I noticed that in one of the menus on that page, there was a "Firewall/NAT" section...presumably if you had access to this you could set your modem up as a router/modem combo so you wouldn't need to buy a router, just a cheap switch/hub instead.
I was speaking with a friend of mine who works for Bell...Apparently they are currently working on a project called "Project Galileo." They plan to replace all analog POTS lines with VOIP boxes connected to VDSL modems hard wired to your NID on the side of your house over the course of the next few years. The idea is that provisioning a line would be very easy...no work needs to be done in the central office, just activating your account in their system, and adding an additional line would be just as easy.
If you go to wikipediasucks.com, he has links to "news articles" to back up his argument, but the funny part is that they link to a site called "247news.net" which is obviously a phony site created by himself...if you go to the main page all of the "headlines" on this "news site" talk about how Wikipedia sucks, and promote his church.
Its not that they can't afford to offer the prizes, as it wouldn't require extra funding (in fact they'd even be reducing their expenditures doing this), its that they don't have direct control of where they're allowed to spend money.
I work for an ISP that provides MSN wholesale to customers and we have to use a.net passport to sign into the customer information tool, its a pain in the ass.
Just so you know...the service phoxix is referring to is different from the one referred to in this article...the New York wi-fi service is run by Verizon Online, and offers free wi-fi access to current Verizon Online DSL customers, whereas the one in the article is being run by Verizon Wireless, a different subsidiary under Verizon Communications
Install VNC or remote desktop, saves tons of money on gas for trips to their house to fix it everytime they bollocks it up with spyware or other garbage like that. Also, install AdAware and set it up to automatically scan.
Another trick that I find useful in XP is to set them up as a limited user, and encourage them to use it for day-to-day stuff (like in *nix), give them the password for the administrator account, but make sure you stress that it should only be used to install software.
In the open letter from the anti-spyware community, they say a representative from Dell informed them the response would be: "Call your ISP."
I work for tech support for a major US DSL provider, and we're not allowed to remove spyware...we are supposed to refer the customer to their manufacturer. We are not even allowed to recommend AdAware or Spybot S&D to a customer...do these companies even talk to each other about anything? Nobody seems to want to take responsibility for helping users rid themselves of this garbage.
Interestingly enough, the logo of Nitel (Nigeria's Government-owned telecommunications company) is a blue circle with a silhouette of a man playing a drum.
While I was in Nigeria, I was speaking with the manager of marketing for Nitel (who happened to be a friend of our managing director), and he said that their Internet backbone for the entire country was about 3mbps. With the exception of the Lagos-Abuja trunk line, most of the country's trunk lines are terrestrial microwave links.
Outside of Lagos, leased line connections are virtually impossible to obtain, and most businesses use Nitel's horribly bogged down dial-up service. While at a customer's location in Abuja, it took me nearly 3 hours to download a 5 megabyte file.
Lagos is currently experiencing a telecommunications boom. There are a large number of foreign companies setting up wireless services ranging from GSM phones to wireless Internet access. Victoria Island is a veritable forest of antenna masts and cellular sites. Abuja is also beginning to experience the same boom, although somewhat lagged behind.
From my experience, Nigeria is not the "scam capital" that people make it out to be. People there are fairly honest, it is just experiencing the difficulties of being a democracy in its infancy.
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The main effect on users is that mail sent to panix's customers is being routed to a bogus mail server run by the hijackers."
IANAL, But doesn't this violate federal wiretap laws somehow? Intercepting communications intended for another party? Shouldn't the FBI be involved?
I noticed that in one of the menus on that page, there was a "Firewall/NAT" section...presumably if you had access to this you could set your modem up as a router/modem combo so you wouldn't need to buy a router, just a cheap switch/hub instead.
I was speaking with a friend of mine who works for Bell...Apparently they are currently working on a project called "Project Galileo." They plan to replace all analog POTS lines with VOIP boxes connected to VDSL modems hard wired to your NID on the side of your house over the course of the next few years. The idea is that provisioning a line would be very easy...no work needs to be done in the central office, just activating your account in their system, and adding an additional line would be just as easy.
If you go to wikipediasucks.com, he has links to "news articles" to back up his argument, but the funny part is that they link to a site called "247news.net" which is obviously a phony site created by himself...if you go to the main page all of the "headlines" on this "news site" talk about how Wikipedia sucks, and promote his church.
Its not that they can't afford to offer the prizes, as it wouldn't require extra funding (in fact they'd even be reducing their expenditures doing this), its that they don't have direct control of where they're allowed to spend money.
funny...i had one too, and it also mysteriously stopped working after about 6 months as well...what a piece of junk
I work for an ISP that provides MSN wholesale to customers and we have to use a .net passport to sign into the customer information tool, its a pain in the ass.
Just so you know...the service phoxix is referring to is different from the one referred to in this article...the New York wi-fi service is run by Verizon Online, and offers free wi-fi access to current Verizon Online DSL customers, whereas the one in the article is being run by Verizon Wireless, a different subsidiary under Verizon Communications
Another trick that I find useful in XP is to set them up as a limited user, and encourage them to use it for day-to-day stuff (like in *nix), give them the password for the administrator account, but make sure you stress that it should only be used to install software.
In the open letter from the anti-spyware community, they say a representative from Dell informed them the response would be: "Call your ISP."
I work for tech support for a major US DSL provider, and we're not allowed to remove spyware...we are supposed to refer the customer to their manufacturer. We are not even allowed to recommend AdAware or Spybot S&D to a customer...do these companies even talk to each other about anything? Nobody seems to want to take responsibility for helping users rid themselves of this garbage.
I can much more easily picture Morpheus dancing around the Zion cave shouting "DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS!" ad naseum, than Neo.
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Interestingly enough, the logo of Nitel (Nigeria's Government-owned telecommunications company) is a blue circle with a silhouette of a man playing a drum.
While I was in Nigeria, I was speaking with the manager of marketing for Nitel (who happened to be a friend of our managing director), and he said that their Internet backbone for the entire country was about 3mbps. With the exception of the Lagos-Abuja trunk line, most of the country's trunk lines are terrestrial microwave links.
Outside of Lagos, leased line connections are virtually impossible to obtain, and most businesses use Nitel's horribly bogged down dial-up service. While at a customer's location in Abuja, it took me nearly 3 hours to download a 5 megabyte file.
Lagos is currently experiencing a telecommunications boom. There are a large number of foreign companies setting up wireless services ranging from GSM phones to wireless Internet access. Victoria Island is a veritable forest of antenna masts and cellular sites. Abuja is also beginning to experience the same boom, although somewhat lagged behind.
From my experience, Nigeria is not the "scam capital" that people make it out to be. People there are fairly honest, it is just experiencing the difficulties of being a democracy in its infancy.