Author: C.J. Collier

  • Sun server… incoming…

    Holy crap. Sun is sending me hardware for a try-n-buy thing. They say they’ll ship it in about 10 days. I wonder how disappointed they’re going to be when I wipe the OS they ship with it and install Sarge… Thanks to Ask for the tip. Now… how am I going to make this thing…

  • Planet MaxDB, MaxDB Project

    Well, I set up an aggregator for folks who blog about MaxDB. If you are one of these folks, please email anybody who is aggregated at Planet MaxDB, or join us on #maxdb on irc.freenode.org I am using the monologue code to aggregate the blog feeds, and while I was altering the default template, I…

  • Customer’s experience with Sync Manager

    14:34 < MThomas> Time to install and configure Sync Manager in development environment: 4 days, one of which was 15 hours long. Time to install and configure in production: 30 minutes. I’ve written a bit of documentation that might help you get things running in the same way: http://wiki.colliertech.org/index.php/MaxDB:Installation http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/syncman/part1.html Create a Synchronization Scenario

  • 150 million and counting! | Spread Firefox

    150 million and counting! | Spread Firefox Over 150 Million downloads of my homies’ web browser. You should download it, too.

  • Rearranging blogs: EWN, Mono, poli-discuss, work

    I’m re-organizing my various blogs to this one. WordPress can syndicate categories. So I’m adding a category for each of the blogs I keep. Except for LiveJournal. I’ve got lots of posts there, and there’s no way (as far as I know) to copy all of them to this one. Plus, I like Brad and…

  • Lalala.

    This is my first wordpress blog post. I’m getting a lot of spammy spam on my movable type blog. I don’t like it. Plus, WordPress is Free Software and movable type is not. Richard is my friend. I’m thinking I’m going to move all my blogs here. Yeah.

  • Discussion with Sprint network designer

    The following is a transcript of a recent email conversation I had with Sven Lidén, one of the primary network topology designers for the Sprint wireless network in the state of Washington. —–BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE—– Hash: SHA1 > —–Original Message—– From: C.J. Adams-Collier > [mailto:cjcollier@colliertech.org] Sent: Wednesday, February 08, > 2006 5:48 PM To:…

  • Discussion with City of Everett about Community Wireless Network (CWN)

    The following is a discussion between councilman Drew Nielsen and myself. >> >> *From:* C.J. Adams-Collier [mailto:cjcollier@colliertech.org] >> >> *Sent:* Mon 2/6/2006 10:19 PM *To:* Drew Nielsen *Subject:* >> >> Community Access Wireless Network > > >> >> Hello Drew, > > >> >> I got your name from _____. She tells me that you…

  • Asterisk on Metrix Pebble

    Is it possible to run Asterisk on Metrix Pebble? We’ll discuss that tonight at the Snohomish County Wireless meeting. Check in on the wiki for up-to-the minute info on the meeting :)

  • Wireless Networking in the Developing World

    I had a chance to browse this book at the weekly SWN hack night last Wednesday. It will teach the reader how to build a community access wireless network. You want to know how to do that, right? :) http://www.lulu.com/content/223168 http://cj.colliertech.org/swn/wndw-print.pdf