Out of date to up to date
Bristol Wireless have successfully installed a new broadband computer suite in a sheltered housing unit, improving the quality of life for its 54 residents.
Category Archives: Bristol Wireless News
News about or from Bristol Wireless
Streaming Shane
Chelsea tonight 8 may 05 8pm is Shane
Bristol Wireless to takeover ECC!
Bristol Wireless will be taking over the ECC IT Suite to offer courses and free Internet access.
Streaming from the chelsea
After some successful trials we are now streaming regular nights from the Chelsea Inn. Already we have had Jessie’s regular Wednesday open mike running for the last month and last week was Henry’s Hot Six, rocking modern jazz band plaing Tuesday night. The streams are live on internet and available using your favourite media player. […]
AGM: A Brief Review
On Saturday, the AGM was held. At 10am, we gathered at Bannerman Road School. Whilst some of us set up the tables, chairs and tea/coffee, others worked on the node at the school. The antenna had been realigned by Lloyd earlier in the week, and Matt worked away on the Linksys box to provide connectivity […]
Chelsea fixed, AP up!
Over the past few days Matt and Lloyd have been working on the roof of the Chelsea Inn. The old equipment is gone, a new 3m steel pole has been mounted with an omni and directional link to Twinnell. All equipment was purchased/donated by the Chelsea – thanks Julian for this donation to the community. […]
All your media belong to us
Great link posted as the topic on the #clan channel today: The Limits of SpongeBob SquarePants by Robert X. Cringely. It’s subtitled “One Canadian’s Wireless Neighborhood Network Could Someday Serve Us All”, and describes a project with some remarkable parallels to the work that Bristol Wireless is doing.
Twinnell House Node Revamped
This afternoon Matt and Lloyd braved the wind and rain working on the roof of Twinnell House, the main network node. The following improvements were made: Replaced ‘floppy’ aluminium pole with more rigid steel pole, reducing signal loss due to wind agitation; Removed redundant lightning arrestor on signal cable attached to omni-directional antenna; Replaced and […]
The first GNU/Linux encyclopedia
NewsForge | The first GNU/Linux encyclopedia – Linpedia launched Ahmet Mulalic writes: “Linpedia is the first Linux encyclopedia on the internet that is designed to be read and changed by anyone. It runs on the mediawiki software. The project was started on 24. December 2004. and is located on http://www.linpedia.com domain (think of .com as […]
Greenhaven Up!
Today, Matt, Jim and Lloyd managed to get Greenhaven back online. A new Access Point was configured to remove the performance-sapping WDS links. The Access Point was installed by Jim and Lloyd shortly before Lloyd performed circus-worthy acrobatics on the roof to realign the antenna to point at Twinnell House.
Hello world!
Welcome to the first post in the Bristol Wireless News section in its new incarnation as a WordPress blog. So then, one might say that the news is that the news is new on the site… Actually, what happened is that there used to be a phpBB bulletin board on this site, and, yes, it […]
Advice on wireless setup for me and a friend from Swansea
I’m in a non-broadband area in Swansea and im trying to sort out a wireless connection with a friend who lives 200 metres away from me who is in a cabled area. Is 200 metres a feasible distance to attempt a wireless connection bearing in mind that our houses are not in line of sight […]
Open-source geeks are modern heroes, says think tank
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39175467,00.htm Coders who give up their spare time to contribute to open source projects are the virtual equivalent of lifeboat men, according to latest research from Demos Britain’s open-source software developers make a valuable contribution to society and the British economy through the high quality of their work, according to Demos. The UK think tank […]
Circus 2 Iraq Benefit Party – Dec 10th
well, i sort of agree sam_ , and it its great shame. We live in the area of the planet occupied by the rich 10%, indeed are the rich 10% and it’s makes it hard to stay sane in such an unequal world if you have the slightest shred of empathy in your heart … […]
BT dangles Wi-Fi for a quid
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/01/bt_wifi_quid/ BT is trying to drum up business for its Wi-Fi broadband service by offering an entry-level package for just £1 a month. Snag is, you have to be an existing BT Business Broadband, BT Broadband or BT Yahoo! Broadband customer to take up the offer. That aside, anyone signing up to the time-limited promo […]
Bristol City Council moves in the right Direction
Bristol goes open source http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/online/archives/microsoft/2004/10/bristol_goes_open_source.html "The biggest ever switch by a UK local authority away from Microsoft software to ‘StarOffice’ desktop solutions based on open source software is set to take place at Bristol City Council," reports E-Government Bulletin. "Bristol is poised to move up to 5,000 of its staff desktop computers to the StarOffice […]
Update on roll out
Yesterday (Tuesday 19th Oct) Rich and Dick Turpin met some of the parents in the planned recipient households to give them a bit more information about what they may expect over the next few weeks. A leaflet was distributed entitled "Some information about the project …" and a questionnaire hurriedly put together by both of […]
Creative Expo 04
John Mayford has given us an invite to the Creative Expo 04 at the LShed on Bristol harbourside on 22/23rd October. The event hasbeen orgnaised by Bristol East Side Traders – http://www.bristoleastsidetraders.co.uk/ and I’m sending off for an official pack now. Are you an artist, designer, maker, photographer, performer, comedian, architect, street artist or poet […]
Migration Stories
Nailing another Microsoft TCO tall tale http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/10/06/1938256 At Rouse’s Supermarkets in Louisiana, it was just another July day in 2004. Customers placed their summer grocery selections on the conveyor belts; cashiers scanned them and collected the amount due using their touch-screen terminals, just like always. But underneath the hustle and bustle at the checkout lanes, […]
Music on the network?
I’ve recently moved back to Easton and I’m planning on getting myself a wireless card and joining the fun soon. But – to be cynical – all I see on the website, forum and mailing list is technical geek-speak. Surely there’s more to it than this? (Apologies, no offence to geeks intended.) I’m a musician. […]