posts brought to you by the category “wireless”
Das eez kaput! Sometime around 2002 I spaced the entire database table that mapped individual entries to categories. Such is life. What follows is a random sampling of entries that were associated with the category. Over time, the entries will be updated and then it will be even more confusing. Wander around, though, it's still a fun way to find stuff.
Easy Hotspot
Easy Hotspot is a bootable linux distribution that boots and runs completely from cd. It comes preconfigured to act as a wireless hotspot using the excellent nocat wireless gateway software. Configuration of a hotspot is done though a web interface.
After receiving configuration data for a hotspot our server will create a custom iso file with the specified configuration data. Creating a Hotspot is then as simple as burning the iso to cd and slapping the cd in a box with the proper hardware. If you choose to use the authorization services of your local public wireless internet group you can contribute a hotspot that can be used by anyone, thereby helping to provide Free Public Wireless Internet for all.
Henry Jenkins : "Isn't there something vaguely oxymoronic about the phrase, official blog?"
Oliver, Daily: 1 October 2003
The Common Lisp Cookbook
Dan Brickley : Identifying things in FOAF
If two different RDF files (eg. FOAF documents) are talking about the same thing but don't use exactly the same URI when mentioning that thing, how are our poor stupid computers supposed to be able to understand? In the real world, we want to write RDF documents (eg. for FOAF) about things that we've not yet agreed on common identifiers for. This is one of the core problems we've had to address in FOAF.
I wonder if this server signature means that TypePad isn't using mod_perl at all...
Meanwhile, in the "Micropayments for Drunks and Lushes" department...
Me : Net::Blogger.pm 0.85
Simon Schama : The Dead and the Guilty
Apparently, the dead are owed another war. But they are not. What they are owed is a good, stand-up, bruising row over the fate of America; just who determines it and for what end?
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : relegate
Relegate \Rel"e*gate\ (r?l"?-g?t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Relegated} (-g?`t?d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Relegating}.] [L. relegatus, p. p. of relegare; pref. re- re- + legare to send with a commission or charge. See {Legate}.] To remove, usually to an inferior position; to consign; to transfer; specifically, to send into exile; to banish. It [the Latin language] was relegated into the study of the scholar. --Milman.
web1913
relegate v 1: refer to another person for decision or judgment; "She likes to relegate difficult questions to her colleagues" [syn: {pass on}, {submit}] 2: assign to a lower position; reduce in rank; "She was demoted because she always speaks up" [syn: {demote}, {bump}, {break}, {kick downstairs}] [ant: {promote}] 3: expel, as if by official decree; "he was banished from his own country" [syn: {banish}, {bar}] 4: assign to a class or kind; "How should algae be classified?" "People argue about how to relegate certain mushrooms" [syn: {classify}]
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : handmelon
Proper word for American football, as it is played more with hands than feet and the "ball" is melon-shaped, instead of being of proper spherical shape balls should be.
ex. Handmelon is a sport popular only in the United States.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : aristobrat
an aristocrat who acts terribly.
ex. "Sarah-Jane, beware of that aristobrat slouching at the bar. He likes to flash more than his money."
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : gregarious
Gregarious \Gre*ga"ri*ous\, a. [L. gregarius, fr. grex, gregis, herd; cf. Gr. ? to assemble, Skr. jar to approach. Cf. {Congregate}, {Egregious}.] Habitually living or moving in flocks or herds; tending to flock or herd together; not habitually solitary or living alone. --Burke. No birds of prey are gregarious. --Ray.
web1913
gregarious adj 1: tending to form a group with others of the same kind; "gregarious bird species"; "man is a gregarious animal" [ant: {ungregarious}] 2: seeking and enjoying the company of others; "a gregarious person who avoids solitude"
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Michel Blanchard : "[A]près le Guy, Guy, Guy, de Guy Lafleur,
le Guy, Guy, Guy, de Guy Carbonneau, voilà le Gino, Gino, Gino de Gino Odjick."
I see that local ISP CAM is broadcasting Radio Free CBC
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : genericise
To write or design something in a way that is generic or to change something to become generic--especially software.
ex. We should try to genericise this bit of the software.
Nicholas Riley : WebDAV tool for Frontier/Radio
"allows Frontier's Website Framework and Manila static rendering output, and Radio UserLand upstreaming via WebDAV. It provides limited support for WebDAV as specified by RFC 2518. The PUT, DELETE and MKCOL methods, and basic HTTP authentication only are supported. (That means: use it on a secure network or wrap it securely)."
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : jackfucker
Someone whose action indicate she possesses the heinous attributes of both a jackass and a motherfucker.
ex. You're directly behind a woman in line at a fast food drive-through who is sorting through her purse, letting other people get in front of her, and drastically increasing your wait. She then drives off without ordering. "Jackfucker!"
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : hauteur
Hauteur \Hau`teur"\, n. [F., fr. haut high. See {Haughty}.] Haughty manner or spirit; haughtiness; pride; arrogance.
web1913
David Brownell : Producing SAX2 Events
The 'canadian', features a helmet of fine bacon
and a chin-strap of sausage links." via
mesh
American Airlines flight #587 information : 1.800/ 245.0999
I'm working on some bad-ass computer shit right now!
