Re: [H] Is there?
Same here on on both counts. On 10/9/2010 6:55 AM, Thane Sherrington wrote: At 04:10 PM 08/10/2010, Soren wrote: Hello Duncan, Most BSOD's are caused by malware on the computer interfering with the network settings, and not by poor drivers as many tend to believe. Actually, I see a fair number of BSODs caused by drivers. Bad RAM is another common cause. I don't see a lot caused by infections, but I can imagine that they would cause problems. AV software (especialyl Norton and McAfee) are pretty common causes. Else, Symantec 360 is a premium home solution, but this one should be installed on an absolutely clean system. I will have to respectfully disagree. T
Re: [H] Backing up Win7 woes - an update with more woes
As Ghost is not serving that either, maybe you should try the Acronis boot disk, no? On 10/8/2010 11:59 AM, Soren wrote: snip To say it straight, forget about Linux's dd, and Acronis in this case, as I want absolute reliablity, and neither do serve that. I know Symantec is working on a new version of Ghost that works within Win7, so this could be a common problem? snip
Re: [H] Backing up Win7 woes
It can appear to be that large depending the method used to check volume usage because of all the symbolic links. On 9/3/2010 2:02 PM, tmse...@rlrnews.com wrote: Win7 install footprint is nowhere near that. Not even remotely close. But most oems load it down with things, swap file and a hibernation file can add a couple gig, etc. Win7 has most of the basic drivers built in for the most part. A 32bit win7 install can be done in a 16g drive. A 64 in a 20. My sizes at base were: 10.7, 13.9. Ymmv. Note: is is about 60% of a vista install, so its slimmed down quite a bit --Original Message-- From: Soren Sender: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com ReplyTo: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] Backing up Win7 woes Sent: Sep 3, 2010 3:37 PM Hi, I recently bought my mom a laptop with Win7. Fine. Not so fine is that the C: partition seems to occupy +34 gigabytes. What I want is to be able to make a ghost image within reasonable limits. +34 gigabytes doesn't seem so. As of yet unexperienced with Win7, is this the normal disk (ab)use of the O/S? Slipstreaming? /s Sent via BlackBerry
Re: [H] FIOS question 2.5?
That sounds more like what my buddy in NJ described about his FIOS setup. The all coax way sounds like the lazy installer method. On 7/3/2010 12:06 PM, Bryan Seitz wrote: snip The way mine works is: ONT - RJ45 - My router ONT - Coax - TVS Ie, the ONT has more than one output...
Re: [H] IP Question
Uh Gaffer needs to read process the info better! The only bridge mode here is on the *DSL MODEM* which is where the *ROUTER* sends the PPOE credentials (if even needed) instead of the modem resulting in a live IP on the router's WAN port instead of being double NAT'd. On 6/28/2010 3:47 PM, Gaffer wrote: Hi Duncan, On Monday 28 June 2010 21:50:10 DSinc wrote: Gaffer, My replies are inline TNX, anyway. On 06/28/2010 15:45, Gaffer wrote: On Monday 28 June 2010 18:54:39 DSinc wrote: I still use xDSL. Soon I will move to FIOS. Well, as I get smarter and answer my ?many? questions (another thread in play!) I am beginning (again) to have trouble with my xDSL connection. I suspect someone local (or ?) keeps camping out on my assigned IP addy from my ISP so that they can just dick with my xDSL modem or my Router. I know I have my xDSL modem set to a bridge mode. I suspect this makes it a straight wire connection to my Router's WAN port. I would never use Bridge Mode unless I was feeding a box that was specifically setup to be a firewall, something like IP Cop. Should I NOT use bridge mode in my TELCO-supplied modem I would be Double Nat-ng and have 2 firewalls. If you are using your router in bridge mode then it is not doing NAT or firewalling. Just because Wins has what it calls a firewall has nothing to do with NAT. I view this as excess overhead. Perhaps my bad. My router does both NAT and supports its' own firewall and SPI. Both of these selections have been activated since day one! You can't have it both ways ! If you have the router firewall switched on and NAT switched on its not in Bridge Mode I think I have my Router as |strong| as I currently comprehend its' directions. Your router is not being used as anything but a modem. Its most valuable assets are being thrown away by it being configured as it is. Can you please share some more logic to this? I believe that my Router is my single point of 1st protection to Inbound stuff. Or, perhaps you and I are wired differently. This comment I do not understand. I doubt that we are wired differently. :-) But you are right, the router should be the 1st point of protection. If you really have Bridge Mode turned on, then its simply a modem without offering any protection. All Bridge Mode does is pass on the IP address that the ISP assigns to your connection. Turns out, I have to save Router logs and reboot the Router about every 3-7 days to recover a semi-firm connection. The Router is a DLink DGL-4300. All wireless is disabled. I use wired LAN only. I use a Dlink router. I have mine set to firewall and NAT. The firewall blocks all unrequested incoming traffic and lets everything out. NAT allows me to use a range of IP addresses that are not Internet routeable effectively allowing the use of several machines from the single IP that my ISP assigns me. Which incidentally changes each time I restart the router. OK. Understand this logic. Same-same. That's how life is here too. The problem is I have to re-boot the Router several times a day! This is a totally different issue ! This could simply be a noisy incoming line providing a weak noisy signal. In fact a weak noisy signal to the router could be anywhere between the CO and the router. Or it could be that the router is dieing. I've replaced my router several times because its performance has become degraded, probably due to high voltage transients on the telephone line feeding it. I've also had the spark gaps replaced because they have been damaged during thunder storms. Is this possible? Do not know why someone local chooses to pick on me? I will suppose giggles and laughs for the present! This is the same view to me as past electrical storm interference I had with an older (retired) xdsl modem. The more I read your post, the more I'm inclined to think that the router could be suspect and the electrical storm interference you refer to could be the reason. Its quite possible that you have a tracking beacon installed on your machine that reports your machines presence on the Internet. In all probability you wouldn't know if you had. Please share more about tracking beacon's? I will go do a search/destroy on them as necessary. I have yet to find one/any yet! OK ! how about the ones that you installed as part of installing the driver for a piece of hardware... Yes, I do NOT KNOW that I might already have an internal baddie in play; other than every scanner I have used comes up negative. What makes you think a scanner will find and report every baddie that you might have on your machine. Oh, I do not. I use what I use. I then use what is suggested to me by my betters. And, most of the time, I do find a hint from this List! I have both patience and trust in this List. This anomaly is just another matter of time at best. At worst, I do so hope the miscreant will eventually burn in hell! Thought? Suggestions? Ideas? Best, Duncan
Re: [H] File association?
