From: Bdale Garbee Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 06:02:00 +0000 (-0600) Subject: post X-Git-Url: https://git.gag.com/?p=web%2Fgag.com;a=commitdiff_plain;h=adc51db910a23cfd45f346a437503e7737924ee7 post --- diff --git a/bdale/blog/posts/Meeting_over_GPRS.mdwn b/bdale/blog/posts/Meeting_over_GPRS.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..aa53456 --- /dev/null +++ b/bdale/blog/posts/Meeting_over_GPRS.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +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. + +[[!tag tags/spi]]