SYNACK Posted March 31, 2013 Posted March 31, 2013 Nice, fear the cloud. The new companion's not bad either.
laserblazer Posted March 31, 2013 Posted March 31, 2013 Bit silly but better than anything else on at the time.
elsiegee40 Posted March 31, 2013 Posted March 31, 2013 If it stops people connecting to random wifi then it's done a good job My daughter commented that Doctor Who had left a generation terrified of wheelie bins, now it's wifi
SYNACK Posted March 31, 2013 Author Posted March 31, 2013 If it stops people connecting to random wifi then it's done a good job My daughter commented that Doctor Who had left a generation terrified of wheelie bins, now it's wifi That is the power of dr who though, taking the inocuous everyday things and making them scary, wheelie bins, statues, a drum beat. It is all about using the environment and imagination. Macguyver would be proud.
robk Posted March 31, 2013 Posted March 31, 2013 must set up a couple of random ssids at work.... greek should work....
witch Posted March 31, 2013 Posted March 31, 2013 Us older ones aren't afraid of random objects - just daleks, cybermen (my particular nightmare) and The Master!
Andrew_C Posted March 31, 2013 Posted March 31, 2013 My daughter was proper scared of the kids in gas masks. She was about 18 when that was shown.
E_G_R2 Posted March 31, 2013 Posted March 31, 2013 It was the Yeti that gave me nightmares! mb And the Yeti's were contolled by the 'Great Intelligence' that was in the Christmas special and last nights episode. Green Maggots were mine!!!
elsiegee40 Posted March 31, 2013 Posted March 31, 2013 Green Maggots were mine!!! Green slime for me.. I think it was the same thing with the maggots
Arthur Posted April 1, 2013 Posted April 1, 2013 (edited) must set up a couple of random ssids at work.... greek should work.... Even better... Doctor Who-Style Wi-Fi With Sentient Captive Portal So in this week’s episode of Doctor Who, The Bells of Saint John, the enemy is sentient and living inside of the wifi - specifically, a wifi network with a name consisting of weird symbols would appear, the target would click on it, and it would infest their computer and eventually consume their soul and consciousness into the cloud. As you can see in the youtube video below, theres a pretty cool way to make this happen, using a Linux machine with a USB wifi card, hostapd, and a simple web server. The reason it opens up by itself on OSX is because OSX tries to automatically detect if there is a captive portal login screen, like those commonly used by coffee shops and such, and open up a web page to allow the user to log in, we're taking advantage of that by instead loading a web page which will upload the user’s soul. Emoji SSIDs are pretty cool too. http://i.imgur.com/X2Rc0LZ.jpg Edited April 1, 2013 by Arthur 1
dhicks Posted April 3, 2013 Posted April 3, 2013 Doctor Who-Style Wi-Fi With Sentient Captive Portal Finally, an impetus to get a Raspberry Pi working as a wireless base station. For anyone else using an Edimax "micro" adaptor with the Raspberry Pi, yes it does support being used as an access point but you'll need to use a different driver and recompile hostapd - handily, there's a chap in this post: Raspberry Pi • View topic - [Tutorial] In-Car Raspberry with Wifi Access point - DWA-121 who's already done it, so you can download his version. Now I have a Raspberry Pi that can act as a wireless interface to any hardware I might want to control - I'm thinking very short-range wireless interactive displays, walk up, connect to the local wireless, see a video / etc.
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