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Laura - Feb 21, 2005 4:05:59 pm PST #1785 of 10003
Our wings are not tired.

However, my Linux box (RH8) is doing the same thing.

Ah. Good news on the virus front I'd say. Listen to Tom on the hardware stuff. If it is configuration or something on the ISP end I can no longer be helpful. I can offer virtual scotch and good cheer.


tommyrot - Feb 21, 2005 4:20:17 pm PST #1786 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

It's probably almost time for Gus to call customer service. But Gus should probably first unplug and plug back in whatever modem he has. Then restart the router. Because customer service may ask him if he's done this. Oh, and maybe restart one of the computers too, to get it to refresh its network info (assuming the computers are getting their DNS info from DHCP).

It sounds like their DNS servers are frelled.


Gus - Feb 21, 2005 4:22:19 pm PST #1787 of 10003
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.

Yes, (tommyrot and Laura), separate hardware pieces.

That is, the RH8 and the Win2k box are discrete. The NAT is Belkin hard cable x 4.

The other two boxes on the LAN are Replays, (which are Linux 7).

Since it has all worked earlier, I'm going with an ISP change.

Yahweh, have mercy on my penitent soul.


Gus - Feb 21, 2005 4:24:30 pm PST #1788 of 10003
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.

(tommyrot, you are too funny, with the multiple "Gus" thing, for words)


tommyrot - Feb 21, 2005 4:25:59 pm PST #1789 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Every couple of weeks I completely lose my internect connection and need to restart my cable modem. Sometimes the router too, so the changes can propegate.

Have I mentioned how much I love my wireless Apple keyboard and mouse? That's a rhetorical question; I know I have.


DXMachina - Feb 21, 2005 4:36:24 pm PST #1790 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Every couple of weeks I completely lose my internect connection and need to restart my cable modem.

This started happening to me a year and a half or so ago, and kept getting progressively worse over the course of a couple of months. I eventually had to buy a new cable modem.


DCJensen - Feb 21, 2005 7:03:04 pm PST #1791 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.

tommyrot - Feb 10, 2005
Daniel, do you still need the DSL "modem"? We've got three, so my boss is willing to give me one for free. He's gonna look up the model #, so we can see if it will actually work for your purpose....

Tommyrot, have you found out this info, yet? I've got about 2 weeks to take advantage of the Qwest pricing.

(Right Gandalf? March 9?)


Gandalfe - Feb 21, 2005 8:20:13 pm PST #1792 of 10003
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.

I'd have to look on the pricing. But, we're doing a huge push to sign up DSL subs, so the next deal might be better. You never know . . . .


evil jimi - Feb 22, 2005 2:45:54 am PST #1793 of 10003
Lurching from one disaster to the next.

Has the Web gone nuts? Every second time I try to click a link, I get "(site) not found" back from the DNS.

Gus ... I've had that at times in the past and it was always a problem with the ISP of the time but it got fixed reasonably quickly.

re bouncing spam: I have (somewhere) a small program called BounceSpam which worked pretty convincingly. Only problem is, rarely do spammers use a legitimate return email address, so it's a pointless exercise. :(

re return of Pop-ups: I'm just thankful that more advertisers/spammers haven't cottoned onto using flash for generating pop-ups. So far I've only come across it once and Opera's usually-reliable pop-up blocker, had no way to stop it b/c it wasn't using javascript.


§ ita § - Feb 22, 2005 4:31:47 am PST #1794 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Phone virus found in the wild.