Re: Router recommendations

2015-01-08 Thread Thomas Fritsch
its not manufactored anymore by Ubiquti , but i'd recommend at 35$ on average on ebay/Amazon is thier AirRouter, i've had one for 4 years now and its still rockin it today, and it can use the latest builds of OpenWRT. (it works on DD-WRT as well but for that router FW, it requires thier semi-expens

Re: Router recommendations

2015-01-08 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jan 8, 2015, at 11:38 AM, Bob Whiton mailto:m...@rswhiton.com>> wrote: On Jan 8, 2015, at 1:26 PM, N. Shani mailto:nshani...@gmail.com>> wrote: While I support what Bruce says, before you commit $$$, check that the router is not susceptible to the most recent vulnerability - Misfortune Co

Re: Router recommendations

2015-01-08 Thread N. Shani
There's a LOT of speculation wrt to this vulnerability, read the various posts. To start: it was identified by reverse-engineering an old web server software (2002) and it turns out that most manufacturers reused that old code and didn't bother fixing their designs until this was brought to their a

Re: Router recommendations

2015-01-08 Thread Bob Whiton
On Jan 8, 2015, at 1:26 PM, N. Shani wrote: > While I support what Bruce says, before you commit $$$, check that the router > is not susceptible to the most recent vulnerability - Misfortune Cookie. > To see the list of affected routers, have a look @ > http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/561444 >

Re: Router recommendations

2015-01-08 Thread N. Shani
While I support what Bruce says, before you commit $$$, check that the router is not susceptible to the most recent vulnerability - Misfortune Cookie. To see the list of affected routers, have a look @ http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/561444 On 8 January 2015 at 13:16, Bruce Johnson wrote: > > On

Re: Router recommendations

2015-01-08 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jan 8, 2015, at 11:05 AM, Bob Whiton mailto:m...@rswhiton.com>> wrote: 2. If I’m only occasionally connecting a second computer, would I be better off just connecting the satellite modem directly to my iMac and using internet sharing when needed? Is a Mac behind a router any safer than

Router recommendations

2015-01-08 Thread Bob Whiton
Hi All - I managed to brick my Cisco/Linksys router by updating the firmware (making sure everything connected to the internet was up to date seemed like a good cold day project - NOT). After a vigorous argument with Linksys “support” (rant omitted), I find myself needing a new router, so I ha

Re: Converting PAL to DVD?

2015-01-08 Thread Bruce Johnson
> On Jan 7, 2015, at 8:21 PM, Bill Spencer wrote: > > I have installed HandBrake on the older iMac (10.7.5), inserted the disc, and > in HB clicked the "Source" icon. It searches the disc and returns the message > No Valid Source Found. Apparently I can change the region setting in iDVD a > f

Re: Converting PAL to DVD?

2015-01-08 Thread GMail Valter Psicof
Il giorno 07/01/15 19.17, "Bill Spencer" ha scritto: > Hi there: I picked up a DVD while visiting England last summer, thinking > that one of our players was region-free. Well, I was wrong on that...so how > can I convert this PAL DVD to an NTSC DVD so we can watch it? Bill, have you searched for