Carol was kind enough to send me a link to “Del. Myers proposes jail time for using neighbor’s unsecured wi-fi“. Apparently, one of Maryland’s less enlightened State Delegates, LeRoy Meyers of Washington and Allegany Counties, proposed legislation making it a crime to make use of an unsecured wireless network without permission. Fortunately, the proposed bill [...]
Also tagged Poltics, WirelessThe Verizon Actiontec GT704WG Wireless Gateway pictured below is an incredibly engineered piece of FAIL.
If Verizon attempts to send you this for your DSL service, run away from this piece of hardware as fast as you can. There are two major problems I have with this hardware:
it uses Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) for securing the [...]
Also tagged DSL, IT, Verizon, WirelessMy wireless card arrived today, and I was able to install it pretty easily into my Ubuntu laptop. I now have an old Dell Latitude C800 running Ubuntu as a semi-permanent fixture in my living room.
It is nice to not have to be tethered to the desktop in the office to check email, surf [...]
Apologies to Rob Carlson of Epistolary, as my over-aggressive spam settings ate your comment last week. I have since changed my the various spam settings here to not be so draconian.
Also taggedWith CES underway in Las Vegas, Bill Gates made his last appearance as a Microsoft executive. As is the norm for events like this, a great video of what Bill’s last day at Microsoft would be like and where he would go next.
Bill’s Last Day: The CES Keynote video
I love the part where Bono [...]
