Back to the Future: New Wi-Fi Bridges Use 1999 Standard. Wireless bridging comes in two forms: 1) the Wi-Fi signal bridged via an internal router in an access point or gateway to a wired network, and 2) wireless-to-wireless bridging using the Wireless Distribution System (WDS). Glenn Fleishman brings you up-to-speed on the evolution of this… Continue reading Back to the Future: New Wi-Fi Bridges Use 1999 Standard

Today's song: “The West Coast has the sunshine, and the girls all get so tan..” [Scripting News]

More on Howard Dean. His candidacy appears to be picking up steam. He's polling above Kerry now. The Nation has an article about his appeal and his campaign: Right now, Dean is the only viable candidate who speaks to the anger, fear and loathing a large number of ordinary citizens feel about the direction Bush… Continue reading More on Howard Dean

The World is Changed. Remember the opening sequence of Fellowship of the Ring? The narration goes, “The world is changed. I feel it in the earth. I feel it in the water. I smell it in the air.” This began as a comment on… [Democrats WatchBlog]

Howard Dean's Start-up Syndrome. Presidential candidate Howard Dean is hot right now. He's just got one problem: How can he transform a sudden burst of success into long-term momentum (Hmmm, that sounds familiar)? Anyhow, that's the question posed in a great New York Times… [Fast Company Now]

LISNews Goes Wireless and Bill Drew Promotes LibraryLookup to His Users. Bill Drew: “I am pleased to announce the creation of a new blog for and about Libraries with WLANs, LISnews.Com: Wireless at http://wireless.lisnews.com. I am proud of the fact that Blake Carver believes this is important enough to set up this special section of… Continue reading LISNews Goes Wireless and Bill Drew Promotes LibraryLookup to His Users

Schuler on Public Policy re Electrical Distribution Grid. In “Electricity Supply Organization: Which End is Up?” (Utilities Project, 2002), Cornell Prof. Richard Schuler wrote in terms of network science and law while advocating roles for federal, state and local government in improving the transmission grid: “complexity science suggests that as the number of firm interconnections… Continue reading Schuler on Public Policy re Electrical Distribution Grid

Turnkey Hot Spots with DSL. Public IP offers a standard access point and DSL for a fixed price: This interesting business is providing a Proxim Orinoco AP-2500 configured to work as a hot spot, and handling contracting DSL service for you. The pricing is upfront and clearly stated, which is a nice bit of straight… Continue reading Turnkey Hot Spots with DSL

Imagining greener pastures. Tried to evangelize Peopleware to an intransigent executive today. Bah! Can somebody point me to an interesting company where smart people are doing worthwhile work in sane way? Please don't tell me it doesn't exist. Let's see. Ideal. Small Python shop practicing XP. What kind of software? I don't care, so long… Continue reading Imagining greener pastures

Spam-for-Money Plan Suspected by Expert on E-Mail Viruses. Security experts are struggling to understand a mysterious software author who is trying to open many of the Internet's electronic locks. By John Markoff. [New York Times: Technology]