i was downloading a iso image file of pcbsd 1.0 (a 683 meg file) when i noticed that downloads are a bit slow.
so i checked my traffic stats and here’s what i see:
i’m not even hitting 256kbps!
so i go over at pldtdsl.com and here’s what i see:
i don’t think the difference of 128kpbs wouldn’t even [...]
it was almost midnight. to some its the witching hour. certain things slow down. and then stops completely.
noooo!!!!
dsl decides to disconnect right when i’m in the middle of importing a blogger blog into a wordpress blog. that is not good.
i was able to get connected six hours later and restored the blogger template just to [...]
my firewall got dos’d (denial of service attack) yesterday. according to my firewall logs it was a dos teardrop attack. cute. i did a little digging and found out that it only affects machines running windows 95, windows nt and windows 3.1. fortunately the firewall (smoothwall) is linux-based. ha!
curiosity got the better of me and [...]
yesterday afternoon my isp went bonkers. i couldn’t login. the connection just gets cut and i couldn’t login anymore. i didn’t change any of my settings or moved anything so the problem is coming from them. for the record i don’t connect my workstation directly to the internet. the connection goes to the dsl modem [...]
in a couple of instances i found one or two workstations has no access to the internet or local area network. in those instances i found out that the local area network connection in those workstations has been disabled. to enable the lan connection again just follow the following:
open control panel and look for “network [...]
