Monday, November 18, 2002

We talked about this in class..... here is more info! Secret U.S. court OKs electronic spying. A secretive federal court grants police broad authority to monitor Internet usage, record keystrokes and employ other surveillance methods against terror and espionage suspects. [CNET News.com] There are lots of other good stories following this one....   10:38:08 PM    comment []

News on 802.11g Linksys to ship 54 Mbps, 802.11g draft compliant hardware first week of December: Linksys announced today that they would be shipping three products that complied with the current draft of 802.11g in early December. 802.11g is the faster, but backwards compatible flavor of 802.11b (2.4 GHz Wi-Fi), that will be ratified by mid-2003. Several companies have recently announced chipsets and equipment to ship early next year. Linksys is using Broadcom chipsets. A company spokesperson said in an interview that Linksys intended this equipment to be fully firmware upgradable to the ratified release standards, as well as for WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) support. [80211b News] 10:37:06 PM    comment []

Anyone Playing any of the online Xbox games? Xbox comes with a NIC and has online games like Unreal.  Is anyone playing any of these? How is the online experience?  Comments are welcome! 1:57:53 PM    comment []