Thanks Jon. I am going to try the Dunnies VBA book
Monty: Whaddya mean she ain't my wife? Mal: She ain't your wife... cause she's married to me.
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Sophia Brooks - Feb 05, 2007 5:12:57 am PST #557 of 25496
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Sophia Brooks - Feb 05, 2007 10:45:53 am PST #558 of 25496
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Hi again.
Does anyone know anything (bad or good, about this service [link] which seems to be a way that our school could have on-line classes?
d - Feb 06, 2007 6:23:46 am PST #559 of 25496
It's nice to see some brave pretenders trying to make it interesting.
I need some help with DSL and wireless networking. My landlady has currently both Verizon DSL and Comcast Cable for internet and would like to cancel the Comcast. I tried to hook the Westell Wirespeed, which I believe is the modem although it looks ancient, to the Linksys but that didn't work. Is that not the modem? Does the modem have to be connected to a dedicated computer that has to be on all the time?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
DCJensen - Feb 06, 2007 7:11:51 am PST #560 of 25496
All is well that ends in pizza.
d, the Westel is the dsl box. That and the linksys might have the same IP addresses.
Hook the westel directly up to a computer and set the computer for DHCP (Obtain an ip address automatically) and on a PC you can go to a command prompt and type in ipconfig to find out what the DHCP gateway's ip address is.
Do the same for the Linksys wireless box.
On a mac, set it up for DHCP and hit the "renew" button and you'll get the same info.
If they are the same, change the internal IP of one or the other. This means connecting to the one you want to change.
Some info on passwords you might need is to be found at portforward.com, just nose around a bit and pretend you are setting up port forwarding and part of the setup process will reveal the common default passwords for many dsl and network routers.
d - Feb 06, 2007 7:50:48 am PST #561 of 25496
It's nice to see some brave pretenders trying to make it interesting.
Thanks, Daniel! Will have to try that later when I get home again.
Gudanov - Feb 07, 2007 5:38:00 am PST #562 of 25496
Coding and Sleeping
I'm running 2.0 on my Ubuntu partition, and using it the same way I use FF in Windows, ie running about 80 tabs and a fair number of extensions, it's almost no drain on the CPU. Certainly no comparison to the constant restarting I have to do in Windows with only even five tabs!
I have a lot better performance with Firefox on Ubuntu rather than Windows as well. I often have had many tabs on four instances of Firefox all in different virtual desktops without any slowdown. Frequently I have MPEG video being encoded to MP4, a DVD burning, and had Firefox be as reponsive as ever.
esse - Feb 07, 2007 5:48:39 am PST #563 of 25496
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
I did eventually have to force-quit, but that was after having up 150 tabs and working through them slowly; once I got it down to about 55, it was eating up the processor trying to remember everything I had looked at, closed, and bookmarked. But still, that's way better performance overall on Ubuntu than Windows; I do think there's something inherently crappy about the infrastructure of FF 2.0, but it's obviously especially shit in Windows.
Jessica - Feb 07, 2007 6:55:33 am PST #564 of 25496
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
In the early hours of Tuesday three key servers were hit by a barrage of data in what is known as a distributed denial-of-service attack.
There is no evidence so far of damage, which experts are saying is testament to the robust nature of the internet.
Don't these people realize that if they break the internet, they'll have no playground left to hack in?
Eddie - Feb 07, 2007 9:31:40 am PST #565 of 25496
Your tag here.
three key servers were hit by a barrage of data
Not sure what they were trying to accomplish. There are 13 root servers scattered around the world (and I use the word "server" loosely, they're more like clusters). Even if you could knock over three of them, you might add just a few milliseconds to a DNS query because it has to go further, geographically speaking, to query another root. Plus, I'd guess that the large majority of popular website's addressing info is cached on local DNS servers, so you'd have to take out all 13 roots and then sustain that attack long enough for the cache lifetime of the local DNS servers to expire, which would probably be at least a day.
Even if this was a dry run for a bigger operation, this seems to be a pretty futile effort if you ask me.
§ ita § - Feb 07, 2007 8:52:47 pm PST #566 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Anyone have a Zune? I'm trying to work out if I should just give my Zunified (ew) friend the .m4vs I have in iTunes (convertified by iSquint) or I should give him the originals or convert them again.
The first conversion page I hit suggested I download Windows Media Encoder 9, but Microsoft irritates me quite irrationally by wanting to validate my (valid) copy of Windows.