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So I am now in Goa. Who would have thought, after I've wasted so long in Bangalore all the time. But now I'm back in the wide world.

Even the journey here is an adventure, flying bricks had been the quarrel with a side window of the bus (the disc has unfortunately lost) and then I would have something later, the convertible / version of the Buss also almost missed in NER roadhouse. Was also exciting with Indians about Feeling B to blabber. What do they expect me to even if the Rammstein ask?

Well, according to athletic performance limits, the bus has not come off as fast, swim a pleasantly quiet night trip to Goa and from 16 o'clock the first time again. What was required at even the hippie in me has been seen not only but also smelled from miles away. It's super hot here! Often. And especially humid.

Unfortunately, at the beach get updated very often things are no sunscreen, beach Shaks who had to wait forever this time at ne permission. Just issued, are now the degree of tinkering began, and an empty beach is so beautiful, it is also not to despise a sun roof and NEN cool drink to have. Yeah, I know I wil again everything. And even more: I would like to have a beer, namely on the beach. What degree will not work either, because dry-day. This is repeated Anlss the election in South Goa, this is three full days to drink anything. At least not that easy, well, now wenns times the only way that people make is carefully iohr crosses, but I do not ...

And to bmerken nochwas, the tide is pretty bad grade. In the afternoon, so if you could use a little cooling-off and hot water is not bad, too, are the obnoxious high waves, but that's fun for a while but nothing that is permanent. Let you recite it, and be nice jealous!

On you can be jealous of my friendships with local Mecanikern. Yesterday the bike for the first time brought solid put the the gears are the other way around as such (!) I had Erinerung, now, today morning about ne hour in the heat of the box lined up until I came up with the brilliant idea once the Shoke lever to pressure, it noted already, somehow I have to get used again until I turn. Because my dear bike ht cried even oil from the front shock absorbers, durftes day one more time as a mechanic. But tomorrow it has to come back without a clear, is indeed old enough.

If that works and I also like denied Insurance company for the box (I need ne copy of the authorization and NEN pencil-scratch-print of the part number for) get,, we go well off, heading south along the coast and either at Gokarna or continue straight on up to the Jog Falls, according to the plan. But it will again be different from everything Indian.

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Yes, what should become of me? Instead of making holidays in the sun I'm busy in the rain. Since mannohmann now been more than NER week.

First, wars only a project proposal that had to be done. When the MacArthur Foundation, the University of California found the ingenious innovation together with Dinesh innovative, admit maybe next year the opportunity to build a wireless network. We'll see, but the work was worth. Although I would have thrown the day before submission almost the towel, had really no desire to applications and related Hoffenungen. Is somehow like playing the lottery, for those who have the time but no money.

Well, Monday finished, it had to go natural. Thursday was Pecha Kucha Night , and I was invited to talk about WHATEVER NEN (so I've chosen community wireless networks) to hold. Pecha Kucha , 20 slides for 20 seconds each (Beware, 2.5 MB PowerPoint, are also ne boring 1MB pdf ) show and encouraged NEN lecture. Makes 6 minutes and 40 seconds. And it sounds as short and simple, in practice not so easy to make. No time to lose the thread. Is (intended) almost like acting, where you have to learn the text by heart beforehand. Fast. And even if one takes seriously the motto.

What no one except me, of course, has been made, other issues such as bio-toilets exciting, free software, or context, and blush, but not a lecture, the exciting format of 20x20sek complied, but everybody was just simply very short. About ten minutes. I am German too? My excuse is that I just found the idea so the 20 seconds per slide so exciting, but as an excuse ne help?

Further Well, a lot of time I had not know, think about it, because since Friday we went. Ne presentation for the conference FOSS prepare about free software and community wireless networks. Now, is still a lot of work has become what is supposed to bring. And it had this and that will be tested again, and thereby get updated very often not to lose so many exciting possibilities of the path. I can only say, 7:09 Kamikaze is compiled several times, and Batman is now in my bangalore.freifunk.net.

Otherwise the weekend was once again a festival, Dasara . Rama has defeated Ravena, Sita and released, because the winners are indeed the good always overcomes evil. Reason enough to celebrate, and for ten days. In between, of course, still moves by those who celebrate the birthday of Ganesha least one month long. Sunday then, on the tenth day of Feierei, celebrates the things of everyday life. The taxi drivers decorate their taxis with palm leaves, construction vehicles are decorated genauswo like junk cars at the car hobbyists, computer hackers, and probably in the notes to the bankers.

