Tech Talk Guest: Don Bailey HP-Compaq Merger is approved
Super Tuesday approval 9:1 Both stock drop Expect layoff during merger
Free e-mail will soon be history Wireless ISP Movement
Last week we discussed Bill Wiecking, who is networking the Big Island Strength of National Movement National Trend for Public Access Points
San Francisco Bay Area, 257; Seattle, 154; New York, 107; Dallas, 105; Houston, 64; Austin, 34; Atlanta, 29; Phoenix, 22; Chicago, 21; Orlando, 20; Los Angeles, 17; Orange County, 17; Boston, 11;Philadelphia, 7; Cleveland, 6;Northern Virginia, 7 Global Access Wireless Database (www.shmoo.com )
Database of legitimate public access points
NetStumbler
How to discover unauthorized Access Points Database of AP mappings Award winning NetStumbler Software
Wirelessanarchy
Worldwide listing of wireless access groups Much activity in Europe US seems to be lagging begin
Freenetworks Consortium
Consortium of wireless network proponents
PersonalTelco Project
Community Networking consortium
Commercial Wireless Ventures
Boingo — Subscription server for hotels, airport access.Sputnik.com — Bandwidth sharing and billing system
What is happening in this area?
Magnetic Strip on Driver?s License an Information Boon for Bar
Used by The Rack, a bar in Boston Barcode includes name, address, birth date, other personal details, height, eye color, SSN Scan 10,00 people per week 40 States have bar codes Privacy advocates alarmed by trend (beware of national ID card)
Conference Update Google News
Google Takes on Supercomputer Projects
Experiment now being conducted with 500 people Sharing clock cycles using the latest toolbar version of Google Folding@home project at Stanford to analyze genetic information
Latest example of distributed computer movement
Google Zeitgeist
Most searched terms Winner and loser search term categories
GoogleWhacking
Finding the Perfect word combo (4, 5, or 6 words) Get a single page only
Stratford News
Health Fair at Potomac Mill Shopping Center
Saturday, March 23 Healthy Cooking Demos and IT Technology Advice All day long, beginning at 10AM
Stratford Culinary Finalist in IACP Outstanding US Culinary School Competition Next starts is April 22nd
Still time to enroll for Woodbridge for Tysons Corner Admissions reps standing by now
New Equipment in IT Department this week
Cisco 7500 Router, fully loaded Cisco 5503 Catalyst Switch Five more sun servers Five more Dell servers (1300, 2400, 4300)