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pros and cons either way you go. If you network the printer using peer to peer, that means that the computer that does not have the printer attached locally can: #1-only print when the other computer is on. #2-only print when the network is available. If you're not receiving any errors on the console when the user tries to print, do you have anything in the event log?

I'm not too fond of personal firewalls, unless you've only got a single computer on your network. Technically security should be "defense in depth", so if you've got a personal firewall it's all for the better--But I don't think they are especially useful if you're running a nat'ing router at your perimeter. Chances are if anything, that the firewall is going to detect outbound traffic that you weren't aware of (i.e. spyware/downloaded virus garbage etc.) If you are fairly safe about your browsing habits, AND you have a nat'ing router in place already, I would not worry about a personal firewall. And if you are one of the lucky ones who have not had any problems with SP 2---the firewall built in is more than sufficient.

basically bro, your shit is fucked and rather than spend any time or effort trying to fix this problem you should just blow the entire filesystem away and start fresh. Since you don't have a 2nd disk, and you never said whether you had a CD Burner...we were discussing other ways to move all the unreplaceable files back

You know, ages kind of suck, because after you hit 21 you don't really have much to look forward to except a senior citizen's discount at burger king and collecting social security. You spend all your life waiting to be 16 so you can drive to the local porn shop and wish that you were 18 so that you could go inside and buy a porn mag. Then when you're 18 you go inside a buy porn, but wish that you were 21 so that you could drink beer while you look at your porn mag. It's such a pitiful life.

I think you should changed "BANNED" to stool pusher.

Well in addition to knowing what a hyperbole is, maybe you should brush up on the difference between an OPINION And a request/demand:

Congrats all. CA3lE...is there any provisions for allowing members to type their own description? It's been quite awhile since I slapped down a ho...in fact, I don't think I ever have. So being a pimp isn't really too fitting for me.

00011001 or if you prefer hex...19. you figure out the decimal.

The repair option in any version of windows is not very useful. All that is basically happening is it restores a few essential files if they are missing and pulls a backup of the registry out of a directory. And I don't even think that XP Pro does this from the setup disk anymore, you have to run recovery console and do it manually, and if you don't have a recent system restore/backup then you end up rolling back to first boot...and may end up having to install drivers again. Here's what you can do if you have the original disk that you installed the OS from. Pop the disk in. click start-->run type "CMD" press return. from command line type: SFC /SCANNOW Next, try installing something, then try uninstalling it. Install/Uninstall work? No? You're pretty much screwed then. Yes? Good, that just means the programs that are currently installed are missing their logs or something along those lines. If you're feeling really brave, you can go to program files and delete them. If you wanted to be a "REAL COOL GUY" you could unregister the DLL's by hand using regsvr32 -u from command line. Then fire up registry editor "regedit" from start-->run Go to HKLMSoftware and start blowing away the keys that pertain to the software that you just deleted. As mentioned about 100 times before, your best bet is to reinstall the OS entirely. If you don't have another hard disk...and you don't have a CD-Burner...which, hell...I haven't seen a computer without a CD-R in years...then what you could do is sign up for a bunch of free email accounts and email all the files to yourself. Reinstall the computer and go out and get the files. Remember...programs can be replaced, files cannot. The difference? A file is the output of a program...like a word doc or a spreadsheet or mom and dads tax files.

hahahahaha you've got to be shitting me. If a 10 year old is trying to play a Britney Spears strip tease game, his parents need to kick his ass and then their own for not monitoring their kids' internet useage. Second, 10 years old or 80 years old, I doubt either demographic will be on this forum which I would guess probably appeals to people between the ages of 15-30ish. Last, stop being so damn anal--looks like the majority of people got a kick out of it, but you just make yourself out to be a tight-twated individual by whining about getting a joke played on you.

Wow check this ish out: http://www.sveasoft.com/ They claim their hack of these particular routers open up all sorts of features plus are able to boost wireless signal by 900%

That web100 project sounds pretty interesting, but scary at the same time. I have to rebuild the kernel? spooky spooky spooky.

Lu', thanks for the info. I'm going to try this crap...even though I have no idea what it's doing....is it giving you root on my box?

