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OpenAire (formerly Hak5Radio) is still up and running, could be done on there with a host recording and uploading the resulting mp3.

Ubuntu 9.04 on eee 701.

I take that back. All of it. 9.04 of my 701 is absolutely awesome. Looks good, works well, it's quick and smooth and as best I can tell all the hardware's supported. It even 1up'd Fedora by working with my Bluetooth dongle. Wifi works fine, bluetooth works fine, my HSDPA dongle works right away, just had to choose the network from Ubuntu's precompiled list of international mobile carriers and boom, works perfectly. Fits in less than 3GB of the eee's SSD, so plenty of space for updates and apps, boots pretty quickly too. Haven't tested battery life yet but it seems the issue where Ubuntu couldn't tell me how full my battery was in real hours and minutes may have been fixed, I'll probably test that properly at some point. Massive improvement over 8.10 imo, well worth trying it out.

Go get a free antivirus and stop trying to pirate security software. Then stop pirating things period, because if you're pirating AVs then chances are you need to rethink your entire online behavior if you ever want to survive being connected to a network again.

If it's anything like the experience I had trying to make 8.10 work on an eee 701 then don't bother. Custom kernels and non-working drivers and all kinds of crap. Then I installed Fedora and all was well.

...so why wouldn't I just run Windows?

See, the reason you're catching shit is because you're trying to spread a phishing app. We don't like phishing apps. We don't like phishing. We don't like people who phish. Making sense now?

Fan-dabby-fucking-dozy.

Apparently we don't care either judging by the fact this isn't locked and you're not banned. *shrug*

Nice Tarbizkit, well said. More of this please. :)

Major Malfunction/Adam Laurie's recent satellite exploring: Video: http://dl.127001.org/movies/defcon/dc-16/D..._SAT_Monkey.m4v Accompanying slides: http://mirror.sweon.net/defcon16/Speakers/...malfunction.pdf

http://distrowatch.com/

Looks like a canned meat product to me. Check his sig. What say you, Sparda? Harrison76: If you're real, reply with "I am not a bot."

Well, as this review suggests, it's not exactly complicated. Even as a golf course distance calculator it's fairly... err... crap, actually. I don't play golf, but compared to what this device could or should do I think it sounds pretty poor. In fact for the same money (or even less, I suspect) you could get a non-golf-specific GPS/navigation device and load it with course data yourself. It's very very basic and the only real data you get is a 3 digit distance (in yards I'd imagine) from a given point on the course. So, with less than 1000 yards to play with it probably won't be a whole lot of use. I'm sure there's some use for it though, maybe load it with locations of speed cameras and use it to warn you when there's one coming up in <1000yards maybe?

So after looking again, it seems like its purpose is to tell you how far you are from the hole you're playing. The data you download to it would be basically a GPS map of the course and it would compare your location to the location of the hole. You could probably wireshark the net connection you're downloading the data via to find out how and where the maps are stored. Once you find out the format of the files you may be able to make your own maps for free and maybe even use your hosts file and an HTTP server (assuming it's as simple as that) to host your own maps and fool the app to download your maps instead of the official ones. Depending on how it works you might be able to use it with any location data to tell you how far you are from a predefined location like a landmark or a city you're driving to or something. Not necessarily useful but something fun to try if only for the challenge and the satisfaction of making it work off of a golf course.

We help you when you help yourself. You're being vague and you're being lazy, do some of your own research or just don't bother.

