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"One Step At A Time ...Ferociously"

Thursday, October 18, 2012

Free Bags of Poi

 I became a flexnet user and have been one since 1998, un-interupted. I've paid (aprox) $10.00 a month for 14 years. $120.00 a year x 14 = $1680.00 just so I can have an @shaka.com email address. Every month I get a Flex warning to pay up. You'd think that I might get a complimentry month once in a while but that's business. Your moniker asks if it's too harsh and to respond. You could give a little ground to loyalty. Guess not. Since Flexnet is not my ISP perhap I should consider changing my email address. jrh


 My grandpa (since passed) once bemoaned paying for a bag of poi at the local corner grocery shop (since remade into restaurants, the latest incarnation a shabu shabu eatery) for years and years. He told me "that store should give me free poi, since I've been paying them all this time and they've made a profit off me all these long years..."


 I said not a thing in reply. I was around 7 years old at the time. But even at that age, my young mind didn't agree. Really. Couldn't explain fully at that age, but I knew it was wrong for grandpa to get bags of poi for free.


 I appreciate all the business you've given to flexnet over the years and I hope you have received something of value in return. Thank you.


 However, at anytime that type of relationship is unbalanced it should be terminated by the aggrieved party. None should be forced to do anything they don't want to.



Politically speaking, our current president is creating a dependent populace. Why work when you can get free money (food stamps, housing, medical, welfare, etc.) ?

A DEMOCRATIC President Kennedy said:



"Ask not what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country".




 Our current president would never say such things! And we the people shouldn't be forced to pay money to those that refuse to work! 

Back to your request. Many former flex users find that when they stop paying for their flexnet account, their flexnet email address continues to be valid. So there's the loophole you could use. 


//del//
Flexnet Tech Support Services

Posted by Del Wong at 12:44 AM 5 comments

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

FTP to FTPES. There's A New SERVER In Town

FlexNet is now on a more robust and fault-tolerant server over at AWS (Amazon Web Services). I won't have to spend like four hours plus rebuilding things like I've done in the past (already tested out too.)

Another "good" thing that happened was upgrading our old FTP server. Some Flex users use FTP to update their web pages here at Flex. Others host images for their auctions and what nots.

Plain FTP is an old and OUTDATED protocol. Why? Because of a lack of security. Using plain FTP when you put in your password, it is sent over the internet UNENCRYPTED in PLAIN TEXT! Anyone between your computer's internet connection all the way over to Flex's servers in Virginia can see, monitor and record your FTP password!

I've been lazy implementing secure FTP. Well, that has changed. Flexnet right now will support both the old FTP protocol and also the newer FTPES aka FTPS protocol. If your FTP client can handle it e.g. Filezilla, you may specify the new secure protocol as such:

ftpes://flex.com

...as the HOST. A good webpage that shows you how to configure Filezilla is here. Using FTPES (aka FTPS) safeguard your password over the Internet. Thing of what hackers could do to your website if they had your password!

Hopefully everyone who is using FTP will now switch over to FTPES. We highly recommend Filezilla as your FTPES program. It is FREE and is available for your computer (available for Macs, Windows and Linux.)


Posted by Del Wong at 12:33 AM 2 comments

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Email Savvy

If you are having problems with your flexnet email, PLEASE use our HelpDesk User Support system and not communicate with us via email about an email problem!


If you lost your HelpDesk password, then use our Feedback Form and put in a email address that is a "throwaway" email account you got from yahoo or google. we will verify you are whom you say and then change your email's/Helpdesk password if need be.

To access your webmail:




Posted by Del Wong at 1:22 PM 0 comments

Open Announcements

Modem Drivers

Richard Gamberg's Modem Troublshooter Page Please use that page as an initial first step!

Those of you having dialup modem connectivity problems - disconnects (other than the 10 Minute Idle Timeout, see below), difficulty connecting, or disappointing speeds -- You MAY find relief by updating your modem driver IF your modem is hardware controller-less:

Winmodems, Soft Modems, HSP Modems, AMR Modems, many USB modems - includes Rockwell/Conexant HCF, HSF, Soft56, Lucent/Agere 'LT', AMR, Scorpio, Mars, Apollo; Motorola; PCTel; BCM; IntelHaM, etc.

However, please go read this web page before you go updating your modem driver. There are lots of information that can help you and your dialup modem out.

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drop.io for Quick Transfers of Large Files

FlexGmail limits email attachments to 500K bytes TOTAL. If you want to send over large files, use Drop.io instead. Pretty good. Recommended.

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Continental U.S. Keepalives

Here are the dialup session limits for all Continental U.S. dialups:

  • Idle Timeout: 10 minutes - Typing a response to an email for instance, is NOT considered activity as nothing is sent over the modem until you press "SEND".

    - To keep your modem session from getting killed due to inactivity, go to this link: http://www.flex.com/refresh. Then, minimize the browser window.

  • Hard Session Limit: 5 hours - There is an overall FIVE HOUR session timeout that no amount of activity will prevent.

  • Simultaneous Dialup Connections: 1 - Your dialup can be from any computer, but only one login is allowed at a time or you'll get denied.



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    News Server Authentications

    All flexnet users who wish to access our news server (news.flex.com) MUST now login. For example if your username is "someuser", you will need to login as "[email protected]", and use your regular flexnet password. This parallels the modem user login changes and is our way to make things uniform across all our services.

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    Webpage Form Mailers

    For those who wish to do FORM MAIL, please know that we now have a walk-thru (complete with an actual working example) of how to set one up on your web page. Go to Flex FormMail.

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    Del Wong
    Sysadmin, FlexNet Inc.