WaveLAN Gold cards can be found for $200 from www.wirelessguys.com. The AirPort Base Station (which is OEM'd from Lucent) can be had from Apple for $300, and has a built-in 10^T connection and 56Kbps modem, along with DHCP and bridging software.
Since this is being discussed, I'd like to mention that I've had great success using a Lucent WaveLAN silver at LISA '99, and subsequently bought a Lucent WaveLAN Gold and Apple AirPort Base Station for use with my subnotebook at home.
I wrote an Enlightenment Epplet to graphically monitor the signal strength to the card, something that comes in very handy if you're wandering from room to room or building to building.
It's called E-Wireless, and is available from FreshMeat here.
I haven't yet adapted it to WindowMaker, Afterstep, and such, but it shouldn't be difficult at all.
I'm also currently working on an app that will allow you to set up an Apple AirPort Base Station from Linux.
The Apple AirPort. I've been hacking on this for a few days now with my notebook running SuSE 6.2 and a WaveLAN Gold.
The AirPort is cheap ($299), encased in plastic already, is in reality just a WaveLAN IEEE card with 56K modem and 10^T ports, acts as a DHCP server and NATting bridge, and is SNMP configurable/monitorable. And it has a small footprint and comes with mounting hardware.
I'm currently working on figuring out how to reprovision one of these things using only SNMP calls, so I can code up a quick app under Linux to do the job (it currently can only be provisioned using a Mac and their provided software).
With WaveLAN Gold cards (128-bit encrypted streams, 11MBit) selling for $200 these days, it's an attractive solution.
They're not my elected officials. I'm an American citizen. But make no mistake, the politicians behind that move are influencing American policy via ICANN.
Since when does the industry dictate to the rest of us what we will, and will not, see and do?
Since the industry was given free reign to control the Internet. Case in point: Paul Twomey, head of Australia's IT policy body, the person pretty much responsible for this vile new policy, is also chair of GAC. GAC is the Government Advisory Council to ICANN. ICANN is the private sector company now in control of the Net. ICANN claims GAC doesn't set policy. GAC already has set policy. ICANN listens to large corporations, and ignores the wishes of individuals. In fact, ICANN makes a claim similar to.au: Nobody bothers to participate in our little get-togethers, therefore nobody cares what we do.
The corporations are even now using this very excuse to turn the Net into the next century's television.
I've ranted about this before, and I'll do it again: If you find this sort of thing distasteful, don't bitch and moan about it here, GET INVOLVED. Nothing's going to change if the corporations are allowed to continue down this path unimpeded.
I have been waiting 5 years for some reasonable new TLD's. Waiting, with no luck. All because of network solutions.
Err...not true. The main reason no new gTLDs have been rolled out is that the Intellectual Property (IP) and Trademark (TM) interests are scared of cybersquatting, and refuse to pay what it would cost to police these new gTLDs for possible infringement. This is troublesome, because IP and TM law require the famous mark holder to bear the cost of protecting their marks. They want to shift that cost to the registry and/or registrar, who will of course pass it on to the domain name owner.
They keep asking for things like unilateral, full, standardized, searchable access to all registrant data, enforced verifiable contact info, heavily restrictive and punitive Dispute Resolution Policies, etc.
NetSol may suck, but in this instance, it's not NetSol that's creating the vacuum. It's the people who own famous names and marks, who keep pushing for more than anyone is willing to give. Net result: No new gTLDs.
The Individual Domain Name Owners' Association is fighting to ensure things like equity in dispute resolution and protection of your personal information are present in the future worldwide DNS system.
Main entry now blocked, but backdoor still works!
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I informed my users of the backdoor this morning, and told them to delete all private mail from their hotmail accounts.
One of the users just told me that when trying to log in from the www.hotmail.com page, they're getting "connection refused". I just checked, and it's still possible to get in via the backdoor.
It would appear that now, not only is the backdoor still open, but it's going to be impossible for legitimate users to clean out their mailboxes.
