Posts by CimmerianX

What are the minimum requirements on the 'Grand Chase' game? Does the new PC meet these.

So you have a VGA vid card, but what kind is it? Do you have the model? If you are jut short a driver, the manufacturer site should provide the download for you.

Well if hotspot shield caused it to break, uninstall the app and see if you get a working system back.

Do you have any other vpn clients on that machine?

Try this: http://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/nForce/12.15/12.15_nforce_520_winxp32_english_whql.exe

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Took 5 seconds on google:
http://support.acer.com/us/en/product/default.aspx?tab=1&modelId=581

Why not just clone the machine ?

http://www.mytricks.in/2011/09/guide-working-with-vmware-workstation-8.html

I would help to know what is the inside ip of the host running the service.
What service/port is it?
Is the IP static?
From another host on the network, can you telnet to that ip and port (see rch1231's post above).

If you can't get to the port from another host on the inside network, then the dlink doesn't come into play here yet. There is a problem on that host itself.

Looks like it wants to install on a 32 bit system or different hardware. What distro are you running?

That Trendnet's 4 Gig ports can be used as normal ports. See below:

http://trendnet.com/products/proddetail.asp?prod=230_TEG-424WS&cat=117
24 x 10/100Mbps Auto-MDIX Fast Ethernet ports
4 x 10/100/1000Mbps Auto-MDIX Gigabit ports

They are referred to as 'uplink ports' probably because when this router was released, 100 to hosts was the norm. 1 Gig was 'reserved' for connections between switches.

You should be ok.

Make sure you have the latest firmware on the unit. Ver 1.25NA (if you're in North America)
http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=DIR-628

Double check your internal IP. What ip are you forwarding into? Is this IP static on the the device? Can you access that Port's service from another system inside your network?

We have another windows convert. Welcome to your new OS.

So there are some differences in the directory structure between the 2. As a primer, read the following:
http://ictom.wetpaint.com/page/Windows+vs+Linux+File+System
http://www.freeos.com/articles/3102

Keep this handy reference taped to your wall until you are used to it.
http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/09/linux-file-system-structure/

I don't think I've ever used a Linux AV program. rubberman mentioned ClanAV which is good. But it is very difficult to get any infection in Linux if you aren't running as 'root' which you shouldn't be doing anyway.

Check your device manager. Right click My Computer - Manage computer - device manager. If you see any yellow symbols on the devices, then it is most likely missing a driver. If you have your laptop/pc model. You can go to the site for support and download the latest drivers (which you should do for all devices anyway) and install those.

A DMG file when burned to a disk, may or may not be bootable depending on the DMG.

You can burn a dmg to disk. Here's how:
http://lifehacker.com/251758/mac-tip--how-to-burn-an-iso-or-dmg-file-to-disc

To burn a dmg file to disk within windows, I've read you can use 3rd party apps like TransMac. I've never seen any native windows program that would do this. IF I'm wrong, someone jump in here.

In the MAC, you can convert the DMG to an ISO. The Windows PC can certainly work with that format.
"hdiutil convert image.dmg -format UDTO -o image.iso"

I was thrown into the fire so to speak. I took a position with a company as the network engineer but was quickly asked to 'look at' an apache error. I gave it a shot and it took off from there.

If you ask 5 people, you'll probably get 5 answers.

I use Avast on my laptop. Its free and works well for me. That's my 2 cents.

Ubuntu makes a 'netbook' edition for download. http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu HAve you tried that?

Also running the install iso from a usb stick is very easy. I do it all the time. I can't remember the last time I burnt an ISO to a CD.
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/download Look at step 2 for your info.

I agree with Rik.

If the bulk of your space is in your Documents, then you might want to consider taking the older items that you only keep for historicals and move those off to an external disk to save some space.

Do you have a large media collection on this disk?
HAve you cleared out downloads and temp files?

You probably have a 172.68.50.0 255.255.255.0 subnet. Is that a correct assumption?

If it is, you can double your hosts by changing the subnet mask from 255.255.255.0 to 255.255.254.0. Then your network stays at 172.168.50.0, your hosts can use 172.68.50.1-172.68.51.254, and the broadcast becomes 172.168.50.255. Your default gateway on the .50 ip doesn't change, but you still need to edit the hosts so that they have the new subnet mask.

This of cource only works if you haven't assigned 172.68.51 anywhere else in your network. (without a lot of complex natting).

