From luke at rattei.org Mon May 1 18:35:55 2006 From: luke at rattei.org (Luke Rattei) Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 18:35:55 -0500 Subject: [tcwug-list] maps.tcwug.org username and password Message-ID: <405ec74e456e5b12845a54c94cff471d@rattei.org> Hey, I would love to be able to view the map you people have assembled! Here's my info that I would like: username: therat password: onfire Also, when I try to load the page currently, just a blank page shows up, no auth. page or anything. Is there something else I need to do/give you? Thanks! Luke From luke at rattei.org Mon May 1 18:39:35 2006 From: luke at rattei.org (Luke Rattei) Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 18:39:35 -0500 Subject: [tcwug-list] shit... Message-ID: <3a59f0b3d17371850868300cb1fe6693@rattei.org> That was really dumb. Sorry guys. I didn't realize I was posting that to the entire group. Anywho, at least that password doesn't mean anything. Luke From becca at ilsr.org Tue May 2 08:45:57 2006 From: becca at ilsr.org (Becca Vargo Daggett) Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 08:45:57 -0500 Subject: [tcwug-list] maps.tcwug.org username and password In-Reply-To: <405ec74e456e5b12845a54c94cff471d@rattei.org> References: <405ec74e456e5b12845a54c94cff471d@rattei.org> Message-ID: Well, I'd like to be able to see the map, too. I just assumed it didn't exist. Becca On May 1, 2006, at 6:35 PM, Luke Rattei wrote: > Hey, > > I would love to be able to view the map you people have assembled! > > Also, when I try to load the page currently, just a blank page shows > up, no auth. page or anything. Is there something else I need to > do/give you? > > Thanks! > > Luke > > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Wireless Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. > Paul, Minnesota > tcwug-list at tcwug.org > http://mailman.tcwug.org/mailman/listinfo/tcwug-list > From sulrich at botwerks.org Tue May 2 13:53:39 2006 From: sulrich at botwerks.org (steve ulrich) Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 13:53:39 -0500 Subject: [tcwug-list] maps.tcwug.org username and password In-Reply-To: References: <405ec74e456e5b12845a54c94cff471d@rattei.org> Message-ID: <4457AAB3.4090105@botwerks.org> i believe that matthew hallacy set this up a long time ago in the, dare i say, heyday of the TCWUG list. i don't believe there's any active maintainer of this resource. i believe i have the source for this lurking around somewhere, i might now. if there's someone that would be interested in hacking on this i can see if i can resurrect this resource. Becca Vargo Daggett wrote: > Well, I'd like to be able to see the map, too. > I just assumed it didn't exist. > > Becca > > On May 1, 2006, at 6:35 PM, Luke Rattei wrote: > >> Hey, >> >> I would love to be able to view the map you people have assembled! >> >> Also, when I try to load the page currently, just a blank page shows >> up, no auth. page or anything. Is there something else I need to >> do/give you? >> [snipped] -- steve ulrich sulrich at botwerks.org PGP: 8D0B 0EE9 E700 A6CF ABA7 AE5F 4FD4 07C9 133B FAFC From becca at ilsr.org Wed May 3 12:28:08 2006 From: becca at ilsr.org (Becca Vargo Daggett) Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 12:28:08 -0500 Subject: [tcwug-list] Wireless Minneapolis informational session tonight Message-ID: <5F85AF79-AD73-4B88-BDE8-B5C40AE0F3C4@ilsr.org> Since the City doesn't seem very interested in promoting these sessions, a reminder that there's a meeting tonight, 6 to 8 pm, Waite House. From the city's web site at: http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/wirelessminneapolis/ wirelessmeetings.asp#TopOfPage "Wireless Minneapolis informational sessions The City is hosting a number of informational meetings and open houses so that the public can learn more about Wireless Minneapolis. Those who attend will also have the opportunity to share their ideas and feedback about what Community Benefits should be negotiated to help bridge the digital divide. 6 - 8 p.m., Wednesday, May 3, 2006 Waite House, 2529 13th Ave. S., Minneapolis 6 - 8 p.m., Tuesday, May 9, 2006 Martin Luther King Recreation Center, 4055 Nicollet Ave. S., Minneapolis 6 - 8 p.m., Wednesday, May 17, 2006 Roosevelt High School, Media Center (2nd Floor), 4029 - 28th Ave. S., Minneapolis Additional meetings are currently being planned; be sure to check back for more details." From becca at ilsr.org Thu May 4 11:51:25 2006 From: becca at ilsr.org (Becca Vargo Daggett) Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 11:51:25 -0500 Subject: [tcwug-list] Fwd: Cuwin Announces Paid Summer Programming Work for Students--Applications Due May 8 References: Message-ID: <4B126E94-5B48-41A3-ACD2-FB4EC0747693@ilsr.org> Please pass this along as you see fit. Deadline is short. Begin forwarded message: > From: Ross Musselman > Date: May 3, 2006 8:50:19 PM CDT > To: cu-wireless at lists.cuwireless.net, cu-wireless- > announce at lists.cuwireless.net, cu-wireless-dev at lists.cuwireless.net > Subject: [CWN-Summit] [CUWiN Press Release] Cuwin Announces Paid > Summer Programming Work for