Archive for 'Wireless'

Finding Network MAC Addresses with Advanced IP Scanner 2.0

Tek-Works was asked awhile back to review Advanced IP Scanner 2.0, not wanting to just review something with out actually needing it, would be useless for our readers, so I put it off till today. Today at work, my task was to add a wireless router to our network and to make it as secure [...]

Fixing TurboTax BootStrapper Setup Failed

Image via Wikipedia Update: See user comments below for the Turbo Tax 2010 fix Update #2: If you still need the .Net Clean up tool, the Link has moved to here. Last night some friends called and told me they were having problems installing Intuit’s TurboTax, every time they tried to install it Turbo Tax [...]

Thank you Google Maps

The above photo of my driveway was brought to you by Google Maps, who I guess likes to take street view images of your house on garbage pickup day.. But I guess this is also a good image to say it’s time to take all the trash out and restart blogging again on Tek-Works. As [...]

ADT Home Security Lives in the Late 90′s

My wife and I are due to have our first born in April and while getting the house all ready for the new born, I figured i’d look into home security systems. Because of great advertising ADT is probably the first place you think of when looking for a after your house is built security [...]

What’s your definition of a Hacker?

In 2 weeks I’ll be heading to Defcon, For those that don’t know Defcon is: DEF CON (also written as DEFCON or Defcon) is the world’s largest annual hacker convention, held every year in Las Vegas, Nevada. The first DEFCON took place in June 1993. In 2007, at DEFCON 15, there were over 6,000 people [...]

The 5 foot Antenna

While at one of the many “security” (hacker) conventions I visit, there was a vendor selling external wireless cards, but not just any wireless devices but one of the most powerful ones currently made. The Alfa 500mW is not only powerful but you can add any antenna to it you may want. I know you’re [...]