Where is wlan0, I've only got ethX

[Derek Broughton]

Sarangan Thuraisingham wrote:

> 
> 
> Derek Broughton wrote:
> 
>> [snip]
>  >
>>  <blatantOpinion>It shouldn't even _talk_ about as useless a
>> security method as WEP.</blatantOpinion>
>> 
>  > [snip]
> 
> OK, this is totally off topic. We just had a lecture about web services
> and XML. In that, Colin Thorne of IBM (Hursley Labs, UK) mentioned that
> one of the main reasons for the success of XML is that it is both
> machine readable and human readable. He also mentioned that some XML
> fanatics, use XML tagging even in day to day documents like e-mail. This
> is the first time I am seeing it though.
> 
> Good one Derek :D

I wouldn't consider myself an XML fanatic - not even a frequent XML
user/developer - but I certainly didn't invent this use of tags.  I've seen
email written with so many XML tags it's unreadable. It works only on the
same scale as emoticons - too much and it's just noise.
-- 
derek