On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 at 23:24 -0600, Dan Wilson wrote: > > 2. Reconfiguring wireless on my laptop every time I sit down on a new > > wireless network is not something I have time to do. > > What flavor of Linux have you run? I am using SuSE 9.3 with Gnome 2.10 > and there is a nice little applet (netapplet) that allows you to easily > switch between wired and wireless. It also detects nearby access points > and provides a nice interface to configure each one.
You must have a wireless card that came with decent software if you don't have to mess with wireless everytime you sit down on a new network. This is definitely not a standard thing between cards - some are harder than others - and the default windows way is sometimes disabled by the card (and isn't automatic). Most cards come with software that is easier then the command-line tools in linux, yes. But there are things on linux to make it a no-brainer. I use waproamd. Whenever I enter a new wireless network, if it is wide open I am connected automatically. If it needs a wep key, I just have to save that key to a file, and I am connected automatically that time and every time in the future. No clicking, no fussing. > > 3. This may seem trite (and it's hard to explain): > > I use a program in Windows called "canman". It runs in my system > > tray. Commands I commonly use, passwords, user names, little > > snippets of code, are all stored here. To access a command I > > simply right click on the CanMan program in the system tray to > > selected my stored command, and viola, it is in my copy buffer, > > ready to use in the program I am working on or to post a command > > to the putty session I may be in. I have tried and tested many > > different programs to find something similar, but all to no avail. I haven't seen anything exactly like this. There are clipboard history system tray things that are along the same lines, and for storing sensitive information I use Gringotts. If this is the only thing keeping you from using linux, I bet you could find someone to write it if you yourself are not a programmer. Here's an alternative - keep it in a file which you bookmark in firefox as a sidebar. In X, selecting is copying to the clipboard, and I don't think selecting something in a sidebar is any slower than right-click and choosing. If you don't have a browser handy all the time, keep an xterm in the corner with it. If you go on xterm-closing rampages all the time like I do, make an alias that cats your file in the current xterm. If none of those are convenient, make a shortcut on the taskbar of whatever desktop you use to fire up an editor with that file open. One click and a select again. -- .O. Hans Fugal | De gustibus non disputandum est. ..O http://hans.fugal.net | Debian, vim, mutt, ruby, text, gpg OOO | WindowMaker, gaim, UTF-8, RISC, JS Bach --------------------------------------------------------------------- GnuPG Fingerprint: 6940 87C5 6610 567F 1E95 CB5E FC98 E8CD E0AA D460
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