why isn't the GPS plugged into the computer?
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Anonymous Coward
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How are you supposed to fugure out where the connectivity is? By looking at the GPS?
Proper use of subjunctive!
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mutterer
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It should read: "If James Bond were into wardriving..."
Re:Proper use of subjunctive!
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mutterer
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· Score: 1, Offtopic
::Cough Cough::
Ahem.
I have someone here who would like a word with you, sir. ::Cough Cough::
James Bond is not, as far as we can tell, into wardriving, therefore this is a contrafactual conditional, or "subjunctive" statement. The subjunctive form of the copula ("to be") happens to be "were," whether it is singular or plural.
I did not use the word "subjective" at all.
If I were you, I would read up on my grammar (that link should help) to avoid looking stupid, which is what you are.
Re:Proper use of subjunctive!
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SubjunctiveSam
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It doesn't sound right because it isn't. You failed to use a proper example, thereby flaunting your ignorance.
This sentence is in the indicative mood: "James Bond was killed by me."
This sentence is in the imperative mood: "Kill James Bond."
This sentence is in the subjunctive mood: "If James Bond were here, I would kill him."
All three sentences are grammatically correct.
Where did you finish your schooling? I hope that wherever it was, you went there for a technical education, and not for anything related to language. Otherwise, you should go back and ask for a refund.
Your statement is very wrong. Why didn't you have enough sense to type "English subjunctive mood" into the nice box at http://www.google.com and press the search button before spouting such arrogant ignorance?
Re:Proper use of subjunctive!
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usotsuki
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Another phrasing would be "Were he into wardriving..."
Re:Proper use of subjunctive!
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netsharc
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Looks like the Anti-Grammar-Nazies are pissed off at the language skills of the Grammar-Nazies and are modding the "were"-people off-topic.
To understand where the "were" come from, you have to learn the language of the real Nazis, i.e. German, from which English is "forked".. in German the subjunctive is "wre" and it's pronounced so close to "were". English simplifies the language, so it's converted the word to "were". In reality the two "were"'s in English aren't exactly the same word. Not that this would have people.:)
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Re:Proper use of subjunctive!
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netsharc
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Oops, not "wre", but "ware" (with an a-Umlaut)
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Re:Proper use of subjunctive!
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Ashtead
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No, "were" is correct here. Indicating something hypothetical or fictional. Lewis Carrol illustrated this well in the words of Tweedledee:
If it was so it might be, and if it were so it would be, but as it isn't it ain't.
And James Bond is fictional, despite all claims to the contrary.
-- SIGBUS @ NO-07.308
Re:Proper use of subjunctive!
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Kasandaro
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Hate to be a nit-picker, but...
*pulls out linguistics degree, puts on head*
English and German forked about the same time. The subjunctive form that's needed traces to the Old English (circa AD1000) weran, and the proper conjugation was w[ae]re. {[ae] is collapsed to a single character called an ash, sounds like c[a]t.)
Though you're right, the 'were's aren't the same word - English had three different 'to be' verbs at one point.
Luckily...
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 4, Funny
No...if James Bond were into wardriving, a lot more Bond girls would be computer nerds with an expertise in War Driving. Similarly, if there were more Bond girls into War Driving, James Bond would be more interested in it.
I'd pay $8 to see that movie.
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You corrected the grammar mistake! Bravo man! You forgot the capital letter to start, but personally I feel typos and miscapitalization is far less important than errors that one would actually make while speaking.
I suppose if I could see the page it might be more interesting...
You would think that, wouldn't you. But it turns out that, unless you like to see crap in a rebuilt plastic tool case, you would be wrong.
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no not the drill!
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KMAPSRULE
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· Score: 4, Informative
From the article:
Take a drive over to home depot and buy yourself a nice 18v cordless drill (~$350). Bring it home and throw away the drill, charger, instructions, etc. You should be left with a nice hard plastic case.
oh he's breakin' heart throwng away an 18 volt cordless drill.Man you'd think he'd at least keep the drill for parts.
here's text as its already/.ed
Materials:case_closed
* 1 Toshiba libretto. (or similar sized laptop)
* 1 GPS receiver.
* 1 collinear antenna. (www.guerrilla.net)
* 1 dewalt drill case.
* 1 sheet 1" plastizote.
* dallop of contact cement
* little bit of velcro.
* a bunch of speedy rivets.
* 1 1104 box w/ receptacle cover.
* 1 duplex receptacle.
* nothing better todo on a weekend
case open Assembly:
Take a drive over to home depot and buy yourself a nice 18v cordless drill (~$350). Bring it home and throw away the drill, charger, instructions, etc. You should be left with a nice hard plastic case. Using a sharp knife cut away all the platic baffles leaving only the one compartment on the left side of the case ( its the perfect size for the laptops power supply).
Now take your plastizote (a very dense closed cell foam) and lay it on a large flat surface, like a table;). Open the case and make a depression into the material. Quickly cut away the impression that you made and repeat. You will need two inserts for both the top and bottom of the case.
Glue the first two inserts and install one in each halve of the case. You can then layout and mark your hardware on the other two peices. Using your trusty, very sharp olfa blade cut out the patterns you made and carefully glue and secure in their respective halves.