And I, I stay at home, busy, no respect for the cultural events. Now, Lalu is in Canada and Dinesh is from Vidy in northern India, because I would go alone anyway gemußt was to me like it. And the sooner I've finished the presentation, the sooner I can go to Goa. The mechanic, with whom I've already phoned makes the bike ready. And then you just have to stop the daily rain and everything will be fine.

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Going to use GPRS in India to be connected at most places with my own machine, I selected the Airtel offer . You get a PCMCIA card GlobeTrotter EDGE ML2132C2 and a time-independent tariff. If you do not use more than 500 Mbyte per month, you have to pay only 350rp, Which is around 7 €. And, not to forget, best is you have some Indian who does the deal for you, else its a little more expensive.

Anyway, having the card is only half the game, so how to run a GlobeTrotter EDGE ML2132C2 with Airtel under Linux, especially Debian Etch? Some tips and the required tools can be found at http://www.pharscape.org (see [1] ).

First, install the ppp deamon and the gcom-tool (which is now named as comgt, but still uses the old name debain for the recent version of the tool).

> Aptitude update, aptitude install ppp gcom

Then, create a udev rule Which creates a symbolic link at / dev / modem and starts some initialisation script if the card is detected at / etc/udev/rules.d/025_gprs.rules .

# Udev rules for gprs
# Currently only GlobeTrotter EDGE ML2132C2 recognized
# If your card is not detected, just have a look at the system log
Which is it to # ttySx bound and call udevinfo to get the right options
# (Udevinfo-attribute-walk-name / dev / ttySx)

# GlobeTrotter EDGE ML2132C2
SUBSYSTEM == "tty", SYSFS {prod_id3} == "ML2132C2", SYSFS {manf_id} == "0 × 0314", SYSFS {card_id} == "0 × 0007", SYMLINK = "modem", RUN + = " / lib / udev / gprs.hotplug.wrapper "

Create the script at / lib / udev / gprs.hotplug.wrapper . This script is called, if the card is detected and it first runs gcom, Which initializes the card. After this the pppd is started.

#! / Bin / sh
$ logger (gcom) && $ logger (pon Airtel)

To let the pppd work the right way, you have to create some configuration files for it. First create / etc / ppp / peers / Airtel and insert your mobile number in the line near the end user of the file.

# / Bin / sh
# Description:
# Serial cable, IrDA, Bluetooth and USB pppd options for GPRS phones.
# See 'man pppd' for detailed option descriptions. # Set the device to use
/ Dev / modem

# Most GPRS phones do not reply to LCP echo's
lcp-echo-failure 0
lcp-echo-interval 0

# Debug info from pppd:
# Comment this off, if you do not need more info
# Debug

# Serial port line speed
38400 # The card has problems if you use a speed higher than this

# Pppd must not propose any IP address to the peer!
noipdefault

# Add the ppp interface as default route to the IP routing table
defaultroute

# DNS servers from the phone:
# Some phones support this, some do not.
usepeerdns

The phone # is not required to authenticate:
noauth

# Username

user "mobile number"
remotename Airtel
ipparam Airtel

connect "/ usr / sbin / chat-v-f / etc / ppp / Airtel"

Now create the chat script at / etc / ppp / Airtel and you are done.

ABORT BUSY ABORT 'NO CARRIER' ABORT VOICE ABORT 'NO DIAL TONE' ABORT 'NO DIAL TONE' ABORT 'NO ANSWER' ABORT DELAYED
# Modem init
"ATZ
# Ispnumber
OK-AT-OK "ATDT * 99 *** 1 #"
# ISPConnect
CONNECT \ d \ c
# Prelogin

If you are now inserting the card into the pcmcia slot, udev should start the script and automatically connects with the pppd over GPRS. It takes a while, the blinking code of the data card might give you some hints about the status. After inserting it blinks approximately every second, if it is connected to Airtel, the red LED is flashing for a somehow longer time and is starting a nervous double blinking, Which should Indicate that everything is fine (by the way, who invented the first flashing red LEDs to Indicate some state no problem?). This is the time the pppd starts to run, a few seconds later you should be online. If you like more information on what's going on, have a look in your logfiles.

Hope the description helps somebody, feel free to comment if you have any questions.

