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So there’s this thing called Aardvark, it’s a nice concept. It’s a networking tool like no other. You are connected to virtually everybody on the net through this (of course everybody who has in some way registered for this service). The idea is that everybody signs up, adds aardvark to either their gtalk list or on twitter or what not, and then classifies what they know about and what they are good at. Whenever any member has any query in any category, they just post a question and everybody who knows stuff in that category, gets asked that. So this way, anybody in the world, irrespective of whether he knows you or not, can help you with the answer if he/she knows it. For example if somebody wanted to know which is the best F1 team and asked that question, people like me who know about F1, would get the question and would rightly say that it is McLaren Mercedes and there would be peace in the world again. I’d recommend you give it a whirl sometime. I meant Aardvark, well a whirl in the McLaren Mercedes wouldn’t be too bad either.
I use this on gtalk, and one of the topics that I get questions on sometimes is “technology”. A couple of days ago, I got this -
(Aardvark) Help someone with a question about *Technology*
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aardvark@vark.com Hi Abhinav, Cameron F./19/Indiana,US just asked a question I think you migh...
Oct 20 (3 days ago)
Hi Abhinav,
Cameron F/19/Indiana,US just asked a question I think you might be able to answer,
"Can you sniff for packets using a wireless bridge? (DD-WRTv24)"
To answer, just reply to this message, and I'll forward your email along to Cameron.
Or, if you know someone who might be able to answer, send them this referral
If I don't hear from you soon, I'll ask someone else -- but you can answer anytime.
- Aardvark
I was intrigued by this question, and having some small amount of knowledge in this field, I decided to help 19 yr ol Cameron F from Indiana USA.
I’m sure my intelligent readers can figure out which part of the sentence was the determining factor. So I replied –
Reply
Any device in the network can sniff packets using a sniffer. I am not sure exactly what you want to do here, but my understanding is that you want to sniff packets using a wireless medium. As far as my understanding goes it doesn't matter which port of your machine you use to capture the packets for the sniffer, it will work. Do revert to me if your objectives are not as understood by me, i'll see if I can help you further.
I was really interested in helping dear Cameron who by now had managed to conjure a number of images in my head; I wonder why she never liked to wear a lot of clothes.
Soon enough, I got -
Cameron says:
"I'm looking for wireless passwords with my router, then I'll use aircrack to crack the passwords. But I just don't know how to "sniff" for the packets"
To respond, just reply to this message, and I'll forward your email along to Cameron.
- Aardvark
Well now I don’t know what makes it for the rest of you, I mean I don’t know what you guys (n girls as well) get your kicks out of, but a bad girl is all daddy needs. Imagine a 19 yr ol (barely legal) female asking you to help her crack passwords. That’s like the dream of every electronics engineer. Sure my dreams don’t stop there, but let’s ignore that bit. Imagine somebody like Sienna Miller (as in the baroness in the GIJOE movie) coming with a gun in one hand and a laptop in another, and saying in a husky voice -
"I'm looking for wireless passwords with my router, then I'll use aircrack to crack the passwords. But I just don't know how to "sniff" for the packets"
“Sniff the packets for me now or I’ll blow you duodenum into 65536 pieces”.
Oh just imagining it would give any techie a semi. Yes that’s how disgusting we are. Now I don’t want you guys to think of me as a despo or something. In fact I’m probably the most decent guy you could meet (in this respect), no kidding!! (probably for the first time in this blog). However as I said, the whole prospect of a young little password cracking nymph (hopefully) in tight leather was a little too much for me. So I poked around a bit, and it turned out that Cameron had registered onto aardvark via facebook, and had allowed users access to the facebook page. Check it out.
Yes!! Yes!!, you guys can laugh all you want, but you must admit that it was rather cruel of the universe to conspire in this manner against me. All of a sudden I don’t like this Cameron much either. Come to think of it she was probably why I jumped to conclusions.
Moral of the story – you did not really expect morals from me did you???
Monday, October 26, 2009
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Dance Dance Revolution
DDR
Okay, before I forget, I think its best to give the credit due to the others who’ve had a major part to play in this one of a kind revolution. Yes unselfish as I am, I think it’s best to point out that there were two co-conspirators with me in the monumental movement that will needless to say sweep the nation maybe even the globe. Further I suspect when man perfects the warp drive and makes contact with the myriad of intelligent species that thrive in the many realms of the universe, the said revolution will conquer the new worlds seamlessly.
