http://www.fondoo.net/blog The blog of fondoo.net - the ISP that lets you do Fon Mon, 21 May 2007 19:05:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I just heard today that a new ISP is launching in Belgium along the lines as Fondoo.net, it is Fonero.be and they will be selling fon friendly ADSL connections to Foneros in Belgium. Best of luck with the new venture, or even, ik wens je veel geluk toe! http://www.fondoo.net/blog/index.php/2007/05/21/fonerobe-launches-in-belgium/ Fon is a year old, which is quite old in internet time. They are celebrating by offering free Foneras to the USA, Canada and the UK so if you are in the UK and don't have a Fonera yet then get on down to the Fon shop and order one ... http://www.fondoo.net/blog/index.php/2007/02/07/happy-birthday-fon/ I have just come back from an enormous conference in Orlando, Florida. It was the IBM Lotus Lotusphere conference, the third one I have been to and for the first time I was a speaker! The conference was attended by about 7,000 people, yes you heard correctly, a full 7 ... http://www.fondoo.net/blog/index.php/2007/01/30/lotusphere-2007/ I had a rather ripe whole Camembert in the fridge so I decided I would try to cook it. I found this recipe for baked camembert on the fooddownunder.com site, basically the recipe is to bung it in the oven at 190C for 20 minutes. It worked perfectly and was ... http://www.fondoo.net/blog/index.php/2007/01/30/baked-camembert-very-yummy/ The Fonera router (or the Linksys for that matter) is basically a computer. It is running a proper Linux operating system, it is always running, and it is connected to a high bandwidth connection. All the Fon routers connect to Fon central on a regular basis (the heartbeat connection) to ... http://www.fondoo.net/blog/index.php/2006/12/04/why-it-is-important-to-know-what-is-in-your-fonera/ I'm not going to implicate myself in anyway other than to say read this http://techp.org/petition/show/1, and if you think it makes sense you should probably register your opinion... http://www.fondoo.net/blog/index.php/2006/11/27/request-for-signatures-regarding-the-novellmoft-pact/ One important part of any routing device is the firewall settings, for La Fonera these can be found in ./package/iptables/files/firewall.fon The settings are pretty well commented and I am not really an iptables expert so I will let the file speak for itself. # Firewall script, specific for OpenWrt: permits traffic ... http://www.fondoo.net/blog/index.php/2006/11/25/whats-in-your-fonera-part-2/ A new version of the firmware that runs in la fonera routers has been released, you can get this from the Fon website http://en.fon.com/downloads it comes as a 1.9MB file called fonera_0.7.1.1.fon, you can upload this to your router to install it. I wanted to see what exactly is in this ... http://www.fondoo.net/blog/index.php/2006/11/24/whats-in-your-fonera-part-1/ This blog is running on WordPress, quite a popular bit of blogging software. Right now we are using the standard theme it comes with (probably going to flick about between themes for a few days so that might not be true as you read this), only the colours have been ... http://www.fondoo.net/blog/index.php/2006/11/18/we-need-a-cheesier-theme/ Back in the early 90s there was a mobile phone service called Rabbit. The technology wasn't the analog cellphone network, they were not trying to create a network of universal overlapping cell coverage like the other guys were. The Rabbit technology had a range of about 100m to the base ... http://www.fondoo.net/blog/index.php/2006/11/18/remember-the-rabbit-phone/