If anyone knows about real-world Wi-Fi, it's Glenn Fleishman. Now he's
selling a $5 PDF book on how to set up a wireless network with
Macintoshes. If you are having any trouble at all with your Airport
network, this book is $5 well spent. Link
In his email signature, Glenn Fleishman calls himself
an unsolicited pundit -- and he's not lying. He'll send you a five
page screed on the latest Wi-Fi news, dropping unexpected science out
of the ether, and every single time you'll come away smarter than you
started. Fortunately, he doesn't limit his insight to email, instead
writing for a variety of outlets including the Seattle Times and his
own technology weblog, Wi-Fi
Networking News. When we solicited him about his gadget bag, Glenn
graciously provided in spades, even in the eve of the birth of his
son. Thanks Glenn, and congratulations to you and your wife! After the
first cut, may your son's life always be wireless.
Wireless. Sure. What a dream. I make most of my living writing
about wireless technology, primarily Wi-Fi. So why is my traveling bag
full of wires? Is it because Bluetooth turned out to be weaker and
more confusing than planned? Is it because I have too much equipment
that doesn't use standards? These are the questions I ask when I look
at my regular traveling kit, and I have no good answers, just more
wires.
Glenn Fleishman on digital radio
Glenn Fleishman on digital radio01/04/2005 06:20 PM Mark Frauenfelder:
Glenn Fleishman sez: "I wrote my own take on a Wired News story about
the RIAA's lobbying of the FCC to get broadcast flags embedded in
digital radio content. Digital radio is now offered by about 150 AM/FM
stations in the U.S. even though only about 10,000 to 35,000
(estimated) high-definition or HD radios that can receive the digital
content were sold in 2004. Terrestrial digital AM/FM will grow to at
least 2,000 stations by 2007, and millions of receivers by 2008,
according to analysts. With HD, AM stations sound like FM (and don't
disappear in underpasses) and FM stations sound like CD quality.
Reportedly! I haven't heard it yet." Link
10.4: Reclaim 'Automatic' AirPort network selection06/17/2005 04:40 PM For those of us (foolhardily?) brave enough to upgrade to Tiger via
Archive & Install, one of the annoying consequences can be the
inability to select anything other than "A specific network" in the
Network settings panel to ...
ICOA Buys Airport Network Solutions
ICOA Buys Airport Network Solutions11/13/2003 02:51 PM ICOA, which puts Internet terminals in places like airports and
hotels, bought Airport Network Solutions: ANS supplies Wi-Fi to the
Sacramento, Calif. airport and ICOA already offers Wi-Fi in the Baton
Rouge airport. ICOA hopes to build Wi-Fi networks everywhere it has
Internet terminals. ICOA says it already offers Internet terminals and
hot spots in 180 locations, including over 100 Panera Bread shops....
Las Vegas Airport Deploys One of The Largest Free Wi-Fi Network in The World
Cisco releases Network Admission Control products06/21/2004 10:59 AM Cisco Systems Inc. said that products are now available for its
months-old Network Admission Control, or NAC, program to integrate
information technology (IT) security features and policies into
network switching and routing products.
Device Server for Network-enabling Industrial Control Devices
Even though Apple is claiming on their website that the new
Airport Express can only act as a network range extender (signal
repeater) with other Airport devices (look at the bottom of this page),
WiFi Networking News's Glenn Fleishman explains why the Airport
Express may just work with some non-Apple devices after all:
AirPort Prices Drop Before Airport Express Release (05-Jul-2004; 1.5K)
What's in Your Gadget Bag, Glenn?03/08/2004 11:19 PM Glenn Reynolds, of Instapundit fame, may focus his blogging on
politics and law, but he's a gearhead at heart. Here's a list of
the...
In the world of a 1,000,000,000,000,000 memes - getting your
message out there is pretty important.
That's just part of what my company Broadband Mechanics does -
but certainly one of the more important things we offer.
Joi does it for Nokia. Doc does it for Kim Polese and Spikesource.
We all gotta make a living.
But many us - especially Joi and Doc - also make contributions -
give something back. I've been working my ass off - and spending
money on ourmedia.org.
I hope you like it.
