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August 8

Adobe Flash Player

Am I the only one to experience Flash player crashing on Firefox (v.6.8) while browsing through IMDB? I have the latest version of Flash, it never happened with previous versions, and it doesn't happen with other websites or browsers. 24.189.87.160 (talk) 04:29, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

I just visited IMDB in Firefox 3.6.8 with Flash Player 10.1 and didn't experience any issues, even with Adblock Plus and NoScript disabled. Do you have Adblock Plus, by the way? It's a plugin for Firefox that blocks all the flash ads you don't want, but keeps the flash video players and such that you do want. Maybe a flash ad is causing the issue for you, even though the site works great for me.--Best Dog Ever (talk) 05:44, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Tried it without AdBlock, the crashes happened less frequently, but they happened nonetheless. 24.189.87.160 (talk) 09:49, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

HP 564 Refill Ink

Hello. Can the HP 564 cartridge be refilled with the same refill ink as the HP 27? Does the refill ink for HP 564 have to be special since my printer (HP Photosmart C309g) uses thermal jet? Thanks in advance. --Mayfare (talk) 14:21, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Connecting E-Mail with iPod Touch

School is just about to start, and as I sit down to link my iPod touch to my new e-mail address (we had linked with hotmail, and have transfered to Microsoft Office Outlook Web Access). Last year I had no problem browsing a bit and finding the incoming and outgoing server names, but this year I can't seem to get it right. I pull up the screen on Web Access, and it specifically says "Outlook Web Access host name: exch2k7@lmc.edu and the host address as https://exch2k7@lmc.edu/owa. So, I typed this in, typed in my username and password, and it wouldn't verify, with SSL or without. So, basically, what am I doing wrong? I can probably give you more information if needed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.82.213.44 (talk) 19:30, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

You don't need to use OWA - use the iPod Touch's email client. Exchange has an IMAP service (which I think is installed by default) and the iPod's built-in email client does IMAP pretty well. You use the same server name, client name, and password as you've been given to use with OWA, except you're configuring the IMAP and SMPT features instead. -- Finlay McWalter • Talk 20:02, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

I don't have an Exchange account to hand to test this, but if memory serves you have to give your full email address as the login name - e.g. jenny_smith_1980@lmc.edu, not just jenny_smith_1980 -- Finlay McWalter • Talk 20:09, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Thanks! Problem solved! Could anyone be willing to help with the settings for the old hotmail? It was registered @email.lmc.edu, rather than the new @lmc.edu. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.82.213.44 (talk) 20:44, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Disabling Your NAT (Network Address Translation) firewall. Pros and cons

I have been playing Halo 3 online and when i start the matchmaking it says "WARNING! Your NAT type is not open" and something els about you wont be able to play certain games with certain people.. I checked the default IP address for my router (NETGEAR Wireless ADSL Firewall Router DG834GSP) and it ses my NAT is enabled. There also was an option to Disable the NAT's firewall and i was wandering if i did disable the firewall would it fix the problem and/or would it also put my computer and/or xbox 360 at risk?122.107.18.7 (talk) 23:54, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

I don't know if it would fix the problem, but disabling the firewall wouldn't put your computer at risk. Windows XP and later includes a firewall of its own. Also, NAT works by translating a single public IP address to multiple private IP addresses. In other words, your ISP only gave you one IP address, but you have more than one computer, so you need NAT to make up IP addresses that only work in your LAN and then route them through the public IP. So, they can't just attack your single public IP address out of the blue because multiple computers share it. The router wouldn't know where to send any malicious packets addressed to it unless those packets are a part of a communication session that you had already set up on your own.--Best Dog Ever (talk) 00:01, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

This issue, as I understand it, is not so much that there is a firewall, but that you do not have the router configured to direct the game packets to the Xbox correctly. To fix this you need to set up what is called "port forwarding". There are lots of instructions explaining how to do this, and the Netgear site explains this a bit further. Basically what you need to find out is 1. the IP of your Xbox, 2. the ports that need to be forwarded to the Xbox, and your router should have a place to put all this in. I say this as someone without an Xbox, but I've set up port forwarding for torrents and it is basically the same thing. --Mr.98 (talk) 02:36, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

I actually don't think you can disable the NAT on those routers, at least not on one I have. What you would disable is the SPI (stateful packet inspection). Unless you had multiple IPs from the ISP, which is unlikely, you need NAT to have multiple devices on the one IP.

You should also see if Upnp is enabled on your router. I'd be surprised if Xbox didn't use that to automatically open up those ports, saving you from having to do it manually. Shadowjams (talk) 10:19, 9 August 2010 (UTC)