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[ohanafamily]

Hello, I almost forgot to welcome our newest member,

Welcome myjulybabes!!!!!!!

Here is a little clapping for you, because you deserve a shiny new tag...

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[llebrekniT]

OhanafamilyLike, oh my gosh, for a minute there I was totally buggin', but then I read the other post, and I'm like, totally chillin' now! Finally you're speaking in terms I can process.<a href='http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb008' target='_blank'><img src='http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/23/23_5_3.gif' border=0></a>

I will not be able to do much about this right now as the laptop is strategically buried under the tree, wrapped up nice and tidy and there it will remain until Christmas morning. I can tell you that my thingie that sits here blinking at me is called a Terayon TJ715, my neighborhood is spacious and my nearest neighbors are kinda old on one side and kinda redneck on the other side. No backyard neighbors. Not that old people and rednecks can't be hackers, but I feel pretty safe. My thingie that sits here and blinks has one available hole that says USB, there is a power hole, cable hole and one that says 10/100 Base T, they are all taken. So let's just start from there and not get too far ahead of ourselves. Can you look at my laptop on-line again and see that it did have that 802.11G thing already in it? The info at CC said that it does.

I am feeling soooooo much better now. If we can just continue to communicate on this level, we will get along much better. Save all that techie talk for your smartie-pants wifey. I bet she can stay two steps ahead of you at all times.

Nephosaurus would be the guy that hangs out at the copier and doesn't ever really seem to do anything. TiggerFans would be the one you have to keep your eye on, the one who might just sneak up and try to take over. I was right about Barb though, wasn't I?

Goodnight Taglings! Sweet dream <a href='http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb008' target='_blank'><img src='http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/4/4_8_3.gif' border=0></a>

 

[CourtasanSatine]

ohana: now that is a funny way to explain things

 

[RRBB]

ohanafamily, that last explanation was MUCH better. Thanks for using terms we can all understand, like dewhickey and radio thingy and whatchamacallit. [color=FF66CC]llebrekniT[/color] I just knew if his explanation was over my head that non-techies would be totally lost. (Can you believe he thought that first explanation was in simple terms? )

 

[ohanafamily]

[color=FF66CC]llebrekniT[/color], I looked up your "BOX" online, and it doesn't have a "RADIO THINGY", a "DEWHICKY", or a "BLOCKER". HP sells LINKSYS products, so I will hope that it will work "Right Out Of the Box" I do not know how the Cable company sets up your computer, so whether you get a "RADIO THINGY" with or without a "BLOCKER" will depend on your cable company. Also, it isn't the people next door that you have to worry about; since your connection is up all day long hooked directly to the internet, you have to worry about the 14 YO's in Romania breaking into your system...I recommend using a "BLOCKER" if you can. The link below is the page for a combination "DEWHICKY", "RADIO THINGY" and "BLOCKER". It was available at CompUsa for $99.00 in Dallas.

WRT54G : http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?grid=33&scid=35&prid=577

Here is the problem, the "BLOCKER" may not be able to work with your Cable Company. The manufacterer says that it will work with most Cable companies, and I ran into someone who had a problem with a different brand, So you will need to call them and ask them a technical question..."Does you system use DDNS to give me my IP Address" (or you could just buy it and if it doesn't work take it back and get the model that doesn't have the "BLOCKER" in it)

WAP54G : http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?grid=33&scid=35&prid=575

They have fairly good instructions on how to hook them up, but you might have to change a few settings on it to work with your Cable Company... Your DH will probably not have a problem.

When you buy the new-all-in-one-thingy, take the wire that goes from the "BOX" to your current computer and unplug it from the computer. Then plug the wire into the new-all-in-one-thingy using the hole marked "Internet". You can then take a new wire and run it from any one of the holes marked "LAN" it to your old computer. If the old computer works (after you turn it back on) then you will probably be good to go and the laptop may work without changeing anything else.

OK, I got too technical again, Power off your computer and your "BOX". a wire goes from the Wall to the BOX. A Wire goes from the BOX to hole marked "Internet" in new-all-in-one-thingy. A Wire goes from one of the holes marked "LAN" in the New-All-in-one Thingy to your old computer. If, when you turn everything back on, the computer can find the internet, chances are that you won't need to do anything else, if not call the Cable company, or let me talk you through finding the "Location" of your computer on the internet.

 

[llebrekniT]

Hey everybody! I brought some biscuits and my grandma's homemade strawberry preserves! I know it's not much, but I'm saving up for some yummy breakfasts on the trip.

