verizon.net
incoming.yahoo.verizon.net (No SSL, port: 110)
outgoing.yahoo.verizon.net (No SSL, port: 25 or 587, use authentication)
Your Verizon Yahoo! Mail ID (your email address without the “@verizon.net”)
Email Address: Your Verizon Yahoo! Mail address (e.g., user@verizon.net)
Your Verizon Yahoo! Mail password
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Posted by reinkefj
FROM A WINDOWS7 SUPPORT FORUM
>reinkefj; Hello and welcome to the forums.
thanks
>type ping 192.168.2.102 (that’s you)
times out (?)
>ping 192.168.2.1 (that’s your default gateway / inside edge of your router)
first ping works and the rest time out (?)
>ping 64.233.169.99 (that’s google’s ip)
time out
Additional facts:
(1) Thru up another wifi with some spare hardware to the same fios gateway. With a different wifi “name”, works fine.
(2) ASUS support says to “recover” (i.e., wipe the machine and start over). Seems like burning the bard to get rid of the mouse.
(3) Have a MACBOOKAIR that just came back from being fixed. It works fine on both wifis.
So I’m “working”, but befuddled?
Perhaps the “security fixes” that came down automagically from Microsoft, triggered a “Home Networking” setting, that then WINDOWS7STARTER could not fix.
I guess the smartest thing is to “burn the barn” and start over.
Luckily there’s NOTHING valuable on the machine.
Your thoughts?
And, thanks for the response. You beat the ASUS support person’s canned reply.
fjohn
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Posted by reinkefj
Last night’s upgrade to OSX 10.6.3 took about an hour, give or take. And, everything looks OK. Sort of.
(The only thing I noticed at the time was that (a) the application icon and huge NBD and that (b) IPHOTO is still broken. (Argh!)
But today, I noticed that VZAccess Manager v7.0.5 (2424j) for the Verizon Wireless USB720 is GONE!
Argh!
Another download!
Sigh!
But, now I wonder what else was nuked?
Sure “Quality is Job#1”!
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Not without difficulty, VZACCESSMANAGER downloaded, installed, and a required reboot … (Why?) …
VZAccess Manager v7.0.5 (2424j) for your Verizon Wireless USB720
And, it’s different.
Argh!
Change control and version control and the vendors do what they want!
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Posted by reinkefj
• Found a site that told me how to edit the “<space>2” out of the Home Network name. (You know, that thing you can’t create without a more expensive version of WINDOZE7!)
• ASUSNETBOOK connected just fine to the SPUHIL wireless guest wifi. (Argh! So it’s only the definition of my main home wifi network, that is screwed up.)
• NO reply to the post I left on http://windows7forums.com/windows-7-networking/
• NO reply on the ASUS support board http://vip.asus.com/eservice/techmailstatus.aspx?ID=WTM20101217034352241&SID=
Argh!
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Posted by reinkefj
In my new burst of “religion” … … I always “worshiped” at the “Church of Murphy” … as in “Murphy’s Law” … … (no disrespect intended; I let you know when I intend to be disrespectful. I usually “slouch”. That’s an inside joke with my fellow Prepsters.) … anyway, after the recent failure of my (NOTRECOMMENDED) Mac Book Air Version 1.1, I have been improving upon my paradigms, memes, as well as procedures and practices.
• Backing up bookmarks. Used to use XMARKS, but they went broke. Came back to life under LASTPASS, but the old free data was nuked. (Argh!) So, I pick GMARKS add in to FIREFOX3 which uses the GOOGLE_BOOKMARKS service, (no need to have too many moving parts and Google will always be my free friend. Won’t they?) But, I’m moving to CHROME from Firefox (It “swallowed the pig” too many times. Hogged memory. And THUNDERBIRD is on probation.) And I can figure out how to move my CHROME bookmarks into GOOGLE_BOOKMARKS. I’ve got the html export file but where’s the insert button. Help says to use the GOOGLE_TOOLBAR button. But that’s not on CHROME?
