Need Good Wireless Access Point For Hot Spot
I’m working on building a public hot spot for an area out here in Sunriver, and need some advice and see if anybody has recommendations. I need a good access point with the following:
- Functionality that will allow us to set a starter page a “Sponsored By” page that will say who’s providing the access and general rules and policies on it.
- I need to be able to limit bandwidth usage so that people aren’t able to saturate the providing pipe.
- If it can survive outdoors, that’d be ideal, but regardless, it needs to be able to have an external antenna hooked up to it as I can run the antenna outside.
- Ideally, I’d like to be able to have filtering that will filter folks based on time online, so they can’t be online for the entire day.
- 802.11b coverage is all I’m really concerned width — I don’t really want folks to have 802.11a/g.
- It needs to provide IP addresses and do DHCP, as I’m going to be hooking this thing directly into a pipe that’s not going to be doing any of that.
- Content filtering would be nice, but not required. Some sort of local cache would be nice (obviously we’re talking about hooking the thing up to a cache at this point, and that might be total overkill), but not required.
If anybody has input on parts they’ve used, that would be wonderful. Or if anybody knows of an alternative firmware for the Linksys WRT54G/L router that will do this, that will certainly save me some money.
Comment here or e-mail me if you have any ideas.
You Should Always Wear Your Seatbelt
You should wear it so that when you’re doped up on some whacky drug and are trying to out-run the cops on the highway, you might actually survive the wreck (my guess is this guy didn’t).
What If Kids Wrote Speeches For George W.?
While they were written by 7-10 year-olds, they sound a lot like the way he talks.
For The Ultimate In Laziness
I’ll just quote the site on this one:
During mealtime, operating the salt and pepper shakers wears us out. We have to lift the shaker and move it up-and-down, up-and-down, up-and-down… It’s tedious, it’s tiring, and often dangerous.
So their invention? Self-shaking salt and pepper shakers. Link via American Inventor Spot, who also had in the same post the best towel dispenser ever.
A Much Needed Feature For BendBlogs.com
This is one of those things that I’ve been trying to get around to doing for quite a while, but there is now a site submit form and an about us/FAQ page. The content of each of those pages is subject to change but it’s at least much better than it was before.
So if anybody has any submissions for blogs that need to be added to BendBlogs, use those forms on that page so I can keep better track of them. As it stands right now, we have 169 blogs getting indexed, with a few more added today.
Also of note, if any of you folks reading this are using a Blogger.com (aka an *.blogspot.com blog) or a LiveJournal blog, and want a different FavIcon, if you can find a place to host it, I can manually tweak my settings in BendBlogs to show that icon. Just use the submit form to submit your new FavIcon URL.
Local Hit And Run Victims Needs Your Help
Were you in downtown Bend at approximately 8:45PM on 4/28? There was a hit-and-run accident near the Greenwood Laundromat on 8th street, involving three folks who had already had some serious tragedy just a couple days earlier. Read the full (and very sad) story here about some folks who are having some seriously rotten luck and how you can help.
Found via this link on Bend Blogs.
So Maybe MySpace isn’t a Total Waste
As many of you know, my attitude towards MySpace has been pretty apathetic — I just didn’t get a rip about it. I setup a profile on there a while back, had a few friends add me, found a couple people I knew who had profiles, and that was really about it.
Then today I get an “add as friend” notification that somebody who I hadn’t talked to basically since my early college years, but was a great friend of mine growing up. I didn’t even know if the dude was still alive (long story, but I just pictured him getting killed at an early age by doing something stupid), so I sent him a note and hope to hear back from him.
So while I’ll still generally avoid MySpace (unless I’m searching for local blogs), I guess it does some good.
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What if Jack Bauer didn’t have 24 hours, but had 5 minutes?