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thegrommit - May 10, 2005 1:52:45 pm PDT #2839 of 10003
Um.

So as long as you don't install any unknown software downloaded by the browser, you should be OK, yes?

Unchecking "Allow websites to install software" is the easiest way to neutralise the flaw for now. Extensions can be manually installed until a patch becomes available.


Gris - May 10, 2005 4:55:40 pm PDT #2840 of 10003
Hey. New board.

Please, Apple. Make this. And make it well.


meara - May 10, 2005 6:29:04 pm PDT #2841 of 10003

Oooh. Tablet laptop thingie from Apple would be cool. Not holding my breath though.

Meanwhile--is anyone else using Safari? The NYTimes suddenly started giving me weird looking pages, and saying it's because I must be using an "old" browser, or reading on a handheld. Which...not so much. Bastards.


Jessica - May 11, 2005 6:45:19 am PDT #2842 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Cars deemed safe from phone viruses. Huzzah!

Also, my monitor has arrived! It's shiny and pretty and I want to go home and ogle its shiny prettiness. The tower is currently "In Manufacturing" and is scheduled to ship by next Monday. Whee!


tommyrot - May 11, 2005 8:00:59 am PDT #2843 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.

Does anyone know anything about hardware VPNs?

We have a Check Point VPN=1 Edge. My boss wants to set it up so that instead of all traffic going through the VPN box (i.e. it acts as a router in addition to a VPN) he just wants to stick it on our network, and connect both the LAN side and WAN side to the same network, so only stuff that needs to go through the VPN will go through it.

If that makes any sense....

Anyway, it doesn't work. It fails to make a connection to the internet on the WAN side.


Eddie - May 11, 2005 8:19:52 pm PDT #2844 of 10003
Your tag here.

tommyrot, let's say you set up your network like so:

Internet
|
Router-------
|           |
Firewall    VPN
|           |
LAN----------

If you add routes to the Firewall (which will be your LAN's gateway) that say if the destination network is 123.45.67.89/24 then send to the VPN's LAN IP address (for example).

If that makes any sense.


Volans - May 12, 2005 6:20:31 am PDT #2845 of 10003
move out and draw fire

Okay, here's the setup:

I have two computers on a Netgear hub/router. I want to have the modem go from the wall to the router so that either/both computers on the network can be online at the same time. Unfortunatly, the DSL modem they gave me has a USB connector, rather than the Ethernet connector I asked for...can I hook it to one of the computers and set up my network to get the effect I'm looking for? Or should I try to exchange it?

How would you set this up with an Ethernet connector anyway? Back in the States we had cable modem, and that went into the "uplink" port on the router, no big deal. Would it be the same with this?


DCJensen - May 12, 2005 6:36:26 am PDT #2846 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.

I'd try to exchange it. To use the USB type, you would have to set up one computer with internet sharing. Plus? If that machine is disconnected from the network or off, the oter machine can't get out on the 'net.

Hmm. Not sure if a USB hub can be used to share a DSL modem.

One would think all broadband modems would have ethernet. Weird.


DCJensen - May 12, 2005 6:39:05 am PDT #2847 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.

How would you set this up with an Ethernet connector anyway? Back in the States we had cable modem, and that went into the "uplink" port on the router, no big deal. Would it be the same with this?

Yes, with Ethernet.


Stephanie - May 12, 2005 6:48:08 am PDT #2848 of 10003
Trust my rage

I'm looking for a used PC laptop that I can use for taking the bar exam. (The software they use won't work with my Powerbook.) I'll look on eBay next, but I thought someone here might have an old laptop they would like to get rid of. All I need is:

  • CPU = 200Mhz
  • RAM = 64MB
  • Drives = 50MB of free hard drive space and one floppy disk drive
  • IE 5.0 or higher plus the ability to connect to the internet
  • Windows 98 or whatveer came after that.