Randomicity

[susandennis]

Someone left two bags of catnip, pot or oregano at my door. I thinking the lack of scent (plus no wrapping papers) puts it in the catnip category but who knows. Neither of my cats is very interested in catnip. But it was nice of some neighbor to think of them.

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I keep thinking that I should finally lock down my network. I hate to do it because 1. I love the concept of an open network and 2. It's a pain in the ass to lock it down and then go around to:

the tv
2 Tivos
iPad
cr-48
phone
1 laptops
1 printer

And enter in the password. Plus the last time I tried this, I had half the users and it was a giant headache. I check the list of wireless hookers on frequently and never see anything but my own mac addresses, but ... I saw a news report about a guy in a high rise condo in Miami who had an unsecured wireless network that got used by porn dealers (pringle can antenna from 2 blocks away) and the feds came after the wireless network owner. However, now I cannot find the story so maybe I invented it.

I'm only going to think about it now. I want it all to work fine like it is now for a week or two before I start fucking with it.

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The Mariners have been winning a freaky number of Spring Training games (keep in mind the Mariners winning more than one game moves them into the freaky category). The first televised game is next Wednesday. TiVo has been alerted and I am ready.

Comments

[vasilatos]

some cats (like my last one) don't have the catnip gene

makes them a little less fun on that axis, but hey, they're not going to turn into sheencats

[machupicchu.livejournal.com]

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As sick as I am of Charlie Sheen, I am totally getting a kick out of imagining "Sheencats."
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[notdefined.livejournal.com]

We can set which mac addys will even get a response to a dhcp so a guest, wanted or not, get an ip address assigned. The other thing you can do is hide the network name so it doesn't broadcast it to the ethers. It does not show up on the available networks list on a client, but it is still there.

[susandennis]

I love the invisible idea but when I turned it to invisible, my phone could not see it to grab and wouldn't connect when I typed in the ssid. Poop. It was a great idea.

[susandennis]

Turns out to be a well known and much whined about issue with Android phones! They won't play with hidden networks. So I think maybe my new plan is to wait for the next Android update...

[howeird]

My router lets me keep the broadcast going but restrict DHCP service to only those MAC addresses I assign.

But I did the dance to make everything WPA2 because you need WPA to get the extra speed from the N connection. I have 802.11N adapters on my netbook, Tivo-HD, Sony Blu-ray player, wireless Epson printer and maybe my iPhone too. The WPA password can be something human-readable. I use a scrambled combination of my middle name and some numbers, 9 characters, on the educated guess that what's on my network isn't valuable to anyone, even me.

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My cats go for catnip when I first put it out, but they lose interest in a couple of hours. Not sure what they would to with pot - probably make amusing green hairballs with it.

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And yeah, the Mariners have been almost adequate. The Giants are getting way too much publicity, esecially down here.

[rainbow-goddess.livejournal.com]

You might be able to hide your network without requiring a password to keep people out. If you can wait till Saturday, I can ask Monster how he did it to mine. I have a wireless network that doesn't have a password but it doesn't show up if someone does a wi-fi search.

[susandennis]

I just tried that - such a great idea - but when I tried to get my phone on the wireless, it refused because it couldn't find it (even when I typed in the ssid).

Maybe I was just doing something wrong. It's still a great idea.

[unbleachedbrun.livejournal.com]

Have you smoked some to see what it is?

[susandennis]

My first thought... That's howcome I was so quick to notice no rolling papers!!