sina94

My roommate is a security freak. He has a Gentoo media center/everything else set up with a RADIUS server... and you have to jump through rings of fire to get connected to the interwebs (WPA2 with tunneled TLS authentication on the outside, his very special certificate file, and then PAP authentication on the inside). Problem is, it runs like shit (probably mostly linux driver issues). I pay my half of the internet bill, and should be able to poke around inside the router to see if I can alleviate any of my connectivity problems. Problem is, the guy uses epic pass poems that, even if I knew where to start cracking, it would probably take me the rest of my life. Haha. He hasn't updated the router (D-Link DIR-655) firmware from 1.31 to 1.32NA, and I read that there was a security problem with the captcha on the routers login page. Any way I can use this to gain access before he upgrades the firmware? I have physical access to everything, but no privileges whatsoever. This falls outside of my area of expertise, so I'll need the really dumbed down version.

Hey, My roommate just got his mother's old cable box so that we'd have more audio/video options. We'd need to take it in to activate it though, and the closest place is about 30 miles away . Anyone know of a work around for this so that we don't have to drive all that way? Thanks... (motorola dct6200, btw)

Yeah. I could see how that might be a problem. What about... is it possible to output audio to two devices simultaneously? Even indirectly? I know I've used the native Windows stereo mixer to capture sound before... could you do something similar and then output it to the second device? Then maybe you could mute whichever device you don't want to output sound?

I'd like to have just the one remote for volume, inputs, menu, etc. And my displays are quite a ways apart... so you get that disconnected feeling if you're using the speakers while watching the TV. o_0 And I'm more or less just curious if something like this could be done.

More theorizing, since I don't actually code: If you can't check whether a monitor is on/off directly, I'm assuming it has to be on to read the DDC information (maximum resolution, etc.)... couldn't you do a check to see if that information is available? If not, the monitor is either off or not connected. Just an idea.

I got an LCD TV and will be using it has a secondary display for my PC (as soon as my DVI-to-VGA adapter gets here). I like having the audio run through the TV so I can adjust it with the remote, etc. but if the TV is off or I'm using an input other than my PC I have no audio (or if my PC attempts to put my TV in standby. . . ). Is there any way I could have my PC output audio to my TV if I'm using that, but to my computer speakers if I'm not using the TV (like if I'm just listening to music, or listening for incoming mails/IMs/etc. )? Possibly with a dual sound card setup? Seems plausible. . . but I don't know if it could actually detect if the TV is on or off, or using a different input. If not automated, then perhaps a hotkey that would toggle displays and audio devices? I haven't done much with dual monitors, and I've done nothing with dual sound cards, but it seems like something like this should be possible. Any ideas?