To build the antenna follow the instructions on http://www.guerrilla.net. This design can easilly be made sectional by solering pcboard stand-offs onto each of the peices so that they can be threaded together. You can then build your radome in two pieces using a 1/2" TA fitting -> 1/2" threaded coupling scenario. Securely fasten the bottom half (glue) while allowing the upper half to float (make sure it is supported within the tube)
The receptacle was added so that while driving i can plug the case into my inverter and utilize the extra outlets for the antennas amplifier.
Technical:
The laptop is an overclocked (75->100MHz) toshiba libretto 50CT with 32M ram and a 10G HD. It is running FreeBSD 4.8-Stable. Kisemt, and GPSDrive are used for wireless activities. The GPS is a Garmin GPSIII plus.
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someone must have hit the self-destruct button on the server....
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Fnord
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 3, Informative
Materials:
* 1 Toshiba libretto. (or similar sized laptop)
* 1 GPS receiver.
* 1 collinear antenna. (www.guerrilla.net)
* 1 dewalt drill case.
* 1 sheet 1" plastizote.
* dallop of contact cement
* little bit of velcro.
* a bunch of speedy rivets.
* 1 1104 box w/ receptacle cover.
* 1 duplex receptacle.
* nothing better todo on a weekend
Assembly:
Take a drive over to home depot and buy yourself a nice 18v cordless drill (~$350). Bring it home and throw away the drill, charger, instructions, etc. You should be left with a nice hard plastic case. Using a sharp knife cut away all the platic baffles leaving only the one compartment on the left side of the case ( its the perfect size for the laptops power supply).
Now take your plastizote (a very dense closed cell foam) and lay it on a large flat surface, like a table;). Open the case and make a depression into the material. Quickly cut away the impression that you made and repeat. You will need two inserts for both the top and bottom of the case.
Glue the first two inserts and install one in each halve of the case. You can then layout and mark your hardware on the other two peices. Using your trusty, very sharp olfa blade cut out the patterns you made and carefully glue and secure in their respective halves.
To build the antenna follow the instructions on http://www.guerrilla.net. This design can easilly be made sectional by solering pcboard stand-offs onto each of the peices so that they can be threaded together. You can then build your radome in two pieces using a 1/2" TA fitting -> 1/2" threaded coupling scenario. Securely fasten the bottom half (glue) while allowing the upper half to float (make sure it is supported within the tube)
The receptacle was added so that while driving i can plug the case into my inverter and utilize the extra outlets for the antennas amplifier.
Technical:
The laptop is an overclocked (75->100MHz) toshiba libretto 50CT with 32M ram and a 10G HD. It is running FreeBSD 4.8-Stable. Kisemt, and GPSDrive are used for wireless activities. The GPS is a Garmin GPSIII plus.
If anyone is planning to do this, you can get the foam here (main site, search for unifoam).
It's known as computer foam, special in that it's nonconductive and doesn't create electrostatic discharge, which is probably why they chose it for this purpose. You'll find hard drives often encased in it.
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/.ed
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 3, Funny
Looks like SPECTRE agents have already compromised the server, Commander Bond.
GIVE PARENT SENSE OF HUMOR
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 3, Funny
if bond had a webserver...
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Anonymous Coward
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He'd need a beowulf of E10Ks
Re:if bond had a webserver...
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caluml
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Au contraire - he'd have one in his watch (beside the laser, and other shit), which had more bandwidth, and processing power than a cluster of Slashdots.
Wireless and Driving? Nah...
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WwWonka
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Is it just me or does the term "Wireless Wardriving" seem a tad redundant? I mean think about the opposite side of the spectrum, "Cabled Wardriving"?
"Man, if it wasn't for this damn 7 foot cat5 crossover attached to my 1997 Accord I would be Owninz Ju!"
Re:Wireless and Driving? Nah...
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glenebob
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I think wardriving is a stupid term. The first time I heard it, I pictured a bunch of college kids in hopped up rice burners (with the performance enhancing belly lights, of course - think "Fast and Furious") tearing down I-5 trying to run each other off the road. So, wireless wardriving... huh? You mean they used to use some sort of wire to run each other off the road, but they became obsolete? I'm confused!
And what do you call it of you hop from cafe to cafe on foot with a laptop trying to connect to wireless access points? Wireless wardining?
Hey, if GW talks to Rumsfield on his cell phone, is he wireless warmongering?
Re:Wireless and Driving? Nah...
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golgotha007
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· Score: 3, Informative
wardriving might sound stupid of you're somewhat new to the geek scene, but wardriving is obviously derived from the term 'wardialing' which was a term coined in the early eighties.
wardialing meant dialing random or sequenced numbers on your modem looking for computer responses, in which you would then 'investigate' further.
I remember an episode when Spock was frustrated by the bearskins and bone knife technology of the mid 20th century?
And didn't he once fabricate a laser from a crystal in his arm, and using a piece of steel from his prison bed with something from the cell light, to burn through the lock on their cell? Sorry, that was like a hundred years ago, to my dog anyway.
Yup, $15. I built my computer into one. Chopped out a side, mounted the mobo tray in it (had to cut it out of an old ATX case with a jigsaw). Cut holes in the other side for drives and power supply. It isn't nearly as sturdy as that case he is using there though. The $15 aluminum case you are referring to actually is just thin aluminum over plywood. Thin plywood at that. The aluminum is just for looks, not stability.
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This guy buys and discards a $350 drill, just to get its carrying case??? I bet when he was a kid, he ignored his toys and played with the boxes they came in.
