Text 68969, 55 rader
Skriven 2012-08-20 12:38:59 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.0)
  Kommentar till text 68967 av Ed Vance (9985.windowsa)
Ärende: Windows 8
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 EV> Glad EVERYTHING stayed put on the partitions.

me, too! it was a very stressful period...

 EV> Did you have the POTS Modem plugged in to a UPS and the EMP got
 EV> pass it? 

yes and no... the pulse came in thru the phone line and bypassed my ground
protections... i can only assume that the BBS machine and modem offer(ed) a
better path to ground but that will be changing in the near future... i'm
working on a plan to attach a better ground to my Type 66 punch block and then
to bond it with the rest of the location ground... it is either that or i
acquire another NID, mark it well as a private NID, mount it on the pole right
outside and then bond ground to location ground there... it doesn't help at all
that the run from the telco NID is some 700 feet of my own wire on my own
poles... they can only come so far onto our land without crossing the LATA
boundary...

 EV> Was the modem an External modem?

that's all i use... internals can get goofy requireing the machine to have to
be rebooted and these machines run 24x7 unless commercial power has gone off
longer than my batteries can keep them running...

 EV> That's what I perfer using, and always did until I got this XP box
 EV> that has a Internal modem in it.

internals are ok for some things but for my own use, i pull them and use known
good externals... especially when it comes to ensuring that i'm not using one
of those dreaded winmodems ;)

that's like my printers... if i can't boot to DOS and copy a file straight to
the printer, then it is not a printer we'll use... of course, this doesn't
cover network attached printers... they're another beast completely... but my
point about locally attached printers is the same as modems... winprinters and
winmodems have no place in my location or servicing our needs over here ;)

 EV> I did use the Internal modem back when I had troubles after I
 EV> Flashed the Linksys Routers Firmware and changed it's password to
 EV> my email password.

i remember reading of your trials and tribulations on that...

 EV> I think it was 10 days I played around trying to get the DSL
 EV> working and then called a Tech who saw what I did and changed the
 EV> routers password for me.

 EV> At least I did find out the Infernal modem worked during that
 EV> period. 

hehehe... he said infernal... hehehe...

)\/(ark

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