Questions about Firewall, DHCP and other things

What I have;
Linksys WRT54GSv4
Up to 5 dynamic IP addresses, from my ISP
Fiber connection
What I want;
WLAN
To use the 'real' dynamic IP addresses (no LAN of my own)
Hardware Firewall (preferably from the Linksys)
Is this even possible? I can't seem to get it working.

No. This won't work with a WRT54GS. You can only set it up in router mode and only if you have a whole subnet. But in router mode the addresses can be reached from the internet.
I guess there is a big misunderstanding anyway. The router even in gateway mode and running not is not a firewall for the computers connected to the router. The router runs a firewall which basically protects the router and in a way your internet connection from attacks (e.g. DoS). The firewall in the router does not protect the computer connected to the router.
What usually provides the protection is the network address translation in gateway mode. Using private IP addresses in your LAN makes the computer unaccessible from the internet. The router maps the single internet IP address.
But you cannot configure the firewall on the router to block any specific traffic.
You may be able to install 3rd party firmware on the router. With 3rd party firmware you have direct access to the Linux system on the router and you can configure the packet filter on the router with iptables. This allows you to individually protect computers connected to your router. But this is not possible with standard Linksys firmware through the web configuration.
See the wikipedia article on "wrt54g" on details about which routers support 3rd party firmware and which projects exist.

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New to Apple, questions about using Windows, and other things

Hello all,
Today is my first day as an Apple owner. It's funny because I'm also a MCSE, MCSA, and MCP.
I purchased a 24" iMac, 2.8GHz, 4GB RAM, and 1TB Hard Drive.
I want to use Windows on my Mac so that I don't have to keep switching over to my PC. My main reason for using Windows is so that I can continue to enjoy my PC Games... mostly racing and D&D games.
So my question is... how does Windows run on bootcamp? Can I still use all of my USB controllers (like my steering wheels, joysticks, etc?)
I really havent even turned on my iMac... been too amazed at just looking at it for the first day (and also rearranging my home office).
I really just want to know from those of you who have PCs AND Macs, if you still find yourself having to go back to your PC because of incompatibilities or performance issues on the iMac?

Using BootCamp, your Windows experience is no different than if running it on a similarly configured PC. If you went with a VM running under Mac OS X (like VMWare or Parallels), there are a number of differences. However, using BootCamp you have a Mac-branded PC.
I'd point out that people have been dual-booting operating systems in this fashion for decades. Windows has no obvious in-built support for doing so, but other operating systems (like Linux, FreeBSD, etc.) have always very clearly and explicitly supported dual-booting (on Macs and regular PCs) from the get go.

Question about CLASSPATH Prefix and others...

Hi all,
Would someone pls give me some help about the following questions:
1. how to set the CLASSPATH Prefix, CLASSPATH and SERVERCLASSPATH, and
the usage of them?
2. the default JAVA_HOME is \WebLogic\jre1_2, after I changed it to
\jdk1.1.7, the EJB Deployer failed to start with error message: The
windows registry is misconfigured for Weblogic Server. Even after I
copy jre under \WebLogic\jre1_2 to \jdk1.1.7
3. For testing purpose, I changed weblogic.class.path back, then
restarted NT, started Weblogic Server, to my surprise, the pool was
created as well! How do you think about this?
Thanks in advance,
Paul Shen
Email: [email protected]
WWW: shensr.8m.com

WLS loads classes from weblogic.class.path property
Refer this document
http://www.weblogic.com/docs51/admindocs/classpath.html
Kumar
Paul Shen wrote:
At first, thanks Jesse for the help. Sorry for my mistake that making
question 3 out of context.
WinNT 4.0 SP6, Weblogic 5.10, SQLServer 7.0
I wanna create a connection pool for SQLServer. At beginning, I
mis-add the JDBC Driver class path to weblogic.class.path. As a result
the pool creating failed. After I add the JDBC Driver class path to
weblogic.class.path and CLASSPATH (by wlconfig), the pool created
succefully.
For testing purpose, I changed weblogic.class.path back, then
restarted NT, started Weblogic Server, to my surprise, the pool was
created as well! How do you think about this?
Paul
On 22 Aug 2000 12:27:28 -0800, [email protected] (Jesse E Tilly)
wrote:
Comments inline...
[email protected] (Paul Shen) wrote in <wS2iOZDX8dSgABq4nblptb+wg7Uz@
4ax.com>:
3. For testing purpose, I changed weblogic.class.path back, then
restarted NT, started Weblogic Server, to my surprise, the pool was
created as well! How do you think about this?This question seems out of context. I do not know what pool you are
referring to, nor the actions prior to changing the classpath.
Jesse