For what the dope spent on a wasted drill, he could've got a nice Zero Halliburton aluminum case, which seems a lot more like James Bond gear than a freakin' DeWalt drill case.
Yeah, I did... and if he was kidding he should've put a ":-)" to indicate it. Consider what I see people do on a daily basis as part of my job, I find just about anything plausible.
Hell, I got a really, really, nice hard case at auction last month for a dollar. And this was in a big crowd full of technical types who should have snapped it up. The reason I got it for a dollar? It had an IBM PC Convertible (early 8088 based laptop from IBM that's basically a 15 pound XT) in it that scared everybody off. People look at something like that and all they see is 'old laptop, can't bid on that!!!' So I got it for a buck. I may eventually list it on eBay (minus the laptop, which goes in my collection) and I'll probably get $20-30 for it.
even though the piddley (sp?) sight is dead, I'm willing to travel out onto a limb and venture that the writer was *joking* when he suggested buying a $350 drill for the plastic case. then again, maybe the people who are bitching about that are actually very dry jokesters.. who knows.
Geez... Think of something better guys... James Bond is nothing but a scrawny english male model these days.
You'd think they'd cast someone who looks like he could at least throw a punch... What they hell, just a few more big Hollywood movies I can't stand to sit through, not like this is the first, or even in the minority these days.
James Bond doesn't need to be a guy who "looks like he could at least throw a punch". His character is that of a clever spy who gets by with his cunning use of cool gadgets, wit, and charm (with the ladies). Don't get me wrong, the last few have sucked, but I think that's more the fault of the writers than the casting of Pierce Brosnan. He fits the role well.
On that note, I doubt James bond would ever carry anything as unstylish plastic drill case (however "covert" this may be). If this guy had the money to buy a drill and throw it away, why not just buy a metal briefcase? Spy movies always have metal briefcases...
Well, that's the character that's been built up over about 40 years of movies. Flemings original character from the books and the first few films was of a hard professional killer. The gadgets came with the films and the corny lines largely came with Roger Moore.
Actually Timothy Dalton's hardcore, ruthless, street-tough rendition of James Bond was the one that fit more closely with Ian Fleming's original concept. However, people missed the campy, witty Bond so Pierce Brosnan is better regarded than Timothy Dalton by most Bond fans.
I certainly think that Brosnan is way better than Roger Moore's Bond, and pretty close to Connery's prototype movie Bond. Agreed, the series needs better writers.
One element of progress: Bond Girls are getting better. From the original recipe bimbos, we now have kick-ass Bond Girls like Wai Lin (Michelle Yeoh) and Jinx (Hallie Berry). BTW, whatever happened to the promise to spin either or both characters off into their own series of movies? Maybe they should create a buddy picture with the both of them working on the same case. Or maybe not. Whatever.
-- Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.
I know some people like to setup some weird things to go out wardriving, but this is overkill. I have a wardriving setup, it uses an iPAQ handheld, with a single pccard wireless(Prism based) card and GPS throu the serial adapter... The thing fits in my pocket to keep it hidden, plays a chime every time it finds a new network, logs the locations in a standard log format and plays mp3's to keep me happy while I wander around downtown(I hate government towns, too many locked down nets... but wandering my apartment is easy to find free bandwidth, heh)... Sorry, but in a government town, I would be suspicious of anyone, even a lone construction worker wandering around the whole area with a Dewalt case! Sorta beggin for a officer to ask what it is...
Anyway
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Magister mundi sum!
If you had not already said it, I would have done so myself. Note my name.
The English subjunctive mood's ailing health is a linguistic tragedy, but it hardly compares to some of the language's other maladies. Email and chatrooms seem to have somehow brought many to the conclusion that punctuation is only needed when ending a sentence with question marks and exclamation points(and that multiples of these marks is acceptable), that the shortest, most common words are the ones that need to be abbreviated, and that emphasis is a proper use for capital letters.
Teenagers and adolescents are turning in essays in English class containing gibberish like "w/e," "alot," "b4," and "ttyl i g2g." After March of 2005, the SAT I will have an essay section. That will be quite interesting.
Mutterer, I always find it amazing(amusing?) how clueless people are about their own language. Even after pointing out their error, they fail to recognize it. Whenever I point out a sentence where the subjunctive mood should have been used, there is a high chance of getting a response along the lines of:
"But James Bond isn't plural!"
You dolts! Haven't you ever ever even seen the inside of a grammar book? I sometimes wonder.
The event of which I am most afraid is the day on which I'll submit a job application to a person who will choose a sloppy writer over myself because they'll be better understood.
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Ah the joys of a grammer Natzi. OK now that I got the flame bit over.
Realy why my own grammer is horid it's one thing to have issues in general grammer it's entirly another thing to take slag and submit it as english. I would think it's the same problem ebonics, people become to used to slang and consider it part of the general language. Now granted I did once here that if something appeared in print a few times it was considered a valid word in the english language, persoanly I have allways dispised the poor manner in wich dictionaries for american english have been assembled.
Actually, I don't think that mistakes like those are as important as mistakes you would actually make in speech. They may look a whole lot worse in print, but making one of those mistakes doesn't demonstrate the same level of misunderstanding of the language as pure grammatical errors do.
