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Hi Folks, I'm going to be coming out to Dubai in May for a couple of years to establish the initial middle-east/southwest asia presence for my company and i'm going to be working initially from home in an as-yet unknown location. As work is paying and i'm in a tech profession which will see me hosti...

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I'm moving to Dubai in late May/early June time to set-up a regional office for my employer. Initially I won't have residency but I have several local partners who have offered to rent something in their name for me while this is sorted out. I need to rent an appartment near DIC; either a single bed...

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Thanks!

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Snort is an IDS.. designed to prevent intrusion, not facilitate it. There are some Mac (OSX) tools that simplify the task of cracking WEP (relatively easy) and WPA (harder and time/cpu consuming) more than the Linux tools (that they're based on) but even those aren't straightforward. I've used KisMa...

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In "Finder" (click on the desktop) click command-k (command is the one with an apple logo and pretzel on it). This pops up the "connect to server" dialogue. In here type the URL for the share you want to access, e.g. smb://fqdn_for_server/share/ Note that windows notations of \\s...

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Well.. i've built an http proxy in my UK office on a decent high-bandwidth connection and there's at least 3 flavours of VPN host that I can route via.. so fingers crossed it's not a problem. I kind of "live" on the net for work, hence the need to guarantee a clean un-messed with connectio...

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I wouldn't get too excited. Craig's List has personal adds sections for "men looking for men" so the UAE's religious and politic internet content blocking policies will block the site pretty quickly. You can bypass the proxies if you know how, but the majority don't and so the site will be...

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I usually fly to the UAE in BA premium economy as a) work is paying, and b) i'm 6'2" and long in the legs.. normal economy is really cramped for me on a long-haul flight. My top tip.. fly into/from Abu Dhabi not Dubai. The Dubai BA routes are always full up, but the Abu Dhabi one's are always h...

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Aussie's aren't the only ones

http://www.readersheds.co.uk/

and before anyone asks.. no i'm not a regular there!

SDB

shinydiscoballs

Hi, I arrived in Dubai today and i'm crashing temporarily with someone I met through DFM. However, I need to find a more permanent (6+ months) room in a flat/villa-share fairly quickly. Me, I'm aged 32 and from Oxford in the UK. I'm in Dubai to oversee the establishing of a regional office for my co...

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Dodgy scotts blood somewhere in the past but diluted enough to claim i'm English and from Oxford!

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HOW MUCH !!!????

Methinks you're not going to find any takers. Even by Dubai standards that's somewhere between highway robbery and organised extorsion. Try posting the add to http://www.moremoneythansense.com

SDB

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Aw.. bless. Isn't a cute lil' fella

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Sport?

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As a brit.. who do I support in the game tonight? a) Portugal, who rudely kicked out England the other night through various stinky cheating tactics (we'll leave the penalties out if you don't mind). or, b) France.. England's old enemy who'll be completely insufferable with their heads up their own ...

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I see massive dropouts on certain IP routes that I use for work and the traceroute/ICMP often reminds me of the 14.4k dial-up modem connections I was using 10 years ago. Unless you fancy selling your first born child and robbing a bank to pay for the cost of a leased line there's nothing you can do ...

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Likewise i'm interested and pretty fleixble on times/days. I want to be able to passively eavesdrop on some of the useless timewasters I have to work with so I can start out-manouvering them on the 1001 ways they seem to come up with to stall/delay project plans

SDB

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You don't need to... This guy is out of this world :P Abstracting from "out of this world" ..I think "on another planet" fits DXB better :lol: Anyway.. Geraldine and her friends are very nice. She could talk for England (if she were English, she's not, and especially if you let ...

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Setup the DHCP server so it has IP address reservations for MAC addresses on the network that correspond to the known (or suspected) offending users. This allows YOU to control who get's what IP, which makes the subsequent process of tracking the offending bandwidth hogs in various log files much ea...

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My decks were nicked out of the back of a mates car after a party in London last weekend. They'll be covered on his insurance (just) but it'll take a while to come through. Meanwhile i've got a stack of good tunes to inflict on my new housemates when I come back to Dubai later this week. So.. are th...

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Ohh.. more forums, shiny!

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Only one slogan needed for a pub crawl:

"Drink till she's pretty!"

sdb (count me in)

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The UAE is staggeringly limited for dial-up access. There is basically a single government owned ISP called Etisalat who's services are okay but nothing special (especially by European standards). They offer normal dial-up services, but not an unlimited service. Most people here have ADSL which give...

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-file server (dont know) -email server (dont know) -webserver (Apache) -firewall (squid) Firesharing - Samba is the defacto standard for a Windows compatible filesharing daemon. Any OSX Mac's will also be fine with it to (OSX itself includes samba). Use NetAtalk for ClassicOS Mac's. Email - use Sen...

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Hello again folks.. i've been off-board (overboard?) working too hard for a while, but: I've been running Skype through an L2TP VPN tunnel to my office in the UK ever since they started blocking it. I'm on 1MB DSL here and the UK office is on a 2MB leased circuit. I was originally using a PPTP tunne...

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J. The biggest problem I had when I was using your network a couple of months ago was not bandwidth, but the latencies in DNS lookups and the sheer number of routing hops between laptop and the servers I was using in the UK and US. Every time you check a new web address a DNS lookup is done to conve...

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In short.. stability, performance and security. In long.. the design of a Unix OS generally provides a much more stable system since where when things go wrong, it's just one tiny portion of the overall system that is affected, and this bit can usually be stopped/restarted independently of other thi...

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I love it.. i've been away for a month and this thread is still motoring along nicely with no signs of stopping. What's the current record for the thread with the greatest number of posts?

SDB

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This is all several months back so I don't have the specific details anymore, but I was getting 500-600ms times between most hops and some of them (the ones that concentrate around Etisalat) were 1000ms plus. Most paths to UK/US servers that I was accessing regularly had 30+ hops in them, the cummul...

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It all comes down to what you want to achieve and how much time you want to spend administering your solution. The knowledge level required to setup a Unix box to do things will be higher than setting up a Windows box, but then the Windows box will need regular attention to keep services running and...

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