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Posted 04 January 2012 - 04:20 PM

View PostLiveBrianD, on 04 January 2012 - 03:37 PM, said:

I HATE how comcast redirects 404 errors (the type that's shown by the browser itself, not a webpage's page that says it couldn't find it) to their own search page if you use their DNS server.

I'm not sure what you mean LiveB, we never experience that.

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My dad doesn't like how comcast insists that he have at least one email account with them, so he doesn't use it, and has the billing stuff sent to another account.

I do the same thing, works fine.
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Posted 04 January 2012 - 05:35 PM

View Postcompnovo, on 04 January 2012 - 04:20 PM, said:

View PostLiveBrianD, on 04 January 2012 - 03:37 PM, said:

I HATE how comcast redirects 404 errors (the type that's shown by the browser itself, not a webpage's page that says it couldn't find it) to their own search page if you use their DNS server.

I'm not sure what you mean LiveB, we never experience that.

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My dad doesn't like how comcast insists that he have at least one email account with them, so he doesn't use it, and has the billing stuff sent to another account.

I do the same thing, works fine.


Go type in some url like ioq235yh9128i3ydig5i3tw3y8f5287tu.com, which obviously doesn't exist, and watch it get redirected to a comcast search page (if you use their DNS server that is) rather than your browser's own 404 page. That's the exact reason I dropped opendns and am now using google dns.
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Posted 04 January 2012 - 06:09 PM

View PostLiveBrianD, on 04 January 2012 - 05:35 PM, said:

View Postcompnovo, on 04 January 2012 - 04:20 PM, said:

View PostLiveBrianD, on 04 January 2012 - 03:37 PM, said:

I HATE how comcast redirects 404 errors (the type that's shown by the browser itself, not a webpage's page that says it couldn't find it) to their own search page if you use their DNS server.

I'm not sure what you mean LiveB, we never experience that.

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My dad doesn't like how comcast insists that he have at least one email account with them, so he doesn't use it, and has the billing stuff sent to another account.

I do the same thing, works fine.


Go type in some url like ioq235yh9128i3ydig5i3tw3y8f5287tu.com, which obviously doesn't exist, and watch it get redirected to a comcast search page (if you use their DNS server that is) rather than your browser's own 404 page. That's the exact reason I dropped opendns and am now using google dns.

Hmmm, didn't work for me, it took me to my default search page. I didn't change any settings on our broadband (like the DNS server) so I wonder if it's a regional thing.

Anyway, my reply to coastie was about his web portal and I was just using my setup as an example. I wasn't asking anybody to like Comcast.
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Posted 04 January 2012 - 07:40 PM

I did install MSE on the new laptop and Malwarebytes and SAS as ondemand scanners. I'll probably do the same with the other two ( this one is running Avast! and the paid version of SAS ). I have plenty of time to make decisions, so all should be fine. I remeber my Brother-in-Law locked out AOL with a password and I was over there and decided to surf the net I still had the Commodore at the time ). He came down and i was on the internet and he couldn't figure out how I got there. Although he had locked out AOL. I saw Internet Explorer on the desktop and clicked on that and off I went. :D :P That was wide open. To this day, he still thinks I hacked into AOL somehow. Man I hate disruptions of the status quo.
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Posted 04 January 2012 - 07:54 PM

I was just reading a story about how IE6's usage (at least in the US) has gone down to 1%, and Microsoft is celebrating it. Several commenters said that IE is the most used browser... to download another browser! lol... I remember that, one of the first things I do on an OS install is use IE to download firefox. (that has been the case for several years now)
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Posted 05 January 2012 - 08:53 AM

View PostLiveBrianD, on 04 January 2012 - 07:54 PM, said:

I was just reading a story about how IE6's usage (at least in the US) has gone down to 1%, and Microsoft is celebrating it. Several commenters said that IE is the most used browser... to download another browser! lol... I remember that, one of the first things I do on an OS install is use IE to download firefox. (that has been the case for several years now)



On a brand new installation of the OS, you do need to use IE to get the other stuff you want. I guess I have gotten too used to having a different portal for the internet, rather than one browser or another. When the MSN servers go down, I have had to use IE though.
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Posted 05 January 2012 - 10:15 AM

View PostLiveBrianD, on 04 January 2012 - 03:37 PM, said:

I HATE how comcast redirects 404 errors (the type that's shown by the browser itself, not a webpage's page that says it couldn't find it) to their own search page if you use their DNS server. I want to just let firefox give me its' 404 error so I can simply correct the url rather than have to type it all in again. grr... My dad doesn't like how comcast insists that he have at least one email account with them, so he doesn't use it, and has the billing stuff sent to another account. I don't use the security software they provide either, Mcafee or Norton I think, since those are just limited crappy versions, and MSE is better.