• GOOGLE_TOOLBAR is only for FIREFOX and INTERNETEXPLORER?
Ahh, such is life on the “bleeding edge”. Unfortunately, I did not think I was on that edge but six months back.
Argh!
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Update: So being the smart fat old white guy injineer, I figured I’d just bring up FIREFOX, install the GOOGLE_TOOLBAR, and import the the file. Problem solved. And, I’d call it a “work around”. You know the joke about Omar the fat man’s tailor! “Just walk this way”. So, quick like a bunny, up goes FIREFOX, download the GOOGLE_TOOLBAR, install, restart. And SHAZAAM! No toolbar? Argh!
So I’m off to find another solution. Argh! I hate technology.
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Posted by reinkefj
• IPHOTO still broken.
• Pages, Keynote, and Numbers still down; looking for the <synonym for procreation> disks.
• Migrated off APPLEMAIL onto THUNDERBIRD.
• Migrated off FIREFOX onto CHROME.
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Posted by reinkefj
Dec 13, 2010 6:50 am
Gawker Media Hacked, Warns Users to Change Passwords
By Jeremy Kirk, IDG News
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E-mail addresses and password details for 200,000 registered users of Gawker Media websites are now circulating on peer-to-peer networks after a weekend hack attack. The company warned users to change their passwords — including on other sites, if they use the same passwords elsewhere.
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Since I never use the same passwords for different sites, not my problem!
Clearly, most people don’t keep that discipline.
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Posted by reinkefj
On the NETBOOK (Asus Eepc), I have DROPBOX to echo my data directory around where needed. After the fiasco with MACBOOKAIR and the deletion of significant protions of the data directory, I decided to make a local copy of the data directory on each platform. This protects against the data loss again.
On the WINDOZE systems to do this I dragged two free utilities out of retirement. ((I expected to abandon WINDOZE but the NETBOOK was needed and it brought WINDOZE with it. Argh!)
So on each platform, I’ve created an ‘OLDBOX’ folder to backup ‘DROPBOX’. The initial copy was easy.
BUT, how do you keep it updated on a regular basis?
http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptoad.asp#Download
http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptreplicator.asp
KARENWARE has two FREE utilites that make this easy.
PTREPLICATOR allows you sync directories with all sorts of options. (If you leave it running.)
PTOAD is a once a day utility; it ensure that ‘stuff’ you defined gets run once per day. (If you leave it running.) So if you put it in the ‘STARTUP’ folder, it kicks off. If you reboot several times, it only runs once per day. Neat!
So problem solved that to some old friends.
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Posted by reinkefj
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20101214/D9K3LU500.html
‘Jeopardy!’ to pit humans against IBM machine
Dec 14, 7:12 AM (ET)
By DAVID BAUDER
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NEW YORK (AP) – The game show “Jeopardy!” will pit man versus machine this winter in a competition that will show how successful scientists are in creating a computer that can mimic human intelligence.
Two of the venerable game show’s most successful champions – Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter – will play two games against “Watson,” a computer program developed by IBM’s artificial intelligence team. The matches will be spread over three days that will air Feb. 14-16, the game show said on Tuesday.
The competition is reminiscent of when IBM developed a chess-playing computer to compete against chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997.
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Now this will demonstrate something interesting to me. I doubt it will make great TV.
What’s next?
I know a robot playing Wheel of Fortune.
A pair of robot playing the Newlywed Game is just sick. Reminds me of the Will Smith movie “I, Robot”.
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Posted by reinkefj
I think that Apple’s ‘reputation’ is unwarranted. Here’s where I start to pull at some threads in the King’s ‘garment’.
OK, I wanted to know what today’s date was.
The screen tells me that it’s Sunday at 1620. But what’s the date? So I go to the ‘System Preferences’ screen and sure enough I’ve checked ‘Show date and time’.
I see day and time, but no date.
An obvious oversight.
But, if this is obviously flubbed, makes you wonder what else is screwed up?
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