When I read and write, the printed word I see is almost directly translated to understanding, and conversely, I can put my ideas down directly to print. I don't process language with an audio filter unless I'm really slowing down and pondering a difficult piece of prose(or poetry!) However, I think that 99% of people do process written words with a mental audio layer to some extent, and that this accounts for a lot of bad spelling and homophone confusion in English. Have you ever seen someone that has comprehension of written word so linked with speech that they move their lips a little when they read silently? I would be willing to bet that person is a bad speller also, but not that they are necessarily less intelligent or have a looser grasp on grammar. Although people with bad spelling also often have bad grammar, the fact that so many exceptions exist proves there is no direct correlation. For example, many computer programmers have bad spelling, but they have the ability to master the rigid syntax of many artificial languages.
Understanding code syntax isn't any different from understanding English syntax, but when you make a mistake in English, you don't usually get corrected, whereas your compiler will certainly let you know if you have a problem, and thereby force you to learn the language properly.
Nice theory. But I know for a fact, the school system i came up through didn't teach the subjunctive per se, and that verbs in 'if' clauses followed normal agreement rules
Well, the school system I came through didn't teach the subjunctive explicitly either. I became aware that that's what it was called through studying Spanish. My official English education was quite pathetic. I sought out and read The Elements of Style and other grammar books on my own. However, much of what I know of grammar comes just from reading a lot.
I'm not sure I understand the distinction you're trying to make. The subjunctive does follow the normal agreement rules. I think that maybe you just don't understand the grammar that you thought you did.
Thats a pretty lame setup. You spend $350 on a power drill just for the case. Then put in a crappy laptop. Great setup..
"Wireless wardrving" you say? As opposed to maybe wired wardriving? "haha! I've plugged my cat5 cable into your network and I see all your computers! I'm so cool! Now let me run away stealthily!"
Re:James Bond? no way.
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SubjunctiveSam
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You're right. I think James bond would have something along the lines of this, only 5 times smaller and equipped with a built-in single-shot pistol and one button on the side that "hacks" the wireless network for him.
Sean Conneryizer!!!
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macshune
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I put my notebook in my backpack, plugged an earpiece into the headphone jack and walked 10 blocks down the beach. I found about 15 networks, mostly near high-rise condos.
It might not be exactly James Bond, but I didn't need to buy a bunch of stuff to do it and it was still very inconspicuous.
ease up on my webserver
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Anonymous Coward
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hi im the admin for penix.org. and the site is hosted on my dsl at home so go easy on me...
please use that, if you ease up the dsl I can upload the whole site to that fast server.
Thanks
If the author had a beowulf of E10Ks...
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pr0ntab
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He'd rip out the mainbords and backbone and use them as storage units for spare SCSI discs.
Purple, securable, AND climate controlled. Bonus!
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Slashdot Posts Non-story
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Punchcardz
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"I took this case, cut some foam, and put all the stuff from my war driving rig in there."
How on earth does this rate as a slashdot newspost? On a related note, I took my clothes, put them in a suitcase, and now have a convienient, portable container for my stuff, and I bought a pelican case and modified it to custom fit my camera gear. Whoopdity doo!
Re:Slashdot Posts Non-story
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Ledge
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· Score: 2, Insightful
Agreed. I fail to see what the story is here. It's slightly less funtional than my computer case that also conveniently holds my laptop, power strip, and gps unit. Granted, this is running BSD instead of XP, Netstumbler, and Delorme Street Atlas USA 2003 plus.
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Re:James Bond? no way.
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mikeb
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I have found plenty of wireless hotspots, though admittedly not official. A very pleasant place to sit and read email is in the Pret a Manger cafe at the north end of Carnaby street in London. There are several unencrypted networks accessible there that will happily hand out a DHCP lease.
Interestingly, running Kismet I was initally confused by the networks that kept popping up only to disappear again, till I realised that they are the London buses broadcasting their location and the route that they are on, or at least as far as I can tell that's what it is. Anyone know any better what stuff like "xxxWESTBOURNE PARKyyy" is?
Exactly. Just get yourself an Ordnance Survey map and a Silva compass. No need for GPS. You can correct for Magnetic Declination in one of three ways.
Ignore it and just take extra sightings {relying on your waymarks being sufficiently close that you will be only a few metres off}
Correct it in your head
Pencil new north-south lines {based on present-day mag north} on your map
I actually saw a TV programme where two drivers {one with GPS, the other with map and compass} set off to find the same place. The GPS user got hopelessly lost! Another victory for low-tech!
And, of course, Q wouldn't spend $350 to get a cheap-looking black plastic case when you could get a nice respectable leather one for a fraction of the price.
-- "Goodness me, how unlike the FBI to abuse the trust of the American public." -- The Onion
Got a new IBM Think Pad for work the other day, comes with 802.11b built in. Decided to test out a new VPN client and realized I had "tone" on the wireless. So I checked out how many points I could connect to. Not surprisingly on 7th Ave in NYC there were a lot of point to choose from, and all were unsecured. So I picked on and began working out the kinks of the new VPN Client software.
About and hour later I am working (though the VPN) with my feet up and the laptop on my lap when i notice some people gesticulating wildly at their window pointing at me! I open my window (5th sotry) and they are yelling at me to get off their network!
I just closed my shade.
