tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51315970232495174612024-03-05T19:32:13.367-06:00Pete's (aka Jorge Amodio) BlogJorge Amodiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16181543838102751399noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5131597023249517461.post-23791040146405075862022-04-12T22:46:00.001-05:002022-10-02T23:30:29.240-05:00IPNSIG and Blog updates<p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">The past few weeks since my previous post have been very busy with no much time left to write, but great progress in several fronts.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">You will notice that this post and further post are now on a dedicated website for Interplanetary Networking (IPN,) so I can separate personal posts from those related to IPN, Delay and Disruption Tolerant Networking technologies and Space Communications in general. This will be the last article posted on both Blogs.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">First the Good News, the <a href="https://ipnsig.org/" target="_blank">InterPlanetary Networking Special Interest Group</a> or IPNSIG has received its classification as a tax-exempt, non-profit charitable organization from the US Internal Revenue Services. This is an important milestone since it helps to complete the transition of our group to an independent Chapter of the Internet Society.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Great things to come in the near future about this.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">On March 22nd, our group participated in the <a href="https://www.ietf.org/how/meetings/113/" target="_blank">IETF 113 Conference</a> (Internet Engineering Task Force) at the Delay Tolerant Networking Working Group (DTN-WG,) Vint Cerf was in attendance and provided an update on the State of the Art of DTN and IPNSIG.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Click on the image to watch a video of the session. Vint's presentation is the first one.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/nOyL-Pz6zLI" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1097" data-original-width="1920" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguOECW-iUiRT0c1jhdndDoe4rcbhHbGR48Hb2H8pw-0cRDiJVjFXlIRsMI2FuIf0edWQNVJO_Os2TgE1rOvC8qru1SeOG31QDwBOnrAjZylnRwnb8y1lAcqFfNPIXMS7FlIqTvhWyTjwfl01aL-QXn2rGrZXITcdz69a3JWN-nWOuotWYCdGOjm6IB6Q/w640-h366/IETF113.jpg" title="IETF113 DTN-WG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">IETF 113 DTN-WG Session</div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Also on April 1st we had another meeting of our IPNSIG Projects Working Group, were Vint was also in attendance, as well as group members from Europe, North and South America.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">While today is a modest and small group we keep making progress and adding new members on the team. We keep very focused on developing tools and best practices to keep testing DTN and Bundle Protocols, figure how to scale to a large network and explore what type of applications will serve as a demonstration of these technologies with primary focus on interplanetary communications that will drive on the long term the development and implementation of a Solar System Internet.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">On the personal front I continue to work in my low cost prototype lab for testing and education using off the shelf hardware and the NASA JPL Open Source implementation of DTN and Bundle Protocol called ION (Interplanetary Overlay Network.)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Right now the network has about 15 nodes running on various SBCs, VMs and dedicated servers, plus 10 nodes using ESP32 based SBCs for sensor data collection, telemetry, etc.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">While the hardware has been stable, some particular nodes changed with the addition of more displays, like the one serving as Mission Control Functions emulation.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQBxV8EDmdTyqserZbpkrxxC-kKTbEVgcGNbw9mtAg_iAvAz_1RWueLkXkCytkZL1z9_0_WV-TOiSis6zR6pfyNMbBSPFxqOZUG6fMBPx_RRbiwg_yUEyUhS-QBB6g3CpIYL1_3-ktKVlFSAF_9D2_G89NXBGIilIUf39QJiV_k5PV2LsV2yMKPPlX-A/s3476/IMG_8648.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3476" height="556" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQBxV8EDmdTyqserZbpkrxxC-kKTbEVgcGNbw9mtAg_iAvAz_1RWueLkXkCytkZL1z9_0_WV-TOiSis6zR6pfyNMbBSPFxqOZUG6fMBPx_RRbiwg_yUEyUhS-QBB6g3CpIYL1_3-ktKVlFSAF_9D2_G89NXBGIilIUf39QJiV_k5PV2LsV2yMKPPlX-A/w640-h556/IMG_8648.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Soon I will start putting together a draft for a PCB layout for various of the nodes which will permit the lab to scale more with increased reliability.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Four of the nodes on my internal network are now in a full mesh configuration with external nodes part of the IPNSIG Test Network. For now testing with regular Bundle Protocol Pings or </span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><i>bping</i></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">, but soon we will start testing other tools like Asynchronous Message Service, file transfers using CFDP (<a href="https://public.ccsds.org/Pubs/727x0b5.pdf" target="_blank">CCSDS File Delivery Protocol</a>,) etc.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">That's all for now, if you are interested to join our efforts feel free to contact me, also feel free to join the Facebook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/interplanetarynetworking" target="_blank">InterPlanetary Networking Group.</a></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">Cheers<br /></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">Jorge</span></i></p>Jorge Amodiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16181543838102751399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5131597023249517461.post-33200539307831647502022-02-08T22:05:00.003-06:002022-02-08T22:09:04.337-06:00DTN-IPN New Node - Moon Rover <p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">I was
looking at my inventory of development boards and found that I had an extra
Raspberry Pi 3B with the camera module. The camera is one of the early versions
featuring the OV5647 image sensor.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">I thought "I can use this setup to create another DTN node for the Lab prototype, what about a Moon Rover ?"</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">At first,
I was thinking just to keep it in its original plastic case but then I realized
that we have a bunch of Legos that our kids are not using anymore, so how about
putting something together that looks like a lunar vehicle and can fit the Raspberry
Pi, the camera and why not some lights and a battery.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhf-1TPjJzdyWDHY_gL1ghkGgFiFY_muj9O5RgRqVN2GU__nTMjQYBDFzKVCLrS6YOhnE2kD4OUx83ZFD305dVUrGZvy8QGO3rouvrUB-pdTOmSirF3y7tl5jlkwFfPFJSwgNKIwjagkHs_gnKqKIQYz2zs6od3sqAiBuvGnTC-O6Y8cn__oGF34Vu4=s4032" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhf-1TPjJzdyWDHY_gL1ghkGgFiFY_muj9O5RgRqVN2GU__nTMjQYBDFzKVCLrS6YOhnE2kD4OUx83ZFD305dVUrGZvy8QGO3rouvrUB-pdTOmSirF3y7tl5jlkwFfPFJSwgNKIwjagkHs_gnKqKIQYz2zs6od3sqAiBuvGnTC-O6Y8cn__oGF34Vu4=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">I always had fun building stuff with Legos, I remember when I was a toddler in Argentina my Grandma use to take often to the “Rasti Club,” Rasti was another brand of building blocks available in Argentina at the time. I spent hours and hours building all sorts of gizmos.</span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Obviously, this model is just something I put together with what I had at hand, nothing that looks like a real rover or some of the Lunar vehicles under development like the JAXA/Toyota “<a href="https://global.toyota/en/newsroom/corporate/33208872.html" target="_blank">Lunar Cruiser</a>” for the Artemis mission.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhVcB7Un1qg9E7Hclo4TZSaqseA8Mp5qryKYLeMQLh8H4hLZFkikeLZNM69L3QjiGfLk9aQY6Ega62kB8eK4UMvSpGaH66J6UsJ2jUeEf5PK2yvjr2xuicCRwFiwVExUit_DI5TncFwT59miNZ1Z8fkJbis6JEpbYQUHC7UgspoTGgxrMrXnIUhmo15=s1200" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="1200" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhVcB7Un1qg9E7Hclo4TZSaqseA8Mp5qryKYLeMQLh8H4hLZFkikeLZNM69L3QjiGfLk9aQY6Ega62kB8eK4UMvSpGaH66J6UsJ2jUeEf5PK2yvjr2xuicCRwFiwVExUit_DI5TncFwT59miNZ1Z8fkJbis6JEpbYQUHC7UgspoTGgxrMrXnIUhmo15=w640-h360" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Picture Courtesy of JAXA</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">I was thinking about using one of the Lego design tools, but that was an overkill for this project. This could be a good idea for putting a contest or challenge together for students to design a Lego Lunar Rover that can accommodate the Raspberry and the camera. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">A Raspberry Pi Zero W 2 would also work and will take less space, but they are currently in short supply.</span></p><div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Let’s get started, with the parts I was able to “recycle” I started building sort of the chassis for the rover, taking in account of the size of the Raspberry Pi and enough height to fit the camera.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">I 3D printed a pair of blocks with the NASA worm logo, the model file for it is available <a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4335106" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div></div><div><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjOCziW1yySJjN9S0LIQFT8ZbWwoD56eyBSFYdxE4IL6uEF_P_Nx8MJBbSjKVqPOPhqjZnV5A4I3yjsKUq2U_1bCPdXkGdykNu34sQyW2-abKlBgBt3EeFN1Zsv8KNik78JpwouHTmAgnfrPLYzFXrJiJ1a9QGtlTB--J_UBHs7l7zSD7NLiC2Z_UJd=s4032" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjOCziW1yySJjN9S0LIQFT8ZbWwoD56eyBSFYdxE4IL6uEF_P_Nx8MJBbSjKVqPOPhqjZnV5A4I3yjsKUq2U_1bCPdXkGdykNu34sQyW2-abKlBgBt3EeFN1Zsv8KNik78JpwouHTmAgnfrPLYzFXrJiJ1a9QGtlTB--J_UBHs7l7zSD7NLiC2Z_UJd=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">I had to figure how to wire the Neopixels for which I used two channels on the Raspberry Pi, one on GPIO10, and the other one on GPIO21. Since I didn’t want to overload the onboard 3.3V power supply on the Raspberry Pi, I added an LDO regulator (<a href="https://www.microchip.com/en-us/product/TC1262" target="_blank">Microchip TC1262</a>) to get the 3.3V for the Neopixels directly from the 5V power supply.<br />I used wirewrap wire, and two small pieces of prototype pcb.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhZCvDja5WoTxwgU5BeJZCGc9QFc7cGavtkbk-AZLCFqDwY9Wq_0kRT9f-76vrsjHjHb6f7CejhWBYNDzwECYFa6fXy9TnRiYS8GRqgVbkvpKFay-JZ3O8vng7cVPiIA_0gSQHaKb8hUNnCNyoBQLVjmAROsAvCUtmcOULoc17dBOf8zli1Ux0WCqJW=s4032" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhZCvDja5WoTxwgU5BeJZCGc9QFc7cGavtkbk-AZLCFqDwY9Wq_0kRT9f-76vrsjHjHb6f7CejhWBYNDzwECYFa6fXy9TnRiYS8GRqgVbkvpKFay-JZ3O8vng7cVPiIA_0gSQHaKb8hUNnCNyoBQLVjmAROsAvCUtmcOULoc17dBOf8zli1Ux0WCqJW=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Quick test
to confirm everything was working and putting the Raspberry Pi in place, connecting the camera flat cable and closing up.</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEga2s2C-hyDeHexkcsnlKXHLI8UbRK04zJQMQSGBAE_PtVt28DyExW0wNtazr92jGGn-67TuR6a3qvV8OI3-nPHlgQ8DsI9wgAhMz8-7uQPmy3ado7RoQIlUGrCH3dJeEpxDFdvRBT5tAiyuxjgDdr07LgLx5nAX0IgM3nHFkpl6J_vxt1cMj8LL-12=s4032" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEga2s2C-hyDeHexkcsnlKXHLI8UbRK04zJQMQSGBAE_PtVt28DyExW0wNtazr92jGGn-67TuR6a3qvV8OI3-nPHlgQ8DsI9wgAhMz8-7uQPmy3ado7RoQIlUGrCH3dJeEpxDFdvRBT5tAiyuxjgDdr07LgLx5nAX0IgM3nHFkpl6J_vxt1cMj8LL-12=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Here is how
the complete model looks from the left side</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiMmtpOSpvi7o6LA4DVFDDkirg9l0EtPCdlxK6U4vi_9YkTx0sbTPDVPSwNZuxAjtQfbYj04yEpUuNjD5JC-OhTdDCQqjdW4oSBjD_9E48QF8I7N37ADDJWC66LQlzeDZ5u03OG5LnhSRA5Pe-Epc3FpEEZ-QsenZYqtDiSqpjjz6-py0l5HzO_a4J2=s4032" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiMmtpOSpvi7o6LA4DVFDDkirg9l0EtPCdlxK6U4vi_9YkTx0sbTPDVPSwNZuxAjtQfbYj04yEpUuNjD5JC-OhTdDCQqjdW4oSBjD_9E48QF8I7N37ADDJWC66LQlzeDZ5u03OG5LnhSRA5Pe-Epc3FpEEZ-QsenZYqtDiSqpjjz6-py0l5HzO_a4J2=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Right side
look</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgqrXEpfFcXY_sdXkfyBkt7DN8GBNNAQCQKHWQICCJsRAwb4iWK4E0jIwtJhSZQCGcvtpkCIg2gGuhsZNWbfql4vD0X-nu6UUqQAJ4o767MOUMhP8RhPz3pQnrC6cpDlyp-61LS37KYIDEMLSejNSRX7_Z-9Zq7WzpCorQRqBt5qqIADl0S6-5NluZ0=s4032" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgqrXEpfFcXY_sdXkfyBkt7DN8GBNNAQCQKHWQICCJsRAwb4iWK4E0jIwtJhSZQCGcvtpkCIg2gGuhsZNWbfql4vD0X-nu6UUqQAJ4o767MOUMhP8RhPz3pQnrC6cpDlyp-61LS37KYIDEMLSejNSRX7_Z-9Zq7WzpCorQRqBt5qqIADl0S6-5NluZ0=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Front
with the camera module visible behind a transparent Lego block</span></span></div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNkaC6L23Tl2l09KfaFVs7eIjpqodLIc9J87HD8YU-ItkXS880UGf6qxxghTPkCNvVC5162eovVz-YTC7bs1zQJ5HhLDMi0HjRx5XUn3xovQFhoyE-cPovkRuwvG4kyprrctWbbUv0i4lHsOdS4hkBSNoPeCha5_PoqqBvWqYboERGajPxOBk7pTCG=s4032" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNkaC6L23Tl2l09KfaFVs7eIjpqodLIc9J87HD8YU-ItkXS880UGf6qxxghTPkCNvVC5162eovVz-YTC7bs1zQJ5HhLDMi0HjRx5XUn3xovQFhoyE-cPovkRuwvG4kyprrctWbbUv0i4lHsOdS4hkBSNoPeCha5_PoqqBvWqYboERGajPxOBk7pTCG=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">And the top,
with a last-minute addition, a volt meter to measure input/battery voltage.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjfpRm6MnGCkhSk1NuqkMCAqVB9Wpqd0Sdij53hGvEz5HgG4XtMLyUhM2nYQotoMOVwj_jBAqjx288NnDhPlrlTKlShYY-0QtymL2tCKq9XSscqs5QkwhP_hbxPhHFroR9c0N6h9fNGlxHd4bHgrc4XZN4NP2F6Bx_e6rNI5zcFUCJ7No8SA7OEAqW0=s4032" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjfpRm6MnGCkhSk1NuqkMCAqVB9Wpqd0Sdij53hGvEz5HgG4XtMLyUhM2nYQotoMOVwj_jBAqjx288NnDhPlrlTKlShYY-0QtymL2tCKq9XSscqs5QkwhP_hbxPhHFroR9c0N6h9fNGlxHd4bHgrc4XZN4NP2F6Bx_e6rNI5zcFUCJ7No8SA7OEAqW0=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Connecting via
VNC. Only thing that I was required to do to make it work was to enable the
Camera interface with </span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;">raspi-config</span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">, after that took the very first picture
using </span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;">raspistill</span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjXIPoybZJssaluK3tvrBngEE2W-H7TQvGGbwNuJtHULUSea6pc5E9eoS7_5uYmQ6yntciTAUMc7HToZQYgCUP1ZrVi-GYRFJScy119_4V5Oef-jGUKGgXMasaTtuy8U0Bji6b0rRLFJ8TEnhlCOsvdTy7KpTJkldzY9axkeRdmRZxw3qmwRn3X07td=s1906" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1112" data-original-width="1906" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjXIPoybZJssaluK3tvrBngEE2W-H7TQvGGbwNuJtHULUSea6pc5E9eoS7_5uYmQ6yntciTAUMc7HToZQYgCUP1ZrVi-GYRFJScy119_4V5Oef-jGUKGgXMasaTtuy8U0Bji6b0rRLFJ8TEnhlCOsvdTy7KpTJkldzY9axkeRdmRZxw3qmwRn3X07td=w640-h374" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">My plan is
to write a script using Pyion to wait for a command to start taking pictures,
store them in some spool directory and then wait for another command to start transferring
them to a DTN relay with final destination, one of the nodes that have a TFT LCD
display to show the images captured by the rover. All transfers using NASA’s
JPL ION implementation of Bundle Protocols.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">And of
course, <a href="https://youtu.be/2zemFhuF4cA" target="_blank">there is a video</a> with a walk through and the blinking lights </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">😊</span><span style="line-height: 107%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Once again
if you are interested to learn more about this project, DTN and InterPlanetary
Networking you can join the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/interplanetarynetworking" target="_blank">Facebook Group</a> I created, and you can also join
<a href="https://ipnsig.org/" target="_blank">IPNSIG</a> (ISOC InterPlanetary Networking Interest Group.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><i><span style="line-height: 107%;">Cheers<br /></span>Jorge</i></span></p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"></span><p></p></div>Jorge Amodiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16181543838102751399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5131597023249517461.post-14321182939984922022-01-27T22:11:00.005-06:002022-01-28T06:00:39.691-06:00DTN-IPN R&D Lab Prototype Update<p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Happy New Year!!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Since my <a href="http://blog.amodio.biz/2021/12/dtn-ipn-r-lab-prototype-intro.html" target="_blank">previous article</a> on December 2021, I made some changes to the original design of the IPN-DTN Lab prototype that continues to be very much a work in progress project.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEju6SnC6XVJd2rgVt10DCq0ompyCrjb8N3-wyDtlN5MV3HtTxk2bjpEls2HOzGptusziATMuva_35s--0T9574GQXC8IkCykRMDWhLMqgx3p6OTg84M2gBYg1vgfKPurBfOQiP9B4nw1JjbxJyiNmuSpfufRejPYd-nB3ed_d6z2Lalab7P72MPS_Yq=s4032" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2119" data-original-width="4032" height="336" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEju6SnC6XVJd2rgVt10DCq0ompyCrjb8N3-wyDtlN5MV3HtTxk2bjpEls2HOzGptusziATMuva_35s--0T9574GQXC8IkCykRMDWhLMqgx3p6OTg84M2gBYg1vgfKPurBfOQiP9B4nw1JjbxJyiNmuSpfufRejPYd-nB3ed_d6z2Lalab7P72MPS_Yq=w640-h336" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">From the
previous version I added two more nodes running on a Raspberry Pi Zero W 2, I
expect in the future to add more as they become available, they are currently
in short supply and are hard to procure.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">There is a Raspberry Pi 3B+ with the sense hat also running Raspi OS and ION 4.1.1 that I use for testing code. And another two Raspberry Pi 3B+ running a complete different implementation of DTN called IBR-DTN from a University in Germany (more about it soon.)</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I rearranged
the nodes on the breadboards, and now the one implementing some of the
functions of a Mission Control Center (MCC) has more displays, taking advantage
of an eight channel I2C switch from Texas Instruments, the TCA9548A. With this
switch it is possible to drive the seven 128x32 OLED displays that are
associated with this node using a single I2C channel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Also, on the
MCC node I have now a 2” 320x240 IPS TFT LCD display, it uses the ST7789 TFT
driver that can display full 18-bit color. The display module is connected to
the SPI interface on the Raspberry Pi.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgqlrCgYb3Qy3Q-3Q6tihyLLF9Ip9iKbDggCc24UwLxpog_ZUSxSlbLT5sIm8581z-zbWNOT6ohOtA9burw-Bnqm9AiEiKYnaErXb4Nhd9C-dVzEgzcpnTjJzx22etLrErSRqckaln8Ydb6XNWC5VTQDnW1B5QOGn6tE3Rw_jDRF3HMvpCFQL14wgyA=s3899" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2187" data-original-width="3899" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgqlrCgYb3Qy3Q-3Q6tihyLLF9Ip9iKbDggCc24UwLxpog_ZUSxSlbLT5sIm8581z-zbWNOT6ohOtA9burw-Bnqm9AiEiKYnaErXb4Nhd9C-dVzEgzcpnTjJzx22etLrErSRqckaln8Ydb6XNWC5VTQDnW1B5QOGn6tE3Rw_jDRF3HMvpCFQL14wgyA=w640-h358" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">There is a
new node implemented with a Raspberry Pi Zero W 2, I named it NASA-JPL, this node features also a 1.14” 240x135 TFT Color LCD mounted in portrait mode using the SPI interface of the Raspberry Pi.</span></span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The idea is
that at some moment those displays will show images transferred over DTN using
Bundle Protocol, like pictures taking by a rover on the surface of the Moon </span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 16px;">(future node to be added using a Raspberry Pi with a camera)</span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;">, transmitted to a
local relay node and from it through the Space Network to a ground station, and
then through the Ground Network to a screen on JPL and/or MCC, all using Bundle Protocol.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEil4kQZ7mPjTV4SDtLlDrE4m_sV7Xjz9wkrEWmTKyTMypREDoll-a-T6sDCbqsgmMCC6auNibUobyUC7oOX__G7AUhjVyaqs9LoxhNHviOanTChcWXc37XQpmFzRVfgo5TxAU_f9x67LvYw7MZI-qgATNz4_hSEX3iWJE9FYCIiicjtW4X_b8cvdoOX=s3122" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2874" data-original-width="3122" height="590" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEil4kQZ7mPjTV4SDtLlDrE4m_sV7Xjz9wkrEWmTKyTMypREDoll-a-T6sDCbqsgmMCC6auNibUobyUC7oOX__G7AUhjVyaqs9LoxhNHviOanTChcWXc37XQpmFzRVfgo5TxAU_f9x67LvYw7MZI-qgATNz4_hSEX3iWJE9FYCIiicjtW4X_b8cvdoOX=w640-h590" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">On the
previous version I was using independent power supplies for the Raspberry Pis, wiring was getting ugly and complicated.
