Re: OOf
Please read all threads before you reply. This thread was killed. Insert here sound of electrons dying On 7/1/02 12:56 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DO YOU ALWAYS TAKE THIRTY POSTS ABOUT SOME ISSUE BEFORE ENOUGH PEOPLE TELL YOU TO STOP, BEFORE YOU ACTUALLY STOP? First of all, why are you yelling? Secondly, it's the ListMom's job to decide what is appropriate to post. Thirdly, your little rant didn't stop you from posting your off topic two cents worth, did it? Shawn King On this week's YML: Switchers Aaron Adams Grace Kjelden! http://www.yourmaclife.com -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Wallstreet battery problem revisited
Does anyone know where I might get a new power management board (CHEAP) for my WallStreet 266? It seems to be eating batteries at a rate of one every three months, and the board seems to be the only thing I can think of (I've done the shift/option/apple/restart thing quite a few times). When I first bought my Wallstreet, the battery in it lasted about a year before it would suddenly die - I'd have about three quarters of battery left showing on the control strip, and then there would be a message about the battery being about to die and the computer going to sleep to preserve contents of memory. I then bought another (Apple) battery, which worked fine for another year and then - same again. The third battery (Lacie) only lasted a few months. This fourth battery (VST) has just developed the same fault, and I've only been using it for a month or so. Batteries don't generally get a hard time from me, as I usually use the AC adapter. Surely I'm not getting a string of defective batteries? Karl -- -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Server as Firewall
Michael Bryan Bell wrote: At Starbucks the other day (no Airport at this one), a friend of a friend was finishing up his homework assignment on computer security. Heh, tell him to keep reading. Tell him to keep reading and actually try it in real life sometime... What intrigued me was this; He said the best way to set up a secure home network was to use a computer as server and then connect all other ubits to the server. OK, I was intrigued but it got over my head quickly. It made sense on first listening, before I forgot the details. He's talking overkill. Extreme, almost masochistic overkill. :) You'll see this in technical networking forums, where someone asks for good cheap router recommendations and they always say (take a cheap pentium and put linux or BSD on it!) before some calm voices of reason step in. One thing to keep in mind is that the crunch box is right now considered to be the most secure router/firewall combination that is out there right now. We're talking a dedicated P3 computer running a modified openBSD http://shopip.com/index.html which retails for around $7k. If you weren't familiar with him, John Draper (the inventor) didn't invent phone phreaking and system breakins but besides mitnick was probably the most well known. Even Steve Wozniak has gone on record as saying it's unhackable. Well, a) Kevin Mitnik's great prowness was less in hacking than in social engineering, which attackes the weakest link: the users. and B) Draper's crunchbox can be built for a hell of a lot less than $7kwith appropriate scrounging a usable router can be bult for less than the cost of the hardware cable routers, and be nearly as easy to set up. I daresay that the majority of the software in that Crunchbox is open source stuff that theyve attached an easy-to-use interface on. That said, more power to John..if he can just *please* get some of the stupider admins to use stuff like that, *my* life would be easier. Oh no, we're secure here! Then how come 25 of your machines are trying to DOS me? Oh, *that's* why our network is so slow...I'll see if Microsoft has a patch for that... That said, BSD out of the box, all by itself is pretty secure. A Mac running the standard install is more so..if you don't enable ftp/telnet or run a web server, there are almost no open ports on a Mac to begin with. There is a firewall in OSX, it just isn't turned on by default. There are numerous shareware/freeware apps to access and configure it (brickhouse being the fav). Then, all you have to do is be able to share your connection to the rest of the computer. Normally this is done via DHCP NAT, and you can download a freeware tool to enable that on OSX too. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for security... But OSX's software firewall or a cheap $150 router with a hardware firewall will pretty much take care you. That and common sense. Quick! How many of you have a password for OSX that's your dog's name? How many of you have taken the time to memorize (and use) a password like 7hT%4ft% ? (It's actually easy...you can memorize just about any sequence of symbols pretty quickly...as a sysadmin I keep around 25 or 30 of them in my head at any given time. If I have to change two in a week, I'm doomed, but normally I can usually get it in two tries) -- Bruce Johnson Wherever you go, there you are. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Wallstreet battery problem revisited
on 7/2/02 5:34 AM, Dr. K. Gensberg at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know where I might get a new power management board (CHEAP) for my WallStreet 266? It seems to be eating batteries at a rate of one every three months, and the board seems to be the only thing I can think of (I've done the shift/option/apple/restart thing quite a few times). When I first bought my Wallstreet, the battery in it lasted about a year before it would suddenly die - I'd have about three quarters of battery left showing on the control strip, and then there would be a message about the battery being about to die and the computer going to sleep to preserve contents of memory. I then bought another (Apple) battery, which worked fine for another year and then - same again. The third battery (Lacie) only lasted a few months. This fourth battery (VST) has just developed the same fault, and I've only been using it for a month or so. Batteries don't generally get a hard time from me, as I usually use the AC adapter. Surely I'm not getting a string of defective batteries? Karl Don't feel bad...I have been through several now myself with my PB and they are showing the same signs. New batteries that check out at the factory but I can get them to charge only about 88% of capacity. Byron -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Powerbook g3 HD...went with the IBM 40GB for $144 shipped
Just an FYI if anyone cares. :-) I ordered the 40GB 4200rpm 9.5mm IBM hard drive for my powerbook firewire/pismo from newegg.com. Total was $144 shipped. _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
bickering on a list.
