But it's surely my fault that the drives were defective, huh?
I did run the patch - right after I received a replacement from Hitachi. Then I sold it.
I still consider the buyer a sucker - given the track record of those two drives, I'm sure he/she is having their own fun with it - and should have researched this issue before placing the winning bid.
I work for a school district in rural Lancaster, PA - and I'll tell you: We have an entire old schoolhouse building FILLED with skids stacked with old P166's - probably at least 1000 of them... and monitors to go with them. We can't even give them away. No one will take them, and believe me - we've looked.
I work for a school district. We have 1,600 machines. About 1,000 of those are running an OS vulnerable to this worm.
Unfortunately, I am the ONLY technician, net admin, and help desk person for the entire LAN/WAN. And right now I'm bogged down with creating accounts for 2,000 kids that come in next week.
So, while I agree on one hand - on the other hand, depending on your situation - it can be a real pain in the butt to get out there and patch all those workstations.
And when your users have difficulty finding the power button on their system, it's tough to tell them how to do it themselves.
Alright - if anyone remembers this, I'm going to be seriously impressed.
The game "Mind Walker" for the Amiga scared the crap out of me! I was like 10 years old when I first played it, but the music was maddening, and the object of the game even crazier. I remember I had nightmares for weeks. I actually wound up having my mom format the disk for me while I stood outside the computer room because I didn't even want to see the disk icon appear on the Workbench desktop.
I've got my Athlon XP 2100+ running on a 400 MHz FSB (of course, that's overclocked)... but it definitely does seem "snappier" than the 266 MHz FSB. Certain apps seem to benefit from the extra bandwidth, but not everything.
Alright - dude did this on a K6-2 450. They're about HOW many years old now?
I'd be much more interested to see him cooling an overclocked Athlon XP 2100+ with 1.9 vcore running at 2400 MHz - or something of the like - with the method in the article.
Ah well, I'm happy with my good 'ol pumps and radiator, myself.
I was a subscriber of PTD.net (PenTeleData) about 7 years ago. Theirs service was horrible. Their customer service was some of the worst I've ever dealt with -- it's actually not shocking at all to see that they've sunk to this level.
That is just wonderful. More IBM drives that can be RMAed. I'm not trying to flame IBM here, but I honestly RMAed one of their drives 5 times before I gave up and used it as a 30 gig paperweight. I thought they were out of the hard drive business?
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Yeah. I downloaded it from the newsgroups a couple of weeks ago.
But it's surely my fault that the drives were defective, huh?
I did run the patch - right after I received a replacement from Hitachi. Then I sold it.
I still consider the buyer a sucker - given the track record of those two drives, I'm sure he/she is having their own fun with it - and should have researched this issue before placing the winning bid.
Does anyone still have one of these? I purchased two 30 gig 75GXP's - first one died after about 2 months. The second after 6.
I RMA'd them - drive 1 was RMA'd a total of 6 times; drive 2, 7 times.
I got so disgusted with dealing with them that I replaced them outright with larger Maxtor drives and haven't had a problem since.
I sold one of the IBM drives on ebay to some poor sucker - the other one is sitting on a shelf waiting to be taken to the firing range.
I work for a school district in rural Lancaster, PA - and I'll tell you: We have an entire old schoolhouse building FILLED with skids stacked with old P166's - probably at least 1000 of them ... and monitors to go with them. We can't even give them away. No one will take them, and believe me - we've looked.
I agree - BUT...
I work for a school district. We have 1,600 machines. About 1,000 of those are running an OS vulnerable to this worm.
Unfortunately, I am the ONLY technician, net admin, and help desk person for the entire LAN/WAN. And right now I'm bogged down with creating accounts for 2,000 kids that come in next week.
So, while I agree on one hand - on the other hand, depending on your situation - it can be a real pain in the butt to get out there and patch all those workstations.
And when your users have difficulty finding the power button on their system, it's tough to tell them how to do it themselves.
Where do you get your information? I have several DVD "backups" created with my +R writer. Obviously, you know little/nothing about this technology.
Here's an article explaining how/why DVD+R is superior.
http://www.cdfreaks.com/article/113
For $150, it was a total bargain. Supposedly, +R is going to be the "standard"...
Alright - if anyone remembers this, I'm going to be seriously impressed.
The game "Mind Walker" for the Amiga scared the crap out of me! I was like 10 years old when I first played it, but the music was maddening, and the object of the game even crazier. I remember I had nightmares for weeks. I actually wound up having my mom format the disk for me while I stood outside the computer room because I didn't even want to see the disk icon appear on the Workbench desktop.
I've got my Athlon XP 2100+ running on a 400 MHz FSB (of course, that's overclocked)... but it definitely does seem "snappier" than the 266 MHz FSB. Certain apps seem to benefit from the extra bandwidth, but not everything.
Alright - dude did this on a K6-2 450. They're about HOW many years old now?
I'd be much more interested to see him cooling an overclocked Athlon XP 2100+ with 1.9 vcore running at 2400 MHz - or something of the like - with the method in the article.
Ah well, I'm happy with my good 'ol pumps and radiator, myself.
I wasn't going to troll about this being a dupe ... but I just couldn't help myself. The other story is only a few posts below this one. Ugh.
Don't purchase a new smoke detector and take it on the subway - they'll likely call in the National Guard.
I've been waiting for YEARS to get me an AMD branded toaster oven. Wonder if it'll use Athlons as the heating elements?
Looks like the site has been /.ed already. I wonder if they've got old Amiga World and Info magazine? That would make my day.
I still have some copies of them sitting in boxes - it'd give me a great excuse to recycle them if they're electronic.
I was a subscriber of PTD.net (PenTeleData) about 7 years ago. Theirs service was horrible. Their customer service was some of the worst I've ever dealt with -- it's actually not shocking at all to see that they've sunk to this level.
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That is just wonderful. More IBM drives that can be RMAed. I'm not trying to flame IBM here, but I honestly RMAed one of their drives 5 times before I gave up and used it as a 30 gig paperweight. I thought they were out of the hard drive business?
I saw this one coming as soon as I read the headline.
How about something a little more unpredictable next time?
Good thing I use Exchange Server. I've got a tight ship there.
Imagine the waste from all those big cel phones from the 80's.
Open Source has been deployed to control the masses. Anyone who uses an open source application is opening themselves to backdoors, bugs, and piracy. Open source leads to teen pregnancy, homosexuality, and herpes.
Yeah, but honestly, it's been like 5 years since CDR's cost $10 a pop. Even the high quality ones are less than $1 now.
Jesus dude - $10 for a CDR? I get them for about $0.15
Honestly, I had more success reading this
book to protect my website. The book mentioned/reviewed in the article above is rubbish.
I figured they would do something like this.
Where's Amiga OS 4 when you need it?