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SeattleWireless TV: Flickenger, Warcopter, And More
Michael Pierce writes "SeattleWireless TV has done it again! This months SeattleWireless TV show features an Interview with Rob Flickenger the inventor of the pringles cantenna and co-author of Nocat, an open source wireless captive portal.
Then we have a chance to hear from Risto Koiva about his remote controlled helicopter with a 2.4ghz
installed camera and gps unit, learn about the Personal Telco
Project out of Portland, Oregon and finally a product review on the new WatchGuard SoHo 6 wireless
firewall. Download the Mpeg version here or Watch the Windows Media Stream here, or the RealPlayer stream here."
Hope you guys enjoy the show I worked hard on it!
Someone, make a .torrent of that 186 meg .mpeg file. It won't last long!
It seems more like a product advertisement than anything else. May be this is an ad disguised as a story?
An ad for some web show?
On this weeks episode of Will & Grace, hilarity ensues when Will is caught in bed with his gay lover by Grace's visiting uncle! All starting on must see TV!
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
This months SeattleWireless TV show features an Interview with Rob Flickenger the inventor of the pringles cantenna.
So he's the guy to invent the tennis ball like tube for pringles?
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Hmm, nevermind. I was envisioning TV over 802.11b. Seemed cool until I remembered that we already have wireless TV (with antennae)
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I don't see why people don't automatically post a torrent link. Better yet it should be automatic that slash proxy/wrap all links with a torrent file. Neil?
... on the Internet.
... like me ... who don't have TV but sure have bandwidth.
...
Where *are* all the wonderful 'independent' movies and documentaries and such on the Internet these days? Back in the early 90's, we predicted there'd be simply scads of new and entertaining film content available on the 'net for perusal, but it seems like its either 'movieflix' or sites like silversow.com and demandmedia.net, none of which truly satisfies my urge to surf/download and watch good quality film media I got from the Internet.
And no, before you comment, I don't want to know where to go to find pr0n or filez, I want to know where the actual artists and authors and writers who stand to *benefit* from open, broad dissemination of their works are putting it for download by people
SeattleWireless TV goes in the bookmarks. I wish there were tons more interesting sites like this to keep my mpeg-player eye focused on, anyway
; -- the corruption of government starts with its secrets. a truly free people keep no secrets. --
Some Slashdotters are just too damn cynical and conspiracy-minded. I did not think for a second that this was posted just to be an advertisement. It is only an advertisement in as much as it shows how cool the project is. I thought of it like PBS or NPR. More importantly, the post is not about Seattle Wireless TV. It's about what they are reporting. I think the reports are excellent. I learned things I didn't know. (And it was a nice change from reading/scrolling lengthy articles.)
is runnong on one of these wireless links... Bittorrent anywhere???
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To respond to several at once, I'm just picking this one randomly :)
... an ad for what, exactly? What product do you mean?
;))
Re:Is the the slasdot version of text ads?
"It seems more like a product advertisement than anything else. May be this is an ad disguised as a story?"
Err
Seattle Wireless is an amateur group who are putting a lot of their own money and time into creating a complex network in the Seattle / Tacoma area, and (in this case) producing / distributing a show about wireless technologies *because they think they're cool.*
Personal Telco is trying to blanket Portland with free 802.11 access. Sounds like a fun, laudable idea to me.
I posted this because I admire what these groups are doing, and want to see similar things happen around the world. (And they are happening -- BAWAG, consume.net, etc etc.)
(If I could only persuade these groups to contribute a portion of their gigantic profits to slashdot... hmmm, idea quickly retracted as complete nonsense
timothy
jrnl: http://tinyurl.com/c2l8yr / foes: http://tinyurl.com/ckjno5
I want one of these that I can have it fly in front of my car, about a mile ahead, and send video back to me so I can spot the stormtroopers hiding in the median and on the sides of the road. What kind of range does it have? ( and what's the top speed? )
Robert
Lets all post inane comments about the article anyway.
I'll get it started:
I wish I had a Warcopter.
186MB mpeg?? Are you frickin nuts???
I built a cantenna once. It didn't work. Then I got rooted.
SCO sucks.
Slashdotted already!!!
Whine, whine, whine.
But do you have point-to-point TV that requires a line of sight between your house and, say, Queen Anne Hill? Didn't think so!
...but the people distributing e.g. pirated movies are operating under the same constraints, aren't they?
I would imagine that BitTorrent (especially with an autoseeding tracker) would mitigate bandwidth problems for e.g. independent films. Storage isn't that expensive by comparison.
