I'm using 10.4.11.. I know - Dark Ages.. I'm going to upgrade to
Snow Leopard soon as I hope it will make my *first generation*
MacBook - you know, no real 802.11n option, no bluetooth, a limit of
2-3 gigs of memory instead of all 4 it can hold - unless someone has
hacked the EFI, but really - a new Mac would be the thing to do.
It's already started developing that strange problem where it will
wake up and the go to sleep again and keep power cycling like this
while closed, and sometimes do that odd thing where the computer is
awake but "comatose" - so I have to hard-restart it.
Especially if the new Unibodies have those rumored Silver-Zinc
batteries (anybody actually know?) - for some reason I'm rather
itching to try that - probably because they don't fall apart after 2
years or 600 cycles). And presumably both zinc and silver are not
quite as toxic as lithium - although I could be wrong.. Hope the
price of silver doesn't spike though. What I'm really waiting for is
biologically "grown" (modified thin rod-virus - "white biotech")
anodes and cathodes for.. probably any kind of battery. Search
around in Scientific American for the brief - DARPA is funding it for
now - it's probably hit the shelves in.. oh 7-10 years.
Anyway, my problem is the "None of your preferred networks can be
found. Do you want to join the open network Zionet?" dialog. Zionet
is my home network, which is open but the wireless is MAC locked
(perhaps not a good idea, as MAC can be spoofed). But the thing is,
ZioNet is on the "preferred networks" list in the Networks Airport
panel. So why is it asking me this? Unless an open network is
assumed to not be "trusted" by definition (which really is a good idea).
Or is there some preference file that's gotten corrupted that I
should trash and just start over?
Jim
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