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802.11b Homebrew Antenna Shootout

Yuban coffee can-based antennas are good enough, but other tin cans with connectors work slightly better. All of them beat the Pringles design. Building your own antenna never sounded easier.

http://www.turnpoint.net/wireless/has.html

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News.Com: Is Microsoft getting ahead of itself? "As Microsoft prepares to launch the first trials of .Net My Services this fall, key details of the plan are still 'not figured out,' said Jim Allchin, Microsoft's group vice president in charge of Windows and server software development. 'I think we just got ahead of ourselves and didn't get clear enough thinking,' he said, echoing similar concerns voiced last August." Must read.  [Scripting News]
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BTW, yesterday I had a talk with my team, showing them the Google email. I said, if we're lucky someday we will grow large enough to employ people like this. We must make sure that when that happens, we remain accessible to people outside the company, so we can continue to grow. [Scripting News]
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We have an outage on one of our servers, 64.75.32.135, also known as Subhonker4 or SH4. It's mostly used for hosting free Manila sites. One of its databases is damaged, an important one. Another set of other problems keep us from being able to access the backup, so we don't know if the backup is good. [Scripting News]
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We've put in a lot of hours trying to get it back up, but it's clear it's going to take a bunch more. As far as we know, the content of the websites is not at risk. The problem is with config.root, which tells Frontier, among other things, how to map domains to websites. [Scripting News]
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AT&T Wireless Completes UMTS Call. Says on schedule for 3G rollout [allNetDevices Wireless News]
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Albert Einstein. "The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them." [Quotes of the Day]
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William S. Burroughs. "A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on." [Motivational Quotes of the Day]

Do we all know someone like this or what!?

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News briefs: February 18. NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft is ready to begin its science mission this week, the... [spacetoday.net]
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