802.1X capable card for Pre-AirPort Macs

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It looks like I found a wireless card that does work with 802.1X (other than Apple-branded cards) for users of older Macintoshes. The MacWireless 11g Card works fine in a student's Lombard with OS X 10.3. This is the same student who had tried the misleading D-Link card in the past, and she bought this one on my suggestion: So, if you've got any users out there who have pre-AirPort Macs that they want to get on an 802.1X network, this is the only solution I've found so far, it uses the integrated Apple AirPort drivers, so setup is identical to the AirPort cards. We're using PEAP and MSCHAPv2 here, and so far it seems to be working great, even if this 333Mhz G3 is a bit slow.

Secret AAC Support for Mac TiVo users

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The new TiVo Desktop software for Macintosh (version 1.9) will check to see if you have Lame installed (packaged here), and if so, will let you play back your AAC files from iTunes through your TiVo and any TV or stereo system you have connected to it. This isn't documented anywhere, so it looks like someone either snuck it in, or they aren't ready to support it until 2.0, but for those of us who didn't want to re-rip our entire music collections to play them back through our TiVos, it's great news.

Bad Car Day

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Last night the automatic window motor on our 2001 Camry started acting up, after a bunch of hassling with it, I at least got the passenger side window rolled back up, so we could drive it until we schedule it to be fixed. Then this morning, while driving it, some cold snow blew back from the top of the hood onto the hot window, and the sudden temperature change cracked the windshield for the entire width of it. Since my deductible is $500, it looks like I'm out around $200-$250 for a new windshield now.