Just a reminder that the BAWUG meeting is tonight , and we will likely have the room until 10pm. Hope to see some of you there! The first hour will be macintsh centric (it is the Mac OS X wireless BOF session) which will then dovetail into the BAWUG meeting.
Cheers, Cliff Begin forwarded message: > From: Tim Pozar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu Sep 19, 2002 16:32:33 US/Pacific > Cc: BAWUG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [BAWUG] September Meeting - 9/30 at 7PM! > > Ok folks, there has been a bunch of work in getting our next meeting > set up. The next meeting will be Monday September 30th from 7PM > to 9PM at the The O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference located at: > > The Westin Santa Clara > 5101 Great America Parkway > Santa Clara, CA 95054 > Phone: (408) 986-070 > http://www.thewestinsantaclara.com/ > > Additional details such as hotel directions can be found at: > > http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/19/hotel.html > > (We have actually be delaying this announcement a bit as we think we > may have more hours than what I have shown here. We may have up > to 10PM but this is not set yet. Don't count on it until you see > another email confirming this.) > > The start time of 7PM will be co-located at the Birds of a Feather > (BOF) session that Cliff is doing talking about wireless networks > and the Mac. The description follows... > > --- > Mac OS X Wireless > Time: 7:00pm - 8:00pm > Location: San Tomas/Lawrence > Moderated by: Cliff Skolnick, BAWUG > > Experts in 802.11b (the technology used in the Apple Airport Products) > will answer any questions and lead discussions in the following > areas: > > Extending the range of the Airport Base Station Increasing > the range of an Apple Titanium Interoperability with non-Apple > hardware Software Base Station and OS X Wireless networking > security and various basics 101. > --- > > Our "official" session will start at 8PM right after this, but > please come for Cliff's session as it will be applicable to anyone > that wants to or runs a wireless network. (Plus Matt Peterson will > be handing out 100 dollar bills to all that come at 7PM.*) > > What we have planned for 8PM is Cory Doctorow covering some of the > civil rights issues of running open APs. Should be an eye opener. > Cory would also like to you feed back and ideas of how EFF should > approach this issue. If you want to have a voice in this matter, > this is the event you should show up to. > > If you want to see more of what the EFF has been up to on wireless, > check out: > > http://www.eff.org/Infra/Wireless_cellular_radio/ > wireless_friendly_isp_list.html > > And from O'Reilly's site... > > http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/19/bof.html > > --- > Bay Area Wireless User Group (BAWUG) Meeting > Time: 8:00pm - 9:00pm > Location: San Tomas/Lawrence > > The Bay Area Wireless Users Group (BAWUG) will hold a special meeting > at the Westin Santa Clara in conjunction with the O'Reilly Mac OS > X Conference. BAWUG was founded to promote wireless use for the > Greater San Francisco Bay Area. This meeting is open to the public. > Visit the BAWUG website (www.bawug.org) for more information. > --- > > * Just kidding. Matt will be giving away all of his stock options > in Critical Path.** > > ** Ok, you got me. We aren't giving out anything 'cept decent > information on unlicensed wireless devices. > > -- > Snail: Tim Pozar / LNS / 1978 45th Ave / San Francisco CA 94116 / USA > POTS: +1 415 665 3790 Radio: KC6GNJ / KAE6247 > "A mass in movement resists change of direction. So does the world > oppose a new idea. It takes time to make up the minds to its value > and importance. Ignorance, prejudice and inertia of the old retard > its early progress. It is discredited by insincere exponents and > selfish exploiters. It is attacked and condemned by its enemies. > Eventually, though, all barriers are thrown down, and it spreads > like fire. This will also prove true of the wireless art." > - Nikola Tesla in 1908 > -- > general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> > [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
