Rants etc.....

[JD]

Assuming this is an actual "modem" or "in bridge mode", it's highly unlikely your ISP offers up multiple public IP addresses, unless you have a business connection at home, so that sounds pretty normal to me.

You should always have your modem go into your router anyhow though so that you get a firewall and NAT to stop the whole world from seeing every open service on every device you plug in. I surely wouldn't want my TV on the open Internet, who knows what will show up on your screen...

 

[FreeKnight]

Assuming this is an actual "modem" or "in bridge mode", it's highly unlikely your ISP offers up multiple public IP addresses, unless you have a business connection at home, so that sounds pretty normal to me.

You should always have your modem go into your router anyhow though so that you get a firewall and NAT to stop the whole world from seeing every open service on every device you plug in. I surely wouldn't want my TV on the open Internet, who knows what will show up on your screen...

I thought about that afterwards and realized I'd rather have it set up through the router for that same reason.

 

[sswilson]

Ok, I'll go first..... :bleh:

Why does a major player like ASUS have such a disaster for a website!?!?!?!?

You'd think that a big name like ASUS would have a top notch website to allow folks to get drivers/on-line support, but NOOOOOOOO, instead they've got a site that won't even load the regional page!!!!

C'mon ASUS get with the picture... this is completely unacceptable from a geek point of view.... take a page from AMD/ATI and get some bandwidth going. (Nothing warms the cockles of my heart better than a 1.7MB download speed for drivers! ).

Holy crap!!!!!! 20 minutes in and I'm still trying to download a freaking 291 MEG freaking file?????????

That post was 2008, and it appears nothing much has changed over on the ASUS site!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Prickly007]

what's better than the Encore @ $200, aside from some manual grinders?

Discounting manual grinders, which I know nothing about, $200 is no man's land... Too expensive for "consumer" grinders*, and not a large enough budget for prosumer/enthusiast grinders.

* As I recall, the Encore is essentially an overpriced consumer grinder.

 

[Mr. Friendly]

Discounting manual grinders, which I know nothing about, $200 is no man's land... Too expensive for "consumer" grinders*, and not a large enough budget for prosumer/enthusiast grinders.

* As I recall, the Encore is essentially an overpriced consumer grinder.

how is it overpriced when it's at the top of the list as the recommended model for all it's similarly priced competition?

 

[sswilson]

Hrmmm.....

"bought" a beginner's course on Blender with the hopes that the basics will port over to other CAD programs, but the first part of it is based on the 2.8 beta, and I can't for the life of me get that to launch. Hopefuly the UI from the 2.83 LTS available through the microsoft store is close enough that I can follow through......

 

[sswilson]

3 of 4 PCs in the house are back to not sleeping. I can only assume MS has re-deployed whatever update was causing the issue previously.

 

[sswilson]

???????????

(apparently it's the date Intel was founded...... , and now that I know that, I really want to install it... )

 

[gingerbee]

OMG I hate uber my wife used it once or twice to get food at work and today they charged us with two charges for a trip in a different city for a total of 144$ when we have never taken an uber trip oh I hate you uber. so you know her card is on hold till she wakes up and can put a fraud claim in

 

[Izerous]

Hung a new shelf where the fridge used to go. Stood back looking at it and was happy with the results. Couple hours later I came in from doing.more yard work and realized what I had done. Went to go pull on the pocket door that blocks the kitchen off from the bedrooms and it won't budge.