Ah there I go shooting off on a tangent right into space; I hope you understand I did not want to make the mistake of underemphasizing the importance of such a revolution. So before I get lost into the abyss of space again, I would give 50% credit to Bharat Choragudi. The remaining credit is shared between me, Vodka and tequila in ratios that I’m unable to discern with certainty.
Those of you that are familiar with the works of one Mr. R. Peters would by now having seen the title jump to the conclusion that the chinks’ve finally run amok with their obsessions and have now converted me into one of them. Don’t worry; yours truly does not have yellow fever.
I was recently on a very serious super official business meet. And if any of you have ever been on one of these, then you know that there generally is that pain in the ass dance party to be put up with; and unless you have the faithful companionship of Messrs Vodka and tequila you know that you don’t know what the hell you’re supposed to be doing there in the middle of people busy in the search of their marbles [ladies you’re exempt from this bit (not just because of the marbles metaphor)]. So what do you do in such situations? How do you come out of it looking respectable without being aloof and distant from the dance floor?
Well that’s what Bharat, Vodka, Tequila and I have solved. By translating a bunch of complex moves to easy actions followed by most in a normal workaday life, we can help you get on that dance floor and dazzle one and all. Well at least you won’t look like a complete clot. This really is a revolution I tell you, proof of this is the fact that Bharat and me ended up spending the whole evening not just dancing with girls (pretty to a degree), but even teaching them how to dance. Now all of my 2.5 avid readers know that on the dance floor I’m probably the most ungainly thing (except of course the fat, 40+, drunk lady); and in an exceptionally charitable mood I must say that Bharat would qualify just short of an eyesore. I realize as I write this that it probably isn’t the most positive way to qualify the founders of the DDR, so I’m going to rephrase that –
I am the second best of the ungainly things on an average dance floor (beaten by a whisker by the old, fat, drunk lady)
Bharat is the best thing on a dance floor that’s not an eyesore.
P.S. – charity is a good institution to be a part of, you apparently get tax relief
So as I was saying, there’s finally a way to score (or at least not humiliate yourself) on the dance floor, and we’re bringing it to you soon. As of now the members who are the brainchild of this revolution are working on getting some supermodels to take part in our video tutorials which would help you learn easily. So if you’re a supermodel and are reading this, what are you waiting for, send me a few of your profile pics and your phone number (on a more charitable note – get a life); this is your one chance to be part of something much larger then you could ever imagine. Please give us some time to get back to you as it takes us some time to sort through the mountains of applicants.
We’ve already received a couple of offers from people who wish to take a large chunk of credit for promoting the obviously self-sustaining revolution. We are yet to decide on whether we should hire them when we already have ‘we’ll work for no cost’ Samaritans.
As for the rest of you who would have to wait for the video tutorials to come out and take the globe over, I’ll leave you with a few suggestions of what do to if you find yourself on a dance floor without the slightest of where you’re supposed to look for your marbles –
1) Truck driver – this is one of the classics. Pretend to be a truck driver steering his huge steering. If you do it right, this is generally a safe move to stick to.
2) Chakki Piecing – a move immortalized by veeru in the movie sholay. Again this is a safe move that anybody with a little practice can pull off on a dance floor without looking like a klutz
3) Gooaalllll – pretend to be one of those footballers who has just scored a goal and is doing one of those celebrations where he pretends he’s flying. (actually you could just pretend to be a plane that’s flying). This move if done slow enough works well when typical Punjabi songs are playing. Actually if you pay attention to the antics displayed by footballers after having scored, you could easily load up your Arsenal with more moves.
4) Point to the stars – again one of the classic I’m a paralytic guy who cant dance moves. It’s the predecessor to the 5) fly the kite move.
There are like a gazillion more moves like that, I’m just a little too lazy to type all right now, I’ll furbish you with more moves from time to time. The video tutorials however might come on a insignificant monetary investment I’m afraid, depends on how hot our supermodel is.
