WICD (TV)

WICD is the ABC-affiliated television station for Champaign/Urbana, Illinois. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 41 (or virtual channel 15.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter, northeast of Homer, along the Vermilion and Champaign County line. Owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, WICD has studios on South Country Fair Drive in Downtown Champaign.

Overview

Although considered a separate station in its own right, the outlet is actually operated as a full-time satellite of WICS in Springfield/Decatur. WICD airs the same broadcast schedule as its parent station but features separate legal identifications and local commercial inserts. Even though the station maintains its own facilities, master control and most internal operations are based within WICS' studios on East Cook Street in Springfield's Eastside section. WICD serves the eastern half of the market while WICS serves the western portion.

Through joint sales and shared services agreements, WICS also operates the area's Fox affiliate WRSP-TV (and its semi-satellite, WCCU) as well as CW outlet WBUI (all are owned by GOCOM Media, LLC). WRSP and WBUI share studios with WICS but WBUI also maintains an advertising sales office on South Main Street/U.S. 51 in Downtown Decatur. WCCU's advertising sales operation is based out of WICD's studios.

Wicd

Wicd, which stands for Wireless Interface Connection Daemon, is an open source software utility to manage both wireless and wired networks for Linux. The project started in late 2006 with the creation of Connection Manager, which eventually became Wicd. Wicd aims to provide a simple interface to connect to networks with a wide variety of settings.

Wicd will only automatically connect to wireless networks you have specified and will not automatically connect to an unknown network.

Wicd supports wireless encryption using wpa_supplicant. Users can design their own "templates", which can be used by Wicd to connect to a large variety of networks using any type of encryption wpa_supplicant supports.

Wicd is split into two major components: the daemon, and the user interface. These two components communicate via D-Bus. This design allows the user interface to run as a standard user, and the daemon to run as the root user, so the user can change the wireless network without knowing the root password. The split interface/daemon design would also allow a person to write a new front-end to the Wicd daemon, such as wicd-qt. There are also other front-ends available for many DEs such as GNOME, Xfce, and Fluxbox.

WICD

WICD or Wicd may refer to: