For fans of Bail’s culinary skills and a nice afternoon out in the countryside in Bails extensive grounds, don’t forget the man himself is having a summer BBQ for kids and refugees from Glastonbury on Saturday afternoon The postcode is BS49 4BQ for multimap afficianodos and http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/ for trains 2 Yatton All (apparently) welcome!
This Sunday, 20th June 2004 : Marcel Mouton’s Picnic in the Park It’s Father’s Day. It’s the Summer Solstice….. and it’s time to put together a picnic basket and get over to Horfield Common. Marcel will be serving strawberries and cream to his flock at the Ardagh Sports Club on Horfield Common in Bristol, garnished […]
Forwarded from info@bristolwireless.net From: Jim Barker <iflyrc2@pacbell.net> To: info@bristolwireless.net Subject: Wireless backpack repeater Date: 08 Jun 2004 19:37:25 -0700 I would like to plans for the wireless backpack repeater. Software, antenna, etc. Thank you for your time. Jim Barker Grass Valley CA. USA Possible technical write-up required methinks Sean
Hi all, I’ve only just read your post up via e-mail and I’m at work as I don’t have a PC at home. I live St Werburghs, but I’m really interested in setting up a local internet radio station, but have not got a clue where to start? Any advice would be much appreciated. Lloyd […]
The Bristol and Area Co-operative Roundtable Saturday 27thMArch 2004, 3-6pm @the Cube Microplex, Dove Street, Bristol BS2 8JB Final program and content TIMETABLE 3.00 – 3.30 pm – PRESENTATION: by Bryan Titley (Avon CDA) 3.30 – 4.30 pm – GROUP DISCUSSIONS 1 – SOURCE OF FINANCE FOR CO-OPS + possibility of purchasing a building for […]
Probably not our cup of tea… The Digital Partnership is an international partnership facilitating innovation and affordable access to technology, training and the Internet for learning, enterprise and development in developing and emerging market economies through a sustainable private/public partnership model. It is an initiative of the International Business Leaders Forum, established in May 2001 […]
Richard and I had a good meeting with Adam Cattle the Education IT support officer with responsibility for Bannerman Road School on Friday (16/1) facilitated by Dick Turpin, the school’s community development worker, and one of the governors (or he might have left the governors to take up this post, I didn’t get clear that […]
I am hoping to start a discussion of what software we want on our Bristol Wireless Distro. I am currently thinking of re-mastering morphix and adding a few more packages to it. It is the only distro which comes (in its light GUI form) with XFCE as the default desktop, and a fairly well configured […]
Course Introduction: Open Access Radio: Do you have have something to say? Over eight weeks this course will provide a practical introduction to speech based radio as an accessible means of communication. The course will be taught using the Dyne:bolic toolkit – a free GNU/Linux distribution on a CD-Rom that turns any PC with a […]
I am hoping to test at least one distro a week and post the results here in this topic. I will be testing them on a variety of platforms and making brief reports. Please join me and try to chart the ever expanding distro space. The trouble with sites like distro watch is they include […]
Transcode is a command line video stream conversion utility for GNU/Linux. It will successfully re-encode a huge variety of sources into a huge variety of outputs. It will be useful to the BW project as it is possible to encode stream from most video sources into MPEG4 formats like divx5 and xvid. It takes a […]
Thanks to Rich for all the help and advice – we have two omni’s up and running on Sydenham Road (back of Ninetree Hill) and Armada Place. I’m posting this from the new office! We have built the system from the ground up using Debian with two MA311 cards. I hope to be able to […]
It was raised at the meeting that we could either run a big event like last time at the ECC, or run smaller 2 hour training/giveaway sessions at the office. What’s everyone’s opinion on this? Personally, I think the smaller sessions at the office will be better. + Smaller groups mean less volunteers + No […]
I’m wondering.. Given that signal loss on coax is big problem with wireless networking.. How pricey is low loss coax (by the metre). Is it cheaper to make mast mountable AP (AP in a box) and run power over ethernet to it .. if not a matter of cost , a matter of performance which […]