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    Routers

    If you are considering going with a PIX instead of a router I would recommend the 501, its what I use and should be more than adequate for typical SOHO usage. One caveat of both the 501 and 506e, the latest PIX OS (7.x) will not run on them (not enough memory). There are rumors that a...
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    Routers

    Great advice. Cisco's stuff isnt cheap but its rock solid.
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    Interactive Brokers Stop orders

    You're welcome.
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    Interactive Brokers Stop orders

    Ask a stupid question get a stupid answer. You were wrong when you wrote: IB didn't fail - they did exactly what you told them to do. If you don't want people to think you are a noob don't make noob-like statements. Based on the scenario that you stated, if you were surprised that you...
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    I'm a victim of serious online fraud at brokerage

    Making your own life difficult by playing these games on the slim chance that you machine has a keylogger installed is not the way to approach this problem and really who would go through the trouble every single time they login? "Keyloggers" are much more sophisticated these days (they log...
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    How to test the safety of your computer and Lan(nmap,etc)

    If you've used nmap (correctly) then I wouldn't bother with the shields-up test. That's like going from an F1 race car to a Pinto.
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    Vonage IPO

    It appears that some customers that participated in the directed-share program are balking at actually going through with paying for their allocated shares (that have dropped more than 30% since the IPO). And now because of errors VG committed they actually may get away with it. Also the...
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    best language for quantiative finance? C, D, Fortran,python etc.

    It didn't surprise me in the least. I knew as soon as I saw the title of this thread that the usual suspects were going to come out of the woodwork, prostelize about Python and attack anyone who dared to suggest anything else.
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    MedVed QuoteTracker Software

    Yea, even my rebuttal probably wasnt fair to you. I just vaguely remember not being able to immediately figure out some things the first few times I used it (can't remember what) Once I did figure it out (without bothering to read the help) I found it quite intuitive. Sometime's you just...
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    How do you backup your system?

    Hmmm, I've never had that kind of bad luck with even the cheapest CDR's degrading (perhaps they are being stored badly?) but I do know they make CDR's specifically designed not to degrade overtime (search for Archival CDR) Never bothered to buy them myself. Yep, they are made completely...
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    MedVed QuoteTracker Software

    Rather than doing the typical reply to a review with another review I thought I would comment on this review here: http://www.elitetrader.com/so/?action=view&SR_ProductID=33 While I agree at first the software may not be the most intuitive thing I've ever used (and my desire not to read the...
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    How do you backup your system?

    Can you elaborate on the lack of reliability you are referring to? E.g. are you saying the data is incorrectly written to begin with, or that the media degrades over time and can't be trusted later on or something else? :confused:
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    letter from Ebay - what's happening with Internet?

    This thread is filled with um, interesting posts. Just thought I'd mention that as far as I know, internet2 has nothing to do with net neutrality at all. Here's some light reading for those who want it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet2...
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    Bulletin from IB: charge of 2000 USD for "intensive messaging". Fraud?

    According to the bulletin you quoted only "clients who repeatedly violate the message/volume ratio may incur a fine of $2000". Since you said this is a rare occurance for you then you will never be charged the fine. What's the problem?
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    Shots fired: Capitol Hill

    Market goes up on the news, LOL
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    Losing data connection

    Run PingPlotter, it will show you exactly along the path between you and IB where the packet loss is. You can leave it running all the time.
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    Vonage IPO

    Aren't you glad now?
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    Reasons for failur in automatic trading systems

    You have made two assumptions above: One, that the automated system will scale to support any size trades and two, that an automated trading system will continue to work forever. Using the same flawed logic you could make the argument that there can't be any long-term successful traders...
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    Short Stocks in IRA MArgin Account?

    $4000 is the limit for a traditional or Roth IRA BTW ids, the contribution limits shown on this table on IB's site (http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/accounts/iraClasses.php#contributionLimits) for SEP-IRA are wrong for 2006, it goes up to $44k. Ref...
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    Reasons for failur in automatic trading systems

    Can you explain why dynamic time filters are impossible to code?
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