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HighWLAN

Posted by michael on from the road-trip dept.

Big Dave Diode writes "A cool story about what happens when a bunch of bored nerds with a lot of wireless equipment takes a road trip. Intervehicle networking at 65 mph!"

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  1. I was crying by the end of the first paragraph... by DrVxD · · Score: 5, Funny

    "It was hard to tell but I think Emacs came out as the better utility vehicle."

    Absolutelty hilarious. I'll go and read the rest of it now...

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  2. Best Part by inkfox · · Score: 5, Funny
    The best part: They all agreed that IRC was the ideal way to chat on the road... but nobody remembered to bring ircd.

    So they had ot use talkd! AUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

    It's also amusing that they still bothered to use ssh between each other's machines. I say -- any cracker dude who figures out how to snoop on my 802.11b traffic at 85m/h deserves my respect and my passwords!

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  3. umm, yeah... by werd+life · · Score: 5, Funny

    using a cell phone would be too expensive... .. and we used a cell phone to get online!!!

  4. Last line of the movie by Anarchofascist · · Score: 5, Funny

    If they ever make this into a movie (goddam there should have been a video camera operator in each car too) the final scene would have been a closeup on the driver's smiling face at the Perl conference, with a voice over...

    "Some called me lame, some called me cool, but they all called me geek."

    Final theme music, roll credits.

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