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Rob Flickenger shows OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) plus promiscuous network mode can pollute a wireless network (wired, too): At the OS X Conference, we all started seeing connection refused errors, but it seemed to vary by domain, time, and network. Turns out that Mac OS X 10.2(.1) running a firewall and software in promiscuous mode (in which all network addresses can be sniffed) can pollute a network.

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Intel's Grove gives boards bad marks. Disappointed at recent "atrocities," the Intel chairman scolds boards of directors for lax oversight of top executives. [CNET News.com]
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Big Dishes and Illegal Technology. Heard in Rob Flickenger's Omnipresent Wireless Cloud session here at the last day of Mac OS X Conference. Rob was talking about bringing out a big dish to do some point-to-point wireless networking with Wi-Fi and an older vintner asks him and his buddy what they're up to. They explain it, and he says, "As if that's legal!" Rob says, Thereís something about whipping out big dishes that make people think youíre doing something illegalÖ.it must be illegal because youíre not paying for it. What do you mean weíre not paying for it? We're putting in a lot of time and equipment. Another story: Rob describes a family living out of a town on a hill in Sonoma. He loans them a high-powered telescope to see line-of-sight to houses that were close enough to get high-speed DSL. The guy starts knocking on doors, "Hi, I've been looking at you through a high-powered telescope..." After a few times of that, he took a different tack, and offered free service to someone who would let him put a re-transmission dish on their roof. It worked fine, and instead of multiple-year estimates for service, they were up in a few weeks. Over 20 ... [GlennLog]
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Cocoa drawback. I totally dig Cocoaóyouíve probably guessed that by now.

But there are some times when it can be infuriating. If youíre using the built-in controls and customizing them just a little bit, then itís totally cool.

But then there are times when no amount of customizing will do: to get what you want you have to go back to square one, you have to subclass NSView and go from there.

An example of that is OmniOutliner. I recall reading that itís a complete re-implementation of NSOutlineView. (Please correct me if Iím wrong.)

They had to do that because, if I remember right, to get things like wrapping headlines it was necessary to start over: no amount of tweaking NSOutlineView was going to do the job. (Or at least not well.)

Some of the upcoming features in NetNewsWire Pro are sending me down the same path. For example, I want to do a table view like Jason Kottkeís mockupóbut, because it has table cells of varying heights, Iím having to go back to square one, do my own NSView subclass.

Bummer.

Hereís hoping that the built-in controls get more powerful and flexible in the future.

(Note: Iím only pretending to complain. I love UI programming, so itís not really the bummer I make it sound like.) [inessential.com]
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