Ted Roche’s weblog

Sunday, 31 March, 2002

Happy Easter!

Saturday, 30 March, 2002

A glorious spring day – the first, I think, where temperatures stayed above freezing overnight. It warmed to the sixties today, and we opened the windows and vacuumed and cleaned and dusted in anticipation of guests for Easter dinner, and in celebration of the season.

Work consisted of two hours of weekly [...]

Friday, 29 March, 2002

Richard Stallman talks about how software patents are bad for everyone here.

More links on wireless and security:
” target=”_top”>http://www.advisor.com/Articles.nsf/aid/SMITT619
” target=”_top”>http://www.pasadena.net/presentation/wireless.html
http://www.bitshift.org/wardriving.shtml
” target=”_top”>http://wardriving.com
Okay, so maybe you don’t just want local wireless, you want it on both sides of the lake. Check this out: ” target=”_top”>http://www.hyperlinktech.com/web/antennas_2400.html
And, of course, the free (as in speech) guys are [...]

Thursday, 28 March, 2002

Last night was the March meeting of the Greater Boston FoxPro Users Group. Excellent meeting!

Barb Bowman is a Windows XP MVP with a gret interest in wireless. Check out her column at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/columns/bowman/december03.asp.

Spent a few self-indulgent moments listening to my favorite radio station — WBUR — playing through RealPlayer on my [...]

Bummer. Just crashed Opera and lost everything. Let’s start again… Setting up the wireless was pretty smooth. Two hours, start to finish. Here are a couple of interesting links: http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/Wap11Hack

http://www.wi2600.org/mediawhore/nf0/wireless/docs/802.11/WAP11/fun_with_the_wap11.txt

http://www.gigafast.com/drivers/SNMPV1743.exe

http://www.wi2600.org/mediawhore/nf0/wireless/utils/
Far more interesting (and more harmless) are:
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/index.htm

http://www.dslreports.com

Tuesday, 26 March, 2002

Forgot to mention, as part of setting up the Twiki, that I needed access to text configuration files in Unix format – CR only, no line feed. On the Twiki site, there was a recommendation for the freeware Programmers File Editor, PFE, http://www.lancs.ac.uk/people/cpaap/pfe/ It worked great out of the box, with no [...]

Monday, 25 March, 2002

Starting to enjoy this blogging stuff, although I wish I had more time for it. And for a few thousand other things in my life. Almost done with my speaker’s notes for Automating Email.

Mouse gestures in Opera are cool. The right-mouse-button-down and left maneuver is so easy! (That sends the browser back [...]

Sunday, 24 March, 2002

Wireless networking still fascinates me. http://www.netstumbler.com has some interesting information, as do all the major vendors: D-Link, LinkSys, Nexland, 3Com, Zoom, and on and on.

http://www.80211-planet.com, 802.11 Planet is an interesting site, too.

Saturday, 23 March, 2002

Bill Gate’s comments on NT: “In a weak sense, it [NT] is a form of UNIX.” http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/speeches/industry&tech/uexpo.asp

And, from a completely different angle, some interesting insights into the development of Windows 2000 and the effects of their source control programs, old and new: http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix-win2000/invitedtalks/lucovsky_html/

Friday, 22 March, 2002

Yet another link for a PDF printer, this one from Dane Prairie Software. Only $35 per user. Looks very good! — TedRoche – 22 Mar 2002