I replaced them all by single 5.1V 15A power supply, I had to put together some sort
of power distribution adapter going to each of the breadboards where the Raspberry
Pi are mounted.<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;"><br />If you have a good eye you will notice some LDO Voltage Regulators
to step down from the 5V power supply to 3.3V required by some parts,
particularly displays.<br /><br />While on some nodes I can use the 3.3V generated by the
Raspberry Pi Zero W2s, with the alphanumeric LED displays and too many OLED I
was drawing too much power, then now some nodes have their own 3.3V LDO regulator.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I keep “the
lab” running 24/7 monitoring power and some key signals, so far it has
been reliable after I fixed the power distribution issues.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I took
a Hack RF SDR I had in a box to check on the transmission signal levels of the LoRa
modules, they are as expected centered on 915MHz, while they are low power modules, the signal can reach a hundred feet or more with a data rate of about 500bps, almost three times faster than Voyager 1, well the thing is 23+ Billion Kilometers away 😀😀😀</span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;">.</span></p></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiy4vTSvhwmmakSfoy1NTQzuXiEtvxE1eesDGbECeC5JjxrTlJ6YEwWVoDKSFGGLUo6WQ9UosS3HBJ4JIKDCuIRSOdsiGMzu4i9G87pa-QoOWatahM8mlm022cWtmpjCjkpefYPkCtYmknLDIJ627EXwbiweRwxcrahM4NqH_FvFJk8hu2Lhx32kcRZ=s1157" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="747" data-original-width="1157" height="414" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiy4vTSvhwmmakSfoy1NTQzuXiEtvxE1eesDGbECeC5JjxrTlJ6YEwWVoDKSFGGLUo6WQ9UosS3HBJ4JIKDCuIRSOdsiGMzu4i9G87pa-QoOWatahM8mlm022cWtmpjCjkpefYPkCtYmknLDIJ627EXwbiweRwxcrahM4NqH_FvFJk8hu2Lhx32kcRZ=w640-h414" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">On the
software side I have a lot of work to do. Now I have all nodes running the same
version of Raspi OS, they all have Circuit Python installed, NASA JPL ION 4.1.1
and all have Pyion 4.1 which is a Python programming interface for ION, so putting
together a message to be sent over the DTN is simple as<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: courier;">import pyion</span> </p></div><span style="font-family: courier;">proxy = pyion.get_bp_proxy(1)</span><br /><span style="font-family: courier;">proxy.bp_attach()</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: courier;">with proxy.bp_open('ipn:82.1') as eid:<br /></span><span style="font-family: courier;"><span> </span>eid.bp_send('ipn:82.1', b'hello')</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />There is
obviously and <a href="https://youtu.be/QtrRb8n1BgQ" target="_blank">updated “Blinking Lights” video</a> showing all the nodes running and
some of the VNC screens from nodes, showing for example real time data from a GPS
module, the message exchanges via LoRa, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QtrRb8n1BgQ" width="320" youtube-src-id="QtrRb8n1BgQ"></iframe></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;"><br />I started
documenting the project, here is a diagram showing the current network topology configuration, this diagram does not represent the DTN communications topology.</span><p></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg5BEoavbJ5yY45pKzQvuI5_XeJVPDyGBFdHtC01Tkr6nW7YnUC_aX3r8bsAEoznxCU2-XnHUl9arWve4dzWZOQOSxvmqNQKUxu0N7If0z-kG63VhGIAKf57zpnIFIZfKPtg1Nxyc110l3j-m9sZJVS5rPTjDVpZ-tYRv2zRUSZa9PwjZGbYsa_gudq=s1320" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1017" data-original-width="1320" height="494" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg5BEoavbJ5yY45pKzQvuI5_XeJVPDyGBFdHtC01Tkr6nW7YnUC_aX3r8bsAEoznxCU2-XnHUl9arWve4dzWZOQOSxvmqNQKUxu0N7If0z-kG63VhGIAKf57zpnIFIZfKPtg1Nxyc110l3j-m9sZJVS5rPTjDVpZ-tYRv2zRUSZa9PwjZGbYsa_gudq=w640-h494" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I’m
also drafting a paper and an introductory presentation about space
communications evolution and DTN-IPN.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgrpJk7V3Re67ZyYcygkKMEDuSJSgyvm_Pyvnw7DpPlofaxLMvd2eMtsvoyZdBvCi5F1VhX3jTRJdtaSEi2n4ug9ZLbXiCIyDRvHE5jle5GuMfKVBmp9rlmDUIrPg3Qf2t03bC9aP9HrTvKY9x_1ZBuOGkJ-iasYjnFRJcqYRx3b1EmxtHj91N50N4p=s1372" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="770" data-original-width="1372" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgrpJk7V3Re67ZyYcygkKMEDuSJSgyvm_Pyvnw7DpPlofaxLMvd2eMtsvoyZdBvCi5F1VhX3jTRJdtaSEi2n4ug9ZLbXiCIyDRvHE5jle5GuMfKVBmp9rlmDUIrPg3Qf2t03bC9aP9HrTvKY9x_1ZBuOGkJ-iasYjnFRJcqYRx3b1EmxtHj91N50N4p=w640-h360" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></div>Now that I
have a stable hardware and basic software platform running, I will be working
in the actual DTN topology. This is very much a learning process for me as
well, so I will be using a very interesting tool developed by the MITRE
Corporation for an ION training course from NASA JPL.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiXh420OXdrxmH-4yp5bRg2cYRTv1umEqIkNWojd4nVGARsYOGI-uizXnaaM_3iItiEcWwUPP5d2PGXoxj3o7aINSFEBvqj38BDb0ZTu_AlrCL5DvDsJ_jmvCY76UtEuKCWlS8X7KLo0rmInSa7sV0yykFdURd4gR5um-7u_pb8HR31JFi6iGjHwCEm=s1858" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1142" data-original-width="1858" height="394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiXh420OXdrxmH-4yp5bRg2cYRTv1umEqIkNWojd4nVGARsYOGI-uizXnaaM_3iItiEcWwUPP5d2PGXoxj3o7aINSFEBvqj38BDb0ZTu_AlrCL5DvDsJ_jmvCY76UtEuKCWlS8X7KLo0rmInSa7sV0yykFdURd4gR5um-7u_pb8HR31JFi6iGjHwCEm=w640-h394" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;">I’m pretty
sure that very soon I will be able to share some updates of what is happening
at the InterPlanetary Networking Special Interest Group (IPNSIG), meanwhile if you want
to learn more and join the conversation I have created a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/interplanetarynetworking" target="_blank">Facebook Group</a> you can join.</span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Until the
next inter planetary trip …<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><i><span style="line-height: 107%;">Cheers<br /></span>Jorge</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">
<span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Jorge Amodiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16181543838102751399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5131597023249517461.post-86707779989834202312021-12-31T07:30:00.007-06:002022-01-01T06:21:01.508-06:00Building NASA's JPL ION on a Raspberry Pi<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In my
previous article you learned about the <a href="http://blog.amodio.biz/2021/12/dtn-ipn-r-lab-prototype-intro.html" target="_blank">DTN-IPN R&D Lab project</a> I’m working
on, here I will start sharing how to build yourself a DTN node running NASA’s JPL
Interplanetary Overlay Network (ION) protocol stack on a Raspberry Pi.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">What do
you need</span></b></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">A
<a href="https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/" target="_blank">Raspberry Pi</a> single board computer, I’d recommend at least a version <a href="https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-3-model-b/" target="_blank">3B</a> or
better <a href="https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-3-model-b-plus/" target="_blank">3B+</a>, if you have a <a href="https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-4-model-b/" target="_blank">Raspberry Pi </a>4 it will also work. On my prototype lab
project, I have several ION DTN nodes running on the new <a href="https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/" target="_blank">Raspberry Pi Zero W2</a> which is
about five times faster than the Zero W. I did build ION on a Zero W and it
worked just slower.<br /><br /></span></li><li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">A
microSD card of at least 16GB and decent speed with the Raspi OS image. I
did use one of the latest stable versions for this project, the</span><span style="font-family: courier;"> <a href="https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspios_armhf/images/raspios_armhf-2021-05-28/2021-05-07-raspios-buster-armhf.zip" target="_blank">2021-05-07-raspios-buster-armhf.img</a></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">, no need for the full version since
it will take more space on the SD card.<br />You can download this version from the link above and prepare the micro SD card using <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/" target="_blank">Win32 Disk Imager</a> on a Windows machine.</span><br /><br /></li><li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Obviously
for the initial setup you will need a keyboard and a monitor, and a mouse if
you will keep working directly on the Raspberry Pi. I normally after the initial
setup and with a network connection I access it remotely via VNC or SSH, not necessarily
but I usually change the default username “</span><span style="font-family: courier;">pi</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">”.</span></li></ul><!--[if !supportLists]--><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Here are
the steps to obtain and build the ION version 4.1.1 code on your Raspberry Pi:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">1- After
you have your board up and running make sure that you do to have the latest packages installed in your system<br /></span><span style="font-family: courier;"><span> </span>sudo apt-get update<br /><span> </span>sudo apt-get upgrade<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">2- It will
be most probably already installed but just in case also do</span><br /><span style="font-family: courier;"><span> </span>sudo apt-get install build-essential</span><div><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">3- And </span><span style="font-family: courier;">automake</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> to build the scripts to compile the source code</span><br /><span style="font-family: courier;"><span> </span>sudo apt-get install automake</span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">4- Obtain
the ION 4.1.1 source code tar ball from <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/ion-dtn/" target="_blank">SOURCE<b>FORGE</b></a> <br />We will do this with </span><span style="font-family: courier;">wget</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> on the Raspberry Pi<br /><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEimqL_02b6lWg_E24_HQ4qdhLRjtHJ2aNg5AwHiNAGstAs5CgVLL9-FlMfoN2PCjSxMKUByVIjxj5mtAsTUTcIpj9OUPzsJJC8LhO3y995iX4D40i_VbsSB5OLXD5RJdaSva7n4g0mstPmGFFQl3d91pPBTWUMaFOJkempIk9LeEFp2GsdePcMw1ec3=s1189" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="795" data-original-width="1189" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEimqL_02b6lWg_E24_HQ4qdhLRjtHJ2aNg5AwHiNAGstAs5CgVLL9-FlMfoN2PCjSxMKUByVIjxj5mtAsTUTcIpj9OUPzsJJC8LhO3y995iX4D40i_VbsSB5OLXD5RJdaSva7n4g0mstPmGFFQl3d91pPBTWUMaFOJkempIk9LeEFp2GsdePcMw1ec3=w640-h428" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">5 - Extract
the ION source code distribution from the tar file.<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">You will notice that now you have a new directory named </span><span><span style="font-family: courier;">ion-open-source-4.1.1, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">change to that directory and run the configure script with</span><span style="font-family: courier;">./configure<br /><br /></span></span></div><div><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEilJ9uvyxDrFgfodt7SPkOLKknhe-PxQtnIGa6Lq1Sd-Yg2Mm-xijMr9kV3gfLq8Kmp_Y96PSelJU7COMIJdtRFV15b7vBEFV6pkYBwUYBg2vqoPmvWjMxF-ngwiwSf1wBZ6bK0g9SeVbKoX868c4rl8s3afOVvKhv49Vsb1xB0bgTe7bBThH6iEuLx=s1191" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="802" data-original-width="1191" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEilJ9uvyxDrFgfodt7SPkOLKknhe-PxQtnIGa6Lq1Sd-Yg2Mm-xijMr9kV3gfLq8Kmp_Y96PSelJU7COMIJdtRFV15b7vBEFV6pkYBwUYBg2vqoPmvWjMxF-ngwiwSf1wBZ6bK0g9SeVbKoX868c4rl8s3afOVvKhv49Vsb1xB0bgTe7bBThH6iEuLx=w640-h430" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This will check all the dependencies and configure the files to build the ION software, you may see some warnings but the script should end without errors.</span></div></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"> </span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">6- You are
now ready to build the code with </span><span style="font-family: courier;">make</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhq44MxVC47pNVNFfSLZtmrqg06mmKGGRHTAQoe_DLlWovLv0-lTKOuPOs6YZzkav724S6PzxEKd6bfz5DqBAn6j_G3GKemvBRxRQ-6PKQcQo9_f_IZLQtCs7RNkx-A0LSoXnH7m88kd5J49CRgS7n4w07-BobueyobBLPe0miiyddP8vh9kbg7V80s=s1193" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="803" data-original-width="1193" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhq44MxVC47pNVNFfSLZtmrqg06mmKGGRHTAQoe_DLlWovLv0-lTKOuPOs6YZzkav724S6PzxEKd6bfz5DqBAn6j_G3GKemvBRxRQ-6PKQcQo9_f_IZLQtCs7RNkx-A0LSoXnH7m88kd5J49CRgS7n4w07-BobueyobBLPe0miiyddP8vh9kbg7V80s=w640-h430" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />You will see the compilation process step by step going through
each directory of the ION source code, be patient, the Raspberry Pi can do the job,
but it will take several minutes to complete the building process, it really
depends on the speed of your Raspberry Pi and the micro SD card, but even with
the slower Raspberry Zero W the code builds without problems.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">7- After everything is built you should see a
screen like this one, now you are ready to install the software, but pay attention
for this step you must use </span><span style="font-family: courier;">sudo
make install</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> to perform the installation as the user </span><span style="font-family: courier;"><b>root</b></span><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiucFXmqfuQodQthLSM7SP45zOAdUr0T0DF2xGDopo0-wFmBbIsWv4OJUGvFuVQJBHqNJbzQt9lerqZjaVuQIrIaSh_0tzWwRDs6T2YK2DHvIIslOg1dFG7NHuXSwP26T1dHqFhFTxU8J1YRI7XTHyMT2zNtYQdQtz5-oqyCQ7WEgsAUoZeWZZFBZTw=s1195" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="805" data-original-width="1195" height="432" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiucFXmqfuQodQthLSM7SP45zOAdUr0T0DF2xGDopo0-wFmBbIsWv4OJUGvFuVQJBHqNJbzQt9lerqZjaVuQIrIaSh_0tzWwRDs6T2YK2DHvIIslOg1dFG7NHuXSwP26T1dHqFhFTxU8J1YRI7XTHyMT2zNtYQdQtz5-oqyCQ7WEgsAUoZeWZZFBZTw=w640-h432" width="640" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">8- You will see some warnings but don’t worry about them<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Given that the ION software uses dynamic libraries we must perform one more step as </span><span style="font-family: courier;">root</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> to run the </span><span style="font-family: courier;">ldconfig</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> tool to create the necessary links and update the cache of shared libraries.<br /><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgskdysjUQcuxL1hU7y4F1-aZYXaE5wILo_a5iwiksiTev_T7tY1v9hW65CVndhdVNtxufh3RkC7S6ZCZeYxggXvqLoS75uaFGsS040K_PFUI67RD-Hlvr6An_1RrnG1SaClI1PwmYc5RW8utOPtdDBeWP8cYFKWvlNBHaWVGB2rGFTh8rKbv2R_oSB=s1192" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1192" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgskdysjUQcuxL1hU7y4F1-aZYXaE5wILo_a5iwiksiTev_T7tY1v9hW65CVndhdVNtxufh3RkC7S6ZCZeYxggXvqLoS75uaFGsS040K_PFUI67RD-Hlvr6An_1RrnG1SaClI1PwmYc5RW8utOPtdDBeWP8cYFKWvlNBHaWVGB2rGFTh8rKbv2R_oSB=w640-h430" width="640" /></a></span></div><span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: helvetica; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Now we
are ready to run ION 4.1.1 on the Raspberry Pi, but first we need to create the
configuration/startup file.</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">
The ION implementation is modular, there are several processes that must be
started but the configuration can reside in a single file.<o:p></o:p></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Since for
now we have a single DTN node, the first test will be a loopback test sending
data bundles to the same node.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Let’s
create a directory named </span><span style="font-family: courier;">dtn</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> and edit a file named </span><span style="font-family: courier;">localhost.rc</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">, we will use <b>170</b> as our node ID.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiDQaJSK_jbzZytEVOhQnE4p4dCVtqIB_QgkmMMy8IZQ0kNj1pnduI19SBrOg3UQT3VUq6PaqUttt7lx80ONx1lVgT1073Vq683bHdAXIB-ivFLHCaTxPr08QH-GSxUNNJsDyLWuvpzhiPqUpEd1Ck_bBEno0VbhdhR1i2HPjYz2piAMTHmAsHG3D9s=s899" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="75" data-original-width="899" height="54" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiDQaJSK_jbzZytEVOhQnE4p4dCVtqIB_QgkmMMy8IZQ0kNj1pnduI19SBrOg3UQT3VUq6PaqUttt7lx80ONx1lVgT1073Vq683bHdAXIB-ivFLHCaTxPr08QH-GSxUNNJsDyLWuvpzhiPqUpEd1Ck_bBEno0VbhdhR1i2HPjYz2piAMTHmAsHG3D9s=w640-h54" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />For the LTP
(<a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5326" target="_blank">Licklider Transport Protocol</a>) section instead of an IP address we will use for
now </span><span style="font-family: courier;">localhost</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">For the
Bundle Protocol we will declare LTP as the transport protocol, and define the
input and output ducts (more about this soon.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Your </span><span style="font-family: courier;">localhost.rc</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> should look like this:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: courier;"> ## begin ionadmin</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: courier;"><span> </span>1 170 ''<br /><span> </span>s<br /> # Contact plan definitions<br /><span> </span>a contact +1 +86400 170 170 100000<br /><span> </span>a range +1 +86400 170 170 1</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: courier;"><span> </span>m production 1000000<br /><span> </span>m consumption 1000000<br /> ## end ionadmin</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: courier;"><span> </span>## begin ltpadmin<br /><span> </span>1 32<br /><span> </span>a span 170 32 32 1400 10000 1 'udplso localhost:1113' 300<br /><span> </span>s 'udplsi localhost:1113'</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: courier;"><span> </span>## end ltpadmin</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: courier;"><span> </span>## begin bpadmin<br /><span> </span>1<br /><span> </span>a scheme ipn 'ipnfw' 'ipnadminep'<br /><span> </span>a endpoint ipn:170.0 q<br /><span> </span>a endpoint ipn:170.1 q<br /><span> </span>a endpoint ipn:170.2 q<br /><br /><span> </span>a protocol ltp 1400 100<br /><span> </span>a induct ltp 170 ltpcli<br /><span> </span>a outduct ltp 170 ltpclo<br /><span> </span>s<br /><span> </span>## end bpadmin</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: courier;"><span> </span>## begin ipnadmin<br /><span> </span>a plan 170 ltp/170<br /><span> </span>## end ipnadmin</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: courier;"><span> </span>## begin ionsecadmin<br /><span> </span>1<br /> ## end ionsecadmin</span></p><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In a future
article I will go more into detail about the options for this file, meanwhile
you can look at some <a href="https://github.com/lasuzuki/dtn-gcp/blob/main/BPconfig_file.md" target="_blank">additional documentation from Dr. Lara Suzuki</a>.</span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Now it
is time to start the protocol stack with </span><span style="font-family: courier;">ionstart.</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> It will create a log file named
by default </span><span style="font-family: courier;">ion.log</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> in the directory from where we launch </span><span style="font-family: courier;">ionstart</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">. Since I want to see the log in
action, I will create an empty </span><span style="font-family: courier;">ion.log</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> file and run </span><span style="font-family: courier;">tail -f ion.log,</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> and in another terminal window launch ION using </span><span style="font-family: courier;">ionstart</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> with the </span><span style="font-family: courier;">-I</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">
option to include to config/startup file.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Here you
