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Jan 07

WET-11 - Need more range

My friendly neighbor got wise and turned on WEP so I started scanning for AP's in range with WEP disabled. Surprisingly I can connect to about 8 additional wireless access points in my girlfriend's apartment with the WET-11 but most are encrypted. A few are not but ...

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Jan 06

Tips on Installing Gallery

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I just finished installing the Sourceforge project Gallery. Here are some tips to save you a headache: After running the configuration wizard it recommends you to run 'secure.sh' to secure gallery. This script changes the permissions on: config.php .htaccess ...

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Jan 03

Microsoft Scheduled Tasks are Flaky

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Has anyone else noticed that 'Scheduled Tasks' in Windows are not as reliable as a cron job? This is the third time I have found a scheduled task that seems to have come under some spell and just quits functioning. The behavior is this: You check on a scheduled ...

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Aug 06

Wireless Repeater with a Linksys WET11

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At my girlfriends apartment I can pickup a faint unencrypted 802.11b signal from a nearby neighbor. Here's how I created a Wi-Fi repeater to "borrow" that high bandwidth connection. I bought a Linksys WET11 wireless ethernet bridge. I connected the Linksys WET11 to an extra Linksys ...

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Jan 17

goodbye directtv. hello bellsouth dsl.

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well directtv dsl service went out of business leaving me in a search for a new broadband connection. i signed up for bellsouth fastaccess dsl yesterday and this morning i could no longer connect to directtv. uggg. a quick check of my order status revealed that i ...

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