Oh how I hate that! If the ISP is cable-based, they redirect 404 and Browse By Name queries. (I surf via Browse by name)
To name the ones that that do this- Bright House, Comcast, Cox, Charter, and Frontier

These ISP's don't redirect-
At&t (3G, DSL, and T1)
EPB Fiber
Verizon 3G
Virgin Mobile (Sprint 3G)
Peace Communications/CenturyLink

Just setup your computer with google DNS, it saves so much time! I should note that OpenDNS also redirects these queries.
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Posted 05 January 2012 - 03:28 PM

View Postcoastie65, on 05 January 2012 - 08:53 AM, said:

View PostLiveBrianD, on 04 January 2012 - 07:54 PM, said:

I was just reading a story about how IE6's usage (at least in the US) has gone down to 1%, and Microsoft is celebrating it. Several commenters said that IE is the most used browser... to download another browser! lol... I remember that, one of the first things I do on an OS install is use IE to download firefox. (that has been the case for several years now)

On a brand new installation of the OS, you do need to use IE to get the other stuff you want. I guess I have gotten too used to having a different portal for the internet, rather than one browser or another. When the MSN servers go down, I have had to use IE though.


Come to think of it, more recently, I've been downloading all the latest versions of my programs to a thumb drive before I reinstall, so I have minimal downtime (or I do this on another computer while windows is installing). That way I don't need to use IE at all. And windows update no longer requires IE (why'd they do that in the first place?), so that's even better. Why does MSN Explorer rely on the msn servers to surf the internet? I thought it just used IE's engine, but had a different ui...

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Posted 05 January 2012 - 03:31 PM

View Postcrazy4laptops, on 05 January 2012 - 10:15 AM, said:

View PostLiveBrianD, on 04 January 2012 - 03:37 PM, said:

I HATE how comcast redirects 404 errors (the type that's shown by the browser itself, not a webpage's page that says it couldn't find it) to their own search page if you use their DNS server. I want to just let firefox give me its' 404 error so I can simply correct the url rather than have to type it all in again. grr... My dad doesn't like how comcast insists that he have at least one email account with them, so he doesn't use it, and has the billing stuff sent to another account. I don't use the security software they provide either, Mcafee or Norton I think, since those are just limited crappy versions, and MSE is better.


Oh how I hate that! If the ISP is cable-based, they redirect 404 and Browse By Name queries. (I surf via Browse by name)
To name the ones that that do this- Bright House, Comcast, Cox, Charter, and Frontier

These ISP's don't redirect-
At&t (3G, DSL, and T1)
EPB Fiber
Verizon 3G
Virgin Mobile (Sprint 3G)
Peace Communications/CenturyLink

Just setup your computer with google DNS, it saves so much time! I should note that OpenDNS also redirects these queries.


That is exactly how OpenDNS quickly lost me as a user. Why do they do that in the first place? Chances are that I would go to my own search engine, like google or bing, if I actually wanted to search something, thank you very much.
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Posted 02 May 2012 - 10:26 AM

never! i have a back-up for my back-up. wifi laptop or iphone. one way or another i will remain connected to the matrix.
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Posted 02 May 2012 - 11:26 AM

View Postphillypa800, on 02 May 2012 - 10:26 AM, said:

never! i have a back-up for my back-up. wifi laptop or iphone. one way or another i will remain connected to the matrix.



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Posted 02 May 2012 - 02:27 PM

View Postphillypa800, on 02 May 2012 - 10:26 AM, said:

never! i have a back-up for my back-up. wifi laptop or iphone. one way or another i will remain connected to the matrix.


And one day... "NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No 3G, no wifi, how can I live?" :D
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Posted 28 May 2012 - 04:47 PM

I would like to sacrifice women than internet.
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Posted 19 August 2012 - 06:45 AM

View Postmyloginname, on 26 December 2011 - 04:01 PM, said:

Hey,

We just recently moved, and I had no internet for a week. We were stuck without internet from Dec.17-Dec.23. Rogers (internet provider) said they would not be able to install it until the 23rd, which was 2 weeks from when we ordered the plan. I'm not sure why it took them so long.

