TOAK, The Thread of All Knowledge Part X
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... and all this time I thought I was a connoisseur ... maybe I'm more like a sewer :>(
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Morning all, still cool but nice here, warm during the days and cool at night, great weather for now.
Question for the computer savvy out there.
I have a Netgear wireless router here, I just got an update notice and it says I should back up all my changes to any default values before running the update.
How the hell do I know what I changed ??
TIA
Alw
Question for the computer savvy out there.
I have a Netgear wireless router here, I just got an update notice and it says I should back up all my changes to any default values before running the update.
How the hell do I know what I changed ??
TIA
Alw
https://kb.netgear.com/980/How-do-I-...AR-home-router
By the way, if you haven't changed your default user name from "admin" and password from "password", good idea to do that right after installing the update.
If he's running DHCP there is no need to save anything. He can always go into it after the update and change his password.
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Should've read to the end before posting, ya already answered him. I don't upgrade stuff like that either, when you do upgrades off the web, there's no going back if your 'puter doesn't like the upgrade. Of course that never happens...
Yeah,you never hear of a case where a new sys admin incorrectly formats a drive, wiping out 12GB of database logs thus causing an 11TB database to become corrupted and unusable
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I worked for a company that was still using 3.1 when XP was out. Most of the crew had no idea how to use it, so I cleared off all the desktop icons and just put icons on that opened the various databases without going through all the menus to get to them. A company IT guy came in to put it on the company net, didn't see what he expected on the screen, thought Windows was trashed, so formatted the hard drive. I'd never seen the shop manager so angry before. At least his blood pressure came down a bit when I told him I'd backed up all the data and relevant program files before the guy touched it. The 'puter only had a floppy drive, so it took over 8 hours to restore. The IT guy had to do all but the data files, manager told me not to let him touch those.
Moldy, for the shop here I used to do all the computer werk. IT never touched the machines. They would screw them up, and when we had problems, they didn't know how to fix it. Then the newer IT started and said he HAD to do the computers. Okay. When we had problems he had to fix them. He wood bitch and complain. Told him that us the reason IT should not touch the shop computers. If you can't fix it, don't touch it.
I always say, " Know enough to be dangerous."