[geeks] Ultra-Portable UNIX

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Sun, 05 Mar 2006 @ 22:09 +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson said:

> On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 11:39:12AM -0800, Sheldon T. Hall wrote:
> > We'd sit up on the deck with the dish on an old TV camers tripod, futzing
> > with the antenna, a laptop, etc.  We must have been the very picture of
> > geekitude.
> 
> Good thing you did not. Using a dish on a WiFi connection is illegal. The
> guy that built the pringle's can antenna got away with it because he
> did it as an FBI agent. 

That's interesting, because I'm doing work for a company that has WiFi
dishes they bought commercially.

It's how they do long-range wireless connections between buildings
downtown.

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