Comments on: Office in a Bag http://www.productivity501.com/office-in-a-bag/11/ Pieces of the productivity puzzle. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:25:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: CrossoverCommentDude http://www.productivity501.com/office-in-a-bag/11/comment-page-1/#comment-5 CrossoverCommentDude Tue, 11 Oct 2005 08:05:38 +0000 http://x.xeric.net/productivity501/?p=11#comment-5 I think you've misunderstood the PowerBook's crossover cable auto-sensing. With it, you don't *need* a crossover cable -- if you connect your PowerBook to any peer device (i.e., not a router), it will automatically swap it's signals, effectively negating the need for a crossover cable (which physically swaps the wires). If you connect with a crossover cable, it doesn't do this. So yeah, it "handles" both kinds, but not in the way you think. That's one less item for your bag, i guess. I think you’ve misunderstood the PowerBook’s crossover cable auto-sensing. With it, you don’t *need* a crossover cable — if you connect your PowerBook to any peer device (i.e., not a router), it will automatically swap it’s signals, effectively negating the need for a crossover cable (which physically swaps the wires). If you connect with a crossover cable, it doesn’t do this. So yeah, it “handles” both kinds, but not in the way you think.

That’s one less item for your bag, i guess.

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