At 12:15 PM 02/05/2006, joeuser wrote:
7) Wireless network security.
*cough* Lock by MAC address. Don't expect security and why. Wired
better for speed and security.
Locking by MAC address is not secure. It is possible to discover and
spoof MAC addresses - WPA with a very secure key is
Are there generic antennas that one can add to wireless routers that
have detachable antennas? Do they do any good? I notice that
antennas appear to be rated in dBi. I assume that a higher number is better?
T
I've been looking into this also. Some of the reviewers at Newegg.com and
Amazon.com say the new antennas are the best thing they ever bought. Others
say it did not do a thing for them. So I guess it depends on your specific
circumstances and is YMMV.
Some people have suggested trying to build
I'm looking to upgrade my ATI AIW 9800Pro 128MB video card to a Geforce
7800GS CO 256MB card. I currently have a 431W PS, and will probably buy a
600W PS as well, due to the increased power demands of the new card. I
*assume* swapping out the PS will be a matter of simply unplugging
Yes
no
Veech wrote:
I'm looking to upgrade my ATI AIW 9800Pro 128MB video card to a Geforce
7800GS CO 256MB card. I currently have a 431W PS, and will probably buy
a 600W PS as well, due to the increased power demands of the new card.
I *assume* swapping out the PS will be a matter of
cool.
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Yes
no
Veech wrote:
I'm looking to upgrade my ATI AIW 9800Pro 128MB video card to a
At 11:46 AM 5/3/2006, you wrote:
I'm looking to upgrade my ATI AIW 9800Pro 128MB video card to a Geforce
7800GS CO 256MB card. I currently have a 431W PS, and will probably buy a
600W PS as well, due to the increased power demands of the new card. I
*assume* swapping out the PS will be a
Enermax 431W PS, P4C800E board, P4 3.0, 2 x 1G RAM, the video card, Audigy
ZX, two HDs, CDRW DVDRW.
I was reading the reviews at NewEgg, and a couple of them complained that
the card draws a lot of power. I guess I could get the card by itself first
and if it doesn't work, then get a bigger
Man, I need to claim to invent something, through up a website, never
produce it, and then see if I can get $44M for it.
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The key here is having an WAP or NIC that supports a external antenna.
At 07:08 AM 5/3/2006, you wrote:
I've been looking into this also. Some of the reviewers at Newegg.com and
Amazon.com say the new antennas are the best thing they ever bought. Others
say it did not do a thing for them.
At 02:58 PM 03/05/2006, Stan Zaske wrote:
The important thing to remember is, it's not the total wattage that
matters with modern PC's but the amount of amperage on the 12v rail
and IMHO whether the PFC is active.
PFC just affects power consumption, right? It doesn't matter to the
PC, but
PFC couldn't be more irrelevant when it comes to output capacity. PFC simply
attempts to get the current and voltage cycles more in phase coming from
mains. This has absolutely nothing to do with the DC power coming OUT of the
PSU. PFC simply makes the PSU look closer to a pure resistive load
At 11:07 AM 5/3/2006, you wrote:
At 03:02 PM 03/05/2006, Winterlight wrote:
The key here is having an WAP or NIC that supports a external antenna.
Don't any of the one's with a detachable antenna support it?
I guess but the input jack would have to match. I haven't seen a standard
At 03:05 PM 03/05/2006, Winterlight wrote:
yeah possible, but very, very unlikely. Few people have the skills
to do something like that, and I doubt one of them are going to be
sitting in range of your WAP, for hours on end attempting to do so.
But why not make yourself more secure with less
At 03:25 PM 03/05/2006, Winterlight wrote:
I guess but the input jack would have to match. I haven't seen a
standard consumer level product that supports this. High end routers
and esoteric NICs, in the 100 dollar range have support for an
external anttenna.
Interesting. Thanks for the
But my cheapie, consumer grade Linksys WAP54G has a standard R-TNC antenna
connector...
Greg
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In the end they designed for chips that went into cell phones, that's
not what their claim to fame was, but that is what they ended up doing.
So they must have done something more than vaporware to be worth $44Mil.
Chris Reeves wrote:
Man, I need to claim to invent something, through up a
At 11:45 AM 5/3/2006, you wrote:
Hours? Not even.
I don't buy that, I haven't seen anything that supports the notion that
spoofing a MAC address is perfunctory. WEP, yes but let's take a step back.
The best defense is to hide in plain sight. Turn off broadcasting. You
can't hack into what
At 12:35 PM 5/3/2006, you wrote:
Enermax 431W PS, P4C800E board, P4 3.0, 2 x 1G RAM, the video card, Audigy
ZX, two HDs, CDRW DVDRW.
I was reading the reviews at NewEgg, and a couple of them complained that
the card draws a lot of power. I guess I could get the card by itself
first and if
So they must have done something more than vaporware to be worth $44Mil.
I am guessing that the value is in their International licenses, and
infrastructure. That in some way, owning them allows ATI to enter new
markets immediately.
Winterlight wrote:
At 11:45 AM 5/3/2006, you wrote:
Hours? Not even.
