Re: [nycwireless] Fwd: IP: FBI probing 'war chalking'?

2002-08-14 Thread rick m. tait
Just as an FYI, Dave Farber was the Chief Scientist at the FCC, as well as a VERY well-respected technology/techo professor at UPenn (I believe). His list has such people as Esther Dyson, Nick Negroponte and a *lot* of other tech-sphere bigwigs. He only sends out legit stuff. :) RMT. On Wedn

Re: [nycwireless] Perl programmer needed

2002-08-14 Thread Jim Kipp
Do this kind of stuff all the time. What type of log files? - Original Message - From: "Anthony Townsend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "NYCwireless List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 1:19 PM Subject: [nycwireless] Perl programmer needed > Hi - we need someone with go

Re: [nycwireless] Perl programmer needed

2002-08-14 Thread Jon Baer
Bon sy wrote: >For whoever is taking up the offer, I hope NYCWireless will take it >serious this time. > >Anthony has emailed me offlist before last month's (July) general >meeting to see whether we are interested in helping out. We have agreed to > > > I think what he might be saying is just

Re: [nycwireless] Limiting access

2002-08-14 Thread Bon sy
Jonathan and Parker, Incidently I have just researched recently and talked to the Orinoco tech support about AP-1000 that we have. AP-1000 provides standard MAC authentication but only allows up to 497 MAC addresses authentication. It does come with the RADIUS feature. But disap

Re: [nycwireless] Limiting access

2002-08-14 Thread jonathan
This might be a simplistic response... but find an AP that allows acessess control on different criteria. I'm using an older Lucent AP-1000, and have it set for MAC authentication. Of course, if someone wants in badly enough, they can spoof the MAC address if they know the right one. Might take

[nycwireless] Limiting access

2002-08-14 Thread parker martin
 Sorry for the possibly simple question. Is there a way to control the computers that can access a wireless lan? I saw something about blocking out computers but I want to do the opposite… only allow those listed.Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs, a Yahoo! service - Search Thousands of New Jobs

[nycwireless] full circle

2002-08-14 Thread Anthony Townsend
...which brings us full circle back to where i started, trying to find someone to help me develop some metrics for our park networks. we probably could have written the thing this afternoon instead of arguing about it -- > Message: 14 > Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 15:35:04

Re: [nycwireless] Does Verizon offer broadband wireless?

2002-08-14 Thread Ben Serebin
Hello Daniel and All, Verizon does offer wireless 1xRTT service. Normal data rate is 40-50Kbps, similar to a 56k modem. As like a modem, there is a connect and disconnect routine, I've read numerous reviews, and it varies between 5-20 seconds. Not always on, but the flat rate of $99 is

Re: [nycwireless] Does Verizon offer broadband wireless?

2002-08-14 Thread Bon sy
Daniel, I understand where you are coming from. Your point is precisely what I am trying to advocate as in my last posting. Bon On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Daniel Thor Kristjansson wrote: > > I have no desire to enter into this flamewar, but I wasn't aware that > Verizon even offered high sp

[nycwireless] Does Verizon offer broadband wireless?

2002-08-14 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
I have no desire to enter into this flamewar, but I wasn't aware that Verizon even offered high speed wireless. I've used the sprint wireless stuff and it was too slow to be useful and had 2-3 sec latencies. not really useful for ssh unless you want to be reminded of a Citatel BBS with a 300 baud

Re: [nycwireless] 802.11 metro NYC providers

2002-08-14 Thread Bon sy
On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Terry Schmidt wrote: > > > In comparison though some things move faster, and we have more integration > and > > > communication than large companies. NYCwireless has more nodes in the metro > > > area than all the commercial 802.11 providers combined. > > > > > > > Are you

[nycwireless] 802.11 metro NYC providers

2002-08-14 Thread Terry Schmidt
> > In comparison though some things move faster, and we have more integration and > > communication than large companies. NYCwireless has more nodes in the metro > > area than all the commercial 802.11 providers combined. > > > > Are you sure about this? Do you count subscribers of even just Ver

Re: [nycwireless] Personal Attacks

2002-08-14 Thread Terry Schmidt
> May I ask any grievance board maintained by NYCWireless to handle issues > like this? From what I have heard, I am not the only one experiencing > this. Feel free to send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please detail the grievance, a recommended solution, and what the submitter is willing to-do to

Re: [nycwireless] Personal Attacks (CHANGE TOPIC)

