So thanks to some really generous board members and a heroic last minute drive by the infamous Jeff I now have all of the pieces I need to build the physical infrastructure for my VSAT centric wireless mesh network. My hardware consists of:
3 WRT5G boxes
1 Direcway6000 VSAT modem
1 Transceiver arm (sends and receives signals)
1 old [...]
America is simultaneously the most professedly Christian of the developed nations and the least Christian in its behavior.
This article really summed up a lot of my feelings about what is wrong with that vast majority of Americans that call themselves Christians. I wish I had Harper’s to read it in its entirety, but instead I [...]
A couple of weeks ago Claudia and I were at Luwawa Forest Lodge - which
is a marvelous retreat just a few hours from Lilongwe. They have great
mountain biking, canoing, sailing, and gorgeous scenery all around. We
camped along with a bunch of friends from Lilongwe and had a great time.
On the second day we went on [...]
Take a bunch of Freifunked WRT54Gs and disperse them around the neighborhood, preferable on rooftops with antennas. Some of these would be connected to VSAT systems and therefore provide a route to the web. Then whoever wants to jump on the mesh, just turns on their machine and connects with normal DHCP to the ad-hoc network supplied by the mesh.
In a sentence - one VSAT connection shared via a mesh network of 3 WRT54Gs
Your 2nd cousin told you can download NASCAR races, get fishin’ reports, and find nekkid pictures of his wife on the internets - but that old AOL dialup nonsense just won’t cut it for serious internets trolling. So you had your old lady scour the garage sales and she found a linksys WRT54G wireless access [...]
On Saturday night we were invited to a party at Temwa’s house, who is one of Claudia’s colleagues. Besides working very hard at OIBM, Temwa has been spending all of her evenings and weekends studying, and last week was finals week. So to celebrate being finished she threw a big party. It was my first [...]
So about a month ago we decided that we should build a hot tub. It
happened at about the same time that I realized that I had been talking
a lot about what I should build (solar cell factory, Malawi Linux User
Group, ISP in a blimp, etc etc) and how little of it I had actually
done. So [...]
