RE: State of play of the projects.

Yeah, perhaps we should all meet up for a drink/munchies at one of the
pubs on gloucester road ;)

Or at the place on park street...

                      Alex Threlfall - Cyberprog New Media
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: alex-9Ca/[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
> Behalf Of Steve- Vacuum Networks
> Sent: 07 January 2003 8:28 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [consumebristol] State of play of the projects.
> 
> 
> 
> Alex Threlfall wrote:
> >  
> > How's the NodeInABox thing coming along?
> 
> Doug had a quick successful trial with the guts of a compaq 
> craptop, MeshAP booting off a 32M compact flash card (via yer 
> loaned adapter), off a 12V battery (Maplin), with a 
> Lucent-based chipset-card in the deck. I've got a bunch of 
> logs / processes / stats-when-running off it on my laptop, 
> for anyone interested. Now need to build the first proper one 
> into el-ammobox, do a proper solder-to-mobo-job for the 
> CF-hotseat, work out the hotplug-to-recharge method, and 
> possibly build a dedicated linux distro.
> 
> Over xmas period, the main project was building a 
> mediaserver, in the Something-Else geek category. Mainly so 
> we could geek from the lounge and record flims off telly, and 
> suchlike. ;-)
> 
> Andy, you picked up a bulkload of the compaq craptop mobos, 
> no? Might be worth hooking up down here and running them thru 
> a dead-or-alive? session to see what you've got. Give us a 
> shout on that.
> 
> On my own project (el mapper), my Libretto has started acting 
> up and crashing when moved when powered up, which is somewhat 
> limiting for the signal-mapper, for obvious reasons. Been 
> looking at various Delaunay triangulation code chunks to get 
> the proper mapping ability going, but until I can sort the 
> craptop's reliability, that's on ice. Annoying.
> 
> Incidentally, did any of the rest of you make it to the 
> Easton Wireless bash at the Cube Microplex, as mentioned in 
> NTK before xmas? Me n Doug made it down there, but didn't 
> spot anyone else from our clan.
> 
> Also, still interesting stuff on the uknot mailing list re 
> the telco licence requirements for anything over 20 nodes... 
> (recommend anyone interested joing the uknot mailing list, 
> although it's somewhat high-traffic - I think the key parties 
> are also on Consume's main lists, however)
> 
> Steve.
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