Posts by okrogius

Quote: Originally Posted by ricky28269 Hmm, thanks but this is NOTEBOOKforums, if anything this belongs in the desktops section... You got me excited for a moment there, as if I could buy a blu-ray drive for my E1705...

The home section comes with worst support. Business/epp/etc are far better if you ever have to call them for anything. To illustrate, one particular example comes to mind - Had their phone system route me to home xps support - waited...

Quote: Originally Posted by Labmouse Well, you got to ask yourself just how valuable is your data? If you're sending Top Secret government military files, don't use wifi. If you're a home user, and you just want to...

Quote: Originally Posted by ZippyDan do a google for "WPA cracked" http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=9 anyway, yes WPA can be made secure, but the WPA that the average user implements is not much more secure...

Quote: Originally Posted by ZippyDan wpa is no guarantee either, but it should at the least give you a few more minutes of security Quote: Originally Posted by baileymoto With that said, WPA...

Anything short of WPA is insecure as far as consumer oriented tools go. Of course it's better to add a door into your house even if it's a paperweight (WEP) than nothing at all. SSID Broadcast disabling really doesn't improve...

You can buy a signal booster (basically picks up the signal and retransmits it) to install on your front porch. Your other option is to get a longer range external antenna for your laptop.

Quote: Originally Posted by blacklimo03 In the manual for the soundcard, one of the first things it says is that the soundcard AUTOMATICALLY disables all onboard sound. So no, that would not work You can use...

Quote: Originally Posted by Gold Beater Someone have a link to where I can download IE7? http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions

Quote: Originally Posted by makken ok, I'm more interested in the IE7 beta than the longhorn beta (why'd they name it vista anyways). will the IE7 beta be avaliable to the public or is it also a developer-only release?...