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Bank Shot
Want to up the bandwidth of your Internet connection? A little ingenuity and a short hike, explains Bob, are all it takes.

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20020207.html

Bob's favorite links of the week.

Topzone
A topographical map of my neighborhood.
(http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?z=10&;
n=4251533&e=532881&s=50)

Netscum.com
How to design your own yagi antennas including passive repeaters.
(http://www.netscum.com/~clapp/wireless.html)

Antenna on the Cheap
More antenna stuff. O'Reilly has some of the best information on long-range 802.11b.
(http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/448)

Increasing RF Power
How to hot rod your Linksys WAP11 access point, pushing it to a still legal 100 milliwatts.
(http://www.pasadena.net/aprf)

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Linkrot followup. Because I have archives of this weblog going back to 1997, and DaveNets going back to 1994, I have a pretty good idea which pubs take linkrot seriously and which don't. The NY Times, even though they have a gate that keeps the search engines out, has a perfect record. My pointers to the Times are good going back to the beginning. The SJ Merc, which I and others blasted over the last few days, has a lousy record, but (this is important) they get extra heat because they have Dan Gillmor. Other pubs such as Fortune (yesterday's top link) are even worse. Not only do they break links just months after articles run, they have the gall (the kind I don't admire) to redirect to their home page, and they open a popup ad on every click. Their servers are god-awful slow too.   [Scripting News]
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NY Times: "To make its case against severe sanctions, Microsoft, shifting its previous strategy, has named both Bill Gates, its cofounder and chairman, and Steven A. Ballmer, the chief executive, as witnesses in a trial on remedies in the antitrust case it lost."  [Scripting News]
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Corporate Shenanigans - The Sherron Watkins memo to Ken Lay will undoubtedly be presented to students in corporate finance classes for decades to come. The New Republic reports on some other companies with similarly creative arrangements. When Nader was griping about a tech company not (gasp!) paying a dividend, he was missing the real financial deviltree going on.

With WEF in session, the anti-globalization rhetoric is heating up everywhere. But the "evil multinational corporations" aren't giving up without a fight! GNN reviews "Rules for Corporate Warriors: How to Fight and Survive Attack Group Shakedowns." I thought the whole "protest everything and meet chicks" movement was strange, but things are really getting entertaining now. [Better Living Through Software]

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Steven Wright. "My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted." [Quotes of the Day]
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Ed Meese. "You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt." [Quotes of the Day]
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More setbacks for EU Galileo project. The troubled Galileo project, a European effort to develop a global positioning system to rival... [spacetoday.net]
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Delta 2 launch delayed again, next attempt Sunday. The launch of a Delta 2 rocket, scheduled for Saturday, has been delayed again, this... [spacetoday.net]
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News briefs: February 8. A long-delayed Titan 2 launch of a military weather satellite, planned for this month,... [spacetoday.net]
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Daniel Berlinger: "I discovered a huge scary limitation in OS X TCP/IP support."  [Scripting News]
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maudlin: Dictionary.com Word of the Day. maudlin [Dictionary.com Word of the Day]
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Review Of Netflix DVD Rental Service [Slashdot]
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Inside the Itanium [Slashdot]
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World's Longest Slinky 34 Slinkies soldered together. 
They are zinc-plated spring steel, and are very easy to solder. [Slashdot]

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