• Mac OS X

    App My CLI, for Great Good

    For those that have had the pleasure of working with certain Windows-based laptops, there may be one particularly crazy-making design choice: the radio-disable switch. To paraphrase Seinfeld, what’s up with that? It’s a ‘feature’ (ahem) not utilized often enough to remind folks they have it, nor explained properly to the customer by the manufacturer. And it can drive IT support personnel nuts, as almost nobody in their right mind turns off wireless access voluntarily… yet it still happens from time to time, causing both sides to be confused for quite some time until they employ Occam’s Razor. And there are various locations it might be on the laptops, too, depending on…