Saturday, July 23, 2005

Tim O'Reilly on wholesale surveillance.  In my opinion there is something new here: armed with such technology the police can now say "show me a person and I will show you his crime" instead of what we have been used to so far namely, "show me a crime and I will find you the culprit". 3:37:04 PM    comment []

I bought a Level One WBR-3406TX (router/firewall/wlan access point) and was sorely disappointed. The documentation sucks but I can take that. What got me angry was my inability to get WAP encryption working. For a while I settled for WEP as a better-than-nothing proposition. As that been cracked I knew that WPA or WPA2 was the way to go. Despite several hours of time I could not get it to work. In desperation I turned to the web and found a web page that says that it is actually not implemented yet. I suspect that the code is there but it is not fully functional. How can a company sell a product if it does not meet the specs. That was it! I returned the thin g to Brack where I bought it from. Incidentally, I have got great service from Brack: never a wrong order, prompt delivery within 2 working days, good web site for ordering, etc. 9:41:34 AM    comment []