On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, profile wrote:
> Hen, > > I read with great interest. I don't know about 90% of what you are saying, > but it is very interesting and I for one want you to let us know what you > are finding. Thanks. My latest find on Windows is http://www.theopencd.org, a group who have a downloadable CD of the good open source desktop software. They mention doing the same thing for Macs, which would I think be a very good idea. Fink, fink.sourceforge.net, already does this somewhat, but is aimed a bit more at the average linux/bsd user. > Personally I don't like a thing about the Windows world, possibly it has > more to do with the way Gates has attained his position, but still I should > not hide my head and fail to learn from those who use these machines. Me neither, though a lot of those issues are in the Mac world too [the stupidity of licences, programs that don't let you get into the guts of them when you need to etc]. I have at least had one breakthrough. Apparantly Ascii and Hex WEP keys are 'happily' interchangable. So: 4142434445 as a 40bit hex WEP key is equal to ABCDE as a 40bit ascii WEP key. where the ascii value for A is 41 B is 42 etc. So as long as a hex WEP key does not contain any characters below 20 [20 is the hex for a space character. thigns below 20 are control characters and thus hard to type] then I can probably convert my hex key by hand. By using a conversion table, like the one found at http://www.asciitable.com/ Again, not OS X specific, but still quite useful to know. Hen | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
