I need to do more wardriving

I used to quite like Wardriving. I haven't gone in ages - suppose I just haven't had time (I hate saying that btw).

I'm not sure were my USB wireless adapter is.

I remember sometime back I went for a cruise in my car with my Asus EEE PC around my local area and found something like 65 w/lans. Which of 30-40 of them were not running any kind of security. It was like a double-click and you have access to the internet.

I should try and invent some long lasting form of batter power for my EEE PC. That way I can place the mobile computer somewhere outside a persons home, in a sheltered area of course, and queue up 500Gb worth of movies in bittorrent. I'll come back a week later and transfer the movies onto my file server.

I'll need to find a large enough flash drive or some solid state disk which I can easily attach to the EEE PC.

Sounds like quite a cool idea, er?

Google you nut

I'm so not an automated request. This is weird, I was logged in with my Google account trying to view a cache copy of my old weblog.

I like just about everything that Google has to offer. Google Apps, Gmail, Google pages (due to merge into Google sites soon).

On another note, I found this tutorial on using Gmail as a mail relay for ssmtp to be really interesting. I had quite a few ideas pop into my head when I read the article. Monitoring ideas, I could write a bash script that would alert me when one of my ADSL accouts were to exceed their download limit. I can then access my email account from my mobile phone when I'm on the move (without Gmail this would be a pain 'cause I would have to setup and configure some MTA like Sendmail or Exim--which I really don't feel like doing).

My most popular Youtube video - X Windows Forwarding

It seems quite a few people from Youtube land like my video tutorial I created on X Windows Forwarding. Thanks for all the email guys!

If you can't view the video player applet consider following this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsHuZJ5gORE&

It was really a simple tutorial to demonstrate, yet it is so handy. How many times have you needed to use a GUI app on a remote linux machine?

Bodyboarding in a flowrider

These two pictures were from an old weblog of mine, which has been removed. I suppose I wasn't posting enough to it.

The pictures were taken about more than a year ago at the flowrider in Gateway, Durban.

Just thought I'll keep the pics alive by uploading them to this weblog.

Winter is coming up soon. I hope I didn't miss the buss when it comes to suntanning. I really need a tan. Hopefully global warming ensures that a few days during winter have sun. I want to dye my hair blonde again. All the blondness in my hair is almost grown out. Umm.. maybe I should dye my hair light green? I wonder what that would look like on me...

I really want to travel the world. I've seen so little of our beautiful planet. If only I were a millionaire.

Windows 7 RC "Really Crap"

Most people rushed out to d/load the Windows 7 Release Candidate. Not me. It would rather waste - well, not really a waste - the bandwidth d/loading a decent GNU/Linux Distribution. I don't know why IT professionals would actually take the time to d/load it. Haven't they learned anything from the XP - Vista upgrade path?

This is funny, I was reading on the official release notes on Microsoft's TechNet. Apparently the software will "shut down" every two hours after the evaluation period expires. There is probably some issue that exits within the software which causes it to crash every two hours.

I was reading somewhere that basically this upgrade is simply a Windows face-lift. Still the same concept of doing things - it just looks different. My opinion is that Microsoft should spend more time elsewhere, like developing a built-in anti virus (one that would ship with the Operating System), improving their Media player etc...

...actually come to think of it, I could list all the things I would like to see Microsoft change/rethink/fix but I don't want my blog to look like one huge complaint.

I suppose it is hard for Microsoft. You really can't please everyone.