I also had to update the pfring link, so thanks for the reminder.

Great article. One of the better sizing guides I’ve read. I linked to your site and some of the resources you linked to in the Snorby E-book (link above).

- jbc22

I’m also generally of the opinion that content-based IPS is overrated, although I understand that not everyone shares that view. Much of what is good about IPS can be accomplished with simple DNS and IP-based blocks. What little additional benefit content-based IPS gives you is in my opinion offset by the additional knowledge you give the attacker about your sigs. An attacker immediately knows if your content-based IDS blocked his/her attack and can adapt in real-time until the attack gets through. With passive IDS, the attacker has a much harder time figuring out what gave them away.

Thanks in advance

I have a D620 and primarily run it off of a docking station. My battery life (like everyone else) had decayed to the point of barely making it past the boot. I just purchased another Dell 6 cell and it is too early to tell, but, appreciate the tips on how to check the battery health, particularly the status button check on the battery.

I Need a little clarification on the status indicator test.

This is cut from the Dell D620 documentation link posted above, I am quoting it only for the purposes of describing my question and hope I am not violating any copyrights.

“To check the battery health, press and hold the status button on the battery charge gauge for at least 3 seconds. If no lights appear, the battery is in good condition, and more than 80 percent of its original charge capacity remains. Each light represents incremental degradation. If five lights appear, less than 60 percent of the charge capacity remains, and you should consider replacing the battery.”

When I perform the status check on both the old and the new battery, I am getting the same response. I press the status button and get 5 lights, hold for 3 secs, all lights go off and then 5 lights come on for about 3 secs then all lights go off.

Does the second flash of 5 lights mean both batteries are bad? or just an indicator that that status test is occurring?

You asked for recommendations on a third party D620 battery. I got a 9 cell one from notebookbattery.com about 6 months or so back, and am really happy with it. I even dug out the page for you where I got it:
http://www.notebookbattery.com/Dell-Latitude-D620/c23_193/index.html

Cheers,
Tom

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Good luck,
Mike

very much interested.

How could we figure out 2 or 3 hops of SSH Connection Stacking

putty doesn’t seems to manage proxy command in second host?

thanks

Any word on battery replacement you used? Manufacturer? website available? etc …

You know it’s sad when your other laptops being 10+ years old still run on the same batteries and last longer than the “NEW” technology!!

Actually also have the same problem, I have D620 from July 2006 and uuring this period I replaced my battery once around May after experiencing almost dead battery (last no more than 20 minutes!). Now the performance of the second battery started to fall down from 2hrs 45mins to not more than 50 minutes. Some of my colleagues at work didnt experience this problem with their D620s (Wonder why?!). I was thinking that it might be getting worse cause am using a docking station. but as I can see that all of u guys suffer the same problem.

Joe

PS: I really have to mention and appreciate Toshiba battery! My brother has Toshiba Satelitte A-Something, his battery used to last up to 4 hrs for more than 3 years!!

@manuel: Your symptoms seem to match mine, thanks for the link. I typically like to suspend to RAM anyway and won’t be testing the fix, but it’s good to have as a reference for myself and others in the future.

The problem with hibernation seems to be the nvidia proprietary drivers. In my laptop, Hibernations works well before I installed kmod-nvidia. After I installed the proprietary driver, when I click on hibernate, the screen goes black, the system freeze and the laptop never shuts down. If I uninstall the nvidia driver, hibernation starts to work again.

The solution seems to be installing suspend2 and some other tweaks, more info on an ubuntu forum: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=79295

On Feb 28th, you said:”It looks like you’ve got problems with your permalink structure. Double-check to make sure nothing has been broken there.”

How do I go about checking it? I tried to copy and paste the original codes back and it still wouldn’t work. It doesn’t look like it’s the theme’s problem. I tried using other themes and it still wouldn’t work. Where should I look for the issue? Any assistance would be appreciated. Thanks!

Cheers,
O-Pimp

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