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                               Fun Geeky Stuff

After the game, we headed into John's office to play around with his home
control system. Throughout his house are several small keypads with an LCD
screen he uses to control the music and lights of the house. The primary
controller is a program that runs under Windows and John's idea is to reverse
engineer the protocol used to communicate between the two (which runs under
IPX).

We downloaded Ethereal [1] to capture and display the network packets but
since everyone was pretty tired we didn't far in the engineering aspects.

[1] http://ethereal.zing.org/

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