{"id":83,"date":"2008-10-08T09:22:48","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T13:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mail.ale.org\/?p=83"},"modified":"2008-10-08T09:37:31","modified_gmt":"2008-10-08T13:37:31","slug":"ale-central-mtg-for-thurs-october-16th-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ale.org\/?p=83","title":{"rendered":"ALE CENTRAL MTG. for Thurs., October 16th, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\nThe feature presentation at our ALE Central Meeting for<br \/>\n7:30pm, Thursday, October 16th, will be: <font size=\"+1\"><\/p>\n<p>*The Joy of Coova&#8221;<\/font><\/strong><br \/>\n&#8212; or &#8212;<strong><font size=\"+1\"><br \/>\n&#8220;How I Learned to Stop Worrying<br \/>\nand Love Radio Networking&#8221;<\/font><\/p>\n<p>as presented by the mildly paranoid but<br \/>\nalways radiant Charles Shapiro <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Synopsis:<br \/>\n&#8212; During this program you will witness how our intrepid narrator<br \/>\nconquered his paranoia and installed a WiFi hotspot on his network,<br \/>\nexposing it to the nefarious wiles of all hackers, spammers, and<br \/>\nother evil characters within a 100-yard radius of his home, protected<br \/>\nonly by the fig-leaf of a click-through agreement form.<\/p>\n<p>Featuring <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/coova.org\">coova<\/a><\/strong>, a build-your-own-hot-spot kit built on OpenWRT, <br \/> the linux distribution designed to run on your WiFi router.<br \/>\nWith explicit, never-before-shown details on troubleshooting<br \/>\nand other digital hilarity.<\/p>\n<p>bio:<br \/>\n&#8212; Charles Shapiro is a fan of fencing, juggling, gadgetry, RC toys<br \/>\nand most anything the lesser world considers &#8220;geek&#8221; or &#8220;gear head&#8221;.<br \/>\nConsistent to this calling he has been a professional programmer for<br \/>\nover 10 years, specializing in C and unix with a couple years of C++,<br \/>\nPerl and a plethora of Python in the mix. He can type faster than<br \/>\nmost people can talk, is a Linux Lunacy Cruise alumnae, a liberty<br \/>\nminded friend of the EFF and a committed Linux zealot since 1996.<\/p>\n<p>=============<br \/>\nWe will be meeting at Emory Law School in our<br \/>\nusual Gambrel Hall, room 1C venue.<br \/>\nMeeting time frame is 7:30pm to ~9:30pm<br \/>\nDirections to Emory Law School can be found<br \/>\nvia the side bar link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The feature presentation at our ALE Central Meeting for 7:30pm, Thursday, October 16th, will be: *The Joy of Coova&#8221; &#8212; or &#8212; &#8220;How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Radio Networking&#8221; as presented by the mildly paranoid but always radiant Charles Shapiro Synopsis: &#8212; During this program you will witness how our intrepid narrator [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ale-central","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}