Back from the North Woods

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I'm back in Iowa, and connected to the world once again, albeit via dial-up until I get home on Monday. I had 287 messages in my inbox today, which caused Thunderbird some consternation at first, but I finally got most of them read and/or deleted. Now to figure out what I missed out on during the communcations blackout that results from being in a remote cabin. While setting down my luggage, I noticed the new Newsweek on my grandparents' table, and realized that it was showcasing a brand new iPod, so I immediately grabbed it to get up to date. Now to download that 10MB iPod software update that my PowerBook is urging me to get, maybe it'll update something on my iPod Mini?

Success

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I managed to get 802.1x up and running today, at least in a test Active Directory forest. And I managed to get my Mac and a Windows XP box to authenticate through it, this should give me enough to show off to the big-wigs at work so they can decide what it is we're doing for wireless this fall. The 802.1x solution is cheap, but Mac users prior to 10.3 aren't going to work out of the box, nor are Windows users prior to Windows 2000 SP4. But, when you think about it, how many people use wireless that don't meet those system requirements? Not very many...