Question about VBox/HBox and drawing things between things like a Mind Map

Hi people!
I'm toying with some techniques to draw something like a mind map using JavaFX. The idea was to make one HBox with two elements, left is the content node and the right element is a VBox with the child nodes.
The problem is drawing lines between the left node and the child nodes.
I suspect the double binding might be a problem in the lines definition, or perhaps that VBox/HBox don't actually change the x,y for the children, but rather translate them.
Here's a working buggy example:
package tree;
import javafx.scene.CustomNode;
import javafx.scene.Group;
import javafx.scene.input.MouseEvent;
import javafx.scene.layout.HBox;
import javafx.scene.layout.VBox;
import javafx.scene.Node;
import javafx.scene.paint.Color;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.shape.Line;
import javafx.scene.shape.Rectangle;
import javafx.stage.Stage;
public class MyNode extends CustomNode {
    var children : MyNode[] = [];
    def rect = Rectangle {
        width: 20
        height: 20
        fill: Color.RED
        onMouseClicked: function( e: MouseEvent ) {
            insert MyNode { } into children;
    public def leftConnectorX = bind rect.x;
    public def leftConnectorY = bind rect.y + rect.height / 2;
    public def rightConnectorX = bind rect.x + rect.width;
    public def rightConnectorY = bind rect.y + rect.height / 2;
    // A vertical layout box of the child nodes
    def childs = VBox {
        spacing: 5
        content: bind children };
    // These are the lines between this node and its direct children
    def lines = bind for(child in children) Line {
        startX: bind rightConnectorX
        startY: bind rightConnectorY
        endX: bind child.leftConnectorX
        endY: bind child.leftConnectorY
    override function create():Node {
        return Group {
            content: bind [
                lines,
                HBox {
                    spacing: 15
                    content: [ rect, childs ]
function run(args : String[]) {
    return Stage {
        title: "Tree of trees"
        width: 800
        height: 600
        scene: Scene {
            content: MyNode {
}Any ideas why the lines aren't drawn? Or any idea of a better way to achieve mind mapping-ish tree?

I'm sure there will be some updates soon to fix those small problems. I mean, how hard can it be? ;-)
I got my code working, had to move the lines to outside the nested HBox/VBox'es to be able to positioning them freely.
package tree2;
import javafx.scene.CustomNode;
import javafx.scene.Group;
import javafx.scene.input.MouseEvent;
import javafx.scene.layout.HBox;
import javafx.scene.layout.VBox;
import javafx.scene.Node;
import javafx.scene.paint.Color;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.shape.Line;
import javafx.scene.shape.Rectangle;
import javafx.stage.Stage;
public class MyNode extends CustomNode {
    var children : MyNode[] = [];
    def rect = Rectangle {
        width: 20
        height: 20
        fill: Color.RED
        onMouseClicked: function( e: MouseEvent ) {
            insert MyNode { } into children;
    public def leftConnectorX = bind rect.boundsInScene.minX;
    public def leftConnectorY = bind rect.boundsInScene.minY + rect.height / 2;
    public def rightConnectorX = bind rect.boundsInScene.minX + rect.width;
    public def rightConnectorY = bind rect.boundsInScene.minY + rect.height / 2;
    // A vertical layout box of the child nodes
    def childs = VBox {
        spacing: 5
        content: bind children };
    // These are the lines between this node and its direct children
    public def lines : Line[] = bind
    for(child in children) [
        child.lines,
        Line {
            startX: bind rightConnectorX
            startY: bind rightConnectorY
            endX: bind child.leftConnectorX
            endY: bind child.leftConnectorY
    override function create():Node {
        return Group {
            content: bind
                HBox {
                    spacing: 15
                    content: [ rect, childs ]
function run(args : String[]) {
def node = MyNode {};
return Stage {
    title: "Tree of trees"
    width: 800
    height: 600
    scene: Scene {
        content: Group {
            content: bind [ node, node.lines ]
}

I had a windows laptop, and I save files like photos, documents, videos and other things on an external hard drive, and now I want to move those files to the Mac book Pro, and then move those files again to another external hard drive 1T. My question is:

I had a windows laptop, and I save files like photos,documents, videos and other things on an external hard drive, and now I want tomove those files to the Mac book Pro, and then move those files again toanother external hard drive 1T. My question is: Is it possible? Doing this willnot affect the files that I had in windows? No information is lost? or how cani do it?

