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I was watching TV tonight and I saw a commercial from Circuit City. They where advertising Lexmark's new WiFi Printers. I knew of wireless printers before but it seems now they are becoming more affordable and you can get ones that also have wireless image scanning as well. My old HP all-in-one's printing function has crapped out so I've been thinking of getting a new printer. My family hasn't been to keen on getting a wireless printer that only prints though so they may be more likely to buy one that also does scanning\copying\faxing.
The title of this comes from how I thought that all this stuff would have been even more useful 8 years ago when I was going to college and my sister also lived here and we where first getting into networking to share resources. Back then I had my printer set to share but it was in my room so when my sister would be printing stuff out in the morning she would have to come downstairs to my room while I'm sleeping and the printer is shaking my computer desk and generally making noise printing out her stuff.
Ever since then I had been fantasizing about having the printer be in a more central location but never had the right equipment to do it. I do now although I don't need that as much but I would still like to have a WiFi printer anyway. I bet my family would make use of it more than previously if it was in a location that isn't as out of the way to them as it is in my room. I wouldn't mind running upstairs to print and scan as I'm not all that lazy.
The brand I'm looking at for my printing needs is of course Lexmark. I was looking at the spec's of the printers and it looks like they are Mac compatible and include discs with Mac software. I'm thinking that perhaps that also means the wireless scanning function is also Mac compatible. Of course the scanning on my busted HP printer still works but it would be nice to be able to replace it completely with the new printer.
I'm going to want to talk to my family about this when they get home.
The only dissapointment so far is the printers don't seem to be 802.11n compatible. So I would have to turn on 802.11g in my router for them to work. I have it currently with only n since I just have one client hooked up to the router and it is an n client.
The title of this comes from how I thought that all this stuff would have been even more useful 8 years ago when I was going to college and my sister also lived here and we where first getting into networking to share resources. Back then I had my printer set to share but it was in my room so when my sister would be printing stuff out in the morning she would have to come downstairs to my room while I'm sleeping and the printer is shaking my computer desk and generally making noise printing out her stuff.
Ever since then I had been fantasizing about having the printer be in a more central location but never had the right equipment to do it. I do now although I don't need that as much but I would still like to have a WiFi printer anyway. I bet my family would make use of it more than previously if it was in a location that isn't as out of the way to them as it is in my room. I wouldn't mind running upstairs to print and scan as I'm not all that lazy.
The brand I'm looking at for my printing needs is of course Lexmark. I was looking at the spec's of the printers and it looks like they are Mac compatible and include discs with Mac software. I'm thinking that perhaps that also means the wireless scanning function is also Mac compatible. Of course the scanning on my busted HP printer still works but it would be nice to be able to replace it completely with the new printer.
I'm going to want to talk to my family about this when they get home.
The only dissapointment so far is the printers don't seem to be 802.11n compatible. So I would have to turn on 802.11g in my router for them to work. I have it currently with only n since I just have one client hooked up to the router and it is an n client.
I was watching TV tonight and I saw a commercial from Circuit City. They where advertising Lexmark's new WiFi Printers. I knew of wireless printers before but it seems now they are becoming more affordable and you can get ones that also have wireless image scanning as well. My old HP all-in-one's printing function has crapped out so I've been thinking of getting a new printer. My family hasn't been to keen on getting a wireless printer that only prints though so they may be more likely to buy one that also does scanning\copying\faxing.
The title of this comes from how I thought that all this stuff would have been even more useful 8 years ago when I was going to college and my sister also lived here and we where first getting into networking to share resources. Back then I had my printer set to share but it was in my room so when my sister would be printing stuff out in the morning she would have to come downstairs to my room while I'm sleeping and the printer is shaking my computer desk and generally making noise printing out her stuff.
Ever since then I had been fantasizing about having the printer be in a more central location but never had the right equipment to do it. I do now although I don't need that as much but I would still like to have a WiFi printer anyway. I bet my family would make use of it more than previously if it was in a location that isn't as out of the way to them as it is in my room. I wouldn't mind running upstairs to print and scan as I'm not all that lazy.
The brand I'm looking at for my printing needs is of course Lexmark. I was looking at the spec's of the printers and it looks like they are Mac compatible and include discs with Mac software. I'm thinking that perhaps that also means the wireless scanning function is also Mac compatible. Of course the scanning on my busted HP printer still works but it would be nice to be able to replace it completely with the new printer.
I'm going to want to talk to my family about this when they get home.
The only dissapointment so far is the printers don't seem to be 802.11n compatible. So I would have to turn on 802.11g in my router for them to work. I have it currently with only n since I just have one client hooked up to the router and it is an n client.
The title of this comes from how I thought that all this stuff would have been even more useful 8 years ago when I was going to college and my sister also lived here and we where first getting into networking to share resources. Back then I had my printer set to share but it was in my room so when my sister would be printing stuff out in the morning she would have to come downstairs to my room while I'm sleeping and the printer is shaking my computer desk and generally making noise printing out her stuff.