Okay, before I forget, I think its best to give the credit due to the others who’ve had a major part to play in this one of a kind revolution. Yes unselfish as I am, I think it’s best to point out that there were two co-conspirators with me in the monumental movement that will needless to say sweep the nation maybe even the globe. Further I suspect when man perfects the warp drive and makes contact with the myriad of intelligent species that thrive in the many realms of the universe, the said revolution will conquer the new worlds seamlessly.
Ah there I go shooting off on a tangent right into space; I hope you understand I did not want to make the mistake of underemphasizing the importance of such a revolution. So before I get lost into the abyss of space again, I would give 50% credit to Bharat Choragudi. The remaining credit is shared between me, Vodka and tequila in ratios that I’m unable to discern with certainty.
Those of you that are familiar with the works of one Mr. R. Peters would by now having seen the title jump to the conclusion that the chinks’ve finally run amok with their obsessions and have now converted me into one of them. Don’t worry; yours truly does not have yellow fever.
I was recently on a very serious super official business meet. And if any of you have ever been on one of these, then you know that there generally is that pain in the ass dance party to be put up with; and unless you have the faithful companionship of Messrs Vodka and tequila you know that you don’t know what the hell you’re supposed to be doing there in the middle of people busy in the search of their marbles [ladies you’re exempt from this bit (not just because of the marbles metaphor)]. So what do you do in such situations? How do you come out of it looking respectable without being aloof and distant from the dance floor?
Well that’s what Bharat, Vodka, Tequila and I have solved. By translating a bunch of complex moves to easy actions followed by most in a normal workaday life, we can help you get on that dance floor and dazzle one and all. Well at least you won’t look like a complete clot. This really is a revolution I tell you, proof of this is the fact that Bharat and me ended up spending the whole evening not just dancing with girls (pretty to a degree), but even teaching them how to dance. Now all of my 2.5 avid readers know that on the dance floor I’m probably the most ungainly thing (except of course the fat, 40+, drunk lady); and in an exceptionally charitable mood I must say that Bharat would qualify just short of an eyesore. I realize as I write this that it probably isn’t the most positive way to qualify the founders of the DDR, so I’m going to rephrase that –
I am the second best of the ungainly things on an average dance floor (beaten by a whisker by the old, fat, drunk lady)
Bharat is the best thing on a dance floor that’s not an eyesore.
P.S. – charity is a good institution to be a part of, you apparently get tax relief
So as I was saying, there’s finally a way to score (or at least not humiliate yourself) on the dance floor, and we’re bringing it to you soon. As of now the members who are the brainchild of this revolution are working on getting some supermodels to take part in our video tutorials which would help you learn easily. So if you’re a supermodel and are reading this, what are you waiting for, send me a few of your profile pics and your phone number (on a more charitable note – get a life); this is your one chance to be part of something much larger then you could ever imagine. Please give us some time to get back to you as it takes us some time to sort through the mountains of applicants.
We’ve already received a couple of offers from people who wish to take a large chunk of credit for promoting the obviously self-sustaining revolution. We are yet to decide on whether we should hire them when we already have ‘we’ll work for no cost’ Samaritans.
As for the rest of you who would have to wait for the video tutorials to come out and take the globe over, I’ll leave you with a few suggestions of what do to if you find yourself on a dance floor without the slightest of where you’re supposed to look for your marbles –
1) Truck driver – this is one of the classics. Pretend to be a truck driver steering his huge steering. If you do it right, this is generally a safe move to stick to.
2) Chakki Piecing – a move immortalized by veeru in the movie sholay. Again this is a safe move that anybody with a little practice can pull off on a dance floor without looking like a klutz
3) Gooaalllll – pretend to be one of those footballers who has just scored a goal and is doing one of those celebrations where he pretends he’s flying. (actually you could just pretend to be a plane that’s flying). This move if done slow enough works well when typical Punjabi songs are playing. Actually if you pay attention to the antics displayed by footballers after having scored, you could easily load up your Arsenal with more moves.
4) Point to the stars – again one of the classic I’m a paralytic guy who cant dance moves. It’s the predecessor to the 5) fly the kite move.
There are like a gazillion more moves like that, I’m just a little too lazy to type all right now, I’ll furbish you with more moves from time to time. The video tutorials however might come on a insignificant monetary investment I’m afraid, depends on how hot our supermodel is.
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