Archive for April 16th, 2003

FT = 1337

Posted in links on April 16th, 2003 by larcher – Be the first to comment

Today’s FoxTrot includes higher than normal quantities of geek humor. Although, the funniest thing may be that Jason names CSS as an encryption algorithm…

We regret any inconvenience ..

Posted in hardware on April 16th, 2003 by larcher – Be the first to comment

If you happen to have an iBook running Mac OS X and also happen to have a GPS
with a serial cable, and you think to yourself, “Gee, Self, wouldn’t it be nice
if I could use my GPS with my iBook?” .. and your self replies “Yes!”, so you
decide to go to Fry’s, and if while you’re there you see the IOGear USB
PDA/Serial adapter, tell yourself not to buy it, even if it’s the only
USB-to-serial device they have in the store. The packaging, in this case, is
not out of date or incorrect: “Supports Mac OS 8.6 to 9.x” (as well as every Windows version) — suspicions confirmed at iogear.com:

We regret any inconvenience this may cause you; however, at this time, OSX is not supported for that particular product.

The inconvenience here being the drive back to Fry’s to get a refund for their useless dongle product. I don’t (yet) have any PC’s without a serial port, or any old Mac’s with USB..