10.6 option key trick works on WWAN menu extra as well

Under Mac OS X 10.6, holding down the option key on the keyboard when clicking on menu extras (the icons on the right side of the menu bar) often tells more information. The Airpot menu, for example, expands to tell wifi channel, signal strength, speed, etc.

This also applies to the WWAN menu:

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Not a whole lot of information, but better

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How slow is a floppy?

This slow:

# dd if=dban-1.0.7_i386.ima of=/dev/disk3
2880+0 records in
2880+0 records out
1474560 bytes transferred in 192.277221 secs (7669 bytes/sec)

That’s over 3 minutes, using a USB floppy drive connected my MacBook Pro.

(I needed a copy of DBAN on floppy so I could erase an ancient 60Mhz Pentium)

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