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For some reason in the last 2 weeks I’ve been confronted with resolutions to a couple of ‘in-your-face’ long term compatibility problems. What is particularly annoying is that I’ve had the hardware in question for the better part of 3 years and just placed blame elsewhere. In any case, I’m just throwing this out there in case anyone is searching the web the way I was. Basically, the Tyan s2885 (Thunder k8w) dual opteron board has a buggy AGP chipset and/or windows drivers. I’ve had intermittent problems with various video cards culminating in purchasing a brand new Geforce 6800XT just so I could run Windows Vista with Aero enabled. I installed Vista just fine, and tried to boot it up for the first time, and the machine hung EVERY time it tried to enable Aero during the login. No amount of tweaking was able to get past the login screen. ...

I’ve got a RAZR v3c and alltel, and have enjoyed the prevalent 1xRTT data tethering for the last year or so whenever I’m out and about, even in the car. However, recently I upgraded my laptop and lost the configuration settings, and forgot the specific details. As of today, the needed settings are as follows: Phone Number: #777 Username: [email protected] Password: alltel where nxxnxxxxxx is your Alltel mobile number. Also, for ease of reference, heres the skinny on Alltel data plans, from the Howardforums Alltel Data Thread ...

Smoothwall came through with a demo license for me in just a matter of minutes, and I spend a couple hours playing with it. It has a fairly complete web interface, but unfortunately even with all its fancy features I saw absolutely nothing that would allow me to operate it as a layer 2 firewall (bridging my static ip addresses into a dmz) nor does it have support for routing said static ip address without NAT. Given we have clients and servers on static IP addresses and a class C address block to boot, it seems a waste to have to static nat them all and deal with that complexity when a dual dmz solution with layer 2 support would take care of it. So it’s back to the drawing board. ...