3D landscape and background computer renders
I've really started to get into doing 3D rendering on my computer. The image to the left was created with such a program. I'm probably the least artistically talented person in the world and lack any sense of color co-ordination, but what can be generated with computer ray tracing and landscape rendering today is simply amazing. I started getting into this, mostly because of Lego virtual drawing, thanks to LDraw, which has 3D computer primitives defined for Lego. See my Lego page for more details on this, as well as links to the many different tools that can be used for editing models, creating backgrounds, and redering them.



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Hacking 802.11b WEP
Found this article that details the tools and proceedure to hacking 802.11b (and I assume it should be the same for 802.11g) wireless networks. Granted, the author was flooding the wireless channels with ping requests to generate massive amounts of wireless traffic, but that is just a best case scenario. With a long enough data dump of "keep alive" requests from the client, you can always end up getting enough to crack even a 4 key rotating 128-bit WEP.

This is a very interesting look at wireless security and how to approach it. I still think that stealthed SSID's, MAC Filtering and 128-bit WEP is going to protect 99.99% of us (unless I'm your next door neighbor...grin). And even then, not file sharing stuff you don't want out there is the next best thing (secure your intranet). Hell, someone would have to be roving the neighborhood looking for stealthed SSID's (which I've heard of people doing), but more likely, it is a neighbor that detects your non-stealthed SSID that would be most attacks. Just watch your front walk and realize that they have to be pretty close to even get the packets over the wireless. In fact, I may take my laptop and see just how far I can detect my own wireless network...
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Moab in 2005
Took a trip down to Moab Utah for some mountain biking and 4x4 Jeep trail touring. What a blast. That place is like something out of a geologist's text book. Tons of sandstone in all colors. Tires stick like glue on the rock and you can climb anything you can crank your bike up.

We rode the famous Slickrock trail as well as Porcupine Rim trail. Some of us went Jeeping up Gold Bar Rim and to Gemini Bridges as well.

The Derailleur Ale from Moab Brewery was EXCELLENT, and is the next brew I'm going to make.
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