[ale] OLPC.. Wow.

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 11:12 -0500, Mike Harrison wrote:
> > you need two boxes for it. And I'm pretty curious about the mesh networking
> > stuff, but I'm too paranoid to run wifi in my house.
> 
> I run an open WiFi at my house, my in-house network is considered 
> 'hostile' - no shares, etc.. I SCP/SSH from machine to machine.
> Old habits die hard.
> 
> My house is reasonable isolated and sits uphill (40 degree slope)
> on the side of Signal Mtn.
> 
> No problems except:
> 
> About a month ago, I notice a neighbors car parked at the bottom of the 
> driveway. John's a nice guy, but I'm curious, run SNIFFIT. Kewl, John's
> borrowing some WiFi, I snarf a few pages of web and e-mail traffic on my 
> laptop and head for John's car. he smiles sheepishly and says: "My DSL's 
> down and I needed to check e-mail and such..." I show him his last e-mail
> grabbed via POP3 and told him if he's stop by for coffee/beer I wouldn't 
> sniff his connection. Funny, he's never done that again, or stopped by. :)

	Much more fun to have a transparent proxy flip random images for
unauthorized piggy-backers.

	http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pete/upside-down-ternet.html

> --
> 
>    I'll see if I can make the next ALE meeting and bring the OLPC.
>    I'd also like to see it "mesh" and play like a little kid some more with it.

	Mike
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