Hello, world!
We had great fun at Hosstraders this year! The weather on Friday
was great, practically unprecedented for Hosstraders. We're working
on a theory that maddog is actually a rain god, because when he got
there on Saturday, it prompted turned cloudy and wet. ;-)
Much "great stuff" was sold or given away (although some of it was
so bad even with a price of "free" nobody wanted it). We spread the
word about the LUG to some Granite State Linuxers who weren't aware,
and maybe got a few more people to try our drug^W software of choice.
The highlight this season was definitely the Internet connection.
Here we are, in a barn in the middle of a field in the middle of
nowhere (sorry, Ted) - with a high-speed link to the web. From the
barn ran a CAT5 cable through some trees, over a roof, through some
more trees, along the side of a building, along the ground, and up a
tree. There, a LinkSys WRT54G with after-market firmware and a
high-gain antenna linked to its twin, a thousand feet or so away,
hanging out of a window, and plugged into a LAN with a link to a DSL
feed. Wow!
I'd like to offer my personal thanks to everyone helped out, especially:
* Bill McGonigle, for providing antennas, radios, rigging, and expertise
* Ted Roche, for not only providing an Internet feed, but letting us
continue to use it after we screwed it up
* Jon "maddog" Hall, for buying the spot (as usual)
* Bill Sconce, for stepping forward with a soldering iron at a
moment's notice, to fix a bad connection with my speakers
* mike ledoux, for taking over CD production after my PC developed
senile dementia
* Mike ODonnel for donating the spool of CAT5
See you all again in the Fall!
-- Ben
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