1 Those of you who follow such things may have noticed that I became
2 <a href="http://www.spi-inc.org">SPI</a>
3 <a href="http://lists.spi-inc.org/pipermail/spi-announce/2006/000136.html">
6 The cool part, though, is how I managed to participate in the special board
7 meeting to select officers today.
9 The meeting fell in the middle of the drive from our house up into the
11 <a href="http://www.rockyridge.org/">Rocky Ridge Music Center</a>
13 <a href="http://www.estes-park.com/">Estes Park, Colorado,</a>
14 where my daughter is attending a
15 <a href="http://www.rockyridge.org/programs/jss.htm">music camp</a>. About
16 15 minutes before the meeting was supposed to start,
17 we drove out of the edge of GSM phone coverage just beyond the town of
18 <a href="http://www.lyons-colorado.com/">Lyons</a>... I turned the car
19 around and drove back into town and parked adjacent to the
20 surprisingly interesting Sandstone Park, which is part of a
21 <a href="http://www.sculpturetrail.com/">sculpture trail</a>
22 in the middle of town. My wife and kids wandered around
23 the park while I fired up my new
24 <a href="http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF25a/321957-64295-89315-321838-f34-1847110.html">HP nc2400 notebook</a>
25 and established a GPRS connection through my aging
26 <a href="http://www.sonyericsson.com/spg.jsp?cc=us&lc=en&ver=4000&template=ps1_1_2_3&zone=ps&lm=ps1&pid=9757">Ericsson T39</a>
28 <a href="http://gprsec.linuxforum.hu/">gprsec</a>, which
30 <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=325389">
31 packaged for Debian</a>.
33 Two minor hacks due to my choice of phone. I needed the flag_time=0 option
34 on the ppp_async module command line to work
35 around a bug in the T39 as per the
36 <a href="http://turtiainen.dna.fi/GPRS-HOWTO">GPRS-HOWTO</a>,
37 and noauth in the ppp config emitted by gprsec.
39 Participating in the meeting was painless, other than delaying our lunch for
40 a half hour or so... It's really nice when things work the way they're