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Archive for September, 2005

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Wednesday, September 21st, 2005

The MySQL database running behind the WCN news here got fouled-up at some point in the last 24 hours and hosed the site. Still not sure exactly what happened but I was able to run a recovery tool on the tables in question (myisamchk for you geeks) and that seemed to bring us back to […]

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Talking in the dark

Sunday, September 18th, 2005

From New York Times Magazine, September 18, 2005

By Clive Thompson

When was the last time you heard a “busy tone” on a telephone? Probably not for years. Our phone system is so robust, our mobile phones are so ubiquitous and voice mail and e-mail are such reliable backups that instant, unhindered access to friends, colleagues and […]

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New York Times Sunday Magazine article on WiFi & VoIP

Sunday, September 18th, 2005

Clive Thompson has written an article featuring yours truly and the WCN project in the NYT Sunday Magazine about using WiFi networks for voice & data communications in the event of emergencies like Katrina that knock out the incumbent terrestrial systems.

You can use WiFi to build a do-it-yourself phone system that […]

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Back in Ponchatoula

Saturday, September 17th, 2005

I’m back from 4 days in Bay St Louis. I could be wrong, but I don’t believe I’ve gone without email for 4 days in 10 years. Anyway, I have lots and lots to report but for now I’ll just link to this story in Network World.

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Volunteers rebuild Gulf Coast communications with wireless nets

Friday, September 16th, 2005

From Network World, September 16, 2005

By John Cox

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, a volunteer group of network and wireless experts has moved from outfitting small northeastern Louisiana shelters with wireless Internet access and VoIP phones to preparing a desperately needed 45M bit/sec wireless pipe for the entire relief effort in devastated Bay Saint Louis, […]

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25 Shelters to be Connected Near Bay St Louis

Wednesday, September 14th, 2005

The Wireless Team, comprised of CNT staff, CUWiN volunteers, WISPA professionals and more, is working in both Bay St Louis, MS and Ponchatoula, LA with the Emergency Operation Center to connect 25 shelters with broadband and related resources. Each of the shelters has 100-150 evacuees. The Wireless Crew will set up computers and VoIP phones […]

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Sunday update

Sunday, September 11th, 2005

I’ve been a little lax in posting lately, not for being want of things to post about. I’m suprised I forgot to mention it sooner, but there is a website for the command center part of the operation down here:

http://katrina.cnt.org/wordpress/

UPDATE: What a numbskull, I have mentioned it.

Most of those are my photos and since Matt […]

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To the River of Life folks

Friday, September 9th, 2005

Click here to see the photos I took while I was there. Lennie, send me that email address for the shelter once you get it set up, and let me know if you need any more help getting that other router/hub set up. Will you need more Cat5? Email me or post a comment here.

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To the Praise Fellowship folks

Friday, September 9th, 2005

Click here to see the photos I took while I was there. Hope that new phone is working better than the old one.

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Check out this site

Friday, September 9th, 2005

http://katrina.cnt.org/wordpress/

For all of the latest on shelter connections, computer set-ups and restored communications.

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Press

Friday, September 9th, 2005

Hey, the Washington Post has a nice piece on us.

“They just call from shelter to shelter to shelter looking for their kids or for their daddies or their brothers because they got separated, and they are just finding each other in the last few days,” Dearman said, adding that people were often overwhelmed when they […]

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Wireless Networks Give Voice To Evacuees

Friday, September 9th, 2005

From The Washington Post, Friday, September 9, 2005

By Arshad Mohammed

Hurricane Katrina survivor Caprice Butler had been at a church shelter in rural northeastern Louisiana for nearly a week when she finally heard her husband’s voice on an Internet phone running on an improvised wireless network.

“I was just overjoyed,” she said yesterday, tearing up as she […]

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Message to the folks at the Tallulah Convention Center: your pictures

Thursday, September 8th, 2005

Hey everyone at Tallulah Convention Center: my name’s Paul, I was out there earlier helping set up the computers. Click here to see the photos I took while I was there.

If you have trouble with the FEMA forms, I know they’re confusing, grab a young person nearby, they’ll help you, they have computers in their […]

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Disappointment in Houston

Thursday, September 8th, 2005

Our LPFM kin in Houston have been dealt a blow, and by extension the evacuees who need information to put their lives back together. Joel Johnson reports.

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Missing person DB

Thursday, September 8th, 2005

I’m sitting here with Jay Dearman who’s Mac’s brother, a minister, and open source geek. He runs ChurchOfThe.Net, and helped get a site called DisasterSearch.org off the ground which he says is the single largest database of missing persons for Katrina victims. For the interested, it’s a custom crafted version of the Mambo CMS.

What’s emerging […]

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Thursday morning update

Thursday, September 8th, 2005

Things are really heating up here at Mac’s. Gear has begun to arrive in quantity: we just pulled 30 Trango 900 MHz APs and SUs off the FedEx truck, plus 20 Cisco/Linksys routers with built-in ATA (VoIP) ports. Teams have rolled to shelters in Tallulah and Winnsboro, taking laptops and phones to evacuees. Another wireless […]

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Photos

Wednesday, September 7th, 2005

We’re posting photos to Flickr (Heather Champ and the Flickr crew has most generously donated pro bono pro accounts to the crew here in Rayville) under the tag “katrinawireless”.

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Tentative plan for Gulfport

Wednesday, September 7th, 2005

Let’s say we get the go-ahead from Gulfport to come establish comm there, we’d have to mobilize quickly. I just spent 5 minutes sketching out a tentative plan for this effort, including gear we’ll need. It’s not detailed at all, just a rough sketch to get y’all to react to.

Please review the below, and let […]

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Gulfport, MS

Wednesday, September 7th, 2005

Spoke to Dave Odem, a resource manager over in Gulfport, MS this afternoon. Gulfport’s a neighbor of Biloxi, right on the coast, so there’s no need to belabor describing the state of affairs over there.

He tells me they have 7 or 8 Red Cross-directed shelters, some 3000+ evacuees. Major sections of town are quarantined, because […]

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Wednesday update

Wednesday, September 7th, 2005

Here in northern LA, it’s all rural communities, with very little to no telecom infrastructure to speak of. Wireless ISPs bring connectivity from tall 150-foot towers and multi-mile-long point-to-point wireless links. So in this situation with so many disparate towns and shelters spread throughout, WISPs are perfectly suited to connecting them with voice and Internet […]

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