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Drew, Bill | 4 Nov 2005 19:42

InfoWorld Wireless Report: RIM releases new BlackBerry phone with Intel's Hermon



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WIRELESS REPORT                                http://www.infoworld.com/
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Friday, November 4, 2005

* RIM releases new BlackBerry phone with Intel's Hermon
* Sprint, cable companies go for quadruple play
* Nokia launches open-source browser
* Nvidia CEO unveils VoIP vision
* Cellular data services ramp up
* Product Guide: JabberNow 1.0.0.38

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RIM RELEASES NEW BLACKBERRY PHONE WITH INTEL'S HERMON

Research in Motion Ltd. (RIM) announced the BlackBerry 8700c handheld
Tuesday, which combines the popular BlackBerry push e-mail software with
an integrated mobile processor from Intel Corp. and fast wireless
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SPRINT, CABLE COMPANIES GO FOR QUADRUPLE PLAY

Sprint Nextel and four large cable television providers will move beyond
the Holy Grail of integrated telecommunications offerings -- the
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aimed at adding wireless service to the mix.
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NOKIA LAUNCHES OPEN-SOURCE BROWSER

Nokia on Wednesday said its open-source mobile Web browser is now
available. It also launched a new portal to share information about its
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NVIDIA CEO UNVEILS VOIP VISION

The future of wireless communications could be a world without mobile
phones, where Wi-Fi signals pick up your voice commands from a
chip-enabled lapel on your breast pocket, then VoIP (Voice over Internet
Protocol) converts the voice signals to data and sends them across the
Internet to powerful servers that can identify the caller's voice
and connect them immediately to the person they're trying to find.
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Barry Moore | 7 Nov 2005 15:41

Auto Logon Issues

We have dedicated OPAC machines that do nothing else.  Machines are running WinXP Pro and use an automatic logon for the user (through registry entries) that as soon as they start, they log on directly to the Windows domain, open Public Web Browser.  The machine is totally locked down with group policies to prevent access to anything else. The model has worked with machines hard wired to the network just fine for quite a few years.

 

We recently remodeled a branch library, and the branch manager wanted 3 new OPAC machines put in places where there was no wiring.  Not a problem since we have an internal staff wireless network, so we ordered the new machines with wireless NICs.

 

Our problem is that typically WinXP wireless connections (the NIC connection to the wireless access point) doesn’t connect fast enough, and the automatic logons process before the wireless is connected, therefore group policies are not implemented and security on the machine falls apart.  Is there a way to delay the automatic logon so that the machine connects to the wireless network first before processing the automatic logon?  Right now we’ve removed the auto logon from the registry and we’re logging the machines on manually and that is working.  Unfortunately, it’s a point of confusion for the staff since these machines are different from the others.

 

Thanks in advance for the help.

 

Barry Moore

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Library Technology Consultant

Vitrutech, Inc.

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Bearly, Sean | 7 Nov 2005 18:10

RE: Auto Logon Issues

If these laptops are only accessing your OPAC why don't you have them only login to local computer? That's what we do with the laptops we checkout to customers - although we also give them full internet access and the MS Office products. All security is setup locally. The laptops automatically login as a local user so even if wi-fi connection hasn't been made by time they get to the desktop it is there shortly thereafter. To make setup easy I used the Gates public access computer profile tool and then we have McAfee and DeepFreeze. Our public wi-fi service is on the public side of our network so this is essentially how even our wired public access computers are setup.
 
Sean at Newport Beach Public Library
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From: Barry Moore [mailto:bamoore-0yC7V5IjiVG1Z/+hSey0Gg@public.gmane.org]
Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 6:42 AM
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Subject: [libwireless] Auto Logon Issues

We have dedicated OPAC machines that do nothing else.  Machines are running WinXP Pro and use an automatic logon for the user (through registry entries) that as soon as they start, they log on directly to the Windows domain, open Public Web Browser.  The machine is totally locked down with group policies to prevent access to anything else. The model has worked with machines hard wired to the network just fine for quite a few years.