On 7/2/02 11:22 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cause its no good to do this sort of bickering on a list. No one was bickering. You made your comment on the list, I made mine. Once you are on the list for a while, you'll realize this sort of thing happens all the time. Not only is it *solely* the ListMom's job to police the list, the ListMom has allowed these kinds of off topic discussions in the past and most likely will into the future. I mean, I apologized and we agreed that the thread was closed. LOL Who agreed to that? I certainly didn't. Only the *ListMom* can close threads. The subscribers to the list can't arbitrarily decide what can and can't be discussed on the list. So then you posted after that and other people are taking it up again. There was *one* other post after mine, as far as I can see. I like my mailbox to be under twohundred messages, and I'm sure other people do too, especially if its just stupid stuff like this. Then this list may not be the one that is best suited for you. Don't expect the list to conform to *your* needs. Is there a reason to keep it going? Nope. Just like there is no reason to stop it. It tends to be a conversational List. This kind of stuff happens. Delete what doesn't interest you and move on or register your displeasure *with the ListMom*, not on the list. Shawn King On this week's YML: Switchers Aaron Adams Grace Kjelden! http://www.yourmaclife.com -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: OOf PLEASE STOP THE MADNESS! PLEASE STOP THE MADNESS!
PLEASE STOP THE MADNESS! Somebody obviously does NOT have enough to do in a day. But the rest of us DO.. PLEASE SPARE US! Thanks, David -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Server as Firewall
Well, a) Kevin Mitnik's great prowness was less in hacking than in social engineering, which attackes the weakest link: the users. and B) Draper's crunchbox can be built for a hell of a lot less than $7kwith appropriate scrounging a usable router can be bult for less than the cost of the hardware cable routers, and be nearly as easy to set up. I daresay that the majority of the software in that Crunchbox is open source stuff that theyve attached an easy-to-use interface on. Amen. mine cost $30. And that was for the NIC. I Was given the computer by someone for free. A little setup with SQUID and I was all up and running. I don't have a normal firewall, I have a Dual NIC box running a proxy. Much better as no traffic can get through. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Wallstreet battery problem revisited
I then bought another (Apple) battery, which worked fine for another year and then - same again. The third battery (Lacie) only lasted a few months. This fourth battery (VST) has just developed the same fault, and I've only been using it for a month or so. Batteries don't generally get a hard time from me, as I usually use the AC adapter. Surely I'm not getting a string of defective batteries? This is just one thing to look at, but where are you getting your batteries from? The problem with batteries is that they have a shelf life, and will essentially go bad. Reconditioning used to help, but not as much anymore... Battery technology just hasn't kept up. People are actually having problems getting good batteries for the first generation ibooks (toilet seats) already. In one case, a company had hundreds of them that they got in and sold to customers, only to find that they all died pretty quickly and couldn't hold a charge well before that. So it could just be worth looking into- ie, where are the batteries you're getting coming from, and how old are they? Michael Bryan Bell -- ICQ: 16106263Yahoo: mhbell1 No Link for you! AIM: drunkenbatman -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Server as Firewall
John Draper (the inventor) didn't invent phone phreaking and system breakins He waa Cap'n Crunch, right? (IIRC). That guy was/is hilarious. His antics cracked me up. Even when he got out of jail, he wanted Woz to turn the Apple II into the ultimate phone phreaking machine. Actually he was hired by apple computer (through woz I believe, they met back at homebrew) to work on a telephone board for the apple. It just so happened that within that board he basically included the functionality of a blue box which allowed one to generate the tones used by the phone company's switches. Apple was run by markula at the time I believe, and once he heard about the things capabilities he freaked out and killed the project. Sometime later (shortly) after the phone companies equipment had improved he was caught by the phone companies when they noticed something like 20,000 calls coming out of his apartment to numbers that weren't even supposed to exist. :) (he needed to get a life). He was just a different sort, in a different time. He didn't invent phone phreaking (I can't remember the guy's name who did, but it was done on a PDP-1 mainframe back at MIT) but whereas the other guy had some hacker scruples, cap'n crunch just loved sharing information with anyone and anybody whether or not they wanted it to get around paying the phone company or not. Heh, no one I have met or anything I have read has led me to believe anything but nice things out of the guy- except for the fact that he (at least used to be) almost violently against smoking... Which means if I ever met him we'd get along for about 2 hours before the addiction kicked in. :) Michael Bryan Bell -- ICQ: 16106263Yahoo: mhbell1 No Link for you! AIM: drunkenbatman -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Server as Firewall