MS should just shut the site down until they can get this sorted.
ICANN has been spending money right and left. Their president/CEO is being paid $18,000 a month. A month! The three meetings they've had have been in locations such as Berlin, Singapore, and Boston, for an estimated cost of $600,000. Their legal counsel has so far billed $585,000. This is from a company who was retained to incorporate ICANN, which should only have cost $175.
If this non-profit organization would conduct its business in a manner reflecting its lack of funding, it wouldn't have this problem.
For example, using things like the Net to hold teleconferences, instead of spending $10,000 or so to hold one.
While there does exist a slim chance that martial law may be established in the US, taking away certain freedoms, it's much more likely that ICANN will succeed in taking away individual rights worldwide.
Among the topics being considered by ICANN? Whether or not individuals (as opposed to trademark owners) should be allowed to own domain names. Whether or not domain dispute policies should require court proceedings, with the loser paying all fees. Whether the domain name in dispute should be turned over to the trademark holder before the dispute resolution process is completed.
And all of this is being decided by a group of non-representative, non-elected lawyers, businesspeople, and others who stand to gain financially from such decisions. to this date, they have refused to allow a constituency of individual, non-commercial, non-organizational domain name owners to have representation in their proceedings.
The working groups deciding these issues are chaired by hand-picked members of the Domain Names Council, instead of elected by the members of the working groups.
The Domain Names council is stacked with officers of ISOC, CORE, and advisory board members from the gTLD-MoU advisory boards, all of whom have a decided financial interest in the outcome of certain decisions.
Decisions are made without any form of formal voting procedure, without regard to fairness, and without consideration for the group's lack of legitimacy and adequate representation. They are attempting to ramrod through a set of decisions before their own mandate requires them to replace the appointed officials with elected ones.
And they're doing it all in the name of the "net community".
Check the DNSO website to find the archives of the various mailing lists where this is occurring.
Check this link for a statement in which the chair of the gTLD-MoU proposes capture of the DNSO.
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WaveLAN Gold cards can be found for $200 from
www.wirelessguys.com. The AirPort Base Station
(which is OEM'd from Lucent) can be had from Apple
for $300, and has a built-in 10^T connection and 56Kbps modem, along with DHCP and bridging software.
The AirPort Base Station is 802.11 compliant, meaning it can work with any 802.11-compliant card.
Until Apple releases version 1.1 of the AirPort software, however, the encryption will not work.
The Lucent WaveLAN Silver card can do 64-bit encryption, and the WaveLAN Gold can do 128-bit.
Since this is being discussed, I'd like to mention that I've had great success using a Lucent WaveLAN silver at LISA '99, and subsequently bought a Lucent WaveLAN Gold and Apple AirPort Base Station for use with my subnotebook at home.
I wrote an Enlightenment Epplet to graphically monitor the signal strength to the card, something that comes in very handy if you're wandering from room to room or building to building.
It's called E-Wireless, and is available from FreshMeat here.
I haven't yet adapted it to WindowMaker, Afterstep, and such, but it shouldn't be difficult at all.
I'm also currently working on an app that will allow you to set up an Apple AirPort Base Station from Linux.
The Apple AirPort. I've been hacking on this for a few days now with my notebook running SuSE 6.2 and a WaveLAN Gold.
The AirPort is cheap ($299), encased in plastic already, is in reality just a WaveLAN IEEE card with 56K modem and 10^T ports, acts as a DHCP server and NATting bridge, and is SNMP configurable/monitorable. And it has a small footprint and comes with mounting hardware.
I'm currently working on figuring out how to reprovision one of these things using only SNMP calls, so I can code up a quick app under Linux to do the job (it currently can only be provisioned using a Mac and their provided software).
With WaveLAN Gold cards (128-bit encrypted streams, 11MBit) selling for $200 these days, it's an attractive solution.
...using a Microsoft web server for this?