 

We recently remodeled a branch library, and the branch manager wanted 3 new OPAC machines put in places where there was no wiring.  Not a problem since we have an internal staff wireless network, so we ordered the new machines with wireless NICs.

 

Our problem is that typically WinXP wireless connections (the NIC connection to the wireless access point) doesn’t connect fast enough, and the automatic logons process before the wireless is connected, therefore group policies are not implemented and security on the machine falls apart.  Is there a way to delay the automatic logon so that the machine connects to the wireless network first before processing the automatic logon?  Right now we’ve removed the auto logon from the registry and we’re logging the machines on manually and that is working.  Unfortunately, it’s a point of confusion for the staff since these machines are different from the others.

 

Thanks in advance for the help.

 

Barry Moore

bamoore-0yC7V5IjiVG1Z/+hSey0Gg@public.gmane.org

Library Technology Consultant

Vitrutech, Inc.

www.vitrutech.com

 

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Melissa Shepherd | 7 Nov 2005 18:43
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RE: Auto Logon Issues

Your systems log on to a domain with the controller running 2003 server and Active Directory & you are wanting to retain the benefits of the domain including network printers that you can't access as a local user?
 
You can treat the logon on an XP machine as if it were Windows 2000(disabling fast logons) by applying Windows 2003 server policies to the organizational unit to which the user that is auto-logging on belongs, "User Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\Scripts\Run logon scripts synchronously" Your security is then fully processed before proceeding, and cached credentials are not used to "jump-start" the logon as they are in XP.
 
It may be worth a try, at least.
 
Melissa
 
Melissa Shepherd
Head of ITS
Huntsville-Madison County Public Library
Huntsville, Alabama
 

From: Bearly, Sean [mailto:SBearly-/VGGtjsubDhwu+c73Hs35QZaqqwxfqZv@public.gmane.org]
Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 11:11 AM
To: LibWireless Discussion Group
Subject: [libwireless] RE: Auto Logon Issues

If these laptops are only accessing your OPAC why don't you have them only login to local computer? That's what we do with the laptops we checkout to customers - although we also give them full internet access and the MS Office products. All security is setup locally. The laptops automatically login as a local user so even if wi-fi connection hasn't been made by time they get to the desktop it is there shortly thereafter. To make setup easy I used the Gates public access computer profile tool and then we have McAfee and DeepFreeze. Our public wi-fi service is on the public side of our network so this is essentially how even our wired public access computers are setup.
 
Sean at Newport Beach Public Library
-----Original Message-----
From: Barry Moore [mailto:bamoore-0yC7V5IjiVG1Z/+hSey0Gg@public.gmane.org]
Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 6:42 AM
To: LibWireless Discussion Group
Subject: [libwireless] Auto Logon Issues

We have dedicated OPAC machines that do nothing else.  Machines are running WinXP Pro and use an automatic logon for the user (through registry entries) that as soon as they start, they log on directly to the Windows domain, open Public Web Browser.  The machine is totally locked down with group policies to prevent access to anything else. The model has worked with machines hard wired to the network just fine for quite a few years.

 

We recently remodeled a branch library, and the branch manager wanted 3 new OPAC machines put in places where there was no wiring.  Not a problem since we have an internal staff wireless network, so we ordered the new machines with wireless NICs.

 

Our problem is that typically WinXP wireless connections (the NIC connection to the wireless access point) doesn’t connect fast enough, and the automatic logons process before the wireless is connected, therefore group policies are not implemented and security on the machine falls apart.  Is there a way to delay the automatic logon so that the machine connects to the wireless network first before processing the automatic logon?  Right now we’ve removed the auto logon from the registry and we’re logging the machines on manually and that is working.  Unfortunately, it’s a point of confusion for the staff since these machines are different from the others.

 

Thanks in advance for the help.

