Comments for EvilLawnGnome.com http://www.evillawngnome.com Home of the Mischievous Gnome Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:12:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 Comment on Using X10 Home Automation and Linux to manage your home internet connection by Deb Reppenhagen http://www.evillawngnome.com/2007/06/20/using-x10-home-automation-and-linux-to-manage-your-home-internet-connection/#comment-13210 Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:00:42 +0000 http://www.evillawngnome.com/2007/06/20/using-x10-home-automation-and-linux-to-manage-your-home-internet-connection/#comment-13210 Can anyone translate this for use with a plain old windows (XP) PC? I have COMCAST cable internet. I have it hooked up to my LYNKSIS wireless router. The router has never had a problem. The modem needs to be restarted several times a day on some days but on the average only several times a week. A few times, the modem ran for weeks without a problem. I've tried different Modems without result. Calling Comcast does no good. I don't think they even log these kinds of issues; they're out of the picture if restarting the modem gets you running again. This has been going on for years. Can anyone translate this for use with a plain old windows (XP) PC?

I have COMCAST cable internet. I have it hooked up to my LYNKSIS wireless router. The router has never had a problem. The modem needs to be restarted several times a day on some days but on the average only several times a week. A few times, the modem ran for weeks without a problem. I’ve tried different Modems without result. Calling Comcast does no good. I don’t think they even log these kinds of issues; they’re out of the picture if restarting the modem gets you running again. This has been going on for years.

]]> Comment on Contact by Larry http://www.evillawngnome.com/contact/#comment-12614 Wed, 26 Dec 2007 20:37:40 +0000 http://www.evillawngnome.com/contact/#comment-12614 Hello Evil One! First: Mea Culpa! -- In August 2007 you posted a comment on my blog at http://www.birdsong.org/ ... specifically: http://www.birdsong.org/node/6#comment-25 Alas, I only today found your comment. Because comment moderation is "ON", it was not visible to others. I've moderated it "approved" and it is now visible, just in case you are intersted. Happy Holidays and warm regards from costal Washington USA. /lorenzo Hello Evil One!

First: Mea Culpa! — In August 2007 you posted a comment on my blog at http://www.birdsong.org/ … specifically: http://www.birdsong.org/node/6#comment-25

Alas, I only today found your comment. Because comment moderation is “ON”, it was not visible to others. I’ve moderated it “approved” and it is now visible, just in case you are intersted.

Happy Holidays and warm regards from costal Washington USA.

/lorenzo

]]> Comment on HOW-TO: Microsoft Shadowrun in XP by Baal http://www.evillawngnome.com/2007/07/11/how-to-microsoft-shadowrun-in-xp/#comment-8857 Tue, 09 Oct 2007 11:41:14 +0000 http://www.evillawngnome.com/2007/07/11/how-to-microsoft-shadowrun-in-xp/#comment-8857 if you get an error in the game. that your exe is crashed, dont care about. just klick the game in the bar and go ahead with playing. it makes no difference ingame. me and a friend get these error after 4minutes playing lan game and nothing changes. you only have to go back to the game and let the error stay in the background. faithfully Baal if you get an error in the game.

that your exe is crashed, dont care about.
just klick the game in the bar and go ahead with playing. it makes no difference ingame.

me and a friend get these error after 4minutes playing lan game and nothing changes. you only have to go back to the game and let the error stay in the background.

faithfully
Baal

]]> Comment on HOW-TO: Microsoft Shadowrun in XP by pete http://www.evillawngnome.com/2007/07/11/how-to-microsoft-shadowrun-in-xp/#comment-6658 Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:10:44 +0000 http://www.evillawngnome.com/2007/07/11/how-to-microsoft-shadowrun-in-xp/#comment-6658 They have updated shadowrun and now the error says that Reggetvaluew can not be found. any info yet? They have updated shadowrun and now the error says that Reggetvaluew can not be found. any info yet?

]]> Comment on HOW-TO: Microsoft Shadowrun in XP by Brian http://www.evillawngnome.com/2007/07/11/how-to-microsoft-shadowrun-in-xp/#comment-6558 Sun, 15 Jul 2007 04:50:30 +0000 http://www.evillawngnome.com/2007/07/11/how-to-microsoft-shadowrun-in-xp/#comment-6558 Lasse: From the other sites i've read, this is fairly common. I've not had this problem, so i can't speak to it's solution. I would encourage you to keep trying - possibly re-install directx. Lasse:
From the other sites i’ve read, this is fairly common. I’ve not had this problem, so i can’t speak to it’s solution. I would encourage you to keep trying - possibly re-install directx.

]]> Comment on HOW-TO: Microsoft Shadowrun in XP by Lasse http://www.evillawngnome.com/2007/07/11/how-to-microsoft-shadowrun-in-xp/#comment-6554 Sat, 14 Jul 2007 20:46:56 +0000 http://www.evillawngnome.com/2007/07/11/how-to-microsoft-shadowrun-in-xp/#comment-6554 I had the same problems as you, but thanks to you i fixed it :) But now the game chrashes every 5 min... is there something i can do about it? I had the same problems as you, but thanks to you i fixed it :) But now the game chrashes every 5 min… is there something i can do about it?

