stingwray

From October I will hopefully be at Imperial College, London studying Computing. It covers bascially everything, with options to specify in areas you find interesting. You've really got to decide whether you are going to specalise heavily in your degree course or keep it a bit more broad. Like applying for Computer Science rather than Network Security.

A Media server is going to be anything that stores your media and allows other machines/users to access it. So even a computer just having all the music on it and sharing it could be classed as a media server. I wouldn't recommend you go with transmitting the music of FM from the player to the hifi as you will lose a lot of quality. There are boxes available to buy that work with wifi and simply stream the music to them and they play it. You have the controling software on the tablet which you can then click what you want to play. You'll want something like this: http://www.slimdevices.com/pi_overview.html

Firstly this is the wrong section of the forum to post this in. Secondly, why are you using a Guest account?

Most of them I have seen have. QoS really isn't that big of deal. My old USR9106 had it with a firmware upgrade and that was £50 when I bought it two years ago. Recently I bought a WRT54-GS to replace it and that came with QoS, and to my suprise a lot more filtering features. Such a blocking access to certain domains, so say your child was addicted to myspace then you could block them without needing to install horrible net nanny software on their pc. So if that routers got it then I wouldn't be suprised if a lot more had it. No, because the connection speed falls with distance from the access point, so if one person was really far away and was only getting 5Mbps it wouldn't stop someone standing next to the access point from getting 54Mbps. Basic filtering of the web wouldn't be hard to add to the setup. And blocking just porn wouldn't cause too much of a problem for people surfing and finding other sites blocked, as there are some good blacklists of URLs to block.

Its worth playing just for the wonderful music.

I've never heard of them having rules on the distance. Planty of rules on the power output, frequency and interference. But a rule on distance would be stupid with directional anntennas.

Its all those drugs, we've all lost our mables. Well infact I'm sure someone has stolen them. Probably Evilserver. To dual bot OSX and Vista all you will need is a bootloader that is capable of detecting both OSes. Look for a linux distro that ran on Macs and you should be able to do something like that.

The toaster will now slice and dice your bagels, muffins, waffles and of course, Crumpets. It will determine how you like them done and cook them precisely without fault. The only problem is when you inset a bagel, muffin etc. that has been produced by an american company that refuses to release the documention on it so we can't right the drivers for it.

Sorry, I modified the Microwave to work with extremely small wavelengths. Plus it now runs NetBSD, and hosts tesco.co.uk.

Didn't cost me anything. All you have to pay for in my solution is the hardware. Which would be one Modem, Old PC, and Wireless Access Point. You've just got to look at Apache to know that you don't have to pay for the best server software around.

Its short-circuiting the linux powered toaster in the corner over there.

They can usually be found on irc.hak5.org in #hak5.

Gentoo will run really fast if you have compiled it for your system and set it up correctly. The only problem is if you are doing that on an older piece of hardware then it will take you ages. You will however get probably the best speed you can from the hardware afterwards.

You should never ever use a password generator, even from grc.com. Its a security flaw that could lead to your password from being broken.

He wants to be able to provide free wifi for people who need it because they are away from their connection for a long time and need to check e-mails and browse a few websites. And of course do it securely. Using two access points might be slightly simpler, but with my method you can save yourself money by having only one access point. Plus I think my method would provide a more secure approach, for both his use of wifi and other people. Also, with SOHO hardware I think it would be difficult to get it to do some of the things, like prevent packets from going where they shoudn't.

Nah, we're all really horrible actually. Its just either none of us could find a reason to flame you or we're all drugged up to our eye balls at the moment. At any rate, welcome to the community.

Don't suppose anyone knows anywhere within the UK (EU otherwise) where one could purchase one of these fine cards?

There is a spainish company (I think) that is "selling" linksys wireless routers for $5 or £5 (yes, they really need to sort out their exchange rate) in return you have to sign up to their scheme in which your share some of you internet bandwidth. It still has the problem with the ISPs that say that your not allowed to though. You just have to look at the rest of Europe to see how crap englands really is for technology. Less than 30 miles from where I live, going east into france. I can pay the same amount of money a month for what I get 2Mbps ADSL, to get more than 50Mbps ADSL. The BBC is only just starting HD trials with about 600 houses in england, if you want HD you have to go with bSkyb at the moment. At least though we do have more than three ISPs in this country and no fear of any kind of Net Neutrality problems cropping up. I think it just stems back to the fact that everything was owned by the government, there was no competition to bring the best telephone services etc. so therefore there was no innovation. You just have to look at the fact that BT has only just started opening up their exchanges so that other ISPs can get some hardware into them to make things work better.