The power lead to the fan from the motherboard could have issues. If the fan works if, when out of the laptop, you apply power, but in the laptop never turns on, even at bootup, then it could be a problem with that power connector.....

Are you certain the fan doesn't spin even at bootup?

Sounds to me like you want an IP port forward. You would need something in between the 2 devices to take the originating request and redirect the port to the new host's port.

Many consumer routers/firewalls can do this right out of the box.

For a host, you can look at squid proxy or even just IPTables.

SRV records aren't designed to do that. SRV helper records can send traffic to a specific host based on destination port, but can't redirect that port.

For example, if you have a dns zone called sip.company.com, clients can use that zone as the registrar address. Behind the scenes you setup SRV record so that anyone who requests sip.company.com and is looking for tcp 5060 will be sent to server1.sip.company.com.

The USB headset will probably not work along with the onboard sound output. IF you use windows, usually only 1 device can be active for sound output. Go with the above suggestions, and get a splitter. Costs all of $1.90 at radio shack.

Does this machine site behind a router or do you plug in directly to your ISP modem?

Can you ping the default gateway at 112.205.0.1?
Can you ping the DNS server at 125.106.5.2?
Can you resolve names at the DNS using NSLOOKUP?
Can you ping beyond those to 4.2.2.2?

If those all work, then check if someone turned on the Proxy in your browser.

I don't understand your question. Do you want to know what subnet mask to use to support 32 hosts? That would be a mask of /26 which supports 62 hosts.

NMAP SCanner is what I use. ZenMap GUI can be used as a front end if you don't like command line.

If you included the 1 start bit, you'd get 1+7+1+2. 11 bits total with 4 for overhead with is something like 36.36363636%

For the baud rate, did I incorrectly assume you were talking about modem speed?

The Gross Bitrate can be expressed as R = bitrate*log_base2(M) where R is the rate and M is the number of distinct messages.

For Rs232, each character frame has 1 start bit, the data bits, the parity bit (optional), and the stop bit(s).

The start bit is the transition from negative voltage to positive. All rs232 communication has 1 start bit, it's just assumed to be there. I didn't include the 1 start bit in the math.

7 data bits + 1 Parity bit + 2 stop bit = 10 bit total with 3 being used for control. 30%. If you included the 1 start bit, you'd get 1+7+1+2. 11 bits total with 4 for overhead with is something like 36.36363636% IIRC Assuming the start bit is not included is the only way to get one of the multiple choice answers.

bit rate = baud rate when over 110, so for 1st question, 12000/8 = 1500 baud

For the 2nd question, total bits sent = 7 bit data, 2 stop bits, 1 bit parity = 10 bits. 2 stop bits + 1 parity bit = 3 bits. 3/10 = 30% overhead.

I think a VLookup might be what you are looking for....

http://spreadsheetpage.com/index.php/tip/alternatives_to_nested_if_functions/
http://www.ozgrid.com/Excel/excel-vlookup-formula.htm

I have 2 methods I like to use.

1st one is basically stokes1900's solution where you run a hosts file pointing bad sites to your loopback ip 127.0.0.1. There are several tools that will create the file for you. Spybot s&D http://www.safer-networking.org/index2.html or the 'parasite' hosts file http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm are both good options.

2nd one is to run peer block. http://www.peerblock.com/ it runs on the stack and blocks traffic based on its list.

All those suggestions are free and work well for me.

I'm just going to ditto wldake's reply. Using a random public IP as an internal network doesn't cause any issues internally.

These lines will help support ICMP echos going in and out.... add them to the ACLs.

for example:
access-list dmz_access_in extended permit icmp any any source-quench
access-list dmz_access_in extended permit icmp any any unreachable
access-list dmz_access_in extended permit icmp any any time-exceeded

Check the ASA log "show logging" or the ASDM home screen. If the ASA is blocking any packets, a drop error will be displayed and/or recorded.

You can also hop on the DMZ web server, open a browser, and check 'canyourseeme.org' It will list your current IP, then you can test back to port 80/443 to see if they are open from the outside.

A shutdown is a complete power down of the system. When started again, its a fresh load of the OS and the related services.

Hibernation is typically a process where the OS will take it's current state (memory, running apps, etc..) and write the state to a file on the Hard Drive then power down. When the machine is started again, the OS will take the hibernation file and reload the contents so that you can continue on from the exact same point.