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Wardriving woes - Enterasys
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TheSync
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I have Enterasys cards which are supposedly rebranded Oronoco silvers. With Netstumbler, it seems to stop responding to new APs whilst wardriving. Any ideas? What is the best wardriving card to get, SMC?
$350 for a cordless driver case?
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uberdood
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Idiot. Buy a Pelican case. Water-tight plus a pressure release valve.
- People called Romanes they go the house?
- It, it says 'Romans go home'.
- No it doesn't. What's latin for 'Roman'? Come on...
- aaah
- Come on.
- Ah! Romanus?
- Goes like?
- Annus?
- Vocative plural of 'annus' is?
- Anni?
- Romani.
- Eunt? What is eunt?
- Go.
- Conjugate the verb 'to go'.
- Uh. Ire - Uh... eo, is, it, imus, itis, eunt.
- So eunt is?
- Ah, Uh, Third person plural of present indicative. They go.
- But Romans go home is an order, so you must use the?
- The imperative.
- Which is?
- Ahm. Oh, oh, um... I, I.
- How many Romans?
- Ah. Plural, plural... ite, ite.
- Ite.
Domus? Nomonative? 'Go home'? This is motion towards, isn't it, boy?
- Dative, sir.
Ahh. No, not dative, not the dative, sir. Oh, Ah. Uh.
The accusative accusative. Ah, Domum, sir. Ab domum! Ah! Oooh! Ah!
- Except that 'domus' takes the?
- The locative, sir.
- Which is?
- Domum. Aaah! ah.
- Domum... um... Understand?
- Yes, sir.
- Now write it out a hundred times.
- Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. Hail Caeser, sir.
- Hail Caeser. And if it's not done by sunrise, I'll cut your balls off.
- Ooh, thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. Hail Caeser and everything, sir.
just get one of these for 25 bucks.
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Antilles
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<snip>Kingsington Wireless WI-FI Finder Model 33063 Retail Your life on the road just got a lot easier. With the first and only WiFi detector on the market today, you no longer need to cross your fingers as you wait for your notebook to boot up. Specifications: Three lights indicate signal strength Detects 802.11b and 802.11g signals from up to 200 feet away </snip>
A gps can be a great tool in the woods, on the trail, and even on the open highway. However, that is not normaly where you are looking for wireless points. In the city a gps can be difficult to use because of all the tall buildings blocking and bouncing the signal. In the suburbs and in resedential areas you will get better reception. So depending on where you are looking it might or might not help you.
Re:James Bond? no way.
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singleantler
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Ah, is that in the areas where the stops have the automatic updates for time of arrival? I've seen the aerials on the side of the units, but didn't guess that they were transmitting on the wifi frequency. I suppose it makes sense though, letting them use off the shelf components.
I'm in Brighton rather than London, and hotspots are popping up everywhere around here, what with Consume nodes, Pier to Pier, and Loose Connection wiring up some of the local pubs. You can even use it on part of the beach if that sort of thing floats your boat.
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Re:Proper-er use of subjunctive!
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sp0re
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"Were" is correct - if we consider James Bond in the present - as a going concern. But come on - when we think of James Bond, we think of Connery or Moore - that is, in the past. Even if we give Brosnan the nod, he's only as current as the last Bond film - which takes place circa 2002. Therefore "had been" is really the right call.
-- "Dada is the signboard of abstraction; advertising and business are also elements of poetry." -Tristan Tzara
I was waiting for a meeting so didn't investigate the bus-effect further (and with the temperatures in London so high I'd rather walk around town than take the bus/tube thanks, since neither is air-conditioned).
But it is part of the area where the stops show which bus is coming next. Kismet didn't appear to show any interesting packets but then I didn't look hard, there were other things on my mind at the time. All I could spot was beacon packets.
I'm amazed how many unprotected networks there are in London. One day someone will have a nasty shock as a result of all that!
I understand why people feel the need to "discover" silly origins for words. (Hence the "standard" explanation that "starboard" comes from "steering board", even though that's totally inconsistent with other nautical uses of the word "board".) But where do these fantasy acronyms come from?
Long before there was war driving there was war dialing. Which comes from a movie about AI written by people who knew nothing about AI. Besides, you've got Ally Sheedy alone in your room, why are you wasting time on that stupid computer?
Slashdot Mirror
How are you supposed to fugure out where the connectivity is? By looking at the GPS?
It should read: "If James Bond were into wardriving..."
Bond is not a pathetic loser
*sigh*
Life is not for the lazy.
James would knot have this.
:)
1) It's not in an Aston Martin
2) It's a fricken breifcase. he'd just put it in his watch
3) it requires more than a twist & push of a button.
So no, this is a geek case, not a james bond one.
As a rock-in-roll Physicist once said, No matter where you go, there you are.
A website that goes by the name of penix.org? That just seems *wrong* somehow? :-)
There must be a lot of subscribers. Or at least the site operator is one, saw his page get listed, and took the whole thing down in a panic.
It appears the site is slashdotted already, so I figure this mirror should work fine.
If James Bond had this he'd find there are very few wireless hotspots in England to use it..... BTW it's not knot it's not.
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if james bond were into wardriving, he could forget about bedding any more Bond girls.
"Life is great; without it, you'd be dead." -Harmony Korine
Guess I just have to wait for it to be un-/.-ed...
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;). Open the case and make a depression into the material. Quickly cut away the impression that you made and repeat. You will need two inserts for both the top and bottom of the case.
