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Archive for July, 2004

Portland Airport Gets Free WiFi

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 29th, 2004

Last night at the PersonalTelco meeting in Portland, Oregon, Nigel Ballard announced that the Portland International Airport will have free Wi-Fi. The Port of Portland will turn on 25 access points by Oct. 1 and offer free WiFi at gates and check-in areas for one year. The Cisco 1300 and 1200 series units are backhauled [...]

OSCON Photos

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 28th, 2004

DailyWireless has “booth” duties at OSCON, today. The Sessions, Tutorials, Events, Exhibitors, Keynotes, Speakers and Parties are too convenient to pass up. ITConversations is webcasting the keynotes, live. Nobody does OSCON Coverage better than O’Reilly itself. Check out their Blog Coverage. Meanwhile, here are some photos from today’s Open Source conference in Portland.

Unwiring Conventions

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 28th, 2004

In Boston this year, Adam Fuller has the scoop on the Democratic National Convention. Whether it’s pictures you want or low-down dirty gossip, NinjaStu.Com has a front seat to all the action! Their gal in Boston supplies running commentary. Community Wireless provided remote camera control via Canopy system. Why doesn’t the media know about the [...]

U.S.: Broadband Looser

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 28th, 2004

Comcast today announced a 4Mbps speed tier option for its broadband Internet service. Comcast High-Speed Internet customers now can choose between 4Mbps and 3Mbps options priced at $52.95 and $42.95 respectively for cable television subscribers. Pricing for non-cable customers is $67.95 and $57.95 for the 4Mbps and 3Mbps services. Upstream speeds are 384kbps for the [...]

MyDoomO Mutates

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 27th, 2004

E-Week says the MyDoom.O virus which attacked search engines, has a second, related attack which began in earnest Tuesday with a new piece of code using the back door installed by MyDoom.O to spread itself and launch a DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack against Microsoft.com. MyDoom.O, also known as MyDoom.M or MyDoom.M@mm, installs a [...]

The Battle Over Unix

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 27th, 2004

The battle over UNIX/Linux has generated lots of litigation and anxiety but very little light. It’s hard to keep track of what’s going on and what’s at stake. Michael Faulkner and Eric Goldman explain the situation. The “original” version of UNIX was developed by Bell Labs in 1969. It spawned a wide variety of compatible [...]