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« on: 4 January 2003, 16:50 »
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« Reply #1 on: 4 January 2003, 18:41 »
Where the fuck is everybody, over the past week it just seems to be just me you and muffin man here regularly (and MoR a little).

I suppose all you people think you have better things to do over this holiday period...
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« Reply #2 on: 4 January 2003, 19:58 »
I'm back. Took a nice 2 week break for xmas and New Years. I really didn't touch a computer but once or twice the entire time. It was very refreshing...
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« Reply #3 on: 4 January 2003, 21:22 »
quote:
Originally posted by void main:
[QB] I really didn't touch a computer but once or twice the entire time. [\QB]


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« Reply #4 on: 4 January 2003, 21:25 »
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Originally posted by void main:
...I really didn't touch a computer but once or twice the entire time...


You lucky lucky bastard.
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« Reply #5 on: 4 January 2003, 22:07 »
It was one of the few large breaks that I can remember in the last 10 years that at least one of my machines didn't automatically page me with some sort of problem that required me to cut it short. Usually there is a major power outage or some network line problem or some other problem. It was a great break!

The only problem that happened while I was gone was my internal home firewall/gateway machine lost a power supply. I tried to get something off one of my home machines from my parents house and couldn't get into it. When I got home last night I noticed the power was off on the gateway. I pulled the power supply apart and found the fuse on the board inside was blown.

I didn't have another fuse of that size so I soldered a piece of wire across it. Plugged it in and ZAP! followed by a small flame. Luckily I had an old 486 stuffed in the corner of the garage with a power supply that the motherboard plugs matched up. Had it up and running a few minutes later. I guess I can't complain. It's a 6 year old home built Pentium 100. Can't expect things to run forever I guess.
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« Reply #6 on: 4 January 2003, 22:55 »
:D  even the great and the good don't always go by the rules! soldering a wire across!  :D  it's easy for me to say i'd never do that...   :rolleyes:
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« Reply #7 on: 4 January 2003, 23:22 »
quote:
Originally posted by Calum:
 :D   even the great and the good don't always go by the rules! soldering a wire across!   :D   it's easy for me to say i'd never do that...    :rolleyes:  


Heh heh, well the thing is I knew that something was likely shorted within the power supply that caused the fuse to blow in the first place. I was hoping it was just a buildup of dust. After blowing all the dust off and soldering the wire on I crossed my fingers but fully expected to see flames. If I didn't see flames I would have dug up a fuse to replace the one that was blown. But if I did see flames I knew the PS would have been too far gone for me to consider repairing anyway. Luckily I had a junk machine with a good PS. Otherwise I would have had to make a trip to the computer shop to pick up a new/used PS for a few bucks.

Oh, and I enjoy living on the edge.  
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« Reply #8 on: 5 January 2003, 00:18 »
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The only problem that happened while I was gone was my internal home firewall/gateway machine lost a power supply. I tried to get something off one of my home machines from my parents house and couldn't get into it. When I got home last night I noticed the power was off on the gateway. I pulled the power supply apart and found the fuse on the board inside was blown.

I didn't have another fuse of that size so I soldered a piece of wire across it. Plugged it in and ZAP! followed by a small flame. Luckily I had an old 486 stuffed in the corner of the garage with a power supply that the motherboard plugs matched up. Had it up and running a few minutes later. I guess I can't complain. It's a 6 year old home built Pentium 100. Can't expect things to run forever I guess.



Geez man, and I went off to future shop to buy a linksys router. What am I missing?

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« Reply #9 on: 9 January 2003, 06:11 »
quote:
Originally posted by Tux:
Where the fuck is everybody, over the past week it just seems to be just me you and muffin man here regularly (and MoR a little).

I suppose all you people think you have better things to do over this holiday period...



I'm back, i've visited maybe once or twice in the last 2 weeks or so, i dont think i posted, just read. But on the offchance that anyone noticed, i am back.

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« Reply #10 on: 9 January 2003, 06:51 »
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Oh, and I enjoy living on the edge.    



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« Reply #11 on: 9 January 2003, 06:52 »
Im here alot, i got an std. Painful Penis...

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« Reply #12 on: 9 January 2003, 07:30 »
thats just wrong

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« Reply #13 on: 9 January 2003, 07:59 »
quote:
Originally posted by Ravuya:


Geez man, and I went off to future shop to buy a linksys router. What am I missing?



A LinkSys router (or one like it) would be the preferred method for most home users but I have a much more complex network than most home users. I actually have two firewalls, the external one is a hardware firewall much like a LinkSys router but with a lot more capability like IPSEC VPN, logging, etc. I do have VPNs set up into other networks using this box.

In addition to that I have an internal firewall that happens to be a P100 running Linux and does a lot more stuff like another layer of security to the other VPN networks, it also serves as a proxy server among other things. A LinkSys firewall will only do a fraction of the things I am doing with this box. Between those two firewalls I have the voidmain web machine which is an oddball way to do semi-DMZ. Behind both firewalls are my home machines.

Of course I could have just used a Netscreen 10 which does have a dedicated DMZ port but that is a lot more expensive than a Netscreen 5 which is only around $500. Of course I was doing all of the above with just a single Linux box using FreeS/WAN for IPSEC VPN (the one that fried the power supply) prior to putting in the Netscreen. Getting FreeS/WAN to talk to other Netscreen devices was a real pain in the ass and the Netscreen 5 was given to me so I used it and I like the extra layers of security.
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« Reply #14 on: 12 January 2003, 05:37 »
quote:
Originally posted by Calum:
 :D   even the great and the good don't always go by the rules! soldering a wire across!   :D   it's easy for me to say i'd never do that...    :rolleyes:  
well... ican say that i have dowe that before.... on my stereo, didnt quite catch fire but the smoke was impressive.
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