My parents both need the internet, as they have work to do and run small businesses. So we had to resort to extreme measures. We took my dad's iPhone, which has a 6GB data plan, and used the personal hotspot feature on it. Using that, we connected all our PC's to the iPhone. All these laptops, running off an iPhone's 3G data.

Even then, when my dad wasn't home, we basically had no internet. So my question is, could you survive without internet. Say, for maybe a month? I know I couldn't. Aside from dying of boredom, I also wouldn't be able to complete schoolwork because most of my schoolwork requires the internet, and there were times during that week where I would stay up late at night waiting for my dad to come home from work to finish my homework.

I lived with out Internet around Christmas Time in 2009.
I just moved also into a new development and another home builder covered the box in a huge Mountin of dirt.
They had to dig it up before we could get cable and Internet.Once the router broke down and we all had to use the only Ethernet cable upstairs because we didn't think to wire more Internet jacks.That was okay but portable devices has no Wi-Fi and only data plan.
And if there was a blackout I don't know how I would survive because I use the Internet a lot more now.
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Posted 19 August 2012 - 08:00 AM

Major events caused a loss of power yesterday. 10 AM and a goose from the nearby lake hit a power line (4160 volts) and caused a line to burn open. Over eight hours with no power, the kids went nuts, their phones battery failed into the third hour and the crying started. I had a prior commitment out of town and had to leave, now no way for them to charge their batteries with the car gone. Still no power on my return and the saddest I've ever seen them. So quiet around the house. You could hear the cheers throughout the neighborhood when it came back on. Everything came back to life with no problems (I always worry about the server) and the fans went into overdrive trying to move the stale air out of the house.
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Posted 19 August 2012 - 09:04 AM

View Postmjd420nova, on 19 August 2012 - 08:00 AM, said:

Major events caused a loss of power yesterday. 10 AM and a goose from the nearby lake hit a power line (4160 volts) and caused a line to burn open. Over eight hours with no power, the kids went nuts, their phones battery failed into the third hour and the crying started. I had a prior commitment out of town and had to leave, now no way for them to charge their batteries with the car gone. Still no power on my return and the saddest I've ever seen them. So quiet around the house. You could hear the cheers throughout the neighborhood when it came back on. Everything came back to life with no problems (I always worry about the server) and the fans went into overdrive trying to move the stale air out of the house.


We lost power as well yesterday morning. Transformer blew. I immediately unplugged everything thing from my two UPS's to save the batteries for recharging my Cell phone. :D
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Posted 25 August 2012 - 05:24 AM

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We lost power as well yesterday morning. Transformer blew. I immediately unplugged everything thing from my two UPS's to save the batteries for recharging my Cell phone. :D


As long as you don't have anything connected to the UPS device that you wanted to leave on, you should be able to just power off the UPS device. That is all that I do (mainly because they continue to beep when there is no power...I believe there is a way to silence mine but I remember for sure).
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Posted 04 September 2012 - 08:12 PM

What is the internet? Is that like Google?

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Posted 05 September 2012 - 12:41 AM

View Postmyloginname, on 26 December 2011 - 04:01 PM, said:

Hey,

We just recently moved, and I had no internet for a week. We were stuck without internet from Dec.17-Dec.23. Rogers (internet provider) said they would not be able to install it until the 23rd, which was 2 weeks from when we ordered the plan. I'm not sure why it took them so long.

My parents both need the internet, as they have work to do and run small businesses. So we had to resort to extreme measures. We took my dad's iPhone, which has a 6GB data plan, and used the personal hotspot feature on it. Using that, we connected all our PC's to the iPhone. All these laptops, running off an iPhone's 3G data.

Even then, when my dad wasn't home, we basically had no internet. So my question is, could you survive without internet. Say, for maybe a month? I know I couldn't. Aside from dying of boredom, I also wouldn't be able to complete schoolwork because most of my schoolwork requires the internet, and there were times during that week where I would stay up late at night waiting for my dad to come home from work to finish my homework.




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Posted 23 October 2012 - 11:19 PM

If surviving means to stay alive, yes, definitely I won't commit suicide but that would be a hell of life without internet. How did I spend my life when there was no internet back in nineties? really I don't know.
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