can see both terminals side by side<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiHrn7P3OAoUXyVt2_nvSzHmikO98noG81-cexCny4T8oAIaQQ5iHk78bP4ZKsgdAa54CyDrbHbhMCUIUh8UDkxzjv78BqsxwBd7GCALmiUThCfrjRf1WVnemloKQNDLBrgODWnrSCYKesjwdZxPNy2xIPdC16ra9nPpoOpT3AQVnPC6WsXzET9AjBW=s1691" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="899" data-original-width="1691" height="341" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiHrn7P3OAoUXyVt2_nvSzHmikO98noG81-cexCny4T8oAIaQQ5iHk78bP4ZKsgdAa54CyDrbHbhMCUIUh8UDkxzjv78BqsxwBd7GCALmiUThCfrjRf1WVnemloKQNDLBrgODWnrSCYKesjwdZxPNy2xIPdC16ra9nPpoOpT3AQVnPC6WsXzET9AjBW=w640-h341" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Like for
the Internet Protocol (IP) we have a similar tool to </span><span style="font-family: courier;">ping,</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">
for Bundle Protocol (BP) it is called </span><span style="font-family: courier;">bping</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> 😊<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">When using
</span><span style="font-family: courier;">bping</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> we need to follow the naming
scheme for DTN, telling the originating and destination nodes and endpoints, which is something like </span><span style="font-family: courier;">scheme:nodeID.endpoint</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">. I will use my node ID in both cases </span><span style="font-family: courier;">ipn:170.1</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">, the</span><span style="font-family: courier;"> -v</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">
option to make it verbose and </span><span style="font-family: courier;">-c
5 </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">to send just five
bpings, here you go<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgnBmr_NGysnHeqyW79PmSOuhQTSi_ZhuN-XG4Lte77Hmj7F9gi2nDp29xh7BAN_StjqgPDqB4ljpjvl12s62F8l0x7T10tPwqEOg-rfX15t1HrnuGxMCrJoqyCbIwZSbmiqfVYKxmurVMEM1PWfjreZgSpE42JxSTM6Vb8e2i4tKl5qpDWLI4ISRT7=s1698" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="895" data-original-width="1698" height="338" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgnBmr_NGysnHeqyW79PmSOuhQTSi_ZhuN-XG4Lte77Hmj7F9gi2nDp29xh7BAN_StjqgPDqB4ljpjvl12s62F8l0x7T10tPwqEOg-rfX15t1HrnuGxMCrJoqyCbIwZSbmiqfVYKxmurVMEM1PWfjreZgSpE42JxSTM6Vb8e2i4tKl5qpDWLI4ISRT7=w640-h338" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Yeah you
just did your first test running the ION DTN Bundle Protocol stack !!</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">There
are some tools that can help check the status of your DTN stack like </span><span style="font-family: courier;">ss</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">
to see the active sockets, and </span><span style="font-family: courier;">ipcs</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> for information on IPC (Inter
Process Communication) facilities like the mutex semaphores
created by the Bundle Protocol stack.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh_DZs2J_p-BFQLtl3t_FvBQw2AmnSI1smerw9MBCmEZAh6gu_Lnivac2JWoo99gIUtKn7pbDime9Tc3F_mxPEkvqGJ2n0yc96691BOLpZ7_HkJZ7hvwXRTQo5K27J5mR-yXSpz7JMKFuNuTONilSzjVtTsIg-Th-WSJwXJXuw_jyrPHbDQRiDBObUc=s1388" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="687" data-original-width="1388" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh_DZs2J_p-BFQLtl3t_FvBQw2AmnSI1smerw9MBCmEZAh6gu_Lnivac2JWoo99gIUtKn7pbDime9Tc3F_mxPEkvqGJ2n0yc96691BOLpZ7_HkJZ7hvwXRTQo5K27J5mR-yXSpz7JMKFuNuTONilSzjVtTsIg-Th-WSJwXJXuw_jyrPHbDQRiDBObUc=w640-h316" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">You are
one step closer to be able to communicate with space objects and other ION
nodes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Like </span><span style="font-family: courier;">ionstart</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">,
there is a </span><span style="font-family: courier;">ionstop</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> command to stop the ION protocol
stack and kill all the associated processes.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhDmeFCOCV2OHGZb797chziyKG1XhLcFuDSJ4Uwi-y95x5ys8Vw4JwjqmjWtpyz5IprhSK21LJ-eVuXvf1X2Jiboal3Tvt7qk_sVZw_cdXCMQ29lMu2yJWT7wdxqLmMc-q8-SnyJ5KChUVOyhiyTrk2NA7K0VGZfDH2-z6IXizDfHUB6a6RWw-MfiiU=s1337" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="886" data-original-width="1337" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhDmeFCOCV2OHGZb797chziyKG1XhLcFuDSJ4Uwi-y95x5ys8Vw4JwjqmjWtpyz5IprhSK21LJ-eVuXvf1X2Jiboal3Tvt7qk_sVZw_cdXCMQ29lMu2yJWT7wdxqLmMc-q8-SnyJ5KChUVOyhiyTrk2NA7K0VGZfDH2-z6IXizDfHUB6a6RWw-MfiiU=w640-h424" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In a
coming article I will show how to create a Virtual Machine running Ubuntu Linux
and build ION on it, then we will have two nodes to start exchanging messages
using the Bundle Protocol.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Until then here is some <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/224703526_Interplanetary_Overlay_Network_An_Implementation_of_the_DTN_Bundle_Protocol" target="_blank">reading material</a> from Scott Burleigh the main author of the ION implementation of the DTN Bundle Protocol.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">At the <a href="https://ipnsig.org/" target="_blank">IPNSIG</a>
(InterPlanetary Networking Special Interest Group) soon to be <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/224703526_Interplanetary_Overlay_Network_An_Implementation_of_the_DTN_Bundle_Protocol" target="_blank">Internet’sSociety</a> Interplanetary Chapter, there are plans to have a test network where
everybody will be able to participate and help testing DTN at a larger scale.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">If you have questions please feel free to leave your comments below. As always, constructive feedback is welcomed.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Stay
tuned for future updates, and if you are interested to exchange ideas and learn more you are welcome join the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/interplanetarynetworking" target="_blank">Inter Planetary Facebook Group</a> and join <a href="https://ipnsig.org/" target="_blank">IPNSG</a> !!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Happy
Networking and Happy New Year !!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Cheers<br />J</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">orge</span></i></span></p></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Jorge Amodiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16181543838102751399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5131597023249517461.post-80704173404091633972021-12-05T12:43:00.000-06:002021-12-05T12:43:37.177-06:00DTN-IPN R&D Lab Prototype Intro<p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: trebuchet; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgLIEKlfR0TYQGY1_VI_KQwtqtXixqWuZrvb6nE_Feus1BDDOLUUHVDdrm5IEbkptYqeb9nEJNK2PQFjHw9Lp0laJ-39iHBNfNO0Ix80_e7fF0jw6N0ywtCROrVz6YPKqN4o06LpkOs2gfFEK6lYBetXSqhVy5w3CQGUPyWfoXx8_8u7kByQIH8fKs9=s985" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="554" data-original-width="985" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgLIEKlfR0TYQGY1_VI_KQwtqtXixqWuZrvb6nE_Feus1BDDOLUUHVDdrm5IEbkptYqeb9nEJNK2PQFjHw9Lp0laJ-39iHBNfNO0Ix80_e7fF0jw6N0ywtCROrVz6YPKqN4o06LpkOs2gfFEK6lYBetXSqhVy5w3CQGUPyWfoXx8_8u7kByQIH8fKs9=w550-h225" title="Image Courtesy of NASA" width="550" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Image Courtesy of NASA</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Since my early days tinkering with electronics, I always believed that one of the best ways of learning is by doing, getting your hands busy. My Mom (RIP) probably didn’t appreciate me taking appliances apart but over my long career in electronics, computer science and networking, I learned a lot by doing, and of course, reading any related materials, and during the past few years taking online classes.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I’m a byproduct of the Apollo era, I grew up fascinated with the space program, and my eyes were glued to our black and white TV when in 1969 Neil Armstrong set foot on the Moon. Yes, I dreamed about becoming an astronaut someday, but more than that, it cemented my inspiration to have a career in technology.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">But this article is not about me, you can find more about me <a href="https://about.me/jamodio" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Being a Pioneer Member of Internet Society (<a href="https://www.internetsociety.org/" target="_blank">ISOC</a>,) and my interest in learning more about space communications, during 2021 I joined ISOC’s<b> Inter Planetary Networking Special Interest Group</b> (<a href="https://ipnsig.org/home/" target="_blank">IPNSIG</a>.) </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">After some exchanges with Vint Cerf, watching his <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTmYm3gMYOQ" target="_blank">TEDx presentation</a> from 10 years ago about his vision and work on an Interplanetary Internet, participating in several remote conferences and webinars, reading a lot about it, and researching the evolution of new technologies for <b>Delay-Tolerant Networking</b> (DTN – <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4838" target="_blank">RFC4838</a>) and <b>Bundle Protocols</b> (<a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5050" target="_blank">RFC5050</a>,) it got me thinking:</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“<i><b>What can I do to learn more and share what I learn about these new evolving technologies?</b></i>” … </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I came up with:</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“<i><b>How about a low cost platform where we can tinker, experiment and do some development about objects communicating using DTN?</b></i>” … </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">One interesting fact about DTN is that it not only provides a way for networking in space, there are other applications </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">that can take advantage of it,</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> like IoT, battlefield communications, and many other scenarios where communications could be disrupted or delayed for various reasons .</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">While this is something that have been on the works for some time, it is still nascent technology, with lots of space for learning and experimenting, huge commercial and STEM educational opportunities, etc. NASA is already using it on an experimental basis for its Interplanetary Overlay Network (ION.)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Based on my previous experience developing embedded systems with microcontrollers and single board computers (SBC,) and inspired by <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/artemisprogram" target="_blank">NASA’s Artemis Mission</a> to get back to the Moon, I started putting together what I call the IPN DTN Lab Protoype.</span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgFiOf76lSmuLI3iIYOoshHoL4-IbMYky989qplzDNri9UJa_87b-GTNQip9IrM_K-8CR05M6sy47TsGi5rcpAf2u34bY2vWmS9hNVF48rAJXji167Rm_VF64UqMUKOFL1d3ccTcNl977ZsJprtXIifeZuJBWKo5lmkkjecowIoTTvbRJUseNYF6Ddc=s1920" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1086" data-original-width="1920" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgFiOf76lSmuLI3iIYOoshHoL4-IbMYky989qplzDNri9UJa_87b-GTNQip9IrM_K-8CR05M6sy47TsGi5rcpAf2u34bY2vWmS9hNVF48rAJXji167Rm_VF64UqMUKOFL1d3ccTcNl977ZsJprtXIifeZuJBWKo5lmkkjecowIoTTvbRJUseNYF6Ddc=w470-h266" width="470" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">IPN DTN R&D Lab Prototype</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The IPN DTN Lab is a collection of various SBCs (Raspberry Pi Zero W2) and ESP32-S2 Dev Kits, combined with different type of displays, a couple low power LoRa transceivers, a simple GPS receiver, etc. The idea is that the platform can be used also to learn how to interface different type of devices to each of the boards, and how to use DTN and Bundle protocols to exchange data between them.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>This is very much work in progress</b>, I just finished to put together the first complete version of the hardware with some basic code running on each of the boards, which for now are all communicating via WiFi with TCP/IP, few of them include a LoRa transceiver module for low rate and long range wireless communication.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">As said before, the design is inspired on the Artemis Mission, then there are three sections, one includes various nodes representing different facilities on Earth, such as NASA’s Mission Control Center (MCC,) NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN,) NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite network (TDRS,) etc. Also, ESA’s European Space Operations Center (ESOC,) and SpaceX CORE (Crew Operations and Resource Engineering.)</span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhjS1OB5slEF0QIGIwvulRRO-w7I7bmEzsro9GbEQ8Q73BA0_xnDOpNHOs5kp3IgQcHCTCr5OSdlJavbp306Gre1-Ximmd5Ze1lgqn58okL_XS0baiOioWjVJYQcM4QqG3mTkYD33Speh9-oCalLNqqYDosMymNmRAFVsPcW0vc6G_Ou2mNbtLlELFr=s1920" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="918" data-original-width="1920" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhjS1OB5slEF0QIGIwvulRRO-w7I7bmEzsro9GbEQ8Q73BA0_xnDOpNHOs5kp3IgQcHCTCr5OSdlJavbp306Gre1-Ximmd5Ze1lgqn58okL_XS0baiOioWjVJYQcM4QqG3mTkYD33Speh9-oCalLNqqYDosMymNmRAFVsPcW0vc6G_Ou2mNbtLlELFr=w499-h238" width="499" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">IPN DTN Lab - Earth Section</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The second section represents various object that will be in Moon’s Orbit, like NASA’s multi-purpose orbital outpost Gateway, ESA’s I-Hab expansion module for Gateway, NASA’s Orion Capsule, etc.</span><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEheX9mfeu3amE2RH0glPs4TT4lJTWkBWRQVrBfV-IQ_KDwM9wq_XZGFI4CsNfwcdWlMsnCrDMSGIeLs6-Be3nX9jayi3yCPX8RYHThic40RhK4lE_sGERc3ME5VQMC-QwcqmxlbQudxDbTIjkC_hlbDQ5QkrzJfnOA36kGSkdZ1vM8-brM37WpDtoKJ=s1920" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1674" data-original-width="1920" height="349" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEheX9mfeu3amE2RH0glPs4TT4lJTWkBWRQVrBfV-IQ_KDwM9wq_XZGFI4CsNfwcdWlMsnCrDMSGIeLs6-Be3nX9jayi3yCPX8RYHThic40RhK4lE_sGERc3ME5VQMC-QwcqmxlbQudxDbTIjkC_hlbDQ5QkrzJfnOA36kGSkdZ1vM8-brM37WpDtoKJ=w400-h349" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">IPN DTN Lab - Moon Orbit Section</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></div><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">And the third section represents various objects that will be in the Moon’s surface, such as NASA’s Lunar Ground Station (LGS,) SpaceX’s Starship Moon Lander, and JAXA’s pressurized Lunar rover being developed with Toyota aka Cruiser.</span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhL5WNFYQrLIgN6GuUH7_TrSAtWXSPILh2jNBCZVCbhzoNlf2YRA6F8fBDuM2guiAuPUQHU2mV_qUARQr19rIF8bGTfQ-VRB5qR15xlicGXiSO31gNjWs1fTocy2ngyLInCN2oXufO8iuWJsZSHjbN7L_WIwhk_LUBHuzlt0aGns30hjMgYF_e7KhWh=s1920" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1640" data-original-width="1920" height="341" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhL5WNFYQrLIgN6GuUH7_TrSAtWXSPILh2jNBCZVCbhzoNlf2YRA6F8fBDuM2guiAuPUQHU2mV_qUARQr19rIF8bGTfQ-VRB5qR15xlicGXiSO31gNjWs1fTocy2ngyLInCN2oXufO8iuWJsZSHjbN7L_WIwhk_LUBHuzlt0aGns30hjMgYF_e7KhWh=w400-h341" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">IPN DTN Lab - Moon Surface Section</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">All the nodes feature a small 128x32 pixels OLED display, some of them include also a pair of four-digit alphanumeric LED display, and at least one RGB LED (NeoPixel.) On this version, five of the nodes are implemented with Raspberry Pi Zero W2 boards, three of them include a low power LoRa transceiver for long distance wireless communications. One of the Raspberry Pi Zero W2 boards is interfaced with a small GPS receiver module with the option for an external antenna for better reception.</span></p><div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The role of each node can be changed just by software. For example, this is one of the Raspberry Pi’s getting GPS data from another node via the network.</span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg7WVcNzadkwKZCBAktVFVA3-Zv_bqHT0w7PkOHd-jqtr_cs-_qqXIAXX99CDQEQUbQlNov7BzqK2ERY0Uurbz_hK5btVCOj6wThvesZ2dPKi_gH2wlpWceVq7ezDlmnw63Wvz-2N8iIGt_iBXwxkX79QD8TtIf4nuCfQ4jUD3vpwC5wNr-b3p5ARFV=s1906" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1112" data-original-width="1906" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg7WVcNzadkwKZCBAktVFVA3-Zv_bqHT0w7PkOHd-jqtr_cs-_qqXIAXX99CDQEQUbQlNov7BzqK2ERY0Uurbz_hK5btVCOj6wThvesZ2dPKi_gH2wlpWceVq7ezDlmnw63Wvz-2N8iIGt_iBXwxkX79QD8TtIf4nuCfQ4jUD3vpwC5wNr-b3p5ARFV=w473-h276" width="473" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">IPN DTN Lab - MCC node screen capture</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div>The design is completely scalable, and more nodes can be added to expand the network.</div><div><br /></div><div>As said before this is very much work in progress. Being now the hardware development phase stable, I will be focusing on the software, bringing up the Bundle Protocols for communication, some demonstrations and documentation. </div><div><br /></div><div>When people ask when it will be all ready, I always use the classic response from Elon’s Musk … “Two Weeks” 😊</div><div><br /></div><div>I’m in the process of putting together several presentations and classes, a summary paper, various videos, etc.</div><div><br /></div><div>Meanwhile, <a href="https://youtu.be/l7reJbDCxsE" target="_blank">here is a short video showing the blinking lights</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>I will be providing more details, and regular reports how the project progresses in future posts, stay tuned.</div><div><br /></div><div>If you are interested to learn more about this, feel free to contact me, if you have ideas or constructive feedback feel free to leave a comment.</div><div><br /></div><div><b><i>If you are interested in providing funding for projects like this, definitely contact me !!</i></b></div><div><br /></div><div>Signing off for now from planet Earth</div><div><br /></div><div><i><span style="font-size: medium;">Cheers</span></i></div><div><i><span style="font-size: medium;">Jorge</span></i></div><div><br /></div></span></div><div><br /></div>Jorge Amodiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16181543838102751399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5131597023249517461.post-83235307221981211402018-06-20T10:48:00.002-05:002018-06-20T10:50:33.975-05:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpAbZFY2KgrKjeGx7wMnbN8Gd7KELZA2pbZhmrvyZMNWZKWVcqImAStSOvk0AhayUUife3Z1RRKLSEW0_Z5iZ-dMkCujK1ZmckrcKPR4RO2Et32fDIP4IbJtICEZf7IlMxJvi8VgNAVLo/s1600/DanteCaputo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="643" data-original-width="810" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpAbZFY2KgrKjeGx7wMnbN8Gd7KELZA2pbZhmrvyZMNWZKWVcqImAStSOvk0AhayUUife3Z1RRKLSEW0_Z5iZ-dMkCujK1ZmckrcKPR4RO2Et32fDIP4IbJtICEZf7IlMxJvi8VgNAVLo/s320/DanteCaputo.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Sad news from Argentina today. A friend of mine just gave me the news that Dr. Dante Caputo passed away last night. I had the honor and privilege to work with him while I was a Technical Consultant with United Nations and he was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Argentina. Also had a great time and many anecdotes from 1988 when I was assigned to be his technical support while he was President of the 43rd UN General Assembly in NYC.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I remember going very early in the morning to his apartment on 1st Street, he always had coffee ready and while he was shaving and fixing his characteristic mustache I was getting his computer and other gadgets ready for the day. Then we rode the limo together to the UN building entering on the underground parking where I stepped out of the limo and he continued to the street level entrance in the front of the building.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">He loved and was a big supporter of technology and modernization for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. One time when Dr. Ricardo Alfonsín then President of Argentina had to put together his speech for the UN General Assembly, we were in Buenos Aires trying to send him a draft of the speech via a very bad and low speed telephone modem connection, but on the NYC side they had another challenge, there was no telephone jack in the Presidential Suite of the Waldorf Astoria and Dante was trying to hack something to be able to connect the Compaq portable computer to the phone line, so many miles away we had one of the assistants to the President calling the front desk of the Waldorf Astoria asking to deliver a set of screwdrivers to the Presidential Suite, Dante was already under the table taking apart the phone line !! LOL.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">After many tries we were able to transfer the full document over the modem connection, Dante insisted it had to be that way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In Buenos Aires, many times he had his security detail pick me up to go to his home right next to the Presidential Residence in Olivos to help him with the latest electronic gadgets acquired during his international trips or fix something on his daughter's computer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">He was one of the key actors to promote and support the development of Internet in Argentina.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">An outstanding Diplomat, wonderful and caring Boss, and a funny and warm human being. While with the pass of time we became distant I'm really saddened by his departure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Dear Dante it was a pleasure and an honor to work with you. My most sincere condolences to his family and friends.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">RIP Dr. Dante Caputo 6/19/2018 😥</span><br />
