I always get nervous about moving my laptop (jostling it) with the hard drive running. I started using PCs with the old 5 1/4 monsters that a good solid thump would crash. I know that modern 2.5 drives can take some throwing and survive, and the 1.8 suckers could probably be dropped down a flight of stairs while on. But it makes me NERVOUS... (Smacks gums, shakes walking stick... Aging by moore's law. Great...)
I still think a dumb little hotplug script that tries to talk to a central webserver every 15 seconds or so to send its current GPS data and whatever info it has about the access point it's talking through would be a great way to map the stuff...
Yahoo Maps claims to have a wireless access overlay you can do on top of its maps. Sponsored by intel, apparently. (Haven't tried it, just saw an ad...)
<I always get nervous about moving my laptop (jostling it) with the hard <drive running.
Eric, in contrast, never worries about such things. He never expects his hardware to break...and is really bummed when and if it does. :-)
My guess is that the Yahoo maps overlay was compiled by warwalkers, and therefore is probably way out of date no matter how often they update it. Though I could, of course, be wrong.
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Eric's GPS.
I still think a dumb little hotplug script that tries to talk to a central webserver every 15 seconds or so to send its current GPS data and whatever info it has about the access point it's talking through would be a great way to map the stuff...
Yahoo Maps claims to have a wireless access overlay you can do on top of its maps. Sponsored by intel, apparently. (Haven't tried it, just saw an ad...)
Re: Eric's GPS.