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Remember The 3G Project articles? Shortly before it got serious I discovered there was a TV/Radio tower about 3.5 miles to my south that a start-up leased space on to offer WiFi service. The tower’s in the town of Schulter, and the guy that runs it said I was way out of the subscribing area. His setup is plain vanilla [...]
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Yesterday was a busy meeting day for me (9 meetings in 8 hours) and we all know that on days like those your brain can get a little mushy. But my last meeting yesterday was one of the best one’s I’ve had lately because it revealed to me just how important strategic planning can be [...]
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PC Die-hard Switches to Mac
I love those Mac commercials. I really do, but I never really thought seriously about switching to Mac. I put up with the degrading performance over time of my PCs, I was even okay with the occasional rebuild – from scratch – just to get a fresh start. The cost of two days of productivity [...]
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The 3 G Project – Part 3
After researching antenna mounting options for the last couple of weeks, I’ve come up with a hybrid design of sorts. It will incorporate features of ridgemount and tilt-over designs, and will additionally employ guying for stability. Aside from the goal of performing well, my secondary requirements are that it causes as little destruction to the roof as [...]
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The 3G Project – Update!
Today was Recon day. That’s short for reconnaissance for those unfamiliar with the term. It’s a military term that means to explore with the objective of gaining information. And gain information we did! I’m happy to report that I was wrong about the distance to 3G coverage. I took my son with me this morning, and [...]
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My wife and I own a getaway house we are renovating on a 5 acre plot of gorgeous, mother-nature decorated, out-of-the-way land. I could seriously see myself retiring here 20 years down the road, but right now I’m on a mission. You see, the techie in me just can’t quite reconcile the lack of Broadband Internet access with [...]
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Using the parameter “wmode” with a value of “transparent” in the SWf Object and Flash-fix javascript methods of deploying flash in cross-browser applications will cause the flash feature to either not display, or intermittently display with Mac systems running Firefox browsers. When the “wmode” parameter is removed, the flash feature will reappear. There is no [...]
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A typically sound password strength policy should require a mix of Upper and lower case alpha characters OR one of the cases with at least one number, AND a special character, like an exclamation point! Here are a couple of examples of passwords that would pass the policy referenced above: ftff6485! – Meets the requirement [...]
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Smokin Vista and The Mac
We have always been a Windows shop here at DirectClarity. Then, like most of us, we became victims of Vista. I have become accustomed to my monster desktop with two 22″ monitors doing the equivalent of taking a smoke break every hour or so. I really enjoy those moments without my computer – the time [...]
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