I know the basic features work fine behind a firewall. It's what I'm using right now and UPnP is off. I don't have a webcam so I can't tell you what happens when you try that.
What I know that doesn't work properly however is file transfers. If I turn UPnP back on in XP and the router then it works perfectly. Turn it off and it dies and will refuse to connect properly to send/receive files.
msmsgs is definately MSN Messenger. Windows Messenger is a RPC service I believe.
It shouldn't register such wide ranges though. Something is either buggy or it's very sloppy programming.
But yeah, it's not a particularly great thing for security. I've got UPNP disabled on my router and most of the MSN stuff in Trillian works fine. It has issues with me sending files but apart from that it does what I want. In theory somebody out there could write a Back Orifice style program but register the port with UPNP. This will allow external attackers to tunnel through the firewall as if it wasn't there.
Actually, those extra entries are caused by UPNP. It's supposed to automatically add forwarding rules for services running on your local machines. The MSN Messenger protocol requires you to listen to certain ports and if you're behind a NAT firewall then it doesn't work properly so it uses UPNP. From what I gather, anything which knows about UPNP can request ports to be opened.
It's not a specific thing from D-Link. A lot of new routers now support it.
Actually, the CIH virus awhile back did kill motherboards. It wasn't "frying" it but it would corrupt the flash BIOS and therefore make the motherboard not bootup at all.
The actual hardware and core software wasn't designed by Linksys. Linksys however make the web frontend and do make some changes to the core platform.
I've got a Buffalo access point and it's got nearly identical firmware and hardware. Even the firmware file format is the same. The only differences are that the front end was written by Melco (parent company of Buffalo) and the Linksys one was by Linksys.
Featurewise it's roughly similar as well. I'd guess that most of these "cheap" all-in-one Broadcom & Linux based access points were pretty much the same.
I wouldn't solely point the finger at Linksys, other people have the same GPLed code in their products as well.
Yeah. You got a cable, a dongle memory card, boot disc for the PSX, software disc for your PC and a wad of manuals.
The bare minimum you need to buy off somebody would be the dongle and boot disc. The cable you can make with the help of an old PSX link cable and some soldering. For the compiler you could use GCC targeted for R3000 MIPS. I think there were some homebrew libraries about...
The thing is that who would sell the dongle and boot disk? Without those your Net Yaroze is just a very expensive black multi-region PSX...
You'd need to design a switch for it yourself however as it's a point to point system. It currently tops out at 1600Mb/s which is greater than what 33 MHz PCI can do anyway.
I'm pretty sure the 1394b (Firewire) standard was designed to go up to 1600Mb/s as well.
You can pop off the plastic part that covers the hinges easily. Just use a thin metal screwdriver or pry stick. If you search on the Dell website you can find the service manual for the 8x00 Inspirons and it will tell you exactly how to open it up.
The metal piece that covers the hole where the C Dock hook goes into is screwed into the plastic part.
Interesting... I think you're the first person I've seen to actually try it!
Although you do have to admit that to run a LCD panel with scaling for other resolutions and with proper synchronising would require a much more complex circuit. Most of the cards out there to drive a LCD display seem to be a laptop LCD display chip stuck onto a PCI/ISA card with a hefty markup.
As the inverters introduce a slight propagation delay the HSync and VSync pulses won't be exactly in sync with the RGB data. Wouldn't delaying those lines slightly improve the picture quality?
Not sure about other brands but some of the Dell Inspiron range have removable video cards. The LCD panel plugs directly into a small daughterboard which holds the video chipset.
It plugs into the main motherboard using a very compact connector which I haven't seen anywhere else though. It must be some sort of AGP based connection with possibly a few extra pins. I wouldn't want to reverse engineer one of these things though.
The battery pack has a voltage doubler inside it because it only has 4 AA batteries inside. This only gives 6V which is why you need the voltage doubler. The unloaded output is roughly 15V.
Just do what another poster did and get enough batteries to make a 12V DC supply. Remember that you can't switch it on or off once you do this since the switiching mechanism is built into the wall wart.
I've got a ATI M4 chip in my Dell that can support two different outputs at the same time. Occasionally I've used it with an external monitor to get a 3200x1200 sized screen with Windows 2000. I'm pretty sure the nVidia chips can also do dualhead.
Not tried dualhead under Linux though so I can't comment on if it's supported.
You can get a DVD-RAM drive for about £170 now but DVD-RAM discs aren't supported in much else apart from another DVD-RAM drive...
If you want to make discs for a DVD player or a normal DVD-ROM drive then your best bet would be to wait for the DVD-RW drives to drop in price. They're about £300-£400 still however.
I find that using a high resolution LCD display reduces eye strain for me personally. Since they don't refresh the same way as a CRT there isn't any flicker at all.
On the topic of colour I've always used green on black. It seems to make smaller text easier to read.
Isn't it a bit over the top to have an infrared port just to do factory programming? I would have thought it would be cheaper to just have some pins inside to do that sort of thing.
Could just be Motorola not wanting to have to support it?
All of the default bookmarks go to a redirect page at netscape.com
A possible explaination is that if the link ever changes then all they need to do is change a single file on their server and not need to update the millions of web browsers out there.
Intervideo isn't the only company that have announced commercial DVD software for Linux.
CyberLink have also announced a Linux version of their DVD player.
There is no details about when it will be released or even if it has been completed. Only a few lines where they ask for developers to contact them for more information.
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I know the basic features work fine behind a firewall. It's what I'm using right now and UPnP is off. I don't have a webcam so I can't tell you what happens when you try that.
