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Archive for July, 2008
Accessing Internet Without use of mac address anywhere
Jul 30th
I have been noticing one thing from a long time that many internet providers ( like ION in manipal ) use mac addresses to limit other people from accessing their network but they dont actually have a proper knowledge of it, so here is the way to make any computer whose mac address in not there with the service provider to use the internet and you dont have to change any mac addresses or anything, well the steps are right below
1) Find any one using Internet on the particular ISP
2) See his connection details like his IP, Subnet, gateway ( or default route ), primary DNS, Secondery DNS
3) Now in your OS set a custom IP say you saw the persons IP as 10.49.3.23 so set your IP as say 10.49.4.203 and enter other details that you found like subnet as 255.255.0.0, gateway or default route as 10.49.0.1, primary DNS as 61.1.128.65 and secondary DNS as 218.248.47.30
4) now connect to the network and enjoy ( you might have to login and there are multiple logins allowed so you can use any of your friends username and password to login )
5) And you might want to check out this if you are on ION
Now to know how it works, if you want to know how it works then continue reading else there is no need to read further
By taking mac addresses they assign you IPs using DHCP based on the mac that they have so if you assign it yourself you have no need to use DHCP and everything works just fine
Enjoy!!!!
Note:- If you get IP conflict change your IP and try again
Dell XPS 1530
Jul 12th
Finally after waiting for a long time my Dell XPS 1530 arrived yesterday and it really rockss, i was supposed to get it on 3rd July but continuous delay were caused by curfew in Indore and some other factors.
The Config is
Processor : Intel C2D T8100 - 2.1GHz
RAM : 3GB 667MHz Dual Channel
Graphics Card : GeForce 8600GT 256 MB
Screen : 15.4" WXGA+ ( 1440x900 )
WiFI card : Intel 4965 802.11n
OS : Windows Vista Home Preminum ( removed after an hour )
It looks gr8 far better then what i previously owned, HP 6515b which was given by my college MIT, Manipal.
As soon as i received my Dell first think i did was to run Windows Performance Index and the score came out to be 5.0 with 5.0 being the lowest score because of my 3GB RAM!!!
I tried some Windows Media Centre and then it was time to say vista good bye and say hello to Fedora 9, the install went without a hitch but when i booted i that my mouse was not working, a quick search on forums and i had the solution add i8042.nomux=1 as a kernel parameter and every thing was working, WiFi, LAN all worked out of the box, some yum install and my new notebook was ready to rock and roll
so here they are x144 and x121
PS – i will be heading back to manipal on 16th, waiting for a really rocking sem……….
