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Okay, here's some more practical advice:1. Assuming you live in a single-family home, signal strength alone will keep people from easily using your internet connection.2. The chances of your neighbors even knowing how to crack WEP or having the inclination to do so are slim.3. Disabling SSID broadcast causes you hassles (especially with Windows computers) and provides zero security benefit, it's easy enough to find out.4. WPA-Personal PSK with TKIP encryption is very secure and I would trust it totally, I used it for the longest time until I needed to use a non-WPA compatible device on my network. Now I use WEP128 and feel confident enough still that I'm secure from my neighbors, who aren't the brightest with computers.5. Enable MAC address filtering on your router.Setting all this up varies depending on your router, but it's from a web interface and is mentioned in your owners manual.

Don't read too much into this. Intel supplies a lot of companies with chips, and they can supply Intel with faster chips for the money than IBM. That means lower costs which means lower prices which means better sales.So far, Apple's denying you'll be able to install Mac OS X on a non-Apple machine - it'll probably be BIOS locked. That makes me mad! I'd love to be able to run OS X on my own custom hardware. But still, it's a nice step forward in terms of competition, not a major threat to MS. Now if Apple did allow OSX to install on any x86 machine, that could be nice competition for Microsoft...

You won't find a laptop under a kilo...For a fast, lightweight laptop that's affordable with good graphics I'd recommend looking at the Apple iBook if you're willing to go Mac (no real reason not to unless you have a lot of money invested in Windows software). The 1.2GHz PowerPC is similar in speed to a 2GHz Pentium 4. They've got ATI Radeon graphics, built-in Firewire, very lightweight. Excellent security and power management - I get about 5 hours on mine. Solid construction as well.Otherwise, you might consider the Sony VIAOs, I don't have much experience with them, but they're nice looking as well and seem very well-built.

Well, I'm going to chime in with my two cents. I use a microfiber lens cleaning cloth. Soak it in water and put a drop of non-concentrated dish soap on it, spread it around then rinse the cloth out once (so it still has a trace of soap in it, the trace of soap acts as a wetting agent to avoid streaking - you're not looking it to actually clean the screen) and squeeze as much water out of it as you can. Gently wipe the screen with this. The results are great, and it seems to be relatively very safe.

You can get X11 from Apple's download page or on a retail box Tiger DVD (dunno about prior versions as I don't have retail box discs for them handy).Gimp.app works extremely well, and most fink ports also work with relatively few problems. Sometimes the code is a little slow (you are essentially running two windowing environments, plus most of this stuff is ported from x86 - part of why I'm personally looking forward to the x86 Macs) but usually it's great. FinkCommander comes in the Fink download package, and it's a piece of cake if you're familiar with UNIX and BSD.Now, you won't have the most Mac like experience, but I really like it - it gives me the best of both worlds.

While using Internet connection sharing is a great idea, I'd advise against it unless you have a dedicated box. Routers to exist with a serial port for an external modem. One that I used to have is the Siemens SS2614 (I believe that is the model), try eBaying for one since I doubt they're made anymore. I don't think any are built-in wireless, so the basic procedure is going to be:Connect external serial modem to router with serial port for modemConnect router LAN port to wireless router WAN port (yes, you're double-NATing. If that bugs you turn off NAT and use the wireless router in AP mode)Configure the router with the modem for your dial-up account settings and set the wireless router to DHCP. My Siemens (which I admittedly never used with a modem) had the ability to dial on-demand and hang up after a few minutes of inactivity, so you won't need a dedicated phone line and the process will be seamless to each user other than a long delay when starting their browsing session.

I've been using Tiger since a couple days after it's release and am very pleased. I tried it first as an upgrade since I needed some time to get my backups together (stupid to even upgrade without backups, but I was anxious to try it) then as a reformat and reinstall. It definitely runs better as a reformat and reinstall.I've found that there are little things that just works better - such as a bug in more recent versions of Panther that causes iBooks to forget their color profiles.There is a very useful built-in dictionary, and Spotlight is absolutely astonishing. For most tasks it runs better than Panther and the RSS support in Safari is much welcomed. There are a lot of cosmetic improvements - and some problems too, the new Mail.app is U-G-L-Y; and if you have show file extensions on (which I need), .app files show their .app extension (technically a more correct behavior, but I tthink it just looks cluttered.Overall, I think you'll really like it. And no, there's no way to upgrade your G3 - it's the type of processor it has