yeah, too bad your in Chicago, I'm in So-Cal, and down here the last saturday of the month, they heave these exclusive electronics/computer/computerparts swap meet on the TRW /Northrop parking lot in El Segundo.
you can pick up a good used laptop there for dirt cheap, I'm talking $250-$300 range. a lot of it is surplus equipment, it's the local ham-radio group that sponsors it. so you might check the chicago area to see if the have something similar, the good part is a lot of used laptops come with the OS and Office already, but watch out for key loggers, spyware or trojans pre-loaded on it, and change the computer name being also a Cisco guy, I needed a laptop with a serial port laptop to hook up to cisco devices using their Aux port connection, So a co-worker just bought a laptop from Dell and he specified w a serial port, and they put it in for him at no extra charge. End On 6/23/07, Chicago D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > thank you for the info. Very informative. > > Given what you've written, I'll probably see what is behind door #2. > > With my luck, the craigslist/e-bay option has always had a downside- > with no recourse because it's "as-is". So I'm a little wary of option > 1, even though a less expensive/used-laptop would be the way to go for > these projects > > In terms of option 3... I'm looking to see what this wardriving is all > about. As such, given what Mike wrote in his May 31st post- > specifically, the cantenna has a mile of range... I'm wondering can a > new laptop with the antenna being the chassis have the same range, and > thus be as effective for wardriving. > > I'll look into the Dell option. > > thanks again. > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SOCALWUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/SOCALWUG SOCALWUG website: http://www.socalwug.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
