FON stopped in Germany A court in Cologne recently agreed with the plaintiff, a local ISP , who argued that FON is abusing the flat rate of existing ISPs , "surfing" for free on their biz models and thus using unfair practices against local ISPs. The details of the ruling explicitly show that sharing for free (i.e. in your neighborhood as funkfeuer.at or freifunk do) is perfectly legal. Interesting...


Original news report (german)  ¶ 4:41 AM 0 comments

  opespectrum.eu launches


Opensepctrum.eu is a plattform which pushes for more spectrum for the public.
The great success of Wi-Fi has shown us that ISM bands and free access to spectrum can be extremely useful and help innovative small and medium businesses.


The Open Spectrum Alliance is a coalition of companies, organizations, and individuals working to unlock the potential benefits of bandwidth for all.
Current methods of spectrum regulation are based upon the assumption of scarcity reflecting the technologies of the early 20th Century. "Smart" radio technologies support far more efficient and productive methods of spectrum management.
The Open Spectrum Alliance is united by the goal of realizing the potential social and economic benefits of this underutilized natural resource by promoting innovative public policies.

Labels: openspectrum.eu

  ¶ 6:05 PM 0 comments

  olsrd ported to the google phone (android, G1)!
I have been sitting together today with Ivan Klimek and we were hacking on a few things.
Amongst them something that I wanted to do for a long time already: porting olsrd to the Google Android phone. This means meshing between phones. I love it :)


So basically this is the first demo. We would need a good userinterface of local services around on different G1s and some service discovery. Anybody interested in working on this, please get in touch with aaron - @at@ - lo-res.org.  ¶ 12:20 PM 0 comments

  Ghosts of the internet by Andy Oram I met Andy in Boston and have been following his blog at O'Reilly regularly.
I really enjoyed this particular post - about the Internet's past, present and future. It explains why we need community wifi networks and good policy hacking. Merry x-mas!  ¶ 1:46 PM 0 comments

  olsr-0.5.6-r3 released olsr-core released olsr-0.5.6-r3 today.
I would like to encourage everyone to try this out and report to us if things break.


after 4 weeks of joint collaboration the developer community
have hunt down a couple of bugs. we are proud to release
another spin of our 0.5.6 (stable) branch.

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  ¶ 1:54 PM 0 comments

  T. Clausen's lecture at Wien/funkfeuer.at about OLSRv2 We will start now (19:00 CET, UTC+02) with T. Clausen's presentation
about OLSRv2 in Vienna / funkfeuer.at / metalab.at.
If you are not here you can still join in :

Low quality:

http://superbertram.com/LIVE.html

Better quality + sound:

use VLC (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/), it
can stream via the URL http://supercam.superbertram.com:8080
(in VLC it is important to go to "Open network" and then type in the
URL)

Recordings?

If you want to view the presentation later, please go to
http://sc.superbetram.com/archive/

Have questions?

-> irc: server: p2pchat.net, #funkfeuer.at
I will be there and forward the questions.
In case you have problems with the stream, please send me a mail.

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  ¶ 6:14 AM 0 comments

  update DNS now! The discussion about Dan Kaminsky's discovery of the DNS vulnerability just made a new twist and the vulnerability became more scary. Previously it was agreed upon that we (the internet) are given one month time to patch our DNS servers. That went down to "now" when Matasano leaked the attack and thus the public knew.    ¶ 12:20 AM 0 comments