Ever since then I had been fantasizing about having the printer be in a more central location but never had the right equipment to do it. I do now although I don't need that as much but I would still like to have a WiFi printer anyway. I bet my family would make use of it more than previously if it was in a location that isn't as out of the way to them as it is in my room. I wouldn't mind running upstairs to print and scan as I'm not all that lazy.
The brand I'm looking at for my printing needs is of course Lexmark. I was looking at the spec's of the printers and it looks like they are Mac compatible and include discs with Mac software. I'm thinking that perhaps that also means the wireless scanning function is also Mac compatible. Of course the scanning on my busted HP printer still works but it would be nice to be able to replace it completely with the new printer.
I'm going to want to talk to my family about this when they get home.
The only dissapointment so far is the printers don't seem to be 802.11n compatible. So I would have to turn on 802.11g in my router for them to work. I have it currently with only n since I just have one client hooked up to the router and it is an n client.
I was watching TV tonight and I saw a commercial from Circuit City. They where advertising Lexmark's new WiFi Printers. I knew of wireless printers before but it seems now they are becoming more affordable and you can get ones that also have wireless image scanning as well. My old HP all-in-one's printing function has crapped out so I've been thinking of getting a new printer. My family hasn't been to keen on getting a wireless printer that only prints though so they may be more likely to buy one that also does scanning\copying\faxing.
The title of this comes from how I thought that all this stuff would have been even more useful 8 years ago when I was going to college and my sister also lived here and we where first getting into networking to share resources. Back then I had my printer set to share but it was in my room so when my sister would be printing stuff out in the morning she would have to come downstairs to my room while I'm sleeping and the printer is shaking my computer desk and generally making noise printing out her stuff.
Ever since then I had been fantasizing about having the printer be in a more central location but never had the right equipment to do it. I do now although I don't need that as much but I would still like to have a WiFi printer anyway. I bet my family would make use of it more than previously if it was in a location that isn't as out of the way to them as it is in my room. I wouldn't mind running upstairs to print and scan as I'm not all that lazy.
The brand I'm looking at for my printing needs is of course Lexmark. I was looking at the spec's of the printers and it looks like they are Mac compatible and include discs with Mac software. I'm thinking that perhaps that also means the wireless scanning function is also Mac compatible. Of course the scanning on my busted HP printer still works but it would be nice to be able to replace it completely with the new printer.
I'm going to want to talk to my family about this when they get home.
The only dissapointment so far is the printers don't seem to be 802.11n compatible. So I would have to turn on 802.11g in my router for them to work. I have it currently with only n since I just have one client hooked up to the router and it is an n client.
The title of this comes from how I thought that all this stuff would have been even more useful 8 years ago when I was going to college and my sister also lived here and we where first getting into networking to share resources. Back then I had my printer set to share but it was in my room so when my sister would be printing stuff out in the morning she would have to come downstairs to my room while I'm sleeping and the printer is shaking my computer desk and generally making noise printing out her stuff.
Ever since then I had been fantasizing about having the printer be in a more central location but never had the right equipment to do it. I do now although I don't need that as much but I would still like to have a WiFi printer anyway. I bet my family would make use of it more than previously if it was in a location that isn't as out of the way to them as it is in my room. I wouldn't mind running upstairs to print and scan as I'm not all that lazy.
The brand I'm looking at for my printing needs is of course Lexmark. I was looking at the spec's of the printers and it looks like they are Mac compatible and include discs with Mac software. I'm thinking that perhaps that also means the wireless scanning function is also Mac compatible. Of course the scanning on my busted HP printer still works but it would be nice to be able to replace it completely with the new printer.
I'm going to want to talk to my family about this when they get home.
The only dissapointment so far is the printers don't seem to be 802.11n compatible. So I would have to turn on 802.11g in my router for them to work. I have it currently with only n since I just have one client hooked up to the router and it is an n client.
I just read this on digg... I don't know if I agree with people who think that what this guy was doing was theft even in the sense that piracy can be considered theft. If it was a private residence that he was connecting to their WIFI it would be a different story and those people should have passwords on their wifi routers. However, In this case I would agree that a private person's wifi connection isn't meant for public use but the Public Libraries was.
But these people shouldn't be able to fall back on the analogy that they think it's like leaving a door unlocked and saying even if its unlocked that doesn't mean you can go into the building and do whatever you want. Why? Because WiFi like this is nothing like a building since you don't have any doors or areas you have to enter in order to use it. It's not even like stealing property from someones front yard because this implies that there won't be any bandwidth leftover.
No one else is even making use of the bandwidth at night so in all honesty it's typically going to waste. It's not like someone like this using the internet at night means less bandwidth for people in the morning. If anything it's like taking rain water from buckets attached to gutters at a public building in a way that there still is lots of water left for people the next day. Or using a street light outside of the libary to read your books after hours. Or like the library kept stacks of weatherproof books out in the parking lot and then got mad when someone was reading them after hours when no one else was but not taking them with him so he could then come back and read them again.
