Well, first of all he might not be an expert but he is a professional, which is mildly disturbing.
Although he claims 400 installs (personally I accomplish about 6-10 a day, not counting pre-install/slipstreamed systems installed from my installer disk by another person) he admits at the end he has only installed about 30 intel based CPU systems with Windows Seven, this is not a large amount when you think about it, although I guess this system counts about 10 times according to his description about his final install.
As other people point out, he replaced the PSU and case!
He may be a professional, but I would worry about his time spent on useless tasks if I was his boss:)
You do not require a network connection at all to install, it is a good idea, because windows will get any installer updates on the fly, but certainly not required.
In fact, you can turn off the minimal need it has for one via a setting in the setup XML files:)
Despite my contrary experience with this unsupported and unwarranted engineering sample CPU from Intel, I’d agree with that remark. In fact, of the 30-plus Intel processors I’ve installed Windows 7 on, this one is not only the single solitary item I’ve had any problems with at all, it’s also the only freebie engineering sample I used.
It appears, he either uses a LOT of AMD or VIA chips, or he really really likes reinstalling windows over and over again on the same hardware;)
One of the better tests for if a machine has a hardware fault or a software fault is to boot off a linux CD, because for lack of any major hardware faults, it just works:)
Some companies do have specific hardware testing tools, seagate disk tools for instance will tell you before testing a drive if smart has been tripped, for that matter, most motherboards will pause at boot time if any smart data has been tripped on a HDD.
Wow, he has installed 30-plus intel based Windows Seven machines? Since its launch, I have had about 40-50 DOA intel processors, NONE of which were engineering samples.
Guy is what we, in Australia, would call a "Tosser" who for lack of a better description is "Talking wank".
No, mere mortals would never be required to sort out this problem, because they would never encounter it.
Order for troubleshooting random seeming install fails is:
Install media (the disk, get a known good image/disk) Hardware that reads that media (DVD drive, cable) Ram CPU HDD (and cable) Board PSU
Most DOA PSU problems are dead PSU, most of the rest are rating selection errors (not powerful enough).
Also, this list is optimised not only for most likely faults but for parts that are "easy" to replace:)
Yeah, got hit for $450AU more than I should have, meh, just wait for them to reverse it, I won't lose sleep and it won't dissuade me from running my 2 groups around agramon this weekend trying to nibble zergs and backdoor 8-mans:)
If a few hundred dollars extra can overdraft a credit card, you are probably using it wrong.
In all honesty though, if your in the shit with this, print it all out, go to your local bank and ask to speak with a loans person and raise your CC limit for a month.
It is, and a bad one, with Telexy Network Commander I can VPN from my mobile phone via unlimited data plan back to my home network and mount a windows network share and then stream my music over that.
So 6.6TB mobile music device, please advertise bigger:P
Well, their case looks to be because 95% of his clients are US based and I doubt he would want to be sued in Canada anyway since they don't appear to have safeharbour at all for him.
And its not like Canada wouldn't deport him if the US asked nicely.
Hold about, the brief is linked and contains as its first 2 lines...
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
He was being sued in USA, so all he has to do is remove the stuff they say to and he can walk out of this without losing all his money, his house and anything else the MPAA decide looks nice.
Beyond that, the Court’s injunction is limited to Plaintiffs’ copyrights and will not substantially interfere with any claimed non-infringing aspects of Defendants’ system.
In other words, only the things the MPAA gave as evidence to the court would be required to be removed, of course this leaves it open to others to file "me too!" claims....
Ahh the meat:)
(d) “Copyrighted Works” shall mean each of those works, or portions thereof, whether now in existence or later created, in which any Plaintiff (or parent, subsidiary or affiliate of any Plaintiff), at the time of Defendants’ conduct in question, owns or controls a valid and subsisting exclusive right under the United States Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. 101 et seq., and which Plaintiffs have identified to Defendants by the title of the work.
So, they are to give the titles of the works to the defendant and he has to take them down.
That sounds more like a safe harbour for ISPs if anything, rather than search sites (likely why he is in so much shit).
The movie studios had brought in expert witnesses stating that a statistical sampling of the content and server logs showed that nearly all of the content infringed copyrights, and about half of the downloads were made within the US.
I would guess he can start with the torrents that he was in court for in the first place, then could ask the court to ask the MPAA real nice like what the rest of their list is.
The ownus is (under US law, god why do I know so much about US laws as an Australian citizen) on the copyright owner to submit what content is infringing (I am assuming either file names, metadata or a hash would do the job)
As you point out (and I didn't notice at all) this is all happening in Canada, so this may be a showing of leniency (possibly leading to a precedent or even a standard practice) by the judge to him, if there is no safe harbour for search/link sites.
