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[Preambulatory warning: As an end-luser of a little computer (not a programmer or system administrator or anything), I'd rate my knowledge and abilities B minus or C plus; but as somebody wanting to connect it up to the wider world, I'd rate them C minus.]
In the large institution in which I work, ethernet jacks and wireless are plentiful. One office where I often work has a number of desktop computers I can use, each connected by wire. When I turn on any of these computers, open a browser, and ask it to look at any page, I'm instead given my institution's standard https page in which I type my ID and password. (Let's call this the login page.) Once I've done this, I can websurf freely. (No bittorrents though.) Perhaps I ought to be able websurf endlessly, but in practice I can't: One computer (A) gives me the login page after ten minutes or so, another (B) after twenty-five minutes or so, the third (C) after two hours or so. I haven't actually timed these, but all of us who use them agree on our impressions. It's particularly odd as A and B have been plugged into the very same router -- or hub? anyway, little doodad with tiny flashing diodes -- and have been like this since the day they were brand new and set up with identical (Windows) OS and software.
I didn't much care about this matter until yesterday, because until yesterday my most-used computer, in my own little office, never had the LAN again give me the login page, unless the computer had been awoken from sleep (or of course had been turned off and back on or had had the cable temporarily removed and plugged back in). However, yesterday -- but no, let me pause at this point for now.
Why might computers A and B behave differently, and how might I increase the time for A? If I know the fix for this, I might be able to fix the brand new, serious irritation within my own office. -- Hoary ( talk) 02:41, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
Thank you Kainaw and Unilynx.
Rather surprisingly, most of us are allowed to select and set up our own computers as we wish (the "sensitive" stuff is all done by other people on some other LAN that doesn't concern me, and the rules there for hard/software are strict/paranoid indeed). Thus right now I'm typing this in my office on a Dell that I bought, whose Win Vista I replaced with Kubuntu, and whose (suboptimal?) settings I can't blame on anybody else.
It's fair for me to have to log in two or three times a day (or however many times I wake up a computer or turn on a new one), but what's mighty irritating is having to do this a lot more often. So I don't want (or don't think that I want) to find any way around any systemic requirement; I just want to reduce the number of irritations.
Oh, attempts to browse show that I've been kicked out. I log on again, but this time take the trouble to read the screen and see that it's about DHCP.
My little box ("fast ethernet switching hub", its fascia tells me) was getting a bit erratic. (Authentication wasn't an issue here; instead, the computer would announce that it wasn't connected to ethernet.) So yesterday I replaced it with something that's similar but also has wireless capability. (Yippee, no more cables!) With the old hub, I could surf all day. Now I have to do the authentication rigmarole every few minutes. But the problem isn't the computer in itself, as this happily works elsewhere in the institution (using this or that other wireless router intended for people like me, or piggybacking) for hours. Perhaps there's something not quite right with the wireless router. But the fact that two apparently identical computers can have their IP numbers withdrawn after different intervals when sharing the same router (not the same model of router, but the same router) has me mystified. -- Hoary ( talk) 06:51, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi guys. On my wiki, flagSare seeming to dissapear! Help! The first flag to dissapear is that of Côte d'Ivoire, now not only that flag is missing, but also the flag of China PR! Please reply! Velo ciraptor 888 04:47, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
Morning all,
My MS Outlook filing system is very simple, I put all my emails into one folder. Then I can see what emails I have received that day. As my job has become more complicated, I now have to create sub-folders for my emails, filing them per category. My question is, can I still view all recieved emails together without going through and looking at them separately? So at the end of the week, for instance, I can see all emails recieved since Monday together and sorted by date? In explorer, I can search for *.* and view all files in all the subfolders - I would like a similar solution in Outlook, is there something obvious I have overlooked?
Thanks 195.60.13.52 ( talk) 09:02, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
I think I've found it, a 'search folder' would seem to fit the bill, although if you have any other suggestions... 195.60.13.52 ( talk) 10:47, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
If anyone knows how to decode this please tell me. This is one of my own passwords and would like to see if anyone can figure this out for me. If you can please contact me at <email address removed> Thanks 819213c9a4504af3f271ccdcc57af20b —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.163.124.138 ( talk) 10:06, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
Sometimes my internet goes down at night when they're doing maintenance on or, or perhaps even just turning it off to lower bandwidth from people who leave downloads going at night. I want a program that can monitor when the internet is working and when it goes down. I was suggested PingPlotter by someone, but you have to buy it and the free version is very restricted. Are there any free programs that can do this? 82.43.88.151 ( talk) 10:40, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
@ECHO OFF :start echo The time is: >>internetlog.txt time /t >> internetlog.txt ping -n 1 google.com >> internetlog.txt goto start
#!/bin/bash
while true
do
if ! ping -c 1 -w 1 google.com >/dev/null 2>&1
then
date +%s >>ping_fail.log
fi
sleep 10
done
Hi everyone I have the above router for my wireless broadband connection. My ISP is AOL. I had another netgear router of the same type my previous home but used a different ISP. In my previous house I had wireless internet but didn't have to pay for a BT landline. Since moving house, I tried to unplug my router from the phone line and lost my internet connection. I was wondering if there is a way that I can keep internet access if I were to cancel my BT landline, as I was able to have wireless internet using the same type of router without paying for a BT landline previously. Hope this makes sense. Any suggestions would be greatfully received. —Preceding unsigned comment added by RichYPE ( talk • contribs) 11:32, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
Is there any freeware available that can put all files with similar file names (such as those with the first n characters the same) into the same subolder? 92.15.3.61 ( talk) 15:59, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
WinXp. 92.28.253.92 ( talk) 23:24, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
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[Preambulatory warning: As an end-luser of a little computer (not a programmer or system administrator or anything), I'd rate my knowledge and abilities B minus or C plus; but as somebody wanting to connect it up to the wider world, I'd rate them C minus.]
