Water Intoxication

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A student in California has died as part of a fraternity hazing ritual, but rather than the usual alcohol poisoning, this student died from ingesting too much water. If it was alcohol, you could bet your ass that there'd be some crackdown on booze, but somehow I don't think they're going to start restricting access to the faucets. My point here is that stupid behavior is what kills these people, it has almost nothing to do with what they're ingesting, so let's not blame the alcohol, let's start banning the Greek systems instead. Harsh? Yeah, it is, but seriously, why would you want to join an organization that does this to its members? Have some self-respect.

It's a feature!

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This satirical Mac Mini review has an hilarious final paragraph. [via Macintouch]:

"So is the mini a maxi value? For me, clearly, no. When I consider that a good deal of my time is spent running applications like Disk Defragmenter, Scandisk, Norton AV, Windows Update and Ad-Aware--none of which are available for the Mac platform--it doesn't make sense for me to "switch" to a Mac at this time"

That pretty much sums up my reasons to get a Mac, you spend all your time using it and not fixing it.

DLink Stinks - Beware the DWL-G650X which has no 802.1X

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Just a word of warning about the DLink DWL-G560X wireless card, DLink sells this card exclusively for Macs, and claims numerous times on their web site (and in the PDF data sheet and in the specifications) that it will work with 802.1X: Except that there isn't actually any 802.1X support!!!!!!!!!

I had a student bring it in with her Lombard today, and there's nothing in the utility to configure 802.1X. I called their Tech Support, and I slowly repeated myself about three times, they confirmed that the web site is wrong. The card only supports WPA-PSK and WEP, which are consumer-grade encryption at best.

Considering the student's father specifically bought this card for 802.1X support, I hope they're able to return it, but I just didn't want anyone else to fall victim to the same trap. D-Link claimed that they'd change the web site, but since this is how "Ejaz Mahfuz" wrote up my call, I doubt it's going to happen soon:

  • In the product manual there is no option to setup the utiliyt with the security 802.1x.
  • Neither it says in the local websit.
  • But the product description on the site is not right about the security about the 802.1x.