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Saturday, August 3, 2002 |
Wireless options for an aging Mac desktop
Mike Cohen has been investigating how to get his aging Mac desktop connected to his wireless network:
"I did a lot of research on wireless options for my B&W G3, and I found that the Cisco Aironet 350 is the best choice. Unfortunately, the cheapest I could find it is $209 - ouch!
I ended up buying one for $150 on eBay. I've already downloaded the OS X drivers for it. [Mike Cohen: MacOS X]
4:07:19 PM 
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MSNBC adopts blogs, but this raises questions
News.Com: "For a mainstream Web site such as MSNBC, blogs offer a stepped-up level of editorial control over the often raucous ramblings from readers in online discussion boards. The site closed the popular boards last December because of the high cost of monitoring discussions that often turned into obscene flame wars." [Scripting News]
I have a hard time grasping this story though. I work on the message boards for Lycos.com, and I have suggested that the Lycos Communities adopt Weblogs as an addition to the suite of community resources that Lycos has, along with boards, chat, clubs and picture galleries. Obviously, this hasn't happened yet. What I cannot see is how MSNBC thinks that Weblogs will be less raucous and require less moderation than message boards. If anything, MSNBC will have more work on its hands with Weblogs, unless these are going to be tightly controlled blogs that somehow don't allow users to be opinionated...
4:04:56 PM
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.Mac no bargain, according to Glenn
OK...this story is a week old and I missed it last weekend in the local Seattle Times newspaper, but it still offers a good argument against buying into the .Mac services offered by Apple: Apple's rebranded iTools no bargain.
9:27:03 AM
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© Copyright 2002 Rob McNair-Huff.
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