Making IPS and Verizon FiOS ONT co-exist

Verizon offers fiber-optic Internet to the home.  Having been very bitter with the poor back-end support of Roadrunner's, Timer Warner's, Comcast's and AT&T's high-speed service, I immediately leaped into and signed up for a 2-year contract after selecting Verizon's FiOS 3-Play option.

Verizon technician installed a neat white box, which now sits in the corner of the basement.  The white box has a name; it's called ONT, or Optical Network Terminator.  Fiber cable ends there and it comes out a sweet bliss called INTERNET.  If you selected phone option (part of FiOS 3-Play), you would get a battery backup, (also entombed in a white but much smaller box) affixed next to the ONT.

All of above, this was some 3 years ago.  Life was good;

Until I had teenagers.

Here begins the saga of a long-fought but glorious battle with the Motorola ONT and my new Linux-based high-speed Intrusion Prevention System...

Jessie's Intel

For those of you running the latest Debian OS (Jessie) and have those underwhelming Intel i916/i965Q video chipset, your video driver is over a year old and sluggish.

Your video will improve immensely if you upgrade the Intel kernel driver.

This guy shows you how.

https://www.slightfuture.com/how-to/debian-newer-intel-graphics

Adobe ID Sucks!

I run a nearly all-Linux household, save for a few smattering of iPhones, Macbook Pros, and IOT devices (all 51 of them)

And just upgraded an old Dell laptop to XFCE4 Debian 8 (yeah, mighty 2GB of memory).

A visit to Facebook using Iceweasel (a free web browser) resulted in a popup of Adobe Player being badly in need of an upgrade.

Heading over to Adobe.Com, as usual ..I have forgotten my password.   No problem.  Send myself a new password.   *YOU-HAVE-MAIL*   Cut-n-paste the link to a new browser tab.

And proceeded to enter in new password, I typed in:

• at least one lowercase, 
• at least one UPPERcase, 
• at least one SYMBOL.... 
• Made sure that my password contains no parts of my email address...

and Viola!  UH?

What on earth is this?  Let me reiterate what the screenshot of Adobe ID said:

"Your password needs to: not include your name or email address."

There's no way to contact Adobe ID at this point.  Browsing their support website leads me to a dead-end (ending with this link).

Adobe ID Sucks!