I don't buy that, I haven't seen anything that supports the notion
that spoofing a MAC address is perfunctory. WEP, yes but let's take a
step back. The best defense is to hide in plain sight. Turn off
broadcasting. You
At 04:07 PM 03/05/2006, Winterlight wrote:
At 11:45 AM 5/3/2006, you wrote:
Hours? Not even.
I don't buy that, I haven't seen anything that supports the notion
that spoofing a MAC address is perfunctory. WEP, yes but let's take
a step back. The best defense is to hide in plain sight. Turn
At 04:20 PM 03/05/2006, Harry McGregor wrote:
Personally for my home stuff, I use WEP and treat it like a little
padlock on a shed door. You know that by breaking the lock you are
breaking and entering, and not just trespassing. The
wardriver/cracker will just move on to the next AP.
Why
Here's an interesting thing. I've been fighting with a machine that
has XP Pro on it, and the COA is lost. I pulled the COA out with
Keyfinder and got one key. It didn't work with either the upgrade CD
or the full version CD. Then I tried ViewKeyXP - totally different
key...that still
Wireless network equipment, per FCC rules does NOT use standard connectors.
The two common odd ball connectors used (incorrectly referred to here
as standard) are RP-TNC and RP-SMA, reverse polarity SMA and reverse
polarity TNC. The genders are kinda off vs the normal version of the
SMA and
Thane Sherrington (S) wrote:
At 04:20 PM 03/05/2006, Harry McGregor wrote:
Personally for my home stuff, I use WEP and treat it like a little
padlock on a shed door. You know that by breaking the lock you are
breaking and entering, and not just trespassing. The
wardriver/cracker will just
At 04:40 PM 03/05/2006, Harry McGregor wrote:
Thane Sherrington (S) wrote:
At 04:20 PM 03/05/2006, Harry McGregor wrote:
Personally for my home stuff, I use WEP and treat it like a little
padlock on a shed door. You know that by breaking the lock you
are breaking and entering, and not just
At 04:37 PM 03/05/2006, Harry McGregor wrote:
The two common odd ball connectors used (incorrectly referred to
here as standard) are RP-TNC and RP-SMA, reverse polarity SMA and
reverse polarity TNC. The genders are kinda off vs the normal
version of the SMA and TNC connectors.
Ok, thanks
SSID off is never a true solution. Yes, you can still see it, just not
in the normal way.
1st the signal is there which makes it obvious there is a WAP in the area.
2nd, SSID broadcast is off, but it's clients are still talking to
something advertising it's presence in their packets
Is there a maximum size for a Windows 2000 boot partition? I just
ghosted a 2K machine from a 14GB to an 80GB, and now it won't
boot. Says there is a disk read error.
T
OEM is a different key than retail, CD you're using maybe the issue?
Same problem may be with the key readers that they don't reverse the key
properly.
Thane Sherrington (S) wrote:
Here's an interesting thing. I've been fighting with a machine that has
XP Pro on it, and the COA is lost. I
the more layers the better.
Thane Sherrington (S) wrote:
At 03:05 PM 03/05/2006, Winterlight wrote:
yeah possible, but very, very unlikely. Few people have the skills to
do something like that, and I doubt one of them are going to be
sitting in range of your WAP, for hours on end attempting
More than likely a ghost issue than a MS issue. Unless for some unforsaken
reason the Win2k volume was formatted using FAT32 (36GB limit). The sky is
pretty much the limit on Win2K/XP boot volumes assuming your bios supports
the 133GB LBA addressing.
From: Thane Sherrington (S) [EMAIL
Thane Sherrington (S) wrote:
At 04:37 PM 03/05/2006, Harry McGregor wrote:
The two common odd ball connectors used (incorrectly referred to
here as standard) are RP-TNC and RP-SMA, reverse polarity SMA and
reverse polarity TNC. The genders are kinda off vs the normal
version of the SMA and
Here is a 8dBi
http://www.hyperlinktech.com/web/copyrighted_images/pattern_hg
2409u.gif
Here is a 5dBi
http://www.hyperlinktech.com/web/copyrighted_images/pattern_re05u.gif
If you are using it in a two or three story house, you would
want to have move vertical gain than if you are
Guys this whole discussion was covered including every point and idea
mentioend here in a lot more detail in these podcasts:
http://grc.com/securitynow.htm
Try Episodes 10, 11, and 13. And a good VPN solution for security
concerns in hotels and public access points is discussed in Episodes
14,
Second that, great podcast!
Brian Weeden wrote:
Guys this whole discussion was covered including every point and idea
mentioend here in a lot more detail in these podcasts:
http://grc.com/securitynow.htm
Try Episodes 10, 11, and 13. And a good VPN solution for security
concerns in hotels and
have seen this two key thing b4, do not understand but I use RockXP, seems to
be the real key, used it today on a customer's box b4 they dropped off their
official disk and got a head start on the re install.
fp
At 12:34 PM 5/3/2006, Thane Sherrington (S) Poked the stick with:
Here's an
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