Monowall doesn't work brillantly atm with wireless, because it is still based on FreeBSD 4.2 which had very limited support for wireless (a few 'b' chips and that was it). So I wouldn't recommend using only a monowall box atm (v1.3 of monowall is going to be using FreeBSD 6.1 but thats probably a few months off). Plus, I have read things on that using wireless cards for access points isn't the best. All of them don't work as well as something designed to be an access point and some can't be put into a mode where they can work. On another not, I don't know if when using the wireless features of Monowall that it comes up as another interface or just an extention of the LAN interface. I've never got into that detail. Another plus of using a seperate wireless access point is that you can place that better, for maximum range. Your monowall box is likely to be some sort of old desktop, so therefore loud and ugly. I have my monowall box with my servers, but my wireless access point is downstairs in a more central location to make wireless reception better. On another note, I have just thought that you might want to add QoS to your wireless connections that don't go through the VPN pass through. That way people won't be able to steal the whole of your connection, and perhaps limiting each wireless user to say 15KB/s would prevent them from downloading loads, but give them enough to check a few sites, e-mails and IM etc. The only thing you have to be warned is that I seriously doubt that the T&C of your internet connection will allow you to allow other people access to your internet, freely or for profit. So just be careful.

I believe they use Sony Vegas 6.0 for the production. Its probably in the wiki, but i can't remember the link to post to it.

Ok, they way I would do it is with a wired router which acts as the gateway and the wireless access point. Probably cheap routers wouldn't be able to do this, so you'll need something like monowall or a more expensive router. Anyway, on the router you'll have three interfaces, WAN, LAN, OPT. WAN goes into your modem or however you connect. LAN goes into your wired network around your house. And then your WAN goes into your wireless access point. Then with monowall, setup up a firewall rule that prevents traffic between the two interfaces directly. This prevents them from people on your wireless network from contacting the wired network. Then using monowall or a seperate VPN server set it up that the VPN connected computer will appear on the wired network side of the firewall. That way you can use your wireless and get into your wired network with VPN access, and leave the wireless unsecured for other people to use. Probably then you would want to put some firewall rules between OPT and WAN to prevent all traffic except on ports like 80, its not going to prevent people from doing P2P on it but it will stop them somewhat. To be more advanced from that you can use Captive Portal, which on the page that it will automatically load to log in can have the details for a Guest account, then you can start limiting the number of connections etc. that individuals have. You can also have the DHCP server on the OPT interface assign subnets of 255.255.255.255 which means they will only be able to talk to themselves and the gateway. Just another little thing to deter some script kiddies.

Haven't got a clue what you are on about there. 802.11b and 802.11g are different specifications of the same technology. The main difference is that b has a maximum theoretical speed of 11Mbps where g has 54Mbps. You can't change a b card to work at g speeds because it is the chip that will needed to be changed. Then the rest of the PCB to work with the chip. Therefore it is a new card by now. 802.11 hardware is backwards compatible to work with slower speeds and older specification. You can set some wireless access points to only accept connections from specific hardware like g cards. In that case that is the administrators choice and you can't do anything about it.

M = Mega - 10^6 m = milli - 10^-3 Big difference.

Now thats a nice wireless card Metatron. Really you have to decide which chipset you want to go with, so you need to look into linux support. Then you need to find out which cards use that chip. Finally decide which card you like the look of and go and buy it.

Wired networking isn't always practical, perhaps if you spent the time on wireless then you wouldn't think it was shit. On another note, most things are able to be broken, the solution is to use lots of security measures and hope that the people trying to break into your wireless network give up, or can't get through everything. VPN is probably the best major way of securing the internet. Personally I like watching people sitting on my wireless network trying to get the interent and not getting anything. They soon move off. As well as VPN i have Radius set up for authentication for the Internet with Captive Portal and Radius on the network authentication. MAC filter makes things a little harder for hackers as well and is worth implementing. Also some a good firewall or two in the right place is a must.