Re:Proper use of subjunctive!
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netsharc
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· Score: 3, Informative
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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Luckily...
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 4, Funny
Bond is not a pathetic loser
James Bond? no way.
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OS24Ever
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· Score: 5, Funny
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.:)
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As a rock-in-roll Physicist once said, No matter where you go, there you are.
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
no not the drill!
by
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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--Im an oven mitt, not an engineer! (SLArbys Radio Commercial)
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.
-- Sigs are like bumper stickers.
/.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
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.
-- I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
Wireless and Driving? Nah...
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WwWonka
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· Score: 3, Funny
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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· Score: 4, Funny
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.
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
Re:What a dumbass
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sharkey
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· Score: 2, Informative
For what the dope spent on a wasted drill, he could've got a nice Zero Halliburton aluminum case
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.
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.
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!
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.
-- slashdot: where everyone yells sarcastic metaphors to themselves to understand the issue
If James Bond were a wireless hacker, there would be no Pussy Galore.
Re:James Bond? no way.
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SubjunctiveSam
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· Score: 2, Interesting
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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· Score: 3, Funny
Re:James Bond? no way.
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mikeb
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· Score: 2, Interesting
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?
the real question is
by
commodoresloat
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· Score: 2, Funny
What the hell would he need the paperclip for? He doesn't need help writing a letter!
Re:Slashdot Posts Non-story
by
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.
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!
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
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? :-)
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.
Video Game cheats, hints a
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
From the article:
/.ed
;). 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)
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!
We have a highly-regarded, modded-up post that misspells the word 'not'.
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.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
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."
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
[WWWBond] You expect me to tell everything to Slashdot? [Blofeld] No Mr. Bond, I expect your website to die!
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!
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.
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.
If James Bond were a wireless hacker, there would be no Pussy Galore.
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 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?
What the hell would he need the paperclip for? He doesn't need help writing a letter!
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.
If it ain't a Model M, it's a piece of crap.
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