Ohanafamily I think I can follow your new instructions, the only problem is I have so much on my mind with the trip, Christmas preparations, the trip, Ella's birthday, coodinating the kids make-up work for school, the trip, wrapping up business work before we go and did I mention getting ready for the trip? Anyway, I'm afraid you'll have to explain all this to me again when I get back and can better process it. The way I take your explanation my blinkie box thingie isn't going to work with two computers. If I get the thingie you gave me the link for, will I be all set to go wireless on the internet? And how far from that thingie can you go and still have a good connection? I am going to contact my cable company tomorrow, there are too many people (kids and DH) in my house on the weekend, I can't get anything much done with them around.

RRBB it makes me feel better that you could see where his instructions might go over my head. I always feel like an idiot when techie's start talking. Now, I can hold my own in a conversation about house construction and plumbing installations. Maybe sometime I can advise you guys on some of that and then I will feel important and smart too.

Have a great day everyone!

 

[CourtasanSatine]

 

[myjulybabes]

Ohanafamily, my hubby is lauging like crazy at your "box" "dewhickey" "blocker" posts. He's a system admin, so he understood it the first time, but finds it funny because he has to talk to people at work like that.

Meanwhile, I don't get either one of them, because I'm way too visual of a learner. I've still learned something new though. I never knew a firewall (blocker) was a physical THING. I thought it was software, because that's the way it is on my machine..... Keep up the good work in educating us technologically impaired people! (Oh yeah, and I agree, you need a blocker regardless of who your neighbors are when you have a connection like DSL or cable that is always on. I've known people to have their computers destroyed by hackers, and their neighbors were perfectly nice people! hehehe!)

 

[ohanafamily]

myjulybabes, I too am a system admin, but I very rarely have to explain this stuff; it is a lot faster to hook it up myself while showing them. They also seem to have better retention of what I did . Seriously, Windows XP (the part of the computers "Brain" that converts what you tell it to do into what makes sense to the computer) has a built in "Blocker", but it doesn't work that well. just about anyone can get by it. think of a little car driving from point A to point B. this car, once it gets to your computer has to go through 7 tollbooths ( I guess it is somewhere near New York...). Each of these tollbooths has an INS agent that can stop the car. The first three of these "Layers" are where the INS Agents have to run the gates, so they cannot inspect the inside of the car. (or in technospeak, they are Hardware Layers that it hits before the Windows Firewall can block it.) If you have a separate "Blocker", it doesn't do anything but check the cars so it can do a much more thorough job. Now, all of the "Blockers" are not equal, some just move the good cars on to a different road (rather than stopping the bad cars, it hides the entrance ramp) but then again you really probably don't care about how firewalls work; how about a story about why I changed firewalls at my office?

My DBIL (actually this was before we were married, but at any rate that is who he is) called me up and said they were training a new security expert and asked me if I would let him do a security assessment of our network. I said sure, I had a computer running Rapter Firewall Software ( A Very common and well known and trusted firewall). It was a separate "Blocker" in between my Internet and my Office. The New Guy plugged his laptop into my phone line, asked me if he had to dial a 9, and asked what my website address was. I figured I could tell him that much. He proceeded to tell me which version of the Rapter software we were running, and that the person who hooked it up (My ISP) left lots of holes in it. He then pulled up a spreadsheet from my account that had some payroll information on it, changed a figure, and wrote it back to my directory. Now granted, he is quite good, and granted I had to change my shorts, but he explained to me about the 7 layers, and tunneling under the bottom 3. He sold me on a separate box that the software was designed in Israel. He doesn't like the new PIX firewalls, because they don't really scan the packets (cars), and can be sidestepped fairly easily by someone who knows what they are doing. but it is a good line of defense against a lot of the Kids out there, and works better than Black Ice (which makes your computer run a lot slower)

I have rambled on long enough...The "Cars" are TCP/IP Packets, the Tollbooths are the Layers of the TCP/IP protocol stack, the bottom 3 being the Hardware layers below the operating system. If you would like to see details of this (and give yourself a headache, here is a link to a site I found on Google that explains what each layer does...
http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP/IP#Layers_in_the_TCP/IP_Stack


Is this visual enough? PM me if your DH wants to talk Firewalls...

 

[llebrekniT]

Ohanafamily you are in time-out! NO MORE TECHIE TALK for you the rest of the day.<a href='http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb008' target='_blank'><img src='http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/4_3_3.gif' border=0></a> My head can't take it anymore! You can come back out when you are ready to talk about silly stuff again, like Rufus and colors and chocolate and stuff like that. Until then, just stay out!

