Networking and Wireless
I know I'm late to the party, but my recent experiments with LinkedIn and Friendster have got me all interested in the potential of software that bulids on top of people's own social networks. There's...
Moshe Zadka: Networking for non-programmers (and a follow up), via Hans Nowak. A nice gently introduction to sockets, with example code using Python's socket library....
Russell Beattie has posted an enthusiastic description of a new IRC application for his mobile phone. It looks really neat, but what got me really interested was his post today about his new laptop:
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Russell Beattie rants with zealot passion about how next generation mobile phones will change the way we live:
Like the mid 1990s when suddenly you could easily use the internet for the first time ...
Jesse Lawrence is also looking to implement his own aggregator:
I've been searching high and low for an RSS reader that I'm happy with and that works on Linux, but so far I've been unsuccessful. ...
In-Room Chat as a Social Tool: Clay Shirky describes an experiment with an online chat room set up to accompany a meeting of 30 people taking place in the same room. The chat room (available to attend...
Some useful Linux Router Project links:
The Linux Router Project Homepage - virtually unmaintained and very out of date.
LEAF on Sourceforge - the home of various LRP packages.
Linux Embedded App...
I spent the last few days setting up a home network. I'm living in a student house with 4 other people and we recently shelled out for a 1 Mbit cable connection fron BlueYonder. I had never built a ne...
Warchalking now has its own website: Warchalking.org. Warchalking is one of those brilliant ideas that quickly takes the 'net (or at least parts of it) by storm. The basic idea is a set of symbols whi...