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id like to pull that off on a BIGGER scale, say... NYC :) I could start small really i could :)

I wonder if Starbucks is doing anything like that. I'm sure some SB fatcat would love to be able to show off something like CMUsky applied to Starbucks' wireless nets.

I thought the drill-down data with the tally of the vendor of client's NICs was a nice touch.

I do not think they are doing anything like that Alex. But it is an excellent idea and would be really cool too boot.

I just got a new PDA. Work bought it for me!! Which surprised the crap out of me, but that is a different subject. Anyway, I have an iPAQ with a 203 MHz processor and this is a 400 MHz Intel Xscale processor with bluetooth and wifi. The speed increase is awesome! Syncing without a cradle is the coolest.

I just got it on Monday, so I have not messed with the wifi yet due to my sick workload, but the crisp, bright, display, speed, capabilities(and the built in CF and SD slots) blow my old PDA away. Not really a networking post, but I need to yap about the new geek toy to a fellow geek that could appreciate it! = )

Shane! You're online! Good to hear from you!

If I had more uses for a PDA I'd get a new battery for my aging iPAQ. But alas, I don't travel much and I usually stay close to my computers when I want to get online.

We'll see in another year or so. Those Dell Axims are tempting.

Yep, I am online. I am in the middle of a domain/server change and it is having it's share of kinks. They screwed up my request to register a domain and the test url is hosing up my blogware. Argh!

Aah, PDA's... it's just simply amazing that this little thing destroys my first PC. A 75 Mhz Pentium with 40 mb of memory. And that was after I spent a few hundred $$ to upgrade the memory. That was way back in good old 1995.

First PC stories... heh. My first PC was a 486DX33 with 16MB that I built with my dad in 1992. I ran Win3.1, OS/2 Warp 3, and Slackware Linux on it during different times of its life. I was actually able to sell it in '96 or '97 for $50 (I think).

Hey, I remember that 486... hell, I think one time I visited you in Buffalo you were running Windows, OS/2 *and* Slackware.

My first PC was a 386DX/40 with a whopping 4MB RAM. Ran Windows 3.1, then WFW3.11 (thanks, Alex), then got retired in favor of a 486DX2/66 I got from a neighbor.

Actually, now that I think about it. My first computer was a Commodore 64. I had a super speedy 300 baud modem that I used to frequent the local BBS's in Hanover Pa. I also had the snail speed cassette tape drive. YIKES! However, I did shell out $220 for an external FS1 Accelerator Plus 5.25 floppy. That was state of the art! Can ya beat that with maybe a TRS80 (our school computers)?

My first actual computer was the TI-99/4a. Complete with analog-cassette-tape drive and "Tombstone City". The first PC in our house was a Kaypro luggable 8088 with dual 5.25" floppy drives. The first PC notebook in our house was a Zenith 286 with dual 3.5" floppy drives.

Old school enough for you? ;)

Oh man! Tombstone City. I loved that game. I never had a TI/99, but every weekend when my mom went to Hills Department Store, I stayed at the TI on display and played the whole time. I remember the super slim (NOT!) Zenith 286 you are speaking of also. It's hard to believe the TI originally sold for $5,000! And let us not forget the IBM AT and XT. Back when "PC" was "IBM Compatible". And Tandy was in there too, somewhere.

Oh how I miss my PEEK and POKE commands. I think I may have invented the "smiley". Back in Mr. Spangler's high school computer class when you needed a seperate 5.25 floppy for each student to boot the TRS(trash)-80... I nabbed this chic's disk (back then, disc had a k, not a c). I set it up to exec an "auto" program to display text reveaing my affinity for her. The I did something like a POKE (123,456) and it changed her cursor to a blinking smiley face. Aah, young geek love. Thanks for the memories!

I had to giggle when I read that you "POKE"d that chick. ;)

Slightly OT: I believe the convention for disk/disc is that magnetically-read data is on disks, and that optically-read data is on discs. I.E. hard DISK drives, compact DISC drives. I believe magneto-optical media are called discs because they are read optically (but recorded magnetically!). Ain't that confusing?