National Weather Service fiscal scandal evokes thunderstorm of cheap weather references by SFB staff
Looks like Tropical Storm Beryl isn’t the only storm brewin’: The National Weather Service just had its director step down after a hailstorm of criticism following an improperly forecasted allocation of bonuses to contractors. We’re sure that while those workers had mostly sunny days, taxpayers have a lower level of barometric pressure these days for misappropriated funds — especially $43 million worth, which is high whether you’re looking in Fahrenheit or Celsius. Recently, the storm trackers — er, auditors — showed up. As a result, Jack Hayes felt the humidity rising in his position and got out after the heat got to hot to bear. (Editor’s note: Sorry. We couldn’t help ourselves.)
Weather or not…
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i will continue to reblog this until it gets the notes it deserves because elephants
If your heart isn’t melting it’s because you don’t have one.
I can’t-
I love elephants. I have ridden an elephant, too!
Elephant is win.
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- In third grade: Learn cursive, you will use it for the rest of your life
- Middle School: Write in cursive if you want, but make sure it's readable
- High School: Please don't write in cursive
- College: If you do not type it I will not grade your paper
- Job Applications: Please print
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Darin, Darach and I met up Friday for a few hours to play with some of my spare routers/Access Points. Most of the units wouldn’t support Open WRT, but one WAP54G seemed to. After a few hours of messing about with OpenWRT on Friday evening, and an hour or so of troubleshooting, we declared the WAP54gv2 brick’d.
This weekend, Darin went out and secured a couple more test routers, including a Netgear WNDR3300. He had to downgrade the version of OpenWRT in order to get the right wireless drivers, but he reports that he’s got it installed, and that wireless works. Seems the WNDR3300 needs Kamikaze 8.09, not 8.09.[1,2] for the wireless to work?](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4czmjYYk41ruo9wuo1_1280.jpg)
Darin, Darach and I met up Friday for a few hours to play with some of my spare routers/Access Points. Most of the units wouldn’t support Open WRT, but one WAP54G seemed to. After a few hours of messing about with OpenWRT on Friday evening, and an hour or so of troubleshooting, we declared the WAP54gv2 brick’d.
This weekend, Darin went out and secured a couple more test routers, including a Netgear WNDR3300. He had to downgrade the version of OpenWRT in order to get the right wireless drivers, but he reports that he’s got it installed, and that wireless works. Seems the WNDR3300 needs Kamikaze 8.09, not 8.09.[1,2] for the wireless to work?
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Q:HiI'm realy appreciate your clip "A little look around LHC". We like to subtitle the clip in italian and to spread it for a divulgative (AND NO-PROFIT) aim. There is a copyright on it, or could we use free?Best regards-- Romeo Bassoli - Communication officeIstituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare - Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics piazza Caprettari 70, 00168 Roma-Italy,
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I’m glad you liked it. The video is great, but it is not my work. It comes from Oxford Sparks, at Oxford University.
More information about them can be found here: http://www.oxfordsparks.net/
You’ll need to contact Oxford for licensing, but if you just want to link or embed the youtube video, I can’t imagine that would be a problem. though, you’ll have to consult the standard youtube license and your lawyers.
Darin Got batman to work tonight!He says:It has a nifty little diagnostic tool, so I took a screenshot showing that there actually is another node in the network.Next steps:- Put a hop in the mesh to test routing. (requires 3rd machine running routing protocol)- Test AHCP and DHCP with the two protocols, and test whether either can accept clients not running the mesh routing protocol without configuring a bridge or something.
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TCS Mesh Networking @ UC Davis: Darin's Computer Report
The following is directly from Darin regarding the aforementioned Desktop/Laptop ad-hoc network:I’ve been working with two computers: The Desktop, and The Laptop.The mesh network needs two things:1) An ad-hoc wireless network, which gets the computers’ wireless cards talking to…
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BABEL Working!
One of the many projects I’m working on is a mesh network group study. We’re making some headway into a model network.
Darin got Babel to work with an ad-hoc network. Apparently creating the network from his desktop worked better than originating the network with his laptop.
We’re meeting Friday to try installing OpenWRT and Babel on a pair of WRT54G’s to see if we can make a few more nodes, then we can start a test deployment. Exciting Exciting.
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