There's a lot of cool new projects coming out.  We're hoping that in September, we can establish the new yet-to-be-named Vancouver Hackerspace project.  Also, the Vancouver Anarchist Bookfair Collective is starting to get established as well.  I'm heading to the Victoria Anarchist Bookfair in September and Edmonton in early October. However, ...

I don't know who to cheer for on this decision.  Novus is owned by the Property Developers and Shaw is evil, but this decision makes me ROFL a bit since Novus is relatively tiny in comparison to Shaw and it's possible that if someone makes the right business deals, they ...

This has already hit everyone else's blog, but I want to write about this This is the dumbest thing that I have ever heard.  Of course, this is from the city that locked itself down because of Lite Brite.  There are quite a few things that need to be considered in ...

It's weird these days to see people so wrapped up in the Muncipal Election that's going on in November.  We all know about Gregor (Happy Planet) Robertson going up against Peter Ladner.  However, I think the big thing that everyone is watching is David Eby.  People who claim to be ...

I've been in Vancouver for a week, and I find that I'm still behind in a lot of personal stuff.  Erin hasn't posted any of the pictures of NYC up on Flickr yet, nor have I posted anything about the last day in NYC.  I still have to get stuff ...

Last night, after HOPE, Erin and I went to go look for the Local Anarchist projects in NYC.  The first place we went to was ABC NO RIO.  ABC NO RIO didn't seem to active on Sunday, but we managed to check out their  Zine Library and Computer Lab.  They ...

I'm currently sitting in a very crowded hostel lobby with my pack full of stuff that I bought at TheLastHOPE and Bluestocking respectively.  The conference was awesome, and if there is another conference by 2600 Magazine, I would HIGHLY recommend making the trip to NYC to go to it. One of ...

Well, hopping on the linux-wireless mailing list definitely has its advantages.  Andrey from cozybit just posted a patch that appears to add 802.11s Mesh Point to the ath5k driver.  The reason this is huge is because this means that the Open Source Atheros driver can now do mesh on its ...

Well, last night came and went, and VONIC now has a new Board of Directors.  VONIC will be relaunching its website, as well as the FreeTheNet website soon.  In addition to this, VONIC will be moving the DogOnRails server to a new server in the coming weeks, and hopefully there ...

Well, identi.ca is a Free Software alternative to Twitter.  It's licenced under the Affero GPL, and it appears to have a lot of the same features as Twitter.  It also seems to have a following with the Ubuntu and Debian crowd already.  It's written in PHP (I know, ewwwww), but ...

Netgear recently released the WGR614L, which is their version of the WRT54GL.  The intresting thing with Netgear is that they use both Broadcom and Atheros hardware in their devices.  I've been hacking on the WGT634U for a while, and other than the minor overheating problem that they have, they're pretty ...

I love development I love writing code I love the Linux Kernel and the way it loads I love the whole world When I type Make Boom de yada Boom de yada Boom de yada Boom de yada I love this bookstore I love anarchy I love direct action consensus is the key I love the whole world Especially when it's free Boom de yada Boom de ...

Since b43 has mesh support, it will be available in kernel 2.6.26 and it may be available in Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex. What's really interesting is how the new softmac drivers work. Apparently, it's rather easy with the iw userspace utility to create numerous wifi interfaces. This may ...

Last night, I went down to the Nowtopia talk.  For anyone who is looking to get info on Bicycles or Gardening, I would recommend that you head down to Spartacus Books and look for Nowtopia.  We bought some copies of the book, and I've read it beforehand, and I think ...

Apparently, the VONIC board is very much like the NPA nominations. I should give you some back story. Scott Nelson, the board member who has continuously used FreeTheNet to further his own gains with VCN and the Fearless Project, which seems to further gentrify the Downtown Eastside, over e-mail indicated ...

When code forks, its usually because someone refuses to work for another person, or make the change that the other person wants.  They don't compromise, and generally this lack of comprimise becomes the reason why they fork.  In this case, FreeTheNet Vancouver may split because of a difference of opinion ...

This is a huge issue with Open Source development today. While a lot of projects have paid developers, these developers are often independent, and have a lot of power deciding how and when their projects are getting done. These developers are also project managers of the tons of ...

Often, I rag on things like FreeTheNet, and other things like that.  I don't often talk about the cool shit that makes Vancouver not suck.  In my opinion, the coolest thing in Vancouver is Spartacus Books.  Spartacus Books is a long running activist space that has been organized for over ...

Early on, when we first started FreeTheNet, it was started because nobody was doing anything regarding Wireless in Vancouver.  There's a very good reason for that, and that reason is the Vancouver Community Network or VCN.  VCN is a charitable-status society that's supposed to be dedicated to providing network services ...

We EPIC failed at providing any sort of Internet Access to the Car Free Commercial Drive Festival.  The issues at hand were the fact that we didn't have proper communication with anyone, and nothing was agreed upon in advance.  This seems to be more common than not with VONIC events.  ...