DNA just wants to be free...
*Especially* (but not only) at a time when so many networks are still hobbled, I think it's absolutely brain-dead that anybody would think of having people download VIDEO of information that is almost certainly as well represented in text, and certainly more easily distributable. A product review of a router (or was it a firewall) ? An interview with some hacker ? This is stuff that needs to be in *video* ? If they were highlights from the Superbowl, or clips of Bill Gates getting a pie in the face, fine, but by the content they're choosing to distribute it's pretty clear to me that this group is about as clueless as can be.
True, seems like there would be more stuff out there, but there are some great ones like these to keep your eyes open for.
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Please could someone tell these guys about BitTorrent. Yes it CAN be used legitimately.
UHF? But hey, since it's packet based, you can have an unlimited number (where unlimited is something 5) number of transmitters operating in the same band!
Whoever modded this to -1 Offtopic is a fucking cunt. Did you even read the post?
Honectly that's probably the worst product review I've ever seen. Perhaps there is most footage then from 12:42 to ~13.42? Because I've seen better product info on QVC. Basically they just how great the product is and all you hear about from a security standpoint(These are wireless experts right?) is that it has 128bit WEP, MAC filtering and VPN. They also mention in passing that its cpu is powerful enough for antivirus. Yawn. And this is different from a $60 Dlink WAP how?
So if you haven't watched the review but were planning on it, don't because its a waste of time.
There is way more information on the companies first page for the product.
Sorry to be so negative, but really if your going to bill yourself as an authority on "Community, Corporate, and Home Wireless applications, hardware, security," then leave the fluff PR pieces to the companies marketing divisions.
If you wanna get rich, you know that payback is a bitch
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- There are 10 types of people; those who understand binary, and those who don't.
*BSD is dying. **AA is dying. Slashdot is dying. And it sucks.
...so I can beat the person who came up with the word "cantenna".
Rob will be speaking this November at SCALE 2x in Los Angeles.
Any Watchguard security device I've worked with that is under even moderate load start so lose sessions, drop packets, and reboot. This goes for the SoHo series as well. They don't do much against even the most basic DoS attack. Often I refer to them AS the denial of service, they're that bad.
I have a client using the Vclass series right now, and in high availability the cluster doesn't have more than 24 hours of uptime ever. They push about 2Mbps on average, and these things are supposed to be rated for 100Mbps. Don't get me started on the "features".
Garbage. Would I trust my WiFi with that?
Luck favors the prepared, darling.
I even heard from someone who was there more recently that they've now installed indoor plumbing in most of their larger public buildings. Someday I'll have to hitch up the wagon and go see if indoor is really that much better.
Boy, where are my mod points today...
You're dead on about these damn things not being very tolerant..we've got a couple of them here, and they are easy to use, but just *don't* try to port scan 'em...they'll reboot!
There good for internal firewalls that are protecting "less used" assets, but for an all out firewall for a 100 user network, it's plain suck.
Steven V.
I patented screwing your mom. But it got revoked for "prior art."
The helicopter is awesome but until there is a cheaper way to fly the majority of people will never get a chance to play with this stuff. A kit isnt too bad, you can buy the parts for a decent sized electric model for around $200. Another couple hundred for a motor, servos, and maybe a gyro. But the typical radio is aparently made of gold or something because they cost more than everything else combined.
I was faced with this problem about 2 years ago so for $75 worth of parts and lots of imaginary $ for my time i built my own using two pic16f84's, one of those cheesy rf links you see advertised in the ameature robotics circles, and an analog psx controller. No gps or video link (the rf link was a cheaper on way version) but if i ever get a gas powered model with a longer range i think it would be worth the time.
I bet a lot of people here could do the same and probably much better and for less money. Its actually pretty straight forward to intigrate all the parts and well worth the money.
That's exactly how we're positioning them. We spent probably more than $10,000 on the cluster, and we're now shelling out another $10,000 for some Cisco pixes. It's a sad thing when you have to protect your firewalls... with firewalls...
Luck favors the prepared, darling.
http://www.ubergeek.tv/bt/August2003.mpg.torren
And as always, PLEASE leave your Bittorrent download windows open after you finish, to keep the download alive!
After setting up the bittorrent and downloading the movie myself, it looks as though I have an incomplete movie file and so the Bittorrent link is offline. Unless people write saying they want it, it'll stay down. Slashdot effect should be lessened now anyway!