Rob the Geek

Month: February 2008

  • World Wide Telescope – I want to be a kid again…

    I read Scobles post when it appeared on TechMeme yesterday about Microsoft Research and their Worldwide Telescope project and the praise for the concept is again reflected on TED (love TED). Anyway,  enthused by what I’ve seen thus far (the project still not being open), I told my son Max about it and, watching his […]

  • Archived : FreeAucklandWireless > Article in the Capital Times

    This page was originally located at:  http://freeaucklandwireless.wordpress.com/2008/02/28/article-in-the-capital-times/ and was published on: Feb 28, 2008 @ 20:16. That site has been removed from wordpress.com as of Feb 21 2014 Cheers to Neil who pointed me toward this article in the Wellington Publication ‘Capital Times’. It’s great to see these initiatives getting some air time (if you’ll excuse the […]

  • Windows Vista & WebDAV

    Bah – it’s happened again, a new install of Vista results in me no longer being able to connect to my WebDAV folders. So, for my future reference… here’s the link to a posting relating to this error, and here’s the file location itself (Software Update for Web Folders (KB907306))

  • Will (Community) WiFi Work?

    Over on the Free Auckland Wireless Blog, I pose the question that, if this community WiFi project takes off, can we then expect some corporate assistance by some of the ISPs and Telecommunication companies? Will the community be given the chance to grow, or will it be shut down by service providers leaning on their […]

  • Freeing the Web

    Well today I created a Facebook Group called Free Auckland Wireless – the idea being to try and drive a community of like minded people who might like to share a little of their bandwidth for the greater good. Of course, the group has it’s own blog which you can find here and was inspired […]

  • Archived : FreeAucklandWireless > Hat tip to the Free Sydney Wireless group

    This page was originally located at:  http://freeaucklandwireless.wordpress.com/2008/02/21/hat-tip-to-the-free-sydney-wireless-group/ and was published on: Feb 21, 2008 @ 6:34. That site has been removed from wordpress.com as of Feb 21 2014 The Sydney Morning herald has this report on the group behind the Free Sydney Wireless group on Facebook which briefly covers their origins and calls out to the community […]

  • Archived : FreeAucklandWireless > Welcome the Free Auckland Wireless Blog

    This page was originally located at:  http://freeaucklandwireless.wordpress.com/2008/02/21/welcome-the-free-auckland-wireless-blog/ and was published on: Feb 21, 2008 @ 0:57. That site has been removed from wordpress.com as of Feb 21 2014 About 2 years ago we came across the Meraki equipment as part of some research we were doing and were excited by the possibilities it presented. Since that time, […]

  • Archived : FreeAucklandWireless > About

    This page was originally located at:  http://freeaucklandwireless.wordpress.com/about and was published on: Feb 21, 2008 @ 0:31. That site has been removed from wordpress.com as of Feb 21 2014 About 2 years ago we came across the Meraki equipment as part of some research we were doing and were excited by the possibilities it presented. Since that time, […]

  • The Death of a Blog…

    I transitioned my content from the World of Warcraft blog I originally set up back in 2006, back into this site today. I’ve been having issues maintaining the discipline to post regularly in this blog, let alone attempt to maintain another blog devoted to the wonderful World of Warcraft thus, in an effort to simplify […]

  • UK Bank blocking WoW payments

    Just got sent a link by a friend (who doesn’t quite understand my addiction, but that’s another post) to an article on how Halifax Bank in the UK has blocked payments to the World or Warcraft subscription servers, quoting “a significant number of fraudulent transactions through Blizzard’s gaming sites” as the motivation behind this move. […]