On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 8:16 AM, joseph liesner <blue393(a)lmi.net> wrote:
> Robb said yesterday that his cardkey was not working.
> I'm sure our crakerjack team of hackers will right the
> problem ASAP so I am requesting that a time and date
> be arranged for making cardkeys for those of us w/o them.
> I was told one could make their own by swiping a card
> three times and then telling Jenny immediately. Is that close
> to an actual process?
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card requests is the sysadmins list:
sysadmins(a)lists.omnicommons.org
https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/sysadmins
But when talking to people in person it's often just easier to say
"tell me" because then you don't have to spell another email address
outloud. Sometimes in an attempt to make the conversation go faster
I've told people to email keys(a)omnicommons.org or
cards(a)omnicommons.org because we have an email system which catches
everythingelse(a)omnicommons.org so they all go to the same list pretty
much, and a lot of the same people read that list. But I guess that's
the kind of thing which makes things more confusing in an attempt to
be less confusing.
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One of our members needs to pick up supplies for an event, but can't get
into the building - can someone let her in?
Has the front door lock been fixed yet? Yesterday my key didn't work,
because there was a broken key stuck in the lock...
If you can get there soon, please email myself and Allison Shiozaki,
andsoitgrows(a)gmail.com. Or give me a call on my cell at (925) 989 3869
Thanks!
Patrik
Hello friends,
We are still looking for housemates in the Fruitvale district. Temporary is
ok. Contact me offlist if you'd like to come by.
$740/month plus utilities.
Thanks for reading.
Lesley
Hello,
Just an FYI:
Today Rob and I terminated the incoming Phone Line (CAT6) that Charley and
I had ran a few months back.
For our records I made a diagram showing how the cables termination goes. I
didn't know how, but I took notes of how I found it. The attached diagram
only covers the end at the Server side.
Thanks,
Daniel
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darin, a new member to sudoroom, has been hosting some friends who have all
been hanging out in one of the basement rooms. aside from the obvious
evidence of smoking in the room, there have been no problems.
this morning around 5:30am i noticed the light to the room was off and the
door was locked. i continued knocking but no answer. i started taking the
door off the hinges and darins friends began notifying they were in there.
i asked them to leave. 2 out of 3 gave me a hard time and left …
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other tried to continue hiding & i almost overlooked him. when i finally
found him he gave me even more of a hard time than the others but finally
left.
around noon they were here without darin and i informed them of our members
sponsoring guests policy and that they should leave and come back with
darin.
i subsequently was told that i was racist and that i was a pussy and stupid
for volunteering my time w/o being paid.
not sure how to proceed, it this a sudoroom issue because they were
previously darin's guests (yesterday) or an omni issue because it happened
outside of sudoroom w/o any sudo members being involved?
thx
~r
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*Hello all, Here is the new URL: *
*https://www.gofundme.com/nrbrhjp4 <https://www.gofundme.com/nrbrhjp4>
Please donate if you can. *
"As many of you may have heard, the Grant family recently suffered a
terrible tragedy when 2-year old Gianni and his mother Brit were in a car
accident several weeks ago. Gianni lost his life and Brit is now seriously
injured and struggling to move on after losing her child.
Brit's mother Linda, sister Makala, and other family and friends have been
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difficult time. Linda needs help to support her daughter until she gets
back on her feet, including money for food and medical expenses resulting
from the accident and amputation of part of Brit's arm.
If you don't know her, Linda is a comrade and Black revolutionary from
Oakland who always seems to have everyone's back. She is so strong and
reliable and for *once* she is asking for our support. Please contribute
generously to this fund to help her and her family get through this
tragedy. Let's give this family one less thing to worry about."
Daniel
On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 1:32 AM, johanna faust <female.faust(a)gmail.com>
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> On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 10:25 PM, danarauz(a)gmail.com <danarauz(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> Update: I just learned that there seems to be something wrong w the
>> gofundme I previously shared here. Please standby for an updated one.
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>> Thank you!
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>> On Sunday, November 15, 2015, johanna faust <female.faust(a)gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> thank you! thanks for checking. my heart goes out to her.
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>>> may the Divine bless us all.
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>>> love,
>>> ffaust
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Hi, Sudo Room.
I've been super frustrated at world events lately, what with the US government
labelling everyone a terrorist, the NSA being so pervasive, and white
protestant males excusing other white protestant males for shooting up planned
parenthoods and such.
