Computer Reboot Solutions Page

How to get all the multimedia stuff for Mepis Linux (playing DVD, etc)
First, stop listening to Ryan.
From the System icon on the panel, bring up Synaptic Package Manager.
When runasroot asks you, enter the root password.
In Synaptic Package Manager, click on the Settings Menu and select "Repositories".
Enable all the repositories except the last one, by clicking the empty boxes in front of the listing.
If they are already checked, leave them that way.
Click on "OK".
Click on "Reload" in the toolbar and reload the new listings.
Click on the "Search" button in the tool bar. Type "dvd" then enter.
Mark the following for installation:
acidrip, dvdauthor, dvdauthorwizard, dvdbackup, dvdrip, dvdrtools, dvd+rw-tools, k9copy,
liba52-7.0.4, libdvd0, libdvdcss2, libdvdnav4 libdvdplay0, libdvdread3, transcode, vamps.
Click on the search button again and search for "lame".
Mark the following packages for installation:
lame, lame-extras, libavifile-0.7c2, liblame0.
Click on the search button again and search for "w32codecs".
w32codecs
Click on the "Apply" button in the tool bar.
Synaptic will ask if you are ok getting the data from the internet click on "OK.
Then the downloading begins. We wait. then we close.

How to get Verizon DSL to work
First, Verizon will continually insist that they don't support linux even though the router/dsl modem they sent you runs on linux and their own web page runs on linux.
So if you have a Westell model 7500 router/modem (the cool one) This all you have to do:
Hook the thing up.
Put in the DSL filters like they show in the manual.
Throw the CD away. Its useless and installs adware.
Start Firefox.
Enter this address into the address bar 192.168.1.1/verizon/redirect.htm
This talks to the router and tells it to stop redirecting your web requests to the "activate verizon dsl" webpage
The router needs a user name and password.
Most of the time the username is admin and the password is admin. but on this model the password is password.
Enter the username and password.
You will see a page telling you to click on the "disable" button to turn off the redirecting.
Click the button.
That's it! It will work now. That's all there was to it.
No CDs needed for Linux. No CDs needed for Windows, No CDs needed for Mac.
No "we don't support Linux" crap from Verizon.
No problems except the ones Verizon created for you and put in their system.
The crap they tell you on the phone is what they get paid to tell you to keep you from using anything other than Windows.
The crap on their CD is adware. Don't use it.