Fring is a cool service, Fring on the iPhone is below zero kelvin! I just installed it -thanks to mikew41- and Fring is ral real cool. To give you an idea on what it can do

1. import jabber / gtalk friends and chat with them via Jabber
2. import friends from other Instant Messaging service and use the service. I do not use these but think MSN, Y!, ICQ etc
3. setup your twitter account and have a multitasking twitter client in the background (keyword: background)
4. Import Skype contact, sign in and USE skype over Wifi!
5. Setup SIP and use your iPhone to make real VOIP calls over wifi over the internet

As you can see, a switch army knife. Skype by itself would have been cool enough for me, SIP a great much needed add on. But this is an application that communicates with all services I use and acts as the information hub between my twitter, my XS4ALL VOIP, my Skype and my jabber friends. I think it it the best application available on the iPhone. Installation is a 10 seconds job once you are in "installer" (you do have a jailbroken phone I hope?). Simpley ad the repository to installer, tab on fring and you are ready! This is great.

Logitech to acquire Slim Devices!, as an owner of a squeezebox I can say that this is a smart move of Logitech. It is a very good product and cool company. If you dont own a squeezebox but do have a larger collection of MP3's, even then look at this product. Because all their software is OpenSource, you can download the server and the client. Doenst come with the cool device but still.

Lets hope that Logitech will continue to follow the business model of Slimdevices, give a away the recipe and open a restaurant.

But it was too damn cold and the wifi crapped out every time a train came into the station..

Of course posting from a hotspot is nothing special but this was different: I was using socks over SSH over an DNS tunnel to the TOR network. I had read the initial articles about using DNS as a covert channel to tunnel IP traffic from closed Wifi hotspots a couple years ago but last weekend I was staying in an hotel with expensive Wifi and an 2 hour minimum so I decided to check what the state of the art of DNS tunneling is.

And it turned out to be pretty easy using SSH and a little perl script and a willing DNS server from the TOR network; it worked like a "slow" charm from my home network and the train journey from Haarlem offered a great opportunity for a field test but the stops in the stations were too short to post anything so I ended sitting outside on the platform but gave up after my fingers got too numb to type...the stuff I do for willy...

I havent spend much time finishing my PVR. But I did replace an old 10Mb hub and 11Mb accesspoint with a new b/g linksys accesspoint. No problems there, couple of minutes. The Windows install disk sucked camels ass though. The problem was that I use 10.0.1.0/24 inside where the default IP of the AP box was 192.168.1.1. As I said, couple of minutes.

I wanted to change the old AP (Asus 802.11b) to a client so it's ethernet can wire my PVR box. That want as trivial and didnt work out, will take a look at it later. However, I have now a full 100Mb switched network at home (wheee1) instead of an old 10Mb half duplex. And the new AccessPoint has both G and B and I was surpissed to find that my new laptop did G as well. So my internal network is once again up to speed with my internet connection. I have 4 Mb down so my fixed and wireless ethernet were becomming the slowerparts of my internetwork connection.

Just when you thought all the letters in the world have been combined in all the combinations possible, they had to come up with a new word: WiPhishing.
Yahoo!

Network security vendor Cirond said Friday that a new danger, which it calls "WiPhishing" threatens users of laptops equipped with Wi-Fi and the companies that employ those users.