Please confirm "weak link" idea of wireless encryption standard
Posted by admin / Under Lan (name)I think my understanding is correct, but want to make sure. Suppose I have a wireless network. All of the computers but one are capable of supporting WPA. That one computer supports only WEP, either due to the operating system or the card it has. Am I correct that - If I want this one computer to be on the wireless network the way it is, EVERYONE ELSE also has to be WEP? - Conversely, if this computer remains the way it is, but I really DO want everyone to to WPA, then this one computer either has to upgrade,...
Boeing Confirms Chile's LAN Airlines Order for Boeing 767-300s
Posted by admin / Under Lan (name)SEATTLE, Aug. 2, 2005 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] confirmed today Chile-based LAN Airlines recently placed additional firm orders for six Boeing 767-300 airplanes. The order includes a combination of 767-300 freighters and 767-300ERs (Extended Range). These six 767s were previously designated to an "unidentified" customer on the Boeing Commercial Airplanes Orders and Deliveries Web site. These orders are in addition to six 767s ordered by the airline last year. The announcement came during a delivery ceremony late last week for the first of the 12 airplanes on order. Absa Cargo, an affiliate of LAN Airlines, took delivery of...
Video-game 'orgies' for devoted players
Posted by admin / Under Lan (name)Video-game 'orgies' for devoted players By Steven Zeitchik The New York Times BUTLER, New Jersey At least once a month, James Callari, 36, grabs some cans of the energy drink Red Bull, packs up his computer and tells his girlfriend he is going out to play some video games. Don't bother waiting up, he says: he won't be back for two or three days. Callari's destination is a LAN party, an intense, almost ritualistic convocation of gamers that has been springing up - almost invisibly - all over the world. While Asian gamers have long gathered at cybercafés to play...