Actually PROTOCOL and URL links classes are separate issues, both can be easy to
edit/fix with a bit of reading. Granted though, file associations based on CLSID(s)
are a bit tougher than straight open with associations.
RANT
Forget forcing web-aware programs to launch Firefox over IE for URLs or to getting
programmer's to embed webbrowser controls from Mozilla instead of IE is another
story. Too much reliance on ActiveX MS brain dead browser means even if you never
use IE, web enabled programs do so for you!
/RANT
Here's a Windows 7 registry export for .URL. If that's not the issue you have CLSID
problems under HKCR\* or HKCR\File which is more involved:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.URL]
@=InternetShortcut
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.URL\PersistentHandler]
@={8CD34779-9F10-4f9b-ADFB-B3FAEABDAB5A}
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.URL\ShellEx]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.URL\ShellEx\{000214EE---C000-0046}]
@={FBF23B40-E3F0-101B-8488-00AA003E56F8}
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.URL\ShellEx\{000214F9---C000-0046}]
@={FBF23B40-E3F0-101B-8488-00AA003E56F8}
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.URL\ShellEx\{00021500---C000-0046}]
@={FBF23B40-E3F0-101B-8488-00AA003E56F8}
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.URL\ShellEx\{CABB0DA0-DA57-11CF-9974-0020AFD79762}]
@={FBF23B40-E3F0-101B-8488-00AA003E56F8}
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.URL\ShellEx\{FBF23B80-E3F0-101B-8488-00AA003E56F8}]
@={FBF23B40-E3F0-101B-8488-00AA003E56F8}
On 6/20/2010 7:16 AM, Gaffer wrote:
Hi Duncan,
On Sunday 20 June 2010 03:30:58 DSinc wrote:
On 06/19/2010 16:28, Gaffer wrote:
On Saturday 19 June 2010 20:38:39 DSinc wrote:
OS: Win2000 Server
WinUpdate patches: 06-11-10
Browser: FF 3.6.3 (and I suspect IE6sp1)
So, I've had this icon on my desktop for years that opens/calls my
NAS. Like: http://10.0.0.x/;.
It does not work.
If I use the FF browser, and type in the address by hand, I can
get thru to the address. OK.
If I then drag the little 'doc' icon from the open browser window
to the desktop, the dragged icon is broken again! The red-X msg
reads:
This file does not have a program associated with it for
performing this task. Create an association in the Folder Options
control panel.
This what you need to do. Associate the desktop file with a web
browser.
Matters not whether I change the shortcut's icon or not.
Visited the Folder Option control panel.
Confused I reamain!! MW or Virus still possible, but ESET
indicates no problem ATM.
Confused I be!! Ideas
Duncan
Gaffer,
Understand. Think I did this. Still no work.
Do you have a W2K specific process for this.
Seems that I lost my crib sheet!
Duncan
I don't use Windows at all ! However as far as I recall the desktop
icon is an Internet link and clicking on it should call the default web
browser. So the link should be associated with a web browser, or more
accurately http, or htp or htm or mth should be.
Windows doesn't make it easy...
Re: [H] Making my own network cables
Personally I do so few TP cables that I still use the utility knife method to score the jacket enough for removal but now thinking I could remove the coax stripper's center blade repurpose it's crappy ass for for TP work. Unlike coax, UTP (TP might be different) is like wire where you only need to score the jacket so any wire stripper with right gauge hole will do. Brand wise I am partial to Ideal or Paladin/Datashark. My cabling kit consists of: ~$80 Idea Crimp Master w/ WE/SS RJ-45 (AFAIK *NOT* AMP) die. ~$40 Idea RG6 coax die. Going on 9 years and has dies available for most everything. http://www.idealindustries.com/products/datacomm/tools/crimpmaster.jsp ~$20 Datashark (Paladin) compression crimper http://www.datasharktools.com/view_tool.php?id=488pid=261 F compression fittings way better! $15 Deluxe Coax stipper http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2062637tab=summary $30 Ideal Adjustable Coaxial Stripper Junk purchased in a pinch but it sucks so bad I never use it. http://www.idealindustries.com/products/datacomm/tools/adjust_coaxial_stripper.jsp ~$30 combined for Ideal's standard wire stripper round cable cutter tools. Various type connectors from Ideal. Bobby Heid wrote: Hey, I was thinking about buying 1000' spool of cat6 (to future proof) cable, connectors, and the tools to make my own custom cables. What tools do I need beside a crimper/cutter? Do I need a tester? I was looking at these crimpers: http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=105cp_id=10509cs_id=105 0901p_id=3348seq=1format=3 Thanks for any suggestions. Bobby
[H] Texas highway cams
If anyone is interested, I threw this together last night to look at the Texas highway cam system. Quick and dirty, no polish. ;) http://home.comcast.net/~t3chnomanc3r/texas-highway-cams.html
