Author Archives: Scott C. Lemon

About Scott C. Lemon

I'm a techno futurist, interested in all aspects of humanity, sociology, community, identity, and technology. While we are all approaching the Singularity, I'm just having fun effecting the outcomes of the future!

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WarBlading II … going on III …
So a couple weeks back – before my two week long set of business trips, I headed out WarBlading again. This time I had a couple of objectives:

  1. wear the unit outside of the pack to see if the unit would run cooler.
  2. use the Olympus/Xybernaut Head-Mounted Display (HMD) that I have.

The unit ran cooler … actually all night on the single ElectroVaya battery … however I had to use the tablet display since I couldn’t get a pointing device working! It sucked!

The issue with the pointing device is that Windows 2000 would keep freaking out with the GPS and Mouse connected at the same time. I wanted to skate and had to bail.

So this Thursday will be it … I bought a new USB “miniature hand trackball” that you use with your thumb. I’m going to install it and see if that works better … we’ll see.

I also got my 2.4Ghz radios working with Win2k … so that I can see if we can do some “peer to peer” wireless exchange of GPS location information. While I was on the business trip last week, I was able to spend a lot of time, while we were driving up and down the northeast coast, working on my “waypointer” application. I am adding the “target” tab so that I can store a set of “waypoints” that I want to keep track of. While writing this I just realized that I want to have a “track on/off” capability to keep entries in this table whether I am tracking them or not … duh!

The last area of interest is the new pack. I found a great pack at REI that is made by North Face. It has a completely ventilated rear pocket that is perfect for the wearable … good cooling.

More later … and I’m making great progress with the HX2002 … I’m hoping to have some info on the web site soon …

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WarBlading …
It was a very cool experience last night … I went WarBlading for the first time … and it worked! Although the temperatures were very hot, and the machine croaked a couple of times, I was able to rollerblade around Salt Lake City last night with my Xybernaut wearable computer, with a GPS connected, running NetStumbler, searching for 802.11b access points …

What really hit me is that this is going to be big … very big … and goes far beyond mapping 802.11b access points … just wait. 😉

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80211.net adopts NoCat.net Open Source Software
After months of following the project, and then experimenting with the software, 80211.net has fully adopted the NoCat.net Authentication solution. We have even been hacking away at the code, and coupled NoCat to a LDAP directory service … and kicked the new LDAP.pm back to the project.

NoCat has allowed us to create a powerful authentication and billing system for account management and control. It is also providing us the foundation to build some new advanced services. When you go and login … you’ll be seeing the NoCat logo …

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First 80211.net Location Opens!
On February 5th, 2002 the first 80211.net location came on-line
and is open and working!  We turned up our services at the Mestizo Gallery and Cafe, located at 511 West 200 South, Salt Lake City, Utah.  As an Olympic special, we are offering free access for laptop owners (802.11b Wireless and Wired Ethernet) for the first two weeks through February 22nd.  Stop in … have some coffee … cruise the net!

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Who is 80211.net?

Since 1996 our research team has been working with wireless networks, and even early implementations of 802.11 networks. We began with the earliest Xircom 1Mb wireless PCMCIA cards in 1995, and worked closely with NetWave Wireless (the Xircom spin-off) as they developed and released their 2MB solutions.

In 1998, we created the largest wireless-enabled conference ever held on earth at that time.  At Novell’s Brainshare Conference in Salt Lake City, we installed 2Mb 802.11 access points from NetWave Wireless throughout the Salt Palace convention center, covering a five city block area. 750 attendees were able to get wireless access to the Internet for simply a credit card deposit. This
was the beginning of what we saw for the future.  This is when we registered this domain name!

Since this event, we have been slowly developing an evolving an architecture and business model for the creation of a global wireless network … completely built by anyone that would like to participate. We have been through three generations of this project now, and are about to deploy the fourth generation architecture … and it will be coming here soon.  We are now beginning
our first deployments here in the Salt Lake City area, and will be opening our network to anyone that wants to join … and make money.

Now that “community networks” are beginning to get some attention, we are committed that this is the right time to deploy our creation …

Stay tuned and check back … we just added some new mail lists on our Support
and Registration pages!  Please feel free to subscribe to these, or just drop an e-mail to us here!

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Tim writes about the “undercurrents” of innovation …
We all hear about Open Source and it’s implications, however Tim is really doing something about it. It is great that he and his organization are taking on the role of assisting in the communication of new and innovative ideas coming from the “trenches” … these are the ideas that are the real “undercurrents” that will emerge as the next big thing.

In this article, he does a great job of outline many of the new innovations are are coming …

O’Reilly Network: Inventing the Future. Tim O’Reilly. But the most interesting part of the story is still untold, in the work of hundreds or thousands of independent projects that, like a progressively rendered image, will suddenly snap into focus. That’s why I like to use the word “emergent.” There’s a story here that is emerging with increasing clarity. [Tomalak’s Realm]

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The quest for lower power, heat, and noise!
This is some very useful material that outlines how to reduce the noise of your computer system … and I found a lot of the information useful to reduce the power, heat, and noise for my wearable computers. I’m going to check into some of these parts …

Building a mini- ‘quieter-than-a-whisper’ linux pc. After building a quiet, but by no means super quiet computer i still wanted to get to the point of ‘quieter-than-a-whisper’. Not wanting to go the route of water cooling or putting the computer in the basement and running the cables through the floor,the next best solution is to try for a cooler running processor, which will not require as many fans. [kuro5hin.org]

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A wireless, remote monitor for my wearable computer?
This looks very interesting … a wireless LCD monitor that I might be able to use with my wearable computer! It’s still slightly pricely … but this is going down a very cool path. I could even maybe use VNC to connect to my wearable and simply remote display the machine.

This really starts to get wild … this is the first time that I have thought that I might one day carry multiple wearable computers with me … maybe one Windows and one Linux … and remote display into both of them … very cool!

Wireless Monitors? [Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters]

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SOAP Service Directories … appearing on the net …
The appearance of more SOAP Service “registries” or “directories” reminds me of watching the early Internet as the first web sites appeared that listed other web sites on the net … the beginnings of Yahoo!, Excite and Lycos … and many that are no longer around. What we are now seeing is the “web services” version of this … the beginnings of sites where software can look for software … the beginnings of something Kurzeilian … 😉

http://www.mysantra.com has a good Web Services search engine, which does include all services found in UDDI, SalCentral, and XMethods. You can even compare the services against each other for properties such as Uptime availability (reliability), operations, etc.

[Robert Scoble: Scobleizer Weblog]