from Yahoo! News
NEW ORLEANS - In an attempt to boost its stalled economy, the hurricane-ravaged city of New Orleans is starting the nation’s first free wireless Internet network owned and run by a major city.
Mayor Ray Nagin made the announcement at a late morning news conference.
Similar projects elsewhere have been stalled by stiff opposition from telephone and cable television companies aimed at discouraging competition from public agencies.
Nagin said the system started operation Tuesday in the central Business District and the French Quarter. It is to be available throughout the city in about a year.
The system uses hardware mounted on street lights to cover the city.
Most of the equipment was donated by three companies: Intel Corp., Tropos Networks and Pronto Networks.
The system will operate at 512 kilobits per second as long as the city remains under a state of emergency.
That will be slowed once the state of emergency is over — that date has not been determined — to 128 kbps in accordance with state law, which restricts government-owned Internet service.
ftp.osuosl.org :: Oregon State University Open Source Lab
Official Site here!
If that gets hammered, I-hacked readers can get it here locally!
Interesting Note..
The MD5 Hash for 1.5 Final is exactly the same as Firefox 1.5 RC3
d0cbbd5d8c47fe36ee8f26fb1255838c
I-Hacked reader “The Ronin” pointed out that the build numbers are the same as well..
from psx2codes.com
Bypass DVD Country-Protection:
During boot-process:
1.. Keep Circle, Right and L1 pressed
2.. keep holding L3 and jostick down during boot.
3.. boot without a CD
In the Browser insert your DVD. Confirm the DVD-option with Triangle and R1, keep right pressed until the dvd-menu is available. Now press Circle and R1 and you are done.
Use always a original Playstation Digital Controller.
from tivo.upgrade-instructions.com
I ran across this site some time ago, and had marked it as a site that I wanted to talk about. However you know how things go, it slipped through the cracks. Well recently a buddy of mine (Hi Nate) decided to upgrade a tivo, and was asking me for advice.. I dug up this site and sent it to him. This site will walk you through everything you need to do — by model of tivo!
from The Register
A Dutch company has launched a mediacenter under the name of Lamabox, which takes all its content from P2P networks such as Edonkey, Bittorrent, Fasttrack (Kazaa), Gnutella and Overnet.
The developers themselves admit the product is “somewhat controversial”, as most movies and music downloaded from these networks are illegal copies. However, since the Dutch Supreme Court ruled long ago in favor of the once Netherlands-based Kazaa and only classifies the upload of copyrighted material as illegal, the developers do not expect too much trouble. Even so, the company has set some money aside for possible legal procedures.
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The Mediacenter, which was presented last weekend at a consumer trade show in Utrecht, is basically a hard disc that plugs directly into your television and provides search and download support for all the major P2P services. A “P2P spider” is constantly looking for new content, so that users won’t have to download movies or music manually. Users can select music or films on the television screen.
The first LamaBox (with 40 GB) will sell for € 279. A 400 GB version with a DVD burner will cost € 479.
The company says that there is already a lot of interest from foreign countries, but supply is limited, as all of the boxes are “handmadeâ€.®
from PlayStation.com
Sony has released the next PSP firmware, version 2.6, and this time it actually has some interesting features. This latest update’s main features include WMA support, DRM capabilities, along with a RSS Reader. The RSS reader makes the PSP one of the few MP3 players that can get and play podcasts via Wi-Fi without a computer.
Remember guys, if you want to play homebrew, DON’T UPDATE!
from The Register
Do constant reruns of “I Love the ’80s†on VH1 have you ready to gouge out your eyeballs?
Then come to Al Jessup’s house — where his 5,000-plus radio and television stations from around the world beamed in by his 12 satellite dishes are bound to keep you entertained somehow.
Since 1998, the Beckley resident has amassed a collection of 12 dishes around his James Street home. He said he first just began subscribing to Direct TV and Dish Network, but he later learned that by purchasing special satellite receivers he could receive “free to air†programming from several different satellites swirling the globe. The information on how to adjust a dish and set up a receiver to pick up programming from these stations such as Galaxy 10, AMC 2 and Telestar 5 is included with these receivers.
“Up in the sky, there’s lots of free stuff,†he said.
I shall call him ‘mini-mac’ on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Make your own mini-mac papercraft! (PDF HERE) Perfect use would be a sweet christmas ornament
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
I will be out of town until this weekend, with a cool hack to share when I get back! 
from spadassin.blogspot.com
Here’s a list of some funny URLs, where the designer didn’t thinking about how people would read the name of the site:
1) Who Represents?, a database for agencies to the rich and famous:
http://www.whorepresents.com
2) Experts Exchange, a knowledge base where programmers can exchange
advice and views:
http://www.expertsexchange.com
3) Looking for a pen? Look no further than Pen Island:
http://www.penisland.net
4) Need a therapist?
http://www.therapistfinder.com
5) Mole Station Native Nursery, based in New South Wales:
http://www.molestationnursery.com
6) Gas central heating anyone?
http://www.gasheating.co.uk
7) New to Milan and you need electric light? Why not sign up on-line with
Power-Gen?
http://www.powergenitalia.com