Tony’s Cafe

I inherited a computer from my brother with one of the best motherboards out there — the A-Bit BP6. This motherboard has withstood the test of time, and even has a following: the BP6 Network Community. This mobo can support two (that’s right, TWO) Celerys (as in Intel Celeron) and has 1 AGP, 5 PCI, and two ISA (!!) slots. Also, there’s 2 IDE controllers and 2 UDMA66 controllers. Besides its versatility, the BP6 is very well known for its overclocking abilities. Two other friends (Doug and Patrick) have BP6s as well, and have been running strong to date. I also have another BP6 running Linux in the basement — supporting my 1980s Videophone.

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I was partly prepared to work with the 3rd and 4th graders of Cambridgeport School in Cambridge, MA. I am friends with the teacher and worked with his kids a few years ago for a different graduate study. The teacher had to attend an out of school meeting during the interaction with the kids, but fortunately his assistant teacher was there to help keep the kids on task. Keeping the students on task (and the vocal chatter volume level down) was definitely more intense than working with the high school students. As I observed the classroom during the interaction, I had to assist in keeping the students on task.

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…through 6.5 miles (~10.5km) devoid of “line of sight” landscape, that is! Doug and I are trying to get a wireless link up between our houses. Six years ago, before the days of DSL and when we had apartments near each other, we had a wireless link. Using 915MHz WaveLAN cards and Linux, we were able to link up and play Quake against each other. Back then, our apartments were only a couple hundred feet away from each other, and we utilized some low sensitivity patch antennas. As long as we aligned the antennas out our windows just right, we could establish a connection. Now, we’re 8 miles away from each other, and we’re wondering if we can do the same thing.

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