― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 9 May 2004 12:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 9 May 2004 13:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 19:50 (nineteen years ago) link
Airport Extreme is the new version of Airport, and it's the same as 802.11g (from what I can tell). The Airport Extreme base station is $199 - 249 depending on whether you get the modem and antenna port; since you can get other 802.11g routers for as low as $100, you may want to check that shit out instead.
If you've got the basic version of Airport (ie no Extreme) then you probably have 802.11b on your notebook, so getting the Extreme or 11g version of the wireless router won't be all that important unless you're planning to upgrade your notebook down the road. Since cable and DSL connections are already slower than even the 802.11b (basic Airport) setup, you're not going to be gaining anything by overspending here. And getting an 802.11b router may be a bit cheaper than 11g...but probably not by much.
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 20:33 (nineteen years ago) link
thanks, btw!
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 20:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 20:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Aaron W (Aaron W), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 20:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 20:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 21:03 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00007KDVJ/qid=1084399427/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl23/103-9923206-1101432?v=glance&s=electronics&n=507846
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005854B/qid=1084399475/sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i2_xgl23/103-9923206-1101432?v=glance&s=electronics&n=507846
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 21:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 21:10 (nineteen years ago) link
I saw a D-Link access point (b, not g) at my local supermarket for $40 (after rebate) or maybe it was $30?
― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 21:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 21:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 21:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 21:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 21:49 (nineteen years ago) link
The Internet <--> cable or DSL modem <--> optional: router <--> your computer
If you're plugging your computer directly into your modem, you don't have a router. If you have a box with multiple Ethernet ports on it between your modem and your computer, you probably have a router.
The new DSL/cable broadband sharing routers are great because it logs onto the net for you (especially if you have DSL connection that requires PPPoE authentication, because it means you don't have to use that dumb and unreliable software client that DSL providers stick you with) and then uses network address translation to change your IP #s in your inner network. This means that people can't waltz directly into your computer from the outside world, they have to hack a bit first (this one is especially true if you're on a cable modem connection, where a direct connection of your computer into your modem might well result in your computer showing up in the networks of other people plugged into cable modems in your neighborhood).
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 22:37 (nineteen years ago) link
When I try and unpack dmg files of games and stuff, I get a failure message that says "invalid checksum". What does that mean?
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 May 2004 01:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Thursday, 13 May 2004 10:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 13 May 2004 13:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 13 May 2004 13:24 (nineteen years ago) link
Plus out of the box, 'It just works' functionality.
― Ed (dali), Thursday, 13 May 2004 14:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 13 May 2004 14:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 13 May 2004 14:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Thursday, 13 May 2004 14:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Antmusic78 (Antmusic78), Friday, 14 May 2004 12:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 14 May 2004 16:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 02:36 (nineteen years ago) link
Sadly you've denied me the pleasure of giving you useless advice.
― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 04:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 04:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 04:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 04:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 04:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 04:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 04:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 04:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 04:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 04:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 04:45 (nineteen years ago) link
But the most troubling thing is that Zonealarm has alerted me that Explorer and WMPlayer is trying to access the internet, and once, some program called abetterinternet.com or somesuch tried to connect to the internet, too. I'll have to run adaware/spyware blaster, but what in heck is going on??
― Leee's a Simpson (Leee), Friday, 28 May 2004 20:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 May 2004 20:39 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/11/21/maintenance.html
― Girolamo Savonarola, Friday, 28 May 2004 22:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 28 May 2004 22:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Leee's a Simpson (Leee), Friday, 28 May 2004 22:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Girolamo Savonarola, Friday, 28 May 2004 23:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Leee's a Simpson (Leee), Friday, 28 May 2004 23:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Girolamo Savonarola, Friday, 28 May 2004 23:06 (nineteen years ago) link
Yeah that's a good next step, I guess that might indicate if it's OS or hardware related. Thx!
― The Pingularity (ledge), Monday, 15 July 2019 12:41 (four years ago) link
i need to use a windows program to update the firmware on a gadget over USB. i have macs. how do i do this?
virtualbox, right? can that see the host machine's USB bus? and is there an easy way to get an ultra minimal windows image to run in virtualbox. isn't windows basically free to try these days? i haven't used windows for 20 years.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 14 February 2020 21:13 (four years ago) link
My computer just completely conked out on me as I was watching a youtube video on how to play the guitar part from Solsbury Hill. Admittedly I shouldn't have been doing this as I have to teach in an hour and a half and I don't play the guitar, but still, I wouldn't have expected it to break my computer. Dang it.