2002-08-14 Thread Bon sy
On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Terry Schmidt wrote: > In comparison though some things move faster, and we have more integration and > communication than large companies. NYCwireless has more nodes in the metro > area than all the commercial 802.11 providers combined. > Are you sure about this? Do you

Re: [nycwireless] Personal Attacks

2002-08-14 Thread Bon sy
On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Jacob Farkas wrote: > Guys, > > Please don't use the mailing list for personal grievances against other > members. It degrades the quality of discussion we aim to maintain. May I ask any grievance board maintained by NYCWireless to handle issues like this? From what I hav

Re: [nycwireless] Perl programmer needed

2002-08-14 Thread Bon sy
On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Anthony Townsend wrote: > Mr. Sy needs to exercise some patience when it comes to working with others > on group projects, as well as some restraint in his postings to public > listservs. I hope you are not suggesting censorship on issues that may be informative to the mem

Re: [nycwireless] Perl programmer needed

2002-08-14 Thread Anthony Townsend
These are two separate projects. The Perl script is to meet a short-term need for usage stats for our clients (# users per day, etc). The project I asked Bon to help on was a much longer-term effort to understand detailed usage patterns. As far as how we treat our volunteers - NYCwireless project

[nycwireless] Personal Attacks

2002-08-14 Thread Jacob Farkas
Guys, Please don't use the mailing list for personal grievances against other members. It degrades the quality of discussion we aim to maintain. Thank You, Jacob Farkas -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives

Re: [nycwireless] Perl programmer needed

2002-08-14 Thread Bon sy
For whoever is taking up the offer, I hope NYCWireless will take it serious this time. Anthony has emailed me offlist before last month's (July) general meeting to see whether we are interested in helping out. We have agreed to meet and discuss after the general meeting of last month. But Anthon

Re: [nycwireless] Perl programmer needed

2002-08-14 Thread Ruben Safir
I'll do it On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 01:19:47PM -0400, Anthony Townsend wrote: > Hi - we need someone with good Perl skills to write a logfile analysis > script. It is nothing too complicated, estimated it would take a decent > codewriter a few hours at most to whip someting up. > > This analysi

[nycwireless] Perl programmer needed

2002-08-14 Thread Anthony Townsend
Hi - we need someone with good Perl skills to write a logfile analysis script. It is nothing too complicated, estimated it would take a decent codewriter a few hours at most to whip someting up. This analysis will help us to get a better understanding of how people are using our park networks. P

Re: [nycwireless] donations

2002-08-14 Thread Jacob Farkas
For sponsorship oppurtunities please see: http://www.nycwireless.net/sponsors.html "NYCwireless is a not-for-profit. The Earth Pledge Foundation is the 501(c)3 fiscal agent for NYCwireless. All contributions to NYCwireless should be made out to the Earth Pledge Foundation and are tax deductible."

[nycwireless] NYCwireless Donations

2002-08-14 Thread Anthony Townsend
NYCwireless is a non-profit corporation under the laws of New York State. It has a five-person executive board consisting of Terry Schmidt, myself, Jacob Farkas, Dustin Goodwin, and Ben Serebin. We are currently underapplicaiton to the IRS for tax-exempt charitable status, but we can also accept d

Re: [nycwireless] donations

2002-08-14 Thread Bon sy
Hmm, an interesting queston. I, as a member, have heard a number of times from different people that there is NO money transaction in the entity of NYCWireless. After being a member since April, it is still not clear to me who (supposedly the board members?) are assuming the financial and legal

[nycwireless] Artist seeking Wireless Network Specialist

2002-08-14 Thread Jacob Farkas
To all interested, Shu Lea Cheang, self styled digital normadic artist, engages in interface building in social/mobile/wireless networks. will be presenting St(r)eaming the Fields, a field harvesting and public network project in New York City this September. With an " After the Crash" scenario ,

[nycwireless] donations

2002-08-14 Thread Josh McCormack
Is NYC Wireless a non profit? (could people get tax credit for donations) What's the bare minimum system that NYC Wireless would be interested in using? Josh === EASY and FREE access to your email anywhere: http://Mailreader.com/

Re: [nycwireless] Fwd: IP: FBI probing 'war chalking'?

2002-08-14 Thread R. Lonstein
On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 01:20:45AM -0400, rick m. tait wrote: > You guys might be interested in reading this.. FBI now on > our backs? > > [ From Dave Farber's Interesting People list ] > [snip] I'm a bit skeptical of forwarded messages, but if it is genuine, it merely indicat