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Comment Re:Why is everything else allowed on the network? (Score 1) 80

If every other device mess with wifi frequencies (or close enough to them), it will cause issue. It's the same thing that happen in dense apartment buildings where everyone get his own wireless access point (everyone get crappy wifi).

Yes... that's what I meant by "unless a bunch of people are trying to operate ad-hoc networks to do tethering with cellular data service" -- interference from other networks operating in the courtroom.

I wasn't aware this trial was so popular, I haven't heard that anyone is live-blogging it, so I wonder who all these people are who feel they need to have an internet connection running during the trial. I assume the counsel brings their presentation materials with them already on their laptop hard drives at the start of a session.

Comment Why is everything else allowed on the network? (Score 1) 80

Maybe I just don't understand what is really happening here, but shouldn't the wi-fi network for official court usage be secured so only those terminals are able to connect. The cell phones and stuff shouldn't be causing an issue, unless a bunch of people are trying to operate ad-hoc networks to do tethering with cellular data service.

Comment Re:Viable Replacement? (Score 1) 242

Yeah, great, but some routers' built-in support is locked to dyndns.org. I can recall a belkin G from half a decade ago, still in use by a friend. Maybe that's been fixed, but he'll need to shell out cash to fix something that should never have been hardcoded. At least dd-wrt doesn't have this problem.

It doesn't have to be the actual router that makes the updates, since the dynamic DNS record simply points to your public IP, not to a specific machine on your side. My router doesn't support Dynamic DNS services at all. It's the FreeNAS server that's running on it that calls in to no-ip.com to update my record. The router just forwards the incoming requests to the correct machine on the network by port number.

Comment Re:Alternatives (Score 1) 242

Anyway isn't this supposed to be a stopgap before IPV6 means we can all have permanent static IPS?!

You think your ISP is going to give you static IPs for free just because they have an IPv6 pool to dive into? Chances are it will still be DHCP and rotate occasionally. And the fee an ISP charges for static IP is more per year than paying for a dynamic DNS service.

Comment Re:Microsoft still provide support for Windows XP (Score 0) 650

Please link me to the page where I can sign my mom up for this extended support for XP. I'm sure she'd be willing to pay a nominal fee.

Her Microsoft Security Essentials is now trying to spook her into upgrading too, by becoming a System Tray-based reminder that XP support is about to end.
I'm waiting for her to crack so I can move her over to Linux Mint/Cinnamon.

Comment Re:What's a good no-nonsense registrar? (Score 1) 77

What's a good no-nonsense registrar for major TLDs? It doesn't have to be super cheap. I want to dump Network Solutions because they gave me an unsolicited domain (I had .com and .net; they gave me a useless .info) which they then expect me to pay to renew.

What happens if you simply refuse to pay the renewal on the .info one and only pay the .com/.net ones?

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