Monthly Archive for May, 2002

MacStumbling the drive home

I MacStumbled my way home from the Loop Parkway to West Atlantic Beach. I basicaly kept to 2 main streets. I hit 17 wireless LANs. The table below says it all.

SSIDMACChannelNetwork TypeVendorWEP
linksys00:04:5A:ED:3B:096ManagedLinksysNo
princesoy00:30:65:1E:4F:DF1ManagedAppleYes
default00:05:5D:F2:18:746ManagedunknownNo
Wireless00:30:AB:0A:D3:496ManagedDeltaNo
default00:50:18:0D:89:AC6ManagedAdvNo
cvsretail00:A0:F8:36:3C:A511ManagedSymbolNo
linksys00:04:5A:CF:D1:776ManagedLinksysNo
HJMT Corporate00:60:1D:F0:44:BC1ManagedAgere-LucentNo
LinkSys_Mobile00:04:5A:EE:EE:E96ManagedLinksysYes
linksys00:06:25:53:D9:546ManagedunknownNo
linksys00:04:5A:D1:BC:A56ManagedLinksysNo
linksys00:04:5A:ED:F2:876ManagedLinksysNo
markgruenspecht00:04:5A:FD:C4:696ManagedLinksysYes
linksys00:04:5A:0E:E5:D06ManagedLinksysYes
Israel00:04:5A:FD:0E:AF7ManagedLinksysNo
laptop00:50:18:09:13:C06ManagedAdvNo
eBuff00:30:65:14:BF:8A1ManagedAppleYes

As you can see less than a third are using WEP and neither of the corporate networks are using encryption. Almost half of the networks use linksys hardware. About hald have the default setting still in place.

The promise of OpenType

opentype

With OpenType Adobe hopes to make life easier for font users everywhere. As you can see in the image above, one OpenType font file replaces three (of which only two are really needed) intelligently named files on Mac OS (on the left) and/or two completely ridiculous named files on Windows (on the right). Yeah and it also offers Unicode support, glyphs, ligatures swashes and other miscellaneous type doohickeys all in a single, homogenous, cross-platform, easy to move package.

New iBooks

New iBooks! (Well as far as specs go they’re new)

Madman: Why I love pop-up ads

“Why I love pop-up ads” [Daypop Top 40]
Which was of course written in response to Why I love spam by moron of the week Barry Dennis.

pyometra - aplogies

My aplogies to anyone who clicked on the pyometra link in the post about Bella’s operation yesterday. I should have warned that there were graphic images present.

Wardriving on OS X

War Driving [All OS X]
I was not aware there was an OS X AirPort “sniffer” out.

How to watch a baseball game

What to watch? Start with the catcher. [ via Glish.com ] Joe Morgan wrote a nice guide for watching a baseball game: where to look to understand the inside game; how camera angles confuse our perception of the action; and why “small ball”, the underappreciated art of getting runners on base and moving them around with base hits rather [More Like This WebLog]