Word: internetted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...true that the discoveries of the initiative are available to the public. And thanks to the electronic superhighway, the gene sequences are available on the Internet with a click of the mouse. So the possibility of a mad scientist-type downloading the information for his (or her) own spurious purposes is not all that far-fetched...
...AirPort base station, a little UFO-like device that plugs into your phone line, acts as an Internet radio transmitter. Your iBook, iMac or G4 PowerMac loaded with an AirPort card can be online (or hooked together) anywhere in your home, without wires, at 56k connection speeds (AirPort also supports superspeedy cable modems or DSL). Since normal wireless connections creep along at 9,600 bps, this is nothing short of revolutionary...
...spotted a lot of confusion between the Remote Access control panel, the TCP/IP control panel and the AirPort extension. Such balkanized Internet responsibility doesn't seem right for a company aiming to build a computer for Everyman...
...tech support. Its first suggestion was to hook up my iBook to the base station with an Ethernet cable--not included--and do a "hardware reset." Did someone say wireless? Eventually, an Apple product manager discovered the fault. Turns out AirPort needs the arcane "name server address" from my Internet service provider, something it had not asked for during the plug-and-play software setup...
...awful that Gates and microsoft are barring others from achieving success. I have used Windows since its first release here, but my next personal computer is going to be an iMac, and I'll be surfing the Net via Netscape Navigator, not Microsoft's Internet Explorer. EVE VOSLOO East London, South Africa...