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It's wireless, it's crazy. There's a crapload of wireless access points (APs)
at every conference, and I think the number is getting bigger every year. I've
brought two laptops, my work laptop as well as my Toshiba TabletPC m205. The
Toshiba comes with a FANTASTIC program called ConfigFree.
You kind of have to see it to believe it. It's an application built with Flash,
so it's very fluid. It's also an irregular region and it's transparent.
The dots represent APs and the farther out they are, the weaker their signal.
The AP that I'm currently associated with has a line drawn to it. They float
around as the strengths change.
At the hotel when I hold the laptop near the window on the 31st floor I see SEVEN
wireless networks and 3 of them are unsecured. Needless to say, I'm enjoying
the free Internet from the office building across the way. I may just print
them out a surprise message on their unsecured network printer for someone to see
on Monday morning.
I'm also running the RC1 of Windows SP2. I'm very much digging SP2. The
new wireless dialogs are singularly worth the upgrade.
One concern: everyone needs to buy AntiVirus software. You know you have cousins
who don't have any. What do you use? I use eTrust from CA. I hear
that AVG has a nice AVG Free
Edition.
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