Now that I’ve gotten my Wireless Perceptions guide out of the way, I can mention one of my favorite misconceptions. Myth: “Switch to MUSTANG, it’s faster than MORNINGSIDE.” The observant reader will note that this myth is contradictory to my previous assertions. No right-thinking person would possibly believe that something is slower when it is faster. One wrinkle …
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Wireless Perceptions
It has come to my attention that wireless is still considered somewhat amorphous and, as a result, I’ve seen some pretty interesting misconceptions. How does our wireless work? Small radios have a limited range so we have many of them all over campus. Sometimes they are in visible locations and sometimes they are hidden in …
FreeBSD on the Desktop: How much are we giving up?
I’ve been running FreeBSD for awhile now. Looking back at my posts, it appears that I hammed up my Slackware installation right around the turn of the new year so near abouts three-and-a-half months. FreeBSD on the desktop, if you’ve experienced it, is a learning experience. So much that at times I feel like I’m …
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Mp3’s and blog posts.
Word on the street is that Morningsiders would like to embed MP3 files in their posts. This sounds like a cool idea, so I’ve sat down and see that WordPress can already do something like this: brobob Sounds good. How to do it? Step 1, have a mp3 file. =) That’s easy. Step 2, choose …
I killed my workstation…
I cannot believe it. ~120 days uptime on my Slackware13.1-AMD64 system. I decided I needed to re-arrange my office. It was time for a change. Well, everything was nearly in place. When I went to slide my (running) PC back I accidentally touched the power switch on the rear after warning myself not to. Evidently, …