This is a couple quite useful tidbits I wanted to pass on for the googling audience (or whoever else comes along looking for these).

• Free Static IP on Cisco 677 DSL modems - If you are a Cisco 677 owner (particularly with Alltel's ADSL broadband internet access) you can use the command set ppp wan0 ipcp x.x.x.x on the telnet interface to get a static IP free of charge. (where x.x.x.x is your current IP address). I've been up and running for about 3 years now. As I understand it, when the modem gets reset it requests that address and in my experience always gets it.
• Opening Ports to the outside on Cisco 67x - To connect a port with a computer in a network configuration from the Cisco 677 modem do the command set nat entry add internalip portnum 0.0.0.0 portnum where internalip is the IP of the computer you'd like the dsl modem to interface to when requests are made to portnum from visitors on the internet.
• Hosting on Alltel DSL - Due to the Code Red virus, and security issues alltel has blocked port 80 and 21 on their equipment. You can call alltel's DSL technical support to get your port 80 and/or 21 opened for serving. It's very simple, just tell a technician you'd like to put in a request to open port 80/21 to be accessed from the internet on your dsl modem.
• To access your Cisco DSL modem open telnet (start>run>"telnet") connect to 10.0.0.1, the password is cisco if it's default. Then do the enable command. cisco is again the password
• This info was hard to find, I just happened across the static IP thing by total luck, unfortunately DSL reports doesn't seem to allow googlebot into their forms.
• I have this working with the ancient 2.2.0 firmware on the modem, not sure about any other configurations.
• -credit for static ip: T.R.F. on DSL reports

 

• Speedreading: Chances are you've heard of speedreading. I found a great guide (it was called Look Ma No hands, a guide to sematic restructuring or something) to it online and it's host has since been taken off the net. I have decided to mirror them. I haven't concentrated hard enough to finished the drills (or even half of them--of three weeks total, ten minutes a day) but already I have achieved a marked increase in reading speed when I want and need it.
• The mirror of the Guide does not have to be read in any particular order. It sort of got jumbled up in the gooogle backup, I numbered a few of the elements.
• If the author has any objections to this mirror please email me at webmaster@thadk.net.
• The guide was just restored to the web and is available at: http://www.phaedral.com.