500 New Users Create Accounts in November

Looks like it's catching on! More than 500 new free WiFi internet access accounts were set up in November, a new record for the Co-op. Good to see that people find the network useful.

Amnesty International Pledge on Internet Freedom

"The Internet is a new frontier in the struggle for human rights. Governments – with the help of some of the biggest IT companies in the world – are cracking down on freedom of expression.

Amnesty International, with the support of The Observer UK newspaper, is launching a campaign to show that online or offline the human voice and human rights are impossible to repress."

Thousands of people have already signed on -- if this is your kind of thing, here's the link.


irrepressible.info

Web censorship 'bypass' unveiled

Professor Deibert and his group at the University of Toronto have done it again, trading in another tool to help keep Internet communications open and free.

from the BBC:

"The University of Toronto's Citizen Lab software, called psiphon, will be released on 1 December. The free program has been constructed to let citizens of countries with restricted web access retrieve and display web pages from anywhere."

LINK

UPDATE: Outgoing Mail Server Fixed!

UPDATE:
Outgoing Mail Server Fixed!

Send + receive at will, folks... mail is fully back on line!
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Most of you affected already know, but the outgoing mail server for Wireless Nomad suffered severe system damage again on Monday, and will be inoperative until next Monday or Tuesday.

This mail server is used for Wireless Nomad internal e-mail, and by several members who signed up long ago when e-mail will still part of the Wireless Nomad service.

Wireless logon and DSL Internet connections should not be affected in any way by this problem.

Our voicemail system, however, relies on the outgoing mail server, so voice mails are not getting to us either, which is really bad. We are considering purchasing a separate phone line with voicemail so there is always a functioning phone contact, that is an additional expense we were hoping to avoid.

In the meantime, please contact us at contact -dot- wirelessnomad -at- gmail -dot- com-- your messages will be answered promptly using this e-mail address until the end of next week, but after that the server will be repaired and standard e-mail will be back, so don't send e-mails to this temporary address as it would no longer be checked frequently at that point.

sorry for the inconvenience,

-the Wireless Nomad team

Canadian copyright czar forced to turn away industry bribes

From BoingBoing:

"The Canadian Tory minister who regulates the copyright industry has canceled a fundraiser sponsored by the companies she is supposed to oversee. Bev Oda won the Heritage Minister seat after the ouster of Sam Bulte, the Liberal Party minister who took enormous campaign contributions from the industry she oversaw. Oda, too, received these contributions, and had planned to let the broadcasters in her putative charge raise even more money for her. She denied any wrongdoing in Parliament when this issue was raised by New Democrat Heritage critic Charlie Angus, but canceled the event anyway."

LINK

NETWORK OUTAGE--FIXED!

NETWORK OUTAGE-- FIXED! (UPDATE--FIXED AS OF 9:30 AM 07NOV2006 :-) )


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PREVIOUSLY:

WE'RE ON IT-- BUT ONLY WIRED INTERNET WORKS RIGHT NOW.

PLUG IN TO GET ONLINE, WIFI IS DOWN. :-(

WILL FIX ASAP!!
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Happy Hallowe'en! (Emoticon Pumpkin art in Toronto)

Happy Hallowe'en! (pumpkin carvings + pic by my neighbour, Stephen Lew!)