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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. One problem with this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    At least as far as the neighbors are concerned. If this guy moves, or gets hit by a bus or his house burns down, there goes their TVs, phones and internet.

    Sure, bad things can happen to my cable company, but I'll still have my phone service. Someone blows up the phone company, I still can watch TV.

    Something about eggs and baskets...

  2. Re:The conglomorates will put and end to this... by idesofmarch · · Score: 3, Insightful
    "His solution scales until there's an old dipshit on his cul-de-sac waking him up at 3 AM screaming because something went wrong and today's Oprah got cut off."

    I was wondering about the exact same thing! This is all great but is he set up to handle the annoying customer complaints? This is the main thing that would stop me from trying to do it for my neighbors.

  3. Re:He did something stupid by TigerNut · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Most likely, the powers-that-be at his company (of which he probably is one) have the intellectual wherewithal to realize that the more responsibility you give to your employees, the more likely the employees are to reward you in terms of productivity and creativity. Putting up a bunch of "don't do this" roadblocks just stifles motivation.

    At our company probably 1/3 of the staff take their laptops between home and work (and business travel) all the time. I VPN into our system from home on a regular basis, which effectively exposes both work and home to each other. We have only had one bad episode in the last couple of years, which occurred when the MSBlaster worm got in through an infected laptop and nailed everyone that wasn't running Windoze Update. Educating the staff about spyware removal, antivirus software, and making sure everyone keeps their OS up to date, is actually a lot easier and more productive than just saying "not allowed".

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    Less is more.