― Lily Dale, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 17:33 (three years ago) link
I must in that case consider it good fortune that I got away with watching the video for Games Without Frontiers the other day.
― Noel Emits, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 17:55 (three years ago) link
xp Have you tried shocking the monkey?
― maf you one two (maffew12), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 19:52 (three years ago) link
Or taking a sledgehammer to it?
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 19:54 (three years ago) link
Don't give up...
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 20:02 (three years ago) link
Sorry if kidding around seems insensitve. Sudden conking out can be distressing or at least inconvenient.
― Noel Emits, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 20:23 (three years ago) link
No, it's fine. I mean, I'm not looking forward to having to spend a bunch of money getting it fixed, but I have a separate work computer, plus an older personal computer that still works okay, so I'm not hugely inconvenienced. Mostly I posted bc I thought it was funny.
― Lily Dale, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 20:27 (three years ago) link
I grieve for you
― Marry and Neghim (darraghmac), Wednesday, 10 March 2021 00:13 (three years ago) link
All of a sudden, in the blink of a system update, I seem to have lost audio drivers. Can hear nothing. Please send help!
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 23 May 2021 11:59 (two years ago) link
While we're at it - does anyone else have a hard time getting your video to appear in Zoom calls? I assume something is wrong with my camera setting but am not sure how to address it.
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 23 May 2021 12:01 (two years ago) link
Not sure about the second, but for the first, are you using Windows?
― lukas, Monday, 24 May 2021 04:16 (two years ago) link
So I just got a new system, but I've kept my existing monitor which I've never had a problem with, and now after certain games I get a very slight intermittent flickering at the very top of the screen.
The monitor is running at 144 hz when it does this, locking it down to 60 seems to fix it but I don't want to lose out on faster frame rates. Why would it be doing this? Any ideas. Googling just produces 'oh update drivers' which I already have.
― Ste, Saturday, 11 December 2021 20:49 (two years ago) link
Windows is running it at 143hz which is the closest option for 144. Graphics card is a 3070ti and seems to be fine with everything. Using other monitors that only use 60 limit is fine too.
― Ste, Saturday, 11 December 2021 20:50 (two years ago) link
Can you set the refresh rate to exactly 144Hz in Advanced display settings?
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Saturday, 11 December 2021 21:05 (two years ago) link
nah it won't go above 143. I read that that is okay though, so don't think it's that. It's weird when it happens, only every now and again but seems to occur on this one game, then when i exit it still happens around windows.
Further reading, someone mentioned G-sync should be enabled. Well it was enabled for full screen but not for windowed apps. So I've now clicked that, first glance seems to have stopped. But i'm tired and going to bed now so will revisit tomorrow.
― Ste, Saturday, 11 December 2021 23:21 (two years ago) link
The 143/144 thing seems culprit -ish. Also what is g sync
― calstars, Saturday, 11 December 2021 23:32 (two years ago) link
one thing i did learn in all this, hdmi cable will only go up to 100 hz but dp cable gives me the full 144
― Ste, Saturday, 11 December 2021 23:34 (two years ago) link
xp, it's nvidia's own v-sync in short. So there might be conflicts if ingame vsync enable etc. I'm going to delve further tomorrow.
― Ste, Saturday, 11 December 2021 23:35 (two years ago) link
does the monitor do 120?
― koogs, Sunday, 12 December 2021 01:25 (two years ago) link
Can anyone help with a Firefox on Android problem?I updated Firefox yesterday and today my Wordle webpage is a blank white screen. Opening on private browser tab looks normal, but I'd rather not lose my stats.Have googled and found this https://www.reddit.com/r/wordle/comments/sqqkr7/wordle_glitch_is_only_giving_me_a_blank/ but on my phone I can only seem to "delete all cookies and site data" for the site I'm on i.e. NYTimes, which I assume will delete my stats?
Anyone know any way I can delete individual cookies or any other way of getting the Wordle back to normal without deleting my history? It's not the end of the wordl (ha) if I have to but would rather not if there's a way round it?
― kinder, Friday, 22 April 2022 08:47 (two years ago) link
(I don't have a NY Times subscription)
― kinder, Friday, 22 April 2022 09:03 (two years ago) link