Students--Applications Due May 8 > Reply-To: Info at cuwireless.net, National Summit on Community > Wireless Networking Participant E-mail List summit at lists.cuwireless.net> > > Cuwin Announces Paid Summer Programming Work for Students > Applications Due by Monday, May 8, 2006 (17:00 PDT) > > The Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network (CUWiN) announces > paid programming positions through Google's Summer of Code > project. The Summer of Code provides students interested in > software development with the opportunity to spend their summer > partnering with cutting edge developers in the wireless field and > get paid for their work. To apply, please read the FAQ and fill out > the brief application on the Google Summer of Code website: > > http://code.google.com/soc > > The application window opened Monday, May 1, 2006 and all > applications are due by Monday, May 8, 2006 by 17:00 Pacific > Daylight Time. > > CUWiN's projects for the Summer of Code include building cross- > platform support for CUWiN software, gateway selection in a dynamic > mesh wireless network, integration of a node configuration GUI, and > many, many others. For more information about our project ideas, > visit the CUWiN Summer of Code information website: > > http://cuwireless.net/2006soc > > Already knowledgeable about CUWiN and have an idea for a Summer of > Code project? Feel free to pitch it to our developers at: cu- > wireless-dev at cuwireless.net > > Have questions not answered by the FAQ? You can contact the CUWiN > team at: cu-wireless-support at cuwireless.net > > ABOUT CUWIN: The Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network > (CUWiN) seeks to: connect more people to Internet and broadband > services; develop open-source hardware and software for use by > wireless projects world-wide; and, build and support community- > owned, not-for-profit broadband networks in cities and towns around > the globe. CUWiN develops and implements community wireless > technology around the world, including ongoing projects in Ghana > and South Africa as well as in our own back yard in Urbana, and > Chicago, Illinois. For more information about CUWiN, go to http:// > cuwireless.net or contact CUWiN's Outreach Coordinator, Ross > Musselman, at (217) 278-3933. > _______________________________________________ > CU-Wireless-Announce mailing list > CU-Wireless-Announce at lists.cuwireless.net > http://lists.chambana.net/cgi-bin/listinfo/cu-wireless-announce > _______________________________________________ > CWN-Summit mailing list > CWN-Summit at lists.cuwireless.net > http://lists.chambana.net/cgi-bin/listinfo/cwn-summit > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.tcwug.org/pipermail/tcwug-list/attachments/20060504/fcf3395a/attachment.htm From mattjohnson2005 at gmail.com Fri May 5 18:32:51 2006 From: mattjohnson2005 at gmail.com (Matthew Johnson) Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 18:32:51 -0500 Subject: [tcwug-list] Wireless Minneapolis informational session tonight In-Reply-To: <5F85AF79-AD73-4B88-BDE8-B5C40AE0F3C4@ilsr.org> References: <5F85AF79-AD73-4B88-BDE8-B5C40AE0F3C4@ilsr.org> Message-ID: <7d3948c70605051632q207d4283ye215f1ec98c49309@mail.gmail.com> I'm not sure how relevent it is here, since I didn't attend the meeting to find out what is going on, but I did read some options from the FierceWireless Newletter. http://www.fiercewireless.com ____________________________________________________________________________ Successful.com's Craig Settles offers some lessons to municipalities about managing the expectations of their muni-WiFi efforts. There's a crazy roller coaster ride we often endure when some new "revolutionary" technology hits the scene. First, there's the rush of ascent as promises of "unparalleled benefits" gush forth from the marketing minions and analysts. The media picks up on the trend, anoints it The Next Big Thing and on up we race. Then comes the rapid gut wrenching descent as average users of the technology start discovering what should have been some obvious flaws. The pundits and media pick up on this and start widespread hang wringing as we've seen recently with negative media coverage after muni-WiFi networks went live in Tempe, AZ, and St. Cloud, FL. San Francisco has become a disgruntlement dart board, and it hasn't even signed a contract. Let's level out this roller before we get emotional whiplash. Here are some lessons for those actively participating in, or following with interest, these muni wireless initiatives. Vendors, consultants and service providers have as much responsibility as cities do to encourage putting these into action. Your profits are riding this same roller coaster. Lesson 1 - Don't allow others to declare your network a flop. Remind people why you're building the network. Of the four primary reasons cities deploy municipal networks--government use, digital inclusion, economic development, general public wireless Internet access--cheap access is the least financially defensible. Yet, it is continually the tail that wags the dog, particularly with this being an election year in