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Man, I had no idea Pavarotti loved elephants so much. (Yeah, thanks Mark. Bork!)

At work we’re trying to set up a bunch of users on laptops with directory-based authentication and home directories. The trouble we’re running into is that these laptops are all wireless, and on OS X, airport doesn’t start until a user logs in. Therefore the machine can’t see the authentication directory on the network until a local user has logged in and out again.

We need some way to get OS X to join a trusted wireless network before a user logs into the system - anyone have experience with this?

Tried so far: Mac OS X Hints and Google.

“Marketing, shmarketing. I say, bash away on java as much as possible. I dont know exactly what problems people are having pushing openacs to clients, but I have found that getting the initial project spec, taking it home, and coming back with their project 60% completed in two days is a lot stronger marketing tactic than saying ‘well yes, it will take 6 months to build you a bulletin board, but your system will have an object-relational persistance layer and full J2EE compliance.’”
– Rzolf

(Mark’s quote file)

See, this is what happens when you realize that a good friend has had an RSS feed all along and you finally subscribe.

Mark (bork!) links to Passive-Aggressive Punctuation. Ah, the joys of email.

“It wasn’t just slow, it was Majestic”

Bork!

“Don’t try to imagine what the next big thing is: just try to figure out what the next thing you want to do is, and do it.”

Mark VandeWettering is, in his words, a “husband, dad, programmer, maker of telescopes, blogger, podcaster, lover of all things scientific and/or trivial, and Oakland A’s fan.” I’m not much of a baseball fan, but Mark’s weblog showcases his inner and outer geek, I love reading it, and I’ve chosen it for this SiteLight.

What is this site?

Blog and podcast home of Mark VandeWettering.

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I’m finally working on my next SiteLight, an interesting if long-ish interview with Mark VenderWettering of brainwagon.org. I hope you enjoy it, I know I have!