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Fixed.

News to me, but if someone could ship me out there... :P

It's not likely to cause you any major problems, there's not an awful lot you need GbE for, especially on a netbook.

He's asking for SSH access to anyone's box who's stupid enough to oblige. Specifically on port 443, so if I had to guess I'd say he's trying to tunnel out from a school or similar.

I concur with Sparda and GeekGoneCrazy, the only real way to disinfect is to reinstall. The only reason to pick the shit out of the shagpile these days, so to speak, is simply an academic experiment.

It's been emotional. Hope you had fun while it lasted.

Personally I think it's a waste of time, money and energy. It's too crippled to be a laptop but too big to be an iPhone/iPod, it's not very portable but has no keyboard, it's an ebook reader but doesn't use e-ink, it should've been an x86 device and it should've run OSX in my opinion. It's redundant, and I've already heard people talking about jailbreaking the thing: if you have to think about cracking the thing before it's even on shelves to make it functional, you're buying the wrong device. Also, 1GHz ARM (or similar), but no multitasking? What gives? It's not even very cheap once you start adding the niceties on, the 64GB model with 3G costs nigh on what you'd pay for a basic Macbook anyway, except the Macbook's more functional. Hack the keyboard off a Macbook Air and you might be onto something, in the meantime? Nah.

Dealing with the offending users as we speak, don't click on the links.

Well that uh... blows. Still, at least we've got the cider. Month-long bender it is. See you all in early March!

Waste not, want not, we'll keep it in the staff room, never know when it might come in handy. Anyway, that spoiler was saving us fuel, aerodynamics and all, if we hadn't built the blimp out of an old Reliant Robin it wouldn't look half as cheap, that's the last time I take tips from Top Gear... and that bridge looked a lot taller than it was, it's not my fault those kids sprayed over the height limit sign. Whatever happened to that shipment of bolivian marching powder?

That was a joke. Oh, and I welcome the return of the Hak5 blimp, I wondered when we'd get that thing fixed, I seem to recall we ran it into a bridge some time ago...

Currently I have a TyTn II with an extended battery so I'm hardly working with something tiny myself, even though it's getting on in years (they started selling 4 years or so ago), it's still a good device. I don't think you need anything crazy powerful for most stuff, the TyTn II runs Skype just fine, and it's much less powerful than the modern alternatives, it's just nice to have the extra little things like a huge screen or a monster CPU sometimes.

I had no idea they could be had for that sort of price, might have to keep an eye on Orange next time I upgrade. Side note, if you've got any old devices, some networks will buy them off you (although they'll never give you full market value, or even close), it's not the best way of getting rid of a mobile, but if you need some quick dough to put towards a newer model (and you're not taking out a contract), that's always something to bear in mind.

If you come across a cheap, used smartphone somewhere you could just turn off the phone part. The advantage would be that the speaker and microphone are still in a position where making calls is easy without a headset.

[joke about hippy voyages of discovery] Cool. I don't have a spare couch but I might bump into you at some point, depending on where you end up going.

64bit versions of Windows are not affected by the above exploit because they don't include the 16bit compatibility layer. Another reason to move with the times I guess.

Forward any spam PMs to a moderator, we can't see your PMs, so we don't know that you're being messaged with spam.

That's nothing to do with anyone getting hacked, that's just simple spam PMs. Annoying, yes, but nothing to do with anything being compromised. Forward any of those PMs to a moderator otherwise we don't know about them, and we can't deal with them.

Would it not be cheaper and easier to pick up a $5 USB bluetooth dongle from one of the several Chinese wholesalers dotted around the net?

NetStumbler used to be the weapon of choice I think, but these days you'll find InSSIDer to be more suitable, much more up to date and support more devices. Edit: As a bonus I should probably mention WiFiFoFum for Windows Mobile (and other mobile platforms too). Basically the same deal, but in pocket form.

Virtual XP in Windows 7 works just fine if you have a USB wifi card, I used to use a USB wifi card in VMWare too, you just connect the device to the VM, it's pretty easy, you'd hardly even know you were in a VM half the time, all this wireless stuff works just great in them.

Ideally, everyone should use channels 1, 6 and 11 because they don't overlap with each other. Not everyone sticks to that advice though, as your scan shows. Regardless, I'd recommend 11 because fewer people are using it than 6, and there's only a couple of APs overlapping it. Failing that, go for 1, there seem to be less overlapping APs down that end of the spectrum. YMMV.

Smartphones generally aren't known for their longevity on a single charge, but one thing I would say is that I've purchased a double capacity extended battery for my HTC Kaiser and I'm extremely glad I did, it feels like I can use it for as long as I used to use a dumbphone for, except with smartphone functionality, that's one thing I would miss on the iPhone. At the end of the day though most of it is personal taste, I'm sure lots of people love the iPhone and I'm equally sure that plenty of people can't stand the Kaiser. I personally quite like Windows Mobile for its stability, flexibility and sheer power, but I can understand those who appreciate aesthetics a little more than perhaps I do. I haven't yet come across anything it won't let me do, however, and that's important to me. More on topic though, I've used Android on emulators, my Kaiser in the form of an unofficial port and a friend's myTouch 3G and I have to say I quite like it. It's pleasant to use, looks decent enough, and isn't quite as locked down as the iPhone. On the other hand, it feels to me like it expects you to do things its way and isn't designed for you to go messing about with stuff, and it could use a little more polish before it hits it big. It's snappy enough even on my Kaiser (which is a little aged now) and does most things just fine. Hardware I'm not so experienced with, unfortunately, so I can't be of much help there. Finally, if you don't mind something other than Android (though an unofficial port might surface at some point), the HTC HD2 looks like a very tasty device indeed, perhaps something more suited to an iPhone convert like yourself, a nice looking and quite large (4.3"?) 480x800px touchscreen, 1GHz of pure balls and plenty of RAM to back it up. Yeah, sure, it runs Windows Mobile, but HTC do a nice enough job of giving it a bit of a lick of paint, and it's rumoured that it'll get Windows Mobile 7 later on, whenever that decides to surface.

You could hack up a solution with a laptop, the device I posted earlier, a cheap GPS dongle, some camcorders/wireless "security" cameras and a little time and effort fairly easily. Plenty of space to record video, any codec you like, plenty of options for adding in extra functionality like GPS/time/date/status/source info/other video overlays and room for expansion if it's ever required (more inputs or whatever).

Would this be what you're looking for? 4 analog video inputs, 1 analog audio input, operates via USB.