To anticipate and prevent
I have a Wikipedia account — and spend a good deal of time on the site. I help fix typo’s, links, and some vandalism. I don’t write anything new — because if you’ve read my blog before you know I have terrible spelling and grammar — oh well. Regardless of that fact — why do…
More wireless! Drove from Tahoe to the Bay. Picked up 1300 AP’s on the way down — which isnt half bad. Granted I never got my new antena or what not — which I’m kinda sad about — but oh well. Got bad news though — the other day I dropped my laptop. It hit…
Yesterday the server misbehaved. The server ended up being down between 15:00-20:00 PST. Its mainly the fault of the sysadmin (read: Me). The problem was compounded by the fact that the hosting facility took several hours to get around to rebooting the system. Sigh.
Wireless for everyone! Left work — got home an hour latter (note: work to home drive is 1.5 miles). In that hour I picked up 529 AP’s. This is still with just the built in antenna of my laptop. God that was awesome. Also if your on Wiggle and in the Tahoe area — I…
Yesterday I was wardriving on my Averatec laptop — which I really shouldn’t have. I say that because I have a 140W car DC->AC adapter — which is ok for most laptops, but not the Averatec. The Av draws 120v @ 2Amps which equals about 240Watts — a bit over. Opps. AP’s Galore So today…
For a good while now I’ve been hearing about wardriving (or warflying/warwalking/warbiking/warboating/etc). I’ve done a little bit of wardriving myself previously — but I never had a GPS unit so it was always a small area, for statisitcal purposes. Well I got a Garmin GPS 18 yesterday — so whats the first thing I did…