And thank you to Glenn Reid. He not only brought us iMovie and
iPhoto - but he also helped spread my meme even further. Maybe one
day I'll be as cool as Scoble.
Royal Netherlands Army Awards Intelliden a Multi-Million Euro Contract To Support Elite Command and Control Communications Infrastructure, Supporting the Network Centric Warfare Concept
Glenn Fleishman's gadget bag07/23/2004 02:39 AM The latest victim in Gizmodo's "What's in Your Gadget Bag?" feature is
Glenn Fleishman, who comes clean about a truly astonishing amount of
crap that he lugs around with him in his electronics kit, described
with the loving verbosity of a real geek.
The camera used to take this picture is a Canon S1 IS, a 3-megapixel
device that has a 10x optical zoom, interchangeable lenses, and uses
four AA batteries. Using 2200 milliamphere hour (mAh) batteries
recently, I took 500 photos and movies over the course of a month
before swapping out another set and recharging. The camera does 640 by
480, 30 frame per second mono-audio video up to the size of the memory
card on top of its anti-jitter-motor photos.
Finally, I always carry a 12-foot extension cord with multiple plugs
on the end, and the alternative two-prong adapter for my Apple power
supply. You never know how many friends you have until you have extra
outlets.
Youth 'Hijacks' Airport Bus to the Airport (Reuters)
Youth 'Hijacks' Airport Bus to the Airport (Reuters)03/22/2005 04:51 PM Reuters - A Japanese youth who wanted to go to
Tokyo's Haneda airport boarded a bus heading there before
threatening to hijack it unless it took him to ... the airport.
Glenn Milne: The challenge is in the waiting03/08/2004 11:23 PM Hence Costello's description of Latham as the "Google economist".
Conversely, there's a growing realisation in the cabinet that
Howard "missed" Latham. ...
Glenn Reynolds "gets shrill" about the Palestinians
The Idea:
As regular readers know, I have occasionally published articles on
this
site from people who do not have their own weblogs. This will mark the
third time I've published the work of Glenn Parton, best
known for his wonderful eco-philosophy/ eco-psychology essays The Machine in our
Heads and Humans
in the Wilderness. His essay Love Politics was published here last year, and Part 1 of
this three-part essay, entitled Exterminis
m,
was published here in January. As I mentioned in Part 1, the ideas in
the essay are Glenn's, not mine, and you can tell him what you think
through the comment facility below, or e-mail him
directly. I'll add my two cents at the end of Part 3. In this part,
Glenn moves from criticism of Western culture to mysticism in support
of a polyamory life:
Free Love, by Glenn
Parton
Look up at the clear night sky!
The free play of two cosmic forces, Eros and Thanatos, Love and Hate,
Attraction and Repulsion, Intimacy and Distance, sustains harmony
among
the heavenly bodies and evolves the beauty, wisdom, and goodness of
the
universe. What is the message or lesson for human association or
society that is written in the cosmos? We know that human society is a
microcosm of this great celestial order, and that we have fallen out
of
balance with the rest of Nature. What must we do in order to become
part of the Universal Harmony again?
Everyone recognizes that friendship cannot be mandated or legislated,
that it arises naturally, spontaneously, one person at a time, and
that
it is possible and desirable to have many friends, on different levels
of communication, conversation, and commitment. The hope of peace on
earth, and peace with the earth, has a lot to do with spreading
friendship around the world, but I do not believe this ideal will ever
be realized (enough to save the world) until we acknowledge that Yin
and Yang, the feminine spirit and the masculine spirit, are also
cosmological principles and/or forces, which change the balancing
point
between men and women by adding sexuality to the mix. We should not
pursue a vision of worldwide peace and friendship that ignores,
minimizes, or misunderstands the sexual-polarity of human
association.
My heavenly vision, and long-range political solution, is Free Love
between man and woman. By free love I mean sexual love that does not
restrict itself to one person at a time. It means holding oneself open
to the possibility of sexually loving more than one, and taking that
voyage when the opportunity arrives; it means taking each man/woman
relationship on its own terms, as far as it will go, as far as it
wants
to go, including sexuality, until it finds its own point of
equilibrium
between Love and Hate, Intimacy and Distance. That is the Way to reach
the proper balance between men and women. The message of evolution is
that each being finds its balancing point with all other beings,
according to the laws of nature, including Yin-Yang, creating a
self-balancing dynamic whole in which each being is what it is in
terms
of the totality of its relationships.