many municipalities. Cities would do well to shift discussions in the media away from whether or not people are having trouble getting coverage in their homes, and focus on how the network is impacting government work. Lesson 2 - Better manage expectations. Early feedback about Tempe's deployment criticized people's inability to get coverage everywhere. But go back and review public proclamations by politicians, vendors and others when Tempe announced they were going to deploy. You see the problem right away. Officials wrote, or allowed others to write, expectation checks that the bank of technology reality can't cover. Were there warnings that the technology will take a few months after going live to get the bugs worked out? Often, government officials just don't understand the technology or its limitations. Unless and until cities realize that poorly managed expectations pave the road to eventual constituent backlash, the minute you go live there's going to be hell to pay. And the whole world will read about it. Lesson 3 - People, reign in your politicians. This is an election year for many municipalities. "Free municipal WiFi for everyone" is a great hook upon which to hang a few political hopes. It's the 21st century version of the 1928 promise of "a chicken in every pot." However, broadband wireless is too complex, citywide WiFi is too new and examples of cities doing it right are too few for the technology to live up to campaign promises. Most politicians know too little about technology and care too much about looking good for voters to drive key initiatives. Use the mayor to get the initiative off the ground, bring them out occasionally to maintain its momentum and have them show up to take final bows when the network goes live. But the CIO, someone in IT or a multi-constituent steering committee should be out front leading the public discussion. Lesson 4 - Find a PR strategist. No, not a press secretary, and not a spin doctor. Get someone who knows how to craft messages, position products or services, keep people in various parts of the government on the same page with those messages and build consensus among constituent groups. Hundreds of municipalities are about to roll out a major new technology solution that's going significantly alter how business gets done in those cities. Build anticipation, set realistic expectations and educate the market. There are enemies of muni-WiFi who will broadcast every flaw and scar. Cities and their supporters must drive the public discussion, not their enemies. Lesson 5 - Maintain transparency with those whom the network is supposed to serve. If it's not careful, San Francisco could become an embarrassing footnote in the short history of muni-WiFi as the only city initiative to be temporarily derailed by the technology's main supporters. Regardless of the reality, San Francisco is perceived locally to have acted hastily, with disregard to community needs and wishes, inspired by political cronyism and without any credible amount of technology due diligence. From bogus@does.not.exist.com Thu May 4 10:41:37 2006 From: bogus@does.not.exist.com () Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 15:41:37 -0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID: g muni wireless to improve government and/or the lives of its constituents must have a transparent and responsive implementation process. As Philadelphia Mayor Street advises, "conducting this initiative transparentl= y and in the public... will go a long way toward helping to build consensus among different groups and constituencies." Craig Settles is the president of consulting firm Successful.com and author of the new book, Fighting the Good Fight for Municipal Wireless. On 5/3/06, Becca Vargo Daggett wrote: > > Since the City doesn't seem very interested in promoting these > sessions, a reminder that there's a meeting tonight, 6 to 8 pm, Waite > House. > > From the city's web site at: > http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/wirelessminneapolis/ > wirelessmeetings.asp#TopOfPage > "Wireless Minneapolis informational sessions > > The City is hosting a number of informational meetings and open > houses so that the public can learn more about Wireless Minneapolis. > Those who attend will also have the opportunity to share their ideas > and feedback about what Community Benefits should be negotiated to > help bridge the digital divide. > > 6 - 8 p.m., Wednesday, May 3, 2006 > Waite House, 2529 13th Ave. S., Minneapolis > > 6 - 8 p.m., Tuesday, May 9, 2006 > Martin Luther King Recreation Center, 4055 Nicollet Ave. S., Minneapolis > > 6 - 8 p.m., Wednesday, May 17, 2006 > Roosevelt High School, Media Center (2nd Floor), 4029 - 28th Ave. S., > Minneapolis > Additional meetings are currently being planned; be sure to check > back for more details." > ------=_Part_10726_8740476.1146871971203 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline I'm not sure how relevent it is here, since I didn't attend the meeting to = find out what is going on, but I did read some options from the FierceWirel= ess Newletter. http://www.fiercewireless.com