phreaking /freek'ing/ n. [from `phone phreak'] 1. The art and science of cracking the phone network (so as, for example, to make free long-distance calls). 2. By extension, security-cracking in any other context (especially, but not exclusively, on communications networks) (see cracking). At one time phreaking was a semi-respectable activity among hackers; there was a gentleman's agreement that phreaking as an intellectual game and a form of exploration was OK, but serious theft of services was taboo. There was significant crossover between the hacker community and the hard-core phone phreaks who ran semi-underground networks of their own through such media as the legendary TAP Newsletter. This ethos began to break down in the mid-1980s as wider dissemination of the techniques put them in the hands of less responsible phreaks. Around the same time, changes in the phone network made old-style technical ingenuity less effective as a way of hacking it, so phreaking came to depend more on overtly criminal acts such as stealing phone-card numbers. The crimes and punishments of gangs like the `414 group' turned that game very ugly. A few old-time hackers still phreak casually just to keep their hand in, but most these days have hardly even heard of `blue boxes' or any of the other paraphernalia of the great phreaks of yore. http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/p.html -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: OOf
On Tuesday, July 2, 2002, at 01:41 PM, Ryan Coleman wrote: On 7/2/02 4:00 AM, Ryan Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please read all threads before you reply. This thread was killed. Only the *ListMom* can kill threads. Just like only the *ListMom* can decide what is and what isn't appropriate for the list. Shawn King On this week's YML: Switchers Aaron Adams Grace Kjelden! http://www.yourmaclife.com Listen, smartass, listnanny's can kill and members can second kill requests. I requested a kill and I was seconded. AND a listnanny (I believe) stepped in. Read the FAQ again Shawn. Dan has appointed List Nannies since he cannot see and read everything on all of his lists. Laurent and I are such on this list. Comments like this, calling other list members smartass etc, (Ryan) and continuing a thread that has no arguable purpose (Shawn) are uncalled for. Please desist this thread. Move along, these aren't the droids we're looking for. Jeremy - List Nanny -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Server as Firewall
Ryan Coleman wrote: Amen. mine cost $30. And that was for the NIC. I Was given the computer by someone for free. A little setup with SQUID and I was all up and running. I don't have a normal firewall, I have a Dual NIC box running a proxy. Much better as no traffic can get through. eyberows raised NO traffic??? Perhaps You're running with Scissors(TM)...;-) http://www.dumbentia.com/pdflib/scissors.pdf (which hangs above my desk, next to three pages from a despair.com calendar : Laziness(Success is a journey, not a destination...so stop running), Ineptitude (If you can't learn to do something well, learn to enjoy doing it poorly) and Idiocy (Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups) Looking further on the Crunchbox site, it's pretty clearly a fanatically clamped-down BSD dual-nic firewall system also running Snort, and some custom software gluing it to a web-based interface. Pretty slick, tho' -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Powerbook g3 HD...went with the IBM 40GB for $144 shipped
From: Gene Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Powerbook g3 HD...went with the IBM 40GB for $144 shipped Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 15:30:27 + Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just an FYI if anyone cares. :-) I ordered the 40GB 4200rpm 9.5mm IBM hard drive for my powerbook firewire/pismo from newegg.com. Total was $144 shipped. I care. How are you going to dump your present disk onto it? Are you going to put your present internal drive into a case and use it as a secondary device? I assume you have a pismo. d -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Powerbook g3 HD...went with the IBM 40GB for $144 shipped
