The story about a wireless hijacking, and this related piece about Two cautioned over wi-fi 'theft' is interesting, but sadly all too easy.

My wi-fi is protected, not only with encryption, but also by restricting by MAC address and deliberately hiding the wi-fi service. However, there are no less than five wifi services from other houses which are neither hidden, nor restrictive, and not one of them requires a password to connect or any type of encryption.

The story about a wireless hijacking, and this related piece about Two cautioned over wi-fi 'theft' is interesting, but sadly all too easy.

My wi-fi is protected, not only with encryption, but also by restricting by MAC address and deliberately hiding the wi-fi service. However, there are no less than five wifi services from other houses which are neither hidden, nor restrictive, and not one of them requires a password to connect or any type of encryption.

The story about a wireless hijacking, and this related piece about Two cautioned over wi-fi 'theft' is interesting, but sadly all too easy.

My wi-fi is protected, not only with encryption, but also by restricting by MAC address and deliberately hiding the wi-fi service. However, there are no less than five wifi services from other houses which are neither hidden, nor restrictive, and not one of them requires a password to connect or any type of encryption.

The story about a wireless hijacking, and this related piece about Two cautioned over wi-fi 'theft' is interesting, but sadly all too easy.

My wi-fi is protected, not only with encryption, but also by restricting by MAC address and deliberately hiding the wi-fi service. However, there are no less than five wifi services from other houses which are neither hidden, nor restrictive, and not one of them requires a password to connect or any type of encryption.

According this this story, and the the original BBC story, the UK population is going to be able to request a home energy meter that will tell us how much energy is being used and how much it is costing.

The meters themselves are a stop gap until we get proper smart meters, but they should help us monitor what is going on. Unfortunately these units wont be good enough that we'll be able to get and long term (or even short term) information without manually recording the details, but it's a good start.

According this this story, and the the original BBC story, the UK population is going to be able to request a home energy meter that will tell us how much energy is being used and how much it is costing.

The meters themselves are a stop gap until we get proper smart meters, but they should help us monitor what is going on. Unfortunately these units wont be good enough that we'll be able to get and long term (or even short term) information without manually recording the details, but it's a good start.

The biggest worry among geeks at the moment is not global warming. It is the ongoing shortage of Internet capacity.

Two stories today highlight the problem. The first, at the BBC website talks about the impending problems of the ever growing need for bandwidth and some of the potential solutions for fixing them. As the commentary mentions, we may well require a completely new suite of technology to replace the aging packet based solution we currently use.

Such radical ideas will be tough and expensive to implement, and it's not clear at this stage how this will work with some other solutions which are rapidly moving towards the packet switched model.

The biggest worry among geeks at the moment is not global warming. It is the ongoing shortage of Internet capacity.

Two stories today highlight the problem. The first, at the BBC website talks about the impending problems of the ever growing need for bandwidth and some of the potential solutions for fixing them. As the commentary mentions, we may well require a completely new suite of technology to replace the aging packet based solution we currently use.

Such radical ideas will be tough and expensive to implement, and it's not clear at this stage how this will work with some other solutions which are rapidly moving towards the packet switched model.

I'll admit to be thoroughly impressed with my two Apple notebooks. I have both a MacBook (13in) and MacBook Pro (17in). I have no problem on either running pretty much anything I want, and on the 17in MBP I frequently run multiple virtual machines within Parallels. Part of that is undoubtedly due to the Intel Core Duo CPU. Of course, that doesn't mean I'm satisfied - I could always use more horsepower if it was available.

Intel's next revision, dubbed Santa Rosa, is due out soon, and I'd love to see it in some new notebooks, as it allows for some better performance increases, including the ability to ramp up the GHz on an individual core (instead of both at the same time), which should mean more speed with a lower power cost. This article goes into a bit more detail.

I'll admit to be thoroughly impressed with my two Apple notebooks. I have both a MacBook (13in) and MacBook Pro (17in). I have no problem on either running pretty much anything I want, and on the 17in MBP I frequently run multiple virtual machines within Parallels. Part of that is undoubtedly due to the Intel Core Duo CPU. Of course, that doesn't mean I'm satisfied - I could always use more horsepower if it was available.

Intel's next revision, dubbed Santa Rosa, is due out soon, and I'd love to see it in some new notebooks, as it allows for some better performance increases, including the ability to ramp up the GHz on an individual core (instead of both at the same time), which should mean more speed with a lower power cost. This article goes into a bit more detail.