Connect the external drive to your Mac and drag the files from it to your Mac's internal drive. Then dismount and disconnect the external drive, connect the 1TB external drive, and drag the files from the internal drive onto the external. Nothing will have been deleted from any of the drives up to this point; the files will only have been copied. Verify that the files are readable. There's no reason they shouldn't be; this is just a precaution.
Now if you wish to delete the files from any of the drives, drag them to the Trash, and Empty the Trash while the drive from which they came is still connected. If you disconnect the drive before emptying the Trash, the files you were trying to remove from it won't be deleted. They'll remain in the Trash and continue to take up space on the drive.
Note that if your external drives are in NTFS format, you won't be able to write anything to them or delete anything from them, though you will be able to read and copy the files they contain. The NTFS disk format is read-only to the Mac OS, unless you have a third-party NTFS driver installed. To make your drives cross-platform readable and writable, you must reformat them in the FAT32 or ExFAT format.

Two questions about SG300 DHCP server

Hi,
I have two questions about the DHCP server on the SG300:
On the Address Binding page, what does the "Declined" state mean? I have a NAS device that won't pull an address, and I think that the entry with a state of "Declined" corresponds to this device. It was previously pulling an address from a RV180, so the only difference is that it is now connected to the SG300. I worked around this by manually setting the address on the NAS device, but this won't scale if I run into a lot of other devices that can't pull an address.
I configured a static address binding for a WAP321 and found that instead of pulling the configured address that it pulled a dynamic address. I checked the Address Binding page and see that the dynamic entry that corresponds with the WAP321 has a Client Identifier rather than a MAC address. I changed the static entry for the WAP321 to use the client identifier displayed in the dynamic entry, and now the WAP321 pulls the configured static address. Is this expected behavior?
Thanks,
Bob

With the SX300/500 it is required the client identifier, it doesn't automatically insert it. If static DHCP is made on the switch and you didn't need client identifier, that is more or less fortunate behavior for you
So to answer this question, the expected behavior is to configure client identifier for static DHCP entry.
-Tom
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My Wife got an iPhone at work. IT set it up the first time on another machine, they finally install iTunes on her machine but I don't know if she can sync without loosing Photos, SMS, and other things. She had six months of stuff on that phone?

My Wife got an iPhone at work. IT set it up the first time on another machine, they finally install iTunes on her machine but I don't know if she can sync without loosing Photos, SMS, and other things. She had six months of stuff on that phone?
The problem is she can't update to new software until she connect to iTunes, but she don't want to loose all that info.
My question is:
If she register her apple ID on that new computer, and sync the phone, will she loose everything? or iTunes will back up first (because apple id match) and then sync.
Otherwise, how can I do it? The closest apple store is 3 hours away. thanks!

Before you connect to a new PC, make sure that autosync is disabled in Edit/Preferences/Devices, otherwise her phone will be wiped during the following sync.
If she has data on the phone she wants to save, back up manually:
Disable autosync in iTunes, connect your phone to her new computer and right click on it in the device list and choose backup. iTunes will backup your phone without syncing. Transfer the purchases the same way, choosing "transfer purchases" this time.
When you connect your phone for the first time, all media content will be erased. But you can restore your settings and app data from your manual backup afterwards.
Don't forget to set up at least one contact and event on your new computer to be able to merge calendars and contacts when you sync the phone for the first time.
About backups and what's saved:http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766
How to back up and restore:http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414
How to download apps for free again:http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519
Transferring data is also covered here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4137

Problems with initial set up for mail and other things

I am having issues with mail set up and getting printers and other things work with Mac Pro Book, since i am new convert i am feeling really frustrated with these things, anyone out there has experince in mac mail set ups and other instatlations like msn messanger etc.

Sorry you are having problems but you need to provide more detailed information about the problems such as what type of email account are you trying to set up in Mail - .Mac, IMAP or POP and is this account provided by your ISP used for connecting to the internet or by an email account provider?
What happens including error messages provided when trying to create the email account in Mail?
Regarding a printer problem, this is the Mail & Address Book forum. You should post a question about printer issues with detailed information such as the make and model of your printer and what you have tried to this point at the Printer & Faxing forum here.
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=756
Installing MSN Messenger should be easy. I believe Messenger does not include an installer and is provided as package via a disk image that only requires dragging the application from the mounted disk image to your Applications folder which copies the application package from the mounted disk image to your hard drive.
What problems are you having with installing Messenger?

