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{ Monthly Archives } February 2004

Broadband Over Powerlines – A Very Bad Idea

ZDNet AnchorDesk: Why broadband over power lines is a bad idea

Broadband Over Powerlines(BPL) is a very bad idea because of the interfernce it will cause to other radio services – amateur, military, shortwave broadcasters, etc. There has to be a better way to get broadband into a user’s home.

2004 02 27 Ham Comments

GUI Interfaces For Linux Apps

The Luxury of Ignorance: An Open-Source Horror Story Eric Raymond talks about his problems trying to share a printer on his home network using the CUPS GUI interface. I have encounterd similar problems configuring Samba and adding a CDRW. The developers should try to make their GUI interfaces work more like the Mac’s. [...]

2004 02 27 Uncategorized Comments