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Up On The Roof

Posted By On June 6, 2003 @ 11:15 pm In Blog | No Comments

Call for Help and The Screen Savers are dark today. We take one of these or so per month so the staff can catch up. I stayed home to shoot my segment for the Digital Digs series which will air the week of June 16. Patrick, Yoshi, Kevin, and I are souping up our homes – digitally. Sarah is hosting each of the field segments. My project was to install a WiFi antenna to boost the signal from my house so I could work anywhere on the property, including our old barn.

At one point Sarah got on my roof with the video crew. I was down below with my laptop testing the signal strength, but I couldn’t resist snapping this picture of them.

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#1 Comment By Anonymous On June 6, 2003 @ 11:33 pm

Looks like the Digital Digs segments should be fun.

#2 Comment By Anonymous On June 6, 2003 @ 11:35 pm

I’m wondering if anyone fell off that roof….

#3 Comment By Anonymous On June 7, 2003 @ 12:16 am

Leo you should start your own pirate radio station!! All tech radio 24/7

#4 Comment By Anonymous On June 7, 2003 @ 12:19 am

Yeah! A tech radio station. That would be cool. And you can have shows on it about robots and Sex and … Oh sorry. Bad idea. Beter stick to tech.

#5 Comment By Anonymous On June 7, 2003 @ 12:36 am

sheeeeps! kawaii!

#6 Comment By Anonymous On June 7, 2003 @ 2:29 am

It would be a nice idea to make Digital Digs something you do to viewers’ homes. Not only would it encourage people to watch but as you do it word will spread and maybe that will translate to new eyeballs.

#7 Comment By Anonymous On June 7, 2003 @ 4:08 am

what laptop are you using? did you get another ibook?

#8 Comment By Anonymous On June 7, 2003 @ 4:09 am

what laptop are you using? did you get another ibook?

#9 Comment By Anonymous On June 7, 2003 @ 4:22 am

sounds cool, come down here i have almost no Digital anything …..

I’m yelling out this message out the back door!

#10 Comment By Anonymous On June 7, 2003 @ 5:06 am

Cute little sheep! LOL

#11 Comment By Anonymous On June 7, 2003 @ 6:59 am

What a remarkably contrasting photo, roaming sheep and roaming WiFi! Leo, you are the only person I know that can mix high end technology with pastoral tranquility. I’m looking forward to those Digital Digs segments.

Say. how’s the view from up there?

#12 Comment By Anonymous On June 7, 2003 @ 8:21 am

I like the idea of this Digital Digs week. Not so much the contest, but seeing you guys at TSS share your pet projects with the audience. I’m itching to see Yoshi’s home theater.

#13 Comment By Anonymous On June 7, 2003 @ 1:23 pm

I know she’s all I want for Christmas. Just kidding!

#14 Comment By Anonymous On June 7, 2003 @ 3:48 pm

Great picture! I’m looking forward to the Digital Digs series.

I like Vinnie’s idea too!

#15 Comment By Anonymous On June 7, 2003 @ 7:29 pm

I like Vinnies idea too!! I hope Sarah and the unnamed cameraman come back to the studio in one piece on Monday. :)

#16 Comment By Anonymous On June 7, 2003 @ 10:24 pm

that pic is priceless

looking forward to all the segments

#17 Comment By Anonymous On June 8, 2003 @ 12:05 am

thats a really good picture because of the sheep in the foreground… its so strange looking.

#18 Comment By Anonymous On June 8, 2003 @ 12:33 am

Home home on the range

Where our dear old friend Apple nut plays

Where never was heard

an alternative word

And the worst fear’s on window clean days

#19 Comment By Anonymous On June 8, 2003 @ 2:52 am

Interesting seeing them up on the roof. Sarah appears to be ready to fly up, up and away.

I hope you talk about securing your Wi-Fi, as well as the hardware involved with your project. There is the new WPA due out and destined to ouster WEP sometime this year. It would be helpful to hear a description of WPA potential benefits and detail the weaknesses of current Wi-Fi encryption. That is, unless you don’t mind the neighbors partaking of a cup or two of Internet access.

Looking forward to the segments.

#20 Comment By Anonymous On June 8, 2003 @ 8:13 pm

What happened to the the Deere? Or is it pature only around the house? If it is ‘pasture only’ designated around the house, would that not make careful placement of footsteps (sheep and goats do leave landmarks) more important than WiFi? Is the reason why Sarah is on the roof, instead of the pasture because she is concerned over the critter’s dropping landmarks all around the pasture or is she more comfortable with hiegths then critters?

#21 Comment By Anonymous On June 8, 2003 @ 9:07 pm

does anyone know what lappy leo is using now?

MB

#22 Comment By Anonymous On June 8, 2003 @ 10:05 pm

Smart man, Leo! Stay on the ground and take the picture, lol! Vincent, you too can win! That’s the whole point of Digital Digs—a contest to make you watch all evening all week! I’m in, lol! Can’t wait to see everybody’s segments–that’ll be fun!

#23 Comment By Anonymous On June 9, 2003 @ 12:56 am

Also, since you’ll be on the subject of wi-fi. Could you try and touch on setting up a new network using wi-fi. I just got a wireless router and don’t have an existing network. Im trying to network a wired PC on WinME and a wireless PC on WinXP. Could anyone help me here?

#24 Comment By Anonymous On June 9, 2003 @ 4:49 am

Leo your home is being engulfed by trees!

#25 Comment By Anonymous On June 10, 2003 @ 1:18 am

Nice baa baa better get out your lawnmower Leo I don’t think your little lamb can keep up lol!!

#26 Comment By Anonymous On June 10, 2003 @ 5:03 pm

Wow, you have a pretty nice backyard and house

Jan

#27 Comment By Anonymous On June 20, 2003 @ 2:40 am

Can anyone tell me what happened?!?! I missed tech T.V for a little wile (Just a little break, big fan of Leo, and all tech T.V crew) then when I turned call for help on, Leo was there and Chris was gone.

#28 Comment By Anonymous On June 24, 2003 @ 4:43 pm

that chris dude was a dork.

#29 Comment By Anonymous On June 25, 2003 @ 8:04 pm

not realy…

#30 Comment By Anonymous On June 27, 2003 @ 2:52 pm

You should check out this website where a guy turned a used satellite dish into an 802.11b antenna. Would be great to have something like that on one of your shows, since there are so many have left over dishnetwork and directv dishes around.

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#31 Comment By Anonymous On June 27, 2003 @ 9:49 pm

Achoo

#32 Comment By Anonymous On July 14, 2003 @ 6:21 am

Jump man Jump!!!! “Comment from a New Yorker”


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