We spent the day at the Ohio Linux Fest ingesting as much information and swag as possible. We heard some very informative talks on BSD, patenting FOSS, paying for your college tuition with open source, and a demostration of OpenSIM – the open source alternative to Second Life. There was also a wonderful spread of tech shirts with clever sayings and images adorned by many of the attendees. The people made the day! The best part of the event was attending the after-party where we got to experience the music of nerdcore sensation Dual Core. Also on the show: Important health announcement for OLF Attendees. Here are some useful links posted in the episode:

The OIN – “an intellectual property company that was formed to promote Linux by using patents to create a collaborative environment”

Useful pages on various FOSS patents:
Wikipedia article
Open source licenses listed by name and category

OpenSim- the open source version of Second Life. Almost identical.

Be sure to take time and visit Dual Core’s webpage for more information about upcoming shows and available music. Thanks so much to them for letting us use video footage and music from their Ohio Linux Fest show! Thanks goes out to Allen Lee from Gamer Husband’s Radio as well for coming with us and helping out with the filming

1. Mark

   Where was your GPS!! Come on; war driving without a GPS is like taking a notepad with you and just writing down the SSIDs as you go. With GPSd running with Kismet it will log the lat/lun of each AP w/ signal strength… then using some scripts you can generate a google earth file that will triangulate the actual location of the APs down to a couple meters. Great for when you need to actually ‘find’ the AP in a business environment. Either way I agree with your description of encryption settings, but what about the 802.11x authentication functions out there. You can make wireless near impenetrable using certificate based 802.1x authentication tied to AD (yah, yah, insert all the anti-MS comments, it doesn’t help if someone is just sniffing traffic, but it can prevent an unauthorized actor from connecting).

   Oct 20th, 2009

2. Steve Z

   Good point Mark. We’ll have to pick up a GPS dongle for the next round of war driving.

   Oct 20th, 2009

3. marcia

   you guys know how to take what could have been for us non-geeks a very boring presentation and edit it into a fun, entertaining, learning
   event:) always love the wrap-up by Leigh!!

   Oct 22nd, 2009

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