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Heat, exactly. The theme of the last days, a trip to the southern coast of India after Tamil Nadu get updated very often only in combination with 36 degrees to 40 degrees at noon, was added. Wirds cool evening, as does a T-shirt already sense the day it is but forced cultural adaptation. Well seen, except a lot of sweat, hard to put everything.

Already at the beginning of the trip we went with the action going on. Classic Indian too late for Dinesh broken in Bangalore, during the ride to jam, getting off at last arrived, and also there ten minutes late. The train was also delayed, however, so we grade on the second station and the train still on track Two! Tunnel or bridge? Exactly, Indian, across the tracks, dark in the distance a train on track 1, spontaneous fall between the tracks, doing nothing, look in the eye, great Indian with good eyes, and go off to train. Wow. Next time, more important, well, forget it.

Tags on it, so Tuesday arrived in Tarangambadi, Tamil Nadu. Even at 8 incredible heat, well, is just south of here right. Reason for our visit is a wireless network on the coast. After the tsunami, who has demanded not only a lot of lives, but also provided the basis for crass resettlement under the label of coastal protection, was this shared network of ner NGO that cares for the construction of houses and NER community of fishermen along the shore up. 140km, 14 form the tower the network. Quite a few, but nothing more. Very expensive, but money was just there at the time, but now if it were just as nice to make something out of it locally, low.cost.

Well, everything sounds great, but the talks were less' as we get going now 'because' what is this about überhaupt'-oriented. Been clearly must be, Dinesh had but should be just like me the impression that the folks there were already informed in advance, would have been, or something like that, well, but was just Nich Sun So what will come of visit, everything is open.

Then after Pondycherri, and in Auroville met Jason, who is working on school NER and a meeting with ner Anglo wobbles local wireless group. First, the school met many interesting people, including Mano, with whom I could share stories from Berlin. The world is small, and so offered sichs on the chestnut trees, particularly the 71 to blabber (na? exactly, Salvation Army) and what became of all is. Auroville in general seems an interesting place, so ne way squat, only in size. And to experience the idea, perhaps even a plenary session with 170 people, has indeed something.

Problems are in large and small changes in the cohesion problems in the discussion style (broken english Machts Nich better), but scheints to work somehow. And the first impression is overwhelming, leaves you wanting more.

The meeting was then WLAN great too, there is a net with 6-7 or wasweissich how many central nodes operated about 150/200 (?) Users hang in there to it via WiFi. However, Nich with NEM Access Point, which makes administration more difficult. But access points are expensive for the conditions here, consider Nich really ne option. Problems, or better, some challenges gibs, so breaking the network together with vigorous upload regularly. Hard to say worans lies hidden nodes? In any case, the folks would be happy there, if I pop in for a while, and your knowing it, I'd also like to take a quick look a little more and there are probably a lot to do and learn.

Auroville, envisioned as a vision of peaceful coexistence, in the next year forty or so older than me, maybe we fit together? And I remember the moment that I do not really miss Bangalore. Indian cities are really really my thing, that was clear from the outset. One specific project is not (yet) in sight, which is in Tamil Nadu wenns to do is right around the corner, so go. Schedule update: back to Bangalore, then do not get some stuff with Dinesh, then to Goa bike, and then test it in three / four weeks for a while Auroville. And finally what makes it active, wireless hack, yeah!

PS: Although not driven motorbike, scooter for it, and I was now finally swim. Quite warm water, yah

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And again everything turned out differently than planned. This weekend I really want to get out to nem art event, myself do not know exactly where and what, only that it was around here and the people with whom I had had any ne lift was great. Now, had, had. Car was then still full, but what has brought me no less varied weekend.

Early harvested bananas first. The tree, the ud on the neighboring property a lot of concrete, ner glass facade and a few suits, polo shirts soft behind it had to bear, now with Dinesh fruit. You must not let it decay naturally, even wenns no German bananas.

NER in the afternoon to rally against the violent suppression of the freedom movement in Burma / Myanmar gone, yesterday was finally Global Action Day ( [1] , [2] , [3] , [4] ). Nix noticed it in D-land? Well, in Frankfurt gabs probably a protest, but is not so sure on over there. Here I found more ne rally, or about 100 people. And it was not the usual suspects. Not only because I was there was to see well that, for example, some women completely wrapped up in her burqa at krassestem sunshine for the freedom demonstrations in Burma. Interesting that this is unique for us as a symbol of oppression of women but also obscures our view that even beyond politically active and aware of emerging women can be verteckt.