So here's a chrome extension I threw together that helpfully translates the
web using The Unabridged Newspeak Dictionary:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-unabridged-newspeak-d/fiillcl…
Feedback and additions are …
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Hey I'm not focused on sudomesh but I like it! Can't work on stuff for it but thought this would be fun : first time I saw someone explain mesh networks in a very easy way.
-- rip off this graphic and do a sudomesh version
-- as an outsider I'd love to see a Mesh video round table with jenny jake and a few random neighborhood folks. Like filmed at the omni table !
I'm busy focusing on my own things but admiring yalls from afar !
http://www.cnet.com/news/unbreakable-mesh-networks-are-in-…
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Unbreakable: Mesh networks are in your smartphone's future
It's not that we're running out of mobile bandwidth. It's just that it's poorly distributed.
If you're in your home next to a Wi-Fi router, you might have a clean signal and access to a 12-megabit connection. Meanwhile, someone outside your door could have a smartphone that's struggling to hold onto a slow connection to a cellular tower a mile away. But mesh networking might make things better for everyone.
Mesh networks let devices share their connections with other users. If one user has a clean network connection and another nearby user does not, the second user can piggyback on the first's, automatically. If there's a collection of many people, their machines can all cooperate to make connections -- to each other and to the global Internet. In advanced mesh networks, connections and data can hop among devices, creating ad hoc bucket-brigade paths for communication.
The concept of mesh networking is not new. Many military systems rely on mesh networking, since forces in the field cannot rely on communications infrastructures. Utilities also use mesh networks for collecting data from equipment, like smart meters.
On this Reporters' Roundtable, I interview two innovators in mesh networking. They're both trying to bring this liberating (they say) and bandwidth-saving (ditto) technology to the masses.
Podcast
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Micha Benoliel's company, Open Garden, makes a mesh networking utility for Android smartphones and for Windows and Mac laptops (support for iOS is coming). It's a free app that turns your device into a mobile hot spot. No matter how you're connected to the Net (Wi-Fi or cellular), it makes that connection shareable (over Bluetooth) to other Open Garden users. Likewise, if you're running the product but don't have a connection to the Net, and you're near a user who does, this service seamlessly gets you online.
Benoliel says that, for the most part, carriers and ISPs welcome technologies that improve bandwidth for customers and that also lower power requirements (connecting to a nearby hot spot over Bluetooth takes a lot less power than linking to a cell tower). "The only way to improve the wireless networks is to increase the density of microcells or hot spots. I think carriers really understand that," he says. His pitch: "We turn every device into a hot spot... and we improve the network itself."
Sri Srikrishna was the founding CTO of the mesh networking company Tropos (recently acquired by ABB), and is now working on bringing mesh technologies to populations where today's standard wireless networking technologies are insufficient, or are blocked. See his paper, "SocialMesh: Can Networks of Meshed Smartphones Ensure Public Access to Twitter During an Attack?"
Srikrisha says it's time to do two things for people who don't have reliable means to connect to the global net. First of all, we can make better, more frequency-agile radios. Second: Mesh them together.
Hooking users together through mesh networks can also democratize communications and make them, he believes, more robust in the face of repressive regimes that might want to shut down the capability to reach the outside world. With a mesh network, a very small number of users who happen to have a connection can share that with other users who don't. "If you have a large number of these devices, no government will be able to stop it," he says.
Srikrishna and Benoliel both claim that the global growth of smartphones -- all are handheld computers easily capable of supporting mesh networking stacks -- should lead to a global infrastructure shift, in which these handsets become a bigger part of the infrastructure itself, not just clients on it.
"Can you build a network that's indestructible?" asks Srikrishna. He says it's worth doing. "A lot of the problems in the world can be solved if you can have UStream everywhere in the world, without being blocked."
Watch the full, geeky discussion in the video here.
Sent from my iPhone
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last night Leif and I installed a roto-zip rotary cutting tool on the end
of the robot arm.
it looks just like this one:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/272046207900?ul_noapp=true&chn=ps&lpid=82
we don't have any tool bits for it though. It needs a sideways-cutting
bit with a 1/8" diameter shaft. they make them for wood. it would be
possible to cut metals too if you're careful, but a bit for that purpose
would be called an "endmill"
please let me know if you want to use the robot …
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tool. if you want to cut out a shape, for example, you will need an SVG
file for starters.
thank you
-jake
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