I'm suggesting that my device would either use the assigned IP (assigned by DHCP), or it would not be allowed to communicate/join the network.
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RE: ISP Wireless Modem WTF
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RE: ISP Wireless Modem WTF
Hmm,perhaps my network concepts are fuzzy, but what I said remains:
I could not set/fix an IP on a device. I included that as part of my original post, and if I had been able to do that , this wouldn't have been a WTF.
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RE: ISP Wireless Modem WTF
What I said was:There is no way to configure the router to give a specific IP to a specific device, and if you set up your device to use a certain local IP, it will not be given that IP.
Using your logic there, If I tell my laptop to use "192.168.0.101" What happens when I join a network in which that IP already exists? My laptop is either going to re-configure itself, or if I tell it not to do that, it simply won't be allowed to join the network.
Your device can't just say "This is my IP" and be stubborn about it. If another device tries to send that device data, they either use the IP the router assigned to that device, or the data won't be delivered.
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RE: ISP Wireless Modem WTF
From my post: "It doesn't matter if the device requested a certain IP"
It doesn't matter if I fixed the IP on the device, the modem/router would give a random one.
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ISP Wireless Modem WTF
Alright, this happened awhile ago, but something made me remember it tonight.
Awhile ago I was running some services from a *nix box on my home network. I did this for months and everything was fine.
Then came a day where I convinced my ISP to upgrade the lines going into my house. When they did this, they gave me a brand new modem. It was a modem and wireless router all-in-one. I didn't really like the idea of replacing my highly configurable router with their "noob friendly" one, but they insisted that I use this one.
Here's the problem: It would always give out random local IPs. It doesn't matter if the device requested a certain IP, it would be given a random one. There was no way to configure the thing to give a set IP to a certain device or computer. Now, anyone with a brain knows this will cause a problem when you're forwarding ports. Everytime the modem/router got reset, my box would be given a new random IP, and the port forwards would break.
Here's the WTF: In order to "save and apply" new port fowarding rules, the modem/router would need to restart itself....
So, if I set up a port forwarding rule for the ip 192.168.0.111, the modem/router would restart and the device would then be given it's new random IP: 192.168.0.222, thus breaking the port fowarding rule.
I complained, got them to give me another modem (which didn't include a router), and the problem was fixed.
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RE: Election WTF
21 at time of writing, not 21 at time of story. I was home during that week, but I've been moved out and on my own since 17.
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RE: Election WTF
I am unsure of her exact age, but I believe she was in Highschool at the time. She looked 16-18 (as I said). The voting age in Canada is 18, so she MIGHT have been able to vote, but I doubt it. They are considering lowering this age to 16, though.
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Election WTF
Hi there,
Long time reader of thedailywtf, first time poster. This isn't exactly "front-page" quality, but I thought it was quite shocking/amusing when it happened. Here we go, and I hope I can present this story in a nice fashion.
Alright, like many of you, I'm the "go-to" guy for tech problems. I got quite a reputation in my small town for this. I'm still young (21), however I've got some nice experience under my belt, including doing some small things here and there for the town, the local school and library (Tech support, wiping off old computers for sale, setting up our school's first Linux computers, etc). Basically, when they don't want to pay a HPC for a trivial task, I am usually called (Which I don't mind of course. It's better than minimum wage burger flipping ;) )
Ok, so there was a provincial election awhile ago. I won't identify which county or province I'm from to protect the guilty. I'll just say I'm from a small town in a Canadian province.
So I'm sitting down in the livingroom with my father (who works for the town), watching the election results pour in. Oddly though, no results were coming in for my entire county. After 30-45min of waiting for results for my county and none coming up from ANY polling station, the phone rang. My father answered and a few seconds later he hung up and turned to me.
Father: "Alex, erm...they're having some trouble down at the counting station, they were wondering if you could go down and take a look."
Alex: 'What kind of problem?'
Father: "I don't know, they said their tallying software isn't working, can you just go down with me and we'll see what's happening?"
Alex: 'Alright'
So we go down to the counting station, which, for those of you don't know, is where polling stations call in with their results. The counting station then tallies the results from each polling station and reports that number to the Election Board and the media outlets. When I get there, everyone is frantic. The phones are ringing off the hook, there was probably about 25-30 people in that room, bustling around, answering phones, typing on laptops and computers, doing calculations, I don't know really.
Then I saw their "tallying software". On the wall, projected by a laptop (which was being used by a 16-18 year old girl) was a giant OpenOffice Calc spreadsheet.......yup...this is going exactly where you think it's going. With all those people "qualified" to do an election, all those people in that room., not a single one of them knew how to do a SUM formula.....
I took control of the computer from the young girl, Typed in 5 SUM formulas at the bottom for each political party and voila, the results showed up! I was given a small round of applause.
TWTF: None of them knew how to use a SUM formula
TRWTF: They didn't even bother checking my results, they just started reporting them. I could've easily "mis-typed" and disregarded results from rows of polling stations.
^^^ And yes, I know I would'nt get away with that..they would obviously check the results by hand....right?
TEBWTF (The Even Bigger Worse Than Failure): They had the spreadsheet nicely done up, colour coded, designed really well. I wonder why they spent so much time making it look pretty, yet no one bothered to see if it actually tallied results (you know...the whole purpose).
All in all, I was quite shocked to find out "this" is what goes on during an election. I look back at this with a mix of amusement, disgust and fear.
Thats my story. Sorry if it is not clear or well written, I'm running on a lack of sleep at the moment. I hope you guys find some amusement in this story. I know I do.