What I know that doesn't work properly however is file transfers. If I turn UPnP back on in XP and the router then it works perfectly. Turn it off and it dies and will refuse to connect properly to send/receive files.
msmsgs is definately MSN Messenger. Windows Messenger is a RPC service I believe.
It shouldn't register such wide ranges though. Something is either buggy or it's very sloppy programming.
But yeah, it's not a particularly great thing for security. I've got UPNP disabled on my router and most of the MSN stuff in Trillian works fine. It has issues with me sending files but apart from that it does what I want. In theory somebody out there could write a Back Orifice style program but register the port with UPNP. This will allow external attackers to tunnel through the firewall as if it wasn't there.
Actually, those extra entries are caused by UPNP. It's supposed to automatically add forwarding rules for services running on your local machines.
The MSN Messenger protocol requires you to listen to certain ports and if you're behind a NAT firewall then it doesn't work properly so it uses UPNP. From what I gather, anything which knows about UPNP can request ports to be opened.
It's not a specific thing from D-Link. A lot of new routers now support it.
Actually, the CIH virus awhile back did kill motherboards. It wasn't "frying" it but it would corrupt the flash BIOS and therefore make the motherboard not bootup at all.
Yeah. I agree.
Just trying to point out that it's not just Linksys that should be blamed. There are plenty of other places doing it as well.
Does anybody else have an AP that uses the same platform?
The actual hardware and core software wasn't designed by Linksys. Linksys however make the web frontend and do make some changes to the core platform.
I've got a Buffalo access point and it's got nearly identical firmware and hardware. Even the firmware file format is the same. The only differences are that the front end was written by Melco (parent company of Buffalo) and the Linksys one was by Linksys.
Featurewise it's roughly similar as well. I'd guess that most of these "cheap" all-in-one Broadcom & Linux based access points were pretty much the same.
I wouldn't solely point the finger at Linksys, other people have the same GPLed code in their products as well.
Yeah. You got a cable, a dongle memory card, boot disc for the PSX, software disc for your PC and a wad of manuals.
The bare minimum you need to buy off somebody would be the dongle and boot disc. The cable you can make with the help of an old PSX link cable and some soldering. For the compiler you could use GCC targeted for R3000 MIPS. I think there were some homebrew libraries about...
The thing is that who would sell the dongle and boot disk? Without those your Net Yaroze is just a very expensive black multi-region PSX...
HIPPI is a high speed parallel interconnect.
You'd need to design a switch for it yourself however as it's a point to point system.
It currently tops out at 1600Mb/s which is greater than what 33 MHz PCI can do anyway.
I'm pretty sure the 1394b (Firewire) standard was designed to go up to 1600Mb/s as well.
You can pop off the plastic part that covers the hinges easily. Just use a thin metal screwdriver or pry stick. If you search on the Dell website you can find the service manual for the 8x00 Inspirons and it will tell you exactly how to open it up.
The metal piece that covers the hole where the C Dock hook goes into is screwed into the plastic part.
Interesting... I think you're the first person I've seen to actually try it!
Although you do have to admit that to run a LCD panel with scaling for other resolutions and with proper synchronising would require a much more complex circuit. Most of the cards out there to drive a LCD display seem to be a laptop LCD display chip stuck onto a PCI/ISA card with a hefty markup.
As the inverters introduce a slight propagation delay the HSync and VSync pulses won't be exactly in sync with the RGB data. Wouldn't delaying those lines slightly improve the picture quality?
Not sure about other brands but some of the Dell Inspiron range have removable video cards. The LCD panel plugs directly into a small daughterboard which holds the video chipset.
It plugs into the main motherboard using a very compact connector which I haven't seen anywhere else though. It must be some sort of AGP based connection with possibly a few extra pins. I wouldn't want to reverse engineer one of these things though.
- Trevor
The battery pack has a voltage doubler inside it because it only has 4 AA batteries inside. This only gives 6V which is why you need the voltage doubler. The unloaded output is roughly 15V.
Just do what another poster did and get enough batteries to make a 12V DC supply. Remember that you can't switch it on or off once you do this since the switiching mechanism is built into the wall wart.
I've got a ATI M4 chip in my Dell that can support two different outputs at the same time. Occasionally I've used it with an external monitor to get a 3200x1200 sized screen with Windows 2000. I'm pretty sure the nVidia chips can also do dualhead.
Not tried dualhead under Linux though so I can't comment on if it's supported.
You can get a DVD-RAM drive for about £170 now but DVD-RAM discs aren't supported in much else apart from another DVD-RAM drive...
If you want to make discs for a DVD player or a normal DVD-ROM drive then your best bet would be to wait for the DVD-RW drives to drop in price. They're about £300-£400 still however.
I find that using a high resolution LCD display reduces eye strain for me personally. Since they don't refresh the same way as a CRT there isn't any flicker at all.
On the topic of colour I've always used green on black. It seems to make smaller text easier to read.
Isn't it a bit over the top to have an infrared port just to do factory programming? I would have thought it would be cheaper to just have some pins inside to do that sort of thing.
Could just be Motorola not wanting to have to support it?
*shrug*
Netscape also does this with their bookmarks.
All of the default bookmarks go to a redirect page at netscape.com
A possible explaination is that if the link ever changes then all they need to do is change a single file on their server and not need to update the millions of web browsers out there.
- Tiersten
CyberLink have also announced a Linux version of their DVD player.
There is no details about when it will be released or even if it has been completed. Only a few lines where they ask for developers to contact them for more information.
- Tiersten