Does anyone else get annoyed that the little popup shows up after a download saying it's completed but you can't click on it to bring the file up? heh.
Let me know if there's some magic third party firmware that I don't know about. I'd love to try it out.
I've seen some modifications for the early wap11s but the newer ones are just junk and that's what I would expect from the rest of their products too being that these are current products off the shelves.
I have no affiliation with either company but the netgear products I've used were far better in quality and functionality than linksys.
The linksys WAP11s and WMP54g wireless PCI card were just plain terrible. Did not work as advertised. Doing WEP across two WAP11s in AP/Repeater mode causes instant lockup of the repeater. I spent an entire month on the phone with their Indian tech support until one of them finally admitted that it was a known problem that they've duplicated in their lab. Unfortunately after a month the vendors don't take products back and linksys refuses to refund my money so I'm stuck with the crap. On that note... if you DO want to use linksys stuff, let me know... hehe.
The netgears do it just fine. After I put the netgear APs in place everything worked well but randomly the linksys would just drop signal and nothing short of disable/enable on the card (from windows) or a reboot would bring it back up.
I finally replaced it with a netgear card and the problem is solved.
I used SuSE from 7.0 through 8.0 and had terrible problems with it annihilating my custom sendmail configuration.
Since what version have they started leaving sendmail config alone?
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For a desktop OS I'm sure it's grand. But don't put it anywhere near my servers. *I* want to control my configuration files. I don't want yast overwriting them every time I try to get package updates. BTW, unless suse has additional mirrors, the time to do updates was incredibly slow with yast last time I checked.
Thanks to a hard drive failure the last Suse machine I had was put to rest as debian replaced it.
For the record... I did some tests on linksys, dlink and netgear wireless access points and linksys was the worst. Netgear was actually the only one to function in all modes as advertised with perfect stability.
I'm not affiliated with any of the above companies. I just thought I'd mention that linksys is junk and owned by cisco. So maybe it's a family trait.
I've often read about some of the projects out there to roll your own phone systems. I've never spent the time to implement any of them because they all seem so complex.
What I want is a linux box that answers my phone and based on caller ID it has rules that tell it what to do with that call. Send it to voicemail, ring the phones, hang up, etc.
Can this be done yet? Southwestern bell has a $5/month service that will answer unavailable/private calls and ask the person to say their name and then ring you if they do. I would love to do this on my side of the network.
I was a victim. I finally got so pissed off at them coming in at 2-4am to my home phone that doesn't even have a fax machine hooked up that I changed my number... Unfortunately the new number belonged to some guy that is in huge debt with his creditors and they call constently. Also I forgot that I would no longer be on Missouri's no call list so telemarketers were calling quite a bit too. I think no call has kicked in because the calls seem to have dropped. The were almost all automated calls which is interesting because before the MO No Call list most telemarketing was done by live people.
If you guys want to organize a day where we call all the 800 numbers of spammers and junk faxers count me in. I've got a couple of numbers I've been collecting that I can throw into the pool.
I don't think I would let people have it if it were pirated. Or maybe I'd let them have it but permanently remove TCP/IP. Someone would just figure out how to put it back in I'm sure.
I say that they shouldn't. Someone has to pay for that bandwidth. If people want to pirate Windows there's not a ton Microsoft can do but this is one thing they can do.
I mean I'm sure the patches would be cracked just as the OS would be.
Of course, Microsoft shouldn't have released a virus prone OS to begin with but it's an inherent flaw in their design.
Actually what I would do is only release certain patches to the world. Give and take a bit just to frustrate people enough to buy a valid license or switch to a different OS.
I tried and tried to get past some of the math classes with no luck. Some of them I could pass when I finally got a professor that spoke english without a heavy accent.
I ended up dropping out of school and now I script for a living. Is scripting programming? I don't compile things very often.
I think Math is important especially depending on the type of programming you'll be doing (NASA?) but there are a lot of programs that can be written with logic alone.
Consequently, I'm not bad at math, I can figure things out. I just couldn't pass the four tests with high enough scores during the classes I took.
I don't do an install to the HD of knoppix. I simply boot knoppix for the extra hardware support so I can partition and format drives on funky scsi controllers, etc. Seems like older IBM servers are the worst offenders when it comes to getting things setup with debian.
I generally don't have difficulty installing debian using bf24, but when I do I do a bootstrap install off of a knoppix cd for the extra hardware support.
I've read about SPF and I think I even signed my domains up, but if I understand correctly it's completely useless until all the recepients of the spam are using mail servers where the system administrator implements it correctly. Am I understanding correctly?
Also, I don't quite like the idea of their implementation, it seems like some sort of encrypted key system would work better. I mean, what happens if I switch IP blocks and forget to update SPF ahead of time? All my mail gets rejected on SPF related servers right?
