Those of you who follow such things may have noticed that I became
SPI
President today.
The cool part, though, is how I managed to participate in the special board
meeting to select officers today.
The meeting fell in the middle of the drive from our house up into the
mountains to the
Rocky Ridge Music Center
near
Estes Park, Colorado,
where my daughter is attending a
music camp. About
15 minutes before the meeting was supposed to start,
we drove out of the edge of GSM phone coverage just beyond the town of
Lyons... I turned the car
around and drove back into town and parked adjacent to the
surprisingly interesting Sandstone Park, which is part of a
sculpture trail
in the middle of town. My wife and kids wandered around
the park while I fired up my new
HP nc2400 notebook
and established a GPRS connection through my aging
Ericsson T39
phone using
gprsec, which
sadly is not yet
packaged for Debian.
Two minor hacks due to my choice of phone. I needed the flag_time=0 option
on the ppp_async module command line to work
around a bug in the T39 as per the
GPRS-HOWTO,
and noauth in the ppp config emitted by gprsec.
Participating in the meeting was painless, other than delaying our lunch for
a half hour or so... It's really nice when things work the way they're
supposed to.
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