Hail Macintosh! Hail Satan!. "Founded by long haired hippies, (Apple) has consistently supported 60's counter-cultural 'values.' But there are even darker undertones to this company than most are aware of. Consider the name of the company and its logo: an apple with a bite taken out of it. This is clearly a reference to the Fall, when Adam and Eve were tempted with an apple by the serpent. It is now Apple Computers offering us temptation, thereby aligning themselves with the forces of darkness." (Scroll to see the Apple bit, but the rest of the page is a hoot too.) LinkDiscuss (Thanks, John!) [Boing Boing Blog]
Ethernet-to-WiFi Adapter. Linksys has shipped a low-cost ($129) Ethernet-to-WiFi adapter -- just plug the box into any Ethernet port and it becomes a wireless Ethernet port. Now I can finally put my printer *anywhere* (and you can add your games console/ReplayTV/whatever to your network). LinkDiscuss (via 802.11b Networking News) [Boing Boing Blog]
but it is hugely convenient and available with just a registry change. I've tested this in Windows 2000 Pro and Server and its supposed to work also in NT 4. If you don't know what tab completion does, it lets the command processor "complete" commands you have entered by pressing TAB. For example, type dir at a command prompt and then the first letter of the file you want and press TAB it will fill it in. Press TAB again and it will give the next file and so on. Tab completion is one of the unsung wonders of the Unix world and most Windows users don't even know it exists. If you run Windows then you can make this registry change to get Tab Completion:
Windows 2000 Instructions
For one thing, Make sure you run "cmd", not "command" to get to the command shell
Go to Start / Run - "Regedit"
Expand the tree under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and then Software and then Microsoft and then Command Processor and edit the value for "CompletionCharacter" to 9
Exit Regedit
The next time you run a command shell, it will have tab completion. Type dir and then the first letter of the file you want and press TAB it will fill it in. Press TAB again and it will give the next file and so on. [The FuzzyBlog!]
