Quote from: Grimace on February 28, 2012, 02:25:33 PMI downloaded and installed last night. I am out of practice with Bryce, so I may have to read instructions. Usually after clicking anything you see, stuff becomes clear enough.

Hasn't really changed as far as interface, just it's capabilities and formats have been greatly expanded.

Quote from: Grimace on February 28, 2012, 02:25:33 PMNow I need to bone up on running Snow Leopard and Lion on the same machine. I haven't partitioned a drive in a while, and am not sure about logging into one OS over the other.

Beginning with Snow Leopard up, you can live partition, put one OS on one partition, put the other on the other partition, then you just designate which partition you want to boot in preferences startup. All of this is under the assumption that you're on a machine that will run Snow Leopard, if it's a new machine with Lion, hang it up.

Quote from: Joe on February 28, 2012, 12:54:09 PM

Quote from: Nick Burns on February 27, 2012, 01:59:29 PMFor the hardcore, here's more free stuff expiring in 2 days, log into your account, then click links below to add to your cart, I would definitely grab at least the FBX Plug-in...

$199.95 Content Creator Toolkit (CCT) - geared toward serious content creators, developing complex figures and accessories.

$99.95 FBX Plug-in for DAZ Studio - the leading 3D File Interchange Format. Exporting in the FBX format provides you access to an industry-wide 3D format.

$99.95 DAZ Studio 4 Auto-Fit Tool - provides a quick and easy way to automatically fit clothing originally made specifically for your favorite DAZ 3D figures to the new GenesisTM base figure.

$49.95 Texture Atlas for DAZ Studio - for optimizing textures for realtime use (game creators, etc...)

I purchased these ($0.00) but they aren't listed on my downloads page. It only has installation instructions available for download?

I have had the same problem, I got 3 of the 4 but one didn't populate, I'm going to try "purchasing it" again.

Quote from: DigiCorn on February 28, 2012, 12:02:30 PMI don't see what making a long SSID would do,

There are arguments raging over this (like most everything else), you can choose to err on whichever side you want, I've already chosen my side.

Detractors say it's a computationally nominal annoyance, protractors like myself say use everything you got, layers upon layers, it's my job to annoy (& destroy) you, you may get in, but you'll pay a hefty cover charge, and more likely you'll just walk away defeated.

The fact is that the hash IS salted with the SSID. Think about it, are you gonna spend days thrashing cycles and rainbows on me when Billy Bob next door's SSID is "linksys"?

Quote from: Joe on February 27, 2012, 05:55:41 PMThis is a new router. I was wrong about WEP. I used WEP on the previous router. This one doesn't even have WEP as an option. I am using WPA2-PSK (AES).

You weren't lying about the weird, just to be safe I would strengthen your SSID to 32 characters and your WPA2 key to 64. PITA but it would be my second step, first would be 1 device straight to modem and a scan, if they're still there, it's obviously bleeding through, if not, they're coming in from you're router and it needs to be locked down tighter. Make 'em work for it.

If you strengthen your SSID and Key, you're running as good as it gets, unless you wanna step up to WPA2 enterprise which requires a radius server.

Unfortunately, even WPA2 has been cracked, but it's usually because of default or simple SSID's and weak passwords. It quickly becomes not worth the effort once you strengthen these.

Quote from: t-pat on February 27, 2012, 05:47:06 PMI'm not about to get all paranoid about a kid hacking my home network and stealing my rhymes. I lock the doors at home but I don't have security bars, it's easy to pry open the side door and get in my basement too.

I'd be using something other than WEP but I have a wife, and those things just don't do what you want. Her laptop only does WEP, that's what we run. A usb dongle is't a good option for thaat POS, it's good money after bad and it would stick out and get busted off anyway, unless I got one of the short ones. One more thing to support and configure, and hear her bitch about when it doesn't connect, for whatever reason under the sun it would be because it's not WEP.

Makes sense, gotta pass the WAF or you're toast.

Quote from: Joe on February 27, 2012, 05:59:09 PMI guess I am missing something then. How will this device get XBMC (from a Mac or PC computer) to display on an LCD that does not have any network connectivity which is my current dilemma at the moment. I would like to run XBMC on one server and have it available to all TV's in the house.

Sorry Joe, not missing anything, I haven't read this whole thread, I was just commenting on the remote control posts. Your quest is mine also, but you're already one step ahead of me, you've got moca running which is my next goal. So you can easily achieve the bandwidth to push blu-ray quality everywhere, we just need economical and efficient receivers for each tv.

