Monthly Archives: January 2004

Loop, Mix, Burn

The Tao of Mac: Why GarageBand Matters

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Wireless Generation

Tom Hoffman: “Sitting in a presentation by Larry Berger from Wireless Generation on their products for taking reading and math assessment input on Palms and providing visualization and other services via the web.”

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MenuMeters for Mac OS X

Teal Sunglasses: “MenuMeters is a neat little utility that puts CPU, Memory usage, disk and Network into little menu items on the bar.”

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Buttle, Tuttle? Who’s minding this store?

Mark Frauenfelder: Why can’t Homeland Security tell the difference between Al Quaeda and my six-year-old daughter?

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"Bookscan: for better, or worse?"

Dave Taylor: “All of my author friends are familiar with a company called bookscan, that purports to offer unbiased quantified data about book sales throughout all outlets. But do they?”

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The Problem of Planning a Sense of Place

Shawn Wallace: “…social momentum is a sign of a healthy public life; people produce a great deal, artistically and otherwise; individuals find themselves learning more (and memorizing less) and maybe even becoming a little more understanding and compassionate.”

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"Coffee Houses Cross Paths with History, Again"

Glenn Fleishman points to something that’s very dear to me: “coffee houses were often the mailing addresses for folks before street addresses were common.” In the early 1990s, when I was still in college, I fell in love with the … Continue reading

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Mac OS X, Radius, 802.1x and Windows XP

This is one of those things where I was way over my head. I’ve been trying to set up an 802.1x-protected access point at home with support for EAP, PEAP, and EAP-TTLS. Why? So I could connect to it from … Continue reading

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Setting up RADIUS on Win2000 Server

Continuing my theme of running a RADIUS server on different operating systems today, I tried to set up Windows 2000 Server’s Internet Authentication Services as the RADIUS authentication for a D-Link DWL-900AP+ (a cheap Wi-Fi access point that does 802.1x). … Continue reading

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Compiling FreeRADIUS on Mac OS X

This tip worked for me. (That is, it got it to compile; I’ll update this entry if I have to do anything special to make it work). [Update] It didn’t work, but this looks promising.

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