The founder of popular Bit Torrent site IsoHunt, Gary Fung, has been ordered to remove the.torrent files for all infringing content—an order that could result in the site shutting down.
He was told to take down illegal torrents, the same as google could be told to take down links to copyrighted works, if he refuses to comply, he loses safe harbour.
Fuel is cheaper, less harmful greenhouse gasses, buggies can be repaired with a hammer, easily replaceable motor (no tools required!), cruise control that will turn corners for you too...
And of course, when they start accelerating out of control, just shoot the damn horse and it will stop:)
Now I am confused, isn't the point of this article that they received an order to take down all links to content known to be illegal on their site, and they say "but that would put us out of business".
That means they are in the wrong business;)
As someone in a thread above pointed out, search engines receive safe harbour so long as they swiftly comply with any legal orders to remove links to copyrighted works.
There's talk of a new coal/steam hybrid alarm clock that could leave all these for dead, its both more efficient (per ton of fossil fuels needed to run per hour) and it has a 100% wake up rate, even among the deaf! (heat generated by the device exceeds that of a reasonably comfortable oven).
Now our engineers are working on the next version, a fusion based alarm clock, it uses a lot less raw materiel than ANY similar units and has the added benefit of a small nigh light you can read by!
Except when they are folders that cannot be moved/deleted while the user is logged in, such as Program Files, UserData and Users;)
Yeah, the eSATA/USB combos give the best of both worlds, speed and in a pinch can be plugged in via usb if eSATA isn't there. Check out eSATA controllers based on the SilImage line of chips, they provide chip level driver support for all windows server OS and are reasonably fast/cheap.
Voice synth, some acting experience and you are all set.
Its not like "little boys" don't give away items and money (that effectively have a real world value) to see a guy roleplaying a chick play a game for them...
You can go a step further, using a BartPE you can map folders like "UserData" and "Users" directly to a HDD, throw in "Program Files (x86)" and you can fit windows down into a 32G SSD, create a 3rd program files folder "Program Files (x86SSD)" and dump any small programs in there you want to run really fast:)
As to backing up over USB, eek, its cheap and all, but eSATA is a much nicer way to do it.
Yeah yeah, a troll I know, but you do realise that "Antivirus 2009" was just one of the names they used? There are literally hundreds of different variations on this name floating around, and one of the funnier things is that it updates so regularly that just 2 weeks after the Microsoft "antivirus 2009 fix" went out to all the machines they had a resistant version infecting machines again.
Latest one (came in yesterday with a smitfraud variant) was "Win Anti-Spyware 2010".
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Well, first of all he might not be an expert but he is a professional, which is mildly disturbing.
Although he claims 400 installs (personally I accomplish about 6-10 a day, not counting pre-install/slipstreamed systems installed from my installer disk by another person) he admits at the end he has only installed about 30 intel based CPU systems with Windows Seven, this is not a large amount when you think about it, although I guess this system counts about 10 times according to his description about his final install.
As other people point out, he replaced the PSU and case!
He may be a professional, but I would worry about his time spent on useless tasks if I was his boss :)
Anonymous Coward iz credit to team!
You do not require a network connection at all to install, it is a good idea, because windows will get any installer updates on the fly, but certainly not required.
In fact, you can turn off the minimal need it has for one via a setting in the setup XML files :)
It appears, he either uses a LOT of AMD or VIA chips, or he really really likes reinstalling windows over and over again on the same hardware ;)
/agree
One of the better tests for if a machine has a hardware fault or a software fault is to boot off a linux CD, because for lack of any major hardware faults, it just works :)
Some companies do have specific hardware testing tools, seagate disk tools for instance will tell you before testing a drive if smart has been tripped, for that matter, most motherboards will pause at boot time if any smart data has been tripped on a HDD.
Wow, he has installed 30-plus intel based Windows Seven machines? Since its launch, I have had about 40-50 DOA intel processors, NONE of which were engineering samples.
Guy is what we, in Australia, would call a "Tosser" who for lack of a better description is "Talking wank".
No, mere mortals would never be required to sort out this problem, because they would never encounter it.
Order for troubleshooting random seeming install fails is:
Install media (the disk, get a known good image/disk)
Hardware that reads that media (DVD drive, cable)
Ram
CPU
HDD (and cable)
Board
PSU
Most DOA PSU problems are dead PSU, most of the rest are rating selection errors (not powerful enough).
Also, this list is optimised not only for most likely faults but for parts that are "easy" to replace :)
Yeah, got hit for $450AU more than I should have, meh, just wait for them to reverse it, I won't lose sleep and it won't dissuade me from running my 2 groups around agramon this weekend trying to nibble zergs and backdoor 8-mans :)
If a few hundred dollars extra can overdraft a credit card, you are probably using it wrong.
