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Re: Looking for our first RV and suggestions ...
MsLaurie wrote: I had posted an AD on craigslist looking to buy - and stated that we would pay 1-2K over what their trade in quote was. But our AD kept getting flagged and removed from cragslist I assume from Dealerships not wanting us to detour people from trading in there motorhome is all I can figure as there was nothing else in our AD that would warrant getting flagged. What category? Did you post it in the For Sale, Recreational Vehicle category? If so, it was removed because that's the wrong category.. you are not selling anything. Post in Wanted category. Unless your account is fragile, or CL is trying to clean up a category.. it takes thousands (perhaps 10's) of distinct flags to remove an otherwise healthy ad from a healthy account. CL is very good about filtering duplicates, so your local dealers are almost definitely not causing your ad to come down. See the cl-flag-help forum on CL for more information.481Views0likes0CommentsRe: Malwarebytes Forced Trial
sherlock62 wrote: braindead0 wrote: az99 wrote: It would be real nice if they informed you what you are going to get when all you clicked on to do was an update. Be honest and tell the customer they are being forced to use the premium version for a trial period. The program also auto starts at boot and you can't disable it in startup of Task Manager. You most certainly can prevent it from starting up, it's either in one of the startup folders, a windows registry Run key or (less likely) being launched as logged in user by a service. Try running msconfig, that should give you a handy user interface to disable startup of anything. Be warned you can disable startup of necessary items using this. Start with the 'Startup' tab, sort by Manufacturer and you should find it easy enough. Uncheck, follow instructions..don. All this is not necessary! All you have to do is right mouse click on the Malwarebyte's icon in the task bar and then remove the check mark where it says Open when Windows starts. Or simply uninstall the free program if you don't like the conditions.. that's pretty easy.449Views0likes0CommentsRe: Malwarebytes Forced Trial
az99 wrote: It would be real nice if they informed you what you are going to get when all you clicked on to do was an update. Be honest and tell the customer they are being forced to use the premium version for a trial period. The program also auto starts at boot and you can't disable it in startup of Task Manager. You most certainly can prevent it from starting up, it's either in one of the startup folders, a windows registry Run key or (less likely) being launched as logged in user by a service. Try running msconfig, that should give you a handy user interface to disable startup of anything. Be warned you can disable startup of necessary items using this. Start with the 'Startup' tab, sort by Manufacturer and you should find it easy enough. Uncheck, follow instructions..don.448Views0likes0CommentsRe: Dune Sport owners? Having issues getting information
I also read some comments on another forum about general support and quality. One thing someone pointed out was that at least on the smaller ones the water heater is positioned so that if you leave the door open and run the water heater you risk burning/melting the door. I looked at their pictures and sure enough, it's still there.. I've given up on finding a toy hauler, I want a short one with larger fridge/oven and they're just hard to find without going hybrid.. Plus I can carry my motorcycle in the back of our truck without overloading.. so for now we'll do that.418Views0likes0CommentsDune Sport owners? Having issues getting information
We're considering a Dune Sport 16CF and so far multiple attempts to contact them and ask questions via email have gone unanswered. I tried from several email addresses (just in case I'm getting snagged in their spam filters).. been trying off and on for months without any answers. Makes me very concerned about customer support, and the purchase process in general. I'd call but I have a lot of questions and I'd rather not spend an hour talking to a salesperson to get answers (likely many they wouldn't know anyway). I reviewed some posts on FB and the only answers they seem to ever give is 'call us', which seems more like used car sales lead generation that customer service. Anyone here have one? Customer service experience?2.6KViews0likes3CommentsRe: Winterize with low point drains
I typically blow out, antifreeze in traps and open the drain on my water heater. Leave low point and fresh water drains open. That's served we pretty well. However this year I had a broken pump pre-filter, the plastic 'cap' just fell apart. Now I run a little anti-freeze into that and the pump just in case... and carry a spare.561Views0likes0CommentsRe: Common courtesy
Wattle fencing: https://www.niftyhomestead.com/blog/wattle-fence/ make it at home, it's light weight.. might be able to make on site. strategically placed can make the trip through your site more hassle than going around... I've never had much trouble of this nature. However I'm also a rather large ex-powerlifter and I don't look friendly at all....237Views0likes0CommentsRe: VPN question
GordonThree wrote: magicbus wrote: GordonThree wrote: VPN endpoint built into a residential router is fine for this purpose. A cloud based VPN provider would make this more complicated. I like DD-WRT based routers, like Linksys, Buffalo, Asus. You setup your router to accept VPN connections, and then setup your cell phone, tablet, laptop, etc to "dial in" to that VPN. Once connected, your device is now part of your home network, and can access the cameras and whatever else you have networked back home. Seems like this would require a fixed IP address to your home network wouldn't it? Dave Not really. Depending on your provider, the IP may not change often (mine hasn't in years). If it does, services like Dyn.com, Noip.com, etc can help keep track. Most mid to high end residential routers have the built in ability to update such services. Indeed. I (and my empoloyer) use Dyn.com There are other ways you can do this, however a dynamic IP to hostname service is certainly the easiest.530Views0likes0CommentsRe: VPN question
I am an expert. First off you have to understand that VPN doesn't mean much without knowing the points the virtual private network is connecting. VPN services are designed to secure your browsing, not connect you to your home network and will provide no help with accessing your local security cameras (which I believe is what you want to do). IMO using any consumer grade router VPN solution is a huge mistake. If you want to access security cameras at your home there are 3 reasonable options: A) Buy cameras that connect to a service provider that has a means to view remotely. Personally I don't trust any of these providers, however you may find the risk acceptable. B) run security camera monitoring software that pushes security camera data to the cloud, very similar to above but not built into the cameras. May be more secure that relying on camera manufacturer, typically more likely to patch however you'll need to keep up on your local software patching. iSpy might be useful in this regard: http://www.ispyconnect.com/ C) run a hardened SSH server on your local network, only auth with pre-shared keys, SSH2 run on an odd port and restricted tunnels. There are plenty of resources for SSH server best practices. Doing this can provide easy access to local resources, and depending on how configured can be very secure. I use method C, however I also live this stuff. Doing anything with a decent level of security requires knowledge and continuing education that most will not be able to manage. "A" using 'cloud connected' cameras is probably the least work, and least secure due to hardware providers being notoriously lazy about patching as well as often leaving backdoor hard coded passwords. "B" may be a better choice, your cameras are not connected to the public network only connection is from software to remove server. It will require maintaining a local server 24x7, power backup if you care about downtime..etc... in short, there is no easy answer ;-)529Views0likes0Comments
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