Take a drive over to home depot and buy yourself a nice 18v cordless drill (~$350). Bring it home and throw away the drill, charger, instructions, etc. You should be left with a nice hard plastic case.
oh he's breakin' heart throwng away an 18 volt cordless drill.Man you'd think he'd at least keep the drill for parts.
here's text as its already
Materials:case_closed
* 1 Toshiba libretto. (or similar sized laptop)
* 1 GPS receiver.
* 1 collinear antenna. (www.guerrilla.net)
* 1 dewalt drill case.
* 1 sheet 1" plastizote.
* dallop of contact cement
* little bit of velcro.
* a bunch of speedy rivets.
* 1 1104 box w/ receptacle cover.
* 1 duplex receptacle.
* nothing better todo on a weekend
case open Assembly:
Take a drive over to home depot and buy yourself a nice 18v cordless drill (~$350). Bring it home and throw away the drill, charger, instructions, etc. You should be left with a nice hard plastic case. Using a sharp knife cut away all the platic baffles leaving only the one compartment on the left side of the case ( its the perfect size for the laptops power supply).
Now take your plastizote (a very dense closed cell foam) and lay it on a large flat surface, like a table
Glue the first two inserts and install one in each halve of the case. You can then layout and mark your hardware on the other two peices. Using your trusty, very sharp olfa blade cut out the patterns you made and carefully glue and secure in their respective halves.
To build the antenna follow the instructions on http://www.guerrilla.net. This design can easilly be made sectional by solering pcboard stand-offs onto each of the peices so that they can be threaded together. You can then build your radome in two pieces using a 1/2" TA fitting -> 1/2" threaded coupling scenario. Securely fasten the bottom half (glue) while allowing the upper half to float (make sure it is supported within the tube)
The receptacle was added so that while driving i can plug the case into my inverter and utilize the extra outlets for the antennas amplifier.
Technical:
The laptop is an overclocked (75->100MHz) toshiba libretto 50CT with 32M ram and a 10G HD. It is running FreeBSD 4.8-Stable. Kisemt, and GPSDrive are used for wireless activities. The GPS is a Garmin GPSIII plus.
--Im an oven mitt, not an engineer! (SLArbys Radio Commercial)
someone must have hit the self-destruct button on the server....
$cat
Materials:
;). Open the case and make a depression into the material. Quickly cut away the impression that you made and repeat. You will need two inserts for both the top and bottom of the case.
* 1 Toshiba libretto. (or similar sized laptop)
* 1 GPS receiver.
* 1 collinear antenna. (www.guerrilla.net)
* 1 dewalt drill case.
* 1 sheet 1" plastizote.
* dallop of contact cement
* little bit of velcro.
* a bunch of speedy rivets.
* 1 1104 box w/ receptacle cover.
* 1 duplex receptacle.
* nothing better todo on a weekend
Assembly:
Take a drive over to home depot and buy yourself a nice 18v cordless drill (~$350). Bring it home and throw away the drill, charger, instructions, etc. You should be left with a nice hard plastic case. Using a sharp knife cut away all the platic baffles leaving only the one compartment on the left side of the case ( its the perfect size for the laptops power supply).
Now take your plastizote (a very dense closed cell foam) and lay it on a large flat surface, like a table
Glue the first two inserts and install one in each halve of the case. You can then layout and mark your hardware on the other two peices. Using your trusty, very sharp olfa blade cut out the patterns you made and carefully glue and secure in their respective halves.
To build the antenna follow the instructions on http://www.guerrilla.net. This design can easilly be made sectional by solering pcboard stand-offs onto each of the peices so that they can be threaded together. You can then build your radome in two pieces using a 1/2" TA fitting -> 1/2" threaded coupling scenario. Securely fasten the bottom half (glue) while allowing the upper half to float (make sure it is supported within the tube)
The receptacle was added so that while driving i can plug the case into my inverter and utilize the extra outlets for the antennas amplifier.
Technical:
The laptop is an overclocked (75->100MHz) toshiba libretto 50CT with 32M ram and a 10G HD. It is running FreeBSD 4.8-Stable. Kisemt, and GPSDrive are used for wireless activities. The GPS is a Garmin GPSIII plus.
Looks like SPECTRE agents have already compromised the server, Commander Bond.
please.
If you check the domain's whois record, the administrative contact's fax number ends with 007.
Here: Mirror
They slashdotted my penix!
He'd need a beowulf of E10Ks
OMG, why do you know that?!
We have a highly-regarded, modded-up post that misspells the word 'not'.
or maybe the webserver is 300 baud
The unofficial
Is it just me or does the term "Wireless Wardriving" seem a tad redundant? I mean think about the opposite side of the spectrum, "Cabled Wardriving"?
"Man, if it wasn't for this damn 7 foot cat5 crossover attached to my 1997 Accord I would be Owninz Ju!"
Mcguyver was into wireless wardriving?
He'd use a paperclip, a battery, and one LED.
The funny thing is, Home Depot sells very nice aluminium cases and other toolbox-type boxes that would suit this purpose much better than:
"Bring it home and throw away the drill, charger, instructions, etc. You should be left with a nice hard plastic case."
You'd think that Q could figure out how to make a better case than just raping one from a drill set.
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This guy buys and discards a $350 drill, just to get its carrying case??? I bet when he was a kid, he ignored his toys and played with the boxes they came in.
