Re: Mac-Cloistering with WiFi

2002-08-18 Thread Thomas Ethen
Now that I have the download, what do I do with it, as I have no idea what tgz and tar files are. Tom on 8/18/02 12:26 AM, Todd Ruch at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://homepage.mac.com/macstumbler -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronics

Re: Mac-Cloistering with WiFi

2002-08-18 Thread R. Hannes Niedner
Tar.gz is a standard UNIX compression filetype. Associate the tar.gz files with Stuffit-Expander (in short: ctrl+click - show info-switch to open with application-Choose Stuffit Expander-Change all). Then you can double click on the file and it will be unzipped and untarred and you find a new

Re: Mac-Cloistering with WiFi

2002-08-18 Thread R. Hannes Niedner
From: Ryan Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] gz files are gzip'd and called Tarballs. That is the standard compression. Strictly dot-tar files stand for Tape Archive. Offers no compression but combines all the data of a given set of files, folders, etc into one large file for compression. GZip

Mac-Cloistering with WiFi

2002-08-17 Thread Dwight Hines
snip Wintel, or *nix box. (With the exception of some minor specifics like VPN clients and encryption key exchange support.) Why not just join one of the many active Wi-Fi groups? Why does everything have to be Mac-cloistered? KeS WE need a Mac WiFi discussion list because the

Re: Mac-Cloistering with WiFi

2002-08-17 Thread Ryan Coleman
snip Wintel, or *nix box. (With the exception of some minor specifics like VPN clients and encryption key exchange support.) Why not just join one of the many active Wi-Fi groups? Why does everything have to be Mac-cloistered? KeS WE need a Mac WiFi discussion list because the

Re: Mac-Cloistering with WiFi

2002-08-17 Thread Todd Ruch
Ryan, did you get MacStumbler yet? On Saturday, August 17, 2002, at 06:20 PM, Ryan Coleman wrote: www.warchalking.com is #1 for me. -- Ryan Coleman Coleman Web / Internet Services http://cwis.biz/ http://lemlists.com/ -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small

Re: Mac-Cloistering with WiFi

2002-08-17 Thread Ryan Coleman
Ryan, did you get MacStumbler yet? MacStumbler? What's that? -- Ryan Coleman Coleman Web / Internet Services http://cwis.biz/ http://lemlists.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (612) 378-7901 -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com |

Re: Mac-Cloistering with WiFi

2002-08-17 Thread Todd Ruch
MacStumbler is a warchalking tool. It is basically a sniffer of WiFi. It will tell you if there is a WAP in the area that is available for you to use. It will also tell you if that WAP is using WEP, the signal strength, channel, and the mac address. I know of people that drive around with

Re: Mac-Cloistering with WiFi

2002-08-17 Thread Ryan Coleman
MacStumbler is a warchalking tool. It is basically a sniffer of WiFi. It will tell you if there is a WAP in the area that is available for you to use. It will also tell you if that WAP is using WEP, the signal strength, channel, and the mac address. I know of people that drive around with

Re: Mac-Cloistering with WiFi

2002-08-17 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 18/08/02 00:38, Ryan Coleman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MacStumbler is a warchalking tool. It is basically a sniffer of WiFi. It will tell you if there is a WAP in the area that is available for you to use. It will also tell you if that WAP is using WEP, the signal strength, channel,

Re: Mac-Cloistering with WiFi

2002-08-17 Thread Todd Ruch
http://homepage.mac.com/macstumbler On Saturday, August 17, 2002, at 10:12 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: on 18/08/02 00:38, Ryan Coleman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MacStumbler is a warchalking tool. It is basically a sniffer of WiFi. It will tell you if there is a WAP in the area that is