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Satellite wifi maps in 60 minutes for 60 bucks

update 2009-12-03 – I’ve gotten some attention over this little project, including some time on a local radio station! One Third Of Wireless Networks Are Exposed To Intrusion Press Release “Project Gobox” has me testing some gps and wifi equipment, specifically the “Black Intellinet Wireless G USB Adapter 503457″ and the “Pharos IGPS-500 GPS Receiver”.  [...]

Posted 14 November 2009 † Zach Peters § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , , , , ,

Getting Your Twitter Status From the Shell

Here is a quick shell script i whipped up to pull twitter status from the command line. The eventual plan is to pop this in a cron job, pipe it into a file and include this in a php page. Easy status updates for a website headline #!/bin/sh USER=$1 wget -qO- http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/$USER.xml?count=1 | xmlstarlet select [...]

Posted 14 November 2009 † Zach Peters § Code ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,