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Thursday, December 12, 2002

A great essay by Tim O'Reilly on piracy. Read it. He clearly knows what he's talking about. [Scripting News]
1:53:10 PM

Bell Canada Turns Payphones into Public Hotspots

Bell Canada Turns Payphones into Public Hotspots
Posted by michael on Wednesday December 11, @11:59AM
from the please-deposit-five-cents-for-the-next-1000-bytes dept.
turing0 writes "Bell Canada yesterday announced a trial of a new public wifi hotspot service - currently free - with locations in either airports, railway stations or bus terminals in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Kingston. Bell has adopted an interesting twist on the hotspot in that they have built a steel armored case, in which to house the AP, a DSL modem and power supply, which is the exact dimensions of a payphone -- and mounted the whole thing in place of a single phone where there are banks of them such as you see in airports and bus terminals or subways. According to this article in the Globe and Mail Bell has still not determined the pricing model."

[Slashdot]

11:06:07 AM

Nvidia software gets cozier with Linux. The graphics chip leader releases an updated version of its driver that focuses on enhancements for PCs running the Linux operating system. [CNET News.com]
11:04:01 AM

John Robb: "There are over 1,000 schools worldwide (Caltech, Berkeley, Harvard, Dartmouth, Innsbruck, Vanderbilt, Cambridge, Iowa, Middlebury, Washington, Nebraska Public Schools, Denver Public Schools, and many more) using UserLand's Manila." [Scripting News]
10:59:42 AM

The Wi-Fi Boom. The wireless networking system called Wi-Fi seems to be turning up everywhere, letting computer users go onling in parks and coffeehouses. By Adam Baer. [New York Times: Technology]

Part of a special report on Wi-Fi, all linked from this article.

10:56:11 AM

Some news coverage of Boalt Hall's interim dean. Some news coverage of Boalt Hall's interim dean: The Mercury News reports here that "Law library director to lead Boalt for now; Professor Well-Liked by Students and Well-Respected in his Field." And The Oakland Tribune offers a short article on the appointment of an interim dean here. [How Appealing]
10:46:32 AM

Web-hosting company to buy Trellix. Interland, which sells its services to small and medium-size businesses, plans to acquire Dan Bricklin's Web site tools company in a cash and stock deal worth $9.75 million. [CNET News.com]
10:41:41 AM