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is ken
| source : web1913 | Ken \Ken\, n. [Perh. from kennel.] A house; esp., one which is a resort for thieves. [Slang, Eng.] | source : web1913 | Ken \Ken\, n. t. [imp. & p. p. {Kenned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Kenning}.] [OE. kennen to teach, make known, know, AS. cennan to make known, proclaim, or rather from the related Icel. kenna to know; akin to D. & G. kennen to know, Goth. kannjan to make known; orig., a causative corresponding to AS. cunnan to know, Goth. kunnan. [root]45. See {Can} to be able, {Know}.] 1. To know; to understand; to take cognizance of. [Archaic or Scot.] 2. To recognize; to descry; to discern. [Archaic or Scot.] ``We ken them from afar.'' --Addison 'T is he. I ken the manner of his gait. --Shak. | source : web1913 | Ken \Ken\, v. i. To look around. [Obs.] --Burton. | source : web1913 | Ken \Ken\, n. Cognizance; view; especially, reach of sight or knowledge. ``Beyond his ken.'' --Longfellow. Above the reach and ken of a mortal apprehension. --South. It was relief to quit the ken And the inquiring looks of men. --Trench. | source : wn | ken n : range of what one can know or understand [syn: {cognizance}] | source : jargon | ken /ken/ n. 1. [Unix] Ken Thompson, principal inventor of Unix. In the early days he used to hand-cut distribution tapes, often with a note that read "Love, ken". Old-timers still use his first name (sometimes uncapitalized, because it's a login name and mail address) in third-person reference; it is widely understood (on Usenet, in particular) that without a last name `Ken' refers only to Ken Thompson. Similarly, Dennis without last name means Dennis Ritchie (and he is often known as dmr). See also {demigod}, {{Unix}}. 2. A flaming user. This was originated by the Software Support group at Symbolics because the two greatest flamers in the user community were both named Ken. | source : foldoc | ken /ken/ 1. {Ken Thompson} 2. A flaming user. This was originated by the Software Support group at {Symbolics} because the two greatest flamers in the user community were both named Ken. [{Jargon File}]
Andy Oram : We need the courage to look beyond abstractions
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is privation
| source : web1913 | Privation \Pri*va"tion\, n. [L. privatio: cf. F. privation. See {Private}.] 1. The act of depriving, or taking away; hence, the depriving of rank or office; degradation in rank; deprivation. --Bacon. 2. The state of being deprived or destitute of something, especially of something required or desired; destitution; need; as, to undergo severe privations. 3. The condition of being absent; absence; negation. Evil will be known by consequence, as being only a privation, or absence, of good. --South. Privation mere of light and absent day. --Milton. | source : wn | privation n 1: a state of extreme poverty [syn: {want}, {deprivation}] 2: act of depriving [syn: {deprivation}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is cavort
| source : web1913 | Cavort \Ca*vort"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Cavorted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Cavorting}.] To prance ostentatiously; -- said of a horse or his rider. [Local slang, U. S.] | source : wn | cavort v : play or romp around; "The children frolicked in the garden"; "the gamboling lambs in the meadows" [syn: {frolic}, {lark}, {rollick}, {skylark}, {disport}, {sport}, {gambol}, {frisk}, {romp}, {run around}, {lark about}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is fallible
| source : web1913 | Fallible \Fal"li*ble\, a. [LL. fallibilis, fr. L. fallere to deceive: cf. F. faillible. See {Fail}.] Liable to fail, mistake, or err; liable to deceive or to be deceived; as, all men are fallible; our opinions and hopes are fallible. | source : wn | fallible adj 1: likely to fail or be inaccurate; "everyone is fallible to some degree" [ant: {infallible}] 2: having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings; "I'm only human"; "frail humanity" [syn: {frail}, {imperfect}, {weak}]
Brian McConnell : Peer-to-Peer Taxation
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is apologia
| source : wn | apologia n : a formal written defense of something you believe in strongly [syn: {apology}]
Tim Waugh : The Selfdocbook
"is a self-documenting introduction to DocBook DocBook book. It includes its own DocBook SGML source in the appendix, and so can be used to learn DocBook by example. ...if you see something that you want to know how to do, you can simply flip to Appendix A to find out how it is done."
I imagine that Scott McCloud would be pleased
to see other people, like the Zope gods, talking about
the "space in between" content
. "Lately Rael [Dornfest] has been talking about doing P2P for syndication. P2P could be the kind of transformative breakthrough for DC and RDF. Without a standard vocabularly across verticals (music, etc.), P2P will be another thousand islands, which dramatically lowers the utility. Unlike web pages, which generally wants content to be broadcast and rendered, P2P wants to content to be exchanged. This model demands interoperable content."
see also :
Scott McCloud
and
Scott McCloud talking about the space between content
(quicktime) and then
The XML-Meta Architecture
.
Laura Bush : "I hung up five times yesterday
when he called to ask what was for dinner. I thought it was a wrong number when the guy kept asking for Stretch."