______________________________________________________________= ______________

Successful.com's Craig Settles offers some lessons to municipalities ab= out managing the expectations of their muni-WiFi efforts.

There's a crazy roller coaster= ride we often endure when some new "revolutionary" technology hi= ts the scene. First, there's the rush of ascent as promises of "unpara= lleled benefits" gush forth from the marketing minions and analysts. T= he media picks up on the trend, anoints it The Next Big Thing and on up we = race. Then comes the rapid gut wrenching descent as average users of the te= chnology start discovering what should have been some obvious flaws.

The pundits and media pick up on this and start widespread hang wri= nging as we've seen recently with negative media coverage after muni-WiFi n= etworks went live in Tempe, AZ, and St. Cloud, FL. San Francisco has become= a disgruntlement dart board, and it hasn't even signed a contract.

Let's level out this roller before we get emotional whiplash. Here = are some lessons for those actively participating in, or following with int= erest, these muni wireless initiatives. Vendors, consultants and service pr= oviders have as much responsibility as cities do to encourage putting these= into action. Your profits are riding this same roller coaster.

Lesson 1 - Don't allow ot= hers to declare your network a flop. Remind people why you're building the = network. Of the four primary reasons cities deploy municipal networks--gove= rnment use, digital inclusion, economic development, general public wireles= s Internet access--cheap access is the least financially defensible. Yet, i= t is continually the tail that wags the dog, particularly with this being a= n election year in many municipalities. Cities would do well to shift discu= ssions in the media away from whether or not people are having trouble gett= ing coverage in their homes, and focus on how the network is impacting gove= rnment work.

Lesson 2 - Better manage = expectations. Early feedback about Tempe's deployment criticized people's i= nability to get coverage everywhere. But go back and review public proclama= tions by politicians, vendors and others when Tempe announced they were goi= ng to deploy. You see the problem right away. Officials wrote, or allowed o= thers to write, expectation checks that the bank of technology reality can'= t cover. Were there warnings that the technology will take a few months aft= er going live to get the bugs worked out? Often, government officials just = don't understand the technology or its limitations.

Unless and until cities realize that poorly managed expectations pa= ve the road to eventual constituent backlash, the minute you go live there'= s going to be hell to pay. And the whole world will read about it.

Lesson 3 - People, reign in your = politicians. This is an election year for many municipalities. "Free m= unicipal WiFi for everyone" is a great hook upon which to hang a few p= olitical hopes. It's the 21st century version of the 1928 promise of "= a chicken in every pot."

However, broadband wireless is too complex, citywide WiFi is too ne= w and examples of cities doing it right are too few for the technology to l= ive up to campaign promises. Most politicians know too little about technol= ogy and care too much about looking good for voters to drive key initiative= s.

