Dell’s Powerconnect 5224
Tom’s hardware has a review of the Dell Powerconnect 5224 which is a very nice, $2200 Gigabit Ethernet switch. Gigabit Ethernet adaptors can be bought for about $50 per nic now. It’s good to see some decent swiches come to market. Now, if only you could buy a 64-bit fiber optic PCI Ethernet card for a reasonable amount of money…
Hatti-san Attacks
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Here’s another shot of Hatti-san attacking it’s arch nemesis, the evil mashimaro. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. |
Hatti-san
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This is a picture of Monza’s sister Ying Ying’s dog in Hong Kong. The dog doesn’t have a name yet, but I was hoping they would name it Hatti-san. |
Benchmark Page
I added a benchmark page that has the charts that I produced in August.
WPC11 Version 3 on Redhat 8.0
I added a guide on how I managed to get a Linksys WPC11 Version 3 wireless NIC to work with Redhat 8.0 on a laptop.
Articles Page Updated
I updated the articles page to contain a lot of the stuff that’s linked on the left hand side, and a couple of things that aren’t listed.
Wireless Network
I finally put together a wireless 802.11b network. It surprisingly only cost about $180 for the gear to do it. I’m using a DLINK DI-714 Access Point and a Linksys WPC11 Version 3 PCMCIA card on a Redhat 8.0 laptop.
Dogs of the Linux Shell
LinuxJournal is running an excellent article about useful, but seldom-used Unix commands. I was skeptical when it started off explaining “head”, “tail”, “tac”, and “nl”, however, I actually learned a couple of commands like “fold” and “fmt” which I had never used previously.
Monza’s Beautiful Painting
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Monza is infinitely proud of this picture that she completed on Saturday in her oil painting class. She’s thinking of moving to the south of France, and starting a new profession as an artist. |
Wireless Security
Owen Stubbs cobbled together a guide for improving wireless security of wireless (802.11) Ethernet networks.
I’ve been contemplating installing a wireless access point for sometime, but have held-off due to the fact they’re expensive, and I didn’t really need it. Now that prices have come down considerably, I’m starting to consider it again. If I do decide to install one, I would at the very least implement Owen’s Level 1 and Level 2 security suggestions.