NY Times : Workspaces - Products of a Modern Dreamscape
"Like the old
Good Design
shows,
Workspheres
presents a mythology. It couples the idea of the Next with the belief that we must collectively work our way toward it. The Next will not descend from above, without our effort. We must toil to get there. On the other hand, our travel expenses will be paid, and the work will be performed with tools that have vast sex appeal. Isn't that a good deal? ... To see the work environment in temporal terms is to experience it as an event more than a place. This experience may be the most profound idea at the show. The electronic appliances are tools for creating events out of relationships in space, time and sensibility. An event may be hierarchically structured, as in a typical management chart, or its architecture may be free-floating."
Scott McLemee : I Am a Camera
"Whatever its implications for the study of celebrity (or narcissism, for that matter), Webcam broadcasting defies the usual categories applied to the media. Cinematic theory has dealt exhaustively with the question of how the "gaze" operates in film. And in television studies, researchers refer to the "glance," in keeping with Raymond Williams's observation that television often serves as the background to ordinary life (something you leave on and look at while doing other things). Alluding to these notions but tweaking them a bit, Senft suggests that the relevant term for Webcam watching is "grab": The bored viewer will "grab" a quick look at another individual's no-longer-private life. With its aggressive and almost tactile connotations, the "grab," according to Senft, carries suggestive overtones of life under late phallocentric capitalism. After all, "grab" is something a sexual harasser does to an ass. But "grab" is also what a hurried consumer does to the Extreme Taco Meal Deal at a fast-food restaurant."
Database Debunkings
"The Forum Where Database Matters Are Set Straight."
Chappaquiddick
Orange plaid couch / Plastic trees and
shaggy crochet
/ Estimated time to empty is 0:11
Montreal Mirror : How to build a $240-million convention centre around a turn-of-the-century brick wall
Talk of the Nation : [The] End of Nationhood
"A discussion with the French Ambassador to the European Union [ Jean Marie Guehenno, author of
The End of the Nation State
] about changes to the traditional notion of the nation-state. With the advent of the global village and changing alliances world wide, the ways we think about nations and their individual sovereignty are changing." (real evil g2)
MP3PVM (read distributed MP3 encoding)
This one comes via the nice people at
Ars Technica
who have this to say on the subject : '[T]he idea is that you can use this program to encode mp3s using multiple computers in much the same way that Setiathome and RC5 do. Is this really worthwhile? Probably not, but it's definitely cool."
February 24 is a Day Without Brad, Evan or Dave
Alan Paller : Notes from the White House
"Witt Diffie stole the show with his analogy of DDoS attacks to the "breakdown of democracy." He said, "It's as if, Mr. President, you lost an election, not because people voted against you, but because someone stole votes and cast them in favor of your opponent. ... Throughout, the President asked many follow up questions and told us how he looked at the problem (like an arms race where some people develop weapons and other people develop defenses and the goal is to make the time between new weapons of your enemies and the applicable defenses as close to zero as possible)." Mr. Paller is the Director of Research at the
SANS Institute
Webmonkey has redesigned their website
complete with little <a href = "http://saturn.org">Jack Saturn pictures</a>. I like this *much* better than the last site, and it even looks good in <a href = "http://icab.de">iCab</a> (kudos!)
All Things Considered : NY Museum Rap
Floyd Abrams
"There is no obligation from the city to fund the arts. But the First Amendment says, according to a wide, sustained, continuing body of case law, that the funding process may not be used to coerce institutions such as this to do the bidding of its political leaders. So while New York never has to fund any museum, once New York starts down that road, it cannot violate the First Amendment by a process of coercion, sanction, threats, retribution and the like." Mr Abrams is the legal counsel for the Brooklyn Museum of Art
iDot is selling 450$ BeOS machines
Road Stories for the Flesh Eating Future
"We are the first citizens of a society that has actually been eaten by technology. A culture that has disappeared into the dark vortex of the electronic frontier"
an excerpt
(from email to
SuperBang
) "" This seems to be going around these days. I wonder if it's seasonal. Nothing seems to happen in August, ginving people lots of time to think about what the last 11 months of changing the world really means. August seems to be when the Stock Market panics.
The Boston Globe on the end of violence
I had no idea that
First Monday, July 1999
Includes a
rebuttal
to David Noble's critique of "distributed learning technologies" (my mouth is full of potatoes) which I am looking forward to reading.
Madeleine Bunting : They're just cannon fodder
"There is no time to query why life has to be such an exhausting and demanding obstacle race, no time to wonder if there might be another way, which didn't leave quite so many casualties along the route."
M-J Milloy on the Cirque en CA$H
“Dans notre quartier/ On chauffe pas de gros chars/ Dans notre quartier/ On reste pas dans des forts/ Mais on est fier/ On est fort/ On a quelque chose à dire/ On est fier/ On est fort/ On reste à Centre-sud...”
Professor Rusi Taleyarkhan
"I've always been a huge fan of Star Trek and wanted to see if the knowledge I have of energy systems could make a gun that a police officer could set to stun, just like Captain Kirk does."
New Lucious Jackson