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One of the most recognizeable symptoms of autism is avoidance of eye contact. Does your son make and keep eye contact with you? What about non-verbal communication? You say that he seems to understand what you are saying to him, but does he respond to you? Does he initiate communication with...

It's been about 5 years since I set this up, but I believe you will have to: 1. Install server OS, which you've already done 2. Install Groupwise, verify that it is working. Sounds like you've done that too. 3. Install Novell Webserver, or other webserver that works with Novell. 4...

Contact a competent datacom consulting company in your area that is also a Cisco reseller and they'll put together a package for you. I predict something in the 40-50k range, with about 1k or 2k in monthly recurring costs. This is just for the equipment and 'net connection. Then you need to...

In cases like this, depending on the infrastructure and population growth in the area, DSL or cable internet service might be available in a year or two. The best thing to do is for the residents who are interested to get together and petition a small/medium local ISP to setup wireless coverage...

Make a filter in his email client to dump these messages in the trash? Contact the ISP who is hosting your mail accounts and ask for a filter? Some people will never grasp the concept of forged headers, but here's an analogy: It's like putting a letter in a public mailbox without a stamp...

Depending on the type of contract you have, your hosting company might not appreciate you running nmap against one of their ip's. You mentioned you are running a web server, so jack up the logging and see if the customer is making a connection request. That way you can tell if this is a...

The hacker shows up posing as a liquor salesman with a suitcase full of booze. Once the CTO is passed-out drunk, the hacker (also drunk) takes the CTO's SecurID fob and gets into the system. Maybe he'll use his access to take control of a weather satellite.

Has anything changed? Phone cable? Network setup? Are you running these tests from a computer that is plugged into the router, or connected via wireless? Also, as part of your testing you should allow the line to "re-train." The simplest way to do this, and in some cases the only way, is to...

When you say your customer can't access the server, what type of access are you referring to? Just ping/traceroute (ICMP)? Or have you also tried HTTP, FTP, or whatever services you are offering on this box? I have seen something similar where ICMP was blocked for certain netblocks/ISP's due...

It could be a noisy phone line. Since it sounds like you are dealing with a cheap PC with a cheap modem, you might need to look into updating the modem firmware or drivers. Check out modemsite.com for some good information about different types of modems and their drivers. It could also be a...

Do you have any buried utilities in your area? If so, call and get them to come out and mark their cable paths. Then take pics of what they marked. A friend of mine was replacing a wooden fence, and used a power auger to dig out the existing post holes to a greater depth. As it turned out...

I think Halfcrazy is right. You need to use ICS in order for your dialup PC to act as the NAT gateway. Just set your router to get its WAN IP address via DHCP, and the dialup PC running ICS will assign the router a private address. And since the D-link will most likely be setup to use NAT as...

Get an ISDN router and you'll probably see better download speeds, and as a bonus this will get rid of the latency that ISDN TA's introduce. Check ebay for some good deals. For instance, in the next hour or so this Ascend Pipeline 50 is going to sell for a sweet price. FWIW, I used ISDN at...

Are you positive that the cablemodem's ethernet interface supports and is configured for 10-meg full duplex? You might consider setting your eth0/0 to half duplex, or checking the cablemodem's config if possible. This is probably not going to help, since you would have seen obvious ethernet...

Most custom dialer software just collects data and batches it back to the ISP for statistical analysis. Some versions will give you restricted access numbers that allow you to only update or pay on your account. Some pull software updates and ads to your PC. If you google softcast, you will...