Then from the center of Bangalore and distributed jointly with Dinesh Vidi and tons of leftover information leaflet about the situation in Myanmar. Since you as a foreigner here anyway kinda catchy, which ran just fine, most probably thought there ne 'free trial offer', but were only 'trial offer freedom'.

Delicious sipped coffee, while artistically active processes a party planner and on to the electronic railway booking office, on the 23rd Highest floor of the house of Bangalore. What a view of the city, look at the pictures, wonderful. After much pushing only the evening remained in Koshys, let NEM coffee house in the city, with discussions of the dialectic of the Enlightenment and the difficulty of meaningful, active engagement in other cultures end.

A lovely day, just right to work diligently on a project today to request further before tomorrow evening, but really low, and that goes to the East Coast.

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Good news from Germany. And also from my home region. On my birthday the Northern houses have taken over the factory, now works the self-managed production. Nice to hear such news from Germany. Way to go, every heart is a revolutionary cell until I return, hopefully something has changed over there! The best greetings to Nordhausen, more info gibs under http://www.strike-bike.de (english info at [1] , [2] ).

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What can happen to you all when you walk out of the house, unbelievable. The last days of diligent programming , I've barely seen the world outside the door. Clearly time for a beer, two beers, but much more is happening was Nich. Then today, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi. I had expected the whole city in an uproar, but was the least Nich Sun Do not compare with the quiet birthday of Ganesh, everything.

Well, at least initially. With Dinesh, Vidi and Lalu went to a demonstration. Some activists wanted to focus attention on the problems of rural people, finally had Gandhi repeatedly pointed out that the problems of India can only be solved if one focuses attention on the villages, where most of the poor live in India. The aim of the demonstration was the government palace, where should the Karnataka Gouvener a list of demands to be transferred.

So with us, just sneaked in front of the palace, then just in the palace, drinking tea and government attended the Gouvenor. And yet been invited, with a great solemnity, and artists from here and there from East Berlin, to be exact. Sun I imagine if you go to the front of his government, and makes demands. Exactly so! Thank Mahatma.

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So it's always with good intentions. As soon as they are finally set before, are looking for ways to circumvent it. Now, with my every minute reports from India I am also a little bit over, but the clock shows already October and when I count my reports these are rather few. Help nothing, I have what slices, then at least the good motivation tomorrow, Monday morning in Bangalore.

A whole week is over, I'm so in about three things done that have shaped my life. I expect Hugo and adopted (byebye, ne nice time in Canada now), I've tried a cell phone and ne mobile internet card to get and I've programmed, hard-working. Laaangweilig expectant, her thinking, but that's life and also just the little things can sometimes offer some entertainment. Not that she thinks that I'm here now have phone, now, will take some time. Two days of Office sauntered to office, then moved somewhere in the Airtel head office a waiting number, wow, welcome to the world of tomorrow. But that was actually the world, before I fled, as always, I was number 137, were currently in 74th And it was already getting dark. Not with me, thought, said and walked away.

Speaking of world of tomorrow, what's going on in D-land? Turns completely by Schäuble and so slow over there are all terrorists. Stamped. And to Ab. erwischts Some who have just lost it. who has little time and can not imagine that we are all terrorists now, which is recommended Chaosradio 128, about life with full monitoring . Why bother me at all? Here from India? Well, can not stop releasing Nich. In early 2008, and I am indeed a temporary basis in Germany, and then I did it the same honor to log all my acts of communication by the Stasi 2.0 leave. Maybe but to emigrate? after all, still gibs corners without telephone, internet and electricity. Should be safe ...

Well, I have problems. 'll Think of her. And what is going on here? A lot. A lot of water. Rain. As a result, just north of the Bihar completely under water is available. Million homeless people, a whole lot dead, and winter is coming soon. By then the children are there, stop laughing. And not only that. But, is not as compatible as a media tsunami is hardly noticed, even in India Nich.

Ok, so much for press review, I'll even let's see you again soon I can talk to their own experiences. For now, everything is pretty heavy computer, I program again, meld my degree as a speaker at FOSS.IN on (whether I want to visit) and I'm on hold for a project planning meeting for the development of a wireless network on the east coast of India . And once I'm done here with programming, IT WORKS beer drinking with Lalu and a trip to Fireflies is also planned.

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