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Fwd: California Public Utilities Commission approves $5M grant for fiber network

2009-11-24T21:36:45Z

Saw this on MuniWireless. While it has nothing to do with wireless, this is an inspiring story of an underserved community taking matters into their own hands and building an open provider fiber network operated by a cooperative (I have a hard time feeling sorry for this particular demographic's current lack of high speed internet options, but that's a different story)

"Free Day"

2009-11-23T23:44:14Z

For the micro-controller hobbyists in the group, SparkFun is giving away anything and everything in their catalog on Jan 7th. Up to $100 per household, and they stop giving away free stuff after a $100k of orders. The details are here: [link]

If you've ever wanted an excuse to build a robot, this is it.

Next Weekly: December 2, 2009 at NodeKentonStation

2009-11-19T03:39:48Z

YES, We are heading out to Kenton! It's time to our far-flung nodes.

[link]

December 2, 2009. We are off for the Thanksgiving week.

Cheers

--
Chris Chen <muffal...@gmail.com>
"The fact that yours is better than anyone else's
is not a guarantee that it's any good."

Re: [ptp-general] civilian/user of ptp, and nat to internal machine

2009-11-18T17:15:02Z

Jon,

The trouble with port forwarding on this particular network is that
everyone on it shares a single IP address. Port 80 and 22 are already
forwarded to Personal Telco routers/servers that manage this network.
As for your offer of assistance, we're always looking for eager
volunteers. Please come to a weekly or monthly meeting and introduce

civilian/user of ptp, and nat to internal machine

2009-11-18T05:41:28Z

hi, i am a regular user of the mississippi ptp network, and on most
days can connect from my home a couple blocks away. i am wondering
what ptp policy is for setting up nat or port forwarding (etc) for us
normal users to be able to get to our ptp-connected machines from the
outside world?

obviously there are matters of security to contend with and so forth,

Re: [ptp-general] Re: boo hiss.. suckered by the MPAA..

2009-11-13T18:57:25Z

On Nov 13, 2009, at 9:15 AM, "Rick Lindahl"

It sounds like the entire network had one public IP, so someone
probably did contact the ISP, who shut down the Internet connection.

Likely, the network is still up, but lacking the precious Internet
access.

The network operators and ISP may have both been slightly ignorant

RE: [ptp-general] Re: boo hiss.. suckered by the MPAA..

2009-11-13T17:15:41Z

Most of the ISP's that we work with track down the alleged user by IP
address and are then required to first warn them and then disconnect them.
Shutting down the entire network and blaming it on one user is either
irresponsible journalism and/or a poorly managed wireless network. My guess
is this was either not reported correctly or was just the excuse that

Re: [ptp-general] Re: boo hiss.. suckered by the MPAA..

2009-11-13T01:33:07Z

Treating the problem by throwing the baby out with the bathwater is
dumb, but then again that is how so many things are done by such
agencies. That this was being run by the country in questions means it
probably had little recourse to the reasoned technical solutions the
PTP has. The prices they quoted in the article for solutions to the

Re: [ptp-general] boo hiss.. suckered by the MPAA..

2009-11-13T01:24:31Z

Aaron> [link]
Aaron> COSHOCTON A free service enjoyed by hundreds has been shut down
Aaron> due to illegal activity conducted by one individual.
Dumb article, sadly typical of today's "journalism". As far as I can
tell, the story doesn't say who made the decision to disconnect. The

boo hiss.. suckered by the MPAA..

2009-11-13T00:23:32Z

[link]
<[link]>COSHOCTON
— A free service enjoyed by hundreds has been shut down due to illegal
activity conducted by one individual.
A-
---
Aaron Baer
aa...@slyness.org
[link]

Next Weekly: November 18, NodeBasementPub, 6:30pm

2009-11-12T03:50:37Z

We're gonna be doing some node fixin' early that week, so we'll be
wrapping up and planning next moves at this Weekly. See you there!
cc

REMINDER: Weekly Meeting This Wednesday, 6:30pm at NodeCoffeehouseFive

2009-11-11T21:37:52Z

See you tonight!
[link]
Agenda
* Pick location for next weekly
*
NodeHostAppreciationParty
o No word back from Gary ... either he got a new email
address or he is ignoring me.
o Other location possibilities?
*
NodeCommunitecture roof upgrades?

Re: [ptp-general] Re: Year-End Fundraising?

2009-11-06T08:45:37Z

Sounds dangerous, I'm in!

~Sara.

Re: [ptp-general] Re: A PTP Node Host Appreciation Party?

2009-11-06T03:52:34Z

Christopher> From my notes:
Christopher> Node Host Invitation Discussion
Christopher> * Talk to Gary, and collect a list of node hosts to
Christopher> invite.
I have an email in to Gary.

Re: [ptp-general] A PTP Node Host Appreciation Party?

2009-11-06T03:36:09Z

From my notes:

Node Host Invitation Discussion

* Talk to Gary, and collect a list of node hosts to invite.

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Russell Senior

--
Chris Chen <muffal...@gmail.com>
"The fact that yours is better than anyone else's
is not a guarantee that it's any good."