In the large institution in which I work, ethernet jacks and wireless are plentiful. One office where I often work has a number of desktop computers I can use, each connected by wire. When I turn on any of these computers, open a browser, and ask it to look at any page, I'm instead given my institution's standard https page in which I type my ID and password. (Let's call this the login page.) Once I've done this, I can websurf freely. (No bittorrents though.) Perhaps I ought to be able websurf endlessly, but in practice I can't: One computer (A) gives me the login page after ten minutes or so, another (B) after twenty-five minutes or so, the third (C) after two hours or so. I haven't actually timed these, but all of us who use them agree on our impressions. It's particularly odd as A and B have been plugged into the very same router -- or hub? anyway, little doodad with tiny flashing diodes -- and have been like this since the day they were brand new and set up with identical (Windows) OS and software.
I didn't much care about this matter until yesterday, because until yesterday my most-used computer, in my own little office, never had the LAN again give me the login page, unless the computer had been awoken from sleep (or of course had been turned off and back on or had had the cable temporarily removed and plugged back in). However, yesterday -- but no, let me pause at this point for now.
Why might computers A and B behave differently, and how might I increase the time for A? If I know the fix for this, I might be able to fix the brand new, serious irritation within my own office. -- Hoary ( talk) 02:41, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
Thank you Kainaw and Unilynx.
Rather surprisingly, most of us are allowed to select and set up our own computers as we wish (the "sensitive" stuff is all done by other people on some other LAN that doesn't concern me, and the rules there for hard/software are strict/paranoid indeed). Thus right now I'm typing this in my office on a Dell that I bought, whose Win Vista I replaced with Kubuntu, and whose (suboptimal?) settings I can't blame on anybody else.
It's fair for me to have to log in two or three times a day (or however many times I wake up a computer or turn on a new one), but what's mighty irritating is having to do this a lot more often. So I don't want (or don't think that I want) to find any way around any systemic requirement; I just want to reduce the number of irritations.
Oh, attempts to browse show that I've been kicked out. I log on again, but this time take the trouble to read the screen and see that it's about DHCP.
My little box ("fast ethernet switching hub", its fascia tells me) was getting a bit erratic. (Authentication wasn't an issue here; instead, the computer would announce that it wasn't connected to ethernet.) So yesterday I replaced it with something that's similar but also has wireless capability. (Yippee, no more cables!) With the old hub, I could surf all day. Now I have to do the authentication rigmarole every few minutes. But the problem isn't the computer in itself, as this happily works elsewhere in the institution (using this or that other wireless router intended for people like me, or piggybacking) for hours. Perhaps there's something not quite right with the wireless router. But the fact that two apparently identical computers can have their IP numbers withdrawn after different intervals when sharing the same router (not the same model of router, but the same router) has me mystified. -- Hoary ( talk) 06:51, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi guys. On my wiki, flagSare seeming to dissapear! Help! The first flag to dissapear is that of Côte d'Ivoire, now not only that flag is missing, but also the flag of China PR! Please reply! Velo ciraptor 888 04:47, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
Morning all,
My MS Outlook filing system is very simple, I put all my emails into one folder. Then I can see what emails I have received that day. As my job has become more complicated, I now have to create sub-folders for my emails, filing them per category. My question is, can I still view all recieved emails together without going through and looking at them separately? So at the end of the week, for instance, I can see all emails recieved since Monday together and sorted by date? In explorer, I can search for *.* and view all files in all the subfolders - I would like a similar solution in Outlook, is there something obvious I have overlooked?
Thanks 195.60.13.52 ( talk) 09:02, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
I think I've found it, a 'search folder' would seem to fit the bill, although if you have any other suggestions... 195.60.13.52 ( talk) 10:47, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
If anyone knows how to decode this please tell me. This is one of my own passwords and would like to see if anyone can figure this out for me. If you can please contact me at <email address removed> Thanks 819213c9a4504af3f271ccdcc57af20b —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.163.124.138 ( talk) 10:06, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
Sometimes my internet goes down at night when they're doing maintenance on or, or perhaps even just turning it off to lower bandwidth from people who leave downloads going at night. I want a program that can monitor when the internet is working and when it goes down. I was suggested PingPlotter by someone, but you have to buy it and the free version is very restricted. Are there any free programs that can do this? 82.43.88.151 ( talk) 10:40, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
@ECHO OFF :start echo The time is: >>internetlog.txt time /t >> internetlog.txt ping -n 1 google.com >> internetlog.txt goto start
#!/bin/bash
while true
do
if ! ping -c 1 -w 1 google.com >/dev/null 2>&1
then
date +%s >>ping_fail.log
fi
sleep 10
done
Hi everyone I have the above router for my wireless broadband connection. My ISP is AOL. I had another netgear router of the same type my previous home but used a different ISP. In my previous house I had wireless internet but didn't have to pay for a BT landline. Since moving house, I tried to unplug my router from the phone line and lost my internet connection. I was wondering if there is a way that I can keep internet access if I were to cancel my BT landline, as I was able to have wireless internet using the same type of router without paying for a BT landline previously. Hope this makes sense. Any suggestions would be greatfully received. —Preceding unsigned comment added by RichYPE ( talk • contribs) 11:32, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
Is there any freeware available that can put all files with similar file names (such as those with the first n characters the same) into the same subolder? 92.15.3.61 ( talk) 15:59, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
WinXp. 92.28.253.92 ( talk) 23:24, 10 August 2010 (UTC)