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You! Stuck in a hotel? Want Wi-Fi?

Posted by John Adams on July 10th, 2009

Here’s two scripts you can run if you have a 3G card, and a few friends stuck in the hotel room with you who want WiFi.
First, turn your laptop into an access point. These scripts work on MacOS X running 10.5.4 or better — good luck!
I call this script ‘make-me-an-access-point.sh’:

#!/bin/sh

#Edit your /etc/rc.conf to set [...]

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Two great talks for Wednesday

Posted by John Adams on July 8th, 2009

Two great presentations I’ve recently read and want to share with you:
Tim O’Reilly and John Battelle’s “Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On“.
Read that, perhaps while watching/listening toKevin Kelly’s riveting talk (from the TED EG conference) on the next 5000 days of the web (that’s right, we’re only 5000 days old) and the future of [...]

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