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TiBook Wi-Fi Range Hack: New Card
eggboard writes "Apple likes the profit margins on its internal AirPort card (still $100 three years after introduction), but the Faraday cage that is the Titanium PowerBook keeps the AirPort card and the TiBook's internal antenna from achieving the same range as the plastic-cased white dual-USB iBooks. Wired News reports today on Cliff Skolnick et al's hack, which is simply to use a 200 mW PC Card coupled with OS X-compatible drivers. The cost winds up less than an AirPort Card, and you can get a model with an external antenna jack, too."
Stephen King ate my balls!
Why d'ya have to go and make things so complicated?
Read the story!
is the Thief-In-Chief
Cheers,
Woot
When did taco pledge to *never* use non-open source software?
"Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated"
To taco.
Face it slashdot has always been a semi personal ground that a bunch of geeks dumped whatever they thought was interesting on.
It isn't open source/linux/apple/anti-MS.
It's just what they think is interesting, that is the point, it isn't static, it is new and different and changes with them and the users
I personally could care less about a mac, but that 200mw card with a external antenna is damn cool.
Got Code?
Of course taco is switching. He has a wife to support. Ideals NEVER put food on the table.
you're a funny little fucker - hope you get beat down like a lil beeyatch today :)
Now that's some 133t sillz!
What fidelity do "not wires" have?
Is this based on the old radio term "HiFi"
which meant high-fidelity?
This, "cyber-[insertwordhere]", and "war-[insertwordhere]-ing" really get on my nerves.
Well if that were the case, why is Linux so damn stable? I have 2 systems running beta and expirmental wireless and firewire drivers that have never crashed. In my experience with Linux, drivers are sometimes a pain in the ass to get working, but once they are working they don't crash.
This due timothy needs to read submitted stories properly (along with the refering sites), before posting crap like that (specially on a site like this). This has been going on for a while, stuff posted by CmdrTaco seems to have improved ( and stop wasting your time pointing out his spellings are bad, when infact it's the spellings used by the orginal poster -- proper editorial requires you not cange anything by anyone else).
I hope Timothy dude would get a bat clue and fix these problems promptely. BTW, Stories like this are the cause for creation for more legions of trolls. Would you rather have that? Imagine the S/N levels after that.
Your experience may vary. I have been using nvidia's drivers for my g2 toshiba satellite for over a year now. My laptop is always on, rarely powered down, and has yet to crash an X session.
>What part of FireWire, IDE, SDRAM, USB, AGP, PCI is proprietary to Apple?
I don't know.
Maybe the parts that put people off years ago, like:
5v serial ports, 5v DIMMs, NuBus, localtalk, motoroized eject disk drives, making people call FireWire 1001 different names, and other fun little stupidities?
Or maybe today's problems, like not using an ATX case, their software, or 100% of apple mainboards?
If you could be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you could be told what to say or think - BoC
i would like to see more open source bukkake stories. please.