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Camino drawing bug
Mike Pinkerton says that he’s making some progress on the Panther drawing bug. That’s good because any kind of 0.8 release of Camino would have to have that fixed. Also since I don’t actually have panther yet, I hope that I don’t have to upgrade to look at this problem since I’m still happy waiting for other people to make sure panther doesn’t have any big stupid mistakes in it.
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What is open spectrum
I just had this brainstorm that open spectrum should be thought of like an open source license. So that, the government would issue an open spectrum license for anyone to use a specific technology (e.g. spread spectrum) on a specific set of frequencies (e.g. 2.4GHz). But what would be the “Free Software Guidelines” for open spectrum? What is essential and what isn’t to have open spectrum. If you’re interested in the intersection of open source and open spectrum, check out (and reply to please :-) my post on the Open Spectrum mailing list at OpenICT.net .
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Civil Society flexes its muscles at the WSIS
The Civil Society group at the World Summit on Information Society issued a powerful media statement today. Read it here . They basically say that the governments aren’t going anywhere and that CS is going to go off and do it’s own thing as a response to that. They don’t need the governments ;-) For those of you just joining us, there are three main groups at WSIS: business, government, and civil society.
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I'm published by Development Gateway
Improving internet access in developing countries is a special report from the Development Gateway. It’s special to me because they included my paper on Wi-Fi for rural communities. You can look at their copy (PDF) or at my copy (HTML).
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mesh networks newslog
Useful “newslog” on mesh networks
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IXP required reading
This should be required reading about IXPs (internet eXchange points): L2_Route_Reflector_IXP_v0.4.pdf
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Connectivity is not the right word
Connectivity is not the right word
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Fate sharing
I was thinking recently about fate sharing in a number of contexts. One of them is this server. It goes down occasionally. What’s nice is that a number of people who all have the technical expertise to make repairs share the use of the server. So, when something happens, any one of us can step in to make repairs. Each one of us is motivated because we all share the same fate. If the server is down, it’s down for all of us.
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fox
You probably have to pay to read that. I don’t know. I paid a long time ago for Salon. I think it’s the only US journalism worth reading. Anyway, the story is an interview with a guy who used to work at Fox, and described the ways that they slant their news.
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I'm a hero for a week
Lisa Rein says I’m her hero this week :) OK, yeah, it’s nice to get credit :) And yeah, I was pretty patient ;-)
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