Journal SlashReality's Journal: Wireless Laptop 6
I've been putting off surfing around for a wireless card for my powerbook for a number of reasons. First off it has some bad hardware, aka processor. Secondly this requires OS 9 and not OS X (1-2 etc). So I've been contemplating possibly upgrading to a new laptop since the processor replacement would rival the cost of a newly used laptop.
Saturday afternoon I finally looked around and stumbled upon this site. So I called up my buddy RecursiveGreen and persuaded him to bring over his PCMCIA linksys wireless network card. Amazingly enough these people from Cambridge have written drivers for many PC-centric cards to enable them to work on Apple hardware. So we walked around, tried multiple spots for the router, and even walked outside with the laptop and found that we had good signal strength even outside the house. With WEP it's not much of a concern, and hey maybe I'll actually go outside a little bit now.
So I ordered a v3 Linksys WPC11 Wireless-B Notebook Adapter from amazon.com and can't wait for it to get here. The drivers will cost $20.00 but I'd rather pay a software developer $20 and someone reselling on amazon $40 than $70 to apple for their proprietary airport card. This way I can hopefully upgrade the card cheaper as they release new versions of the drivers.
This is going to enable me to do alot more. Especially since I have bad hardware, it sometimes freezes up on script heavy webpages, or other processor tasking things like opening large applications etc. With network access I can create a Virtual Network Connection to my linux box, and run virtually any type of program. The only difference is I don't have access to local storage space which isn't even important when I begin to do all my work from within the VNC. Now I don't have to worry about it freezing, or crashing, or freaking out. Basically with my new wireless card I can do anything, before I could do hardly anything.
Saturday afternoon I finally looked around and stumbled upon this site. So I called up my buddy RecursiveGreen and persuaded him to bring over his PCMCIA linksys wireless network card. Amazingly enough these people from Cambridge have written drivers for many PC-centric cards to enable them to work on Apple hardware. So we walked around, tried multiple spots for the router, and even walked outside with the laptop and found that we had good signal strength even outside the house. With WEP it's not much of a concern, and hey maybe I'll actually go outside a little bit now.
So I ordered a v3 Linksys WPC11 Wireless-B Notebook Adapter from amazon.com and can't wait for it to get here. The drivers will cost $20.00 but I'd rather pay a software developer $20 and someone reselling on amazon $40 than $70 to apple for their proprietary airport card. This way I can hopefully upgrade the card cheaper as they release new versions of the drivers.
This is going to enable me to do alot more. Especially since I have bad hardware, it sometimes freezes up on script heavy webpages, or other processor tasking things like opening large applications etc. With network access I can create a Virtual Network Connection to my linux box, and run virtually any type of program. The only difference is I don't have access to local storage space which isn't even important when I begin to do all my work from within the VNC. Now I don't have to worry about it freezing, or crashing, or freaking out. Basically with my new wireless card I can do anything, before I could do hardly anything.
before he corrects his JE (Score:2, Funny)
So I called up my buddy RecursiveGreen and persuaded him to bring over his gigantic cock.
Wow... I didn't know you two were like that!
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I also found this fixed wonder:
This is going to enable me to do alot more. Especially since I have bad hardware, it sometimes freezes up on script heavy webpages, or other processor tasking things like looking at scat fetish porn.
Re:before he corrects his JE (Score:1)
Re:before he corrects his JE (Score:1)
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Pictures of naked people that aren't porn are confusing, similarly scat fetish pictures that aren't porn confuse me, too.