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Wi-Fi Warsailing In The Netherlands
Roland writes "The first war-sailing event ever, AFAIK. A community based WiFi network in Leiden, the Netherlands, WirelessLeiden hold a warsailing event [Dutch links]. The war-sailing event was meant to show that WirelessLeiden is more than just a local city network. On this map you can see that 75% of the route was covered by WirelessLeiden. Vic Hayes, the Father of WiFi, was a keynote speaker during the war-sailing event. He gave a talk about how WiFi was developed. A couple of spin-offs gave presentations, namely AnyWi and KoGeRo. FYI: WirelessLeiden [English Link] has rolled out a free WiFi network covering almost the whole city of Leiden, 100.000 inhabitants, 49 nodes with 30 more to be build this year. This is the NodeMap of WirelessLeiden."
Thats awesome but: "The war-sailing event was meant to show that WirelessLeiden is more than just a local city network." how is it more than just a local city network?
Whoever dies with the most toys wins.
I'm guessing its wardriving but on boats ;-P Wardriving is driving around and looking for hotspots (places you can connect WiFi).
Whoever dies with the most toys wins.
Sailboats can move by river current also. In fact, on rivers, the main way that a sailboat gets power is like a kite- the tension between the wind on the sail and the current on the dropboard. This, given proper angles between the two, can even be used to sail a sailboat UPSTREAM, though you've got to do a lot of tacking to do so.
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
I was always under the impression that war*ing was not about maintaining a link, but about locating hotspots.
Didn't it start with "warchalking" where somone would put a chalk mark on a wall or footpath or something indicating that you could get wireless access from there?
From what I understand, these war driving / flying / sailing events are about producing a map that someone can use later to find the locations.
Advanced users are users too!
Your ADSL provider sucks. My provider not only allows WiFi sharing, but even encourages it.
That is not to say I actually do share my 1.5/384 ADSL connection, but I could if I wanted to. Moreover, speakeasy's ADSL prices are way below T1/T3 (although still above el-cheapo baby bell DSL prices).
A sailboat (barring a motor) can't go straight upwind. A modern racing rig can get within a point or two, but most can't even get near that. Figure on 45 degrees off of the wind as maximum upwind performance. But anything else and she's good. Although it's interesting to notice that a straight downwind is not a sailboat's fastest point of sail.
I'm a sailer, I know about such things.. But you have to tack to get upwind, which is very hard to do in a river (since they are generally too narrow)
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False, although you do have to read deeper than the front page to obtain the true terms and conditions under which sharing is allowed.
The Terms of Service say (and I quote):
In other words, the Terms of Service state that I can share service without subscribing to the program. I have the option of collecting fees and I must give Speakeasy a cut if I do so, but it is not required.
You get to share your Internet connection with neighbors to eventually get your higher prices reduced down to what I'm paying to begin with. I'm sorry pal, but to me, that sucks.
There's a saying that you get what you pay for. Find me another ISP that gives out four static IPs, allows you to run servers in their TOS, never performs port blocking, and allows connection sharing, for less money, and I would seriously consider switching to it, because I'm not at all deeply attached to the price of my current service.
Your complaint seems to be that you can't get the good features along with the cheap price. If the only alternative was a $750/mo T1 line then I could agree, but when it comes down to a simple choice between competing ADSL providers then that's just the free market at work.
Silly continental Europeans who don't know about the outside world.
It's true that in continental Europe, the period is used as a 10^3 separator, and the comma is used as a decimal separator, but this is hardly universal usage, and certainly the opposite is not a provincial Americanism. Using the comma fora 10^3 separator and the period for a decimal separator is in fact standard English usage, and is what is followed in the UK, Australia, Singapore, India, and South Africa, among other countries, in addition to the US.
Hell, even some other languages use it, like Japanese.
I suppose just because you got lucky with the metric system and "football", you assume whenever continental Europe and the US differ, it's continental Europe on the "international" side. =P
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I was born there :P. Somewhat surprised to find a map showing my sleepy homevillage. Anyway, with small boats (16^2 meter sails) you can perfectly well sail there. Larger boats will have to wait for the bridges to open up, so that'd be somewhat awkward sailing, except on the upper bit of the map (called Kaag), which is wide open, and a popular sailing place.
Enjoy.
Leiden is a small (110,000 inhabitants) city in the west of the Netherlands. Its main claim to fame is its university (430 years old now and going strong). We get a lot of american tourists since Leiden was the location where the pilgrim fathers lived before taking ship to what would one day be the USA. Every year I get to disappoint a couple of americans coming over for a visit: only a few remnants of walls remain of that church (and for some reason they are always asking _me_ where it is!?). But do keep coming - there is lots of other stuff to see ;-)
The area to the north of Leiden has a lot of open water (small connected lakes), and makes for excellent sailing. Around the lakes is where we grow all those flower bulbs. For a rural area it has one of the highest population densities in the world, which helps explain the proliferation of wireless access spots I guess.
The office where I work is just about on top of one of the access points: "Rabo" is about 20m away from where I sit. When we tried last year we couldn't pick up any signals, but I'll try again today, see if it actually works now.
The area covered by the entirely wireless network goes far beyond the city limits: from the North Sea beach to approximately 20 miles inland. And including the lake district.