R4nger5 A2Z is a show to help with basic everyday emergencies and annoyances. Practical solutions to minor impractical problems.

RA2Z is intended with people who do not have a lot of basic survival skills, and help them through rough times while keeping those folks as comfortable and safe as is possible without having to spend a lot of time or money getting ready for a possible world changing even that may never arrive.

Hopefully it will teach people some basic skills, and give them the tools to figure out how to deal with the kind of problems that crop up on occasion in our modern lives.

Download it here!

or download it here

This is pretty much V’s idea for the Banananet. Server provides! Copied from here.

Approved for: GENERAL RELEASE, DISTRIBUTION UNLIMITED

UPDATE: Due to a critical bug in Byzantium Linux v0.1a, a file containing the mesh routing and application software was omitted from the .iso image. The code which makes Byzantium, well, Byzantium isn’t there. To fix this, please re-download the .iso image from one of the mirrors linked below and try again. We humbly apologize for our screwup. QA processes are being put in place to ensure that this never happens again.

We’re sorry.

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Project Byzantium, a working group of HacDC (http://hacdc.org/) is proud to announce the release of v0.1 alpha of Byzantium Linux, a live distribution of Linux designed to fulfill a crucial role in the evolution of the Internet. That role is a rapidly deployable ad-hoc wireless mesh network which can augment or replace the current telecommunications infrastructure in the event that it is knocked offline (for example, due to a natural disaster) or rendered untrustworthy (widespread surveillance or disconnection by hostile entities). Unlike other mesh networking projects Byzantium was designed to be run on any x86 computer with at least one 802.11 a/b/g/n wireless interface. Byzantium can be burned to a CD- or DVD-ROM (the .iso image is just over 300 megabytes in size), booted from an external hard drive, or can even be installed in parallel with an existing operating system without risk to the user’s data and software. Byzantium Linux will then act as a node within the mesh and will automatically connect to other mesh nodes and act as an access point for WiFi-enabled mobile devices.

THIS IS AN ALPHA RELEASE! Do NOT expect Byzantium to be perfect. Some features are not ready yet, others need work. Things are going to break in weird ways and we need to know what those ways are so we can fix them. Please, for the love of LOLcats, do not deploy Byzantium in situations where lives are at stake.

FEATURES:

• Binary compatible with Slackware v13.37, so existing packages can be converted with a single command.
• Able to act as a gateway to the Internet if a link is available.
• Linux kernel v2.6.38.8
• Drivers for dozens of wireless chipsets
• KDE v3.5
• LXDE (2010 release of all components)
• Mplayer
• GCC v4.5.2
• Perl v5.12.3
• Python v2.6.6
• Firefox v4.0.1
• X.org v7.4
• Custom web-based control panel

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS (to use)

• Minimum of 512MB of RAM
• i586 CPU or better
• CD- or DVD-ROM drive
• BIOS must boot removable media
• At least one (1) 802.11 a/b/g/n interface

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS (for persistent changes)

• The above requirements to use Byzantium
• 2+GB of free space on thumbdrive or harddrive

WHAT WE NEED:

• Developers.
• Developers!
• DEVELOPERS!
• No more Bill Ballmer impersonations.
• People downloading and running Byzantium to find bugs and tell us where the problems are so we can fix them.
• People filing bug reports on our Github page (https://github.com/Byzantium/Byzantium/issues). We can’t fix what we don’t know about!
• People submitting patches.
• People booting Byzantium and setting up small meshes (2-5 clients) to tell us how well it works for you with your hardware. We have a hardware compatibility list on our wiki that needs to be expanded.
• People who can help us translate the user interface. We especially need people fluent in dialects of Chinese, Arabic, Farsi, and Urdu.
• People to help us write and translate documentation.

Homepage: http://wiki.hacdc.org/index.php/Byzantium (website coming soon)

Download sites: http://wiki.hacdc.org/index.php/Downloading_Byzantium

Get to it people!

V is solo again with the second episode of the rebirth.

Been a long time, several false starts but we seem to have something coming together. V goes solo for a new season of R4nger5 Radio. Listen to the show in the player above or grab it here.

Just in case you missed the irc discussions that made it all happen r4nger5 now have there own forums to play in.

R4nger5 Forum

Have fun.

So here it is – big ideas contained herin:

Right, Yer Tis!

After much technical difficulty, swearing and having a bit of a cry, we have the first episode of the new series of R4nger5 Radio – I think I’ve had enough time off, now and have spent all afternoon trying to get some kind of recording going. The first episode is short (1hour) the next episodes should feature more stuff and be closer to out 2 hour usual length.

Bear in mind, the new studio is in a bell tent in the middle of the woods in Yorkshire – It wasn’t easy being green today! Anyhow, hope you enjoy it and roll on the next one!

V

Riiight!

sorry for abandoning some of you whilst I rebuilt my life in a more off grid kinda way, but I have honestly been busy adjusting to a different pace of life. Less cash, more time. I’m going to really try to put some media together for you guys, and see what we can come up with!

You can request topics, or send news stories, reccomedia or other stuff to the new media inbox/comments page Here

Watch this space!

V

I’ve finished uploading all 12 episodes of R4nger5: Back of Beyond, now and even found the time to add an epilogue episode.

- all the episodes are available now on you tube – there’s even a playlint on the channel page if you want to watch them all in one hit.

hope you enjoy them

V

Here it is (I’m trying to complete the series before I go off grid)