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A DIYer's Quick Guide To Cheap Wireless Extension
An anonymous reader writes "This piece is described in one of the comments on it as 'a little piece of genius'... and I have to agree! Although Peter Cochrane seems a bit of a crack pot, the ways that he comes up with to get connected when he's out of range in the sticks are pure genius and he makes them appear really simple! Think old satellite dishes, USB dongles and plastic bags and you'd be on the right tracks to upping wi-fi signal by 4 bars." A perfect excuse to link to one of my favorite sites, if you want more details and photos on similar jury-rigged long-distance connections. However, your meterage may vary — I've found USB Wi-Fi devices to be pretty fickle under Linux, with some distros working way better than others.
...I'll rig my own parabolic signal booster if and when I feel like it.
That's my new sig sorted out then.
Dude, what carrier is offering a temporal calling plan?
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
Mine goes to 11.
Dude, what carrier is offering a temporal calling plan?
TARDIS Telecom, for one...
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." --H.L. Mencken
NASA uses spacebars.
apparently DE:AD:BE:EF:DE:AD:BE:EF is some guy named Peter Shipley, and he just laughed at me when I called him up and asked him about it.