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April 13

How do I find my WEP key without any acces to the router?

I'm searching for my WEP key so I can connect my Nintendo DS lite to WiFi. I'm on a college campus and I'm connected to the University internet, on which I've registered my DS. It seems that, in order to connect, I need to give the WEP address to the DS and I know how to do that: but the WEP address is out of my grasp as I have absolutely no access to the router. When I put in my IP address to the browser, I get a "Unable to Connect" or "Page is taking too long to respond" error, so I can't even find the type of router. I've gone on to the University tech site to find it, but they don't mention any brands. How do I get access to my WEP key without any knowledge of or access to the router? --Ye Olde Luke (talk) 05:56, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

WEP is Wired Equivalent Privacy, it is the an older method of securing the a Wi-Fi access point. The DS does not support Wireless Protected Access (WPA2) which is a more secure method. There is no way of recovering the WEP key without monitoring all the network traffic or brute-forcing it. CS Miller (talk) 07:05, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

WirelessKeyView will show stored WEP/WPA keys on an XP or Vista (or Win7, probably) system. I haven't tried it, but I have used other NirSoft programs. But note that the campus network may not support WEP, and they may not want you connecting additional devices to the network without notifying them. It would be better to tell them that you want to connect the DS; they will give you the appropriate key, if there is one. -- BenRG (talk) 07:23, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

Your campus IT department should be able to tell you for sure, but if you were never informed of a passkey, you may not need one. Try to connect with security set to "none". If that fails, ask your IT department for the key. Note, however, that the classic DS and DS Lite won't work with networks that require the use of WPA or a proxy (the DSi and DS XL do support WPA and proxies, but only for the built-in web browser and some newer games). A lot of campus networks require a proxy to connect, so you may be out of luck unless you upgrade to a newer DS. Horselover Frost (talk · edits) 05:56, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

Dalvik open source? Then where is the source?

The Article and sources on the net say that the Dalvik JVM is open source on the Apache 2.0 license. An editor asked where the source is, and neither he or I have been able to find it. Is Dalvik open source? If so where do you get the source to the JVM from? -- Q Chris (talk) 08:14, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

I provided a possible answer over there at that Talk page thread. 67.162.90.113 (talk) 10:47, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

When I brows the location I can't see this directory. Could you give the path please -- Q Chris (talk) 11:06, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

It's a Distributed revision control system, Git. It tells you exactly how to get it (step 1. install git, step2. access the repository). If you really must browse the directory without viewing the repository, click "tree" in the row that contains "summary", "shortlog", and some other stuff. Clicking "raw" next to a file will get you the file. Invrnc (talk) 12:46, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

For completeness, here is the same link from the talk page, where the instructions above apply. [1]. Invrnc (talk) 12:47, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

Resolved

Thanks I have updated the article talk page. -- Q Chris (talk) 14:20, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

iPhone

If I take a video with my iPhone4 it syncs OK with iPhoto on my MacBookPro. However, when syncing the Macbook back to the iPhone, my videos are not available. Is this a limit to the system, a failure in my syncing, a fault of mine,or am I just expecting TOO much!--85.211.228.8 (talk) 13:54, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

Have you shown this problem to an AppleCare station at an Apple retail store? Part of the service provided by Apple is that they will help diagnose and repair common errors, and if it turns that your software or device is actually malfunctioning, they'll send your iPhone back to the fine folks in Cupertino, where a team of expert video software engineers will stare down the problem until it goes away. Nimur (talk) 14:39, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for this, but do you know if it IS a problem, or is it not reasonable of me to expect the iPhone to accept videos from the computer?--85.211.228.8 (talk) 16:11, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

You can definitely sync video from iTunes to an iPod or iPhone: be sure you have enabled video sync by following the official How-To, and if there's any problems, follow these steps for verifying iTunes video conversion and video syncing. Some videos require a format or resolution conversion, which iTunes can do; but this process may take a while depending on your video. Nimur (talk) 16:51, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

Many thanks Nimur, problem sorted via your link to the Apple support page. Much obliged.--85.211.209.234 (talk) 06:34, 14 April 2011 (UTC)