A few questions about the ka790gx and dka790gx

i have a few questions about the ka790gx and dka790gx , how much better is the dka790gx compaired to the ka790gx ? . how much difference does the ACC function make to overclocking etc , i plan on getting a phenom II 940BE or 720BE . i already have the ka790gx so would it be worth building another system using the dka790gx mobo , or should i keep what i already have and just change the cpu ?

It's largely irrelevant what other boards had VRM issues other than the KA790GX - the fact is it died at stock settings. Since there is little cost difference between the more robust DKA790GX (or Platinum if you really need 1394) why bother with the proven weakling? There are other examples around of the KA not having a robust power section. There's no way I would use even a 95W TDP CPU in the KA and absolutely not O/C.....!
As for the credentials of Custom PC, I have generally found their reviews accurate and balanced, and echo my own findings where applicable. If a little too infrequent.
The fact that the KA has such a huge VRM heatsink leads me to my other comments on the Forum, particularly regarding the "fudge" aspect:
"""Henry is spot on - the notion that adding a heatsink to the top of the D2PAK or whatever MOSFETS is effective is virtually worthless. The device's die thermal junction is the tab on the device back - which is always against the PCB pad. The majority of heat is therefore dissipated in to the board, and the fact that the epoxy plastic encapsulation gets hot is simply due to the inability of the heat to be conducted away from the device die via the tab. Not sure when Epoxy become an effective conductor of heat.... Good practice is to increase the size of the PCB pad (or "land" in American) such that the enlarged PCB copper area acts as an adequate heatsink. This is still not as effective as clamping a power device tab to an actual piece of ali or copper, but since the devices used are SMD devices, this is not possible. However, the surface area required to provide sufficient PCB copper area to act as a heatsink for several devices isn't available in the current motherboard layouts. Where industrial SBC designs differ in this respect is to place the VRM MOSFETs on the back of the PCB on very enlarged PCB pads - where real estate for components is not an issue.
Gigabyte's UD3 2oz copper mainboards sound like a good idea, on the face of it. However, without knowing how they have connected the device tabs to where and what remains a mystery. I suspect it is more hype than solution, although there will be some positive effect. From an electrical perspective, having lower resistance connecting whatever to whatever (probably just a 0V plane) is no bad thing.
The way the likes of ASUS sort of get round the problem is to increase the sheer number of MOSFET devices and effectively spread the heat dissipation over a larger physical area. This works to a degree, there is the same amount of heat being dissipated, but over several more square inches. The other advantage of this is that each leg of the VRM circuit passes less current and therefore localised heat is reduced. Remember that as well as absolute peak operating temperature causing reduced component life, thermal cycling stresses the mechanical aspects of components (die wire bonds for example) as well as the solder joints on the board. Keeping components at a relatively constant temperature, even if this is high (but within operating temperature limits), is a means of promoting longevity.
For myself, the first thing I do with a seperate VRM heatsink is take it off and use a quiet fan to blow air on to the VRM area of the PCB - this is where the heat is. This has the added benefit of actively cooling the inductors and capacitors too....
Cooling the epoxy component body is a fudge. If the epoxy (and thus any heatsink plonked on top of it) is running at 60C, the component die is way above that.....
It's better than nothing, but only just."""

Question About Color's and Gradients

Hi all,
I have a question about color swatches and gradients.
I am curious to know, if I have 2 color swatches that I make into a gradient color, is it posible to change the tint of each indivdual color in that gradient and have that applied to the gradient without having to adjust the gradients opacity.
The reason that I'm asking this is because in creating a project I found that the colors that I chose for to make my gradient from my swatches were to dark, and while I can adjust each one's tint to my liking (if the object they were applied to was going to be a solid color) but that doesn't seem to apply to the overall gradient.
I hope that makes sense, I know that this was something that was able to be accomplished in quark and was wondering if I can do something similar.

If you double click your gradient swatch (after adding it to the swatches)
Then click a colour stop in the gradient, and then change the drop down menu to CMYK (or rgb)
And you can alter the percentages there. It's not much use for spot colours but it's a start.
But making tint swatches would be a good start anyway.
At least then when you double click the gradient (in the swatches) to edit it you can choose from CMYK, RGB, LAB, or Swatches and adjust each colour stop to your liking.