After much thought and consideration, DH is off to CC to buy a new 35mm camera<a href='http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb008' target='_blank'><img src='http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/12/12_1_110.gif' border=0></a>. We wanted a new camera for the trip and just don't feel confident that a $200 digital camera will capture distance and action shots. It would be great for the character meals but the rest of the time, I'm not so sure. So we will skip the digital thing for now and just get a picture CD when we develop. Maybe next year the high-pixel cameras will come down enough for us to get one. I'm scared though, last time we bought a new camera was 3 years ago, our first Christmas trip to WDW. We left it at the Candlelight Processional by accident. I realized after only about 10 minutes, and it was already gone. So sad. It kills me to think of the pictures we lost. Since I was still upset about losing such a nice camera, we just went out and bought a $50 one to get through Christmas and that's the one we've had ever since.

We have a bad history with losing cameras. When we first married, I accidentally threw one away during our Christmas party. Didn't realize it for a few days. (It was a crazy party, I'll have to tell a story from it some time). Last year we went to WDW the day after DD-6 birthday. Grandparents had bought her a camera for her birthday and she loved it so much. She had her own carrying case and left it under the seat in the airplane. Can you believe someone would keep a child's camera? It was a $40 camera and it was obviously a little girls, because she also had a bracelet, some lip gloss and a few packs of Smarties in her case. Oh and $4.00. She was so distraught, I didn't have the heart to tell her that someone took it and wouldn't give it back, so I went out and bought the same set-up and even replaced the Smarties, $4 and the bracelet. I told her the airline sent it back. What a mess!

This camera is going to be heavily guarded!

I've rambled on as long as Ohanafamily. Gotta go make some homemade mac-n-cheese <a href='http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb008' target='_blank'><img src='http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/12/12_4_60.gif' border=0></a>for the birthday party tonight for Ella, my niece and DH's dad. The two girls <a href='http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb008' target='_blank'><img src='http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/15/15_5_5.gif' border=0></a>will turn one 4 days apart and DFIL <a href='http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb008' target='_blank'><img src='http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/15/15_2_119.gif' border=0></a>will be 68 and we're having one big party tonight at the in-laws.<a href='http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb008' target='_blank'><img src='http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/309.gif' border=0></a>

 

[cheeringmom]

Originally posted by geffric
Welcome myjulybabes.. we are all very friendly here.. please pick out a color grab a nice chocolate snack and stay a while...

OHANAFAMILY I loved your last explaination.... ..what a great sense of humor that you have ..

Ditto both!! myjulybabes you'll have a great time here.

ohanafamily You are too funny. I actually understand computer gab now!!
kinda!!

 

[myjulybabes]

Ohanafamily, thanks for the explantion on firewalls. I pretty much knew what they did, but not how. Quite interesting. We don't use the built in XP one, nor the Rapter one, I forget what we have, but it's decent. Maybe I'll have dh pm you. I need SOME reason to get him signed up here, don't I? LOL

llebrekniT, I hear you on the camera thing. We have a decent digital, Kodak D-something or another that we paid too much for about a year ago, but I still don't trust it for distance. I have a Canon Rebel EOS 2000 for that, which once again, was quite expensive when we got it, but I bet you could get one now for a good price. It's hard to lose or misplace because it's enormous. It's an SLR, but it does have an automatic mode for when you don't want to (or don't know how to) mess with all the settings. I think I'll be getting an even bigger lens before we head off to the World. Dh, my faithful sherpa, will be thrilled, I'm sure... I'm a picture nut. So we'll have the digital, the SLR, probably a cheap 35mm for the kids, and hte camcorder. And of course, the laptop to dump the digital and camcorder to nightly. Pictures,pictures, pictures! I'm all about the pictures! (oooh, hey, that'd be a good tag! CLAP CLAP CLAP!! Come out Tag Fairy!)

 

[Laura]

Originally posted by llebrekniT
We have a bad history with losing cameras. When we first married, I accidentally threw one away during our Christmas party. Didn't realize it for a few days. (It was a crazy party, I'll have to tell a story from it some time).

I'll bet that was a crazy party!

Did everyone have a good weekend? Is everyone looking forward to Monday? I actually worked overtime yesterday on a project for work. I think I'm a masochist. Oh well, extra money to spend on Christmas presents.