]]> Comment on IMMA CHARGIN’ MAH LASER by jake http://www.evillawngnome.com/2007/05/08/imma-chargin-mah-laser/#comment-6538 Wed, 11 Jul 2007 23:17:07 +0000 http://www.evillawngnome.com/2007/05/08/imma-chargin-mah-laser/#comment-6538 this is funny stuff Royal Rainbow this is funny stuff Royal Rainbow

]]> Comment on Using X10 Home Automation and Linux to manage your home internet connection by muffin http://www.evillawngnome.com/2007/06/20/using-x10-home-automation-and-linux-to-manage-your-home-internet-connection/#comment-6504 Tue, 26 Jun 2007 21:27:04 +0000 http://www.evillawngnome.com/2007/06/20/using-x10-home-automation-and-linux-to-manage-your-home-internet-connection/#comment-6504 I have a similar problem with my SBC DSL connection (that I am quite happy with, best upload rate for the price). It seems that before the connection crap out entirely it goes though a "fuzzy" period where anything bigger than text only Google is too mangled to be read. Images time out 90% of the time but text will still pop through. IMHO wget-ing something like the Google banner or your local weather stations radar images would be a better test of connectivity than pings. Nice idea though, they should just send one of these out along with the modem. I have a similar problem with my SBC DSL connection (that I am quite happy with, best upload rate for the price). It seems that before the connection crap out entirely it goes though a “fuzzy” period where anything bigger than text only Google is too mangled to be read. Images time out 90% of the time but text will still pop through. IMHO wget-ing something like the Google banner or your local weather stations radar images would be a better test of connectivity than pings. Nice idea though, they should just send one of these out along with the modem.

]]> Comment on Using X10 Home Automation and Linux to manage your home internet connection by Insolence http://www.evillawngnome.com/2007/06/20/using-x10-home-automation-and-linux-to-manage-your-home-internet-connection/#comment-6502 Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:04:06 +0000 http://www.evillawngnome.com/2007/06/20/using-x10-home-automation-and-linux-to-manage-your-home-internet-connection/#comment-6502 Commenting on carlton's recommendation, I actually did this 4-5 years ago for a client who's DSL would die about once a week and require me to drive for a hour to mindlessly unplug it for a minute and plug it back up. I used a existing linux server there that was sharing SMB and was their gateway, and made a simple parallel relay. I just wrote a simple script to run every 5 minutes in cron that pinged random reliable sources on the internet (google, msn, etc.) if one failed, it would try two other reliable sources, and if those failed, it would power off the DSL modem for a minute and power it back on. The project in all cost me less than 9 bucks from a local electronics store. :) Nice quick and dirty hack. :) - I Commenting on carlton’s recommendation, I actually did this 4-5 years ago for a client who’s DSL would die about once a week and require me to drive for a hour to mindlessly unplug it for a minute and plug it back up. I used a existing linux server there that was sharing SMB and was their gateway, and made a simple parallel relay. I just wrote a simple script to run every 5 minutes in cron that pinged random reliable sources on the internet (google, msn, etc.) if one failed, it would try two other reliable sources, and if those failed, it would power off the DSL modem for a minute and power it back on. The project in all cost me less than 9 bucks from a local electronics store. :) Nice quick and dirty hack. :)

- I

]]> Comment on Using X10 Home Automation and Linux to manage your home internet connection by Winston http://www.evillawngnome.com/2007/06/20/using-x10-home-automation-and-linux-to-manage-your-home-internet-connection/#comment-6501 Mon, 25 Jun 2007 14:52:09 +0000 http://www.evillawngnome.com/2007/06/20/using-x10-home-automation-and-linux-to-manage-your-home-internet-connection/#comment-6501 For all the people about the LM14A, it shouldn't cause a problem... all the power supply for the cable modem is is a transformer and a rectifier (aka diodes) to convert AC->DC... The modified wave of the scr and all that will just lower the output voltage a little, and shouldn't affect anything.. The cable modem itself will regulate the input dc to a lower regulated voltage internally. They do this because variances in the line current are normal, so they feed the modem with a higher voltage so that if you've only got 110 vac instead of 120, stuff will still work happily for your devices. Second, sometimes the flakiness of the cable modem is caused by the cable company.. Rogers here in Canada will cause purposeful disruption of your connection if they detect certain download systems. For all the people about the LM14A, it shouldn’t cause a problem… all the power supply for the cable modem is is a transformer and a rectifier (aka diodes) to convert AC->DC… The modified wave of the scr and all that will just lower the output voltage a little, and shouldn’t affect anything.. The cable modem itself will regulate the input dc to a lower regulated voltage internally. They do this because variances in the line current are normal, so they feed the modem with a higher voltage so that if you’ve only got 110 vac instead of 120, stuff will still work happily for your devices.

Second, sometimes the flakiness of the cable modem is caused by the cable company.. Rogers here in Canada will cause purposeful disruption of your connection if they detect certain download systems.

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