June 10th, 2002

Two interesting pieces of WiFi news today

June 10th, 2002

From the New York Times: Etherlinx, a company based (of course) in a Silicon Valley garage, is developing a modified 802.11 for connecting the ‘last mile’ to homes. Or, in their case, up to the last 20 miles. Their box goes on the wall of the house and has two radio cards: one talking to their base stations and one doing WiFi into the home.

And from MacCentral:
IBM is rolling out large amounts of 802.11 on corporate campuses and is investigating the idea of national networks. It’ll be interesting if they ever get further than talking about it.

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Blogger to RSS

June 10th, 2002

[Original Link] Aaron Swartz came up with a way of allowing Blogger sites to produce an RSS feed. Julian Bond has made a version of the service available on his site.

The collaboration of all these helpful people means that is much easier for me to read my friend Laura’s weblog. What a wonderful world!

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June 7th, 2002

Mark Pilgrim – How to deal with telemarketers effectively

June 7th, 2002

[Original Link] “Months go by and I don’t receive any telemarketing calls, but I just got off the phone with the nice people at Precision Telemarketing, who got my name and unlisted phone number from Time Warner Cable (against my explicit directions upon signup, and their explicit promises) in order to try to sell me a subscription for TV Guide. I used the JunkBusters anti-telemarketing script to tell them to put me on their “do not call” list. In accordance with the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991, Precision Telemarketing will not be calling me again on behalf of TV Guide or any other company for the next 10 years.”

[dive into mark]

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MacStumbler

June 7th, 2002

[Original Link] Excellent! This is a basic version of NetStumbler for Mac OS X. (This is a bit of software which allows you to see some techie bits of information about 802.11 networks active in your vicinity.)

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June 6th, 2002

Cows from Kenya.

June 6th, 2002

[Original Link] I was born in Kenya. I’m proud of it.

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TiVo Town or Sonicblue City?

June 6th, 2002

[Original Link] Wired News on the battle of the DVRs.

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June 5th, 2002

Time to blog on

June 5th, 2002

[Original Link] I’m a bit late in linking to Ben Hammersley’s article about weblogs. It’s a couple of weeks old, but still good despite being so outdated!

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eMac

June 5th, 2002

[Original Link] In another interesting move, Apple have made the eMac available to everybody. This is an updated version of the old iMac, and is the cheapest Mac with a G4 processor.

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WebDAV continued

June 5th, 2002

I was talking on Saturday about WebDAV and how Mac OS X could mount WebDAV shares as a native filesystem, albeit rather slowly.

Well, you can ignore that qualifier now; Apple have just released the 10.1.5 update to OS X and the most dramatic improvement is in the speed of WebDAV. Apple’s free online personal disk space, which they call iDisk, now runs at a usable speed.
Lots of other small but sweet improvements, too.

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June 1st, 2002

ADSL potential growing fast

June 1st, 2002

[Original Link] Two-thirds of UK homes now have the option of ADSL, according to this Register article. BT should drop the price of ISDN calls to compensate those who aren’t, and won’t be, in range of an ADSL-equipped exchange.

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Radio’s Aggregator supports RSS Auto-Discovery

June 1st, 2002

[Original Link] I added the appropriate tags yesterday, so anyone using Radio to read this site could have subscribed simply by pointing at http://www.statusq.org, rather than having to find the RSS feed.

Dave W explains that there are many limitations in the current implementation because “Writing an HTML parser is a big job”. But writing an XHTML parser is a much simpler one, and many of us would joyfully produce XHTML-formatted weblogs if only Radio would let us. 🙂

Radio is fun because things move so fast, so it’s a pity that this standard, which has been the W3C-recommended form of HTML for some time, is not supported.

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