Use the mayor to get the initiative off the ground, bring them out = occasionally to maintain its momentum and have them show up to take final b= ows when the network goes live. But the CIO, someone in IT or a multi-const= ituent steering committee should be out front leading the public discussion= .

Les= son 4 - Find a PR strategist. No, not a press secretary, and not a s= pin doctor. Get someone who knows how to craft messages, position products = or services, keep people in various parts of the government on the same pag= e with those messages and build consensus among constituent groups.

Hundreds of municipalities are about to roll out a major new techno= logy solution that's going significantly alter how business gets done in th= ose cities. Build anticipation, set realistic expectations and educate the = market. There are enemies of muni-WiFi who will broadcast every flaw and sc= ar. Cities and their supporters must drive the public discussion, not their= enemies.

Lesson 5 - Maintain trans= parency with those whom the network is supposed to serve. If it's not caref= ul, San Francisco could become an embarrassing footnote in the short histor= y of muni-WiFi as the only city initiative to be temporarily derailed by th= e technology's main supporters. Regardless of the reality, San Francisco is= perceived locally to have acted hastily, with disregard to community needs= and wishes, inspired by political cronyism and without any credible amount= of technology due diligence.

From pre-RFP to post network deployment, any city that's serious ab= out using muni wireless to improve government and/or the lives of its const= ituents must have a transparent and responsive implementation process. As P= hiladelphia Mayor Street advises, "conducting this initiative transpar= ently and in the public... will go a long way toward helping to build conse= nsus among different groups and constituencies."

Craig Settles is the president = of consulting firm Successful.com and= author of the new book, Fighting the Good Fight for Municipal Wireless.



On 5/3/06, Becca Vargo Daggett < Since the City doesn't seem very interested in promoting these
sessions,= a reminder that there's a meeting tonight, 6 to 8 pm, Waite
House.
<= br> From the city's web site at:
 http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/wirelessminneapolis/
wirelessmeeting= s.asp#TopOfPage
"Wireless Minneapolis informational sessions
The City is hosting a number of informational meetings and open
houses = so that the public can learn more about Wireless Minneapolis.
Those who attend will also have the opportunity to share their ideasand feedback about what Community Benefits should be negotiated to
help= bridge the digital divide.

6 - 8 p.m., Wednesday, May 3, 2006
Waite House, 2529 13th Ave. S., Minneapolis

6 - 8 p.m., Tuesday, May= 9, 2006
Martin Luther King Recreation Center, 4055 Nicollet Ave. S., Mi= nneapolis

6 - 8 p.m., Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Roosevelt High Scho= ol, Media Center (2nd Floor), 4029 - 28th Ave. S.,
Minneapolis
Additional meetings are currently being planned; be sure= to check
back for more details."

