On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Bill Rising wrote:
> On 12/29/2002 14:31, Henri Yandell wrote > > This won't worry me for a while, 'cuz at worst I'd have to run Win2000 > over Virtual PC - and security wouldn't be a worry, because any packet > sniffer would fall asleep waitng for VPC to send the packets ;<) I've just worked out my stupidity here. You can manually convert a hex key to an ascii key. Will try tonight. > I'll just try to get the DNS server running on the file server in the > basement. Scary. That's exactly what I did [looks for hidden cameras etc]. > >No idea. Insight were giving the modems away when I got one I think. They > >have monthly (quarterly?) different offer schemes. Check what the current > >one is and when it runs out just in case. > > I feel kinda dumb asking this, but how did you check for specials. The > Insight web site has looked the same to me every time I've visited it, > wondering if there were any deals. Perhaps I'm looking at the wrong place > (http://www.insight-com.com/net/ and then following the links to the > pricing). They want $100 for a modem. When you phone them, they announce them on the phone message I think. Insight are a classic example of a company who do not operate through their website. It's useless. They won't tell you what the next special will be, but they did tell me when the current special expired. If it's a few weeks away, it wouldn't hurt much to wait. When you phone up to order, they are very open about the special deals and don't try to sham you. One such deal is that they do 10 dollars off if you get TV and Internet from them. With reflection, I realise that part of why I know this is becasue I missed the free modem deal. By a week or so. I paid it off in 3 installments through the normal bill. Before then it was 10 dollars I think. It was a busy time, so sorry for being a bit vacuous about it :) > [snip...] > > > >For an Apple laptop, I would only use an airport card. It plugs into the > >machine internally and not through the PCMCIA, leaving that port free for > >other devices. This is worth the $23. If the apple card doesn't go > >in internally due to age of the laptop, then it depends on your OS > >preferences. Buying an orinoco means you can use it in other > >machines/OSes, whereas buying airport means you can use it in your next > >Apple machine internally. > > This plus the comments you sent later about the setup of the card not > being obvious for the Orninoco makes me lean towards the Airport card. > I'll have to see what my wife's Powerbook g3 looks like for installing > cards internally. My guess is that the card stays outside. With my wife's iBook, she lifted the keyboard off and slotted it in. For the G4 Powerbook though you have to unscrew the back and slot it in. Good luck on the G3 Pwrbk. Hen | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
