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FreeNetworks Conference in Las Vegas
belial writes "The FreeNetworks Conference is in less than a month (June 6-8). If you want to find out what's happening in the Community Wireless Network world, this is the place to be. Keynotes include Tim O'Reilly, Cory Doctorow from BoingBoing, and a whole gaggle of wireless geeks from the FreeNetworks community. Find out about the latest happenings from BAWUG, Consume, NoCat, NYCWireless,SeattleWireless, WirelessLeiden, and more!"
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I'd like to go, but $250 is a bit steep for unemployed wireless geeks used to leeching bandwidth for free.
Hooray for free (as in beer) wireless!
8-12 Servings
Pie crust, recipe follows
Meatballs, recipe follows
Tortellini, recipe follows
Ragu bolognesi, recipe follows
Brown chicken stock, recipe follows
3 eggs
Besciamela, recipe follows
1 cup grated Parmigiano-Reggiano
Egg wash (1 egg whipped with 2 tablespoons milk)
To assemble the Pasticcio: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Roll out the dough to 2 (14-inch) ovals, and each 1/8-inch thick. Wrap in plastic and reserve both crusts in the refrigerator.
Bring the chicken stock to a rapid boil. Cook all of the tortellini in the stock for about 4 to 5 minutes, or until the pasta is al dente. Drain the tortellini and gently toss with the Ragu Bolognesi, just to coat. Add 3 whole eggs to the tortellini mixture to bind. Carefully incorporate the eggs so as not to damage the integrity of the tortellini. Reserve this mixture for the assembly.
Working in layers, place 1 of the crusts in the bottom of a 2 1/2-quart, oval casserole dish. Allow the edge of the crust to drape over the sides of the dish. Place 1/2 of the meatballs on the bottom of the casserole dish. Spoon1/2 of the tortellini mixture on top of the meatballs. Drizzle 1 cup of the besciamela sauce on top of the pasta. Next, sprinkle 1/2 of the cheese on top. Pour the rest of the tortellini mixture into the casserole dish. Place the rest of the meatballs on top of the pasta. Drizzle the remaining besciamela on top of the meatballs. Sprinkle the remaining Parmigiano on the top.
Top the casserole with the second pie crust. Crimp the top and bottom piecrust edges together. Create a vent on the top layer of crust with a sharp knife. Brush the top of the pasticcio with an egg wash made from one beaten egg and 1 teaspoon of milk.
Bake in the oven for 1 hour and 20 minutes, or until the crust is a deep golden brown.
Let rest 15 minutes before serving.
Pie crust:
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
10 ounces (2 1/2 sticks) very cold unsalted butter and cut into small pieces
6 to 9 tablespoons ice water
2 lemons, zest finely grated
For Pie Crust: In a large bowl combine the flour, lemon zest and butter with a pastry blender, your finger, or in a food processor until it resembles a coarse meal. Add enough water so that the dough just comes together, divide the dough into 2 equal pieces and wrap each piece in plastic. Allow to rest in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
Meatballs:
3 cups day-old bread cut into 1-inch cubes
3/4 pound ground pork
1/4 pound ground beef
3 eggs, beaten
3 cloves garlic, minced
3/4 cup grated Parmigiano-Reggiano
1 bunch Italian parsley, finely chopped to yield 1/4 cup
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
For Meatballs: In a shallow bowl, soak the bread cubes in enough water to cover. Remove the bread cubes and squeeze by hand to remove excess moisture.
In a large bowl, combine the bread, pork, beef, eggs, garlic, Parmigiano, parsley, salt, and pepper and mix by hand to incorporate bread into meat. With wet hands, form the mixture into 25 to 28 meatballs, each about golf ball size.
In a large, heavy-bottomed skillet, heat the oil until almost smoking. Add the meatballs. Working in batches if necessary to avoid overcrowding the pan, and cook until deep golden brown on all sides, about 10 minutes. Drain on paper towels to remove excess oil. Reserve browned meatballs for assembly.
Tortellini:
Filling:
2 tablespoons butter
1 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
4 ounces ground turkey
4 ounces ground veal
4 ounces ground pork shoulder
4 ounces prosciutto, finely diced
4 ounces mortadella, finely diced
1 egg, beaten
1 cups Parmigiano-Reggiano, grated
1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
Pasta:
3 1/2 to 4 cups flour
4 eggs
1/2 teaspoon extra-virgin olive oil
Filling: In a Dutch oven or heavy-bottomed, large saucepan, heat the butter and oil until it foams and subsides. Add the turkey, veal and pork shoulder and cook over
this could turn out to be quite a cool conference....I'm planning on attending..there is a few problems with wi-fi right now that need to be addressed....such as the lack of security....I have driven thru downtown boston with a laptop and a wi-fi card....and roamed thru about 30 networks, getting on all of them...and succsfully emailing the sysadmins from them too.
There are certian issues, such as security, transmitability and frequency collisions wich need to be addressed, Supposivly the conference plans on addressing these....I'm curious to see what they have.
"Hey, why are all the speakers on stage kicking those puppies? Since when is Osama Bin Laden a FreeNetworks guest speaker?!? Look! Steve Ballmer is rushing the stage! He's clotheslined everyone and he's saved the puppies! I guess the smart thing to do is stick with Microsoft-approved networks. For the sake of all of those puppies."
Where the hell is everybody getting this "free beer"?!!
I'm sure he has something insightful to say, being a writer of third rate "free as in gonorreah" fiction.
Imagine paying 250 bucks to listen to some pinhead with absolutely no expertise in the subject yammer on at the podium?
That goes for O'Reilly too.
I see "FreeNetworks" costs $250 to attend. I wonder if that comes with a free slot pull to allow you to try and win some of it back.
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;) and then provide a free wireless network for several city blocks. Build it similar to the interop demo network that vendors threw together - and let people see how products are going to work in a dense city with lots of signal obstructions...
but considering that its about free networks and such - why vegas. I mean I just got back from interop and the whole conference thing is vegas is nothing about FREE. in fact nothing about vegas has any remote association with free.
I would prefer that a conference like this happen in SF or some such more technically dense place - maybe moscone....
I would love to go - but cant afford the price of now astronomical vegas plane fair (200 bux from bay area) and all associated costs.
The other thing about vegas is that its a city designed on a wide scale - with monolithic structures generally spaced very far apart.
Pick a more verticle venue - like SF (no bias here
I mean I am really into wireless but I swear - the people involved at the core of the movement have zero vision.
Let get someone whos really wanting to promote wireless and get out there and build something real-world. not just some lame ass wireless PDA support in a conference center.
the conference is in vegas...That'll make the bill just a little bit more than 250
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How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life
One of the issues not often discussed by the cheerleaders for community wireless networks is how to make them viable. I founded the first wireless community network, in 1994, and we're still going strong; however, our policies are very different than that of the Johnny-come-latelies. In particular, we require accountability (to avoid drive-by spamming, which could in turn cause our upstream link to be cut off) and have dues (bandwidth and equipment are not free, and we want to be a going concern). We're thus a "cheapnet," not a "freenet." But our model works, and the members appreciate the fact that we'll be there tomorrow. I don't get the sense, from the Web site, that many of the people who are doing these projects are thinking about many of the issues we've faced....
That's my free internet you're shutting down.
I hope you die.