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Then again Dell doesn't make PCs they're actually just a big huge inventory management company. They sub-contract out all the PC building. Just as most laptops aren't made by the companies whose name is on it. Search laptop ODM. I have a Sager at home it's made by Clevo who is the actual manufacturer. Which was nice on my old Sager when I had a problem and I called Tech Support I got connected to an engineer not a someone reading from a script on a screen. IBM <i>was</i> one of the last companies to make their own computers. A few years back they stopped that. Anyway's they're all assembled overseas in "Asia" where labor is dirt cheap and people are willing to do the work without flex time, health insurance and other benefits. Nowadays it's comes down to features, price and god me help if I need it, tech support. The last thing I want to be asked when I call tech supportduring that short period when business contracts were outsourced is whether I tried turning it off and back on again. This stems from spending 2 hours running diagnostics on a machine before I called tech support only to be told to do it all again over the phone. Then spend another 2 hours (playing solitare) with tech support who, after the mind numbing two hours asked for the serial number and in 2 seconds replied. "Oh that model had a bad thermistor that would cause shutdowns above 80 deg F we'll send out a new motherboard". Yeah, I wasn't too happy to hear that and told them, "No you won't you'll have Hell rep on site tomorrow morning by 10am with the replacement parts and he will install and test the system."

What are you planning do with the pineapple? I.e. what will it's evironment be? The connector is an RP-SMA. If you just want omni directional then pretty much any decent quality rubber duck will do. I would stay away from those with cables since most use a lossy cable. Of course higher gain generally means a larger physical antenna. Which can be cumbersome.

I travel a lot for business and it's always been a pain to get the latest weather. I was working on a rainmeter config that would parse your geoip but then there was no way to put that into a weather query. Then there was that whole fiasco with weather.com and the rainmeter program. So, finally on a whim I tell Google to find me geoip weather and up pops http://geoipweather.org/ Awesome, now to create my a new weather config for Rainmeter.

I need a copy of the Entertainment weekly with the "Video in Print" ad. You know the one with the tiny video player in the magazine. The problem is the magazine was only available to subscribers in NYC and LA. Someone's gotta have a friend, grandparent, etc that has a copy they don't mind parting with. Let me know.

Nope, I got something called "my basement". Sorry Barry.

By saying scanner and production environment I'm taking a leap and assuming that you may be using Symbol wireless barcode scanners. Perhaps the handheld units running WM5.0. What we did was to disable DHCP on the router use static IPs and set a very restrictive subnet mask (max 6 devices) , turn off ssid broadcasting, turn on MAC filtering. Since these scanners were the only thing that was wireless we locked down the router to only pass traffic on the port(s) that were needed and then only to the IPs needed. We blocked HTTP(s),FTP,IRC, et. al. We also put a policy in place to change the WEP key routinely.

You've got to be kidding. WPA2 while it is breakable it's hardly a trivial task. Sure you could create a rainbow table but that takes lots of time. You could use parallel processing to brute force the key but again, that still takes MAC filters are about as good as cloaking the SSID. Both are easily circumvented and aren't very secure. For cloaked SSID just passively monitor with Kismet within a minute you'll get the SSID For MAC filters one only has to spoof the MAC of an already connected client. Me, I leave my wifi wide-open. However, wireless clients are isolated from the LAN on their own seperate physical network and they are also isolated from each other. Wireless clients must also login to the portal using ssl, in order to gain access to the internet. I'm not concerned with encrypting the normal data streams. I'll be implementing a Radius server once the snow starts falling.

Nah, concrete is porous so given time nature will hack it back to it's elements.

Ok the just because I can, is valid. After all I programmed a Motorola in assembler to decode the raw flux reversals, in forward and reverse swiping directions and then displayed the data on a serial display. If you want a cheap reader watch ebay and the business section of craigslist for POS terminals. You'll need an off brand name for to get less then $50. Anything from Magtek is pricey.

My pfsense box is a 500MHz Celeron. I've got some older Pentium 100Mhz laptops that function well as single purpose devices (picture frames, kismet, etc). Even small hard drives are useful to keep around if all you want to do is a quick install and test. A 2.5GB drive is great for that. I repurposed an old power supply to use as benchtop supply to power my ham radio gear. Now, the one thing I can't get rid of is the old CRT monitor I have. That is useless now.

Ok, this is a bit confusing for me. With magnetic card readers so inexpensive now. You can get some surplus for less then $10. I got mine free from a manufacturer, back when companies gave out free samples. I have to ask why are people trying to re-invent the wheel? Cheap hardware is out, not only readers that decode the standard tracks but also ones that export track 3 data in raw format. So, what is everyone doing with their card readers? I mean cards that are interesting (hotel keycards, etc) use non-standard encoding. Just curious.

They going for the low hanging fruit. Those that run Windows in they default mode who aren't smart enough to know better. It looks real to them so they think it must be legit. It's the same group of people who think they're 100th visitor and have won a prize. If they get a 0.1% return on the ads/malware they've got better then 0%.