Question about clear page and reset pagination

Hi,
I have a question about clear pages and the reset pagination in an URL. What is the reason why a clear page doesn't also trigger a reset pagination on the pages which are cleared?
I can't really imagine a business case where it makes sense to clear all data of page items on a page and don't reset the pagination of reports on that page which probably use a page item in there where clause...
The drawback of this behavior is that a developer always has to set the reset pagination checkbox when he clears the target page and the even bigger drawback is that if you specify other pages to clear, you can't reset pagination for them, because reset pagination only works for the target page.
Thanks for your input.
Patrick
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Enhancement request filed, thanks,
Scott

The question about portlet customization and synchronization

I have a question about portlet customization and synchronization.
When I call
NameValuePersonalizationObject data = (NameValuePersonalizationObject) PortletRendererUtil.getEditData(portletRenderRequest);
portletRenderRequest.setPortletTitle(str);
portletRenderRequest.putString(aKey, aValue);
PortletRendererUtil.submitEditData(portletRenderRequest, data);
Should I make any synchronization myself (use "synchronized" blocks or something else) or this procedure is made thread-safe on the level of the Portal API?

HI Dimitry,
I dont think you have to synchronize the block. i guess the code is synchronized internally.
regards,
Harsha

What to do to back Clear private data and other things I loose?

It has about 15 days ago, it appear window Firefox on my desktop, to download 3.6.13 version. Inside this window wrote "URGENT" in yellow color, and attention, "computer online attack". When I finish to install this Firefox, I saw that I loose Clear Private Data and other things I had in the first line, on the top of computer (sign of mail etc.), and things where is the star and flash. 1. Was it yours or send it to me someone else...? 2. Does this 3.6.13 include Clear private data? 3. What to do to have again Clear private data? Please, wrote step by step, 4. What to do to back other important things I loose?

You may have picked up a malware infection by allowing that install.<br />
You should never respond to such unrequested pop-ups.
Do a malware check with some malware scanning programs.<br />
You need to scan with all programs because each program detects different malware.<br />
Make sure that you update each program to get the latest version of their databases before doing a scan.<br />
* http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php - Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
* http://www.superantispyware.com/ - SuperAntispyware
* http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/defender/default.mspx - Windows Defender: Home Page
* http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html - Spybot Search & Destroy
* http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php - Ad-Aware Free
See also:
* "Spyware on Windows": http://kb.mozillazine.org/Popups_not_blocked
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A question about item "type and release" of source system creation

Hello expert,
I have a question about item "type and release" of source system creation.
As we know,when we create a web servie source system,there will display a pop-up which includes three items as "logical system","source system"and "type and release".
About the item "type and release",when we push "F4" button,there will be three default selections as below:
"ORA 115     Oracle Applications 11i
TLF 205     Tealeaf 2.05B
XPD 020     SAP xPD".
Who can tell me when and how should I use the three selections.
And also I attempted to input the item by some optional letters except the default three selections and it seems that I can input it freely.
Thank you and Best Regards,
Maggie

Hello DMK,
Thank you very much for your answer.It is very helpful for me.
Can I ask you further about it?
I got that it is a semantic description item.
You said the default selections are set by our basis people.Would you like to tell me how should we creat a new value except the default ones for item "type and release"?Only by inputing the value in the item directly?But you see we canot see the new value item we created by ourself when we push "F4" button next time ,is that ok?Or do we have to ask basis people to define one new value item just like the default seletions before we use it.
Also if possible would you like to describe detail about "This becomes important when you are troubleshooting certain issues especially when RFC connection problems."
Thank you and Best Regards,
Maggie
Message was edited by: Maggie

Nice to see 13" retina but it has only Intel HD Graphics 4000 and does not have NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M with 1GB of GDDR5 memory card. How it will affect the speed, performance and other things compared to 15" retina where NVIDIA GeForce card is available.

Nice to see 13" retina but it has only Intel HD Graphics 4000 and does not have NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M with 1GB of GDDR5 memory card. How it will affect the speed, performance and other things compared to 15" retina where NVIDIA GeForce card is available.

The 15" Retina's will have better performance than any 13" Retina. Not only do the 15" machines have dedicated GPU's, but they also have quad-core processors, whereas the 13" Retina's only have dual-core processors.

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