Word: airport
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...Alberto works Thursday to Monday from 11:45 a.m. to 8:45 p.m. On Monday and Thursday mornings, he takes a class in English composition at the extension school. He drives a limousine for Commonwealth Limousine Service on his two days off to the airport, hotels, New Hampshire and other far-flung destinations. "Driving here is the worst," he said. "In New York, at least the roads are one way, but, here there are lots of rotaries. It's very dangerous. There will be three exits, and you have to memorize the route, or you just go around, and around...
...gnashing of teeth later, I called Apple's tech support. Its first suggestion was to hook up my iBook to the base station with an Ethernet cable--not included--and do a "hardware reset." Did someone say wireless? Eventually, an Apple product manager discovered the fault. Turns out AirPort needs the arcane "name server address" from my Internet service provider, something it had not asked for during the plug-and-play software setup...
...manager said this was a relatively rare "known issue"--code phrase for bug--that Apple will address in AirPort 2.0. I was wireless at last, but it had cost me a day's worth of headaches. This sort of thing happens with Windows all the time, of course. It only hurts with the ones you love...
...more information on the AirPort system, go to apple.com Questions for Chris? E-mail him at cdt@well.com
Answering her charges, Campbell snaps, "She hasn't done her homework." The city, he points out, is about to embark on projects, including an airport expansion, that may generate $10 billion in contracts over the next five years. Under the existing program, nearly $4 billion would flow to companies owned by minorities and women. Adopting a local-preferences program would not assure the same level of business for minority firms, he argues, because national companies could easily qualify by setting up Atlanta-based subsidiaries. Campbell says he is prepared to use "any means necessary" to protect the program...