 

[Nephosaurus]

Hi everybody, we are making ohanafamily watch a couple of versions of "A Christmas Carol" in hopes he will stop spouting off techie stuff. I think he just needs to wind down from work.

[color=FF66CC]llebrekniT[/color], I told him that you wouldn't tell him what kind of camera you are getting, but he asked me to ask you to look at the APS cameras. You can do Panorama's with them, and the negatives stay in the "Rolly Thingy". OK, I am off back to see The Muppet Christmas....

 

[RRBB]

[color=FF66CC]llebrekniT[/color], don't even get me started on losing cameras. It's not so much that I lose them, more like ruin them. The first time was about eight years ago. I was on a houseboat trip on Lake Powell with a group of friends and had my trusty 35MM w/zoom lens with me. I say trusty because I'd had that camera since I was in high school and it had been around the world - literally - with me. But on this fateful trip that was all to end. A group of us were in a ski boat heading back "home" after checking out Rainbow Bridge. It was a "no wake" zone but we were getting jostled around none the less. I happened to be sitting at the very front of the boat holding tightly to my camera which was also strapped safely around my neck. Like I said, we were getting jostled around. And we were taking on water, too. The problem came when the bow of the boat dipped below the surface, up to my shoulders. See where I'm going here... Amazingly though, my camera lasted through the remainder of the trip before freezing up never to work again.

The second camera still works (I think) but seems to eat through batteries. After losing the last camera to rust, I was bound and determined that wouldn't happen again. On the next houseboat trip - this time to Lake Ouchita in Arkansas - I took my new camera out on a jetski run so I could take some photos. I double bagged it in zip-lock bags and stored it in the glove box for the ride. When we stopped for a few minutes in the middle of the lake - so the person I was with could make a few calls on his cell phone - I started snapping away. All was good, but what I forgot to bring with me was a hand towel. I realized when I got back to the houseboat that there was moisture in the zip-lock which fogged up the camera. I was able to dry it out and get rid of the foggy lens, but like I said before it now eats through batteries if I leave them in the camera.

The most recent loss was just that. Again I was on a houseboat trip, back at Lake Powell. I really thought I'd learned my lessons so I came with a couple of cameras. One for "dry" pictures and a water camera that I could take out when involved in wet activities. Anyway, we were chugging down the lake, trying to outrun a storm and find a place to "park". I went up to the top deck to hang out and take some pictures of the gorgeous scenery. All was good. But then I leaned back in my chair - - - and the bolts broke sending me flying backwards against the rail, my arms and hands flying. The camera flew out of my hand, strap and all. Kerplunk right in the middle of the lake. The worst part about losing that camera was that I was at the end of the roll of film which had our group photos on it. If only I could have retrieved the film, I would have gladly given the camera up to the "Loch Powell Monster".

 

[CourtasanSatine]

RRBB: if it happened near Loch Ness you could have blamed it on Nessie

 

[Rikku]

Hello folks!

It's time for my once in a blue moon post so without further adieu...

We'll next weekend my student's show hits the boards. My partner and I are a nervous wreck! The show is nowhere near ready and not anything close to the level of our past shows with them. Needless to say we have no idea what to expect but hey...they're just kids...better luck next semester.

My DW and I are still in a holding pattern as we await little Maggie Lee. She's technically not due yet, however my poor pregnant baby doll pretty much over it if you catch my meaning. We go for another checkup this Tuesday and the doc said if we wanted to schedule an induction for later in the week we could...so we'll see what happens between now and then.

I miss my time with my beloved Tagliarchy. I see so many new faces and I hope the TFs are being kind and generous to you and vice versa.

If the Tag Fairies are out there listening I could certainly use a new tag myself. I know it would cheer me up as I'm a little down in the dumps (I wish I knew why)

Oh well...here's to the Tagliarchy!

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And a bag of picie dust to rival anything good St Nick might carry with him!

Oh...and anybody up for some imported Canadian MARS BARS???!!!

This is Riku...the ever tired and over worked...signing off.

 

[Rikku]

I humbly extend my overflowing thanks to the GRANDIOUS TAG FAIRIES!!!

I jsut noticed the new tags after posting and instantly I felt a thousand times better!

Thanks...you've made my night!

 

[CourtasanSatine]

hi Rikku!

 

[RRBB]

ohanafamily is still in Time Out, but he wanted me to pass on a great big to Rikku.

CourtasanSatine, I've been informed by a little red dragon that I can call the monster whatever I want as long as it's NOT Niecie.