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“Re: How do i access netgear router? What is the IP address?”

Posted by: zo219
The default page—meaning, the page where you configure your router, and, it is to be hoped, put some constraints on incoming traffic&8212;is accessed, for Linksys and Netgear, at 192.168.1.1; DLink by typing in the address 192.168.0.1; Belkin 192.168.21 ... and if you've some other brand, go GTFW. [corrected]

Most of the time, when an address cannot be reached, a simple process can't be completed—when you know it's supposed to work—the solution lies in such simple fixes as, Trash all related preferences and Restart. Repair permissions, (download MainMenu, free) and perhaps run a Deep Clean of your all your caches (see MM) as well ... and Restart.

Another choice: download Applejack (also free, though a donation would be nice) and when you do Restart, hold down the Command (Apple) Key and the S key (also known as a Safe Boot) ... and when the command line comes up, type in applejack (no caps) and let it run through all of these steps for you. Takes longer than MM, but it's automatic and will restart when it's done, if you ask nicely.

It just seems too bad to go through the more technical steps when you haven't cleaned your machine.

Just one more thing: I've had complicated network problems vanish by using a new account. Always create two Admin-level accounts on your machine, and have the second waiting in your menubar, via Fast User Switching (which is in Accounts/System Preferences, as are way too many other things). Face it, some things can go wrong, in a Unix-based system, which builds itself anew each time, that no one is ever going to find.

Or do an Archive and (Re)Install, which is rather the opposite: first your User Account is isolated, and then a whole new system is installed. Of course, then you gotta run Software Update and not all at once and you better be on broadband and repair permissions between significant applied downloads and ... crikies, see (me) for the rest of this post ...

In this bit of advice, I've stuck to two maintenance utilities that I've used long enough to trust they won't get you into trouble.

Okay, MainMenu requires you know a little something—enough to not use every choice every time ... Doesn't anybody RTFM anymore? Oops, my bad, we are Mac owners, we do not R TFM; it comes with the product and stacks up on your bookshelf, but who knows, someday, some little bit of info on page 436 of eye-watering boredom will turn out to be the very thing you need.

Or, get real, it's way more interesting to STFW—more properly known as, GTFW. At least, the journey is infinitely more interesting, and I do mean infinite. From the most amazing Springsteen solo, to del.icio.us popular (way more interesting than Digg: you cannot will these things into being; the net is full of such truths) ... it can be a while til we arrive at the sought-after info. Providing we remember what it was (thanking you once again, lord, for tabbed browsing.)

Is Sir Tim an INFP? Does anybody know? And what is his Enneagram Number? (Though he may well be a Four, if he is an INFP, or at least have Fourish Wings. Don't you think?)

Does he wear black? Always? Wait a minute, this would indicate that His Steveness is very likely a Four. I happened upon something streaming where he appeared before the Cupertino City Council, applying (yeah, right) for a permit for the new Mac campus; he seemed like a nice man. Really. There were about three people there, the council members were respectful but not about to be kissy-ass, which is, on the other hand, being kissy-ass, in that this is exactly the way Steve would want it. He seemed very relaxed; this man does not think of himself as a star—and this brings me to my point. No, not the one you might think. I finished with that one ages ago.

The hot news burning up the wires tonight: WWDC Bingo. A dangerous game if ever I heard one. Thought up by, who else, Siracusa. Yeah, him again. Oh that Ars. (I don't think they keep him very busy over there.)

Dangerous and gutsy: you may not play unless you are willing, should you make Bingo, to yell Bingo, loud enough to be A, heard on the Keynote video by those of us not in attendance, and B—and this is where the real balls comes in, as I have no doubt A will automatically beget B—cause The Steve to stop, and to turn upon you The Glare. (See web mentions too numerous to cite.) I mean, what if you must cry out just as he starts to draw the next shrunken surprise out of his watchpocket? Oooh, the little hairs on my arms are standing up, just thinking about it.

Here is the card. I adore this kind of thing. Oops, sorry Windows users, note at bottom says: “Evidently this doesn't work with IE on Windows, because they didn't really bother to implement the DOM. I can't be arsed to fix it, either.”

Unbelievably, the poor old Guardian, dropping a brick or a penny or whatever the hell it is they drop over there, claims to have thought of the whole Keynote-bingo thing first. Thought of what? The words bingo and Keynote alone doth not a whole, amusing gestalt create. How proudly they link to their little effort, and I expect we are supposed to be kind.

Fuck that noise.