Recent content by diu.steve

A router in the basement is not needed. A 10/100 or 10/100/1000 ethernet switch will also do the job and likely save you money. 10/100 ethernet switches run about $25 in my neck of the woods. A router in the basement would require a little more setup. You would not need to disable the DHCP...

Good advice. Remember, asbestos was approved at one time too. :)

For anyone wanting to give Linux a try, I installed Ubuntu 8.10 this weekend, and I am impressed. I can't afford to buy a new Windows XP license. I played around a lot with Linux years ago when X Windows was still pretty raw. I must say, it has come a LONG way. I first installed openSUSE and...

Good, I've got a lot of irreplaceable pictures of my son on their that I forgot to backup in the last 6 months. My new parts are on the way, I'm pretty stoked. Got the usual good deal from BzBoyz.com. Thanks for all of your responses.

Security is really more of what I was referring to. I didn't use any special encryption on either drive. I just knew it wasn't quite as easy as hooking up a FAT32 drive in the Win98 days and immediately being able to copy. Thanks for the reply, you answered my question.

My computer's motherboard/processor bit the dust a couple months ago after 6 years of service. I was running Windows 2000 Pro with both hard drives formatted w/ NTFS. I have backups of a lot of the stuff I want off of the drives, but was not diligent enough to have backups of everything I want...

Most likely culprit is bad fitting / barrel connection somewhere in the system. My expertise is Dish Network equipment, but I imagine by the age of the equipment the receiver still sends 18 vdc for even transponders and 13 vdc for odd transponders. A bad fitting or other component in the...

I would consider that to be a pretty fair deal. Assuming a DNSC tech is doing the work, lets say $13/hr in labor, probably about 2 hours after all is said and done. $4 per gallon in gas, lets say about 3 gallons round trip (assuming you live close to office). Concrete to move pole (and maybe...

Maybe your Coolsat supports more than one filesystem type. It could be that if no partition table/filesystem is detected then it formats the drive in its default type, maybe ext2fs/ext3fs (linux). Try this useful CD out, lots and lots of hard drive tools, among lots of other tools. Ultimate...

Open up a command prompt and type in: tracert Google If it displays the route, IE is probably jacked up. If not, you have problems with your connection somewhere along the line.

Does this deal include their local wireline exchanges?

Just figured it out. The laptop is B. Could not connect to a WPA/WPA2 encrypted network. Had to step it back to WEP 128 bit. Thanks for the reply.

Hey everyone, I have a WRT54GL wireless router. I have been using the wireless connection for the year I have had the router with my old laptop. We just bought a used Dell C640 laptop and we can't connect to the router. The error I receive is "Windows is unable to connect to the selected...

I'd put money on that savings going away after 1 year. Read the fine print yet?

Following link shows how to setup westell 6100 in bridge mode. If you don't have Verizon service that uses DHCP instead of PPPoE, then you can ignore the first half of the article. First, if your ISP is Verizon and you have DHCP (not PPPoE) you will most likely need to get the MAC address of...