on a good custom build with just what you want. Once perfected, it's easy to get the packages list file of one machine and install packages on another from it. It's excellent for network installs and security updates, nice and stable, not cutting edge (which is good in this case), albeit a little more tricky to learn - but once you have, it, even dselect, is very easy to maintain.

Working in a community wireless project, I've installed builds of it on old recycled Pentiums on I find that either Blackbox, or even the old FVWM or OpenLook (still very good window managers) are the ones to go for, stay away from KDE and GNOME, they're monstrously big in both disc space and RAM terms.

http://www2.es.psand.net/airport/

I totally agree with you. How on Earth does this deserve an article, let alone being posted on /.? Yes we had the same problem when we ran a solar and peddle powered internet cafe [plug] this summer with the titanium casing, the iBooks were loads less sensitive. But really, the thing comes with a PCMCIA slot, so it's hardly rocket science to go and buy a WiFi card no is it!? I use a slimline Buafflo WaveLAN cards, there are some drivers for it on the net somewhere, try Google, works very well, but don't eject it whilst the interface is being used unless you're in to seeing OS X crash!

Next we'll see articles on how connecting and external DVD-RAM drive via firewire, solves the problem of them not coming with TiBooks!

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