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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!
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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... 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.)
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
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.
What, so you can drive off the road because you're watching the monitor instead of out the windshield? And we thought cell phones were bad.
...phil
"For a list of the ways which technology has failed to improve our quality of life, press 3."
Thats a good point.
Maybe people just dont want to watch amateur home movies.
Unless they're porn.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
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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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
Rob will be speaking this November at SCALE 2x in Los Angeles.
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.