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system restore, heck no. windows firewall, don't think so. to make it clear, when not surfing (in fact, with no comp connected) i see activity light on modem merrily blinking away, activity light for modem on router merrily blinking away but no activity to the connected comp. surfing etc. works fine, except for some slowdown due to (my guess at least) the weird activity on the line that i'm thinking the router is blocking. (it shows when it blocks a portscan in its log, which it isn't now, so it's either icmp commands or stuff directed at a certain port that it's blocking.) i was just wondering if anyone else on adelphia is seeing this junk on the line.

it's just sad how at some point there is always the oh no not again moment when the umpteenth person comes up with the same problem and you have to explain something basic all over again. working IT could be so nice, if it weren't for the users. and yes, i do admit i'm a geek. sometimes reluctantly, but even so.

i am just wondering if any other pr adelphia users are experiencing a similar problem: i see a bunch of traffic on the modem, and activity from the router to the modem, but no packages being routed to connected computers. this has gotten to the point where it is actually slowing my connection down some, adelphia tech support doesn't know what it could be. of course my router blocks icmp commands and doesn't forward any ports i don't want open, so i'm guessing there is something running itself against that wall for the last few days. i'm just puzzled, and close to taking the router out and connecting directly to the comp to see if the xp firewall catches on to something. but then i don't feel good about taking down one firewall when there is something weird going on. :

the original hacker, the competent programmer, is ok. it's just a kind of honorific. but the now more common recipient of the term hacker, the criminal that breaks into other peoples systems, should not be glorified. especially those that break into systems, claim they did nothing wrong, and then decorate themselves with the wilted laurels of their ill gotten gains. if someone breaks into a dozen systems, even without stealing any information, he has violated private property. even if that property belongs to a corporation, it is still private. if it is government property it is even worse. let's say said hacker has broken into a couple of larger systems and then writes a book about it. all of a sudden he /is/ making money off his criminal enterprise. he is, however, hailed as a 'good' hacker because all he did was point to an existing flaw. the fact that he exploited a flaw for financial or personal gains is sadly ignored. and please do me the favor of citing such concepts of civil disobedience in conjunction with hacking public systems for 'demonstration' purposes so i can throw back at you the fact that in the past, civil disobedience was rewarded with jailtime or worse. (gandi, mandela etc. etc.)

i read the will be offering products as we haven't come up with a name yet. pentiumD is dual core, single thread. pentium extreme edition is a flashy name, dual core and HT. and there is still nothing there, not even in the demo, that gives the combination of PentiumD and ht.

huh? what plugins or extensions do i need for ie? if you are talking about the shockwave, quicktime etc. stuff that is simply because it's a proprietary format and ms does not have the license to distribute it.

:haha: and if you could show me on that page where it says it supports HT please? the dual core HT one is the pentium extreme edition. surprisingly enough the pentium D and pentium extreme have the same processor numbers, but one does, one doesn't have hyperthreading. i wonder how many people have accidentally bought the wrong processor?

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ok. enlighten me. why the fuck are you calling me an idiot for believing there are cables strung all over the fucking oceans connecting different continents. first of all, the first transatlantic phone calls were made using what? messages scribbled on rocks and then skipped across the pond? fyi there were no sattelites at the time so don't even come up with the stupid reply the used sattelites. and it wasn't sonar either, the speed of sound is higher in water but i think even the first transatlantic phone calls had less than 2 or 3 hours lag. (don't feel like googling for speed of sound in water right now, you do it if you are so smart.) second of all, currently the internet connections to other continents are what? satellite? do you notice that there is no tremendous lag when you use a foreign site? that leaves two possibilities. one, the site is mirrored by your isp. or two, there are actually cables. i'm gonna doublepost unless someone beats me to it and add a fuckload of sites dealing with underwater cable installation, maintenance etc. of course, you will just come back and say that that whole industry is a sham. just like the faked moon landing. before you call someone an idiot for no goddamned reason whatsoever, do a google search. :evil: :uzi: :angry4: :angry8: :angry4: :cussing: :cussing: :bs: :bs: :violent1: :violent1: :violent1: :violent1: :violent5: :mad: :mad: :pain10: :pain10: :protest: :protest: :protest:

http://www.compfused.com/directlink/950/ :haha: :haha: :haha:

it's too bad empire earth never got the credit it deserves.

well, new orleans for example got the retrofit to undersea cabling for free.

maybe inquire if the local telco offers isdn. would give you a steady 64k on one channel, 128 if you combine them. and isdn is actually set up for that, so as long as the isp and telco support it, you won't need 2 accounts.that way he can surf at 64k having one line open for voice then connect at 128k for larger downloads.

shhh...

the product touted as secure. because such huge projects as an os or an office suite will always have some little chink in it's armour, and the proliferation of a product among most users means that the odds of finding an unpatched installation to poke at are higher than when targeting a product with a higher 'geek' factor, since said geeks are more likely to keep their system up to date. as demonstrated by the 57 or so people using ff having downloaded it 97 million times.

hm. firefox 95000000 downloads sounds to me like some one-liner. like: eat shit! 10 billion flies can't be wrong.

actually, i forget if it's this thread or anotyher thread he said he was compressing by 70%. even if so that doesn't warrant the results and i remeber reading something about the test files being already compressed anyways to eliminate things like that skewing the results.

you're probably in cahoots with him to make us all jealous. but seriously, if his speed is due to compression, then why /do/ the testmynet tests come out faster? i thought they were fairly uncompressable files to prevent that.

check the other adelphia speed thread. i can get a slightly higher dl. from ms i download at about 520 to 550 kBps. right now i'm getting a fuckload of traffic in from the modem, my firewall/router is blocking it though. anyone else? my log doesn't show portscan attempts or something of the like, so it's just a bunch of incomig requests being blocked.

the reason ms products get hacked more than the competition (be it linux, ff, mac or whatever) is that there are merely more targets out there.

just be sure to post your ip and the time as well so the proper people can be notified, erm, i mean, so we have proof that it was actually done...

prolly just don't want to admit someone deltree'd the server.