Re: We Rebuild

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 6:04 PM, barri2009 <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:

Ayla, go ahead and work with them to the extent you can, and get someone from PM to help if you need technical expertise. Thanks.

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From: Ayla Noland <ayla.noland@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 18:46:10 -0600
To: <barriticus@gmail.com>
Cc: Jonathan Kundra<jkundra@gmail.com>; Campbell Vertesi<campbell@vertesi.com>

Subject: Re: We Rebuild

Hey guys,

I will get back to work on this dummy guide and try playing around with it when I can get to a land line, haven't had one for a few years. I've been over to Telecomix IRC a bit pitching for translators and scoping out their telephone number postings. I'd be happy to do non-technical collaboration with them, or if someone could direct me maybe I can do more.

Yeah, post-anesthesia can suck, it takes a while to get out of your liver since the gas is lipid soluble. Probably good to do some of that Alli shit and lots of olive oil after to get rid of it faster. Depends quite a bit on how heavy handed the anesthetist is, how dosed you feel afterward. Lots of times you can choose a regional anesthetic instead, but in general, general anesthetic is extremely safe and has a much better safety profile than a local or regional. I actually loved that rotation and probably should have done it as a specialty. Nice to get people happy, amnesic and waaay comfortable all day long (med slang ->sandman) ;p

Here's to as pleasant as possible a trip, Campbell.

-a

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 2:33 PM, barri2009 <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:

What's this bon voyage business?
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From: Jonathan Kundra <jkundra@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 22:31:12 +0100
To: Campbell Vertesi<campbell@vertesi.com>
Cc: Barrett Brown<barriticus@gmail.com>; Ayla Noland<ayla.noland@gmail.com>

Subject: Re: We Rebuild

See how long you can resist anesthesia. Counting down out loud from ten, I got to six. Woke up eight hours (!) later, wondering who the fuck I was. I'm still not sure, but I've stopped caring.

Bon voyage, and good luck to you!

J.

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 10:02 PM, Campbell Vertesi <campbell@vertesi.com> wrote:

I'm pretty much screwed until the weekend. I got a surprise travel requirement for tomorrow, I'm crossing the continent for a fucking day surgery. Advocates for single-payer healthcare are either ideologically motivated or have never used it.

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Many thanks,

C
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On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 6:42 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:

I see. Anything I can do at this point? Also Scott suggested we have a conference call soon if anyone is interested.

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 4:43 AM, Campbell Vertesi <campbell@vertesi.com> wrote:

Ayla has ben working on instructions, and hopefully I'll have a chance as well.

Barrett, we could ACTUALLY use this to set up a darknet, btw. We could have a projectPM BBS over dialup!

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Many thanks,

C
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On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 1:43 AM, Jonathan Kundra <jkundra@gmail.com> wrote:

Campbell, I don't have the tech expertise to even know what the hell I'm looking for in all my links.

http://werebuild.eu/wiki/Egypt/Main_Page

http://pastebin.com/9jJUku77

http://pad.telecomix.org/gomtugep

It's embarrassing, but that's the way it is. My contacting WR requesting info that I can't understand would be an act of foolishness. I hope that either you or BB or someone you delegate who knows what the hell they're doing can go over there,

http://chat.telecomix.org/

establish contact and see if someone has or can point you to said info. This is your decision, of course - it's just that for obvious reasons, I don't feel up to it myself.

Best,

JK

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:40 AM, Jonathan Kundra <jkundra@gmail.com> wrote:

I'll poke around all my links - I seem to remember something like that (or not). If I find, I'll send it on to you. It does look nice, but as you say, we need a very simple explanation - and ideally in Arabic as well. Once again, I don't know how closely you, Barrett or the others want to work with WR. As for me, I'd be tempted to post the link you gave to it with the request for the how-to info you need as well as an Arabic translation. I'd be happy to do this if you wish.

Best,

J.

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Vertesi.com <campbell@vertesi.com> wrote:

I tried actually, and they dont. They have a good guide for Egyptians hooking their computers up to their mobile phones so they can get long distance... But nothing to make it easy for people to share their connections.

The way i see this, it is a very effective tool in our arsenal to get communications out of disaster or censorship zones. I hear rumors that Egypt will restore Internet acces by Tuesday, but IMO we should still pursue it.

It's also a great way to get people involved in the info war with a low barrier to entry and a real effect. I think of all those people who posted on facebook about tunisia but didnt get off their butts to do anything else. This is free, easy, and provides serious support. To my mind it's perfect.

C

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On Jan 30, 2011, at 7:19 PM, Jonathan Kundra <jkundra@gmail.com> wrote:

Addendum: Missed the part about the missing info, but soon encountered it after setting up an account. So I won't be sending it to the We Build people. I do think that they would rapidly have an answer to your query about a simple guide to sharing an internet connection were you to contact them on http://chat.telecomix.org/

Best,

JK

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Campbell Vertesi <campbell@vertesi.com> wrote:

OK guys, dialupegypt.projectpm.org is up and running. The frontpage is a list of all dial up addresses submitted , along with a brief metric of how many people marked a given dialup number as "broken". There is also a howto page, with no real information yet. :( Does anyone have a link to an idiot-proof guide to sharing your internet connection over dialup? If you can send that to me, we can start publicizing the site over twitter and fb. The more dialup numbers added the better.

On a related note, word on the street is that the Egyptian government is only censoring DNS - the system that translates names like google.com into the IP addresses that computers actually use to identify each other on the Internet. So one big solution is to offer people a public dns (or why not just use Google's? 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4), and give them instructions on how to change their internet settings accordingly. Another is to give them the IP address for big sites like Twitter and Facebook, or IRC.

I'm out of time to work on this for today, sadly. I'll be back on this tomorrow I guess.

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Bass

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Many thanks,

C
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Campbell Vertesi | Project Manager | Trellon, LLC

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tel 347.329.4511
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Emma Allan <emilieduchatelet8@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi men, lovely morning. I have the worst hangover caused by having a hangover. I would love a Bacon sandwich. I see the lovely Jonathan has been busy and the equally lively Campbell knows what he's on about. Jolly good. If someone could just massage my temples and tidy up a bit. I'm without broadband atm but it's coming to England tomorrow! Yay. I feel sick and am going to lie down until next week. Love Emma

On 30 Jan 2011 13:09, "Campbell Vertesi" <campbell@vertesi.com> wrote:
Ah - these are the guys who are doing such good work getting dialup going for people in Egypt. I'll pop in and say hi today, see if I can get them to help us get information up on dialupegypt.net .
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Many thanks,

C
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Campbell Vertesi | Project Manager | Trellon, LLC

web www.trellon.com | email cvertesi@trellon.com
tel 347.329.4511

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Jonathan Kundra <jkundra@gmail.com> wrote:
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