Re: Nocat List

Thanks, guys. At Less Networks, we started installing nocat hotspots in 
Sept of 2003 and still have 78 nocat hotspots active. Our new hotspots 
are wifidog-based. But every now and then (like last week), a venue 
replaced its aging nocat hotspot with another new nocat one.

-arun
Less Networks

Rob Flickenger wrote:

>Sameer Verma wrote:
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>>NoCat seems like it was so long ago. I had no gray hair and could pull
>>an all-nighter.
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>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
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