<br />Jorge Amodiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16181543838102751399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5131597023249517461.post-84224668505793150542014-02-03T09:16:00.001-06:002014-02-03T09:16:08.881-06:00My Top 5 Themes and Strengths <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cleaning and organizing old files in my desktop found this. Several years ago I went through one of those personality and strength finder tests, among the reports their provide there is one that shows my five most dominant themes or talents.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At that time I didn't look at it in detail. I have to admit the report it is pretty accurate and I don't mind to share if you like to get to know me better.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The report says ...</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Many years of research conducted by The Gallup Organization suggest that the most effective people are those who understand their strengths and behaviors. These people are best able to develop strategies to meet and exceed the demands of their daily lives, their careers, and their families.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A review of the knowledge and skills you have acquired can provide a basic sense of your abilities, but an awareness and understanding of your natural talents will provide true insight into the core reasons behind your consistent successes.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Your Signature Themes report presents your five most dominant themes of talent, in the rank order revealed by your responses to StrengthsFinder. Of the 34 themes measured, these are your "top five."</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Your Signature Themes are very important in maximizing the talents that lead to your successes. By focusing on your Signature Themes, separately and in combination, you can identify your talents, build them into strengths, and enjoy personal and career success through consistent, near-perfect performance.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>You love to learn. The subject matter that interests you most will be determined by your other themes and experiences, but whatever </i></span><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the subject, you will always be drawn to the process of learning. The process, more than the content or the result, is specially exciting </i><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">for you. You are energized by the steady and deliberate journey from ignorance to competence. The thrill of the first few facts, the early </i><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">efforts to recite or practice what you have learned, the growing confidence of a skill mastered—this is the process that entices you. </i><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Your excitement leads you to engage in adult learning experiences—yoga or piano lessons or graduate classes. It enables you to thrive </i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>in dynamic work environments where you are asked to take on short project assignments and are expected to learn a lot about the new </i></span><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">subject matter in a short period of time and then move on to the next one. This Learner theme does not necessarily mean that you seek </i><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">to become the subject matter expert, or that you are striving for the respect that accompanies a professional or academic credential. </i><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The outcome of the learning is less significant than the “getting there.”</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>You see the potential in others. Very often, in fact, potential is all you see. In your view no individual is fully formed. On the contrary, each individual is a work in progress, alive with possibilities. And you are drawn toward people for this very reason. When you interact with others, your goal is to help them experience success. You look for ways to challenge them. You devise interesting experiences that can stretch them and help them grow. And all the while you are on the lookout for the signs of growth—a new behavior learned or </i></span><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">modified, a slight improvement in a skill, a glimpse of excellence or of “flow” where previously there were only halting steps. For you these small increments—invisible to some—are clear signs of potential being realized. These signs of growth in others are your fuel. They bring you strength and satisfaction. Over time many will seek you out for help and encouragement because on some level they know that your helpfulness is both genuine and fulfilling to you.</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>Relator describes your attitude toward your relationships. In simple terms, the Relator theme pulls you toward people you already know. </i></span><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">You do not necessarily shy away from meeting new people—in fact, you may have other themes that cause you to enjoy the thrill of </i><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">turning strangers into friends—but you do derive a great deal of pleasure and strength from being around your close friends. You are </i><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">comfortable with intimacy. Once the initial connection has been made, you deliberately encourage a deepening of the relationship. You </i><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">want to understand their feelings, their goals, their fears, and their dreams; and you want them to understand yours. You know that this </i><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">kind of closeness implies a certain amount of risk—you might be taken advantage of—but you are willing to accept that risk. For you a </i><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">relationship has value only if it is genuine. And the only way to know that is to entrust yourself to the other person. The more you share </i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>with each other, the more you risk together. The more you risk together, the more each of you proves your caring is genuine. These are </i></span><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">your steps toward real friendship, and you take them willingly.</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>You look for areas of agreement. In your view there is little to be gained from conflict and friction, so you seek to hold them to a minimum. When you know that the people around you hold differing views, you try to find the common ground. You try to steer them away from confrontation and toward harmony. In fact, harmony is one of your guiding values. You can’t quite believe how much time is wasted by people trying to impose their views on others. Wouldn’t we all be more productive if we kept our opinions in check and </i></span><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">instead looked for consensus and support? You believe we would, and you live by that belief. When others are sounding off about their goals, their claims, and their fervently held opinions, you hold your peace. When others strike out in a direction, you will willingly, in the service of harmony, modify your own objectives to merge with theirs (as long as their basic values do not clash with yours). When others start to argue about their pet theory or concept, you steer clear of the debate, preferring to talk about practical, down-to-earth </i><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">matters on which you can all agree. In your view we are all in the same boat, and we need this boat to get where we are going. It is a good boat. There is no need to rock it just to show that you can.</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>If you possess a strong Belief theme, you have certain core values that are enduring. These values vary from one person to another, but ordinarily your Belief theme causes you to be family-oriented, altruistic, even spiritual, and to value responsibility and high ethics—both in yourself and others. These core values affect your behavior in many ways. They give your life meaning and satisfaction; in your view, success is more than money and prestige. They provide you with direction, guiding you through the temptations and distractions </i></span><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">of life toward a consistent set of priorities. This consistency is the foundation for all your relationships. Your friends call you dependable. “I know where you stand,” they say. Your Belief makes you easy to trust. It also demands that you find work that meshes with your values. Your work must be meaningful; it must matter to you. And guided by your Belief theme it will matter only if it gives you a chance to live out your values.</i><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i style="background-color: white;">Cheers</i></span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i style="background-color: white;">Jorge</i></span><br />
<br />Jorge Amodiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16181543838102751399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5131597023249517461.post-40260249362044138832013-02-10T09:50:00.000-06:002013-02-10T09:58:02.106-06:00First visit to Geekdom, SA NewTech and San Antonio Make Meetup<br />
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after over a year since its creation, last Tuesday I had the opportunity to
visit <a href="http://geekdom.com/" target="_blank">Geekdom </a>for the very first time. If I have to chose just a word to resume
how the experience was, I think it would be <b><span style="color: red;"><u><i>elated</i></u></span></b>.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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really had a great time, felt a little bit lost at the begging being now a
45,000 square feet facility full of geeks and cool stuff, and with an atmosphere of
genius and creativity you can almost breath as soon as you step out of the
elevators. I was really, really, impressed, I had somehow a good idea of what
Geekdom was and what is going on there, but telling the truth it exceeded all
my expectations and changed the wrong preconception I had that it was just another collaborative
co-working space.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Geekdom
goes way beyond of being just a co-working space, it is as I said before the
atmosphere that their principal founders Graham Weston (</span><a href="https://twitter.com/gweston" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" target="_blank">@gweston</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">) and Nick Longo (</span><a href="https://twitter.com/NickLongo" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" target="_blank">@NickLongo</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">) where
able to create that sparks innovation in the vibrant and future looking
city of San Antonio, which has been recently </span><a href="http://www.forbes.com/pictures/edgl45eldd/no-3-san-antonio-new-braunfels-tx/" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" target="_blank">ranked number three by Forbes on the America's New Tech Hot Spots List</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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is about community, entrepreneurship, innovation, making great things,
exploring new ideas, developing new technologies, empowering creativity, opening
young minds and inspire future generations.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;"><i>Geekdom
is like a gym for your brain !</i></span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">SA New Tech Meetup</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Talking
about New Tech, that was one of the motives of my visit to Geekdom.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">During the last <a href="http://tedxsanantonio.com/" target="_blank">TEDx San Antonio</a> I met Cole Wollak (<a href="https://twitter.com/cwollak" target="_blank">@cwollak</a></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">) who is a Geekdom member and the organizer
of <a href="http://www.sanewtech.com/" target="_blank">SA NewTech</a>, a monthly Meetup of people in San Antonio and around, interested
and working in new technologies, startups, entrepreneurship, social networking,
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Calendar
conflicts and other compromises didn't let me make the meeting before, but I
was really committed to make it happen last Tuesday.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">The
meeting is very dynamic, every month three startup companies give a short
presentation that gets followed by an open Q&A with the audience, that lets
the companies receive feedback about what they are doing and how are they doing
it, brainstorm on new ideas and discuss opportunities to help them succeed.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">It is
also a great opportunity to meet very cool and smart people working on exciting
technologies right here in our great City of San Antonio. Thanks for the invite Cole !<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Last
but not least, a very important reason while a I went to Geekdom to meet with
Cole and briefly with Nick, was to get things moving to have our first Make
Meetup in San Antonio.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">I have
to confess that I don't remember now how I got into this, but I'm very active in several on-line forums
discussing electronics research and design, and following up a series of links
related to the <a href="http://www.raspberrypi.org/" target="_blank">Raspberry Pi</a> board, I ended getting myself in a page where I
took the challenge of organizing the very first <a href="http://www.meetup.com/makermeetup/San-Antonio-TX/" target="_blank">Make Meetup in San Antonio</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">When I
tweeted if Geekdom would be willing to host the event, Nick replied right away
!! with the best response somebody like me trying to get things done can ever get,
he said "<i><b>Sure can... Let's do it</b></i>"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Well
it took Wired Magazine Editor Chris Anderson an entire book to talk about it,
for now let's say that it is driving the <b><i>New Industrial Revolution</i></b>, and if you are
the type that enjoys inventing and making stuff like electronics, 3D-printing,
etc, then you are a Maker and part of the revolution. I'll write more in
another article.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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twitter dialogue with the Geekdom folks, I learned that Mark Barnett (<a href="https://twitter.com/Maker_Mark" target="_blank">@Maker_Mark</a>) is a Maker
and a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education
specialist in San Antonio, he is also a Geekdom member doing very cool things and
is the founder of <a href="http://stemivate.com/" target="_blank">STEMivate Academy</a> . Unfortunately Mark was out of town when I
visited Geekdom but I'm looking forward to meet him very soon and get this Meetup
thing rolling.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">I'm
not stranger about making things happen, my inner geek manifested when I was 10
years old and started tinkering with electronics and taking apart my Mom's
appliances. From there my career took me from digital electronics to computer
science and large scale networking. I was the culprit of establishing the <a href="http://blog.internet-argentina.net/2010/05/otro-ano-de-internet-sin-duda-para.html" target="_blank">first international connection for my home country to the Internet</a>, I worked for
small and large companies, public and private, well established and startups,
government agencies and international organizations such as <a href="http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home.html" target="_blank">UNDP</a> and <a href="http://www.oas.org/" target="_blank">OAS</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">In
1991 I was in Denmark for the first Inet meeting where with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vint_Cerf" target="_blank">Vint Cerf </a>and many
others we launched the <a href="http://www.internetsociety.org/" target="_blank">Internet Society</a>, later I was one of the founders and
President of its Chapter in Argentina.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">I led
the Technical Team for the <a href="http://www.amodio.biz/jorge/ioi93/index.html" target="_blank">Fifth International Olympiad in Informatics</a> in
Mendoza, Argentina, where almost 300 students from over the world competed in
Computer Science. I was also involved in the coordination of the first
Latin-American Research and Academic Networks forum held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and many other events.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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pretty sure this Meetup <b><span style="color: red;">WILL</span></b> happen, now thanks to Geekdom we know where, we'll
work hard to get to the when, what and who.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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leave the "why" for another post.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">If you
are a Maker, or you are interested in the subject and willing to participate
and contribute, please feel free to get in touch with me and join the recently
created <a href="http://www.meetup.com/makermeetup/San-Antonio-TX/" target="_blank">Make Community in San Antonio</a>, I'll keep you informed on how the planning goes and when the
first Meetup will happen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">As
always, ideas, suggestions and recommendations are gratefully welcomed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><i>BTW, my
kudos to Graham, Nick, and the rest of the Geekdom staff and members for the
great work they do and their constant contribution to our community. If they
let me, I'll probably start to hang out very often around there ...</i><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: large;">Cheers</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Jorge</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>(<a href="https://twitter.com/jamodio" target="_blank">@jamodio</a>)</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i><a href="http://about.me/jamodio">http://about.me/jamodio</a></i></span></div>
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Jorge Amodiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16181543838102751399noreply@blogger.com0San Antonio, TX, USA29.4241219 -98.49362819999998928.5395009 -99.784521699999985 30.3087429 -97.2027347tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5131597023249517461.post-7611322024666209422012-01-22T17:45:00.000-06:002012-01-22T18:15:53.461-06:00Megaupload, Piratería y Cambalache Netero<br />
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<span lang="ES-AR"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Casi imposible en estos días
abrir una página de web de noticias, redes sociales o chequear mi correo electrónico
y no encontrar ninguna referencia, artículo o comentario sobre el tole tole con
<a href="http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1441793-el-fbi-da-de-baja-el-sitio-de-descarga-directa-megauploadcom">MegaUpload</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Pese a que no es uno de los
temas de mi mayor interés, pero tiene que ver en parte con mi participación en
distintos foros para promover el libre intercambio de información en Internet,
y que no me gusta hablar por boca de ganso, me dediqué a explorar y leer un