I'm a Linux newb, this is actually the first time I've had a Linux box that is pretty stable. Anything I can do to optimize the connection? There isn't really a registry like there is in Windows, only a master database of settings I think....but I don't know alot about *nix. So...if anyone has any ideas, I'd be interested in trying them, as long as it won't compromise the stability of my system. Got this error when I tried posting just now

You know, it doesn't take too much ICMP traffic to totally knock someone down. I tested this in a lab one time, just kept launching command line windows sending packets to a particular hosts as big as I could. I tried the same thing in a Cisco lab and some of the routers will actually drop big ICMP packets. Could just make a post "Asshole of the day" Ask people to use ICMP to test to see if he's online. The longer the pings are sent and the bigger the packets...the better. Nothing better than screwing with someones site and then suddenly you start getting popped by about 100 different IP addresses.

I wouldn't sweat it. My firewall logs at work are insane, I get hammered by tons of port scans etc. It's kind of funny because my logs go: WARNING: no xlate src:outside somehost dst:inside my host

more: http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/WAP54G#head-30d502adf99368ce286c346bdfa17a38006f6c42

I was looking at firmware updates and I came across this: http://www.linksys.com/support/gpl.asp That's a tad bit interesting to say the very least. If these are basically little linux appliances, that would mean they can be modded...if you knew what you were doing of course.

The syntax of the command is all going to depend on what you have at your disposal. ASP? .NET? PHP? CGI?

Awhile back I put the IP address of the whitehouse.gov website...which at the time was whatever I have next to my avatar. Just for fun, I just checked it and it hath changed. It looks like Akamai.Net, who also hosts alot of stuff for Microsoft, handle the Whitehouse.Gov site also. I wonder if they are using DHCP on servers in conjunction with Dynamic DNS to prevent any hard-coded attacks against a specific URL...like what we saw with that one worm that launched a Ddos against whitehouse.gov. Interesting...I'd love to know more about the method behind this madness, definitely not an approach to security (if that's what this is..which I suspect)--that I have ever pondered. Because if this was indeed the mode of thinking, it could be defeated by going off of host-name alone.

yeah I got hammered by one of those big tests today. I tried a few tweaks and did the largest test and it ran SWIFTLY. Then...like a smack in the face, I get the bigger test that seemed to cause my computer to have a nasty ancient disease known as "DRAGON ASS". I think it came back and said: Dial up is running 500 times faster than you are.

If you haven't seen this already, it's great. http://www.exbyte.net/files/games/54a84e57afe1ebad1d5e7828b9b3b65bmaze.swf

I've been working IT for about 7 years now. Most organizations have a jumble-fux of MS products, Linux/Unix, sometimes Novell, Mac etc. When you get down to the brass tacks of it all, some solutions are better than others, regardless of what platform they run on. I have to admit that Microsoft really does gouge the hell out of clients with licensing fees, which gets really old quick. But aside from the costs of Microsoft products, I think that most of the stuff they make is pretty damn good. Sure it has holes, but whether anyone is willing to admit it or not, Microsoft has really driven technology to new heights. They definitely innovate (even if security isn't at the top of the agenda). I've developed some software before, and testing it to make sure you have all of your grounds covered is not an easy task. But testing is only as good as what you are able to think of that someone may do. Know what I mean? If you don't expect someone to send some wildly malformed packet to your server, you're not going to test for it and until someone does it and says "This causes a problem", you aren't going to know about it.

When I was trying how to figure out how to get transparent windows going, I seen there are some downloads to make Windows do it now...haven't tried it yet. And from what I have experienced when I turn on the Transparent windows, the system slows down alot because it's using some kind of OpenGL routine to do the calculations. Anyways, as far as Linux goes in general and my sentiments...I'm not too impressed. There is waaay too much of a learning curve between Linux and Windows. Plus 9/10 of the distributions I have installed in the past, sucked so bad on default install that they were barely useable. I don't think that someone who installs Linux for the first time should have to worry about trying to optimize the system and fix bugs. But this is the longest that I think I've ever had Linux running on a machine and I'm going to try to stick with it for awhile and see what I can learn. I'm mainly doing this so I can understand something more than just Microsoft products. Anyone who is going to school for IT or wants a job in IT or whatever, if all you know is Microsoft...you're going to have a tough row to hoe. But if you know Linux and Microsoft...and even some good programming languages, you should be set for just about any job.