Had a long
anticipated meeting with cuzzin Ricky Reilly yesterday. Yes, his
grandfather, and mine, was Sydney. A resident of Walnut Creek, CA, he
has access to maps (roll) your Barn Army high command must
have before we implement Operation
Bay Area Mushroom. We celebrated with steamed crabs (no
mean feat that, this time of year, but Hucker figgered it out), Ledo
pizza, crayfish, steamed shrimp, and brewskis. As you might
imagine, our Ace of Spies is adept in the field of data communication,
so he quickly unraveled the secret of unlocking our wi-fi
capabilities.
Heretofore, when agents showed up with their laptops, our
signal was readily picked up, but the procedure for unlocking it with
the necessary password was an enigma, lost in volumes of undecipherable
procedural gobbledygook. Here's how simple it is, for those
millions of you who suffer silently, in fear of looking stupid.
Ready? When asked for the password, turn your router over and
enter the WEP KEY number 
Eyes Only printed on the bottom. I'll go out on
limb and guess that if you have a MAC, the MAC ID will apply.
Note to Microsoft: Wasn't that easy?
Bonus
Hint:
Why pay for internet service at all? Do a search for local wi-fi
and pick a neighbor's signal. Go next door and say, "Fran, I will
you go outside so I can take a picture of you in your front yard from
your office window?" Then copy his WEP KEY. Carry on.
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Truer words have never been spoken. Politics in this country have reached a point where the citizen gets screwed regardless of who obtains the office. If a republican we get screwed missionary style and if a democrat doggy style. Either way we're screwed.
ReplyDeleteEr, um, well. I'm not sure how many people print their key on the bottom of their router, but the only place mine is located is in my head.
ReplyDeleteAnd the MAC ID is something else entirely. It's like a hardware fingerprint. You can set up MAC ID filtering as an additional security measure. Then the only way to get in is to know the MAC ID of a permitted piece of hardware and clone it (if that is even possible with your particular hardware).
HENCE 'GODDAMMIT'
ReplyDeleteJust noticed the Gov't 1911A1 on the table. A real man cracks his crab claws (or any other MFCS crustacean) with the butt of a pistol!
ReplyDeleteVice Sgt Boone
Happy crabfest Rodge. But what the heck are you talking about???
ReplyDeleteYou really should get a Mac. We don't fool around with any of that stuff. The computers do all the work of connecting themselves.
Recently on a trip to Sarasota, we decided to get connected down there. (The old folks don't put up any wifi networks we could sneak into.) So the nice Verizon man boinked a WWAN card into my MacBook and down the road we went online.
It's a little disorienting driving around while connected to the intertubes, but there is a whole new frontier in shopping opportunities. We discovered the best part of this gear when we got to the shack. By clicking on the 'web sharing' feature, my MacBook started broadcasting a wifi signal to all the other Macs in the house. Naturally they all hooked themselves up. So the Gf, who had skipped out of work for the trip, was amicably connected on her own lappy.
Life away from home is good with WWAN. It's simply amazing technology in an era when we're bored with technology. And your password for making computer gear work is M-A-C-I-N-T-O-S-H.
So cudja take us off the nuke list, please. YKW in Vermont.
Pay attention. We're not nuking Vermont. We're invading Vermont after we conquer Canada. We'll probably just burn your house, and turn you out into the snow.
ReplyDeleteRodger, since we have forces in proximity to the objective, I'd like to suggest blowing the tunnel that connects Berkley to Walnut Creek, prior to dropping the big one, so that none of the bad guys get away.
Casca
Dammit, Rodger changed the plan when I wasn't paying attention. Still, probably easier to march to the sea through Vermont, than to acquire fissionable material.
ReplyDeleteCasca
I am not responsible for misunderstandings caused by failure to read full blog postings.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous at 12:55:
ReplyDeleteYou didn't look very hard for wifi in Sarasota. The entire downtown has free wifi. Most neighborhoods (those around me anyway) have lots of unsecured wifi routers happily saying 'come use/abuse me'.
There is the small legal matter of leeching someone else's wifi connection, though. Fines, jail, the usual stuff.
Note to non-believers....
ReplyDeleteYou may be right, and I may have stumbled across this "fix" for only unique situations.... but Rodge's "fix" was my 6th or 7th successful attempt.... on a variety of routers. I know, for sure that it works on SBC (Yahoo)2Wire as well.
Cuzzin Rick
hey!..something good in walnut creek besides my family of stalwart english yeoman...and yeowomen?
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