So what the hell is taking them so long? That was back in March. In the six or seven months they've owned them, Dell couldn't make them any better? If Dell wanted to improve their standings with PC enthusiasts, they'd liquidate their purchase.
I bought an area 51 laptop at the start of the month for my wife's birthday. *I* was all excited about it. I checked up on it a week before it was supposed to ship and the site had indicated that it had already shipped. So I'm thinking, "under-promise, over-deliver." Oddly, no tracking information was sent to me. A week went by. Still listed as shipped. Still no tracking information. So I send an email to their sales address inquiring as to the status of my order. An automated response comes back with, "you should hear back from us within 72 hours." huh... ok. It's been six days now. I'm beginning to wonder if they meant 72 BUSINESS hours. So I get on their chat line. The dude on the chat line said that he didn't have access to the order information and to call some number. (That's awesome guys... have a support line with no access to BASIC order information...) So I call their number and within about a minute or two, I get a live person. After proving that I was who I said I was, he diligently puts me on hold and scurries about the home saucer trying to find the status of my order. After about five minutes, I'm thinking, "He has GOT to have the lo-down by now." And he comes back on the line. "Uh... yeah... I can't find anything on your laptop. I need to do more research. We'll get back to you in less than 24 hours." ?! ok... Are these people even IN the IT field? My original email inquiry has yet to have ANY reponse since the automated one. No one has followed up from my phone call. Are these people even selling product? Have I been scammed for $1800?
I was waiting to check out my wife's new laptop so I could run out and get one just like it. It's too bad for them too. I had someone else pumped on the idea of alienware a couple weeks ago. At this point, they've lost at least two customers. (which DELL will be picking up shortly...)
hmmm... I'll kind of agree with the statement in a very general sense. I used to be a rabid Tori fan, often recognizing the same people on the second or third day she'd play at the same venue. Even named my domain after a hash of her name. My taste in music has significantly changed since Little Earthquakes and she's moved in a couple directions since then. I really did like some of her electronica remixes, but they were often too highly repetitive (unlike trance...). (though there were some good remixes that BT did that were VERY kick-ass!) I haven't purchased a single Tori CD in several years, yet my collection is still dominated by her music.
But I'm segue-ing from our off-topic discussion. Just because an artist isn't going through a hard time, doesn't necessarily mean their music will suck. Tori has some awesome songs about getting-off. (unless you couldn't, in which, YEAH, I could see how life would really blow.) Of course, Tori did experience something tragic that helped propell her into the world stage. Later on, she miscarriaged.
Frankly, I can't imagine why SAIC would advertise the fact that they're setting up a WiFi honey pot. It's not net enabled, so for most war drivers, it probably won't be that interesting. Besides, if they were trying to incriminate, don't associate to any cisco gear. Most companies who are savy enough to buy the high end gear will most likely turn on WEP and VPN to a firewall anyway. (ah, the glory of cracking a key only to experience the agony of finding something ELSE in the way.) So if you find a cisco AP that's not WEP enabled, it's a likely candidate.
Maybe they're advertising because no one landed in their little pot so they're trying stoke the flames a little. I found several hundred AP's just driving a couple miles and back downtown. I would think it would be a little more interesting to situate your honey pot in a corporate area with low to medium RF traffic. Pinpointing a car in a relatively suburban area would be much easier than downtown. (and people wonder why I tinted my windows)
If you want to attract a war driver, dump something interesting on the air. You'd be surprised how much internal crap dumps out onto wireless due to broadcast traffic. (oh, you say you're on a switch? hehe..)
And how far can they track the "intruder?" I've been able to get line of sight at several miles to a few AP's while driving downtown. (and as long as someone else is driving, once they get a fix on me, they won't have me at that point for very long.) (course, LOS at a couple miles would be hard to keep associating while driving.)
As for the Mac-hopping comment... What good is that? Or are you talking about channel hopping? Get a real nic that monitors on all channels simultaneously. And war driving just isn't war driving unless you have a external antennas for both your GPS and your WiFi cards. (In some cases, an amplifier can help...)
Tori, eh? That's kind of funny. She got moved over to the UK by Atlantic Records a decade or so ago, and started a following which has made it's way all over the place. Oddly enough, it was she who thrust me into electronica with the assistance of BT (Brian Transeau). They had gotten together and done Blue Sky. Since I was, at the time, a very hard core Tori fan, I picked it up and fell in love with the music.
Massinova is very slick in that they sell T-shirts and other good shtuff. My favorite is the original "Rabid Trance Addict." I wear it to CHURCH often and find myself answering quite a few questions about the genre.
The products from Fortress Technologies are actually pretty sweet. We use dozens of the little AF-1100's all over the place with a bunch of Lucent/Agere AP's for bridging and the like. They just recently acquired the FIPS 140-1 certs for their software. I opened one up, voiding the warranty, and checked it out. (they run Linux on an embedded single board computer.) It's much simpler than IPSEC or VPN since it's layer 2. (and since it's layer 2, we're talking whatever protocol you want to run under Win32 and PocketPC.) The company I work for sells them for $1895.
