Archive for category: Idle

The wonders of long distance WiFi adapters..

2 January, 2010 (21:25) | Gadgets, Idle | By: chuck

Successful holiday’s this year, actually managed to pick up a nice and powerful WiFi adapter with a wonderful antenna to wardrive (NOT piggyback) with. Only been out for one session so far, but still some of these access point names amused me.

belkin54g_not_yours (Weirdly not encrypted)
unknown_virus
donthackme
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And some disappointed me. Like honestly, >5 unencrypted linksys routers in [...]

CADIE – Google’s April Fools joke

1 April, 2009 (18:58) | Humor, Web | By: chuck

This morning, when I arrived at Google’s home page, I noticed they supposedly had a new project released. So I clicked and checked it out.
Turned out to be Google’s supposed “AI” CADIE. Though I personally have several reasons as to why this is fake…
1) Look at the time-stamp on the page. Doesn’t “March 31st, 2009 11:59:59 pm” seem a little [...]

IDLE – “Attention dogs” sign

27 March, 2009 (21:23) | Humor, Idle | By: chuck

Found this while stopping for lunch today. I think it speaks for itself.