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Wardriving
A normal day it was. A day unlike no other. A day in which plenty of work was taking place. And then, it snowed.
And snowed a bit more, until there was an inch covering over the cold surfaces. And then, some bright spark in the office decided it would be best if we closed early. At which I noted that it was not their decision to make.
After hurried phone conversations, the boss was behind them and agreed to close early. For one inch of snow. Am I the only one that thinks one inch of snow is almost no snow?
Nevertheless, the deal was struck and the female staff ran to their cars and drove away. Us bloke employees of course stayed on until just after 5pm. I suppose, with a name like ahdkaw, I gotta be really.
Chose to take the main road home, as the usual route has been closed off by men with spades and bright-yellow jackets, smoking roll-ups. The other route is what is commonly known as "O'er top", which would probably be a bad idea during snowy conditions.
As I made my way out of Mirfield along Leeds Road (a long and arduous task) I suddenly remembered about Wardriving that I posted about in the old Profane Dog about a year or so ago.
Set about turning on this laptop and switched the wireless network switch to the on position, and scanned. Nothing, I kept crawling along in the traffic, searched again.
First I came across a Secured Wireless Network and was quite pleased with that, later down the road, a network called 'dawn' appeared on my screen. Unsecured Wireless Network too. Gave the connect a go but it failed as I probably moved out of the wireless range. Next up I came across a second unsecured wireless network, gave that a connect and connected! w00t! Didn't do anything like, just disconnected straight away, but it just goes to show, there are a lot of unsecured wireless networks out there, and all you need is a wireless card and a laptop to find loads.
In fact, right now, from my home, I can see two unsecured wireless networks. They weren't there a year back, so seems a few neighbours have upgraded since then.
And snowed a bit more, until there was an inch covering over the cold surfaces. And then, some bright spark in the office decided it would be best if we closed early. At which I noted that it was not their decision to make.
After hurried phone conversations, the boss was behind them and agreed to close early. For one inch of snow. Am I the only one that thinks one inch of snow is almost no snow?
Nevertheless, the deal was struck and the female staff ran to their cars and drove away. Us bloke employees of course stayed on until just after 5pm. I suppose, with a name like ahdkaw, I gotta be really.
Chose to take the main road home, as the usual route has been closed off by men with spades and bright-yellow jackets, smoking roll-ups. The other route is what is commonly known as "O'er top", which would probably be a bad idea during snowy conditions.
As I made my way out of Mirfield along Leeds Road (a long and arduous task) I suddenly remembered about Wardriving that I posted about in the old Profane Dog about a year or so ago.
Set about turning on this laptop and switched the wireless network switch to the on position, and scanned. Nothing, I kept crawling along in the traffic, searched again.
First I came across a Secured Wireless Network and was quite pleased with that, later down the road, a network called 'dawn' appeared on my screen. Unsecured Wireless Network too. Gave the connect a go but it failed as I probably moved out of the wireless range. Next up I came across a second unsecured wireless network, gave that a connect and connected! w00t! Didn't do anything like, just disconnected straight away, but it just goes to show, there are a lot of unsecured wireless networks out there, and all you need is a wireless card and a laptop to find loads.
In fact, right now, from my home, I can see two unsecured wireless networks. They weren't there a year back, so seems a few neighbours have upgraded since then.
- This post has 6 comments, the last was posted by ahdkaw on Wed 15 Mar 2006 at 1:20am GMT
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I love when you talk techie trash, makes me weak in the knees. And I found this site for you
http://geeksmakemehot.com/
An inch can be a lot, depends on what it is an inch of :P Inch of snow in Virginia and we hunker down, stock up and wait for the end of the world.
Congrats on the new puter. Sounds all wiz bang like an AK computer should. Enjoy. Will you be gold farming to pay for it? :D
http://geeksmakemehot.com/
An inch can be a lot, depends on what it is an inch of :P Inch of snow in Virginia and we hunker down, stock up and wait for the end of the world.
Congrats on the new puter. Sounds all wiz bang like an AK computer should. Enjoy. Will you be gold farming to pay for it? :D
BestBuy in the US has a cool device that sits on your keyring, has a display showing the name, SSID, A/B/G and encryption type of wireless neworks in range.
The device is meant as a "site survay tool", its alternate uses are obvious.
Also, those interested in network awareness should check out whappix, knoppix or my favorite: http://nubuntu.org/
-Me
The device is meant as a "site survay tool", its alternate uses are obvious.
Also, those interested in network awareness should check out whappix, knoppix or my favorite: http://nubuntu.org/
-Me
GeeksMakeMeHot That's all well and good, but there appears to be little mention of Hot Geeks.
I think I need gold farming to help pay off my car loan, £305.22 per month is quite painful...
BestBuy I think I'll have to check that out when I have some money, sounds useful, suppose it depends on the cost of the item as to whether it is worthwhile.
I'll check that nubuntu site now, ta. :)
I think I need gold farming to help pay off my car loan, £305.22 per month is quite painful...
BestBuy I think I'll have to check that out when I have some money, sounds useful, suppose it depends on the cost of the item as to whether it is worthwhile.
I'll check that nubuntu site now, ta. :)
I fear installing this on my laptop, for it may well mess up everything (Windows install included). Am I being overly paranoid? How easy would it be to remove it again without fucking up the boot to Windows?
I fear this because once I installed a *NIX dist., and upon uninstallation the hard drive died. I lost everything.
Would you recommend installing it on my laptop, or do you see potential pitfalls that could easily be avoided, 4KMilesAway?
I fear this because once I installed a *NIX dist., and upon uninstallation the hard drive died. I lost everything.
Would you recommend installing it on my laptop, or do you see potential pitfalls that could easily be avoided, 4KMilesAway?
Nothing to fear from nUbuntu, since it runs entirely from the CD. If your that unsure, remove the HDD then run the CD :)
Runs from the CD? Oh well then, that's perfect for me, I will try it out when I get some time to spend on myself.
