Happy Birthday, erikaj!

I think I caught on lj the other stuff I missed in the last couple of days here. But... Happy Birthday+1, Perkins, welcome back, ita, and I'm glad you got good news, Dana.

Two of the guys in our gaming/paintball/LAN party group back in the States did computer forensics and remote wireless network hacking for a living. They made sure ours was secure.

My BiL worked for a computer security and networking firm for awhile. He said when he would go to interview with potential clients who had wireless networking, he would bring a tech with him who would sit in the corner of the office with his laptop while my BiL was talking to the client. 9 times out of 10, by the end of the interview the tech would be able to set his laptop on the client's desk and show him just how secure their network wasn't.

One of the our company's salesmen who travels TX and NM in his RV has a nifty little haldheld device that will detect wireless signals and tell him what direction they're coming from. So he deliberately drives by libraries, schools, hospitals, big housing developments et cetera, then parks, walks around a little with it to determine where the signal is strongest, parks the RV nearby, and logs on to get his mail and check on his customers orders and so on.

I'm looking for a book, and who better to ask but Buffistas?

I saw a documentary on Discovery about UFOs showing up in ancient and Renaissance art, and I didn't write down the title or the name of the author. A search on Amazon is bringing up all sorts of crap, but not the book in question. Does anyone know what this book is called or who wrote it?

I don't think I'd still be able to use an electronic or computer device in my house if it weren't for hard reset buttons. I've hard reset the DSL model and router in this house so many times, it's not even funny.

After doing this three times, I finally just left the password set at the default. I'm willing to trade a little security for being able to actually use the damn thing.

Our network doesn't require a password, but the individual computers do, so people are free to share our wireless internet, but can't get into any files. (I figure, enough of my personal/financial information is on the internet already that if someone wants to steal it? They really don't need to be logged onto my home network.)

Happy Birthday, erika!

That's actually something I've been wondering: If you have a wifi thingy-do, does it hurt you/cost you anything/harm you in some other way for other people to use it? (Assuming they can't actually get inside your computer that way.)

Hey Burrell, I'm sorry I missed you this AM. I had a minor panic attack related to work that I can't seem to finish. I was set to go and then I realized I needed to make copies of 175 copies of 2 8 page stories as well as 3 posters. Not to mention the papers.

By October, maybe I'll have a handle on things? And we can have dinner then?

Happy birthday, erika!

Allyson, what you probably missed was me prattling on endlessly. Because that's charming and attractive, isn't it?

Don't mind me -- threw my back out on the trip, and that was made very clear at krav today, so I'm beyond sulky, and also on much Aleve and the one Flexoril.

If you have a wifi thingy-do, does it hurt you/cost you anything/harm you in some other way for other people to use it?

If they do illegal things, it'll be traceable back to you through your ISP. Also, you're sharing the maximum bandwidth, so they could be eating it up and make you slow.

And it's rude.

If they do illegal things, it'll be traceable back to you through your ISP. Also, you're sharing the maximum bandwidth, so they could be eating it up and make you slow.

I hadn't thought of the illegal things, but I was wondering about the slowness thing.

The rudeness, I don't know. To me it seems like the kind of thing that you (the subscriber) can prevent, so if you don't, it's a free-for-all. I mean, right? If I leave my stuff on the sidewalk, of course someone's going to pick it up and take it.