{"id":522,"date":"2004-04-01T23:24:49","date_gmt":"2004-04-02T04:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/?p=522"},"modified":"2004-04-01T23:24:49","modified_gmt":"2004-04-02T04:24:49","slug":"new-wireless-toy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2004\/04\/01\/new-wireless-toy\/","title":{"rendered":"New wireless toy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toy time again.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.factorydirect.ca\">FactoryDirect<\/a> sent a coupon to me (I subscribe to their monthly specials email) for two of these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.progameshop.com\/catalog\/i_24353.shtml\">USB Ezonics802.11b\/128Mb flash<\/a> beasties for Cdn$99, so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/timsblog\">Tim<\/a> and I got one each.  There&#8217;s a switch on it that swaps it from being a memory key to being a WiFi adapter.  It also comes with a 3ft extension cable.<\/p>\n<p>The cool thing about a USB wireless network adapter is that you can use it on multiple machines, even on a machine you don&#8217;t usually use. <\/p>\n<p>The bogus thing about a USB wireless network adapter is that to use it on a different machine, you have to carry around a damn CD to install the driver.<\/p>\n<p>The really neato thing about this toy is that you put the driver install files on the memory key part of it, so you&#8217;ve got it with you when you need it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toy time again. FactoryDirect sent a coupon to me (I subscribe to their monthly specials email) for two of these USB Ezonics802.11b\/128Mb flash beasties for Cdn$99, so Tim and I got one each. There&#8217;s a switch on it that swaps it from being a memory key to being a WiFi adapter. It also comes with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}