Re: Cox Business Internet

2016-07-13 Thread Stephen Partington
Interesting point of note, With the popularity of htps now running a server from home is much easier on a personal line than it ever was. the only weirdness comes from IP address changes. On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 9:58 AM, Lyle Tuttle wrote: > I am in Park City, Utah and having

Re: Cox Business Internet

2016-07-13 Thread Lyle Tuttle
I am in Park City, Utah and having my first experience with Comcast...visualize me puking!! At 09:18 AM 7/13/2016, Michael Butash wrote: All the incumbent MSO's (cable) and LEC's (ma bell) across the country are.  Cox won the first round getting SRP as a Cox customer to NOT give fiber to

Re: Cox Business Internet

2016-07-13 Thread Michael Butash
All the incumbent MSO's (cable) and LEC's (ma bell) across the country are.  Cox won the first round getting SRP as a Cox customer to NOT give fiber to Google in Phoenix with backdoor negotiations, which caused Google's initial delay after fanfare. 

Re: O/T: No Dell Recovery Disk.....

2016-07-13 Thread Stephen Partington
If you can download an ISO you can use Rufus to write the data to any USB drive (4GB+ 8GB reccomended) On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 7:38 AM, Keith Smith wrote: > > I'm sure what you say is true. I'm wondering how I might get 8.1 back on > the machine w/o needing the dell

Re: PFA: home computers have no "reasonable expectation of privacy"

2016-07-13 Thread Eric Oyen
well, I would recommend the use of pwgen and Ccrypt as interim measures. one can generate passwords of a very high order strength with one and encrypt files and folders (and even drive images) with the other. Nothing like good old fashioned command line tools to offer security. :) -eric of the

Re: O/T: No Dell Recovery Disk.....

2016-07-13 Thread Keith Smith
I'm sure what you say is true. I'm wondering how I might get 8.1 back on the machine w/o needing the dell USB drive. On 2016-07-13 07:31, Stephen Partington wrote: Well, you can try any windows 8.1/7 disk and perform the upgrade from that. It might allow you to do so. On Tue, Jul 12, 2016

Re: O/T: No Dell Recovery Disk.....

2016-07-13 Thread Stephen Partington
Well, you can try any windows 8.1/7 disk and perform the upgrade from that. It might allow you to do so. On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 5:50 PM, Keith Smith wrote: > > > Hi, > > I bought a Dell i5 several years ago and put Linux Mint on it and parked > it. I do not have a