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SeattleWireless TV: Flickenger, Warcopter, And More 85

Posted by timothy from the made-local-think-global dept.
Michael Pierce writes "SeattleWireless TV has done it again! This months SeattleWireless TV show features an Interview with Rob Flickenger the inventor of the pringles cantenna and co-author of Nocat, an open source wireless captive portal. Then we have a chance to hear from Risto Koiva about his remote controlled helicopter with a 2.4ghz installed camera and gps unit, learn about the Personal Telco Project out of Portland, Oregon and finally a product review on the new WatchGuard SoHo 6 wireless firewall. Download the Mpeg version here or Watch the Windows Media Stream here, or the RealPlayer stream here."
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SeattleWireless TV: Flickenger, Warcopter, And More More

SeattleWireless TV: Flickenger, Warcopter, And More

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  • enjoy the show ;) (Score:3, Informative)

    by MichaelPierce ( 694181 ) on Thursday August 21, 2003 @12:58PM (#6756676) Journal
    Hope you guys enjoy the show I worked hard on it!

  • Torrent! (Score:3, Insightful)

    by gerf ( 532474 ) on Thursday August 21, 2003 @12:59PM (#6756683) Journal
    Someone, make a .torrent of that 186 meg .mpeg file. It won't last long!
  • An ad for some web show?

    On this weeks episode of Will & Grace, hilarity ensues when Will is caught in bed with his gay lover by Grace's visiting uncle! All starting on must see TV!

    • *Especially* (but not only) at a time when so many networks are still hobbled, I think it's absolutely brain-dead that anybody would think of having people download VIDEO of information that is almost certainly as well represented in text, and certainly more easily distributable. A product review of a router (or was it a firewall) ? An interview with some hacker ? This is stuff that needs to be in *video* ? If they were highlights from the Superbowl, or clips of Bill Gates getting a pie in the face, fine,
      • Yeah, all those people who watch news videos and interview videos are obviously just a fluke.

        I mean, come on! It's not like we need 24 hour news channels or anything! Next, we'll have, like, channels on TV for just shopping...
    • Seattlewireless is the coolest. Only if you haven't tried to create a wireless MAN in your neighborhood would you think otherwise. But for those of you who are wired, you should realize the significance. Global warming, some new video card, and other stuff are slashdotted; but this is earth shattering. Personal wireless could possibly save each and everyone of us $100+ per month on phone, net, and cable not to mention creating true freedom of information (or will we each have a "carnivore" inside our Intel?

  • Cantenna? (Score:3, Funny)

    by notque ( 636838 ) on Thursday August 21, 2003 @01:04PM (#6756740) Homepage Journal
    This months SeattleWireless TV show features an Interview with Rob Flickenger the inventor of the pringles cantenna.

    So he's the guy to invent the tennis ball like tube for pringles?

  • Post a TORRENT link (Score:1, Offtopic)

    by adpsk ( 629601 )
    I don't see why people don't automatically post a torrent link. Better yet it should be automatic that slash proxy/wrap all links with a torrent file. Neil?

  • I wish there were more shows like this ... (Score:5, Insightful)

    by torpor ( 458 ) <<moc.liamg> <ta> <musibi>> on Thursday August 21, 2003 @01:08PM (#6756776) Homepage Journal
    ... on the Internet.

    Where *are* all the wonderful 'independent' movies and documentaries and such on the Internet these days? Back in the early 90's, we predicted there'd be simply scads of new and entertaining film content available on the 'net for perusal, but it seems like its either 'movieflix' or sites like silversow.com and demandmedia.net, none of which truly satisfies my urge to surf/download and watch good quality film media I got from the Internet.

    And no, before you comment, I don't want to know where to go to find pr0n or filez, I want to know where the actual artists and authors and writers who stand to *benefit* from open, broad dissemination of their works are putting it for download by people ... like me ... who don't have TV but sure have bandwidth.

    SeattleWireless TV goes in the bookmarks. I wish there were tons more interesting sites like this to keep my mpeg-player eye focused on, anyway ...
    • Where *are* all the wonderful 'independent' movies and documentaries and such on the Internet these days?

      Turns out that bandwidth and storage space costs money. Back then everyone thought the internet would just magically spit money out of every phone and ethernet jack in the world. Every computer nerd would earn 7 figures from the banner ads on their Simpsons fan site. Ahhhh, the good ole' days.

      • hmm (Score:2)

        by MenTaLguY ( 5483 )
        ...but the people distributing e.g. pirated movies are operating under the same constraints, aren't they?

        I would imagine that BitTorrent (especially with an autoseeding tracker) would mitigate bandwidth problems for e.g. independent films. Storage isn't that expensive by comparison.

        • Re:hmm (Score:2, Insightful)

          by stratjakt ( 596332 )
          Thats a good point.

          Maybe people just dont want to watch amateur home movies.

          Unless they're porn.
          • Maybe people just dont want to watch amateur home movies.

            Unless they're porn.

            Exactly! If people want the content badly enough, they will find a way to get it.

            The point is having content that people actually want.... Like porn.
          • Eh, I think the real problem is twofold:

            1. people don't know about most of the good independent artists, so they just look for ways to get more of what they already know they like.

            2. a lot of indepentent artists aren't really any more comfortable than the RIAA with distributing their works in any "free" way. Often it's more a question of discomfort with derivative works/modification/misattribution than it is a question of money, though. Worst case: think about the popular flash movies that are passe
    • Where *are* all the wonderful 'independent' movies and documentaries and such on the Internet these days?

