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The mods will probably correct me if I'm wrong, but I think something may have gotten messed up. I think it may be time to get a serial cable (you can find them in the hakshop) and flash it that way

Also may want to read the lovely pineapple handbook that the crew was kind enough to make. https://www.dropbox.com/s/dr6sedfteu8atwq/hak5-mk4-book1e.pdf

Not sure. Have you tried to SSH into it?

I see a serial flash in your future. :(

No worries. Typically a parabolic will have a 7-9 degree cone. Most yagi will range anywhere from 18-31(ish) depending on gain. However, parabolic will ALWAYS have a higher gain and will reach MUCH further distances. With that said, you are totally correct that it depends on personal needs. My requirements dictate that a parabolic will not work for what I am trying to do. In your case, a yagi would not meet your needs.

I am assuming by "dish" you mean a parabolic (especially given the gain you mentioned). Could you please link a parabolic that has a larger cone than a yagi? Yagis typically have over double the beam width a parabolic has, making them far easier to aim, not harder.

Guess since I've been on here for about 3 months I should introduce myself. Been into computers now for 24 years. Started when I was 5 years old and my dad brought home our first computer; an old XT 8086. Since I saw the command prompt I was hooked. Spent 9 years in the air force where I did a lot of net-admin and sysad work, and while in I discovered the good 'ol 802.11 standard. Once I learned about it, I was obsessed with hacking it. My love for "getting in" spread to other tools, and eventually brought me to the pineapple. I am now working with a friend of mine to bring a CLI toolset to the pineapple/pi (or pineapple/laptop). Love the platform, but I can see its potential as something much larger than a "click the butt0n and pwn the n00bz" device. Looking forward to releasing the toolset once it's been polished, and I hope it receives a warm welcome, but honestly I'm in it to learn more. Look forward to helping out and receiving help from you guys. This (so far) has been a kick-ass community.

For BTr3 I use the wicd to connect to the network, then close it and run the wp4.sh script. Works well for me.

Could they triangulate it? Yes. Is it easy to do? meh, not really difficult, but not trivial. Would they waste the effort? Not unless you were doing something to warrant it. Moral of the story: Do not abuse the privilege and/or do anything malicious and I'm sure you'll be fine. On a side note, there's nothing wrong with ebay, but know that you gamble getting what you paid for (I.E. Antenna not REALLY 24db). I did a fair amount of research when I was looking to start upgrading my antennas and found that simplewifi.com is a good place to buy from. I have no affiliation with the company, just a fellow geek sharing his insights. The choice is ultimately yours.

Sorry. 1st, I am truly an asshole. I openly admit it, not very proud of it, but I let my frustrations at perceived laziness get the better of me. 2nd, I have learned the art of the Google. It wasn't anything I studied, but it just came naturally. My wife has to remind me that not everyone is as good at it. So my apologies for coming across as an ass, and I'm glad you have the info you were looking for.

WELCOME TO THE HAK5 FORUMS! =P

It's amazing what 2 seconds of google will get you. Try that next time. http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forums/showthread.php?t=43665

if that's the case you can also do a setg to set your selection as the default

I get you. Unfortunately the best way to learn is to get out there and go through the BS. That's actually the best way to learn. No one here will play teacher. The forums are chocked full of useful knowledge; from amazing things people have done to crap things people have tried and didn't work. And the community is beyond helpful to people trying to help themselves. But you have to show that you're making an effort for most people to help. Most on these forums will ask questions that have already been answered; some that were answered a few posts above theirs! What I would suggest is to do some research, come to the forums with your findings and some recommendations, and see what you get. Chances are you'll get a bit more help from people that way. Not always, but most of the time.

I get your frustration in trying to find some decent hardware for a friend's auto-diagnostic gear. But first, your request is a bit too vague. I read it as you are looking for a tablet that runs windows. I assume XP. no further information to go on. Second, it sounds like you are looking for something that would work in the automotive world, and not something that is typically discussed in a hacker forum. Your question would be better answered in an auto-enthusiast forum. Please correct me if I'm wrong on any of these assumptions.

This sounds a bit fishy to me.

Usually I hate when people pull stuff like this, but this particular method was done tastefully and with a bit of humor. Nicely done. =)

Please do not ask for questions when your answer is a simple google search away. Took me a second to ask google and get plenty of results. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=windows+xp+tablet

Please don't say how it isn't possible in Windows Movie Maker without trying. It took me less time to make the video than it did to upload and post. I believe the one you're looking for is at 27 seconds. Done with 2 images and different fades in Windows Movie Maker. Funny thing is, what you're afraid of is exactly what happens in the video. Watch the first image. He fades out slightly as the second fades in. Yet the way I'm showing you does not do that.

It is my understanding that the MKiv was not designed to handle all the tools people have been throwing on it simultaneously. If you are trying to do too much at once, might I suggest offloading some of the tools onto a computer/pi (as many here have done) and leave the MKiv to do what it does best; a mobile honeypot.

That's exactly what I am trying to do. The original XML will be removed one I pull the relevant info from it. But to more easily find what info is in the log, I want one host per line. If this thread has shown me anything it's that I am far behind when it comes to programming languages.

For anyone else looking for a different Yagi, I ended up purchasing the black cantenna (first link) and am thoroughly impressed with it. Also threaded for camera tripods so the vanguard tripod worked well with it.

Congrats to you and the missus digi!

lol that's awesome. Thanks for sharing. excellent morning laugh.

Let me explain what I am doing and maybe that will help. Currently a friend of mine and myself have been trying to greatly expand our knowledge of the different security tools. One area we are currently in is passive OS fingerprinting. We have developed a script that reads the output of p0f, sorts the data into multiple arrays based on the last octet (if the IP address is found to be within our network), and display an easy to read report on information found. Problem is p0f is only getting OS, Browsers, Apps, and uptime. Since we had already gone over some of the arp spoofing that ettercap can do, I dug further to see if it can also do any fingerprinting and found it does. After creating the passive log and spiting it out using etterlog, we discovered mac address, port, and a few other things that we'd like to add to the report in real time. My idea for doing this is to handle it the same way we do it for p0f. Each line is one "report" with two address (server and client), with additional information based on which ip address it is from and specified by the "subj" variable (cli or srv). So sorting that information is easy. For ettercap, I want to have a timestamp going (date +%s) and after 10 seconds I want to add a function to dump said report into the p0f file I am parsing (using tail) and read each line. Since each line would have the host information in the front, sorting the remaining information would be much easier. Thank you for the responses so far, and if you have better ideas for what I am trying to do I'd love to hear them.