[Gllug] Wi-fi keys

[Dylan]

On Tuesday 14 April 2009, Robert McKay wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Dylan <dylan at dylan.me.uk> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 14 April 2009, Robert McKay wrote:
> >> perl -e ' my $str = pack("H*", "4d794865785061353577307264"); print
> >> "$str\n"; ' MyHexPa55w0rd
> >
> > That can't be right since the hex key has many twoples greater than 0x7F
> > and hence generated mostly unprintable characters:
> >
> > h׵M▒�▒���Dž
>
> Not all keys have a printable ascii version. I guess yours doesn't. :/

Fair enough.

>
> There's probably some way to make vista accept the hex key. If not I
> guess you'll have to change it everywhere to something else.

Not an option - and I'm not prepared to even consider it just to pander to 
Vista. If it won't play nicely it'll have to bound to a wire. But it still 
strikes me as stupid when considering free wi-fi in bars etc.

Dx

>
> Rob.



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