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Wireless Neighborhood Networks in Canada

Posted by michael on from the his-schwartz-is-bigger-than-yours dept.

Anonymous the younger writes "Cringely once again has another column, this time with a company in Canada that does neato stuff with Open Source."

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  1. India has Wireless Neighbourhoods too ... by Gopal.V · · Score: 4, Informative

    India has a prototype wireless phone system in the Kuppam Wireless Telephone System... I don't know if it's open source or not ... (from what I see, politics drives towards expensive solutions). Has all the stuff WiFi for 3.2 lakh people, VoIP phones , the works ... from HP

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  2. Cringley article mirror at Mirrordot.org by UnderScan · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/2f31d8cc49919cc72 84b7d708fe73c52/index.html

    From http://www.mirrordot.org/about/
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  3. Re:Lazy Leeching Neighbors by Mordaximus · · Score: 4, Informative

    Perhaps if the neighbors were up to the challenge (and didn't cancel their cable) they could even grab episodes of their favorite shows to share.

    No they couldn't. What Andrew does is legal, because he buys the channels from The National Programming Service just like a cable provider would. If his neighbours recorded off of consumer sources and shared it, there would be legal problems.

  4. Re:Please. by danknight · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yeah, Id be interested to know how many TeraBytes is server has :) I have just under 1/2 TByte raid and already just about filled it with movies and tv and I'm only talking about 15 Movies and a few hundred tv shows

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  5. Minor Issue by Mortanius · · Score: 4, Informative

    No one can watch every episode of the original Star Trek series in the order in which they were broadcast in one weekend, it's a temporal impossibility. Even if you say each episode was only 40 minutes long, 80 episodes @ 40 minutes each is 3,200 minutes, compared to 2,880 minutes in two days. (Although I'll shoot myself in the foot and say that if you consider the weekend to start at 5pm on Friday, that adds another 420 minutes, giving you time enough to watch all the episodes with 100 minutes for bathroom breaks and such. But still. :-P)

    Also, anyone else notice that IE has trouble selecting text on that page? It always selects, for me, everything from the top of the page down to where the cursor is. Annoying. (And yes, Firefox does just fine. Unfortunately I have to use IE at work.)