poco más sobre los detalles de esta acción por parte del Departamento de
Justicia de los Estados Unidos, incluyendo la lectura detallada de las 72 páginas
de la Acusación (<a href="http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/01/20/heres-the-full-72-page-megaupload-doj-indictment/">Indictment</a>) emitida por dicho Departamento.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Algunas aclaraciones de rigor.
Me interesa poco o nada defender a las compañías disqueras, a las
megacorporaciones, a los estudios cinematográficos, al DOJ, FBI o cualquier
otra agencia o institución de tres letras. Sí, me interesa seguir promoviendo
la libertad de expresión, el libre intercambio de información en Internet y la
menor intromisión de los "manda más" de acá, allá y del más allá también.
Así que comentarios o sanatas sobre el imperialismo yanqui, los malvados de la
disquera X o distribuidora Y, están de más y al dope.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Para un dinosaurio de la red
como yo, quizás situaciones y eventos como estos hacen reflotar viejas
anoralgias (añoranzas llenas de nostalgia) sobre lo tranquilo que era la red y
como podíamos dejar información sin preocuparnos de robo de identidad, o si
algo no funcaba llamábamos a nuestro "amigo" al otro lado de la línea
para resolverlo sin necesidad de pedirle permiso al Tío Sam o garparle a un
abogado.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Claro, pese a que de alguna
forma nos rebuscabamos para tener un dialogo interactivo vía IRC, Talk, o hasta
video con <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CU-SeeMe">CU-SeeMe</a>, nada como las videoconferencias que puedo tener hoy en día
con familiares, amigos y colegas alrededor del mundo o el inmenso caudal de información
disponible en línea para mi trabajo o regocijo.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Internet ha crecido de tal
forma que hasta muchos consideran el acceso a la misma un derecho humano, erróneamente
en mi opinión pero sin restarle importancia a como Internet ha cambiado muchos
de los aspectos de nuestra vida cotidiana, no solo la posibilidad de comunicación
o comercio, sino también la forma en que socializamos.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Es ilógico el argumentar o insistentemente
apuntarle el dedo a Internet como el medio o causa principal de muchos males. Si
bien es cierto que en cierta medida facilita el crimen, no significa que sea la
causa, y la confusión y zona gris que genera este tema, complicado con el hecho que en Internet no existen fronteras, motivan acciones desmedidas (como
incautar cientos de servidores a lo bestia) o propuestas de ley - como SOPA - que intentan
poner control por medio de interferir con la arquitectura y funcionamiento de
la red. (SOPA proponía algo así como borrar los nombres de las calles en los
carteles de cada esquina para que los chorros no supieran como llegar al banco
para afanar.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Algunos parecen ver la piratería
en Internet como una causa noble, leyendo los comentarios en un sitio de
noticias me cruzo con un tarado (con nombre y apellido) que afirma tener más de
7 Terabytes de películas y música pirateados, y ahora se la pasa distribuyendo
por varios lados incluyendo Facebook y Twitter, enlaces para generar ataques a
varios sitios en Internet. Verdaderamente, a tipos como éste aparte de pedirle
el documento, deberían hacerle un análisis de sangre y orina antes de darle su
cuenta para poder acceder Internet.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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de la piratería, donde afirma que a la industria de contenidos seguramente algo
le cuesta la piratería -sino no meterían tanta guita en el Congreso para
promover legislación como SOPA. Pero realmente la reducción en piratería que
esto puede generar seria mínima y con un alto costo para todos.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Ahora la operación de
MegaUpload era legal o no ? A primera vista el negocio sonaba como bastante
legal, simplemente un megarepositorio público de archivos en la red. Pero eso
es lo que se veía de frente, ahora empiezan a saltar en detalle como operaban
estos quías, realmente al borde o más allá de la ley.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Varios argumentan que el
accionar de la justicia fue una movida para promover legislación como SOPA. En
realidad el argumento va para el otro lado, este accionar es clara demostración
que la justicia bien o mal no necesita de SOPA para tomar acción. Por otro lado
los de MegaUpload estaban bajo la mira y el microscopio bastante antes de que
se escribiera la propuesta de ley.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Realmente no soy juez para determinarlo, lo que sí creo después de ver unas
cuantas fotos, el hacerse llamar DOTCOM, en las chapas de su vasta colección de
autos poner cosas como GOOD, EVIL, GOD, STONED, GUILTY, MAFIA y otros detalles
más, resulta muy sospechoso. Muy boludo no es, porque en el 2010 encanutó algo
así como 42 palos verdes. El que sí parece ser medio boludo es el pobre
programador que estaba en Turquía que en el mismo año se conformó con solo 100
lucas.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Lo que sí es perjudicial para
Internet en casos como MegaUpload, es que en primer lugar ponen en movimiento a
las autoridades para tomar medidas extremas que con el afán de hacer justicia y
aplicar la ley entran como elefante en un bazar arrasando con todo.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">También afecta que empresas
que actúan de esta manera le dan más motivos y combustible a quienes quieren
forzar y promover más regulación en la operación y uso de la red.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Lamentablemente también pone
en duda el desarrollo y adopción de ciertas tecnologías como el almacenamiento
remoto de información en "la nube."<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Mi esposa es artista, y yo
hago desarrollo de sistemas electrónicos, la piratería nos afecta
cotidianamente.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Después de leer unos cuantos
comentarios defendiendo la piratería como algo noble me pregunto si al final
Discépolo tenía razón y seguimos en el <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambalache">Cambalache</a>, y "El que no llora, no
mama, y el que no afana es un gil!".<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i>Atentos Saludos<br />
Jorge (el gil que sigue garpando por música y películas)</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'd describe it with just one word "<b>fascinating</b>."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Sorry Steve, I've got my copy of your Biography on my <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004HZYA6E/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=pesakjoambl-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399373&creativeASIN=B004HZYA6E">Amazon Kindle</a>, but as I went from chapter to chapter, and through different stories, I had my <a href="http://www.apple.com/ipodtouch/">iPod Touch</a> on the other hand reviewing old documents, keynote speeches and product launches on YouTube.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I feel that Isaacson did a superb job to portray Steve Jobs as many of us imagined he was, it was really interesting to read the histories behind some of the products, the birth and rebirth of Apple as a company, the creativity and inspiration from Pixar, but the most interesting part was to get to know Steve in a more human plane, as a partner, a friend, a husband, a father, a dreamer, a human being.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I've always been a geek, a technology lover, and I may had some instances when I probably got in trouble to voice my opinion when I thought something was really a piece of shit.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I really took the time to read the biography enjoying every paragraph and reflecting after each story or event.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But one of the things that kept floating on my mind while I was reading and now that I just finished it, is: <i><b>Why we don't have more people like Steve Jobs ?</b></i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And this question intersects with some reflections after reading another of my favorite authors, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Ken_Robinson">Sir Ken Robinson</a> on "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1841121258/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=pesakjoambl-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399369&creativeASIN=1841121258">Out of Our Minds: Learning to be creative</a>."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I strongly believe the answer is very simple: <b><i>we don't let them be</i></b>.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It is not something personal, as "<b>we</b>" I mean "<b>the system</b>", particularly the educational system and how we react when we notice that some kids are "<b>different</b>". Hellooooo, we are all different !!, but the system has been designed and ran as we were all equal and it is focused on moving the kids through it following a standard and fixed process. Yes there is such thing as "<b>gifted and talented</b>", but people like Steve Jobs probably would have never passed the test.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">One of the typical reactions when "we" find that a kid is different, instead of having a system that can adapt to her/him, we try to force the kid to fit into it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I think you should listen at what </span><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Sir Ken Robinson said at one of the best ever TED Talks</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I went through situations like this personally, we didn't know what it was and that ADHD even existed, and since it is on the genes, now being a parent I'm going through it with my kids.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It struck me when I read about Job's fourth grade teacher who challenged him to solve math problems with a giant lollipop as a reward, but later the challenge was most interesting and motivating than the reward. He was one of the lucky ones to have that teacher. I was lucky too when I was in secondary technical school and the priest that was the school's director saw me so enthusiastic and motivated on the electronics labs and other activities that he let me be on the labs all day. By the last year of school I was teaching my own classmates about digital electronics and microprocessors.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I feel that my kids are also lucky, because so far we've got teachers that can see beyond and recognize their natural talents, personality and creativity.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But it can't be that way, it can't be that by "<b>luck</b>" our kids have a chance to be what they naturally were born to be.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">One of the things that I really regret about Steve Job's early departure, is that he recognized that we need a revolution in education, and that technology can play a big role on it. He was poised to do great things about it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I just hope somebody follow on his legacy and we keep trying to create a better future for our kids and their kids.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Cheers</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>Jorge</i></span>Jorge Amodiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16181543838102751399noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5131597023249517461.post-40404767320997727502011-10-07T00:50:00.000-05:002011-10-07T06:24:06.036-05:00So long Steve Jobs<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It feels somehow strange writing about somebody I never met in person but that had a substantial influence in my professional career and on my personal and family's life.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Sure, we all knew that Steve Jobs was going through a challenging fight and his resignation as CEO of Apple, Inc. was a clear signal that his health was rapidly deteriorating. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I was about half way through of my career in electronics at a technical school when Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple. I was already fascinated by digital electronics and microprocessors crunching code for a Motorola MC6800, entering every byte by hand on a hexadecimal keypad. In those days programming was kind of and art of black magic and 512 bytes of RAM were a lot!!. I didn't pay much attention to Apple until they launched the Apple II, which at that time I couldn't afford but loved the design and how they put it together.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It took me a long time to have the first Apple product in my hands, and old Powerbook laptop with the trackball, provided by the company I was working at that time. I really liked MAC OS, it was simple, intuitive, easy to use and reliable. I really regretted when Steve Jobs left Apple, while they continued to develop some interesting products, they lacked the WOW factor that Steve was so good to inject on them.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Meanwhile Steve was getting busy at Pixar and NeXT, Inc. About that time I was already deep into Unix and drooling to have a workstation with a Graphic User Interface, so I started following very closely what NeXT was doing in hardware and their NeXTSTEP operating system derived from Unix. After establishing the first international connection to Internet for Argentina via SURANet, in 1991 I had the opportunity to visit Glenn Ricart who was in charge of the Computer Science department of the University of Maryland and Principal Investigator at SURANet. It was a great visit, when we arrived at his home where he invited me to stay, I almost had a heart attack when I saw he had a NeXT computer on his home office !!! What a marvelous piece of hardware, the animated GUI was fantastic, the resolution of the screen, even black and white was formidable, and best of all, it was running Unix !!. So bad that commercially was a product that was way ahead of its time and to expensive to grab market share trying to compete with PCs and the other jewels of that age from Sun Microsystems.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And then came the new iPod classic, <a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/jmamodio/MyHomeLabAndOffice?authuser=0&feat=directlink">my home office</a> got the new iMac G5, and the iPod touch. When I purchased my first iPod Touch I was blown away, I did like it as a music player but much more as a small portable computer. I quickly installed ssh to have remote access to my Linux servers, and later the new generation with camera and Face Time, I was feeling part of the Space 1999 crew with an improved <a href="http://shipbrook.com/jeff/animas/commlock/">Commlock</a> on my hands.</span></div>
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In our family we love books, actually we are book freaks, if there is something we anxiously want to know or understand what do we do ? we buy, get it from the library, read at the bookstore, or steal a book !! (just kidding).</div>
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Besides loving books, I really love my <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004HZYA6E/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=pesakjoambl-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399373&creativeASIN=B004HZYA6E">Amazon Kindle</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=pesakjoambl-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B004HZYA6E&camp=217145&creative=399373" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /> (I'll write a separate article about it), what a great device and awesome service, and we the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0051QVESA/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=pesakjoambl-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399373&creativeASIN=B0051QVESA">new Kindles</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=pesakjoambl-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B0051QVESA&camp=217145&creative=399373" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />, Ohhh My. My son is anxiously waiting to get one, and he already gave me the speech that at school the Kindle is an exception on the electronics gadgets policy (good try son!).</div>
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Adding to the real tangible dust collecting old fashion paper books, we have started our digital collection of eBooks. Over the past few days I spent some time (and a some bucks) taking advantage of a great offer from <a href="http://oreilly.com/">O'Reilly and Associates</a>. If you own one of their titles on paper, for some of them they offer you to get the eBook version, DRM free, for few bucks, so I did it.</div>
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Given that our digital media library is getting hard to manage, <a href="http://www.apple.com/itunes/">iTunes</a> became our default tool to manage our Music titles. Couple of weeks ago I finished to suck up and digest into iTunes more than 400 audio CDs, that together with the tracks and albums we purchased on iTunes, take about 50GB for about 6,200 songs.</div>
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I'm not quite sure how many books in total we have in the house, the easy answer is A LOT. My son has a bookshelf on his room, but also shares with my daughter another two bookshelves upstairs, my wife has her own large bookshelf in her studio with art and jewelry books, and obviously I've my own collection in my home office. Add few more in the family room, our bedroom, here and there. and I'm sure we may be able to start our own little library for the neighborhood.</div>
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On the digital side the current number is much lower. I've a directory in my desktop machine where I drop all sorts of stuff, the current count for eBooks is about 160 taking 1.5GB, but that's very small compared to a total of about 98,600 files taking more than 43GB, which includes manuals, application notes, papers, reports, electronic components datasheets, schematics, journals, brochures, catalogs, etc., etc., etc.</div>
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Sometimes it gets hard to find something and most of the time I rely on my memory and doing search of directory trees. So I started my quest for tools to help me getting all this sea of knowledge and digital clutter somehow organized.</div>
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I always like to share with my friends what I've been reading, both in paper and electronically, I've been trying to keep the Reading List on my <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/jorgeamodio">LinkedIn profile</a>, but that application is really ugly and hard to maintain, so <a href="http://blog.amodio.biz/2011/01/my-bookshelf.html">early this year</a> I switched to <a href="http://www.shelfari.com/">Shelfari </a>that now is part of Amazon, and lets you embed the code to share your bookshelf on your blog or web page.<br />
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It takes time to update, but since now it is part of Amazon it is quite easy to transfer your Amazon purchases to your Shelfari collection, still does not have a lot of integration with other Social Media tools besides Facebook, and I'm a little bit pissed-off with Facebook to re-enable the connection.</div>
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For local management of my digital library and keep track of what I send to the Kindle, I been relying on having things organized on directory trees but it was getting out of control, adding that for the same eBook I may have different formats such as PDF, mobi, epub, etc. Searching for how to organize collections on the Kindle I stumbled on <a href="http://calibre-ebook.com/">Calibre</a>. At first I was kind of hesitant to install it, but after reading some reviews and comments and decided to give it a try,</div>
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It is a free and open source eBook management application, it's still under development and may have some glitches but so far seems to be working fine for me. It creates its own directory structure and database of objects you add to its library, nice feature is that you can download and edit the metadata for each object including the image of the cover, and for pdf files it takes the first page of the file as the cover.</div>
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Another nice detail is that you can browse your library collection as you do in iTunes with coverflow. I recently organized a large number of papers and reports related to "Internet of Things" and took this shot of how they look on Calibre.</div>