In all honesty though, if your in the shit with this, print it all out, go to your local bank and ask to speak with a loans person and raise your CC limit for a month.
It is, and a bad one, with Telexy Network Commander I can VPN from my mobile phone via unlimited data plan back to my home network and mount a windows network share and then stream my music over that.
So 6.6TB mobile music device, please advertise bigger :P
Could be worse, it could be George Lucas steering it ;)
Well, their case looks to be because 95% of his clients are US based and I doubt he would want to be sued in Canada anyway since they don't appear to have safeharbour at all for him.
And its not like Canada wouldn't deport him if the US asked nicely.
Bah, you want the really fun one?
use your arrow keys to,
up up down down left right left right (then press) b a :)
Hold about, the brief is linked and contains as its first 2 lines...
He was being sued in USA, so all he has to do is remove the stuff they say to and he can walk out of this without losing all his money, his house and anything else the MPAA decide looks nice.
In other words, only the things the MPAA gave as evidence to the court would be required to be removed, of course this leaves it open to others to file "me too!" claims. ...
Ahh the meat :)
So, they are to give the titles of the works to the defendant and he has to take them down.
That sounds more like a safe harbour for ISPs if anything, rather than search sites (likely why he is in so much shit).
I would guess he can start with the torrents that he was in court for in the first place, then could ask the court to ask the MPAA real nice like what the rest of their list is.
The ownus is (under US law, god why do I know so much about US laws as an Australian citizen) on the copyright owner to submit what content is infringing (I am assuming either file names, metadata or a hash would do the job)
As you point out (and I didn't notice at all) this is all happening in Canada, so this may be a showing of leniency (possibly leading to a precedent or even a standard practice) by the judge to him, if there is no safe harbour for search/link sites.
He was told to take down illegal torrents, the same as google could be told to take down links to copyrighted works, if he refuses to comply, he loses safe harbour.
Fuel is cheaper, less harmful greenhouse gasses, buggies can be repaired with a hammer, easily replaceable motor (no tools required!), cruise control that will turn corners for you too...
And of course, when they start accelerating out of control, just shoot the damn horse and it will stop :)
Now I am confused, isn't the point of this article that they received an order to take down all links to content known to be illegal on their site, and they say "but that would put us out of business".
That means they are in the wrong business ;)
As someone in a thread above pointed out, search engines receive safe harbour so long as they swiftly comply with any legal orders to remove links to copyrighted works.
There's talk of a new coal/steam hybrid alarm clock that could leave all these for dead, its both more efficient (per ton of fossil fuels needed to run per hour) and it has a 100% wake up rate, even among the deaf! (heat generated by the device exceeds that of a reasonably comfortable oven).
Now our engineers are working on the next version, a fusion based alarm clock, it uses a lot less raw materiel than ANY similar units and has the added benefit of a small nigh light you can read by!
I had to call in sick for a day ;)
Nah, what you need is a good wet floor mop, shotguns run out of ammo, chainsaws run out of fuel, but a good mop will keep at least 4 people alive ^_^
Not to mention there are now at least 15 extremely happy people out there :)
Except when they are folders that cannot be moved/deleted while the user is logged in, such as Program Files, UserData and Users ;)
Yeah, the eSATA/USB combos give the best of both worlds, speed and in a pinch can be plugged in via usb if eSATA isn't there. Check out eSATA controllers based on the SilImage line of chips, they provide chip level driver support for all windows server OS and are reasonably fast/cheap.
Voice synth, some acting experience and you are all set.
Its not like "little boys" don't give away items and money (that effectively have a real world value) to see a guy roleplaying a chick play a game for them...
You can go a step further, using a BartPE you can map folders like "UserData" and "Users" directly to a HDD, throw in "Program Files (x86)" and you can fit windows down into a 32G SSD, create a 3rd program files folder "Program Files (x86SSD)" and dump any small programs in there you want to run really fast :)
As to backing up over USB, eek, its cheap and all, but eSATA is a much nicer way to do it.
Link to the video :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlBiLNN1NhQ
Oh, you didn't buy the Spore Creature Creator when it first came out?
Yeah yeah, a troll I know, but you do realise that "Antivirus 2009" was just one of the names they used? There are literally hundreds of different variations on this name floating around, and one of the funnier things is that it updates so regularly that just 2 weeks after the Microsoft "antivirus 2009 fix" went out to all the machines they had a resistant version infecting machines again.
Latest one (came in yesterday with a smitfraud variant) was "Win Anti-Spyware 2010".