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So what the hell is taking them so long? That was back in March. In the six or seven months they've owned them, Dell couldn't make them any better? If Dell wanted to improve their standings with PC enthusiasts, they'd liquidate their purchase.
I bought an area 51 laptop at the start of the month for my wife's birthday. *I* was all excited about it. I checked up on it a week before it was supposed to ship and the site had indicated that it had already shipped. So I'm thinking, "under-promise, over-deliver." Oddly, no tracking information was sent to me. A week went by. Still listed as shipped. Still no tracking information. So I send an email to their sales address inquiring as to the status of my order. An automated response comes back with, "you should hear back from us within 72 hours." huh... ok. It's been six days now. I'm beginning to wonder if they meant 72 BUSINESS hours. So I get on their chat line. The dude on the chat line said that he didn't have access to the order information and to call some number. (That's awesome guys... have a support line with no access to BASIC order information...) So I call their number and within about a minute or two, I get a live person. After proving that I was who I said I was, he diligently puts me on hold and scurries about the home saucer trying to find the status of my order. After about five minutes, I'm thinking, "He has GOT to have the lo-down by now." And he comes back on the line. "Uh... yeah... I can't find anything on your laptop. I need to do more research. We'll get back to you in less than 24 hours." ?! ok... Are these people even IN the IT field? My original email inquiry has yet to have ANY reponse since the automated one. No one has followed up from my phone call. Are these people even selling product? Have I been scammed for $1800?
I was waiting to check out my wife's new laptop so I could run out and get one just like it. It's too bad for them too. I had someone else pumped on the idea of alienware a couple weeks ago. At this point, they've lost at least two customers. (which DELL will be picking up shortly...)
hmmm... I'll kind of agree with the statement in a very general sense. I used to be a rabid Tori fan, often recognizing the same people on the second or third day she'd play at the same venue. Even named my domain after a hash of her name. My taste in music has significantly changed since Little Earthquakes and she's moved in a couple directions since then. I really did like some of her electronica remixes, but they were often too highly repetitive (unlike trance...). (though there were some good remixes that BT did that were VERY kick-ass!) I haven't purchased a single Tori CD in several years, yet my collection is still dominated by her music.
But I'm segue-ing from our off-topic discussion. Just because an artist isn't going through a hard time, doesn't necessarily mean their music will suck. Tori has some awesome songs about getting-off. (unless you couldn't, in which, YEAH, I could see how life would really blow.) Of course, Tori did experience something tragic that helped propell her into the world stage. Later on, she miscarriaged.
cisco lmc-352... or pcm-352 if you don't use external antennas
Frankly, I can't imagine why SAIC would advertise the fact that they're setting up a WiFi honey pot. It's not net enabled, so for most war drivers, it probably won't be that interesting. Besides, if they were trying to incriminate, don't associate to any cisco gear. Most companies who are savy enough to buy the high end gear will most likely turn on WEP and VPN to a firewall anyway. (ah, the glory of cracking a key only to experience the agony of finding something ELSE in the way.) So if you find a cisco AP that's not WEP enabled, it's a likely candidate.
Maybe they're advertising because no one landed in their little pot so they're trying stoke the flames a little. I found several hundred AP's just driving a couple miles and back downtown. I would think it would be a little more interesting to situate your honey pot in a corporate area with low to medium RF traffic. Pinpointing a car in a relatively suburban area would be much easier than downtown. (and people wonder why I tinted my windows)
If you want to attract a war driver, dump something interesting on the air. You'd be surprised how much internal crap dumps out onto wireless due to broadcast traffic. (oh, you say you're on a switch? hehe..)
And how far can they track the "intruder?" I've been able to get line of sight at several miles to a few AP's while driving downtown. (and as long as someone else is driving, once they get a fix on me, they won't have me at that point for very long.) (course, LOS at a couple miles would be hard to keep associating while driving.)
As for the Mac-hopping comment... What good is that? Or are you talking about channel hopping? Get a real nic that monitors on all channels simultaneously. And war driving just isn't war driving unless you have a external antennas for both your GPS and your WiFi cards. (In some cases, an amplifier can help...)
Tori, eh? That's kind of funny. She got moved over to the UK by Atlantic Records a decade or so ago, and started a following which has made it's way all over the place. Oddly enough, it was she who thrust me into electronica with the assistance of BT (Brian Transeau). They had gotten together and done Blue Sky. Since I was, at the time, a very hard core Tori fan, I picked it up and fell in love with the music.
Massinova is very slick in that they sell T-shirts and other good shtuff. My favorite is the original "Rabid Trance Addict." I wear it to CHURCH often and find myself answering quite a few questions about the genre.
The products from Fortress Technologies are actually pretty sweet. We use dozens of the little AF-1100's all over the place with a bunch of Lucent/Agere AP's for bridging and the like. They just recently acquired the FIPS 140-1 certs for their software. I opened one up, voiding the warranty, and checked it out. (they run Linux on an embedded single board computer.) It's much simpler than IPSEC or VPN since it's layer 2. (and since it's layer 2, we're talking whatever protocol you want to run under Win32 and PocketPC.) The company I work for sells them for $1895.