While this is the first time in a telephone I've seen it on instructables where they lock and entire row of carts at once.

Did you do any testing with having Daemonlogger replicate traffic from WAN to LAN? When I tried the above I lost all comms to the router. So I'm thinking I could try just replicating the traffic without having to set it up in client mode and having the VPN.

I don't know about where you live but here in NY a credit card cannot be used as the sole means as proof of age/ability to pay. It goes back to a lawsuit against Rental car agencies that required a credit card in order to rent a car. Now you have to have 2 forms of ability to pay (utility in your name, checking account, rent, etc). I don't know if you'd be able to do something similar "on your side on the puddle".

True but there's a catch once you've owned a version for 7 years instead having to get a new one it starts working for you. That is, until it's 15 and from what I've read the fees go up.

Careful about those upgrades. I went to get the 2.0 upgrade and ended up getting 3.0 Which comes bundles with stress 5.3 and downgrades you to cashflow 0.1 and it's incompatible with all versions of freetime. Oh yeah we got a cat, lazy good for nothing.....

Ooh, It seemed to work fine for me. Then again my Axim now runs WM 6.1 and has 128MB of RAM.

Yep, right now I'm using Pfsense which is a BSD distro before that it was smoothwall which has a nice VPN interface. ...and there is an OPENVPN client for Windows Mobile. http://ovpnppc.ziggurat29.com/ovpnppc-main.htm I use it on my Axim, it works.

Ok let's see if I understand this: ASSUMPTION eth0.0 LAN eth0.1 WAN I hope I got that much right. ifconfig br-lan 0.0.0.0 This sets up the virtual bridge ------------ brctl addif br-lan eth0.1 This bridges the WAN of the Fonera+ to the virtual bridge |__ brctl addif br-lan ath0 This bridges the Wifi of the Fonera+ to the virtual bridge __| So we have eth0.1 WAN___|------br-lan------|___WIFI ath0 Then ifconfig eth0.0 10.255.255.254 up this assigns the LAN a static IP of 10.255.255.254 so that it can work with OpenVPN and daemonlogger. It's now acting more like the ethernet card in a laptop rather then a router. It's the client not the server. Now the magic happens /interceptor/bin/daemonlogger -i br-lan -o tap0 -d Daemonlogger handles mirroring the bridged traffic (br-lan) out to the OpenVPN tap interface. If this is all true I understand that the LAN port is now acting like client to our VPN server running on our laptop. Assuming I got all the above correct, where is the magic that tells the tap0 interface to bind to the LAN eth0.0? Hopefully, when all is said and done: Jasager will be running on ath0 to say Yes to everybody and happily route all traffic out to the WAN port and I'll be hooked into the LAN running OPENVPN server for the Lan port to connect to and I'll be able to see all the traffic by sniffing the tap interface on my laptop. The gives me a few things. Only the Jasager traffic will be on the tap interface. If I was bored I can still associate my laptop's wireless to the real AP and surf the internets, etc. So, if anyone asks "how do you expect the WAN port to get to the internet?". Simple I use my D-link pocket router and set the switch on the bottom to client and plug it's ethernet into the WAN. Yeah it's a kludge but it'll work.

Find a model number of the controller chip and figure out how it's being interfaced. If you're lucky it's serial and you'll be able to interface easily using LDCProc or similar.

Sure, I VPN into my home-network. All that's required is the following in your server.conf on the vpn server: push "route 192.168.254.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.254.0 is my home LAN network. I can access all computers on my home network this way. My VPN gives me a 10.x.x.x ip address. Now, what won't work is if your work network and home network are on the same subnet.

I like Kansas like the bumper sticker says "Hey at least it's not Iowa."

I assume you set up port forwarding on your DSL modem AND your Router? That double routing might be a problem How is your networks set up? Does the WESTELL provide a public IP to your Belkin Router? If so then the Belkin needs the port forwarding. If the Westell is providing NAT then both the Westell and Belkin need to have port forwarding enabled. Can you set up DynDNS on the Westell? Here's an idea of what I have: Internet > DSL MODEM > PFSENSE > VPN DSL Modem has DynDNS running so it tells dyndns my public IP DSL Modem NATs to 192.168.7.x DSL Modem port forwards 1194 to 192.168.7.1 (pfsense) VPN is running on PFsense at 192.168.7.1 I also have rules to allow VPN to traverse to my LAN on 192.168.254.x (seperate enet card on pfsense box) VPN from the LAN side only tells you the VPN is working, it doesn't check the connection from the outside in. You will have to be outside to test this. Your DSL/Belkin will not let VPN in while your physically connected from inside. Creating a circular condition.

25 British pounds = 41.34500 U.S. dollars 25 Euros = 36.8575 U.S. dollars You're better off buying one from FON or off ebay if you're on the better side of the big puddle ;)