 

Barry Moore

bamoore-0yC7V5IjiVG1Z/+hSey0Gg@public.gmane.org

Library Technology Consultant

Vitrutech, Inc.

www.vitrutech.com

 

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Drew, Bill | 7 Nov 2005 22:18

Around the world and back again

I just got an interesting phone call from one of our faculty members who is currently teaching an online course on network technology.  He is a student in Beirut, Lebanon. The professor had an assignment to compare definitions related to wireless networking in their text with sources found on the World Wide Web.  The student from Lebanon used my webpage at http://people.morrisville.edu/~drewwe/wireless/glossary.htm  in his assignment.  According to the professor, the student is unaware of where he teaches in the real world.  This made my day!
 

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Associate Librarian, Systems and Reference
Morrisville State College Library
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Drew, Bill | 9 Nov 2005 21:22

San Jose Mercury News- WiFi and libraries

Downtown SJ to get broader link to WiFi world
San Jose Mercury News - United States
... Jose State University. It will also offer WiFi access at the city's 19 branch libraries and 17 community centers. Existing city-run ...
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DSLU LU | 10 Nov 2005 21:50
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Re: Around the world and back again

woo hoo! good job bill!

--- "Drew, Bill" <drewwe@...> wrote:

> I just got an interesting phone call from one of our
> faculty members who
> is currently teaching an online course on network
> technology.  He is a
> student in Beirut, Lebanon. The professor had an
> assignment to compare
> definitions related to wireless networking in their
> text with sources
> found on the World Wide Web.  The student from
> Lebanon used my webpage
> at
>
http://people.morrisville.edu/~drewwe/wireless/glossary.htm
>  in his
> assignment. 

	
		
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Drew, Bill | 14 Nov 2005 18:17

Unshelved strip for Monday, November 14, 2005

 

From: drewwe-RlO9bZ+4PEMnM8MGSyeKhQ@public.gmane.org [mailto:drewwe-RlO9bZ+4PEMnM8MGSyeKhQ@public.gmane.org]
Sent: Mon 11/14/2005 11:59 AM
To: Drew, Bill
Subject: Bloglines - Unshelved strip for Monday, November 14, 2005

Bloglines user BillDrew (drewwe-RlO9bZ+4PEMnM8MGSyeKhQ@public.gmane.org) has sent this item to you.


  Unshelved
a comic strip about a library

Unshelved strip for Monday, November 14, 2005

Unshelved by Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum

Our holiday line is in! What Happens in the Library Stays in the Library and What Happens in Storytime Stays in Storytime shirts join classics like Book Club, What Would Dewey Do?, the Library Raid line, signed prints, and books at the Overdue Media store. Come have a look!

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Drew, Bill | 15 Nov 2005 18:38

Unshelved strip for Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Another cartoon related to wireless from Unshelved.
 

Wilfred (Bill) Drew
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  Unshelved
a comic strip about a library

Unshelved strip for Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Unshelved by Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum

Our holiday line is in! What Happens in the Library Stays in the Library and What Happens in Storytime Stays in Storytime shirts join classics like Book Club, What Would Dewey Do?, the Library Raid line, signed prints, and books at the Overdue Media store. Come have a look!

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Dan Lester | 15 Nov 2005 19:28

Re: Unshelved strip for Monday, November 14, 2005

That one is surely the truth.  I'm amazed at how "brave" (or foolish) students are with their laptops.  They'll run cords across from a table to where there is power somewhere.  Sometimes the cord is on the floor, but at other times to make it the cord is knee high.  I keep waiting for someone klutzy (like me) to not notice the cord, trip on it, and pull the laptop off of the table, smashing it to pieces.


This is a problem in our student union, as well as the library.  Any magic solutions?


dan



Monday, November 14, 2005, 10:17:37 AM, you wrote:


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Unshelved

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Unshelved strip for Monday, November 14, 2005

Unshelved by Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum

 







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