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What we're watching now...Continuing
The thread 'what are you watching now' was locked due to it's size and the thread continuing it by the moderator, was amalgamated and also locked.❓ to access the old thread which is now read only Original What are you watching now thread So this is a new thread with a slightly different Tittle.... Continuing.... Planet X appears to be hidden behind the Sun in our Solar System What Made Spartans So Much Better At Fighting INSANE AI Video Generator you can use NOW! I Got Early Access to Suno's New AI Tool - Here's what I Did With It! Udio's New Feature is a Gamechanger for AI Music
I got an email from a company from the distance past which may be fake
I got an email from a company from the distance past which may be fake, had 2 now and it is from many years ago that I was in contact with them, the company does still exist but I have not clicked on the email as it seems suspicious and keeps repeating, so best to register with the company web site direct again which I have done rather than via the unsolicited email which may be phishing.New Forum..theme and design comments
What do you think Now we've lost a lot of facilities that used to be in previous Themes Post editing facility, gone Signatures, gone Users on line, gone Page thread view count, gone Page numbering, gone Video thumbs need cookie acceptance printed over the top of the thumb now Text messages showing in one column about one third of width of page on my screen Ability to view newest posts first in a long thread or to go to the latest post quickly, gone So far this is what I've noticed . Is this an improvement or not? Buffer6DNSSEC problems today?
So I run bind and for some reason it was crashing restarting and when to my backup DNS as it restarts It seem something bad has gone wrong with DNSSEC and the only way to make bind stable was do this: dnssec-validation no; from this dnssec-validation auto; Anyone know whats going on?
Fault assistant BOT is useless
Had a broadband issue this morning - intermittent/slow connection. Checked the service status online and it said no known issues and talked me through switching the router off and on (like I don't know how to do this). Then flashing red light and no broadband. Selected "no" to has the fault been resolved. Then redirected to the BOT to get help. What a waste of time. "what would you like to do today?" - Help with Broadband fault. "select from the 4 below which service you have an issue with 1 - Broadband" 1 - I've already said this. "Go to the link below and check your service status" - link doesn't work, takes me back to this chat (plus I've already done this to get to this point) "Are there any known issues in your area 1 - yes 2 no" - well the link didn't work and there isn't an option for this, so I put in "the link doesn't work" "Sorry I didn't understand that - input 1 or 2" - put 2 as that was the last I knew "What best describes your issue?" - 2 No wifi "tell us what HUB you have" - no idea - guessed at Super Hub 2 "Is the white light lit 1 - Yes, 2 - no lights" - well it's red flashing and you didn't give me this option. Put 1 "Are there any lights on the hub" - Of course there is I just answered 1 you idiot "This means your HUB is on. Most likely your device is struggling to connect to the internet" - thanks for that amazing diagnosis - more likely it's your crap broadband service. "How many devices are having problems? 1 - one device, 2 most devices" - actually its all devices but no option for this. "Have you rebooted your router recently?" - of course I have it was part of the instructions "Lets go ahead and do a factory reset" - how about no and you fix the broadband connection. Gave up at this point. This BOT help is the worst thought out, most useless thing I've had the misfortune to use. Sorry VM but your service is garbage.Trying to get email notifications from my NAS device.
I have been trying for several days now to get the email notifications working on my NAS LinkStation LS220DE but with no luck. The response from "Send Test Email" is always "Because of an error, the following process did not complete：Sending test email notification". I have tried every combination of settings that seems remotely plausible on the LinkStation settings. On the router I have tried to remove any obstacle: The firewall has been disabled, port forwarding been allowed for any plausible ports and even the DMZ enabled for the Linkstation address. None of these has changed the "Because of an error, Blah, Blah, Blah." My IP address does not appear on any blacklist. I have checked that the app password for gmail is good by using a Windows command:- curl -v smtps://smtp.gmail.com -u MMMMMMM@gmail.com:PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP Replacing MM... and PPP... with my username and password. This gave the result * Connection #0 to host smtp.gmail.com left intact showing that the username and app password were O.K. I have tried my Office365 email account with the same result. Neither the LinkStation nor my Router have any form of syslog. The Linkstation does not produce any kind or error code, and I can't afford a fiber-optic packet sniffer, so I am at a bit of a loss. I have contacted my ISP (Virgin Media) but got only what long experiance has led me to expect: Wasted hours and wasted phone calls with people who do not know what a NAS is, who defaulted to thinking I was talking about a mobile phone, and who repeatedly tried to get me to take out a more expensive subscription. Additional info:- NAS Buffalo LinkStation LS220DE, firmware Version 1.84-0.01. Nas Navigator Version 3.0.4 HDs, 2 off Seagate IronWolf 2GB USB drive, Seagate Barracuda 2GB Router, Virgin Media Hub 2.0 Thanks for any assistance you can give. Mike SimpsonFibre optic cable damaged by a grabber truck
My brother has a strange incident happen. He is in the middle of renovating his property, and on Christmas day, he received a very irate message from his neighbour saying that a grab truck had cut his internet. My brother called community fibre on behalf of the neighbour and they could see there was a fault with the line, and they would get someone out to fix it ASAP. Question is, in this situation, anything on the outside of the ONT is the responsibility of the ISP? I note virgin done charge for faults where a line has been cut by a mower etc. If this is fixed at no fee for the neighbour then my brother will just send a small gift as a gesture of good will, otherwise he will reimburse the neighbour and deduct it from the builder. What does the group think?Solar storms causing problems!
There's been a lot of solar activity (winds, storms, sunspot activity, solar flares, northern/southern lights and CME's) recently and this has been causing problems. The last week of February was affected by erratic download speeds varying from a 98% drop in speeds to around a 10% drop. Upload speed was more or less normal. The USA was hit particularly hard as several websites went down, along with DNS servers. The odd thing was that other wi-fi devices were fine and connected to the internet as usual. My wired machine, however did not. On Friday 1st March I performed a speed test and the download speed is where I'd expect it to be. Another odd thing was that I was able to ping websites successfully, but I could not access them through browsers. NASA are reporting that a lot more activity is coming Earth's way on the 9th. Lets see what happens. I also post the occasional video about this here: https://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Community-Natter/What-are-you-watching-now/td-p/2914384 More reading: solar flares and geomagnetic storms - Search (bing.com)
