Posts by railfan844

I run Squid on my home server to assist in getting around firewalls. Normally it works fine, but at my high school it doesn't. The strange part is that I can view the server's error page when I open it up in a browser and try to load...

Quote:Originally Posted by felladium At first glance, it looks like you may have a speed/duplex issue between your PC and router or possibly a bad cable. That's the first place I'd check, anyway. If all that checks out, I'd look to...

I thought I understood this but experience is making me have second thoughts. I have a blu-ray player that supports receiving media streams via DLNA. The blu-ray player is connected to my wireless network, about 30-40 feet from my...

Quote:Originally Posted by Totally Dubbed So what happened in the end? I would sue asus myself for any given reason. Wiped the hard drive (including the MBR) and re installed. Asus said I could send it back for them to look at, but...

I did some research on BIOS programming and decided it was not likely that the BIOS could have been maliciously modified when they updated it. Thus, there would be no danger in just wiping the hard drive and re installing. Would have...

Ok but what about the bios update? do you think that could have some sort of persistent heartbeat/tracker in it?

Quote:Originally Posted by Sean Webster Then wipe, reinstall, move on? Problem is they updated the BIOS too as the version # is different. I know it's improbable, but isn't it possible that the BIOS could have been modified...

Well what SHOULD I do then? I really don't want to bother with a lawyer or anything, I honestly think that's too much.

Update: Called up ASUS and they sent me another RMA and shipping label. Gonna send it back and see what plays out.

Well I changed all the passwords I had saved on the laptop. At the very worst they were stopped at the security question and didn't log in all the way. But even so the password is reset, and NO I do not re-use passwords across...