Human beings must freely associate, form, and bond, including Yin-Yang
sexual energies, or we disturb the natural order of human society, our
alignment or agreement with the logic and love of the cosmos. Human
society, with its sexual-polarity, must freely arrange itself, or we
will not achieve a harmonious community, and without a harmonious
community we will not reach consensus on the political level because
sexual frustrations, conflicts and hostilities spill over into the
major areas of life, work and government. In other words, the
ideal of
friendship will remain an empty ideal if we do not understand that
free
love is part of the original architecture of human togetherness, and
that we must allow sexuality between men and women to work itself out,
according to inherent interests and desires, or we will never build
good government, real democracy, or a true Republic because if we do
not first put our sexual lives in proper order, then politics will
collapse on a faulty foundation. Out of the fundamental harmony of a
sexually balanced civil society will come political intelligence and
wisdom.
Respond, as much as you can, to all heavenly bodies orbiting around
you. That’s how the suns and moons and planets behave toward one
another, pushing and pulling everything into a vibrating, pulsating,
interconnected totality. Of course it is not possible to love everyone
with the same intensity and completeness (with some people a simple
nod
or smile, or even silent toleration, is enough), but each man/woman
relationship has its natural sexual closeness and distance, and we
must
have the courage to seek it, and go there, without interference from
custom, convention, or imposed morality. Friendship is always, at
bottom, a relationship between two people, but everyone knows that it
is not socially desirable, not community-building, for each person to
have only one friend. Rather, each person is permitted and encouraged
to have a diversity of friends, each one created on its own unique
terms, as deeply as possible, with no outside direction or definition.
If sexual love was free to follow this path, like friendship, then we
would have discovered the secret ingredient in a self-balancing social
constellation (of friends and lovers), and secured the social
foundation for rational discourse and action.
If there was only Love, then the Big Bang would not have occurred, and
the world would collapse (into undifferentiated Oneness), and
evolution
would have to begin again; if there was only Hate, then the world
would
fragment, scatter, and fly apart. The Great Harmony is a balance
between the forces of Attraction and Repulsion, Contraction and
Expansion, Integration and Disintegration. Free Love is the mystery of
the universe, and if human beings would learn to sexually love who we
want, when we want, in the way that we want, as much as we want,
instead of imposing artificial constraints, or false morality, on
love,
then the gravity of love would create a tight and intricate web of
human connections in which we would not have to struggle for political
consensus because we would already basically have it.
The first and foremost criticism that is raised against free love is
that it harms children, but actually it is best for children because
the nuclear family is too small a world for the development of the
vast
potential of children. The nuclear family limits childhood reality to
the overbearing influence of two adult perspectives, making it nearly
impossible for the child to escape from prejudice, ignorance,
narrowness, and parental unconsciousness. The wounds of the parents
are
visited on the children, and the cycle of the neurotic family is
perpetuated from one generation to the next, which slows down the
evolution of the human species tremendously. Free love makes intimate
communities (like tribes), rather than isolated families, the center
of
childhood upbringing, exposing the child to many viewpoints, expanding
his/her consciousness, increasing the opportunities for sanity and
self-realization.
A second objection that is raised against free love is that it will
not
work because human beings are competitive, jealous and possessive
creatures, but actually it is monogamy that causes these problems
because it makes us fearful that if s/he loves someone other than me,
then s/he cannot also love me. If your concept of love is limited,
then
that creates jealousy and possessiveness because you are afraid of
loss, abandonment and loneliness, but if you “see” that it
is possible
to love more than one, then you will not fear abandonment and
loneliness when love overflows to include others. Free love makes
intimate networks (like tribes), rather than fragmented couples, the
center of personal life and love, exposing the adult to a diversity of
potential lovers, broadening the horizon of intimate contact,
communication, and knowledge, increasing the opportunities for
security
and happiness.
