Sticky Wifi is an issue that seems to plague any network administrator that manages a wireless network with more then one AP, the issue is that the client device does not go out and check for better signal access points. It stays connected to the same AP basically until it can’t see it anymore.
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For the last year or maybe a little more I have been tinkering with a strong open-source chatting application written in 100% nodejs, I can’t say I have a breakthrough or anything, but I do have something to show now!
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My friend was browsing hacker news today and stumbled on an interesting article. I am going to repost the article on thebugshop.net because this happened to my friend and I, literally this exact thing. Continue reading
Howdy all.
So I found out about this thing called Hola the other day that allowed me to use my computer to connect to a vpn and appear from Canada, or the U.K. What I thought was interesting was the movie choices, it was a whole different movie selection. Continue reading
Been awhile since I posted, but boy have I been busy. No code to post today just a life hack with my new makerbot 2x. Continue reading
I am staying in Houston tonight, over at the luxurious Crowne Plaza. I bought a chromecast quite awhile ago, and I really wanted to try it out… The hotel wifi wasn’t going to let me… Or was it?!?!
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I finally had some time at work to finish testing the Maxbotix sensor hooked to an Arduino and finally to a Xbee. This tasked turned out to be simple with one hiccup.
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Kristin and the boys left to get haircuts, this left Emily and I to our own devices. We decided we woudn’t waste our free time and bust out one of the Beagle Bone Blacks I bought awhile ago and hook up some Xbees. So I got my breakout boards and the xbees and my horror when I saw the xbees were to be soldered to the breakout board. I wasn’t about to do that, so we found the pins and have them coming from Spark Fun, so that project will wait for another day.
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I got curious the other day if Apple Messages was hackable. In short, yes it is, but not without some headache. You must have a “bridge” to allow you to relay the message, but for people like me who have a mac that is always on this isn’t an issue, here is how the hack works..
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I am not a writer, nor am I a critic, so if you’re looking for either of these things look elsewhere, to read this you must overlook the obvious run on sentences, missing punctuation, and misspellings. What I am however is a computer programmer/hobbiest that started with an Apple II. Granted I was very young, my guess I was using the Apple II in 1985 or 1986, playing Reader Rabbit and Oregon Trail. It was the first computer I ever saw anywhere, I was the only person I knew with a computer.
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