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Kevin S. Davis ’98, director of residential computing for FAS, said such disruptions most commonly result when students incorrectly plug their own wireless routers or access points—which are prohibited by Harvard FAS Computer Services (HASCS) rules—into the network.
According to Davis, such devices are meant to provide wireless Internet access by connecting to a valid IP address. The devices can then provide access to nearby computers by distributing “fake” IP addresses, which are not valid on their own.
Computers connected to the FAS network must automatically obtain a new IP address every few hours. If a computer attempting to do this is near a device broadcasting erroneous IP addresses—in the same House, for example—one of these “fake?...
When Seaside is completed, there are to be several hundred houses, dozens of stores, workshops, a town hall, a kind of spa and an outdoor theater. Forty houses have been finished, six are under construction, and 20 more parcels of land have been sold. (Lots now go for $25,000...
Seaside is reminiscent of Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard, or Key West minus the latter-day cult of decay. But the new town is no pattern-book copy. Its master plan is the work of a husband-wife architectural team from Miami, Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk. The...