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So you mean if I just update to the most recent (december 2001) iMac firmware version (2.4f), my dead monitor will come back to life? Yup. It's true.
Not sure how I missed this crucial bit of information, but I'm sure glad to have found it.
Behold! A fully operational deathst... er, iMac.
Peter Rojas breaks the open spectrum party line to the masses in today' new york times (page g7, "what's next") This is the easy to understand version of the stuff David Reed (extensively quoted in the article) has been preaching for some time. Short summary: wireless radio spectrum is not limited. In fact, with the right hardware in place, data carrying capacity increases as the number of wireless devices in a given area increases. This is promised land type stuff.
I'm writing this from my mobile (and I'd sure like some more bandwidth) so I won't include links right now, but you could search my page for 'reed' or 'mesh' or 'ad-hoc' and find lots of stuff if you are curious.
Had a nice dinner with my step sister last night. She turned me on to this information packed site on downtown NYC her company helped build. Lots of information in there (click on downtown guide from the front page.)
Wow. On Monday there was a huge Denial of Service attack against the 13 root name servers that form the core of the internet.
Vixie said only four or five of the 13 servers were able to withstand the attack and remain available to legitimate Internet traffic throughout the strike. "It was an attack against all 13 servers, which is a little more rare than an attack against any one of us," he said.Here's the slashdot thread.