Re: [SLUG] Need a lesson in routing [WAS: memory]

2009-02-21 Thread Chris Zhang
Perhaps you can use a socks proxy through a SSH tunnel and ask the Linux box to do DNS for you. This means the only thing that is affecting your speed behind the firewall is the actual connection between the host(running FF) and the firewall. e.g. on the Mac/Windows, ssh -D 1234

[SLUG] Re: Mythbuntu box shutting down at random

2009-02-21 Thread elliott-brennan
Wished I could Simon, but the machine won't even boot past the BIOS post now... I'm considering replacing the mobo and just having done with it. You know some times you don't mind spending several days trying to work everything out and some times you're only willing to spend a day??? This is

Re: [SLUG] Need a lesson in routing [WAS: memory]

2009-02-21 Thread James Polley
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Martin Visser martinvisse...@gmail.com wrote: Kyle, a few things. Firstly you talk about 15Kbps. In my mind this reads as 15 thousand bits per second. This is slower than dialup speeds. (A little b is always bits *not* bytes, which is B in communication

Re: [SLUG] Re: Mythbuntu box shutting down at random

2009-02-21 Thread Ben Donohue
Hi Patrick, pull out everything that is not needed to start the box up. you only need a video card. check that your IDE cables are the right way. only connect one IDE device like the HDD. pull out network cards and anything else in there. pull out all memory except one chip. also try changing

Re: [SLUG] Mythbuntu box shutting down at random

2009-02-21 Thread Heracles
Hi Elliot, I may be way off here, but I had the same problem a while ago. It turned out that the power supply had a fault which started as random and then eventually the machine would not boot; whenever something caused a spike like when a HDD firing up it couldn't cope. It was hard to