For what the dope spent on a wasted drill, he could've got a nice Zero Halliburton aluminum case, which seems a lot more like James Bond gear than a freakin' DeWalt drill case.
~Philly
Slashdotted on a Saturday night? Nahhhh... ;)
People who have witty things here blow.
[WWWBond] You expect me to tell everything to Slashdot? [Blofeld] No Mr. Bond, I expect your website to die!
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In case the site (or routes to the site) get slashdotted. Here is a mirror.
--
Martin Studio Slashdot Effect Mirror Policy
Q might have devised a clever little device that wouldn't be smoking in ashes when the old boys at slashdot fancy a vidi.
because you're not a slashdot subscriber
If James Bond had this he'd find there are very few wireless hotspots in England to use it..... BTW it's not knot it's not.
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Has he tried taking that through airport security yet?
Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way...
even though the piddley (sp?) sight is dead, I'm willing to travel out onto a limb and venture that the writer was *joking* when he suggested buying a $350 drill for the plastic case. then again, maybe the people who are bitching about that are actually very dry jokesters.. who knows.
Geez... Think of something better guys... James Bond is nothing but a scrawny english male model these days.
You'd think they'd cast someone who looks like he could at least throw a punch... What they hell, just a few more big Hollywood movies I can't stand to sit through, not like this is the first, or even in the minority these days.
Slashdot gets worse every day... Pipedot: News for nerds, without the corporate slant
A complete mirror here. Includes the images linked off the page at the bottom. Have at it.
I see your rig and raise you this.
I know some people like to setup some weird things to go out wardriving, but this is overkill. I have a wardriving setup, it uses an iPAQ handheld, with a single pccard wireless(Prism based) card and GPS throu the serial adapter... The thing fits in my pocket to keep it hidden, plays a chime every time it finds a new network, logs the locations in a standard log format and plays mp3's to keep me happy while I wander around downtown(I hate government towns, too many locked down nets... but wandering my apartment is easy to find free bandwidth, heh)... Sorry, but in a government town, I would be suspicious of anyone, even a lone construction worker wandering around the whole area with a Dewalt case! Sorta beggin for a officer to ask what it is...
Anyway
On Arrakis: early worm gets the bird. Magister mundi sum!
Wow! Reference to an Aston Martin on slashdot.
Nope, a $350 "Professional Expenses Tax Deduction" !
Then again, if they say not to consult Slashdot for legal advice, this probably isn't the best forum for creative suggestions on federal tax forms.
would be James Bond.
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Bond doesn't have the Kung Fu to hack. He's have Q do it.
"Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect."- Steven Wright
Geek: "My Kung foo is better then yours."h ..."
Bond:[whack][whack][whack]
Geek:"uughhh
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If James Bond does wireless war driving, Wile E. Coyote must do the wired kind.
A programmer is a machine for converting coffee into code.
Not Blofeld.
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
If you had not already said it, I would have done so myself. Note my name.
The English subjunctive mood's ailing health is a linguistic tragedy, but it hardly compares to some of the language's other maladies. Email and chatrooms seem to have somehow brought many to the conclusion that punctuation is only needed when ending a sentence with question marks and exclamation points(and that multiples of these marks is acceptable), that the shortest, most common words are the ones that need to be abbreviated, and that emphasis is a proper use for capital letters.
Teenagers and adolescents are turning in essays in English class containing gibberish like "w/e," "alot," "b4," and "ttyl i g2g." After March of 2005, the SAT I will have an essay section. That will be quite interesting.
Mutterer, I always find it amazing(amusing?) how clueless people are about their own language. Even after pointing out their error, they fail to recognize it. Whenever I point out a sentence where the subjunctive mood should have been used, there is a high chance of getting a response along the lines of:
"But James Bond isn't plural!"
You dolts! Haven't you ever ever even seen the inside of a grammar book? I sometimes wonder.
It's a good drill lol...
If James Bond were a wireless hacker, there would be no Pussy Galore.
Thats a pretty lame setup. You spend $350 on a power drill just for the case. Then put in a crappy laptop. Great setup..
"Wireless wardrving" you say? As opposed to maybe wired wardriving? "haha! I've plugged my cat5 cable into your network and I see all your computers! I'm so cool! Now let me run away stealthily!"
You're right. I think James bond would have something along the lines of this, only 5 times smaller and equipped with a built-in single-shot pistol and one button on the side that "hacks" the wireless network for him.
Hey, check out I what found earlier in the day!
The Sean Conneryizer.
I put my notebook in my backpack, plugged an earpiece into the headphone jack and walked 10 blocks down the beach. I found about 15 networks, mostly near high-rise condos.
It might not be exactly James Bond, but I didn't need to buy a bunch of stuff to do it and it was still very inconspicuous.
hi im the admin for penix.org. and the site is hosted on my dsl at home so go easy on me...
I put up a mirror here
please use that, if you ease up the dsl I can upload the whole site to that fast server.
Thanks
He'd rip out the mainbords and backbone and use them as storage units for spare SCSI discs.
Purple, securable, AND climate controlled. Bonus!
Fuck Beta. Fuck Dice
"I took this case, cut some foam, and put all the stuff from my war driving rig in there." How on earth does this rate as a slashdot newspost? On a related note, I took my clothes, put them in a suitcase, and now have a convienient, portable container for my stuff, and I bought a pelican case and modified it to custom fit my camera gear. Whoopdity doo!