I haven't done a lot of research on these particular devices but I imagine it could be a cell phone with a built in GPS (but with no screen or buttons, of course). I had considered making my own version with a cheap prepay mobile phone and a serial or bluetooth GPS inside a small waterproof box but my lack of Java knowledge prevented me from writing the software to accomplish it. I don't know exactly how the data is sent back on these particular models but if it is a cell phone it could be either some form of data connection (GPS data doesn't require much bandwidth) or a simple SMS based system. Replacing the SIM card, if it has one, could allow you to bypass the service charges and pay for alerts and such on your own tariff (as far as I'm aware that's entirely legal, you're not losing the Zoombak guys any money and you're still paying for service but you're paying your mobile carrier instead). Basically I think it is hackable but without knowing exactly how the communication between the device and the service works I can't say exactly how hackable. If you can access the device's alerts and updates from the device itself I'm sure you could probably integrate it with Google Maps or Google Earth instead of their proprietary system Microsoft's Virtual Earth. Be aware though that if the device uses SMS to send the data back then it may work out to be expensive to receive realtime location data (a solution to this is to receive the updates less often and guesstimate where the device is inbetween, or record the route and send it back each hour or so). Edit: Apparently it uses T-Mobile's network in the USA, I'm going to guess it uses SMS rather than data due to lower power usage and higher coverage. The device likely SMSs data back to the service's back end every so often so you can view it on their website or have it forwarded to you via SMS. Edit2: It seems you can have 60 minute sessions where updates are sent at 5 minute intervals, that's 12 SMSs per hour. Given that SMS is 20c a shot, that's $2.40 an hour. At $57.60 per day if you track in realtime for a solid 24 hours, that's more than a month's service with Zoombak*, so they're either not using SMS, getting special rates from T-Mobile, or they have a limit on how many reports you can have in a month (which probably explains the lack of true realtime tracking and the 60 minute limit). (*Apparently I managed to completely forget about the existence of "unlimited SMS" plans and similar enticing discounts. A contract with a cheap SMS rate or a given number of SMSs for "free" would solve the price problem.) Just to clarify, I'm not 100% convinced that it uses SMS, it could still use GPRS/EDGE/HSDPA (where available) which would probably work out a lot cheaper because you only pay for data transferred and it costs less than SMS. SMS is much more robust, however, in that it doesn't require a constant data connection and most devices will retry until an SMS is sent, the network will keep trying to send the SMS until someone receives it, you can receive reports when SMSs are successfully received, etc... I don't know much about the battery performance of the device other than I've read that it will die after 12 hours continuous tracking but will last 5 days with no access to it. Though with a little more knowledge of battery drain I'm sure that information could be used to guess whether SMSs or a data connection are used. Summary: I'm sure you probably could do something with this device other than what it was intended to do but I'm not sure it would be cost effective to bother when you could buy a cheap phone and a cheap GPS device for the same price or less, this way you have much, much more control and you can do a lot, lot more with the same basic kit... oh, and you don't need to tie yourself to a contract either. Replacing the SIM probably would work but it wouldn't gain you much beyond perhaps better coverage. How that would affect the device's integration with the system I don't know but I imagine it probably wouldn't make much difference - they would probably know, however, if the service is SMS based because your number wouldn't be a T-Mobile number. There's not much else I can think of to do with this device tbh, unless it's not very tightly integrated, perhaps you could use the internals to send other data from a serial device via SMS, or remove the GPS for another project. Chances are though that this thing's heavily integrated and you're probably not gonna get much out of it if you take the thing to bits.

Could be a smart card in an odd form factor with a proprietary reader. If you split it open you'd probably find very little inside, perhaps a small board with a single chip on it and not much more. I've never seen one before but I imagine it's either some form of memory with an access code stored on it.

Looks like some kind of GPS device. Could the golf courses be just maps?

Take it out of the Switchblade, you might learn something in picking it out of the chaos.

Yes, unlock and input the connection settings for whichever network you plan to use, that's all. It's just like a phone without a screen or keypad really, and it's extremely unlikely (to the point that it almost certainly won't happen) that the dongle would get blacklisted (with a banned IMEI) unless it was reported lost or stolen.

Slocket!

I don't think you need to mislead when it comes to your age but then you don't need to make a point of it either, let people believe what they want to believe.

Free internet's not gonna happen I'm afraid, you will be able to use it with other carriers though, so if you find a good deal on pay as you go mobile internet you could use it for playing around with in projects. Orange, if you have an appropriate SIM, offers £1 a day "unlimited" browsing which is nice for experimenting with if you don't want to pay a big monthly charge.

Um... it is a modem...