Recent content by Crawdaddy79

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    Was my ISP blowing smoke up my hoo-ha?

    They refuse to acknowledge that I am misconfigured. They say it's the fastest speed I can get, and if I want more I can go with their 3Mbps solution (haven't even looked into the price, but I really don't want to stay with them at this point). I've been with them for almost 5 years, but when...
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    Was my ISP blowing smoke up my hoo-ha?

    Well the icons didn't do much (just told me my firmware/bios/etc.) with the Westell router a friend loaned me - but I was able to look at the config and see that it's configured for 864(?)/160 - well it said "DSL transciever" and I assume that's the modem. Whether that's a configuration sent to...
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    Was my ISP blowing smoke up my hoo-ha?

    Okay - I'm out of town till Thursday so I'll have to wait till then to try it. Thx for the input, I'll look it up.
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    Was my ISP blowing smoke up my hoo-ha?

    This is DSL service. Basically I'm paying for 1.5Mbps and I'm getting ~720kbps. I strongly suspect I am configured for 768k service (which is offered by Verizon in my area, which incidentally Verizon shows up a few times as my domain whenever I do a traceroute). I realize my ISP is...
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    Anyone else sick of people using "cracker" on the forums in a derogatory manner and getting away with it?

    I never said whether it was a good or bad comment... I just said that I am not offended by it and I don't understand how anyone could be. :shrug: If you want to be offended by it, go right on ahead. Whenever I hear it I smile.
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    Anyone else sick of people using "cracker" on the forums in a derogatory manner and getting away with it?

    Sorry, but I don't have an idiot and your sentence appears to be incomplete.
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    Best Computer Game

    Woohoo 1 vote for Blade of Darkness! Can't believe that it was actually included in the poll as it definitely went under the radar. But, I guess I shouldn't be surprised seeing as how it really is the Best Computer Game ever made.
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    Anyone else sick of people using "cracker" on the forums in a derogatory manner and getting away with it?

    Hey guys I don't post here much but from what I understand, "cracker" is meant to refer to those cracking a whip i.e. a slave owner. Myself being white, being called cracker gives me a feeling of authority and I do not understand how one could be offended by the term.
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    Big checkered box appearing in my Add/Remove Programs box.

    Thanks a lot for those links.. Free online virus scanners. I didn't know those things existed, or if they were that they were effective. I tried the Panda one, it scanned and disinfected about 15 java viruses (as well as a couple of non-viruses in other programs which I might have to...
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    Big checkered box appearing in my Add/Remove Programs box.

    I have no antivirus software. :) (My other computer has lasted three years without it, and I'm not doing anything different with this one than I did with that one... Maybe one of those little wigglers slipped through the cracks... it's possible.) And I don't have Autocad installed. I...
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    Ahh...problems

    It looks like you have a LOT of programs running in your background... Disable them all until (maybe) that grey box goes away.. and then you know your problem. To me it looks like a spash screen of some sort that doesn't quite know when to go away. As far as not accessing the internet...
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    Big checkered box appearing in my Add/Remove Programs box.

    I made a small video of me scrolling from top to bottom, and back up again in my Add/Remove Programs dialog box. Inside is this HUGE nasty box that takes for ever to scroll past. I have gone into the Uninstall section of regedit and cannot find anything extremely peculiar in it... I am...