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Danstevens
Occasionally has a life
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pcernie
Legend
Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm
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Location: Belfast
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^ Yeah, I thought it was   _________________Plain English advice on everything money, purchase and service related:
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/
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pcernie
Legend
Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm
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Location: Belfast
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I heartily recommend the Wolverine and the X-Men cartoon _________________Plain English advice on everything money, purchase and service related:
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/
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forquare1
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:36 pm
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Location: /dev/tty0
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Just booked a holiday to Northumberland, got a Pod up there booked for a few days mid September Just going with the purple one, should be a lot of fun Get some walking done and stuff
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finlay666
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:40 pm
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Location: Newcastle
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Ah my neck of the woods  Kielder forest? _________________TwitterCharlie Brooker: Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.
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adidan
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:43 pm
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Lovely place. I wouldn't mind moving further out that way.
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Fogmeister I ventured into Solitude but didn't really do much.
jonbwfc I was behind her in a queue today - but I wouldn't describe it as 'bushy'.
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AlunD
Site Admin
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:12 am
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Location: Wiltshire
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We'll probably on enroute I'm up there fore a wedding 10/11 September.
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ProfessorF
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:56 pm
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 Just saw a woman having her brand new '09 XKR being trailered out of the petrol station by the AA, after she filled it with diesel. Money and sense, it seems, are frequently exclusive of one another.
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forquare1
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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Errr....  Bellingham Hexham Northumberland Is the address No idea apart from that. I was given a number to ring and was told to use my card...Hang on, I just paid for the....*sigh*
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forquare1
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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We're up there 17th-21st, It would have been sooner but my brother and his girlfriend are coming to us for a while. We're packing them off one day and leaving the next for our holiday
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adidan
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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Aye, Bellingham's just on the edge of Northumberland National Park, a stones throw from Kielder water.
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Fogmeister I ventured into Solitude but didn't really do much.
jonbwfc I was behind her in a queue today - but I wouldn't describe it as 'bushy'.
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bally199
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:52 pm
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Location: Barnsley, South Yorkshire
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Do I have rights to complain about our caravan site's wifi service? Zonealarm just popped up telling me that 192.168.1.168 (default gateway for this network) was trying to connect to my PC. I thought nothing of it. Then 5 minutes later 192.168.1.253 (a PC on the network which was ID'd as Fir_Tree_Admin - Site is called Fir Tree Park) tried to do the same. Can I go shout at them for trying to view what I'm doing?  _________________ Kimmotalk is where all the cool people hang.
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jonlumb
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:44 pm
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Location: Exeter
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I'm pretty sure that's covered by the computer misuse act.
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Linux_User
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Tue May 05, 2009 3:29 pm
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And this is why I can't understand Apple fanbois who don't mind their firewalls being turned off by default. I have subsequently turned mine on...
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jonbwfc
What's a life?
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It entirely depends on what they're trying to connect to. An awful lot of the protocols which windows PCs try to connect to each other, Apple Macs simply don't have and are therefore invulnerable to exploitation via. Plus the built in windows firewall is not in fact very good. Having 'a firewall' doesn't guarantee your safety, nor does not having one inevitably mean you will get hacked. The situation is much more complicated than that. For example, there are various DNS configurations which would require the router to contact your PC (platform irrelevant). It is also true that if you have an automatically assigned IP address (DHCP) that IP address will have a TTL (time to live) and when that expires your PC and the router will have to talk to each other to renew it. There are plenty of reasons why a router would contact your PC that are utterly legitimate. The admin PC could also be probing your PC to check that you haven't been infected, with the view of blocking your PC off the network if it is - commonly known as quarantining. Of course there are possibly nefarious reason why they would be happening. It's hard to tell without more details. But if you're assuming these connections are of ill intent and that a firewall is the cure to all evils, you need to research the topic a bit deeper. Jon
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