Seattle Wireless TV Releases June 2004 Show

drewzhrodague writes "Seattle Wireless TV just released their June 2004 Show, containing a segment by (me) Drew from WiFiMaps, called 'Booze and Wi-Fi,' which is an interview with Doug Luce from Telarama (the world's third ISP). Doug talks about their successful ultra-low-cost hotspot setup, and shows us how they are being deployed. Also, Jason Levitt of Less Networks presents 'How Less Networks and Austin City Wireless Project beat T-Mobile,' a presentation on why every day should be a free Wi-Fi day, how a $100 press release with a good message is worth more than a million-dollar ad campaign, and about their AP/captive-portal setup. Check it out for Realplayer, Windows Media, or MPEG torrent."

Comments

editing?

[drivers]

I was just watching the video which includes someone giving a powerpoint-esqe presentation. Right now they are trying to figure out why the remote control doesn't advance the slide. How about some video editing? I don't really need to relive the entire experience.

Re:Have the site work ...

[rasz]

torrent works fine, but OMFG a 900MB file !! Thats going to fill up my monthly quota :/ (lame 5gb for a 10$ a month).
And now i read they didnt edited the video, just great. I'm a little pissed. I want to see it, but i definitelly dont want to see someone figuring out the remote for a 200mb of the movie :(.

16 hours do download, I just love those 128kBit DLS lines :P.

T-Moble?

[JessLeah]

...What the heck is T-Moble? ;) Could you mean T-Mobile?

Doug Luce is a good guy

[Anonymous Coward]

before u all go ape shit questioning Doug Luce and Telerama being third....

Telerama has been around since way back... probably at the point where most of you still were living at home and getting allowance and using your parents computer.

If Telerama wasn't third they were damn close.

Prior to the Telerama ISP, Doug ran some pretty nifty home brewed multi-line chat system that was used a lot by the locals here in Pittsburgh.

Over the years Doug has taken his geekiness and crafted both a sustainable business and tried his hand at supporting all sorts of cool things like this. He's a real genuine guy and not some office suit bore.

Even his employees are a different kind of folk. Liberal open minded and unix focused.

-p

Re:Doug Luce is a good guy

[drewzhrodague]

So, I guess I could have posted that they were the third "public" ISP, since universities mostly made up the Internet at the time.

Universities are not really Internet Service Providers, they're Universities. Companies like Telerama were into providing Internet, as opposed to creating the Internet.

Re:Experimenter's relay board

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm not going to download that boring 900 meg sucker, but describe what you're talking about and I can come up with a workable design. If they're rebooting computers by dialing or networking to another computer, then no sweat. Simple app (I've written one, many others exist) to control the pins on the parallel port, and basically a few optoisolators and either relays to cut and restore power to devices without reset buttons, or a transistor to the reset pins on a computer. Suppose you could even have the control computer (wouldn't need to be a real fast one) periodically test each device over the network and reboot it if it didn't respond. A couple of shell scripts and some cron jobs is all it takes.

I met with the FBI again last week.

[drewzhrodague]

I met with the FBI again last week, and that was one of their concerns -- "bad guys", as they call 'em, can hop onto wireless networks rather anonymously, and perform computer crimes. It's hard to track them down, unlike a those using a wired connection. Phishing, spamming, warez, the whole lot.

However, what they're seeing is NOT a flood of computer crimes using wireless technologies. Couple isolated incidents here and there, but mostly from people who don't think first (and get caught).

So, while the security issues are definately a concern, it doesn't seem to be any additional concern, especially for the FBI. Check out the ncfta for more information.