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Tuesday, January 8, 2002
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 Tuesday, January 8, 2002
started 1/9/2002; 2:27:40 AM - last post 1/9/2002; 11:39:09 PM
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Doc Searls - Tuesday, January 8, 2002 
1/9/2002; 6:27:40 AM (reads: 4291, responses: 1)
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Bernie Dunham - Re: Tuesday, January 8, 2002
1/10/2002; 3:39:09 AM (reads: 1193, responses: 0)
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Saturday MOUStech.NET, LLC will be working with Digital Seas, the Internet Cafe operator aboard the Holland America ship Veendam, to set up an 802.11b WIFI wireless network for a Geek Cruises seminar at sea. This is going to be a first ever at sea wireless Internet Beta, in terms of end users at a cruise based seminar, during PERL Whirl. Doc wrote in LINUX Journal recently about LINUX Lunacy, another Geek Cruise, aboard the Holland America ship Maasdam last October, where we could not get permission to hook up our Wireless LAN (CISCO Aironet 350 access points) to the Internet Cafe. Neil Bauman, Captain and CEO of Geek Cruises, has negotiated approval from Digital Seas to let us have 7 x 24 wireless Internet access for all of the seminar geeks. (Thanks to Doc for publically, in Linux Journal, telling the Internet service providers of the cruise industry that their restricted Internet access policies are counter to customer needs.) Although the WLAN Beta was a successful proof of concept during Linux Lunacy, without Internet access, the wireless project was going to flounder. If all goes well, I'll post a note of thanks to Doc Saturday or Sunday, when everything is working. Bouncing signals off of 55,000 gross metric tons of metal is not the same as at a convention center on land. If this Beta works, Doc can post live reports from the seminar rooms during the next Linux Lunacy cruise in Ocotber 2002, without having to pay 75 cents per minute access rates from an almost dumb terminal in the Internet Cafe.
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