I am currently back in Trieste, with my good friends Marco and Carlo, and this time the topic is Bandwidth Optimization. More info here: ICTP-SDU: Lowbandwidth Optimization Techniques I’ve given lectures and had lab sessions on Traffic Shaping, and Bandwidth Monitoring, as well as some very basic linux firewalling stuff. There’s about 40 colleagues here [...]

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I wrote this howto on setting up a hotspot system on ubuntu with user authentication about a year ago, but the site that hosted it seems to have gone down. Here’s the original link: http://140.105.28.77:3455/1/62 And here’s the text as stolen from google cache (please excuse the horrible formatting):

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I find this recommendation page from Amazon to be eerily accurate, and quite hilarious all at once. Perhaps the briefest of characterisations of my mind in a long time.

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**Disclosure**: I am currently in the proccess of interviewing for a job with [Fon](http://fon.com/) and this piece is largely a result of me spending time (for the first time in years) on the challenges of shared wireless in the rich countries of the west (rather than thinking mostly about the challenges in the less developed [...]

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For the past 4 months I’ve been working to get a book out on wireless networking. Together with some of the smartest, most passionate people i’ve ever had the pleasure to work with, and lead by experienced technical book author and editor Rob Flickenger, we’ve completed the book. It’s called “WirelessNetworking in the Developing World”, [...]

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For the past 4 years; in fact ever since that fateful day about 5 years ago when I said yes to travel to ghana, working as a volunteer for Africa Express , and genreally having a blast. It was my baptism into the fascinating world that has occupied the last 4 years of my life. [...]

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This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

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Last night around midnight I was chatting with Ethan, friend and fellow bacontarian, and he notified me of his latest post to bacontarian. It is an attempt at unifying the concept of bacontarianism with the new and fastly expaning religion of pastafarianism (the belief that the world was created by the Flying Spaghetti Monster). He [...]

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Yet another of the many ruaral wireless projects that are springing up around the world. Wireless Ghana – Broadband for the West African village. Having been an active advocate and tech trainer on this type of project for about 3 years, it warms my heart whenever i see a project like this. * It proves [...]

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