Washing maps

Washing maps

Photos from the Voluntary & Community Sector Open Source Meze in London I always find it amazing how reliant on everyday household items we are. Months will go past and you won’t even think about how much you use your toaster, oven or some other device....
OpenStreetmap music

OpenStreetmap music

Well, I got my patched Orinoco driver working, and I also got Kismet working and so it outputs what it finds by speaking to me with the Festival speech synthesis system. It is pretty damn good – I still have no idea how to use it to its fullest potential, but it is...
GPS Blogging

GPS Blogging

This week has pretty much reflected exactly what being a freelancer is all about. I have had late nights, early mornings, a variety of different things to work on, challenges speaking to vendors who can’t their arses from their elbows, and I did the whole lot...
Global positioning sucker

Global positioning sucker

I stayed up pretty late last night trying to patch the Orinoco driver so it can slip into monitoring mode. It turns out that the version in 2.6.8 is 0.13a and version 0.15 has the interesting monitoring code in it. Anyway, dragorn from Kismet hacked together a patch...
Washing maps

Wireless abstraction rooms

Got up early today and started writing up some SuperDisc pages for PC Plus magazine. This kind of work is always interesting because I often get to see a broad subset of quality from different vendors. This is no Microsoft, Adobe, Macromedia or other big name...