      All your base are belong to us. Stick Fighting Ninjas doing battle. That chick who dances to really bad music like, "Touch Myself"

      There's a plethora of wonderful Internet Content.

      I think there's even a site about girls who make out in a bathtub. Viva la Internet.
    • I want to know where the actual artists and authors and writers who stand to *benefit* from open, broad dissemination of their works are putting it for download by people

      Well, it would seem that it is a load of crap. Perhaps it is the case that authors and writers, creative minds and forward-thinking individuals do not benefit from giving away their trade for free. It seems when people put their stuff out for free, cheap bastards expect them to continue putting their stuff out for free.

      An example are th

    • Good independent films (Score:5, Informative)

      by OneIsNotPrime ( 609963 ) on Thursday August 21, 2003 @01:35PM (#6757015)

      True, seems like there would be more stuff out there, but there are some great ones like these to keep your eyes open for.

    • From where I sit, on the indy video side of the razor wire, there's a pretty large knowledge gap between the creators, the would-be purveyors, and the audience. Y'all have the techie wherewithal to know how you want your content delivered, but very few people I know in the biz have devoted enough time to figuring out how to provide it in a format that satisfies their dubiously artistic integrity. I know of a couple of local production teams who are trying to do this, but they're driven entirely by profit,

  • Awesome post (Score:5, Insightful)

    by prestidigital ( 341064 ) * on Thursday August 21, 2003 @01:09PM (#6756787) Journal
    Some Slashdotters are just too damn cynical and conspiracy-minded. I did not think for a second that this was posted just to be an advertisement. It is only an advertisement in as much as it shows how cool the project is. I thought of it like PBS or NPR. More importantly, the post is not about Seattle Wireless TV. It's about what they are reporting. I think the reports are excellent. I learned things I didn't know. (And it was a nice change from reading/scrolling lengthy articles.)
    • Some Slashdotters are just too damn cynical and conspiracy-minded.

      You say that to belittle our opinions, thus taking us off guard so that you can attack our beliefs.

      We're on to you.

  • is runnong on one of these wireless links... Bittorrent anywhere???
  • I want one of these that I can have it fly in front of my car, about a mile ahead, and send video back to me so I can spot the stormtroopers hiding in the median and on the sides of the road. What kind of range does it have? ( and what's the top speed? )

    Robert
    • What, so you can drive off the road because you're watching the monitor instead of out the windshield? And we thought cell phones were bad.
    • You want to use the mini-helicopter as radar detector? Come on, you can do better that that! How about loading one up with Anthrax spores and buzzing the set of the Today Show. Now that's entertainment!

  • Well, since no one can see it.... (Score:2, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward
    Lets all post inane comments about the article anyway.

    I'll get it started:

    I wish I had a Warcopter.
    186MB mpeg?? Are you frickin nuts???
    I built a cantenna once. It didn't work. Then I got rooted.
    SCO sucks.
    Slashdotted already!!!
    Whine, whine, whine.

  • What a horrible review of the Watchguard (Score:3, Informative)

    by bogie ( 31020 ) on Thursday August 21, 2003 @02:04PM (#6757357) Journal
    Honectly that's probably the worst product review I've ever seen. Perhaps there is most footage then from 12:42 to ~13.42? Because I've seen better product info on QVC. Basically they just how great the product is and all you hear about from a security standpoint(These are wireless experts right?) is that it has 128bit WEP, MAC filtering and VPN. They also mention in passing that its cpu is powerful enough for antivirus. Yawn. And this is different from a $60 Dlink WAP how?

    So if you haven't watched the review but were planning on it, don't because its a waste of time.
    There is way more information on the companies first page for the product.

    Sorry to be so negative, but really if your going to bill yourself as an authority on "Community, Corporate, and Home Wireless applications, hardware, security," then leave the fluff PR pieces to the companies marketing divisions.
  • More of that archaic, Horse and Buggy technology [slashdot.org] the ham radio operators have access to, eh?

    Yes, the sarcasmizer is engaged...

    -- CP

    - There are 10 types of people; those who understand binary, and those who don't.

  • ...so I can beat the person who came up with the word "cantenna".

  • See him at SCALE (Score:2, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward
    Rob will be speaking this November at SCALE 2x [socallinuxexpo.org] in Los Angeles.
  • Sorry, I know they sound great because they're based on Linux (which should by all right automatically raise them to a better operating level since you know the foundations are pretty good). This is a bit out of character for me because I usually don't come down so hard on products...

    Any Watchguard security device I've worked with that is under even moderate load start so lose sessions, drop packets, and reboot. This goes for the SoHo series as well. They don't do much against even the most basic DoS a

    • Boy, where are my mod points today...

      You're dead on about these damn things not being very tolerant..we've got a couple of them here, and they are easy to use, but just *don't* try to port scan 'em...they'll reboot!

      There good for internal firewalls that are protecting "less used" assets, but for an all out firewall for a 100 user network, it's plain suck.

      Steven V.
  • I've been to Seattle. They've got several wireless TV stations. KING-TV does a lot more than one program a month, as I recall, although the other network outlets may be more limited.


    I even heard from someone who was there more recently that they've now installed indoor plumbing in most of their larger public buildings. Someday I'll have to hitch up the wagon and go see if indoor is really that much better.



  • http://www.ubergeek.tv/bt/August2003.mpg.torrent

    And as always, PLEASE leave your Bittorrent download windows open after you finish, to keep the download alive!

    • After setting up the bittorrent and downloading the movie myself, it looks as though I have an incomplete movie file and so the Bittorrent link is offline. Unless people write saying they want it, it'll stay down. Slashdot effect should be lessened now anyway!

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