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Mac is equal to an infinite load of crap.

Let me elaborate. I'm currently a system admin for a small company. We have a windows network. It works great. We share files, printers, internet, and email using microsoft software. (don't even get me started on the monopoly discussion)

So we have a vendor (non-ficticious), and they have this "mac" G4 laptop that they've brought with to read email. Our laptops connect to a wireless access point that (until today) used the WEP protocol for security. The 64bit variety with a 10 character HEX key and, this is where the problem comes in, a Key Index of 2. This was not something I thought was non-standard. Apparantly to a mac, this is unacceptable. First of all, they want to use 40bit or 128bit... 64 doesn't fly. Secondly, the software did not have any (obviously apparant in comparison to windows) place to configure a Key Index. so... Of course they're a customer so I'm going to bend over and do whatever I can to accommodate them... We're now using 128bit WPA with a PSK (preshared key). Mac has an IP address, all is well.

No wait, theres more. So They have these "special" fedex shipping forms that they want to give the office manager, so naturally they zip the file (MIME doesn't exist in Mac-Reality or something so God forbid they should use the 20% of our bandwidth to send the files unzipped) Would have been fine if somehow the files hadn't had a pipe, "|" in the file name in the zip file. Apparantly since the pipe is an illegal character in folders/files, Windows XP zip, Winzip, WinRAR won't make a file with this name. Consequently, I could find no way to rename files that were already in an archive either.

So, StuffIT to the rescue (if you could call it that)... This software (that I swear only Mac people use) did do the job (the windows version) allowing the files to be "unzipped" and magically the pipes were gone... making me believe that they were just there as placeholders when the files were added in the first place. So, I give a big middle finger to both Apple for having worthless WiFi config, and to Alladin Software for making a worthless piece of software.

For those of you who feel compelled to send me a flame, enjoy yourself. jeremy.simmons(at)jeremysimmons(dot)net

Macs = ((load) X (crap))^&#8734; http://www.jeremysimmons.net/blog/PermaLink,guid,6b8c27ef-a811-440a-a930-5bd0c38c3520.aspx http://www.jeremysimmons.net/blog/2004/11/19/MacsLoadXCrap8734.aspx Fri, 19 Nov 2004 20:08:06 GMT <p> Mac is equal to an infinite load of crap. </p> <p> Let me elaborate. I'm currently a system admin for a small company. We have a windows network. It works great. We share files, printers, internet, and email using microsoft software.&nbsp;(don't even get me started on the monopoly discussion) </p> <p> So we have a vendor (non-ficticious), and they have this "mac" G4 laptop that they've brought with to read email.&nbsp;Our laptops connect to a wireless access point that (until today) used the WEP protocol for security. The 64bit variety with a 10 character HEX key and, this is where the problem comes in, a Key Index of 2. This was not something I thought was non-standard. Apparantly to a mac, this is unacceptable. First of all, they want to use 40bit or 128bit... 64 doesn't fly. Secondly, the software did not have any (obviously apparant in comparison to windows) place to configure a Key Index. so... Of course they're a customer so I'm going to bend over and do whatever I can to accommodate them... We're now using 128bit WPA with a PSK (preshared key). Mac has an IP address, all is well. </p> <p> No wait, theres more. So They have these "special" fedex shipping forms that they want to give the office manager, so naturally they zip the file (MIME doesn't exist in Mac-Reality or something so God forbid they should use the 20% of our bandwidth to send the files unzipped) Would have been fine if somehow the files hadn't had a pipe, "|" in the file name in the zip file. Apparantly since the pipe is an illegal character in folders/files, Windows XP zip, Winzip, WinRAR won't make a file with this name. Consequently, I could find no way to rename files that were already in an archive either. </p> <p> So, StuffIT to the rescue (if you could call it that)... This software (that I swear only Mac people use) did do the job (the windows version) allowing the files to be "unzipped" and magically the pipes were gone... making me believe that they were just there as placeholders when the files were added in the first place. So, I give a big middle finger to both Apple for having worthless WiFi config, and to Alladin Software for making a worthless piece of software. </p> <p> For those of you who feel compelled to send me a flame, enjoy yourself. <a href="mailto:jeremy.simmons(at)jeremysimmons(dot)net">jeremy.simmons(at)jeremysimmons(dot)net</a> </p> <img width="0" height="0" src="http://www.jeremysimmons.net/blog/aggbug.ashx?id=6b8c27ef-a811-440a-a930-5bd0c38c3520" /> http://www.jeremysimmons.net/blog/CommentView,guid,6b8c27ef-a811-440a-a930-5bd0c38c3520.aspx General Work Sucks