There are some useful Airport tools available from Apple that you may not know about. I’ve no idea why these are not included as standard with Airport products. Anyway, they are called the Client Monitor and the Management Utility. The Client Monitor shows a graph of signal to noise and data rate for your wireless signal. This tool could be useful if you are trying out antenna positions. The Management Utility gives an overview of all Airports within range and shows the settings and activity log as a list. This is useful if you are administrating many Airports. Available…

Snakes and Rubies Chicago, 3 Dec. 2005: The creators of Django and Rails each gave talks and discussed web frameworks. Download the video and audio here

Security Now Notes on WMF Exploit There is a “feature” in the Windows WMF format that allows the execution of arbitary code. It has been there since the beginning (at least 10 years) but only now is coming to light. It is extremely likely that exploitation of this hole will grow. It is also likely that this hole has been used in the past but has not been publicised. A patch is available now from MS Windows Update. Patch your system, update your virus and spyware scanners.

Google’s 2005 Zeitgeist Guess the most popular news search in 2005. It’s not what you think.