Another criticism leveled against free love is that there is not
enough
time to love more than one, but of course love concerns quality, not
quantity. Eliminating the boredom of monogamy alone would provide more
than enough time for at least a few additional lovers, and then there
are those habits, routines, hobbies, and fantasies that could be
replaced, for almost no money, with deep and thrilling real sexual
love
adventures. There will never be enough time for co-dependent
individuals because every gesture or sign of independence is seen as a
minimization or devaluation of their relationship, and there will
never
be enough time for someone who is waiting for the one and only perfect
lover. Such people cannot get enough love no matter how much they get
because they misunderstand free love. To these people I say:
contemplate the heavens and let your personal life become a feeling
and
thoughtful expression of the Will, intention, and intelligence of the
Universe!
Interview: Glenn Henry of Centaur
Interview: Glenn Henry of Centaur06/10/2004 12:59 PM LinuxDevices.com has a new interview with
Glenn Henry, the CEO and founder of Austin-based Centaur, a subsidiary
of VIA
Technologies. These are the folks that design CPUs for the Mini-ITX
and Nano-ITX boards. There's
a lot of interesting info in the interview about the company and the
hardware. He says a number of their engineers have built robots, so
it's
only natural that the products from Centaur and VIA are being designed
to
work well in small, low-power, Linux-based configurations.
"The TSA Chief at Dulles Airport was nabbed for drunk driving yesterday at 1 o'clock AM, at which time he was supposed to be on duty supervising Orange Level security at our capital's airport."
To Do in LA: Glenn Tillbrook doc film free preview
To Do in LA: Glenn Tillbrook doc film free preview04/10/2004 01:59 PM
Friend o' BoingBoing and rock-n-roll legend bassgoddessgreta (Moby, Debbie
Harry, The Nuns, etc.) sends word of an offbeat new documentary film
starring former Squeeze
frontman Glenn Tilbrook.
Twenty years ago with Squeeze, touring meant 18 wheelers, hotel suites
and police-escorted limos. Now Tilbrook's music now finds its audience
through a more independent route -- which involves a big mobile home
and a new indie sensibililty.
In November 2001, to support the release of his debut solo CD, The Incomplete
Glenn Tilbrook, Glenn embarked on a different kind of independent
route as he took to the road in America: One man, two guitars and a
mobile home.
Glenn Tilbrook: One for the Road follows him on every step of
that journey: arriving in the States; picking up his mobile home;
performing the shows; meeting the fans; packing away his guitars;
camping at campgrounds; traveling in the RV: All access, all of the
time. It's an intimate look at how an established musician adjusts to
his new independent surroundings. It's a commentary on the current
state of the music industry. But, most importantly, it's a human
interest story that transcends its musical base.
Link to movie homepage, and
check it out in LA at a free preview screening on Tuesday, May 11th,
8:00pm at CineSpace, 6356 Hollywood Blvd. 2nd Floor. 323 817 3456.
LinuxDevices interviewed VIA C3 architect Glenn Henry.
Glenn Reynolds talks about Technorati on Charlie Rose
Glenn Reynolds talks about Technorati on Charlie Rose03/14/2005 05:34 PM Charlie Rose had Andrew Sullivan, Ana Marie Cox, Joe Trippi, and
Glenn Reynolds on his show last week, and I was pretty amazed when I
watched the preview clips, and then the actual show. Here's what was
highlighted by...
"Glenn Reynolds goes on a bit more on the subject and how it relates to the artillery shell filled with Sarin gas today."
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In November 2001, to support the release of his debut solo CD, The Incomplete Glenn Tilbrook, Glenn embarked on a different kind of independent route as he took to the road in America: One man, two guitars and a mobile home. Glenn Tilbrook: One for the Road follows him on every step of that journey: arriving in the States; picking up his mobile home; performing the shows; meeting the fans; packing away his guitars; camping at campgrounds; traveling in the RV: All access, all of the time. It's an intimate look at how an established musician adjusts to his new independent surroundings. It's a commentary on the current state of the music industry. But, most importantly, it's a human interest story that transcends its musical base.
In his email signature, Glenn Fleishman calls himself
an unsolicited pundit -- and he's not lying. He'll send you a five
page screed on the latest Wi-Fi news, dropping unexpected science out
of the ether, and every single time you'll come away smarter than you
started. Fortunately, he doesn't limit his insight to email, instead
writing for a variety of outlets including the Seattle Times and his
own technology weblog, 
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