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An extra plus for Calibre is that it recognizes when you connect an eReader device such as the Kindle to your computer and lets you quickly find what objects are in the Library and in the device. One thing I don't know how to handle efficiently is creating and managing collections on the Kindle from the PC, there is a plug-in for Calibre but since the collections file is part of the "system" for the Kindle, every time you make a change you need to restart the Kindle which makes it a cumbersome procedure. So for now after I send the stuff to the Kindle then I manually organize it into collections on the Kindle.</div>
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So far I'm happy with this new way of keep things organized, for sure there is room for improvement and it is subject to change in the near future as new tools pop up and I try different schemes, I can surely say that my productivity increased since I don't have to spend too much time to find articles, books, etc.</div>
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For those guys looking to develop application to increase integration, it would be very nice to have something where you can add your notes, comments, references, etc., I didn't spend any time yet searching for a tool that provides that functionality.</div>
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Time now to stop writing and start reading !!!</div>
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<br />Jorge Amodiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16181543838102751399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5131597023249517461.post-86051734493859801842011-02-13T12:13:00.002-06:002011-02-13T12:47:06.221-06:00Flour Tortillas and Chicken Fajitas ...<div style="text-align: justify;">If you read my <a href="http://blog.amodio.biz/2011/01/baking-bread-very-simple-recipe.html">previous post</a> you probably already know that I love baking and eating bread, but besides the Italian genes from my ancestors, our family now has its mix of Mexican genes, so my wife and kids love Mexican flour tortillas and so do I.</div><br />
Then here you go, a simple recipe to make white flour tortillas<br />
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<ul><li>2 1/2 Cups of unbleached flour</li>
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Chicken fajita tacos !!<br />
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My kids love when we spread some frijol on the tortilla and then complete the taco with the chicken fajitas inside, add some salsa, pico de gallo and Enjoy !!<br />
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<i>Jorge</i>Jorge Amodiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16181543838102751399noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5131597023249517461.post-39369780481253384782011-01-29T07:24:00.007-06:002011-01-29T07:45:54.480-06:00Baking bread... Very simple recipe<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">If you visited my <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/jmamodio/MorfiChupi?feat=directlink">Picasa Web Albums</a> or my "MorfiChupi" album pictures on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2046015&id=1018725713&page=3">Facebook</a>, you probably noticed that I really enjoy cooking. The passion for food and cooking seems to be in our family's genes, my dad is passionate about it, and let me tell you he is an amazing cook, for some time he had a small deli in Buenos Aires. My two brothers are also masters in the kitchen, they both went to culinary schools, and my youngest brother still works at a pasta factory. When I was a <i>bambino</i> my grandma with her cousins owned one of the best and most traditional Italian restaurants in downtown Buenos Aires (Il Napoli, across the Luna Park stadium).</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">My grandparents were from Italy, and I remember when we all got together every Sunday for the classic Italian family feast. The process started early in the morning since everything was home made from scratch, the breads, antipasto, spaghetti, ravioli, meats, salads, desserts, well you get the picture.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">When I get on the kitchen to cook, it is like therapy, it lets me disconnect from the brain intensive geeky programming or electronics design work I do. It also brings back those pleasant memories of my family and those fantastic Sunday meals.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">If there is something that I always die for is good bread, better said, artisan breads, in particular Italian and French breads. I won't deny that some of the chain or supermarket bakeries have good products, but there is nothing better and close to an artisan bread that the one home made with your own hands.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">To make some basic breads the process is very simple and with few steps, measure, mix, knead, raise, punch, form, proof, bake, cool, eat.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I won't get to much on the details and basic concepts and techniques of bread making but I'll recommend you one of my favorite books:</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">What is interesting is that while the book is printed in Great Britain, Eric was born in France and he started very young working at his uncle's <i>boulangerie</i> (bakery shop), and Ursula was born in Italy and grew up on her father's farm in southern Italy.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The book takes you from the fundamentals of breadmaking and the essentials techniques with plenty of great pictures and includes over 100 recipes for many different types of breads.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In a future article I'll share some comments about other breadmaking books I've and that are among my favorite cooking books.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Wanna get started ? Nothing better than a simple recipe to make a plain bread, what in France is called <i>Pain Ordinaire</i> or <i>Pane Rustico</i> in Italy.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">On a measuring cup put about 1/8 cup (125ml) of warm water and sprinkle the yeast in. If the ambient temperature is too low you can drop a little pinch of sugar to get the yest fermentation process going, stir until the yeast is dissolved and put away for 5-10 minutes.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Meanwhile mix the flour and salt in a bowl, you will get better results if you stiff the flour before.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Make a well like a crater in the center of the flour and pour the dissolved yeast.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This is called "the sponge method."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Now cover the bowl with a kitchen towel and put away for about 20 minutes.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Very gradually and mixing with the wooden spoon start incorporating the rest of the water into the center and mix the flour from the side, it will slowly start to form a moist dough.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Don't worry if the dough is sticky and look very moist, its better to have a moist dough than a dry dough.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Knead for 10 minutes, if you feel that the dough is too difficult to handle, knead for 5 minutes, let it rest for 5 minutes and knead for another five, until you get a smooth and elastic dough.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We'll let it rise until it doubles in size, depending on temperature and other conditions it make take about 1 1/2 to 2 hours. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Very gently make a fist and with your knuckles slowly punch down the dough to release some of the gas that formed inside.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">After you punch it down let it rest for 10 minutes.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Now is time to give our bread some form, in this case we will do a long wide loaf.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Take the dough out of the bowl, gently spread forming sort of a rectangle and fold from the side 1/3 to the center.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Then with your thumbs create a small indentation in the middle to finish sealing the union.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It may take 30 to 45 minutes. Depending on how long it takes your oven to warm up, you can start preheating it to 425 F.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">An easy way to determine if the proofing is done, is to push gently with your finger the center of the loaf, if the dough springs back slowly you are golden, if it is too firm bad luck but don't worry it is still edible, but don't over proof it, it is preferred to put it early than late in the oven.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Before you put the loaf in the oven, cut some slashes on the top, it is not just for decoration, it helps the dough to expand without generating cracks on the sides or the bottom. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Put it in the oven and let it bake until golden (30-45 minutes).</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">When I do this type of rustic breads I like to use a nice trick to create some additional moisture and obtain a more crunchy crust, open the oven and spray the loaf with a mist of salty water.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Let the loaf fully cook. Uncooked bread can give you an indigestion.</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Visualization is a very powerful tool when you have to deal with a complex and large number of "relationships", it helps by giving you a graphical representation on how those relationships are interrelated and in which sections of the graph you need to increase or sometimes decrease the number of connections, it also helps to identify single points of failure or choking points, and drives one to make better decisions.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">With the advent of the new social and professional contact network online services, such as <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/jorgeamodio">LinkedIn</a>, managing your contacts and how them become part of your relationships universe became much easier. I often had to dig into my memory to find where I met this person or how we got to know each other, and if by any chance her or him knows somebody else I know or I'm interested to know.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Yesterday LinkedIn posted on their blog <a href="http://blog.linkedin.com/2011/01/24/linkedin-inmaps/">How to Visualize your LinkedIn network with InMaps</a>, it sounded pretty interesting and it looked very cool, so I gave it a try .... here is my InMap</span></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Nice !! At first glance it's clear that <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/jorgeamodio">my contacts at LinkedIn</a> are segmented into groups with a little bit of clustering and some lines between groups.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But if you take a closer look, you will notice on the top a group of contacts in orange which represent very interesting people from the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">Social Media</span> arena that I met in a recent past. This group of people obviously today rely a lot on Internet applications like <a href="http://twitter.com/jamodio">Twitter</a>, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/jorge.amodio">Facebook</a>, <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/jorgeamodio">LinkedIn</a>, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/16181543838102751399">blogs</a>, etc, to build relationships and communicate, but the map shows something very clear, from the ones that I know and are in my contacts list, there are almost no relationships with my contacts in blue (<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">heavy honchos of IT and Telecom</span>) or in pink (<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;">Internet development and policy making</span>).</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This means that I've a <b><i>huge potential</i></b> to serve as a <b><i>bridge</i></b> between my Social Media contacts and the other two groups.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">By knowing in advance a little bit of what is on each side of the bridge I may now be able to identify common matters that may help to have better representation of Social Media in Internet policy development forums, and have this particular group get to know more about Internet infrastructure.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The power of information it is not just collecting mountains of it, but how you mine, digest, represent,and visualize it, in this case literally "<b>connecting the dots</b>" to help you make more informed and effective decisions.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">If you are a LinkedIn user with at least 50 contacts give it a try.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Nice job LinkedIn ... two thumbs up !!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Cheers</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Jorge</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div>Jorge Amodiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16181543838102751399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5131597023249517461.post-65981736591231744362011-01-21T12:37:00.001-06:002011-01-21T12:38:33.634-06:00My Bookshelf<div style="text-align: justify;">Very often while talking with friends and colleagues about a particular subject the standard question about what books you have read or are you reading comes up. I love books, my <a href="http://lorenaangulo.com/">adorable wife</a> loves books too, and our kids got the gene, so it's not uncommon in hour house to see books almost everywhere.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Add to that that I'm sort of a pack rat about published material but not to the grade to be considered compulsive (please don't ask my wife). Once in a while some of the books that nay be old editions, outdated or that don't have great value for us get donated.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">We are not the kind that sometimes hide what they are reading being afraid that we'll know what you know, be sure that with that attitude what we really know is that you are a moron, but anyway, we love to share with anybody the grateful experience when we find a book or any other published material that we enjoy or serve our needs in our profession. We are also outspoken, trying to be diplomatic and polite when some material really sucks.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Lorena short time ago <a href="http://blog.lorenaangulo.com/2010/12/my-love-for-books.html">received some books to review</a>, and I just received my first one to review from <a href="http://oreilly.com/">O'Reilly Media</a> (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Building-Wireless-Sensor-Networks-Processing/dp/0596807732?ie=UTF8&tag=widgetsamazon-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Building Wireless Sensor Networks: with ZigBee</a> by <a href="http://www.faludi.com/">Robert Faludi</a>), so we'll use our respective blogs to share our reviews and comments.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Then let me share my piece of our bookshelf, and this will also help me in the age of the Internet, Web 2.0 and Social Media to answer the recurrent question of "What are you reading?" with a simple and short URL to this article.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I've been trying to keep an updated reading list in my LinkedIn profile, but the client interface is horrible and I didn't find anywhere how to share, even searched Amazon down to the sewer lines, who is providing the ReadingList Application for LinkedIn.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Then somebody recently invited me to join <a href="http://www.shelfari.com/jamodio">Shelfari</a>, at first glance I really liked the web interface and the fact that the bookshelf looks like a shelf, even with a small picture of the books covers. Also in case you don't know, this site has been around since 2006 but they got acquired by Amazon in 2008, so I don't expect them to have funding issues and will be constants enhancements and integration with Amazon. I started then the process of putting together the virtual version of my bookshelf.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Be aware, I'm a geek, so bare with me if what you see on the shelf are mostly technical books, but you will also see many titles about cooking (we love to cook), finance (interesting ones but we are not rich yet), and general topics. And like anything else that it is nowadays in cyberspace, this bookshelf is a work in progress and subject to change without notice, I'm still in the process to update the list and obviously new books will be added as they arrive.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Then without further delay let me introduce you to my new <a href="http://www.shelfari.com/jamodio">Shelfari Bookshelf</a>.</div><br />
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<i>Jorge</i>Jorge Amodiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16181543838102751399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5131597023249517461.post-5154631161272472412010-10-10T09:01:00.007-05:002010-10-20T06:41:47.922-05:00My first tweetup<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I've heard in the past the use of the word </span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">tweetup</span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, one of my preferred definitions for it is the organized or impromptu gathering of </span><a href="http://www.twitter.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Twitter</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> users. I always thought about it as a bunch of kids coordinating via twitter where to hang out on a given night.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">There is no doubt that many of the Social Networking tools that take advantage of the reach and ubiquity of the Internet have changed how we establish and develop new relationships and how we let others know more about us (in some cases much more than we want or think we are making public, thanks to lax privacy settings).</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Many years ago I joined </span><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/jorgeamodio"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">LinkedIn</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, I thought it was a good tool to keep all contacts in a single place and keep them updated, so if Joe goes to work for another company or moves to Mars I'll have (if he lets me) the latest contact info and updates about his whereabouts.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I don't remember exactly when I created my </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/jorge.amodio"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Facebook</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> and </span><a href="http://www.twitter.com/jamodio"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Twitter</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> accounts, but lets say it was more than two years ago, initially I didn't care to search for friends or old colleagues and classmates, it was until like a year later that I started to follow some folks in twitter and get annoyed by the constant updates, quizzes and stupid games in Facebook.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">At the beginning I found that twitter was very disruptive, it took me a while (and I've been dealing with email since the early 80's) to control the habit to check email every few minutes and now I've got this little bird chirping every few seconds. But at some moment there was an inflection point, and that was when I installed the </span><a href="http://seesmic.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Seismic</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> Twitter App on an </span><a href="http://www.apple.com/ipodtouch/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Apple iPod touch</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">. I was already using the iPod touch to keep an eye on email and as a last recourse ssh terminal, ohhh yes and to listen to music. But now with the twitter app I was able to read and send tweets when I was not at my desktop working, even on the road when I was able to get WiFi access (I'm not an SMS kind of guy and texting from a regular cellphone keypad is a pain in the neck), then I started following people and being followed.