Unless of course their company expanded their IT department to accommodate the plan and, of course, hired people who have experience doing such things. Just getting "Joe from IT" to build a thousand systems to save $100 per, is, as you say, delusional.
So find another supplier. Here in Australia there are 3 main importers for Microsoft products, and any of them is happy to sell me as many copies of windows as I order (my biggest order so far is 150 OEM packs, 50 triple pack boxes, at once).
Rule of thumb where I work is about 1PC in 50 will have an issue of some kind, odds are pretty good that the dude with 1k of them to build is going to learn how much of a pain RMA can be:)
As for building them, yeah its reasonably fast to build if you have all the tools, faster if you get someone to go through and unwrap/unbox all the bits first (work experience kids and temp workers are great for this, if your boss asks just say that for every hour he spends unwrapping crap you don't have to). Your imaging times would be faster if you used a linux live image on a USB stick to boot and copied the actual image over LAN, even 100Mb/s is faster than most USB devices can sustain (and most distros will handle gig-e on a new board anyway), heck even a DVD would be faster than a USB stick in sustained data throughput.
The original posters best bet would be to find a local store that builds PCs, tell them exactly what he wants and tell them the quantity, they will only attract a small premium on the cost and likely save a lot of headaches in RMA and shipping (personally if I was ordering for such a deal, I would order 1050 PCs worth of hardware (cases, motherboards, everything), what is not used immediately for DOA parts will be used over the lifespan of the boxes for spares.
Damn it, its been what, 5 years? That horse is not only dead its decomposed, they have all but publicly apologised for it, you can now have all the ToA stuff done and completed in a day or two.
Oh its better here, they build the whole city over still functioning gold mines, every now and again a road or front yard just disappears down 20-30 feet, the mine companies come out put a new cap (large chunk of concrete) over it and its "all good".
Yeah, thats nice, now go back under the bridge please, adults are talking.
Oh, and look up a definition of SIP, it means to use an internet connection to make calls to landlines/mobiles, it will give you something to do while we finish.
Their tech was actually pretty excited to get to configure the user end IPv6 stuff, there is very little in the way of consumer routing gear that supports it atm, whereas m0n0wall does right out of the box, err, flash device image file.
Or an ISP like mine, that runs whatever OS is required and best for the job, but will support anything because they have real techs answering phones.
I was floored when I setup my internet and had to do a support call, they asked what router I had, I said a x86 machine running m0n0wall, they then preceded to find out I had misconfigured my ipv6 settings...
Hehe, if you played eve online you would know that 4 scanners is generally the done thing, so long as the scanners can each give a reasonable guess as to how far away the tag is:)
Yeah, about writing a small virus, you do know that a lot of the early virus were written without thought to their global spread (best example is the morris worm), and that if your particular one gets out, no matter how innocent, it will be a federal felony to have done that? Worth your job? No.
Best bet would be for the parent to officially contact an AV company and ask them, they will be able to give professional advice and possibly even live code (but I doubt that, would likely need to go looking for one you want to use) and you will have plausible deniability because you sought "professional advice" from a "known industry leader".
Not only did you school him in language, but you did it for Latin. +2 internet points sir
As for the grand-parent, sure its Latin roots are interesting (as the parent shows) but with English, all words are subject to change without notice, otherwise we would not have such cromulent words as D'oh and Embiggen.
Yeah, the original thought for the 4mths in jail thing was likely to give them time to crack it, but if he is using a 50 digit key in something like trucrypt I have some bad news for them...
Yup, No2 is the killer, say your browsing your fav porn site, you see a nice movie you want to watch, click download. Later after watching the first 2 sec of it you find it to be rather illegal in your country (due to whatever reason) you delete it. Too late, you were not only in possession of but were also a distributor of...
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Unless of course their company expanded their IT department to accommodate the plan and, of course, hired people who have experience doing such things. Just getting "Joe from IT" to build a thousand systems to save $100 per, is, as you say, delusional.
So find another supplier. Here in Australia there are 3 main importers for Microsoft products, and any of them is happy to sell me as many copies of windows as I order (my biggest order so far is 150 OEM packs, 50 triple pack boxes, at once).
