What are we doing?
December 3rd, 2002
Learning things.
- A Wacom Tablet will give you RSI too, if you work behind a computer for 14 hours a day. Thankfully, I have been permitted to work again. Now here's hoping that not working nights, therefore not working in excess of 8 hours a day, will help (the week's worth of rest that I took namely didn't, so far, but this seems to me to be normal, given the fact that I had a mild of bruising).
- There is a free firewall with a relatively normal, userfriendly installation after all (and its name is ZoneAlarm and it lives here). Fine bit of software, as long as you realize you have to grant all your 'listening' Internet-programs (browsers, mail, telnet, FTP, MSN, online banking) both Trusted- and Internet-access under 'Program Control/Programs', and you must mark all your 'two-way' Internet-programs (Kazaa, WinMX, VNC, networkproxy) as both Trusted- and Internet-server there too and, MUCH more important, you have to supply BOTH the IP and, separately, the subnetmask (with IP again) of your MXSTREAM-modem and of any networkstations present, under 'Firewall/Zones', BECAUSE YOU CANNOT USE THE INTERNET OTHERWISE. See. THAT'S THE KIND OF SHIT THEY NEVER TELL YOU AND YOU THEREFORE HAVE TO PAINSTAKINGLY EXTRAPOLATE FROM THE HELPFILES. EFFIN' MODDAFOKKAZ.
- Kazaa-users (use Kazaa Lite instead, it lives here) who wonder why, under Windows 98 their connection silts up after a (variable and approximate) half hour, therefore seems to be functional but doesn't actually do anything anymore, quite a nuisance, during nightly downloads, need the Windows ME-version of netpptp.sys. Replace the old version of it, located in C:\Windows\System with this one, rename the old one first when in doubt. Solution ("I believe you can copy a dll from another OS to solve the problem...") supplied by Peter van Kampen, of the unsurpassed Datatailors, by way of the equally unsurpassed groups.google.com.
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