Dwight Hines on 7/2/02 3:52 PM wrote: Just an FYI if anyone cares. :-) I ordered the 40GB 4200rpm 9.5mm IBM hard drive for my powerbook firewire/pismo from newegg.com. Total was $144 shipped. I care. How are you going to dump your present disk onto it? Are you going to put your present internal drive into a case and use it as a secondary device? I assume you have a pismo. d Good question. I put my old drive in a FireWire external. Works great, both in OSX 9 X. Here is the one I got (actually I have two of them), although I paid $46 for mine and now they're down to just $36. http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=064-040036 The only issue I have is the cable length. It's 6 foot long but I use it just inches from my iBook so I have this big coil next to me which is always in the way. Does anybody know of a short cable I can get, maybe 6-12 inches? -makmac -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Net/DSL Troubleshooting
What's an effective way to trouble-shoot Goldilocks DSL? I think you're being way too technical with all this troubleshooting, instead of letting the company take care of the problem. If I remember correctly, doesn't Goldilocks offer a fairly simple troubleshooting package involving 3 bears and some porridge? *ba dum bum* Yeah, bet their tech support has never heard that one before. To echo kevin, chances are the problem just isn't on your end at all... It could be any number of things. I use a cable modem but also a T1 and DSL depending on where I'm at during the week. The cable modem can actually beat the T1 in throughput sometimes, but the T1 never just disappears. Consumer DSL and cable service can just be flaky as hell. About the best consumer broadband solutions I've had experience with has been speakeasy, but they're pretty pricey. My cable modem will drop down to modem speeds or need to be reset every few days or so, sometimes once a day. They just aren't made to be enterprise class services. Some things to watch out for- is there a fairly normal pattern to the outages? Ie, once a week, or once a day and then it comes right back up within 15 minutes? Do web and email die but other things can get through ok (such as FTP/AIM/icq)? If some things are getting through, then it could be related to a DNS issue... But chances are it's not. Any thoughts? Whta sort of assistance might I look for? Probably not a whole lot. It probably definitely has to do with their network, there just isn't a whole you can do except call and complain and hope enough others do that they end up checking out the problem. Bruce's suggestion about your DSL modem possibly flaking out is a good one, a friend of mine had his motorola surfboard replaced 5 times before he got reliable service. Michael Bryan Bell -- ICQ: 16106263Yahoo: mhbell1 No Link for you! AIM: drunkenbatman -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: bickering on a list.
on 7/2/02 11:46, Ryan Coleman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shawn = Ignorant bean counter. Regardless of your relationship with Dan, this seems a little out of line... -Mick -- -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: bickering on a list.
Shawn = Ignorant bean counter. Regardless of your relationship with Dan, this seems a little out of line... Damn straight. Everyone =knows= Shawn can't count. J/k shawn. ;) Michael Bryan Bell -- ICQ: 16106263Yahoo: mhbell1 No Link for you! AIM: drunkenbatman -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: bickering on a list
On 7/2/02 3:06 PM Shawn King edified us all by writing: Once you are on the list for a while, you'll realize this sort of thing happens all the time. Not only is it *solely* the ListMom's job to police the list, the ListMom has allowed these kinds of off topic discussions in the past and most likely will into the future. So is that like Calvin Hobbs' Dictator for Life?? conversational List. This kind of stuff happens. Delete what doesn't interest you and move on or register your displeasure *with the ListMom*, not on the list. Hard to do in digest mode... Yeah, yeah, there goes my subscription to *this* list... ;-) How about something more productive to discuss, people (and DFL)? Jim Rohde I'll listen to logic and reason when they come out on CD. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Server as Firewall
On 7/2/02 3:06 PM Ryan Coleman edified us all by writing: ... phreaking /freek'ing/ n. [from `phone phreak'] 1. The art and science of cracking the phone network (so as, for example, to make free long-distance calls). 2. By extension, security-cracking in any other context (especially, but not exclusively, on communications networks) (see cracking). ... Excellent (condensed) history and explanation, Ryan - best outside of some 2600 articles I've (allegedly) read in local bookstores (only allegedly, in case some offical types are monitoring this list)... :-) Jim Rohde May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house. -- George Carlin -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
