September, 2006

RSS to Stop Phishing

Some folks were talking during a break in one of my courses about banks and the newfangled authentication systems they're using, such as . This turned into a discussion of , and it occurred to me that RSS feeds would solve that problem very nicely.

Setting up a Motorola WPS870G print server on Mac OS X

I bought a laser printer on Craigslist (a Samsung ML-2010) and decided to set it up as a networked printer so that everyone in my new Canadian apartment could use it. I bought a Motorola WPS870G print server, which is a cool little gadget that doesn't cost much. It supports 1 USB and 1 parallel port printer, and connects to either a wired or wireless network (which is a must here). However, it rebuffed all of my Powerbook's attempts to print to it, and the Internet insisted that I'd wasted my money. But I figured it out after a few hours and thought I'd put the solution up here.