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Howdy! This is my (William Reading's) webpage. At the moment, I only have this blog script and my gallery up, but I hope to get more stuff on this page at some point, or so I thought when I created this site years ago. Updates and shiny new copy to eventually go here. If you'd like to contact me to point out that I've done something to break XHTML/CSS standards or heaven forbid--look at my Vita--drop me a line at my e-mail address bill +spam @ [ELEPHANT] aggienerds.org. Simply remove "+spam", the spaces and the pachyderm along with its brackets and that address will reach me. I'm also available on Jabber/GChat/AIM/MSN with the same address above.

Since there’s no telling when it may or may not be up, I mirrored the wiki from LISA ‘04 here.

While the network was out the other day, I decided that it would be a good time to cook up a little summary of what’s going on in the packet shaper configuration file here.

A while back, I picked up a copy of Microsoft Streets and Trips with a GPS because that’s the easiest way to get a GPS locally since a store carrying it (Best Buy) is within walking distance of campus. As luck would have it, this GPS is a remarked Pharos GPS-360, which uses a Prolific pl2303 usb to serial converter. This means that the GPS is compatible with the v1.08 driver for Mac OS X. If you happen to have one of these things, just google for a copy of that driver and use this Info.plist in the driver’s extensions folder. Also delete the kextcache file before rebooting.

Update: Someone wrote in asking where to find the driver. It’s available on the prolific web site and a http://tech.prolific.com.tw/visitor/fcabdl.asp?fid=33667101 as long as it stays up. By the way, if you have the money available, I wholeheartedly recommend the GPS-360 bluetooth adapter. It doesn’t require any additional drivers to work with Mac OS X and you can position it anywhere in the vehicle.

Update 2: New link here: http://www.prolific.com.tw/eng/downloads.asp?ID=31