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgovFEfsaUWRuU9t0N7uyiTcQuvPip_O-9AB0UuXMdQu_tM_YywnWXMKyD4CHADMoGL4YkiZxCaEXgS3eVt2wkjaasSlWo7PpaHPPSH1uClQmDlAFOPedThVr2Yb05cnVNbXSWFi7NKJiE/s1600/tweetcloud.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span id="goog_207201107"></span><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgovFEfsaUWRuU9t0N7uyiTcQuvPip_O-9AB0UuXMdQu_tM_YywnWXMKyD4CHADMoGL4YkiZxCaEXgS3eVt2wkjaasSlWo7PpaHPPSH1uClQmDlAFOPedThVr2Yb05cnVNbXSWFi7NKJiE/s200/tweetcloud.jpg" width="172" /><span id="goog_207201108"></span></span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I don't take twitter as a very serious communication channel, so I may once in a while tweet a brain fart, some ironic joke or acidic comment, but also share a good laugh with local and remote friends and family.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm not anti-social but in many situations I've to pass the shy-geek threshold to become social, my wife keeps telling me that I need to socialize more and get out of my cave (office) and meet new people.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">One event that got me very excited and ready to get out of the cave is that on October 16 we'll have in San Antonio our first edition of </span><a href="http://www.tedxsanantonio.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">TEDx</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, then I was exchanging few tweets and emails with </span><a href="http://www.lagesse.org/about/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Rob La Gesse</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> (</span><a href="http://twitter.com/kr8tr"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">@kr8tr</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">) who works at </span><a href="http://www.rackspace.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Rackspace</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> which is one of the major sponsors for </span><a href="http://www.tedxsanantonio.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">TEDx San Antonio</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">. Rob mentioned that Robert Scoble (</span><a href="http://twitter.com/Scobleizer"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">@Scobleizer</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">) was going to be in town and that they were planning a </span><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">tweetup</span></b></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> for Friday night (October 8, 2010).</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Being one of the most active technology bloggers and noise makers, I've been following </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Scobleizer</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> for a while, I thought that may be interesting to meet this guy who happens to have over 143,000 followers in twitter and became sort of a tech social media celebrity.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Rob mentioned that also Rocky Barbanica (</span><a href="http://twitter.com/RocmanUSA"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">@RocmanUSA</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">) who has been Robert's producer for long time was going to be at the </span><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">tweetup</span></b></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> and many other interesting people, both Robert and Rocky now work for Rob at </span><a href="http://www.rackspace.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Rackspace</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> and they are the major driving force behind a project called </span><a href="http://www.building43.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Building 43</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">. Rob's primary mission at Rackspace is to help customers and startup companies even if they are not Rackspace's customers, and seems that they give him a great deal of slack to do whatever he thinks must be done to follow that mission.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Then I received the </span><a href="http://twtvite.com/scoblesa10"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">invitation</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> and discovered another service (</span><a href="http://twtvite.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">twtvite.com</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">) that I didn't have a clue it existed, and showing what other twitter users where planning to assist.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">At this time my shy-geek threshold was blown away and I was more than ready to show up at the </span><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">tweetup</span></b></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">. I was feeling like in my old days of </span><a href="http://www.amodio.biz/jorge/lu2aqo/index.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">ham radio amateur operator</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> going to a hamfest or radio club gathering.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I arrived few minutes earlier and Robert Scoble, Rocky, Bruce Hughes (</span><a href="http://twitter.com/jbhughes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">@jbhughes</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">), and few others were waiting for some snack food and sharing beers, soon after Rob arrived and we started talking, it was almost instantly that I realized that the "Helping Startups mission" was no BS, and my shyness was totally gone and started talking about what I've been doing and I'm doing now (which involves a very exciting startup project of which I'll write something in the near future), we talked about technology, company funding, beer, food, later Chip (</span><a href="http://twitter.com/ChipLaFleur"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">@ChipLaFleur</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">) arrived who just moved into San Antonio from Michigan, then others started to show up, like <a href="http://jennifernavarrete.com/">J<span id="goog_207201131"></span>enn<span id="goog_207201134"></span><span id="goog_207201135"></span>ifer Navarrete</a><span id="goog_207201132"></span> (<a href="http://twitter.com/epodcaster">@epodcaster</a>) who is sort of Lady Podcasting in San Antonio, and a very avid Camp organizer.</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">For a moment I was teasing Matthew Egan (<a href="http://twitter.com/imagefreedom">@ImageFreedom</a>) about SEO (Search Engine Optimization), he does SEO Consulting and I always found those SPAM emails offering that type of service very annoying, but talking with him and also with Ryan Kelly (<a href="http://twitter.com/#!/pearanalytics">@pearanalytics</a>) from <a href="http://www.pearanalytics.com/">Pear Analytics</a> I realized that some of these folks take it very seriously and it is not only a question of having a better placement on search engines than having a better and more reliable website for your customers or followers.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Everything went so fast, it was not a very large group but the conversations were so interesting that time was flying much faster than I expected, and then I met <a href="http://www.nanpalmero.com/">Nan Palmero</a> (<a href="http://twitter.com/nanpalmero">@nanpalmero</a>), what a great and energetic guy, and since he was born in Uruguay across the river from Buenos Aires where I was born we increased the transfer speed of the conversation switching between spanish and english, he is one of the officers of <a href="http://thebmpr.com/">TheBMPR</a> another social media community oriented to business, media and public relations.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Didn't have much time to take more pictures, I think Jen took some, but couldn't resist to at least have one with the big guy that even when he is getting bombarded with updates from more than 23,000 people he is following, he can put aside his iPhone and have a great conversation with you.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Robert Scoble and Jorge Amodio</td></tr>
</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Thanks again Rob for the invitation and for making it happen, and even when tweetups normally don't need or have big sponsors, thanks Rackspace for let them make it happen. And obviously a big thanks to all that participated, it was a real pleasure to meet all of you and have a chance to socialize out of the cave.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It was a fantastic experience and now I'm looking forward to the next one.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Cheers</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Jorge</span><br />
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</span></div>Jorge Amodiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16181543838102751399noreply@blogger.com0San Antonio, TX, USA29.4241219 -98.493628229.1250894 -98.960547200000008 29.7231544 -98.0267092tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5131597023249517461.post-50148697337200677382010-10-02T11:35:00.001-05:002010-10-02T11:35:37.430-05:00Love and Tolerance<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">My beautiful wife wanted to share our feelings after learning from the news that another kid committed suicide because he was considered "different" and victim of constant bullying.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">What's wrong with our society ?, why this has to happen ?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">And don't blame the Internet. No doubt the advance in technology and communication services has enabled us to share (sometimes without our own knowledge) vasts arrays of information, but what is missing here is the role WE as parents have to play to transmit the correct values, morals and education to our kids, and teachers, counselors can't be missing from the equation.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">As parents we ARE part of the solution, we CAN'T ignore or avoid the responsibility.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">My son wrote a poem few years ago about how it feels being bullied ...</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://blog.lorenaangulo.com/2010/10/love-and-tolerance.html">Love and Tolerance by Lorena Angulo.</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Regards</div><div style="text-align: left;">Jorge</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div>Jorge Amodiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16181543838102751399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5131597023249517461.post-15477946116024800122010-08-07T17:24:00.000-05:002010-08-07T17:24:20.830-05:00IGP Blog :: US and Canadian Governments support Chinese-style censorship of DNS in ICANNFollowing up my previous article about ICANN's GAC letter, here is a good article from Milton Mueller, member of the Non Commercial Stakeholder Group and author of the book "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ruling-Root-Internet-Governance-Cyberspace/dp/0262632985/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1281219016&sr=1-1-spell">Ruling the Root: Internet governance and the taming of cyberspace</a>".<br />
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<a href="http://blog.internetgovernance.org/blog/_archives/2010/8/7/4598864.html">IGP Blog :: US and Canadian Governments support Chinese-style censorship of DNS in ICANN</a><br />
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Milton in his article explains briefly why the tone and attitude reflected in GAC's letter is an outrage to free speech and another move to use ICANN as a regulator/controller by proxy.<br />
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I'm not sure that as Milton says, the main instigator behind this letter is the US Government, I'm pretty sure that there are many governments that have their level of anxiety growing to exert some control over the Internet.<br />
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Hard to say what is going to happen, but I'm sure that the next few ICANN's meetings will be interesting to watch. Get the popcorn ready !!!<br />
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<i>Cheers</i><br />
<i>Jorge</i>Jorge Amodiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16181543838102751399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5131597023249517461.post-7529556808491324332010-08-06T23:25:00.000-05:002010-08-06T23:25:35.061-05:00ICANN's GAC has spoken<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">I have not been using much this blog to write about my incursions in the world of <a href="http://www.icann.org/">ICANN</a> (Internet Corporation for Assigned Numbers and Names). Until now I've just been posting some comments on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/jorge.amodio">my facebook page</a> and various email lists.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">So, bare with me as I start using this space to post some comments, opinions and what is going on in the world of ICANN.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Two days ago, one of the structures of ICANN called the <a href="http://gac.icann.org/">Governmental Advisory Committee or GAC</a> (get used to this, ICANN is a vast sea of acronyms and jargon) sent a <a href="http://gac.icann.org/system/files/GAC_on_MoPo_August_4_2010_0.pdf">short letter about MoPo</a> (Morality and Public Order)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Several people are starting to read the letter between the lines, trying to guess what the GAC is cooking behind walls.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">One of the paragraphs of the GAC letter says:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"The GAC firmly believes that the absence of any controversial strings in the current universe of top level domains (TLDs) to date contrib</span></span></span><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">utes directly to the security and stability of the domain name and addressing system (DNS) and the universal resolvability of the sytem."</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Hmmm, controversial strings ???<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">they also say<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"In this regard, the GAC believes that procedures to identify strings that could raise national, cultural, geographic, religious and/or linguistic sensitivities or objections are warranted so as to mitigate the risks of fragmenting the DNS that could result from the introduction of controversial strings."</span></span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">What do you read there then ?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">What are controversial strings, who defines what is or is not controversial ? and what GAC members are thinking about </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"fragmenting the DNS"</span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"> if ICANN approves a string that they don't like ?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">The last paragraph says<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"The GAC therefore recommends that community-wide discussions be facilitated by ICANN in order to ensure that an effective objections procedure be developed that both recognizes the relevance of national laws and effectively addresses strings that raise national, cultural, yada, yada ..." </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">and ends with the cherry on the top <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"These objections procedures should apply to all pending and future TLDs."</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Pending ? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Do you know what is pending ?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">.XXX :-)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">So one can read here that GAC will most surely try to block moving forward with the agreement to add .XXX to the DNS root zone, this will be a show of power since the ICANN BoD (Board of Directors) may take the decision of ignoring the GAC advise and objections and move forward anyway.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Do you think the BoD will have the guts to do that ?</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><i>Cheers<o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><i>Jorge</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
</span></div>Jorge Amodiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16181543838102751399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5131597023249517461.post-54437871711724362912010-07-29T09:32:00.003-05:002010-07-29T09:41:28.450-05:00The Stolen Signature<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">A plot for a new book from author Dan Brown</span></span></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Inspired by the multiple articles and reports around the recent <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-4-16jun10-en.htm">signing of the Domain Name System root zone</a> and the incipient deployment of <a href="http://www.root-dnssec.org/">DNSSEC</a>, which for many reporters and correspondents is the source for spin and numerous gaffes related to what was really done and what still needs to be done to have a fairly secure DNS.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Since many of these reports have a dose of science fiction, wrong or fabricated information adding to the confusion of the general public and casual Internet user, I decided to exploit my own creative inspiration for stupidity and posted some comments in Facebook about a suggested plot for a <a href="http://www.danbrown.com/">Dan Brown</a>'s book that could be called "<b>The Stolen Signature</b>"</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">The Plot:</span></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">A group of cyber terrorists kidnap and torture the <a href="http://www.root-dnssec.org/tcr/selection-2010/">seven templars of ICANN</a> to obtain the smart cards holding portions of the <a href="http://data.iana.org/root-anchors/">magic key</a> that protects the Internet Domain Names.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Meanwhile a group of VE, CU and NK Special Ops break into ICANN's east and west facilities and steal the <a href="http://www.iepg.org/2008-03-iepg71/hsm.pdf">HSM</a>s (Hardware Security Modules), while <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Smart">Sigfried and Hans Hunter from KAOS</a> take control over the <a href="http://www.root-servers.org/">K server in Budapest</a> used to propagate a new fake DNS root zone and redirect all financial transactions and access to critical infrastructure control systems to a <a href="http://www.astronautix.com/craft/chirbase.htm">secret datacenter on the dark side of the moon</a> built by the covert <a href="http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/section?content=a780978527&fulltext=713240928">Chinese Space Domination Agenc</a>y.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">But they didn't take in account that <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/biog/beckstrom.htm">Rod "Astroboy" Beckstrom</a> had a secret <a href="http://dnscert.org/">DNS-CERT</a> running on his backyard and after a period of <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/">Public Comment</a> and <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-2-31may10-en.htm">Policy Development Process</a> he was able to retain the outside consulting services of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Langdon">Prof. Langdon</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Kaminsky">Kaminsky the Wizard SecuGeek</a> who established an ICANN Working Group that discovered that the entire operation of the cyberterrorists was developed using a pirate version of Microsoft Windows 12, that for backwards compatibility includes all the exploits of all previous versions of Windows, something that became a "<a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/071910-microsoft-cloud-strategy.html">feature parity</a>" imposed by the evil twin brother of Mr. Ballmer.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Still thinking who could be a good female character. Somebody play by Angelina Jolie ??</div><div><br />
</div><div>OK, enough waste of time, going back to the grind ...</div><div><br />
</div><div>Cheers</div><div>Jorge</div><div><br />
</div>Jorge Amodiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16181543838102751399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5131597023249517461.post-65950013303097007482010-05-09T21:56:00.038-05:002010-05-09T22:51:56.007-05:00The Next Billion Internet Users<div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">On April 29, I had the chance to watch remotely some of the presentations and panels during the <a href="http://www.isoc.org/isoc/conferences/inet/10/washington.shtml">INET Washington DC Conference</a> organized by the friends of the <a href="http://www.isoc-dc.org/">Internet Society Chapter in DC</a>.<br />
