adhoc's blog

Here is an intereting blog post on long distance optical links.

Its been some time since I last tried to use Jabber, but I have just upgraded mu Ubuntu 6.06 box to the latest round of patches.

Well Gaim happily connects to the Air-Stream Jabber server! w00t!

No to find which groups there are to see =)

I will be on the Air-Stream club table, looking for some folks to drop in and help answer questions. =)

All the details about the event are here.

olsrd-0.5.6-r2 released !

source tarballs can be downloaded at:

http://www.olsr.org/releases/0.5/olsrd-0.5.6-r2.tar.bz2
MD5-sum eb72e4899142daa1a6237831da40eb74

http://www.olsr.org/releases/0.5/olsrd-0.5.6-r2.tar.gz
MD5-sum acf15dbd0af521a6826541b567c6473a

As part of the quest for useful content, I've been thinking about what software I have on my file server. Much of it is Linux distros, source code for packages I have been tinkering with, images and documentation I've downloaded from the net.

With that I've tried to distill a set of Distros that other people would find useful. The weekend brings an announcement of a new Linux Distro that has finally hit 1.0

Here is the announcement;

The INX team is proud to announce the release of
"INX Is Not X", Version 1.0.

INX is a "Live CD" distribution of GNU/Linux, derived from
Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS, but using "ubuntu-minimal" and "ubuntu-standard"
as a base. It is console only, without any graphical "X" programs.

INX is intended as a "tutorial" and introduction to the Bash
command line, but is a fully capable, portable GNU/Linux system
in its own right. It has a collection of easy-to-use menus, colour
themes, easy configuration tools, music (and video on the frame
buffer), some games, and several surprises for those who are
not aware of what can be done in a console/tty.

INX is fun, and not intimidating for console beginners.

INX 1.0 also includes new features; you can now set up wireless
with the "Ceni" tool from the INX "Net & Web" menu. You can use
your mouse with programs like xlinks2, elinks, mc, and the jed
text editor. In addition to the powerful GNU Screen program, INX
now sports the "Dvtm" Dynamic Virtual Terminal Manager, a "tiled
terminal manager". 

You can find the original announce message here.

You can download a .torrent or .iso here.

Yes the printers rang late last week and I need to go pickup the first test run. Then we can decide what stickers we want to print propper and do a bulk run. Its been a while in the making =)

Over the last couple of weeks I've been thinking about good content. The last meeting high lighted that for me. I've been writing down all the things that I use on the internet, sites I visit, blogs I read and podcasts I listen to. There isn't a lot really, mostly lots and lots of searches on SWR, ATUs, masts, HAM mail lists, OpenWRT, B.A.T.M.A.N. and OLSRd, etc.

One thing that does stand out for me is a podcast and blog that I found a little while back that I still visit regularly. Its called SolderSmoke.

Bill Meara, has recently released the 92'nd podcast, while much of it is Amateur Radio, theres WiFi, amateur astronomy and other interesting geeky news included. I am up to episide 42, so there is plenty of good stuff to come =D

We've been talking about getting stuff printed for some time. Including but not limited to more shirts, ID cards, stickers and other stuff.

Its been really good to see the t-shirts roll out recently. Last week we got the ID cards printed and laminated. However I was hoping to get some stickers ready today...

The printers haven't called yet! Perhaps next meeting =)

Useful Software: Radio Mobile

"This software is a tool used to predict the performance of a radio system."

While it is only available on Windows, I imagine that we could put this to use
to get a better idea of what our coverage could really be. Perhaps even planning
links, etc.

So I've been thinking about what services I need to put up on my node(s).
You know there is the now old saying, "Content is King", there are references
on wikipedia, that describes what this means. In a nutshell its, people come back
to you web site if there is interesting or relevant content.
There is also the community factor to, maybe its not just the content but the
community that contributes the content.

Anyhow, so I've been scribbling down ideas for services to put up on the
server attached to the node. Obviously a web server, Jabber, VoIP ... erm ...

What else do folks use on their nodes and use from other peoples nodes?