Archive for July 2005
One of the cool things about living in Southampton is this Southampton Open Wireless Network or SOWN for short, basically an open/free wireless network run by University students, and perhaps even me when I get back from Norway next month.
I’m thinking of setting up a node at my new flat. Maybe it’ll draw in some nerds to the area?
I’m going to Norway at the end of the week to work on the GlacsWeb sensor network project. Very exciting, basically I’ll be helping out to recover last year’s sensors that are 70 or 80 metres under a glacier in Briksdalsbreen and then helping to put some new ones down (in a nutshell!) There’s a lot more detail to it.
Whoops, accidently left another instance of MySQL running which was stopping the site from working. Silly me.
I’m getting a laptop soon, so I thought I’d jot down some ideas for work/home interoperability. If that is a word.
- Cron job or something that tries to ping servers LAN address, if it can then mount server shares
- If ping fails then have a go at creating ssh tunnel and mount the shares
As usual, I found that there’s already about 100 programs that do this sort of thing. I’ll just wait till I actually get the laptop.
If you’re in the Highfield area and bored, please come over and give me a hand painting. It’s pretty dull on your own, although I did buy some speakers so I can have my tunes on.
