burngreave.net - Community

Burngreave.NET Projects

Wed, 5 Oct 2005 22:51:33 +0100

The burngreave.net umbrella covers a number of different projects.

Community Area Network. We are developing a wireless based community area network in coordination with other groups in Sheffield. For more infomation see http://bcan.burngreave.net
Volunteer PC support for the community at the PC Fixit Cafe. See http://www.burngreave.net/mailman/listinfo/cafe for more information
IT consultancy services / workers co-operative BITWork
Community ISP services, hosting web sites and email for a number of organisations and bodies.
Email lists

BITPart Aims and Objectives

Sat, 8 Feb 2003 02:41:00 +0000

Burngreave IT Partnership
Aims and Objectives

Housing

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:07:38 +0100

Minutes of the Burngreave New Housing Group can be found at:

http://www.burngreave.net/~housing/

There are also documents and links to Burngreave/Sheffield/national housing issues.

Articles and comments welcome.
Please email to:

housing@burngreave.net

Rock Street / Verdon Street wireless network

Tue, 8 May 2007 17:22:39 +0100

Snapshot of the Rock Street / Verdon Street network, 08 May 2007.

OLSR Network Topology 10-April-2007

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 18:34:00 +0100

OLSR Network Topology 10-April-2007

OLSR and Freifunk use in Burngreave Community Area Network, Sheffield

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 18:19:15 +0100

We've started moving the Burngreave Community Area Network to the Freifunk Firmware on the Linksys WRT54G family using OLSR routing protocol .

Here is a picture of the network topology around Verdon and Rock Street Areas of Pitsmoor

backup script

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 05:50:52 +0000

found this .. looks useful

http://www.faqs.org/docs/securing/backup-rest.html

The Internet is not a Superhighway

Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:56:19 +0000

From Slashdot

" The internet is a lot like an information superhighway...

No, the Internet is NOT like a superhighway :-) From Usenet, 1994-ish:

"Think of the Internet as a highway."

There it is again. Some clueless fool talking about the "Information Superhighway." They don't know didley about the net. It's nothing like a superhighway. That's a rotten metaphor.

Suppose the metaphor ran in the other direction. Suppose the highways were like the net. . .

A highway hundreds of lanes wide. Most with pitfalls for potholes. Privately operated bridges and overpasses. No highway patrol. A couple of rent-a-cops on bicycles with broken whistles. 500 member vigilante posses with nuclear weapons. A minimum of 237 on ramps at every intersection. No signs. Wanna get to Ensenada? Holler out the window at a passing truck to ask directions. Ad hoc traffic laws. Some lanes would vote to make use by a single-occupant-vehicle a capital offense on Monday through Friday between 7:00 and 9:00. Other lanes would just shoot you without a trial for talking on a car phone.

Arbourthorne Free Wireless Project

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 18:22:05 +0000

Started work on the Arbourthorne free wireless project. ( need to think of a catchier name ! )

Purchased 4 Linksys WRT54GL and started installing the freifunk firmware

Seems quite cool software. The OLSR daemon works nicely and creates the routes happily. Need to remember that the wireless interfaces must all be in the same subnet, adhoc, and have same essid for automatic meshing to work.

Love Sheffield Music Hate Racism

Mon, 2 Oct 2006 15:44:24 +0100

Just heard about this! http://www.lmhrsheffield.co.uk/ looks good, I look forward to hearing more of it, and getting the record.

‘Love Sheffield Music Hate Racism’ Album Launch Party!!!!!! Thursday 5th October @ THE HUBS, HALLAM UNION, SHEFFIELD

“Ignorance and misunderstanding are the underlying causes of racism. Music cuts through all that crap so we can judge a human being by the quality of their soul and musicality which are so much more important than the color of there skin or their nationality” Richard Hawley, June 2006.

Sheffield city has a long and proud history of challenging racism and an equally proud history of producing great music. We decided to promote the energy and quality of our SHEFFIELD MUSIC and use it to celebrate diversity; by putting together the ‘LOVE SHEFFIELD MUSIC HATE RACISM ALBUM’, a double CD featuring Sheffield artists.

LTSP Workshop at MATILDA

Sun, 28 May 2006 12:49:50 +0100

I recently participated in a sheffield hacklab workshop on setting up Linux Terminal Server based services at the MATILDA social centre in Sheffield.

We installed SUSE 10.1 Linux on a relatively ancient but serviceable dual processor 1 Ghz PIII 1GB RAM 2x 18GB SCSI HDD server.

SUSE 10.1 installed without a hitch ( as is to be expected from a Linux distro these days.)

The latest version of LTSP, LTSP 4.2 is pretty magnificent. The documentation is well written and easy to follow, and we configure a few simple networking services ( DHCP, TFTP, NFS, XDMCP and etherboot, with the help of http://rom-o-matic.net/ ), and we have a working LTSP server built, and a skipped compaq deskpro 6350 SFF Pentium II PC with 32Mb RAM acting as thin client.

Sheffield Free Bus

Sat, 20 May 2006 20:01:24 +0100

I had a fantastic day out in the Sheffield Free Bus today.

https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/sheffield/2006/05/341014.html

"...Some people believe in asking large coporations for cheap services so that there is less profit made. Whilst we understand that this is a desirable goal we go one step further to ask for a cooperative way of living, where no profit is produced. Although there are potential alternatives to using buses such as cycling. realistically people need effective public transport that is environmentally friendly and better than running individual cars. Corporations are exploiting our needs"

BCAF documents

Fri, 11 Nov 2005 17:29:47 +0000

Archive of recent BCAF documents can now be found at:

http://forum.burngreave.net

Burngreave Computer Fixit Cafe

Sat, 5 Nov 2005 13:54:43 +0000

Burngreave Computer Fixit Cafe

Discuss and discover the councils plans - 27 October

Sat, 22 Oct 2005 10:50:47 +0100

Tenants & Homeowners
The Sheffield council has plans (masterplans)
for the Catherine Street and Woodside
areas! Will you be affected?
A community group will be meeting
Thursday 27th October 6pm
at Verdon Street Recreation Centre
Come along and have your say!