The library should shut off their router at night and then there wouldn't be any temptation for people to use their internet connection after hours. One person mentioned using a 10 dollar timer on the router and that sounds about right to me.
I guess this guy had been going around connecting to any and every unprotected wifi source that he could public or private perhaps living in people's parking lots until they chased him away so he got on the cops bad side already. But I still think part of the blame should be on the people operating unprotected open wifi hotspots.
The worst thing that someone could say about what the peson was doing was he was loitering outside the library.
But these people shouldn't be able to fall back on the analogy that they think it's like leaving a door unlocked and saying even if its unlocked that doesn't mean you can go into the building and do whatever you want. Why? Because WiFi like this is nothing like a building since you don't have any doors or areas you have to enter in order to use it. It's not even like stealing property from someones front yard because this implies that there won't be any bandwidth leftover.
No one else is even making use of the bandwidth at night so in all honesty it's typically going to waste. It's not like someone like this using the internet at night means less bandwidth for people in the morning. If anything it's like taking rain water from buckets attached to gutters at a public building in a way that there still is lots of water left for people the next day. Or using a street light outside of the libary to read your books after hours. Or like the library kept stacks of weatherproof books out in the parking lot and then got mad when someone was reading them after hours when no one else was but not taking them with him so he could then come back and read them again.
The library should shut off their router at night and then there wouldn't be any temptation for people to use their internet connection after hours. One person mentioned using a 10 dollar timer on the router and that sounds about right to me.
I guess this guy had been going around connecting to any and every unprotected wifi source that he could public or private perhaps living in people's parking lots until they chased him away so he got on the cops bad side already. But I still think part of the blame should be on the people operating unprotected open wifi hotspots.
The worst thing that someone could say about what the peson was doing was he was loitering outside the library.
I just read this on digg... I don't know if I agree with people who think that what this guy was doing was theft even in the sense that piracy can be considered theft. If it was a private residence that he was connecting to their WIFI it would be a different story and those people should have passwords on their wifi routers. However, In this case I would agree that a private person's wifi connection isn't meant for public use but the Public Libraries was.
But these people shouldn't be able to fall back on the analogy that they think it's like leaving a door unlocked and saying even if its unlocked that doesn't mean you can go into the building and do whatever you want. Why? Because WiFi like this is nothing like a building since you don't have any doors or areas you have to enter in order to use it. It's not even like stealing property from someones front yard because this implies that there won't be any bandwidth leftover.
No one else is even making use of the bandwidth at night so in all honesty it's typically going to waste. It's not like someone like this using the internet at night means less bandwidth for people in the morning. If anything it's like taking rain water from buckets attached to gutters at a public building in a way that there still is lots of water left for people the next day. Or using a street light outside of the libary to read your books after hours. Or like the library kept stacks of weatherproof books out in the parking lot and then got mad when someone was reading them after hours when no one else was but not taking them with him so he could then come back and read them again.
The library should shut off their router at night and then there wouldn't be any temptation for people to use their internet connection after hours. One person mentioned using a 10 dollar timer on the router and that sounds about right to me.
I guess this guy had been going around connecting to any and every unprotected wifi source that he could public or private perhaps living in people's parking lots until they chased him away so he got on the cops bad side already. But I still think part of the blame should be on the people operating unprotected open wifi hotspots.
The worst thing that someone could say about what the peson was doing was he was loitering outside the library.
But these people shouldn't be able to fall back on the analogy that they think it's like leaving a door unlocked and saying even if its unlocked that doesn't mean you can go into the building and do whatever you want. Why? Because WiFi like this is nothing like a building since you don't have any doors or areas you have to enter in order to use it. It's not even like stealing property from someones front yard because this implies that there won't be any bandwidth leftover.
No one else is even making use of the bandwidth at night so in all honesty it's typically going to waste. It's not like someone like this using the internet at night means less bandwidth for people in the morning. If anything it's like taking rain water from buckets attached to gutters at a public building in a way that there still is lots of water left for people the next day. Or using a street light outside of the libary to read your books after hours. Or like the library kept stacks of weatherproof books out in the parking lot and then got mad when someone was reading them after hours when no one else was but not taking them with him so he could then come back and read them again.
The library should shut off their router at night and then there wouldn't be any temptation for people to use their internet connection after hours. One person mentioned using a 10 dollar timer on the router and that sounds about right to me.
I guess this guy had been going around connecting to any and every unprotected wifi source that he could public or private perhaps living in people's parking lots until they chased him away so he got on the cops bad side already. But I still think part of the blame should be on the people operating unprotected open wifi hotspots.
The worst thing that someone could say about what the peson was doing was he was loitering outside the library.
