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In France, since 2007, big network operators are installing optical fiber in big cities. This new technology allow a very high speed Internet access, and new services

Since the beginning of the fiber deployment, Orange and Free, the 2 biggest French operators, are using two different technologies to provide us with fiber-based Internet access. What are those technologies ? What are each technology pro & cons ?

Let’s explain this, with some drawings too ! …

In the next few days (between January 26 and 29) at Mexico, the ACTA negociations will continue …

But what all of this is about ? …

During that second day at the 26th Chaos Communication Congres at Berlin, I choose to make it a manual and active day : Jimmi P Rodgers, a friend of Mitch (the inventor of the TVBGone) brought an electronic kit called “LOL Shield for Arduino“. It’s a 14×9 led panel, either green or red, driven by an Arduino, a microcontroller board with an Atmel 328, and a USB/Serial converter, which make it very easily programmable.

Let’s go for a small demo, source and video …

Yesterday, a new version of AlternC was published. AlternC is a hosting control panel software suite I created some years ago with friends. Antoine, aka anarcat was payes by Koumbit to correct bugs and security issues in the previous version of the AlternC core. You can download it now for Read more…