I'm the acting engineer for a badass little college radio station (shameless plug). I'm also a DJ there.
So, I'm on the air doing a show, CD player going and all that. I decide that the mic cable needs more slack, so I give it a good tug. Unfortunately, the removable back panel of the desk was tugged along with the cable, causing the panel to fall away from the desk. Also unfortunately, the power cables for our two $350 CD players were behind the back panel.
The CD players flew to the floor, and slammed on the ground, making a hollow metallic noise. I was too afraid to look right away. Coincidentally, a friend had walked in just in time to see this happen, and we just stood in frozen amazement for a minute.
Amazingly, the CD player had been playing, slammed on the ground, paused for a second, and continued playing the CD without any problems.
I wish I could say they still work, but with Marantz's POS equipment, that is not the case. After fixing each of them upwards of 6 times (broken eject buttons, broken power switch, tray off-gear) one of them finally bit it with a broken tray, that, upon attempting to fix it again, started burning.
A couple months ago I received an email notifying me that eBay was updating its records and needed me to re-enter my user and credit card information.
The site was at http://www.cgi5-ebay.cc/eBayISAPIdll/signin.html. Obvious to any experienced computer user as a scam.
But since I was sure unsuspecting users may be duped, I decided to do something about it. I contacted the service provider, A Plus (aka Abacus), informed them of the scam, and requested that they shut it down. Within an hour the site was offline.
Too bad I didn't submit this to news wire services. Oh well.
Last semester my roommate and I had trouble connecting to the net in the dorms. We checked out the info on ipconfig and it showed a DHCP address of 192.168.x.x (where it should be a non-local IP), so we called up the Help Desk, and he suggested it could be a rogue DHCP server, which we hadn't even thought about. So a ping -a results in the person's alias being shown as xxxxxx.resnet.*.edu. So we look up the alias xxxxxx in the campus directory, and find out their name and phone number. We give this info to the Help Desk person, he finds where they live. We figured we'll just let them call and take care of it, but then decide what the hell? let's do it ourselves. So we go to the second floor and proceeded to help out the poor girls who where upsetting our precious net connection. It turns out the Gateway included a wonderful program on their computer for a home networking setup, which included, you guessed it, a DHCP server. As she only had one NIC, the DHCP server didn't even work! My roommate and I got rid of the program and did some other troubleshooting on their computers. Other than the one girl being pretty cute (but not intelligent in the least), it was a waste of 3 hours.
How would you use Fibre Channel with CAT5 cable? I assume that this just reduces the cost of hooking the disks up to one another. My problem is that you still need a Fibre Channel controller card, which run upwards of $1000. So how am I supposed to be saving money? Of course, if anyone knows of a real cheap way to hook up FC drives I'm interested in hearing about it.
I've been saying for the past two years that if BeOS were open sourced it, and Linux, would kill Microsoft. What is holding Be back is that there is NO hardware support (due to the fact that there are two programmers dedicated to the desktop OS). It is ridiculous that my video card has to run in VESA mode with software rendering, while ATI has released their technology and XFree86 supports it perfectly. Be obviously only cares about the embedded IA market these days. If Be were to give their OS to the community like Linux, hardware support would easily double in a few months. I think Be has the most intelligently designed OS for workstations, and it is quite a shame that nobody can use it because their hardware isn't supported.
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I'm the acting engineer for a badass little college radio station (shameless plug). I'm also a DJ there.
So, I'm on the air doing a show, CD player going and all that. I decide that the mic cable needs more slack, so I give it a good tug. Unfortunately, the removable back panel of the desk was tugged along with the cable, causing the panel to fall away from the desk. Also unfortunately, the power cables for our two $350 CD players were behind the back panel.
The CD players flew to the floor, and slammed on the ground, making a hollow metallic noise. I was too afraid to look right away. Coincidentally, a friend had walked in just in time to see this happen, and we just stood in frozen amazement for a minute.
Amazingly, the CD player had been playing, slammed on the ground, paused for a second, and continued playing the CD without any problems.
I wish I could say they still work, but with Marantz's POS equipment, that is not the case. After fixing each of them upwards of 6 times (broken eject buttons, broken power switch, tray off-gear) one of them finally bit it with a broken tray, that, upon attempting to fix it again, started burning.
A couple months ago I received an email notifying me that eBay was updating its records and needed me to re-enter my user and credit card information.
The site was at http://www.cgi5-ebay.cc/eBayISAPIdll/signin.html. Obvious to any experienced computer user as a scam.
But since I was sure unsuspecting users may be duped, I decided to do something about it. I contacted the service provider, A Plus (aka Abacus), informed them of the scam, and requested that they shut it down. Within an hour the site was offline.
Too bad I didn't submit this to news wire services. Oh well.
Last semester my roommate and I had trouble connecting to the net in the dorms. We checked out the info on ipconfig and it showed a DHCP address of 192.168.x.x (where it should be a non-local IP), so we called up the Help Desk, and he suggested it could be a rogue DHCP server, which we hadn't even thought about. So a ping -a results in the person's alias being shown as xxxxxx.resnet.*.edu. So we look up the alias xxxxxx in the campus directory, and find out their name and phone number. We give this info to the Help Desk person, he finds where they live. We figured we'll just let them call and take care of it, but then decide what the hell? let's do it ourselves. So we go to the second floor and proceeded to help out the poor girls who where upsetting our precious net connection. It turns out the Gateway included a wonderful program on their computer for a home networking setup, which included, you guessed it, a DHCP server. As she only had one NIC, the DHCP server didn't even work! My roommate and I got rid of the program and did some other troubleshooting on their computers. Other than the one girl being pretty cute (but not intelligent in the least), it was a waste of 3 hours.
What happens when 10 people post to a website, each of whom has an April Fool's joke post? April 1st's Slashdot. Who in the hell is AllieCat anyway?
How would you use Fibre Channel with CAT5 cable? I assume that this just reduces the cost of hooking the disks up to one another. My problem is that you still need a Fibre Channel controller card, which run upwards of $1000. So how am I supposed to be saving money? Of course, if anyone knows of a real cheap way to hook up FC drives I'm interested in hearing about it.
I've been saying for the past two years that if BeOS were open sourced it, and Linux, would kill Microsoft. What is holding Be back is that there is NO hardware support (due to the fact that there are two programmers dedicated to the desktop OS). It is ridiculous that my video card has to run in VESA mode with software rendering, while ATI has released their technology and XFree86 supports it perfectly. Be obviously only cares about the embedded IA market these days. If Be were to give their OS to the community like Linux, hardware support would easily double in a few months. I think Be has the most intelligently designed OS for workstations, and it is quite a shame that nobody can use it because their hardware isn't supported.