mikex

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  1. I looked through some cd back ups recently and kept asking my self, "What the heck did I want/keep (program name) for?"

    I still kept those cd's even after seeing they were of little use to me. I could have freed up about 30 slots in the cd folder but nooooo.

    M

  2. I thought I seen a link on the boards where you could send an invite to a person, by inputing their email addy. I may be thinking of some other place or I may be imagining it.

    If we don't have it how hard would it be to set up?

    M

  3. I am ooking for a hold your hand tutorial on how to make a FF extension. I have a program running on a server, server has a static IP. This program, The Dude by Mikrotik, monitors our network. I would like an extension like Nagios checker to check The Dude. I presently have to log in through VNC to the server to check the system.

    Any pointers?

    Again I am nothing of a programmer.

    M

  4. I have not had a problem with the linksys today. I run speedtest multiple times and then left it to sit for a few hours then connected and surfed wirelessly with no problems.

    The DSL with businesses may be provisioned differently unless you have a service level agreement same as the business mentioned.

    I am running out of ideas......sorry.

    M

  5. OK so I'm watching the morning news and they report TJX the parent company of TJ Maxx and Marshals had a security issue. Hackers had access to their credit card database for like 18 months. What the hell. So they have an IT department with a security team? 18 months. The good news supposedly 75% of the cards were expired, now the other 25% are being declined because they are MAXED OUT. LOL.

    M

  6. Search for google for openwrt and dd-wrt

    I have not played with any of these so I could not answer any questions about them.

    I will guess you have more than one computer on your network because you have a router and a switch.

    Does the connection drop for all machines on the network?

    Check the nic, is it set to shut down to save power? If so uncheck this.

    The switch is only relaying the data, I would not think it will affect keep alive status.

    M

  7. First go straight from your DSL modem to your computer and surf with the same habits you would as if going through the linksys. This will tell if the DSL is dropping or the linksys.

    If the linksys is acting as the DSL modem then I set the ones I install to Keep Alive with the time at 30 seconds, this is the lowest that it can be set. Also check your LAN settings for DHCP lease time. set it to forever or what ever the max may be. You can get around the dhcp thing by manually configuring your machine(s) with a static ip address.

    On a final not check the firmware, if there is a newer version it will not hurt to upgrade it, but you may have to reconfigure the router afterwards.

    Keep us posted.

    M

  8. Ok I can agree with alot of what was said here. As for the latter posts, well....if someone is paid to do a job then give them ALL the tools to do said job, if job is not done said person is now labeled unemployed. Period. From a President down to an Inspector on a shipping dock, and everyone in between.

    I will stop at this as I feel my rant meter climbing.

    M

  9. i was having a problem with xp professional telling me that i had a serious system error. it had something to do with my ip.

    This sounds like a variant of SmitFraud.

    As for the $25 for the OS well I would have to see that on paper. I know many machine out there are running hacked versions of XP, no system errors for the License key????

    M

    Afterthought:

    If you produced a valid license why not install the OS for "that" license?