Quote from: Joe on February 27, 2012, 05:05:40 PM

Quote from: Nick Burns on February 27, 2012, 04:55:26 PM

Quote from: DigiCorn on February 27, 2012, 02:09:02 PMHere's a cool site with stealth media PCs: http://xbmc.org/natethomas/2011/11/26/feature-friday-hidden-htpcs/

Did y'all see the device that's the prize in DigiCorn's link, very cool... http://www.pulse-eight.com/store/products/104-usb-hdmi-cec-adapter.aspx

OK. What can I do with that?

Ultimate control
Control your TV, Amplifier and/or Blu-ray Player from XBMC!

Consolidate
Or control XBMC from your TV remote, condense all your remote controls into 1 device!

What does it give me that I don't already have?

The USB - CEC Adapter allows XBMC to turn your TV and other attached equipment on and off (if they support HDMI CEC) adjust the volume or eject the disk from a drive. Start playback etc.

Likewise these same devices can tell XBMC what to do, for example, your TV remote can also control XBMC, or vice versa. With this device you can move that step closer to a clutter free living space while maintaining simple remote control for friends and family who may not be familiar with all of the features of a professional remote control.

I just looked at a shared folder on my PC, caching is on by default, but it's default is to Manual, which means it's looking more like intrusion.

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/file_srv_cache_options.mspx?mfr=true

Depends, there are cache settings on PC that may facilitate this, don't remember off the top of my head where those are set and whether they are the default.

Sounds more likely to me you have a usurper, and it doesn't have to be Joni, it could be Dolph tunneling through her box into your network.

Quote from: DigiCorn on February 27, 2012, 02:09:02 PMHere's a cool site with stealth media PCs: http://xbmc.org/natethomas/2011/11/26/feature-friday-hidden-htpcs/

Did y'all see the device that's the prize in DigiCorn's link, very cool... http://www.pulse-eight.com/store/products/104-usb-hdmi-cec-adapter.aspx

I would step out of the logical assumption world. Don't assume it's wired, turn your wireless off and see what happens. If you see the connection somewhat persistent when not utilizing internet, pull the internet port from the router and see if it drops. You may have to involve your isp on this one. It could be bleeding through.

I pulled my hair out up at work years ago trying to figure out where 10.0.0.x numbers were coming from on my network, our cable modem wasn't using this range on either side and neither were we. Turned out it was their gear upstream bleeding in and to this day I have to keep filters in place to keep these ip addresses off our network.

Quote from: Chilbear on February 27, 2012, 04:10:07 PMAny thoughts about someone connecting to your Mac by Bluetooth and then your machine is the wired one? Perhaps someone's phone/laptop is connected by Bluetooth? Do you have a wired VOIP connection?

Cut off the incoming ISP connection to the router and set if the other machine drops (then outside connected) vs inside perhaps?

For sure time to reset the network and password.

Good advice, isolate and conquer.

Quote from: t-pat on February 27, 2012, 03:34:44 PMI have one computer at home that won't do anything but wep with my setup (2 linksys wireless routers running DD-WRT firmware and bridged to give coverage throughout the house and to the garage). Easy enough to lock people out if you can count how many wireless devices you have at home, just set max clients to that number. Or if you wanna really limit who can connect, do MAC filtering as you say, with that there's not really any problem that I can see.

It's your gear and your comfort level, so it's none of my business. Securing these type of devices, however, is my business at work. The problem with your scenario is you're in the clear, I can passive sniff your network, obtain both your mac addresses (in addition to all of your keystrokes), spoof either one if at any time either of these devices are off, use a man in the middle if they're on, or I could beat one out of the election when you reboot your router.

These things I'm talking about are trivial, any kid a quarter my age could do them (faster than me probably) with readily available tools / guides / zero skills.

The only secure computer is one that's not connected and buried 20 feet underground in a concrete tomb. The best we can do is use the layers we're afforded. I shouldn't say "I would never", because I have run WPA unhappily past it's prime until I was given a better hand me down router with WPA2 because I'm cheap and can't stand to retire working gear. But I had plenty of other measures in place to negate this risk. You could buy a USB wifi stick for pretty cheap these days that had WPA2 for your older device.

You should use all of the layers available to you:

WPA2 AES <- WPA2 TKIP <- WPA TKIP <- WEP

MAC address filtering

Long and Strong SSID (makes it harder to decrypt traffic)

Limit devices fed to your number of devices

UPnP off

I suspect they're probably ready to drop Bryce 8 is why they are being so generous. When they do, there should be a free (PLE) standard version that is Lion compatible.

You are indeed a brave soul running open or wep. This is trivial to break and isn't even worth turning on. I would never run less than WPA2 with a long & strong key, you should also enable mac address filtering.