Block every country that's sending tons of spam. Yes, I know the US is responsible for most of it, but that's exactly my point. Keep blocking countries until the US spammers have to send from US servers and then let us all attack them with a multitude of lawsuits.
China is the worst for me because some jerk spammer is sending junk with my domain on the reply-to. His stuff is hosted in China and there's not a thing I can do.
I never understood the concept of royalties on blank media. I mean I can buy cassette tapes and tape my own voice on them. The RIAA doesn't need any royalty off that. Just like I can buy CD-Rs and burn backups of my databases and other files. The RIAA doesn't need any royalties off that either.
Slightly OT: I have a friend who's an upcoming musician and he paid a company to get his stuff on iTunes. He's had 4-5 paid downloads already but hasn't seen a dime.
When you install the Google toolbar in IE. It asks you if you want to turn on the PageRank feature which sends information back to google.
I suppose the difference is that google is probably not keeping track of an individual users browsing habits vs just browsing habits, whereas amazon will keep track of your individual habits so they can try to display proper ads to you.
This is absolutely no different than if you're browsing amazon.com's site logged in except that you're searching the web instead of just amazon.
But if you really want to make sure you don't get snail mail use your address line 2 with a phrase that will make the mail get destroyed such as: "THIS MAIL MAY CONTAIN A BIOLOGICAL VIRUS"
Not sure what the legal ramifications/consequences of doing so might be, so do it at your own risk.
The big difference is that when you're racing a car it's usually an adrenaline rush. I have yet to have a huge adrenaline rush from squeezing an extra 100 MHz out of my 1.8 GHz athlon xp.
I absolutely LOVE to race cars. However, it's irresponsible and dangerous on the street. I can't afford the tickets/jail time and the track is too far away. Soooo... I rarely race. Every once in a while if I'm out on an open road I'll do a 0-100 just to keep the memory fresh or take the corners at speeds well above the posted speed limits. But I'm married with responsibilities and not an endless pile of cash so modding PCs is safer and much much much cheaper.
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Does anyone else get annoyed that the little popup shows up after a download saying it's completed but you can't click on it to bring the file up? heh.
Let me know if there's some magic third party firmware that I don't know about. I'd love to try it out.
I've seen some modifications for the early wap11s but the newer ones are just junk and that's what I would expect from the rest of their products too being that these are current products off the shelves.
Is there any law that says we can't organize and attack/protest spammers?
I'm getting spam from the BTP group (407-398-6630)
You've got to read their page to believe it:
http://www.certainassured.com/
What's to keep us from all calling the number above and protesting?
Consequently... In sendmail is there a way to block a range of IPs with the access.db?
Can I block 208.192.0.0-208.255.255.255?
whois 208.254.73.12
UUNET Technologies, Inc. UUNET1996B (NET-208-192-0-0-1)
208.192.0.0 - 208.255.255.255
The BTP Group, Inc. UU-208-254-73 (NET-208-254-73-0-1)
208.254.73.0 - 208.254.73.127
I have no affiliation with either company but the netgear products I've used were far better in quality and functionality than linksys.
The linksys WAP11s and WMP54g wireless PCI card were just plain terrible. Did not work as advertised. Doing WEP across two WAP11s in AP/Repeater mode causes instant lockup of the repeater. I spent an entire month on the phone with their Indian tech support until one of them finally admitted that it was a known problem that they've duplicated in their lab. Unfortunately after a month the vendors don't take products back and linksys refuses to refund my money so I'm stuck with the crap. On that note... if you DO want to use linksys stuff, let me know... hehe.
The netgears do it just fine. After I put the netgear APs in place everything worked well but randomly the linksys would just drop signal and nothing short of disable/enable on the card (from windows) or a reboot would bring it back up.
I finally replaced it with a netgear card and the problem is solved.
I used SuSE from 7.0 through 8.0 and had terrible problems with it annihilating my custom sendmail configuration.
Since what version have they started leaving sendmail config alone?
For a desktop OS I'm sure it's grand. But don't put it anywhere near my servers. *I* want to control my configuration files. I don't want yast overwriting them every time I try to get package updates. BTW, unless suse has additional mirrors, the time to do updates was incredibly slow with yast last time I checked.
Thanks to a hard drive failure the last Suse machine I had was put to rest as debian replaced it.
I'm guessing the CPU power of this thing is enough to drive old non-3d dos games and that's about it.
What better way to get the "security problem" media focus off yourself than by exploiting a competitor.
For the record... I did some tests on linksys, dlink and netgear wireless access points and linksys was the worst. Netgear was actually the only one to function in all modes as advertised with perfect stability.
I'm not affiliated with any of the above companies. I just thought I'd mention that linksys is junk and owned by cisco. So maybe it's a family trait.
I've often read about some of the projects out there to roll your own phone systems. I've never spent the time to implement any of them because they all seem so complex.
What I want is a linux box that answers my phone and based on caller ID it has rules that tell it what to do with that call. Send it to voicemail, ring the phones, hang up, etc.
