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September 30, 2006

State of Denial

After two books about the Bush Administration that could have been written by Karl Rove, it seems that Bob Woodward remembered to tell it like it is...


New Book Fuels Election Year Debate Over Bush, Rumsfeld - washingtonpost.com
New revelations that White House aides tried twice in the past two years to persuade President Bush to fire Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld fueled a caustic election-season debate yesterday over the president's wartime leadership and underscored divisions within his administration.

The latest book by Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward, "State of Denial," paints a portrait of an administration riven by personal and policy disagreements exacerbated by a deteriorating situation in Iraq that has grown even worse than Bush admits to the public. In Woodward's account, Bush has become increasingly isolated as his team has rejected advice to shift gears in Iraq before it is too late.</blockquote

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September 8, 2006

Naral Voting Guide

Well its election time. Really primary time. In Washington, the big issues are the State Supreme Court and making sure that fair minded people are there. Prochoice Washington has a simple voters guide:

State Supreme Court
Position 2: Susan J. Owens
Position 8: Gerry L. Alexander
Position 9: Tom Chambers

Court of Appeals
Division 1, District 1, Position 7: Marlin Appelwick
Division 1, District 3, Position 1: Mary Kay Becker

District Court
Northeast Electoral District, Position 2: Mary Ann Ottinger

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September 5, 2006

D-link DI-624 Firmware



broadband » Forums » D-Link » [Info] D-Link DI-624 Rev.C Firmware 2.76b05. Wow, who would have ever thought the world is this complicated. These are a series of discussions on the various flaws in D-link firmware.

I've been using v2.70 with WEP on, since WPA seemed unreliable. It has been stable for me pretty much, although we usually power off the router when there is a problem. I would like to get to use WPA2 with AES encryption as this is the most robust, but it is tricky to find a D-link release that does it. I run it without any Super G and with 802.11g only which is supposed to improve performance.

Here's a catalog of versions and problems:

  • 2.76 Beta 5 (only on D-link Germany).
  • 2.75 Beta 2. This was up last year 2005-07. It has since become just 2.75. Quite a few folks have seen this become 2.75 without a beta, but report problems like rebooting every 10 minutes and trouble connecting with a Broadcom chipset in an HP laptop.

BTW ftp.dlink.com has raw versions of just about every firmware you need, specifically for my DI-624 Rev C, the software lives in ftp.dlink.com/Gateway/di624_revC

Some other aside, since the D-link outputs at http://192.168.0.1/natlist.txt a real time connection list, two folks have done Windows utilities that reformat that so you can see what's happening. They are D-link Connection Monitor currently in version 1.7.95 and Router Monitor 0.91 Beta which does about the same thing.

Also, this router allows you to use NTP to make sure the time is correct in it. If you fill in us.pool.ntp.org, you'll get a pool of US servers with the correct time. Last complexitiy is that this thing makes you set the Daylight Saving Time hours, but in 2007, these time change due to legislation so that it starts a month earlier in the first week of March intead of April. So beware!

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