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Wednesday, July 03, 2002

Neighborhood-wide Internet access on the (relatively) cheap. Canopy is a $30,000 Motorola 802.11a product that can cover six two-mile-radius regions in a city with high-speed Internet service. At that cost, it's conceivable that a neighborhood coaltion of, say, 1,000 people might pitch in $30 each, connect the masts to Internet cables and put their region online. Link Discuss (Thanks, Howard!) [Boing Boing Blog] 2:47:25 PM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

NY Times: "Mr. Eckhaus was one of the first few to use the wireless Internet connection at Bryant Park in Midtown Manhattan." [Scripting News] 12:10:28 PM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

Bret Fausett: "Are Internet directory services still relevant?" [Scripting News] 12:09:41 PM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

Mitch Wagner comments. [Scripting News] Very good comments on paladium and DRM 10:33:58 AM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

NYC wireless access in the park. Nice NYT story about the NYCWireless collective's latest hot-spot, in Bryant Park. I've never really gotten the value of hotspots in parks -- I can't see my laptop's screen in direct sunlight, so working in a park seems pretty impractical. I guess that sitting under a nice shady tree would be do it, though. The wireless high-speed connection funnels into the park via a T-1 line, a high grade of Internet cable, and is sent through the park's airwaves by a radio transmitter. On a recent afternoon, Mr. Eckhaus was sitting near the carousel, reading an Israeli newspaper and downloading music. Directly across the park, Loren Finkelstein, a computer network administrator, was exchanging instant messages in the sun. On the east side of the park, Kingsley Rowe, a recent graduate of New York University, was sitting at a table, reading e-mail messages and checking for more tips in his job search. Mr. Eckhaus said: "The first time you browse the Internet, it was wonderful. It's like that all over again." Link Discuss (Thanks, Gary!) [Boing Boing Blog] 10:31:21 AM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

Microsoft Presents: StrSafe.h. Microsoft Presents: StrSafe.h Strsafe.h: Safer String Handling in C Better late than never.  Right? [System.Error.Emit] For anyone not going to managed code, here's a little something from MS to help prevent silly string buffer overruns. Question is, how many C fanatics will actually a) convert from their current ways and b) settle for the "performance hit" *cough*. ;) [Drew's Blog] 8:43:27 AM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

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