[Palindrome] Re: wireless connectivity

["Catherine Boger" <cboger berklee edu>]

MIT has a wireless network; while attending BMAC meetings on campus, I've
never had trouble using it, despite not being an alum or student.  Does
anyone know whether this might have changed in the last 6 months, or
whether it varies according to the location on campus?

Also, I have a new cordless phone we could use if someone establishes a
land line connection.

Lt. Uhura
(Catherine)

> Eric wrote:
>
> Just want to send a note out to see... well, what is happening. The Hunt
> is
> right around the corner at this point -- shouldn't we know where our
> headquarters will be? Should we start discussing who is bringing what? Do
> we have any MIT students on the team this year? If not, can we do some
> fast
> recruiting? They're always nice to have around. Anybody who can hook us 
> up
> with a Net connection? So on and so forth?
>
> Also: Happy new year!
>
> Eric (no, not that one; the other one)
>
> -----
>
> Tom writes:
>
> The hunt organizers will not send out the assigned hunt HQ locations 
> until
> about 2 weeks before the hunt.  As for who is bringing what, I've been
> getting
> input from people through the earlier ping, and will soon have a list of
> things
> that are being brought.  I'll try to think of things we need to have
> brought, and
> hopefully other people will suggest items.
> The question about MIT students is a good one...and a relevant one.  I
> must
> confess I don't always know who is who on the list, since I have a bad
> memory
> for names.  Please let me know if you are an MIT student, or if you know
> of
> any we can recruit.
>
> As for the net connection, we will know a lot more once we know where our
> headquarters is located.  I would like to reiterate (or is it iterate?)
> that I think
> we need the following 3 things at our HQ:
>
> 1.  Wireless or wired network connectivity
> 2.  A mattress of some kind (I believe one is already being brought)
> 3.  A LAND-LINE phone!  The use-of-a-cell-phone-for-our-HQ-number thing
> is not working well.  We have to make sure that phone is charged, know
> where it is, and that it always has reception.  A land line phone is far
> preferable.  I've been informed that there is a nominal fee to use an MIT
> line for the weekend, however, I believe we need someone at MIT to
> activate
> it (plus we need to know where one is.)  I have no problem with running a
> phone cord out the window to another room (as a matter of fact, we have,
> in
> the past, done so) but we definitely need the land line.
>
> Happy New Year!
>
> ---Tom (Al DeSuda)
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