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On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 08:50 +0000, Tom Potts wrote: > On Thursday 29 November 2007 20:06, Dave Berkeley wrote: > > On Thursday 29 November 2007 19:16:49 Tom Potts wrote: > > > On Thursday 29 November 2007 18:15, Rob Beard wrote: > > > > Do you have a link? > > > > > > http://www.groklaw.net/ > > > currently 2nd article down on the RHS > > > > > > > Are Asus trying to get GPLv3 code re-licensed as GPLv2? > > > > > > I must confess battle fatigue on this one but PJ is normally pretty > > > reliable. I'd recommend the single malt solution - I think its just Asus > > > having a few problems getting their act together. It looks like their > > > trying their best but they've a few things to fix. > > > Drink malt, wait a while, when the dust has settled and they're fully GPL > > > compliant you can get on with the more serious task of working out > > > whether you can really utilise one of these things ... I've already got > > > to the stage of working out where to put a wifi mast so I can use this > > > while working in the polytunnel - I'm a farmer and I really really want > > > one! Can you die from viral marketing? > > > Tom te tom te tom > > > > I always wondered about these. Just a parabola I guess. > > > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/09/flatenna_wi-fi_booster/ > > > > There are a host of different designs you might try > > > > http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/448 > > http://www.turnpoint.net/wireless/has.html > > http://flakey.info/antenna/biquad/ > > http://www.xs4all.nl/~tom1572/eng/ > > http://martybugs.net/wireless/biquad/ > > http://martybugs.net/wireless/biquad/double.cgi > > > > You can get 10km out of a big parabolic dish apparently. > > > > Rob Flickenger wrote a good book on all this stuff > > > > http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0596005024 > > > > D > I dont know if theres a commercial one out there but one humdinger of an > antenna is flat Fresnel antenna - a bit like the lens but just concentric > rings correctly space to work like a parabolic reflector. > When Sky (hock spit) first came on the scene there were a lot of complaints > about the hideous scarring of British architecture with dishes. These were > expensive - a flat Fresnel of the same collecting power laid out flat in the > loft would have cost <£10 and not spoilt the external appearance of the > property. But as the great selling power of Sky was never its program content > they had to rely on penis envy hence dishes! > The continued triumph of marketing over engineering! > Tom te tom te tom > > This reminds me of the square BSB (B-Sky-B?) antennas that were around a few years ago. They had some kind of array of little rectangles under the paint, I believe. Went the same way as Betamax of course... Alexis Phoenix -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html