[MLB-WIRELESS] more important issues <aka: guerilla radio is by ninjas, for ninjas. Worked for global IP's development!>

[dwayne]

Ben Ryan wrote:
> 
> is a shit of a job locking it all down. And by it's nature, lockdown
> always limits functionality. So I also share the opinion that we
> should not be getting granular security and b/w mgmnt in the road, but
> simply perform the equivalent of Win9x FP sharing: Share perms: read
> only, full axs and none. Build a boundary before walling between
> flats, and keep it that way until the flats get a few bad neighbours.
> Then worry about it.


Argh! I totally disagree! I think each node should be as secure as
possible. Otherwise one box will be compromised and we'll all get
hacked.


> No flames can be justified for expressing a valid opinion. Nor should
> there be that sort of denigration within our collective: we rely on
> the warm-and-fuzzy feel-good happy neighbour "open-source" mentality
> to make this thing work. 

Hmmm, I seem to recall a certain exhange some time ago...  :-)


> How many IETF and ICANN committees and
> working groups have collapsed under their own internal strife and
> torpedoed good technologies lacking in standardisation in the process?
> Ehe, ORBS and MAPS eg. Same destination, but with egos and personal
> wheelbarrows blocking the road. Net effect is collapse.

I agree with this bit, though  :-)

> So enuff of the philosphy incursion, some tech is due.

 
> Infrastructure issues need to be defined before they can be addressed.
> I don't think a list is the best place to collaborate on development;
> there's a board up, and threads are the only way to manage dev
> discussions... [Steve??]

Oh.
god.
no.

Keep it via email.

for instance, I'mm offline right now, and reading this in batch mode.
Are you going to cut me out of the discussionsa? I've been invovled in
fairly large projects online for over ten years now, email works just
fine.

Hell, use a threaded mail reader if you have to.
 

> *DNS - internal DNS hierachy to bring some workable order and
> structure to the chaos

Yup.

> *Information and resource collection - Some sort of central collection
> of info; sorta like melbwireless.dyndns.org website, with their info
> sections, but more comprehensive. 

Isn't that us?

> Easily done by firing up members
> into doing their own piece on something they know about; heh, for me,
> there's lots that can be put up to help others but I ph33r the HTML -
> maybe one of us has html as second nature and can facilitate the
> process?

Yeah, I can do that, although being offline there is some turnaround
involved.

Although it seems I might be able to get Optus at Home on for $100 in the
next few days. Woo.
 
> <sniff... what's that smell???>
> after leaving a hot-jug of tea on the kitchen bench fire away for
> half an hour till red hot and burning a wavelength-diameter hold in my
> blacktop, and hazing out the whole house i reckon it's time to go
> offline :(


Aha! This is why I ONLY use electric kettles nowadays.  :-)

I once reduced a kettle to a puddle of molten aluminium. Awp.

Dwayne

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