Rule of thumb where I work is about 1PC in 50 will have an issue of some kind, odds are pretty good that the dude with 1k of them to build is going to learn how much of a pain RMA can be :)
As for building them, yeah its reasonably fast to build if you have all the tools, faster if you get someone to go through and unwrap/unbox all the bits first (work experience kids and temp workers are great for this, if your boss asks just say that for every hour he spends unwrapping crap you don't have to). Your imaging times would be faster if you used a linux live image on a USB stick to boot and copied the actual image over LAN, even 100Mb/s is faster than most USB devices can sustain (and most distros will handle gig-e on a new board anyway), heck even a DVD would be faster than a USB stick in sustained data throughput.
The original posters best bet would be to find a local store that builds PCs, tell them exactly what he wants and tell them the quantity, they will only attract a small premium on the cost and likely save a lot of headaches in RMA and shipping (personally if I was ordering for such a deal, I would order 1050 PCs worth of hardware (cases, motherboards, everything), what is not used immediately for DOA parts will be used over the lifespan of the boxes for spares.
Maybe he is rambling in C, but as though he was typeing with a dvorak key layout on a qwerty keyboard?
Or they could be reg-ex?
Damn it, its been what, 5 years? That horse is not only dead its decomposed, they have all but publicly apologised for it, you can now have all the ToA stuff done and completed in a day or two.
Please go back to VN.
Oh its better here, they build the whole city over still functioning gold mines, every now and again a road or front yard just disappears down 20-30 feet, the mine companies come out put a new cap (large chunk of concrete) over it and its "all good".
Please elucidate then good sir.
Ignorance is bliss, please wipe the smile off my face.
And what prey tell, does the vast majority of SIP devices get used for?
Skype Out?
Heard of it?
Yeah, thats nice, now go back under the bridge please, adults are talking.
Oh, and look up a definition of SIP, it means to use an internet connection to make calls to landlines/mobiles, it will give you something to do while we finish.
Would need to be hosted off-shore, otherwise would be too easy to find them.
Which is around 114.7842 square chains :)
Not sure about in America, but in Australia you don't own the mineral wealth under your property.
Guess who I am with ;)
Their tech was actually pretty excited to get to configure the user end IPv6 stuff, there is very little in the way of consumer routing gear that supports it atm, whereas m0n0wall does right out of the box, err, flash device image file.
Or better, call in the police bomb squad because someone has "attached an electronic device to your car", get the government to blow it up for you :)
Oblig: "whoever told you that is your enemy".
Or an ISP like mine, that runs whatever OS is required and best for the job, but will support anything because they have real techs answering phones.
I was floored when I setup my internet and had to do a support call, they asked what router I had, I said a x86 machine running m0n0wall, they then preceded to find out I had misconfigured my ipv6 settings...
Yup, because global-cool-down based MMOG are not worth paying for imho.
"we couldn't be bothered making the combat interesting enough so we made it drag out by forcing you to wait 1.5 sec after everything you do"
Hehe, if you played eve online you would know that 4 scanners is generally the done thing, so long as the scanners can each give a reasonable guess as to how far away the tag is :)
And they say MMOG never teach us anything useful.
Yeah, about writing a small virus, you do know that a lot of the early virus were written without thought to their global spread (best example is the morris worm), and that if your particular one gets out, no matter how innocent, it will be a federal felony to have done that? Worth your job? No.
Best bet would be for the parent to officially contact an AV company and ask them, they will be able to give professional advice and possibly even live code (but I doubt that, would likely need to go looking for one you want to use) and you will have plausible deniability because you sought "professional advice" from a "known industry leader".
If I only had mod points...
Not only did you school him in language, but you did it for Latin. +2 internet points sir
As for the grand-parent, sure its Latin roots are interesting (as the parent shows) but with English, all words are subject to change without notice, otherwise we would not have such cromulent words as D'oh and Embiggen.
No, the guy wants a live virus that the students need to be able to remove, not an inert file that will simply trip an AV scanner to remove it.
Yeah, the original thought for the 4mths in jail thing was likely to give them time to crack it, but if he is using a 50 digit key in something like trucrypt I have some bad news for them...
Will give it a spin when it goes free to play, till then enjoy beta testing it for me :)
Yup, No2 is the killer, say your browsing your fav porn site, you see a nice movie you want to watch, click download. Later after watching the first 2 sec of it you find it to be rather illegal in your country (due to whatever reason) you delete it. Too late, you were not only in possession of but were also a distributor of...
Or what's a stationary one for that matter.
Or do they burrow?