Recent content by Orinthical

A nice rant? Stop being a troll. Luckily we have this wonderful thing called regulation. The federal government could easily mandate that all routers and edge devices put into service in the United States at the backbone and gateway provider level must simply have a deny rule created. This...

No, no. It became YESWECAN...

The internet as it is was a government invention and despite the internet being decentralized in nature, there are a lot of things about its design that could actually facilitate a 'kill switch' of sorts. There are ways of putting together meta-scale decentralized networks that involve single...

And this is why full-on government regulation or control of the internet is a bad thing.

I think it would be reasonable for a cable company to charge a basic service fee of let's say $30/mo for the local channels plus a few select ones and to cover some (if not all) of their actual expenses for maintenance over-time. On top of that I would be willing to pay $1-2 per channel...

My guess would be that because there isn't a lot of (real) turn-over in the consumer router market and the lack of updates to the OP was interpreted for the thread being stagnant. It stopped some of the repeat questions but a lot of folks still opened their own threads for that same reason; or...

One of the posts on Gizmodo was priceless and worth re-posting here: WARNING: The YouTube video below is hilarious but it's definitely NSFW! On a more serious note -- I am very interested in seeing what these devices can do but if it can't do more than the PS3 or a Bluray player with...

If you have zero experience with VMware, the VCP exam will be difficult. Lots of port numbers but also things that won't make sense to you unless you've actually used the product. If you have used VMware ESX in the field for ~6 months and are familiar with their other products as well, the exam...

I will be there.

Think 'Silent Hill' with somewhat peaceful long drawn-out introduction and characters a bit closer to real-life than you'd like. :) Link is dead - item is now up to $39. http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/products/XBOX_360/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&sku=A3696987

I am running the latest firmware on my WNDR3700 without issue but since I don't use the traffic meter or USB sharing I can't attest to that causing crashes. The router is solid as a rock though otherwise. My advice would be the age-old adage: "If it isn't broke, don't fix it." If you are happy...

Another vote for J hooks and cable-straps but if you ever want to finish that side/corner of the basement, you should probably consider simply using a hole-saw to put a small hole through the center of those joists.

This. Unfortunately 'what sells' has replaced what was innovative, interesting and intellectual in almost every facet of our culture these days and sadly 'what sells' is more often than not simply drivel designed for the lowest common denominator of any given populace. This applies to the...

You would be much better off with getting two of these or these flashed with DD-WRT. Do not waste your money on the DIR-615 for what you are trying to do, it's a bottom-of-the-barrel router. In-fact I would probably go with one of each, the more powerful Asus attached to the modem as the gateway...

Yes - because it doesn't have UPNP (and probably never will) but it was simply a suggestion about going with another distro to confirm that it was pfsense; you could try Smoothwall since it does have support for UPNP but not many linux distros do because of the security implications. Heck or...