Re: [gentoo-user] 'wifi' USE flag in firefox

2010-04-23 Thread Stroller
On 23 Apr 2010, at 16:42, Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: What if the Google Street View vans, in addition to taking photographs, were also scanning for wifi signals and recording their location? That would give them an impressive database of wifi "ho

Re: [gentoo-user] 'wifi' USE flag in firefox

2010-04-23 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > What if the Google Street View vans, in addition to taking > photographs, were also scanning for wifi signals and recording their > location? That would give them an impressive database of wifi > "hotspots". Hey, it looks like I may have bee

Re: [gentoo-user] 'wifi' USE flag in firefox

2010-04-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 01:10:00 +0100, Stroller wrote: > The widespread SSIDs of > "Linksys" and "Netgear" must be ignored, unless it is possible to > identify them by MAC address without authenticating. It is, try "sudo iwlist wlan0 scan" to see all APs in range, with their SSIDs and MAC addres

Re: [gentoo-user] 'wifi' USE flag in firefox

2010-04-21 Thread Stroller
On 21 Apr 2010, at 16:01, Paul Hartman wrote: ... I *believe* that a geolocation-aware browser would be able to tell the site where you are. So as soon as you open the webpage, the site will query your browser, your browser will tell it where you are and an AJAXy element on the page would

Re: [gentoo-user] 'wifi' USE flag in firefox

2010-04-21 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 21 April 2010 16:20:57 erdun...@gmail.com wrote: > On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:01:20AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > > There are already big sites like Twitter and Google Maps that use the > > geolocation API. Give it a try: http://www.google.com/maps/m > > > > If it is able to get your

Re: [gentoo-user] 'wifi' USE flag in firefox

2010-04-21 Thread erdunand
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:01:20AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > There are already big sites like Twitter and Google Maps that use the > geolocation API. Give it a try: http://www.google.com/maps/m > > If it is able to get your location, it should have a little dot in the > bottom-right corner that

Re: [gentoo-user] 'wifi' USE flag in firefox

2010-04-21 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Stroller wrote: > > On 20 Apr 2010, at 13:17, Mick wrote: >>> >>> ... >>> "Introduced in Gecko 1.9.1: Code with UniversalXPConnect privileges >>> can monitor the list of available WiFi access points to obtain >>> information about them including their SSID, MAC add

Re: [gentoo-user] 'wifi' USE flag in firefox

2010-04-20 Thread Stroller
On 20 Apr 2010, at 13:17, Mick wrote: ... "Introduced in Gecko 1.9.1: Code with UniversalXPConnect privileges can monitor the list of available WiFi access points to obtain information about them including their SSID, MAC address, and signal strength. This capability was introduced primarily to

Re: [gentoo-user] 'wifi' USE flag in firefox

2010-04-20 Thread Mick
On 19 April 2010 15:43, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 4:49 AM, Mick wrote: >> Any idea what the 'wifi' USE flag actually does in >> www-client/mozilla-firefox?  Is it merely to know when the machine is >> on/off line and therefore try to connect to the Internet? > > It enables Nec

Re: [gentoo-user] 'wifi' USE flag in firefox

2010-04-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 4:49 AM, Mick wrote: > Any idea what the 'wifi' USE flag actually does in > www-client/mozilla-firefox? Is it merely to know when the machine is > on/off line and therefore try to connect to the Internet? It enables Necko WiFi (and depends on wireless-tools). What does th

[gentoo-user] 'wifi' USE flag in firefox

2010-04-19 Thread Mick
Any idea what the 'wifi' USE flag actually does in www-client/mozilla-firefox? Is it merely to know when the machine is on/off line and therefore try to connect to the Internet? -- Regards, Mick