Can this be done yet? Southwestern bell has a $5/month service that will answer unavailable/private calls and ask the person to say their name and then ring you if they do. I would love to do this on my side of the network.
Is it possible?
I was a victim. I finally got so pissed off at them coming in at 2-4am to my home phone that doesn't even have a fax machine hooked up that I changed my number... Unfortunately the new number belonged to some guy that is in huge debt with his creditors and they call constently. Also I forgot that I would no longer be on Missouri's no call list so telemarketers were calling quite a bit too. I think no call has kicked in because the calls seem to have dropped. The were almost all automated calls which is interesting because before the MO No Call list most telemarketing was done by live people.
If you guys want to organize a day where we call all the 800 numbers of spammers and junk faxers count me in. I've got a couple of numbers I've been collecting that I can throw into the pool.
I don't think I would let people have it if it were pirated. Or maybe I'd let them have it but permanently remove TCP/IP. Someone would just figure out how to put it back in I'm sure.
I say that they shouldn't. Someone has to pay for that bandwidth. If people want to pirate Windows there's not a ton Microsoft can do but this is one thing they can do.
I mean I'm sure the patches would be cracked just as the OS would be.
Of course, Microsoft shouldn't have released a virus prone OS to begin with but it's an inherent flaw in their design.
Actually what I would do is only release certain patches to the world. Give and take a bit just to frustrate people enough to buy a valid license or switch to a different OS.
I tried and tried to get past some of the math classes with no luck. Some of them I could pass when I finally got a professor that spoke english without a heavy accent.
I ended up dropping out of school and now I script for a living. Is scripting programming? I don't compile things very often.
I think Math is important especially depending on the type of programming you'll be doing (NASA?) but there are a lot of programs that can be written with logic alone.
Consequently, I'm not bad at math, I can figure things out. I just couldn't pass the four tests with high enough scores during the classes I took.
I don't do an install to the HD of knoppix. I simply boot knoppix for the extra hardware support so I can partition and format drives on funky scsi controllers, etc. Seems like older IBM servers are the worst offenders when it comes to getting things setup with debian.
I generally don't have difficulty installing debian using bf24, but when I do I do a bootstrap install off of a knoppix cd for the extra hardware support.
I've read about SPF and I think I even signed my domains up, but if I understand correctly it's completely useless until all the recepients of the spam are using mail servers where the system administrator implements it correctly. Am I understanding correctly?
Also, I don't quite like the idea of their implementation, it seems like some sort of encrypted key system would work better. I mean, what happens if I switch IP blocks and forget to update SPF ahead of time? All my mail gets rejected on SPF related servers right?
Block every country that's sending tons of spam. Yes, I know the US is responsible for most of it, but that's exactly my point. Keep blocking countries until the US spammers have to send from US servers and then let us all attack them with a multitude of lawsuits.
China is the worst for me because some jerk spammer is sending junk with my domain on the reply-to. His stuff is hosted in China and there's not a thing I can do.
I never understood the concept of royalties on blank media. I mean I can buy cassette tapes and tape my own voice on them. The RIAA doesn't need any royalty off that. Just like I can buy CD-Rs and burn backups of my databases and other files. The RIAA doesn't need any royalties off that either.
Slightly OT: I have a friend who's an upcoming musician and he paid a company to get his stuff on iTunes. He's had 4-5 paid downloads already but hasn't seen a dime.
Are you trolling or do you actually have some rationale behind your comment?
When you install the Google toolbar in IE. It asks you if you want to turn on the PageRank feature which sends information back to google.
I suppose the difference is that google is probably not keeping track of an individual users browsing habits vs just browsing habits, whereas amazon will keep track of your individual habits so they can try to display proper ads to you.
This is absolutely no different than if you're browsing amazon.com's site logged in except that you're searching the web instead of just amazon.
Right?
What do your licenses say about them?
For now, the only real solution to spam is setups simlar to http://spamgourmet.com/
It's very simple and it's effective.
But if you really want to make sure you don't get snail mail use your address line 2 with a phrase that will make the mail get destroyed such as: "THIS MAIL MAY CONTAIN A BIOLOGICAL VIRUS"
Not sure what the legal ramifications/consequences of doing so might be, so do it at your own risk.
The big difference is that when you're racing a car it's usually an adrenaline rush. I have yet to have a huge adrenaline rush from squeezing an extra 100 MHz out of my 1.8 GHz athlon xp.
I absolutely LOVE to race cars. However, it's irresponsible and dangerous on the street. I can't afford the tickets/jail time and the track is too far away. Soooo... I rarely race. Every once in a while if I'm out on an open road I'll do a 0-100 just to keep the memory fresh or take the corners at speeds well above the posted speed limits. But I'm married with responsibilities and not an endless pile of cash so modding PCs is safer and much much much cheaper.