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Thu, 31 Oct 2002
Interarchy 6.0 Released
Interarchy is award-winning Internet file transfer software for the Macintosh. It enables a Macintosh user to access files on other computers over the Internet. Interarchy uses the standard Internet protocols FTP, SFTP and HTTP, so Interarchy can access files on virtually any type of computer or device.
Version 6.0 introduces several major new features:
- Engine Upgrade. Long files (up to 9 exabytes), long filenames (up to 255 chars) and long URLs (up to 2502 chars).
- SFTP. Comprehensive Secure File Transfer Protocol support in Mac OS X.
- Queues. Drag transfers and other actions into a queue and have them executed in order.
- Delayed Transfers. Set up actions to occur at a later time.
- Repeating Transfers. Set up actions to repeat at regular intervals.
- Column View and Hierarchical View in remote folder listings.
- Check Web Site Links. Automatically test and verify the links of a web site.
- Full Bookmark and URL management system.
- Mac OS X Net Menu. Due to popular demand, the net tools, including traffic watching, have been brought over to the Mac OS X version.
New since version 5.0, Interarchy has an advanced and highly intelligent mirroring system that allows you to synchronize a local folder with a remote folder in several different ways, including an easy-to-use automatic mirroring system called FTP Disk, which works with SFTP as well.
Interarchy 6.0 runs natively on Mac OS X, Mac OS 9, and Mac OS 8.5+.
This is a paid upgrade from 5.0 & earlier versions (upgrade pricing not specified). For more information, visit www.interarchy.com (site not updated yet).
Freenet available for Mac OS X
Freenet is free software designed to ensure true freedom of communication over the Internet. It allows anybody to publish and read information with complete anonymity. Nobody controls Freenet, not even its creators, meaning that the system is not vulnerable to manipulation or shutdown.
"I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say 'Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?'"
--Mike Godwin, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Freenet is a java application that you access from your web browser. To get started, download this package and unstuff it. Open the terminal, go to that folder, and type 'sh start-freenet.sh'. The first time you run it, the script will ask a lot of questions to configure it. In most cases, you can simply accept the default responses. After it finishes, go to your web browser and open 'http://localhost:8888' to access the Freenet client.
More information is available here.
Cross-Platform Airport Networking
It's easy to use non-Apple 802.11b wireless devices with your Airport Base station. Here's what you need to know.
If you're not using WEP encryption, you don't need to do anything special to use non-Apple devices. However, Apple's software encrypts the WEP password differently than most other wireless products, so you need to figure out the right password to use to connect to your Airport Base Station.
I currently have a ThinkPad with a D-Link wireless card and a LinkSys WET11 being used to connect my old Blue & White G3 on my Airport network, along with my G4 and iBook using Apple Airport cards.
The WEP password you set for your base station won't work on any PC wireless card or non-Apple hardware such as the LinkSys bridge. Instead, you have to generate a hex key to enter. There are several ways to do it.
If you're using recent Airport Base Station software, the easiest way to do it is to simply use the password button in the configuration window to display the hex key.
Alternately, another useful utility is WEP Key Maker, which lets you enter a password or phrase & generate 64 or 128-bit keys.
Finally, most third-party devices provide some way to generate a hex key, such as the LinkSys setup screen
If you generate a hex key with non-Apple software, remember to enter it preceded by a dollar sign ($) in Apple's Airport software. You also need to do the same when connecting to a non-Apple 802.11b access point with Airport software.