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To: TimF who wrote (171763)	7/9/2003 5:56:11 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578612

Eh, who cares about Coulter? She's her own worst enemy. Anyone who agrees with her will now be easily debunked. As a Democrat I'm actually glad she's out there representing the GOP the way she does. That "bring back the McCarthy-era" issue is a real winner, huh?

To: TimF who wrote (171763)	7/9/2003 6:00:32 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578612

Wireless networking - "I received a service request last week from a San Marino residential client that I hadn't seen in almost a year. He said he was having minor problems with his old PC and two recently added PC's and asked me to come over and clean things up. Upon arrival he added that he had installed a wireless network about six months ago and that it worked well but had frequent dropouts. While addressing the primary issues, I was surprised to see that his network was named "apple-something" and no one in the family seemed to know why. As an experiment, I unplugged the power from their wireless base-station and, you guessed it, everything kept working. They had been tapping into a neighbor's network for over six months and didn't realize it. Suddenly they remembered that the original name had "default" so I reset everything to "default" and it worked great - until I realized that I still hadn't plugged in their base-station. They were now on a second neighbor's network. There's a lot more to this but you get the point, lazy users, confusion, and a complete lack of security. BTW, I brought up the second neighbors' routers in my client's browser and, since they hadn't changed the default login, was able to look at all their settings. Of particular interest was the DHCP table that showed twenty-five 25 assigned addresses. The poor guy who owns the system is providing connections to everyone on the block and is no doubt clueless as to why he has such low bandwidth..." Message 19087336