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Archive for September, 2002

Telephone Outage

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 29th, 2002

Ever have your phone go out? My phone has been out since Thursday. I was vacuuming and must have hit the jack. My old apartment has about 6 different wires coming in. I thought it would be easy to fix. I reconnected the broken wire but it was no go. I tried other combinations. Pulled [...]

Natural Language Voice Interface

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 25th, 2002

The song, Better Than Anything, was just on the radio sung by Natalie Cole and Diana Krall. It was written by Bill Loughborough, who apparently lives not far from me in the Columbia River Gorge. It made me think of Wi-Fi. Sheeze…I gotta get a life! Better than sailing at midnight, better than diving for [...]

Solar-powered Satellite Net

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 25th, 2002

Nigel Ballard pointed out this interesting link to Sustainable Satellite Internetwork at the Big Green Gathering. Connection to the Internet was made using a satellite link, with the 90 cm dish mounted on top of a van. This connection was then shared out via a modified Apple Airport Basestation. The Airport Basestation’s wireless signal was [...]

AT&T: Who Needs ‘Em?

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 25th, 2002

The Jacksonville City Council plans to introduce a proposal that will locally block the merger between Comcast and AT&T. AT&T says the city doesn’t have the legal right to take such an action, which was agreed upon after talks between the provider and the city failed to progress. The city has been attempting to negotiate [...]

LAN Cameras

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 25th, 2002

Tom’s Hardware, reviews four LAN cameras, the DLink DCS-1000W, Panasonic KX-HCM10, and Axis 2100 and Intellinet Network 550550 IP Camera. All these cameras use embedded Linux servers to deliver streaming M-JPEGs. Motion JPEGs, unlike MPEG, sends each frame individually and requires more bandwidth. MPEG-4 video cameras like JVC’s GY-DV300, “Streamcorder” (review), will become more common. [...]

Cheap Optical Mesh

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 25th, 2002

Omnilux, today announced the availability of its wireless broadband platform, designed to supply ISPs with an optical alternative to DSL or cable. Omnilux uses free-space optics to rooftop “nodes” that in turn delivers access to computers using an Ethernet connection or Wi-Fi. Using light-emitting diodes (LEDs) in place of lasers, Omnilux claims to drive down [...]