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Still looking into the site routing, feel free to continue to send traceroutes if you are so inclined (thanks). In troubleshooting something in my dial-up networking (it's always something--for some reason nothing I can do gets windows to ask me to log-in on booting--I must log out first), I discovered a performance tip that I was unaware of: In Win9x Dial-up networking there's a checkbox in the properties called "Log onto network," which just seems so obviously something you would want under these circumstances. It turns out checking this box makes your machine look for a Windows network to log into, so if your ISP is Unix-based, like so many, unchecking this box cuts a huge chunk of time off of how long it takes your machine to log on to the net (since your machine will time out looking for this other network to log onto). I'm sure there are a lot of you who knew this already, but it was news to me, as well as some others I pointed it out to, so I imagine it will help some of you as well.

Link of the Day: The Smoking Gun lives! Issue four is online.
Image of the Day: Sin's John Blade redone by former Ritual Artist John "Butcher" Mueller, looking just a bit grittier than the original.

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