There was an error joining to wireless network

Have you ever got this message from you apple? In some occasions with 64bit WEP encryption (128 is ok), there might be problems. You enter the right key, but it will not connect. I got this message several times with my powerbook. Without encryption everything worked fine, but with WEP 64 - error! Even if you delete the key from keychain, nothing wokred.
I searched forums and wikis, googeled a lot. And finally in one page (dont remember anymore where) there was a hint - use dollar sign $ in the beginning of your wep key. Stange, but it works.

Hope you find it when googeling for answer :P

Extreme desktop performance

Your computer desktop! You will visit it every day, same repetitive tasks managing windows, applications etc...

Standard MS windows users are doomed. People on Linux have a bit better destiny, they have multiple workspaces. Mac users do pretty well, Exposé gives them easy environment to work with multiple applications and windows. But still, for poweruser, this is not enough! Waisting time opening and closing applications and windows, yak...

My dream next generation desktop would look like this.

The outer wall of cylinder, is a desktop space, the square is visible part of desktop. It is possible to move cylinder with your mouse equipped with gyro chip. Once you lift your hand with the mouse, the cylinder appears and is semi-transparent and you are able to see which windows you must scroll in front of you. With simple mouse movement to left or right the cylinder spins. Once you put down your mouse, the scrolling environment disappears and desktop is stopped in the position when mouse hit the table. In idle desktop would act as a screensaver rotatiting slowly or be automatically scrolling to and highlightind windows with latest information. The radius of cylinder is configurable.

9 months

Sorry, I have been away from this blog for a while. Still using mac dough :)
In the meanwhile I have upgraded to Tiger 10.4.2 and then performed clean Tiger installation. Upgrade was not stable, clean install is basically okay (occasional VLC crashes and issues with wifi networks sometimes).

Now try to get latest news in more timely manner. Also other hardware related news, since I now work with hardware and peripherals every day.