They're not my elected officials. I'm an American citizen. But make no mistake, the politicians behind that move are influencing American policy via ICANN.
Since the industry was given free reign to control the Internet. Case in point: Paul Twomey, head of Australia's IT policy body, the person pretty much responsible for this vile new policy, is also chair of GAC. GAC is the Government Advisory Council to ICANN. ICANN is the private sector company now in control of the Net. ICANN claims GAC doesn't set policy. GAC already has set policy. ICANN listens to large corporations, and ignores the wishes of individuals. In fact, ICANN makes a claim similar to .au: Nobody bothers to participate in our little get-togethers, therefore nobody cares what we do.
The corporations are even now using this very excuse to turn the Net into the next century's television.
I've ranted about this before, and I'll do it again: If you find this sort of thing distasteful, don't bitch and moan about it here, GET INVOLVED. Nothing's going to change if the corporations are allowed to continue down this path unimpeded.
To date, that's exactly what they've been.
Err...not true. The main reason no new gTLDs have been rolled out is that the Intellectual Property (IP) and Trademark (TM) interests are scared of cybersquatting, and refuse to pay what it would cost to police these new gTLDs for possible infringement. This is troublesome, because IP and TM law require the famous mark holder to bear the cost of protecting their marks. They want to shift that cost to the registry and/or registrar, who will of course pass it on to the domain name owner.
They keep asking for things like unilateral, full, standardized, searchable access to all registrant data, enforced verifiable contact info, heavily restrictive and punitive Dispute Resolution Policies, etc.
NetSol may suck, but in this instance, it's not NetSol that's creating the vacuum. It's the people who own famous names and marks, who keep pushing for more than anyone is willing to give. Net result: No new gTLDs.
If you're concerned, stop whining and get involved. The ICANN Domain Name Service Organization is acting on these very issues right now.
The Individual Domain Name Owners' Association is fighting to ensure things like equity in dispute resolution and protection of your personal information are present in the future worldwide DNS system.
I informed my users of the backdoor this morning, and told them to delete all private mail from their hotmail accounts.
One of the users just told me that when trying to log in from the www.hotmail.com page, they're getting "connection refused". I just checked, and it's still possible to get in via the backdoor.
It would appear that now, not only is the backdoor still open, but it's going to be impossible for legitimate users to clean out their mailboxes.
MS should just shut the site down until they can get this sorted.
If this non-profit organization would conduct its business in a manner reflecting its lack of funding, it wouldn't have this problem.
For example, using things like the Net to hold teleconferences, instead of spending $10,000 or so to hold one.
Among the topics being considered by ICANN? Whether or not individuals (as opposed to trademark owners) should be allowed to own domain names. Whether or not domain dispute policies should require court proceedings, with the loser paying all fees. Whether the domain name in dispute should be turned over to the trademark holder before the dispute resolution process is completed.
And all of this is being decided by a group of non-representative, non-elected lawyers, businesspeople, and others who stand to gain financially from such decisions. to this date, they have refused to allow a constituency of individual, non-commercial, non-organizational domain name owners to have representation in their proceedings.
The working groups deciding these issues are chaired by hand-picked members of the Domain Names Council, instead of elected by the members of the working groups.
The Domain Names council is stacked with officers of ISOC, CORE, and advisory board members from the gTLD-MoU advisory boards, all of whom have a decided financial interest in the outcome of certain decisions.
Decisions are made without any form of formal voting procedure, without regard to fairness, and without consideration for the group's lack of legitimacy and adequate representation. They are attempting to ramrod through a set of decisions before their own mandate requires them to replace the appointed officials with elected ones.
And they're doing it all in the name of the "net community".
Check the DNSO website to find the archives of the various mailing lists where this is occurring.
Check this link for a statement in which the chair of the gTLD-MoU proposes capture of the DNSO.
Check the Individual Domain Name Owners Constituency page if you'd like to get involved.