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The main theme of the conference was "<b>Internet 2020: The Next Billion Users</b>".</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The agenda was packed with interesting presentations and discussion panels that went beyond just the technologies associated with Internet and telecommunications in general. There was a lot of talking about policies, regulations, politics and a vast array of issues that have substantial influence in the evolution of the network and how fast it gets more users.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Lot of juicy information that was particularly useful for some personal research I started a while ago to collect references and raw data for a book that is still on the initial stages of evolving from an idea to a more structured work related to "The Internet of Things" (obviously the first idea that got discarded was to call the book "TITS").</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Anyway, one of the topics that really caught my attention was an analysis about from where we should expect the next billion of users. One of the panelists made the comment that the majority of the users will not come from the industrialized or developed world, where penetration of Internet services has been high and constantly growing for the past 20 years.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It won't come from Africa either, where there is a huge potential for growth but many issues, particularly with infrastructure and an abstract view of "return of investment" driving growth. Yes China, India, and south Asia continue to be potential areas with large populations that could drive growth, but also have many issues that will condition how fast users are added in this region.</div><br />
Then what is left among other areas that has the potential to contribute new users ?<br />
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</div><div><b>Latin America</b>.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">While Latin America may not have the same population density as other regions and hardly by itself has enough people to contribute 1 billion new users, many argue that it has the higher potential for growth given that penetration of telecommunication services in a comparative basis is still low, and despite some issues here and there the economies kept growing, and the region had somehow a period of political stability for several years.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Without digging too much for data into the numerous and never ending reports from International Organizations, NGO's, Think Tanks, etc, etc, which can get you dizzy with numbers, I have to say that I generally agree with this statement, <i><b>Latin America has a big potential for Internet growth</b></i>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">But I'm a geek !!! so I need data, facts, and if in a graphic format, much better ... then I found a great resource from the abominable king of search or world domination new evil (aka <a href="http://www.google.com/">Google</a>, some people are starting to refer to Larry and Sergey as Pinky and the Brain and their quest to take over the world, who is who is up to you).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">If you have not seen it yet, the tool from Google is the <a href="http://www.google.com/publicdata/home">Public Data Explorer</a>, I found that one of the available datasets is the number of Internet Users as part of a larger dataset of <a href="http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog/world-development-indicators?cid=GPD_WDI">World Development Indicators</a> from The World Bank. The actual data source is from the <a href="http://www.itu.int/">International Telecommunication Union</a>, World Telecommunication Development Report and database.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Then using this dataset on the Public Data Explorer I first created a graph showing the growth of Internet users for over a period of almost twenty years starting in 1990 for a selected group of developed countries.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJk6JuIpJjkliOiLaJ0iaJUVwvopxxn-NYH9a9w9y581SI_n07YMa6IR9nDLnS5kZJAHrAHb6s4XyzhDY90tH6ErCfGMU03BBPnUkjQAb6MmbWn-eanlGtz8YhOnhgq4BsuGBVmk-hOew/s1600/dev-inet-users.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJk6JuIpJjkliOiLaJ0iaJUVwvopxxn-NYH9a9w9y581SI_n07YMa6IR9nDLnS5kZJAHrAHb6s4XyzhDY90tH6ErCfGMU03BBPnUkjQAb6MmbWn-eanlGtz8YhOnhgq4BsuGBVmk-hOew/s400/dev-inet-users.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">On the graph is easy to notice that from the early nineties when Internet left academia and have an explosive growth the curves show an exponential trend until around 2002 when the switched to more like a logarithmic trend or slightly linear trend. In the United States is clear that besides some rural or isolated areas, there has been an incredible penetration of services and the market has reached some level of maturity and saturation.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Now lets look at a selected group of countries from Latin America.</div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi55qr28Yy6-4F4QtQ5nLfIWJKCImTOXWbgVJkjwgFUdubzPn0GTLdOqJeSeXwj8W5wzsUSBCr5uXYNGsI0HKccTI9yAyCz_LTKdRKbE0tU3XtjiDXNFuEhcv3ZZhjHa3FqvysIMmT4PXc/s1600/la-inet-users.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="322" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi55qr28Yy6-4F4QtQ5nLfIWJKCImTOXWbgVJkjwgFUdubzPn0GTLdOqJeSeXwj8W5wzsUSBCr5uXYNGsI0HKccTI9yAyCz_LTKdRKbE0tU3XtjiDXNFuEhcv3ZZhjHa3FqvysIMmT4PXc/s400/la-inet-users.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">I was expecting to see a graph where Brazil had a predominant lead given its large population (~192M), but it really surprised me to see Mexico that has about half of Brazil's number (~106M) and on top of that seeing that the curve also switched from exponential and growth seems to have also reached some plateau. It makes me wonder if the actual data is correct and complete.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Anyway, as you can see from the graph there are several countries that still show exponential growth, but as Mexico others seem also to be slowing down like Peru, Chile, Argentina, and probably Venezuela. I didn't take the time yet to analyze telecom services penetration statistics and other statistics but I still believe that there is still there huge potential for growth. Then, what's going on ? Are there any particular roadblocks that are impeding growth ?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I didn't do much research yet but based on past experiences and some indicators it is clear for me that the lack of clear regulations and a real competitive market are hurting a lot. A common denominator in several Latin American countries is the monopolistic behavior of the big telcos, probably limited capital investment in infrastructure, slow rate of adoption and regulation that facilitates e-commerce, but the one that hurts the most is the lack of a long term plan based on a strategy that takes Internet as one of the fundamental resources to drive development and innovation across the board.</div><br />
Perhaps it is time to take a closer look or ask Brazil what are they doing ?</div><div><br />
</div><div>After all I was just looking for this graph ...<br />
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</div><a href="http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/publications/idi/2010/index.html" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; display: inline !important; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw1H0Pk_8OON4kRtNE4IQqW1AZDTGMFDSItQde6zMOtBRxaeCIGZ3zPweHzCmgEAUhKIJC_OxG4Gsb61IB-RiAGPENiwESuBuiOQjFTp-MhBTQLSYGqo-E8eLadDgxvtlnlcb88GRAopA/s200/couv-Measuring-2010.jpg" width="141" /></a><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">Anyway, if you are interested in reading one of the many reports that provide this type of information here is a recent one from Development Sector of the ITU (ITU-D), <a href="http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/publications/idi/2010/index.html" target="_blank">Measuring the Information Society, 2010</a>, abstract:</div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">The latest edition of <i>Measuring the Information Society</i> features the new ITU ICT Development Index (IDI) and the ICT Price Basket - two benchmarking tools to measure the Information Society. The IDI captures the level of advancement of ICTs in 159 countries worldwide and compares progress made between 2002 and 2008. It also measures the global digital divide and examines how it has developed in recent years. The report also features the latest ICT Price Basket, which combines 2009 fixed telephone, mobile cellular and fixed broadband tariffs for 161 economies into one measure and compares these across countries, and over time. The analytical report is complemented by a series of statistical tables providing country-level data for all indicators included in the Index."</span></div><br />
Cheers<br />
<i>Jorge</i><br />
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</i></div>Jorge Amodiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16181543838102751399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5131597023249517461.post-67037398270282584732009-03-12T17:57:00.010-05:002009-05-08T15:27:14.046-05:00Nuevo Blog sobre Internet en Argentina<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimfrOObD6Ju3cUYSNdIOG0PkUX7Xo1Z3b0EQV2_9c4IVEGvG5hn4iL_w2K73yJ0HQDEwH3pAjpbdl76YhSVf-Tafx4ozkjgITB-n0Xbha_rwhTUZ4NR4IbmbTsClYLfE57toH8US5N-N4/s1600-h/atina-login.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 192px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312440544836297458" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimfrOObD6Ju3cUYSNdIOG0PkUX7Xo1Z3b0EQV2_9c4IVEGvG5hn4iL_w2K73yJ0HQDEwH3pAjpbdl76YhSVf-Tafx4ozkjgITB-n0Xbha_rwhTUZ4NR4IbmbTsClYLfE57toH8US5N-N4/s320/atina-login.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><div align="left"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Para facilitar compartir los avances en el proyecto de reconstruir la historia de Internet en Argentina, hoy inicio <a href="http://inet-ar.amodio.biz/">un nuevo blog</a> dedicado exclusivamente a este tema.</span></div><p></p><p><br /></p><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;">El <a href="http://inet-ar.amodio.biz/">blog</a> está abierto a comentarios y va a ser uno de los canales de distribución para algunas de las historias, imágenes e información que vayan surgiendo de este esfuerzo.</span></div><div align="justify"> </div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">El URL del nuevo blog es: <a href="http://blog.internet-argentina.net/">http://blog.internet-argentina.net/</a></span></div><div align="justify"></div><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Desde ya muchas gracias a quienes poco a poco se van sumando a este esfuerzo y queda abierta la invitación a aquellos que quieran contribuir con sus anécdotas, opiniones, sugerencias y críticas.</span></p><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"><em>Atentos Saludos<br />Pete</em></span>Jorge Amodiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16181543838102751399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5131597023249517461.post-88146517672595099332009-03-02T13:54:00.008-06:002009-03-02T16:29:58.260-06:00Deja Vu<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh46Yvwz3l5wdzLVoh1fTPrNvhyWMmiYZAJtDTjA4nWQhFOsmHZT3Ygiw1kdK-OJNIkaI465YiH8FrMtM8qRFdgPoVnY3KB4TBwT3Rpg7DqW_MYsKR3G-_pRVDxqO2v9OR7m8gMHLzkXOY/s1600-h/jorge-thinking-800px.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308681756208339506" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 229px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 180px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh46Yvwz3l5wdzLVoh1fTPrNvhyWMmiYZAJtDTjA4nWQhFOsmHZT3Ygiw1kdK-OJNIkaI465YiH8FrMtM8qRFdgPoVnY3KB4TBwT3Rpg7DqW_MYsKR3G-_pRVDxqO2v9OR7m8gMHLzkXOY/s320/jorge-thinking-800px.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Tratando de retornar al pasado, resulta interesante la experiencia de reencontrarme con viejas memorias e imágenes de aquellos días en los que frenéticamente buscábamos la forma de conectar Argentina a Internet y que no fuera para el beneficio de unos pocos.<br /><br />En el proceso de reorganizar viejos archivos, volver a leer después de tantos años, cientos de mensajes de correo electrónico, propuestas y proyectos que lograron concretarse y otros que solamente quedaron en papel, recordar viejas conversaciones y porque no discusiones sobre como seguir adelante pese a la falta de recursos, comienzo a sentir que quizás en nuestra mente maravillosamente se preservan todos esos “bits” a los que uno no está acostumbrado o entrenado para recuperar con facilidad.<br /><br />Que fantástico sería si los muchachos de Google inventaran algo que permitiera hacer un búsqueda en ese vasto repositorio de conocimientos y experiencias que tenemos bajo el cuero cabelludo, que en mi caso ya queda poco y no ayuda para evitar que se evaporen los recuerdos.<br /><br />Mientras leo esas reliquias de la experiencia que me tocó vivir, me transporto y pierdo la noción del tiempo, a medida que esos recuerdos retornan al presente ya se me hace cotidiano sentir la sensación de “déjà vu”, que pese a convertir mi bocho en una licuadora termina resultando una sensación placentera al recordar viejos amigos y anécdotas que difícilmente alguna vez vayan a parar a /dev/null.<br /><br />Por otro lado con la objetividad que ahora proveen el tiempo y la distancia, comienzo a asombrarme y a admirar lo que tras el trabajo conjunto, muchas veces sin alguna coordinación o plan maestro se logró concretar.<br /><br />El trabajo de recompilar esas memorias y poco a poco registrarlas en un texto escrito, a veces resulta un poco extenuante, pero tengo que agradecer sinceramente a un viejo amigo, Eduardo Suarez de la Facultad de Ciencias Astronómicas y Geofísicas de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata, que no solo me esta dando una mano con recuperar y recomponer una gran cantidad de material sobre la historia de redes en Argentina, si no también que me “hace la pata” casi en forma cotidiana en extensas charlas nocturnas, altas horas de la madrugada para Eduardo, donde de la conversación se estimula el search engine natural y las piezas de un complejo rompecabezas empiezan a tomar su lugar.<br /><br />Gracias Edu, nos "vemos" en la noche :-)<br /><br /><em>Jorge aka pete</em><br /><em></em>Jorge Amodiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16181543838102751399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5131597023249517461.post-61656732167713748402009-02-21T18:00:00.010-06:002009-02-21T20:07:29.123-06:00Historia de Internet en Argentina<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Hace rato largo que varios amigos y viejos colegas me sugieren que me ponga escribir sobre la formidable experiencia en la que tuve el privilegio de formar parte allá por mediado de los años 80, en los que un grupo de <i>geeks to be</i> contribuímos con los primeros pasos para que Internet se convirtiera realidad en Argentina.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;">Si bien suelo ser bastante "verborragico", el escribir no es una de mis mejores cualidades, pero creo que sí es realmente importante el aprovechar estas herramientas con las que contamos hoy en día para preservar un poco de nuestra historia y transmitir la experiencia a otras generaciones.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;">Obviamente lo que logre escribir va a ser un relato de como me tocó vivir esta experienca desde el punto de vista personal y no la "historia oficial". Fuimos muchos los que contribuímos a esta experiencia que también se extiende al resto de Latino América y el Caribe, y solo con la participación de los principales actores sería posible lograr reuinir esta información, un esfuerzo que mi viejo amigo José Soriano viene tratando de impulsar desde hace tiempo.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;">A veces el mayor obstáculo que encuentro es que tengo que escarbar en mi memoria para sacar a flote viejos recuerdos y buscar que documentos, fotografías y otras piezas de colección sobrevivieron varias mudanzas.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;">Pero pese a todo, y en particular gracias a mis largas conversaciones nocturnas via chat con un viejo colega de la Universidad de La Plata, Eduardo Suarez, muchos recuerdos estan reflotando en mi memoria y ya retomé la rutina de ponerme a escribir cotidianamente sobre esta experienca.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;">No tengo la menor idea de cual vaya a ser el resultado final, inicialmente voy a comenzar a publicar poco a poco lo que vaya logrando terminar en pequeños capítulos en una <a href="http://www.amodio.biz/jorge/inetar/index-sp.html">sección de mi website personal</a>, y a medida que avance aparecerán otros capítulos.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;">Como siempre digo a varios amigos, correcciones, adiciones, sugerencias y crítica constructiva son bien recibidos. Quejas a otra parte ...</span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;">Aquí va entonces a modo de anticipo la primer versión de la página de introducción </span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"><hr /><span style="font-size:100%;color:#6d70a0;"><b>Introducción</b><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;color:#0000ff;"><br />Ya se han cumplido más de veinte años desde que un grupo de entusiastas dábamos los primeros pasos que culminaron con la incorporación de Argentina a Internet.<br /><br />Realmente poco o casi nada se ha escrito o hecho público sobre esta experiencia formidable desde un punto de vista histórico.<br /><br />Desde mediados de los años ochenta, y por más de diez años, antes de partir hacia el norte, tuve el privilegio y la oportunidad de estar involucrado con el incipiente desarrollo de Internet en Argentina.<br /><br />Estas páginas no las escribo con el objetivo de obtener algún tipo de reconocimiento a nivel personal. Siempre trato de evitar el tema cuando otras personas se refieren a mí como uno de los padres de Internet en Argentina. Realmente el esfuerzo colectivo de un gran número de personas y una secuencia particular de eventos en los que tuve el privilegio de formar parte, fueron los que dieron pie a la incorporación de Argentina en Internet.<br /><br />Aparte de quizás contribuir a preservar un poco de nuestra historia, en realidad estas páginas son en reconocimiento a quienes contribuyeron para que Internet en Argentina se convirtiera en realidad.<br /><br />Esta historia tiene muchas caras y muchas voces, y estoy seguro, como siempre ha sucedido en el pasado, la misma va a generar algunas controversias (después de todo tenemos sangre latina, no?), pero voy a poner mi mejor esfuerzo para representar los hechos en forma objetiva pero desde un punto de vista personal.<br /><br />La historia cubre el periodo desde mediados de los años ochenta hasta mediados de los noventa cuando comenzaron a aparecer los mayores proveedores comerciales de servicios de Internet permitiendo el acceso a todos (bueno … casi todos :-) ).<br /><br />Dado que ya ha pasado suficiente tiempo desde aquellos días, y que actualmente no estoy asociado con ninguna de las instituciones que formaron parte de esta experiencia, (algunas de las cuales ya no existen), para hacer la historia más completa e interesante, por primera vez voy a incluir comentarios e información que no creo que hasta ahora se haya hecho pública, sobre el trabajo detrás de bambalinas para que ciertos eventos se concretaran.<br /><br />Es importante también tener en cuenta el contexto en el cual se desarrollaban estos eventos, como la situación política del País, la infraestructura y regulaciones de los servicios de telecomunicación disponibles en ese momento, y la disponibilidad de recursos.<br /><br />Sin duda, con el pasar del tiempo mi memoria haya perdido algunos bits de información (aparte de mi cabellera) y seguro me olvide de mencionar nombres y eventos, así que desde ya mis más sinceras disculpas. </span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;color:#0000ff;"><br />Correcciones, adiciones y crítica constructiva son bienvenidas para quienes quieran aportar a esta historia.<br /><br />De más esta decir que todos los comentarios y opiniones son propios, y no representan en principio la posición oficial de las organizaciones en las que estuve involucrado o de aquellos con quienes tuve el privilegio de<br />estar asociado.<br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;color:#0020ff;"><br /><i>Jorge Amodio alias "pete"</i><br /></span></span><br /></span>Jorge Amodiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16181543838102751399noreply@blogger.com0