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["David R. Matusiak" <matusiak AT speakeasy.net>]

RE: public wireless - the only place i know that actually has a set-up is the 
Regulator Bookstore in Durham. there have been many rumours that large chain 
bookstores (like Barnes&Noble and Borders) would start doing this. also, i 
think 
the 257,922 Starbucks around the nation are supposed to start offering this 
soon. i imagine there would be fees associated with this??

UNC has it all over the place, but your MAC address must be registered with 
the 
university and i believe you have to be either a student, faculty, or staff. 
(Bill G. seconds my opinion here...)

RE: Mac OSX - i would suggest wiping the disc ('cause it will come with OS 9 
installed as well) and doing a fresh install of OSX. maybe you will be lucky 
enough to get a copy of Jaguar (OSX 10.2)?? 

i can't really comment on running linux or *bsd on the machine, altho it is 
capable. but i wonder -- besides a sick fascination to simply "change the 
machine somehow" what exactly is the purpose? are you going to gain a better 
interface? i would bet money that is impossible. are you going to gain more 
stability? perhaps, but are you running a production webserver off of your 
laptop? 

the whole concept eludes me. but, yeah, you could run X and all the linux 
apps 
you want. why cripple a champion racehorse?
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On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Michael Winslow Czeiszperger wrote:

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> I ordered my first wireless laptop computer and was wondering if there's 
> any 
> public places around here where you can access a network? I'd heard that 
> some 
> coffee shops, for example, have wireless networks, but how do you know 
> which 
> ones?  (I live in Chapel Hill and work in N. Raleigh)
> 
> The specific laptop I'm getting is a Powerbook G4, and I'm trying to decide 
> on 
> the OS. I'm using Linux right now, and have the option of either using some 
> of the same Linux programs on OSX (like KDE) or just installing a Linux 
> distribution...
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> - -- 
> Michael Winslow Czeiszperger
> czei at webperformanceinc d o t c o m
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