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?

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!

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.

Thanks, Daniel! Will have to try that later when I get home again.

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.

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.

Yay internets! Boo hackers!

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?

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.

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.

Does anyone know if the CBS Innertube online videos on the CBS website are just incompatible with Macs in general? I've tried to access them in the latest available Mac versions of Safari, Firefox, and Netscape and either get no response (Safari and Netscape) or browser crashes (Firefox) every time.