Re: Nocat List

Sameer Verma wrote:
> NoCat seems like it was so long ago. I had no gray hair and could pull
> an all-nighter.
The first alpha of NoCatAuth was released on 12-Jul-2001. At the time,
we didn't know of any other open source portal implementation. Schuyler
became motivated at OSCon that year to put something together when I
threatened to write some (likely very dodgy) perl code myself. Back
then, "WiFi" didn't yet exist and the only practical way to get wireless
into a laptop was to use a Lucent card.

It has been a fascinating 7.5 years. I have developed my own grey hair
since then (falling off the roof in 2002 didn't help with that ;) I've
written or edited more than a dozen books since then. My interest in the
code has long since died, given the availability of much more capable
and active projects like WiFiDog and Chillispot.

I now spend a lot of my time teaching long-distance wireless techniques
(including Pringles cans!) to folks from the developing world. A lot of
that is documented in Wireless Networking in the Developing World
(http://wndw.net/).

This list is still here out of sheer habit. It currently has 755 members.

Wow.

We'll probably keep the light on until this list server falls over.

Thank you all for your support and well wishes over the years!

Cheers,

--Rob