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[Rose]

Yeah, it's mostly just overly reflective surfaces that are problems for mice.

Unless you have a ball mouse.

[Thief^]

Clean your mouse's optical pickup port, and clean your desk.

This. A hair getting into the optical sensor causes all kinds of glitches.

[PyroDesu]

More fun with bridged connections!

My connection bridge between my laptop and desktop (passing internet from the laptop to the desktop) was working fine a few hours ago, when I was at home. Now I've moved the whole apparatus to a new location where it's worked before, and it's stopped working. All the diagnostics say I've got an invalid IP address, and if I fix that manually, then the DNS Gateway is invalid. Resetting IP stacks, resetting the router, resetting both computers, reinstalling the driver software, etc. have not worked.

Spoiler: ipconfig of the host computer (laptop) (click to show/hide)

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.3.9600]
(c) 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\PyroDesu>IPconfig

Windows IP Configuration


Ethernet adapter Ethernet:

   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
   Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::3090:5335:400a:f11f%4
   Autoconfiguration IPv4 Address. . : 169.254.241.31
   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0
   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

Wireless LAN adapter Local Area Connection* 12:

   Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :

Wireless LAN adapter Local Area Connection* 13:

   Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :

Wireless LAN adapter Wi-Fi:

   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
   Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::20de:5cdc:cbc:92f9%2
   IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.160
   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1

Tunnel adapter isatap.{CE5C630F-4255-4E24-881C-FE7E402FD19B}:

   Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :

Tunnel adapter isatap.{8E1CDF6B-7AFD-46E4-B5F4-40F8338B4F5F}:

   Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :

Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 6:

   Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :

[Sensei]

So, for a while now, I've been having Firefox load pages slowly, and especially, fail to load images altogether. For reference, Chrome doesn't have this problem, but I prefer using firefox. I already took the steps of deleting history, cookies, and junk. This problem also hasn't started because of any new addons.

Has anyone else had this problem? Could it be related to an update?

[Thief^]

PyroDesu: it looks from that like the bridge isn't active, try deleting and recreating the bridge.

[PyroDesu]

PyroDesu: it looks from that like the bridge isn't active, try deleting and recreating the bridge.

I have, many, many times.

Actually, I have to, in order to use the WiFi on my laptop - my laptop loses internet connection when it's bridged.

[Thief^]

According to the ipconfig, the Ethernet connection doesn't have an assigned IP or default gateway, which is exactly what you'd expect for an adapter that's not connected to a router. With a bridge active I'd have expected to see the bridge in ipconfig, but it's been a while since I've used the bridging feature.

Does ipconfig on the desktop look the same?

[PyroDesu]

Spoiler: ipconfig from host w/ bridge (click to show/hide)

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.3.9600]
(c) 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\PyroDesu>ipconfig

Windows IP Configuration


Ethernet adapter Network Bridge:

   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
   Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::74d4:ae9e:bffa:241b%31
   Autoconfiguration IPv4 Address. . : 169.254.36.27
   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0
   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

Wireless LAN adapter Local Area Connection* 12:

   Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :

Wireless LAN adapter Local Area Connection* 13:

   Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :

Tunnel adapter isatap.{3C984ADB-2BEC-4895-B583-A6E723FA74E6}:

   Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :

Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 6:

   Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :

And yeah, the ethernet part of the ipconfig on the desktop looks the same as on the laptop.

[Mokkun]

Back-story, A few years ago, I set up a Qnap NAS, and the Qnap backup program at my parents place, as it was simple to set up back then and worked rather well and silently (no messages for them to call me and ask about). Fast forwards, the last year, it have gone worse and worse each update, getting more error messages, more problems whit it saying it do backup and not doing it. So I have decided to change backup program, and after looking around a bit, I thing its better if I ask recomandations about programs. So can anyone recomand a program that when set up runs quietly (amount of messages) and reliably, and supports NAS. This is for two machines, 1 running Win8 and 1 running Vista.

[Cthulhu]

So, I have a tendency to order food online, which adds up to be very expensive and isn't very good for me.  At the same time, I live with other people and sometimes they want to order something and I'm the one who does it.  I figure the best way to stop (it tends to be an impulse thing) while still being able to order things when my housemates want to is to put the sites on a blocker behind a shame password that'll remind me why I'm not doing it anymore.

The issue is that I can't find a blocking program like that.  They're all just straight blockers, maybe with an internal console password.  I'm looking for something that would put up a password prompt when I try to go to a website and force me to type in the password right there if I want to go through.

I can't find that though.  Does anybody know of a program like that?  I use chrome but I'm willing to migrate, chrome's been pissing me off a bit lately.

[Thief^]

   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
   Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::74d4:ae9e:bffa:241b%31
   Autoconfiguration IPv4 Address. . : 169.254.36.27
   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0
   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

The highlighted bit above means it can't talk to a router, which means your bridge isn't working. I'm not sure what to recommend. You could try a static IP:
IP 192.168.1.***
Subnet 255.255.255.0
Gateway 192.168.1.1 <- your router's IP
DNS 192.168.1.1

[i2amroy]

The issue is that I can't find a blocking program like that.  They're all just straight blockers, maybe with an internal console password.  I'm looking for something that would put up a password prompt when I try to go to a website and force me to type in the password right there if I want to go through.

Honestly probably the best you are going to find is a "focus blocker" extension that then when you want to go through it you need to just go to the options menu and disable it to continue. I can't find anything that lets you just do a simple password entry to access the blocked site because a major selling point of the majority of these "site blocker" extensions is the very fact that in general they are hard to disable or bypass.

[PyroDesu]

   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
   Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::74d4:ae9e:bffa:241b%31
   Autoconfiguration IPv4 Address. . : 169.254.36.27
   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0
   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

The highlighted bit above means it can't talk to a router, which means your bridge isn't working. I'm not sure what to recommend. You could try a static IP:
IP 192.168.1.***
Subnet 255.255.255.0
Gateway 192.168.1.1 <- your router's IP
DNS 192.168.1.1

Tried that. As I said, got a DNS gateway not available (or something along those lines).

[Thief^]

Then the bridge is definitely not allowing traffic. Firewall issue?

[PyroDesu]

Then the bridge is definitely not allowing traffic. Firewall issue?

Firewalls on both computers are disabled.