I have found plenty of wireless hotspots, though admittedly not official. A very pleasant place to sit and read email is in the Pret a Manger cafe at the north end of Carnaby street in London. There are several unencrypted networks accessible there that will happily hand out a DHCP lease.
Interestingly, running Kismet I was initally confused by the networks that kept popping up only to disappear again, till I realised that they are the London buses broadcasting their location and the route that they are on, or at least as far as I can tell that's what it is. Anyone know any better what stuff like "xxxWESTBOURNE PARKyyy" is?
- Ignore it and just take extra sightings {relying on your waymarks being sufficiently close that you will be only a few metres off}
- Correct it in your head
- Pencil new north-south lines {based on present-day mag north} on your map
I actually saw a TV programme where two drivers {one with GPS, the other with map and compass} set off to find the same place. The GPS user got hopelessly lost! Another victory for low-tech!Je fume. Tu fumes. Nous fûmes!
Go on then... I give up...
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What the hell would he need the paperclip for? He doesn't need help writing a letter!
And, of course, Q wouldn't spend $350 to get a cheap-looking black plastic case when you could get a nice respectable leather one for a fraction of the price.
"Goodness me, how unlike the FBI to abuse the trust of the American public." -- The Onion
Have you tried to get on a bus to see if it stays then?
.. his computer would be a Sony Vaio or a Mac.
Remember, this is from a guy who drives BMWs instead of TVRs...
Got a new IBM Think Pad for work the other day, comes with 802.11b built in. Decided to test out a new VPN client and realized I had "tone" on the wireless. So I checked out how many points I could connect to. Not surprisingly on 7th Ave in NYC there were a lot of point to choose from, and all were unsecured. So I picked on and began working out the kinks of the new VPN Client software.
About and hour later I am working (though the VPN) with my feet up and the laptop on my lap when i notice some people gesticulating wildly at their window pointing at me! I open my window (5th sotry) and they are yelling at me to get off their network!
I just closed my shade.
This
I have Enterasys cards which are supposedly rebranded Oronoco silvers. With Netstumbler, it seems to stop responding to new APs whilst wardriving. Any ideas? What is the best wardriving card to get, SMC?
Idiot. Buy a Pelican case. Water-tight plus a pressure release valve.
"Population 1,656"
- People called Romanes they go the house? - It, it says 'Romans go home'. - No it doesn't. What's latin for 'Roman'? Come on... - aaah - Come on. - Ah! Romanus? - Goes like? - Annus? - Vocative plural of 'annus' is? - Anni? - Romani. - Eunt? What is eunt? - Go. - Conjugate the verb 'to go'. - Uh. Ire - Uh... eo, is, it, imus, itis, eunt. - So eunt is? - Ah, Uh, Third person plural of present indicative. They go. - But Romans go home is an order, so you must use the? - The imperative. - Which is? - Ahm. Oh, oh, um... I, I. - How many Romans? - Ah. Plural, plural... ite, ite. - Ite. Domus? Nomonative? 'Go home'? This is motion towards, isn't it, boy? - Dative, sir. Ahh. No, not dative, not the dative, sir. Oh, Ah. Uh. The accusative accusative. Ah, Domum, sir. Ab domum! Ah! Oooh! Ah! - Except that 'domus' takes the? - The locative, sir. - Which is? - Domum. Aaah! ah. - Domum... um... Understand? - Yes, sir. - Now write it out a hundred times. - Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. Hail Caeser, sir. - Hail Caeser. And if it's not done by sunrise, I'll cut your balls off. - Ooh, thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. Hail Caeser and everything, sir.
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A gps can be a great tool in the woods, on the trail, and even on the open highway. However, that is not normaly where you are looking for wireless points. In the city a gps can be difficult to use because of all the tall buildings blocking and bouncing the signal. In the suburbs and in resedential areas you will get better reception. So depending on where you are looking it might or might not help you.
I'm in Brighton rather than London, and hotspots are popping up everywhere around here, what with Consume nodes, Pier to Pier, and Loose Connection wiring up some of the local pubs. You can even use it on part of the beach if that sort of thing floats your boat.
"What if they're using IE?" "I've dumbed Mozilla down to cope with it." - BOFH
"Were" is correct - if we consider James Bond in the present - as a going concern. But come on - when we think of James Bond, we think of Connery or Moore - that is, in the past. Even if we give Brosnan the nod, he's only as current as the last Bond film - which takes place circa 2002. Therefore "had been" is really the right call.
"Dada is the signboard of abstraction; advertising and business are also elements of poetry." -Tristan Tzara
I was waiting for a meeting so didn't investigate the bus-effect further (and with the temperatures in London so high I'd rather walk around town than take the bus/tube thanks, since neither is air-conditioned).
But it is part of the area where the stops show which bus is coming next. Kismet didn't appear to show any interesting packets but then I didn't look hard, there were other things on my mind at the time. All I could spot was beacon packets.
I'm amazed how many unprotected networks there are in London. One day someone will have a nasty shock as a result of all that!
Long before there was war driving there was war dialing. Which comes from a movie about AI written by people who knew nothing about AI. Besides, you've got Ally Sheedy alone in your room, why are you wasting time on that stupid computer?
Sorry, caught me in a bad mood.