[Info-vax] Happy 25th birthday Macintosh !

[bradhamilton]

Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> In article <00A8632F.C649C070 at sendspamhere.org>,
> 	VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
>   
>> Dick about with getting wireless ethernet working. 
>>     
>
> Now that I think about it, the Mac is the only machine that has been uinable
> to connect to the secure wireless network we set up. (WPA-II Enterprise with
> Radius Authentication and Logging) This one user has kept us from rolling
> this out and shutting down the old system for more than a year.  I think the
> general concensus is that we are just going to leave him behind because we
> can no longer afford to stay on obsolete (and insecure) technology because
> of one user.
>
> bill
>
>   
I've been reading  your recent posts about Mac (and OS X, and your local 
Mac "guru") with much amusement recently.  I've actually used Ubuntu 
(and other Linux distributions), FreeBSD, AND OS X, and I can tell you 
that I've never had a problem with connecting with my own secure 
wireless network using OS X - it "just worked" (as opposed to Ubuntu, 
where I ran into many issues, and needed to consult the Ubuntu fora 
*many times* before I was finally able to connect reliably), and as 
opposed to FreeBSD V6.1, which was even more of a pain (with 
considerably less helpful folks - RTFM must be a religious chant to 
them).  So your experience is not like mine (and, I suspect, not like 
many others').

Then again, I could talk (or scream) about Vista/XP, which decided not 
to see my wireless network, because SSID is not broadcast.  When I 
finally found out that M$oft considers "non-broadcastable" SSID a 
security issue, and specifically designed Vista/XP to ignore SSID that 
were not broadcast, I had to restrain myself from uncontrollable 
laughter!  Imagine M$oft trying to teach folks about security!

Then Downadup/Cornficker appeared a few weeks later...