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Get Your 802.11 Media Fix From SeattleWireless TV

Posted by timothy on from the what-about-divx;) dept.

Michael Pierce writes "SeattleWireless TV brings you the latest information on Community, Corporate, and Home Wireless applications, hardware, security, and innovators in the field. July 2003 Show Summary: On this month's show, Peter and Michael report on the wireless project called 'SnowNet,' a project where Casey Halverson plans to use mountain tops to connect communities via a 802.11b backbone. We then check out the first link connected to SnowNet. TacomaNode,' located in Tacoma, Wa. It will connect to Seattle via a wireless backbone through SnowNet. Scott Kennedy, the owner of the Drinkmore Café, tells us why he has decided to provide free WiFi to his customers while other places charge. And finally we had a chance to try out a new Linux embedded product called the Prismiq MediaPlayer. Using this device, you no longer have to watch your media files on your small computer monitor. Using a wireless card, it can hook up to your network anywhere! You can view by choosing your player: Windows MediaPlayer or RealPlayer. If for some reason they don't stream there are some download links on the site. Also, if the stream links get messed up for any reason they are on the site, too." SnowNet is too cool to ignore.

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  1. I'll get modded down offtopic for saying this... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...even though I'm completely ontopic, but doesn't this article seem like an advert? One thing that makes me suspicious is their informing us that we can view using just Windows Media Player or RealPlayer. Considering the core audience of Slashdot, I'd say this seems pretty suspicious. It doesn't even give any real information about the linked to text.

  2. What the hell is this article about? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Its like 5 articles crammed into one. Or should I say 5 advertisements? Does anyone not living in Seattle give a shit about yet-another-free-wifi setup? Puh-lease, my niggaz!

  3. Heh! by James+A.+A.+Joyce · · Score: -1, Troll
    The PRISMIQ Media Player is "a new Linux embedded product", and yet it says this on the information page it says:


    "MediaManager Windows-compliant software, which runs on the networked PC to detect suitable PC and Internet files anywhere on the home network..."


    Isn't it a bit insecure for it to scan the entire hard disk drive of an old Windows machine for media files? How secure is the communication if one decides to use it in its wireless incarnation? Though this product certainly sounds great, the practicality of it for users of alternative operating systems and its security sounds doubtful, especially given the dearth of information on the company website.
    --

    Bash script for FP whores

  4. Re:YOU GET A -1 TROLL FOR USING ASP ON SLASHDOT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Thats visual basic, dumbass. What would be the point of running that script on a server?

    Who is the asshat now?

  5. sweet zombie jesus by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    you guys are fags!

  6. Re:YOU GET A -1 TROLL FOR USING ASP ON SLASHDOT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    nigger

  7. Not descriptive enough by helix400 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Hmm...the slashdot news story wasn't long enough. I mean, only *one* really really long paragraph? I mean, it only takes up 3/4 of the screen.

    What is this world coming to...

  8. MODS looking for BALL sucking BLOWJOBS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You know, the mods here play favorites with story submissions AND mod points. I guess to get god mod points around here you have to SUCK A MEAN COCK, toss some salad. I sware the mods must be BONE DRY from all the SUCKING going on. I mean, I'll bet after a day of modding, you could not get a TEASPOON of cum out of these guys SMALL cocks. Of course they require that you SWALLOW their jizz and smack your lips after. And don't forget to suck every little drop off of their tiny mod BALLS. I'd say HAIRY balls, but we all know the mods don't have a lot of pubes down there...

  9. MODs have TINY TESTICLES by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You know, the mods here play favorites with story submissions AND mod points. I guess to get god mod points around here you have to SUCK A MEAN COCK, toss some salad. I sware the mods must be BONE DRY from all the SUCKING going on. I mean, I'll bet after a day of modding, you could not get a TEASPOON of cum out of these guys SMALL cocks. Of course they require that you SWALLOW their jizz and smack your lips after. And don't forget to suck every little drop off of their tiny mod BALLS. I'd say HAIRY balls, but we all know the mods don't have a lot of pubes down there... Most MODS have ass rashes from too much scratching and picking, and in fact they are know to pick the corn out of their TURDS and, shall we say, "recycle" it. I know of one MOD who regularly has SEX with his dog - I mean sister. He says "Hey, a tight PUSSY is a tight PUSSY!" So true for a MOD, as most of them are undergoing SEXCHANGE operations as we speak. I guess I just find it a bit NASTY that MODS are so willing to let their LITTLE BROTHERS suck their TINY COCKS. Just a bit SICK if you ask me.