RTFM

[Read This Fine Material] from Joshua Hoblitt

Can MSNBot behave?

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Since I blocked MSNBot in my robots.txt it seems to have settled down and is only occasionally (about monthly) pinging my robots.txt. Just for fun, I’m going to remove the restriction today to see if it’s still a bandwidth hog or if it’s learned some table manners.

default password for Areca RAID cards

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The default username/password is the same for both the Areca ethernet interface and the “archttp” HTTP proxy.

username: admin
password: 0000

This has been true for all of the arc-1170 and arc-1280 cards that I have regardless of the firmware version.

Press ‘*’ to disconnect

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Why does just about every DTMF phone menu on the planet have a button mapped to “disconnect” or “hangup” the call? It’s not like every handset and cell phone on the planet has a mechanism or button dedicated to the task. So what is phone menu designers obsessions with this option? Someone please enlighten me.