Pub tonight anybody?

Not a traditional use for LJ but hey, who cares, its my journal and I'll do what I want. :)

Anybody up for the pub tonight? This is only really aimed at those in oxford (including those I've never met) but I'd be more than happy to see those from out of oxford.

My plan:-

Pub: Lamb and Flag (on St Giles for those not knowing that which I doubt is anyone)
Time: 7:30

If you want to let me know here that you are coming then that's cool but feel free also to just turn up. :)

Fear my leet hacking skills!

Well, it appears I have just hacked my first network sort of. A private house network running behind a cable modem or ADSL I think. I now have full control of a machine on the inside of this house network.

Whose you ask? I think my next door neighbour. How? And indeed why do I only /think/? Well, it goes like this...

About 30 minutes ago my wireless network connection died. I tried a few things ultimately ending in a reboot and no joy. Stuck a physical connection in and looked at our gateway to see if it could see any error messages. Nope. Then housemate comes home who also has wireless so I try her laptop and hey presto, internet connection.

She is surprised as she had turned off encryption last night when out. Odd. I turn encryption off on mine and it works. Worrying I think. Maybe encryption just turned itself off. Then I notice that the IP address I have is odd. As is the gateway. As is the wireless network name. Oh, somebody else is clearly running a wireless network with no encryption nearby. :)

WHy do I think its our neigtbour? Mainly because he runs the local computer shop and so is almost certainly going to have shiny techness and things like that. Could be somebody else but he is my best bet.

Anyway, tfm is trying to work things out while I sit and giggle slightly. I personally think we just need to go into the attic and reboot our wireless thingy.

Just thought I'd share this slightly comedy thing. So anybody wanting wireless come round to goodson walk where its all free. :)