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@voodoo said in Tech Questions:
@antipodean said in Tech Questions:
Or I guess make it useful by running Pfsense and wireshark in a linux virtualbox?
you're just making words up now
"pfSense
- World's Most Trusted Open Source Firewall"
no wonder - if no one has heard of it no one can hack it -
@Kiwiwomble said in Tech Questions:
@voodoo said in Tech Questions:
@antipodean said in Tech Questions:
Or I guess make it useful by running Pfsense and wireshark in a linux virtualbox?
you're just making words up now
if you think about it...arent all words just made up?
some are based on sounds we make though without conscious effort/thinking about it (no, not "boobies") so some are more made up than others...
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@nostrildamus said in Tech Questions:
@voodoo said in Tech Questions:
@antipodean said in Tech Questions:
Or I guess make it useful by running Pfsense and wireshark in a linux virtualbox?
you're just making words up now
"pfSense
- World's Most Trusted Open Source Firewall"
no wonder - if no one has heard of it no one can hack itSecurity through obscurity?
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@NTA said in Tech Questions:
@nostrildamus said in Tech Questions:
@voodoo said in Tech Questions:
@antipodean said in Tech Questions:
Or I guess make it useful by running Pfsense and wireshark in a linux virtualbox?
you're just making words up now
"pfSense
- World's Most Trusted Open Source Firewall"
no wonder - if no one has heard of it no one can hack itSecurity through obscurity?
Good company motto! And I think this was also the basis of a Dr Who/Time Lords episode or three!
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@NTA said in Tech Questions:
I did a walk through on the setup this morning - I can get the Primary point into the geographical centre of the house (kitchen) with 2 ethernet ports.
Point 2 will have LOS to the "west" of that near the front of the house (foyer) with no impeding structures.
Point 3 will still be in the same location to the "east" (my office) but should hook up to the primary directly as it will be within 5m of it, through an internal wall.So two weeks later, aside from the one point thinking it was offline, the new setup works very well indeed.
I've been investigating some other stuff - as much as I can without seeing under the hood on the router side of things - and reckon that we need to get all the devices to turn off MAC spoofing for the home networks. It seems to be an issue with hitting a limit (address resolution cache??) that would have pulled the house down.
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@Tim said in Tech Questions:
Anyone know of a reliable one-time credit card service for NZ cards?
Not sure what you mean exactly. Are you wanting a cut out service?
You could look at Wise. I use them for a Apple Pay card on my phone. Sign up easy and you get a virtual card immediately. Physical card arrives in a few days. -
@Crucial One time use virtual credit card to make sure one-off payments stay one-off. Something like privacy.com. Wise might be the best bet. Not always keen to expose my real credit card number on the internet!
e.g. Recently a VPN service charged me for a service I had cancelled, and it took some dealing with PayPal to get my money back.
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@Tim said in Tech Questions:
@Crucial One time use virtual credit card to make sure one-off payments stay one-off. Something like privacy.com. Wise might be the best bet. Not always keen to expose my real credit card number on the internet!
I just put balance on the wise card when I need it. Small charge to pay $ on but it is quick and reliable. I have even done it while standing at the supermarket checkout after realising I had left my wallet in the car.
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@voodoo said in Tech Questions:
Random question, but does anyone know anything about Telescopes?
Thinking about getting one for my 9yr old, looks a bit of a minefield. Reflecting, refracting, etc?
Are the ones around $150 any good or just a waste of money?
I'll ask Mrs M who bought one recently and get back to you.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Tech Questions:
@voodoo said in Tech Questions:
Random question, but does anyone know anything about Telescopes?
Thinking about getting one for my 9yr old, looks a bit of a minefield. Reflecting, refracting, etc?
Are the ones around $150 any good or just a waste of money?
I'll ask Mrs M who bought one recently and get back to you.
What was she looking for and did she find it
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Tech Questions:
@voodoo said in Tech Questions:
Random question, but does anyone know anything about Telescopes?
Thinking about getting one for my 9yr old, looks a bit of a minefield. Reflecting, refracting, etc?
Are the ones around $150 any good or just a waste of money?
I'll ask Mrs M who bought one recently and get back to you.
OK. Depends on what you want to use it for. Ours/hers is for planet/star-gazing and we've actually had it 2-3 years. Obviously check on the web for advice, but from what she remembers:
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A decent tripod and mount for adjustment is essential for sky watching.
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Make sure it has an aiming device (most do) to locate what you're looking for as the field of view of the actual telescope is quite small and it can be a real pain to find what you want to look at otherwise.
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The bigger the mirror or lens the better the telescope but there's a trade off with size, portability and cost. Most decent ones are refractor types.
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Consider one with an adaptor for a camera or phone so you can save pics of what you have seen. Most have a variety of different eyepieces or magnification, etc
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You can certainly get a decent one (e.g. lower range Celestron) for your budget. Amazon
We are in no way experts but hope that helps!
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Tech Questions:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Tech Questions:
@voodoo said in Tech Questions:
Random question, but does anyone know anything about Telescopes?
Thinking about getting one for my 9yr old, looks a bit of a minefield. Reflecting, refracting, etc?
Are the ones around $150 any good or just a waste of money?
I'll ask Mrs M who bought one recently and get back to you.
OK. Depends on what you want to use it for. Ours/hers is for planet/star-gazing and we've actually had it 2-3 years. Obviously check on the web for advice, but from what she remembers:
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A decent tripod and mount for adjustment is essential for sky watching.
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Make sure it has an aiming device (most do) to locate what you're looking for as the field of view of the actual telescope is quite small and it can be a real pain to find what you want to look at otherwise.
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The bigger the mirror or lens the better the telescope but there's a trade off with size, portability and cost. Most decent ones are refractor types.
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Consider one with an adaptor for a camera or phone so you can save pics of what you have seen. Most have a variety of different eyepieces or magnification, etc
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You can certainly get a decent one (e.g. lower range Celestron) for your budget. Amazon
We are in no way experts but hope that helps!
Legend, thanks mate
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My laptop had a slight tumble yesterday with a USB flashdrive attached. Needless to say but it landed on the flashdrive and broke/upset something within said flashdrive as it is now not recognised when inserted in any USB slot. As it holds a good number of files (including a huge number of downloaded youtube music files) is there any way to recover this data given the above?
It could be as simple as breaking the plastic casing containing the drive and sticking it but with my luck it won't be that easy. I do have an external drive reader thingy that I can plug into this current laptop via USB cable to read other hard drives extracted from old computers if that is any help (but that is down in Wellington and I am up home in Napier for a month or three so not much use at the moment)! -
@Higgins I would hazard a guess that it's just a connecting pin that's been dislodged. The actual flash memory should still be good. Problem is if you're not handy with soldering you'll have to send it to a specialist recovery place who should be able to recover the files for you.
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@antipodean Thanks, hopefully you are right and that all it will take is a bit of solder to get things going again.
