Gear 2020

I know its been a while since I made my last gear post that I use daily, and for traveling. Made some major upgrades. I'm really fussy about my laptops so I upgraded to the Dell Latitude E7450 simple ultrabook, I uses the power supplies from my other laptops so no need to upgrade power supplies. I started to use Linux much more that I use Linux on all my computers even on my Xeon workstation desktop at home, where I will make a post about that machine. 

Dell Latitude E7450

Intel i5 5300u

16gb DRR3

256 GB SSD

Linux Mint 19.3

1080p screen

My tablet I had too many tablets since my Tab3, now I have a Tab A8 which is not too bad my Tab3 had better battery life.

I switched power banks still have the old Ravpower but anker is now top of my list of portable power.

Anker Power Core 2 20000

Power Port 2 Quick Charge

Anker Powerline+ USB C and Microusb

Olight MCC 2 charger for my Olight Flashlight SR2 Baton

Tomtoc Tech Case

Olight S2R 2 Baton  One of the best flashlights I have ever owned. Rechargeable with a magnetic charger that you can charge on a power bank or wall charger. It uses a 18650 battery. 

This pouch was bought at Walmart years ago and has been a great case for storing all my every day needs. 

Zebra F-701

Pilot Metropolitan - Uses the G2 refills

Flash Drives

Micro SD cards in the Altoids tin

Leatherman Style PS

Micro USB Cord

USB A to USB C OTG 

USB A to Micro USB OTG

SD/Micro SD card Reader

Drink packets

Ruler 

Skull candy ink'd ear buds

4 days of meds 

Gear Tie

My bags well I have 3 bags I use. All bags have a power supplies so I don't have to grab my laptop and gear.

Swissgear Synergy - For the heavy loads to a quick weekend road trip. Sadly my coffee mug and water bottle will not go in the bottle holder.. 

The North Face Recon - For every day carry looks small but it fits alot of stuff and can fit both coffee cup and water bottle on the sides. 

Timbuk2  Command messager bag - For interviews or light carry only the basics.

 

TaoTronics Soundsurge 60 - Bluetooth or Wired Headset

LG Tone Pro HBS-781 Bluetooth Headset

Hydroflask waterbottle 32oz

Hydroflash Coffee Flask Flex Sip Lid 20oz

Zojirushi Coffee Mug 

My phone Samsung Galaxy Note 9

Leatherman Wave - for those small repairs

CRKT - Drifter Sadly Discontinued I always carry a knife.

Samsung T5 500 GB SSD/Case/ USB C Cable

My Mouse Logitech M510 that hasn't changed good mouse and fits the hand really nice.

DREVO Excalibur 84-Keyboard Cherry MX Switch this goes in my suit case for those trips when I am going be coding with my laptop or I want to use my own keyboard to work on a computer.

My Gear

My Laptops Well I have 3 of them.. I have a Dell Latitude E6430, Dell Latitude E6510, and Asus R500v. I have a power supply for my Dell laptops in my bag at all times, the Dells use the same power supply which is very convenient. Asus is not pictured..
Left - Dell E5410 Intel i5 2.6Ghz 8 GB RAM 160 GB HD Intel 4000 Ubuntu 14.04 Mate Desktop
Right – Dell E6430 Intel i5 2.67 8 GB RAM 320 GB HD Intel 4000 Nvidia 5200 Quadro GPU and Windows 7 Profressional
Asus R500V Intel i5 2.6Ghz, 8GB Ram, 320GB Hard drive, Intel 4000 HD graphics card and Nvidia 610M, 500 Gb hard drive, and Linux Mint 17.

I have a Logitech M510 wireless mouse and mouse pad.

I am currently using a Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 for a tablet. Its in a Fintie case that folds into a stand that you an use to Skype or watch videos on your tablet.

One device I don't know what I wouldn't do without is a RavPower USB battery RP-PB13.It has 2 ports 1 amp and there is a 2 amp port, has a built in flashlight for those nights that you lose power or you just need a flashlight. They make smaller ones but this was biggest Battery at the time that I bought it. For more information and other products check out Ravpower.com.
 
To plug in all my devices into power I use a Monster TO-GO and it has a USB charger on it, it can be used to charge your cell phone or other USB devices, the downside about it only puts out just half a amp. Just enough to charge your cell phone over night.

To charge all my USB devices I use a Skiva USB charger, it has 4 usb ports on it each port puts out 1 amp.

For my cell phone I have a Samsung Galaxy S3, yes its a older phone but it works good for me
 
For my camera I have Canon Powershot ELPH135 a simple to use 16 MP with 8x Optical zoom.

What I use for skype and video chat I have Logitech C270 a webcam that is a 720p HD cam and has a microphone built in. Plus my Dell laptops don't have a webcam and the cam that Dell put in there laptops are junk. They are only 480p which is horrible quality.

My flash drives that I use for storage I have Corsair Flash Voyager 32GB for personal files, Gorilla Drive 16GB extra space, and for system recovery I use a 16GB Sandisk Cruzer. On that recovery I have a copy of my Operating System and Copy of my latest drives for my Dell Laptops. Also watch my video on YouTube that I reviewed the Gorilla Drive, I ready did throw the flash drive into the sink to test its durability and water resistance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOgdKCNlfKs – Review of the Gorilla drive.

