31 Mar
Sunday, 31 March, 2002
Happy Easter!
Archive for March, 2002
30 Mar
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 [...]
29 Mar
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 [...]
28 Mar
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 [...]
27 Mar
Wednesday, 27 March, 2002
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
26 Mar
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 [...]
25 Mar
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 [...]
24 Mar
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.
23 Mar
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/