.... basically...

Oops - forgot to mention that you need to apply the acl to the interface and direction of traffic with :

access-group outside_in in interface outside

In the ASA, you have the static NAT created. You will also need to create an inbound access list to allow the traffic...

access-list outside_in extended permit tcp any host <public ip mapped to .60> eq 80
access-list outside_in extended permit tcp any host <public ip mapped to .60> eq 443

You will need to point your DNS A record for the website to the new IP address.
You may need to add/reissue a cert for use in the site if you use https.

If it's a remote IP and you are looking for its open ports... use nmap

something like: nmap -p 1-65535 -T4 -A -v -PE -PS22,25,80 -PA21,23,80,3389 10.0.0.0

oodefrag is another good one. But remember that every defrag tool will slow down your machine.

I wish my wife would buy me a $800 toy.

Tell her to forget the ipad and spend the money on a 3 day cruise for 2 instead.

Where is the media server? What is its IP? If the server is not on the same subnet as the PS3, then the PS3 will need some sort of gateway to reach it.

Does the wifi and ethernet get different IP addresses on different subnets via DHCP?

Connect both and run an IPCONFIG /all and post the results.

Sounds like you may have bricked it.

When you plug in via ethernet, do you get a DHCP ip on your system? If yes, run a IPCONFIG /ALL from command prompt and you will see the DHCP server address. That would be the router ip to connect to.

If you get nothing, then you might be out of luck. IMHO

That's looks pretty good.

Did you also run the online scan jholland suggested?

Test the CD in another system to make sure the CD burn and the image are good.

If it tests well, then look for a startup boot menu. Many systems let you hit F12 or something to manually select the boot device.

There must be another administrator account on the machine that you would need to use. A limited user can not grant himself admin rights.

Usually, the PC must have at least 1 admin account... I don't think windows would let you demote all accounts to limited user, so there must be another account on there...

IF the PC is showing memory amounts changing, it could be that one of your mem chips is going bad (or has finally failed).

The normal troublesshooting for this would be to pull power, open the unit, and remove all but 1 memory chip. Then reboot and see if it fails. (depending on the model, the mem chips may be installed in pairs so if there are 4 chips, you pull the 2 from the same color slots)

This will isolate 1 bank of memory and will see if the problem comes back.

Also, Dell may no longer sell that type of memory, but you should be able to find it somewhere. Even ebay I would imagine. But if you aren't technical, you have to be very careful that you by the right type of mem.

Also remember that you can usually pick up a decent new machine for $300 (not much of a machine but still a working unit). So if replacement memory is $200 for that old stuff, you might just want to consider a whole new unit (which has a new warranty).

You looking for a quote or something? Just hit up blackbox or monoprice for prices.

You can pop out the hard drive, and use a USB to IDE/SATA adapter to hook up the drive like a USB-drive.

I use this one: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2329300&CatId=3770

The adapters are pretty cheap. As long as the drive's file system is readable and the drive works (hardware wise), then you should be able to look at the drive on another PC just like a USB stick.

The Wireless is disconnected, the Wired link is not.

BTW, you don't need to edit out addresses from a private range ... just an fyi.

the big question is this: What is DNS Servers 10.100.2.1? is 10.100.2.1 your router's internal LAN ip? I would think yes since that's the usual way for consumer routers to work.

I can offer 2 sugestions.
#1 - On the router, check to see what it's current WAN config looks like. It should dhcp an IP from the ISP along with DNS info.

#2 - (This is what I do) for a small home network, assign a manual DNS server for the router in its DHCP setup. So instead of handing out its own ip, have it hand out a public dns ip like the opendns servers.
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
http://www.opendns.com

That way when your internal hosts get a dhcp address from your router, your router will assign the opendns ips as dns servers, then your hosts should start resolving FQDNs as they should.

When you test nslookup again, the server ip should now be the opendns ips and the www.google.com lookup should succeed.

Nintendo power glove on steroids?

Pg 28 has the info on port forwards. Doesnt hurt to double check.

If remote web is off and port 80 is forwarded, then the router should not be answering any requests. I would double check that you have the right ip and have another3rd party site check the open port.

Use www.canyouseeme.org to verify your ip and have it check your port 80. Maybe your friend is hitting the wrong router??

Can your friend run an nmap scan of the IP? After the 1st scan, try forwarding a new port inside to your host, and let him rescan. The new port should appear.