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Xavier Noria delves into how computers handle text to explain the newline problem and how to work with it in agile languages. --------------------- Digital Media --------------------- ***Digital Media Insider Podcast: Playing with Audio Plugins Listen as songwriter and Pro Tools guru Gina Fant-Saez transforms a dust-dry vocal into a gorgeous soundscape by chaining four cool effect plugins, and then builds a song from scratch using only virtual instruments. ***George Jardine Discusses the Adobe Lightroom Adventure George Jardine, pro shooter and Adobe Lightroom Evangelist, was part of the Lightroom Adventure team that traveled to Iceland during the summer of 2006. In this interview by fellow Adventurer Derrick Story, George talks about working with other world class photographers on location and the development of Adobe Lightroom... and how the two forces came together in Iceland. ***Image Sharpening With Photoshop CS2 Having trouble applying Photoshop's Unsharp Mask filter to your creations? Using the Unsharp Mask can be tricky business but, as author Corrie explains, some good technique, a little patience, and an artistic eye is all you need to sharpen your images to a professional standard. --------------------- Mac --------------------- ***A Briefing on Synching The idea behind synchronizing, or synching, is simple: take information you collect on one device, like the contact lists you keep on your laptop, and combine it with similar information on other devices so that the two sets of information match. Sounds easy enough, but there are a few tricks to understand. In this "Take Control" excerpt, Michael Cohen provides an informative overview for getting your info in sync. ***Unify and Synchronize Your iTunes Libraries Last June, David Miller published an article that explained how to synchronize playlists on iTunes. Today, Matthew Russell extends this idea by investigating and presenting three different ways to synchronize the actual contents of your iTunes music libraries when they are scattered across multiple machines. Then in the second half of the article, Matthew lays the foundation for a custom Python script that you can extend across multiple platforms and in various other ways. --------------------- Windows/.NET --------------------- ***How to Remove Startup Programs Got a PC that takes a week and a day to boot up? Most likely, it's filled with programs that start at bootup--programs you don't need. Mitch Tulloch shows you all the secrets of how to ferret out and remove these time and resource wasters. ***Building Photo Uploaders with XAML Who says Windows can't play nice with open source applications? Jack Herrington uses the XAML technology on Windows Vista to create a visually appealing and user-friendly image uploading application for getting pictures into a PHP web application. --------------------- Java --------------------- ***Separation of Concerns in Web Service Implementations The principle of "separation of concerns" is much repeated in SOA circles... so why are transactional integrity, security, and business logic so often intermingled in SOA implementations? In this article, Tieu Luu shows how to use Spring to separate out security concerns in an Axis-based web service. ***How to Publish Multiple Websites Using a Single Tomcat Web Application While the idea of mapping several names onto one Apache instance with VirtualHost directives is well known, what do you do when you're serving web apps with Tomcat? Satya Komatineni has both the code and the configs that you'll need to make this work. --------------------- Databases --------------------- ***Batch Updates with PL/pgSQL Loops are slow, algorithmically speaking. Every time you find yourself looping over data, you have a process that, at best, scales linearly with the number of items to process. SQL gives you options to perform multiple updates at once; David Wheeler demonstrates how to make them work with PL/pgSQL. ***Visualizing Database Information with Tableau Although there are several tools available to help users efficiently and easily create pivot tables or cross-tabulations, being able to visualize the cross-tabulations in real time is much more useful. Ben Lorica and the O'Reilly Research team recently tried a visual analysis and reporting tool called Tableau. It worked well for them; might it work in your data warehouse? --------------------- MAKE --------------------- ***MAKE Japan Now Available MAKE is coming to Japan! It will share content from the pages of MAKE, but will be specifically for Japan. You can download a sample MAKE 01 (Japanese PDF) here: ***Weekend Projects: Batometer Instructions For More MAKE Projects and info, go to: --------------------- Podcasts --------------------- ***Barbara Brundage discusses "Photoshop Elements 5: The Missing Manual" In this podcast, O'Reilly Media's Sara Peyton interviews Barbara Brundage. Barbara's an extraordinary harpist who has performed for dignitaries and celebrities around the world including Margaret Thatcher, Tom Cruise, the Clintons, and Isaac Stern. She's also the go-to expert when it comes to using Photoshop Elements. Her brand new book, "Photoshop Elements 5: The Missing Manual" is all about the just-announced version of Elements. And she's going to talk to us about the cool new tools for digital photographers and scrapbookers in this new program. ***Life Cycles Releasing early and often. Mark Lucovsky contrasts his experience at Microsoft and at Google. Simon Phipps says that "lock in is the new lock out" and we preview Euro OSCON. Six Apart's Anil Dash has a stack of services you might use to build your applications and Damian Conway pokes fun at the world of Web 2.0 businesses. (DTF 09-11-2006: 26 minutes 45 seconds) --------------------- Web --------------------- ***Flex 2: Rich Internet Applications in a Flash Take your interactive web apps to the next level with Adobe's Flex 2--it's fast, fashionable, and free! Join Josh as he walks through the process of developing a simple Flash project that shows just how easy it is to build cross-platform web apps with Flex 2. ***Advanced Accessibility Techniques If you think the W3C guidelines are your ticket to an accessible site, think again! While the W3C guidelines are important, if you want your web site to be truly accessible, you'll need to venture beyond these guidelines. Trenton explains all in this hands-on technical tour. -- steve ulrich