As for my card reader that I use both of my laptops have one built in but it only does SD, but my phone and tablet have MicroSD cards so if I take a lot of pictures with my phone I just take the card out and download the photos to my computer. The card reader is a Insignia NS-CR2021 cheap little thing but it works great. It will read both MicroSD, SDHC and SDXC cards. I know there is better quality but but I couldn't pass up the price. It was less than 10 dollars..

For earbuds I use some Skull Candy Ink'd cheap and sound good.

Also I have a little accessory bag in my laptop bag that has my flashdrives, batteries for my mouse, USB cables to charge my devices and for downloading date from devices. My Insignia card reader. Screen wipes to clean my screen, lens on my camera, and clean my glasses. Whoosh to clean my laptop and its safe to use on glasses and the screen as well. Papaya Enzyme for mild heartburn and Excedrin for head aches. Drink packets for extra boost and flavor. Lead for my pencil and bandages. For bad breath little dispose able tooth brush.  

And I to house all that gear is Swiss Gear ScanSmart Backpack 1908. TSA approved it lays flat so that you don’t need to take out you laptop while going through the security line. It’s a great bag price around 60 Dollars on Amazon. Click on the picture for more information on Amazon.

Aircrack-ng Tutorial

Aircrack-ng Tutorial

1. For this tutorial you will need root access. If using ubuntu you can use sudo for this tutorial but if you don't want to use sudo every time you type in new command, use su it will give you full root access. If you don't have the root password sudo will work just fine. If your doing this on a laptop sometimes using a external wireless card is the best, external wireless cards get better reception and better results. But if you have internal wireless card in your laptop it will work just fine.
2. First find out if your computer has aircrack-ng installed on your computer, open the terminal on your Linux distro of your choice. First in your terminal type in aircrack-ng if it says No command 'aircrack-ng' found. You don't have it installed. In Ubuntu there is two way to install it, in terminal type in sudo apt-get install aircrack-ng or the software center. But using the software center it has issues of not liking aircrack-ng because its not maintained by canonical who designed Ubuntu. But for the other distros out the like fedora or others you'll have to look that up. This tutorial is being done on Ubuntu.
3. Now lets get started, Now look for the wireless card that is installed or connected to your computer. Using airmon-ng will show the wireless card or cards installed or connected to your computer. Open terminal in your computer Type as follows “airmon-ng.”

4. After finding the wireless card that is connected or installed on your computer let remember which one is which that if you have two or more wireless cards connected. Normally wlan0 is the internal wireless card, but if doing this on a old laptop or desktop that has no wireless cards and you have a wireless card connected then whatever is listed is the card that you have on your computer. Also keep note some desktops have a wireless cards installed on the motherboard. But if using this on a older laptop that has no wireless make sure the card is connected to the computer.
   

First put the wireless card in in monitoring mode “airmon-ng start wlan0.” Ignore the “Found processes that could cause trouble trouble” they won't be a problem.

5. Now we have the card in monitor mode, from here things get fun. Type “airodump-ng mon0”. Let it scan for a few minutes, it will find all the access points that turned on. Lets go over a few things, first BSSID listing is the routers or access points, Beacons shows how many time it calls out to tell the computer Hey i'm here, CH is the channel that its communicating on, MB is how fast it will transmit data, and finally ESSID is the name of the of the access point.
   The list down below, the BSSID is the same as above next is the station, the station is the computer that is connected to the access point by wireless it will not read the computer if its connected by Ethernet. After letting scan for a few minutes stop the scan by pressing Ctrl and C this will stop the scan, but everything that you scanned for will not go away.

5. After you had scanned your area for access points look at the second BSSID list, find how many MAC addresses are listed and then look station list.
   
6. Now open another terminal window or a new tab. When you open a new tab or window you will need to use sudo or if you don't want to use sudo all the time use su login into root. Now your going to start scanning the specific access point that you want to get into. Note the wpa is the file that captures the packets in this scan.
   airodump mon0 –channel 1 –bssid 00:00:00:00:00:00 -w wpa
7. You can't wait until a clients connects to the access point, but you don't know when that will happen. There is a way to force the client to disconnect and then reconnect. If you started airodump now is the waiting game, just wait for someone to connect to the access point, but if you don't have a lot of time there is a way to speed the process up. Find the MAC address of the access point your trying get into and then next to MAC address of the access point is the station write them down or just copy and paste then when needed. So lets force them apart just a few seconds to get that handshake in that open terminal you will still need root access. Type in aireplay-ng -0 1 -a BSSID MAC -c station MAC mon0 this will disconnect the client from the router for a few seconds the user won't know because it happens so fast.

     9.  No go back to airodump-ng scan. In the upper right hand corner it will    say  WPA Handshake
          then the MAC of the access point. Now you have got what you need.

10. Stop all scans if you doing this from your car some were is public get out of there go to a safe place. Make sure you have good copy of word files or they also call them dictionary files, the next part is the most time consuming part of this whole process. First when you get home or get to that safe place make sure to have plenty of snacks, drinks or whatever you like doing to do when you kill time. To start this very simple remember were you saved the wpa file that you saved when you did the scanning most of the time it will be in your home directory but if you saved it some were else then remember were you saved it.
    aircrack-ng -w word.lst -b MAC Address of access point wpa.cap
11. Then after the scanning done it will show you the key then your done. If the scan doesn't find the key then you can be out of luck. There are other ways of getting the key but I will cover that in later time but for now this is a simple way of getting the key of a access point. I will include a link to password files that I use.