I find the use of a good filtered DNS service that blacklists malware URL's upon discovery goes a long way towards limiting my exposure to this.
Open DNS or Scrub IT works well. The only down side is they are often the target of DOS attacks, so their uptimes are limited. Be prepared to switch DNS settings when the "Internet" goes down. Most of my frequent sites, I keep in my local hosts file, so even if DNS goes down or DNS is hijacked, the link to my banking is still valid.
Ruining as a normal user I can't be tricked into editing my hosts file. I don't have the privileges.
For those who don't remember this technology, mylar tape is punched tape like ticker tape. Ticker tape is the paper version. If the machinery is no longer around to read it, it can be read by hand. Most Mylar tape has 9 rows of holes. The small holes near the center are the clock. The other 8 bits were ASCII. If memory serves me, there were 3 bits, clock, then 5 bits. The clock was off center so the tape could not be threaded in upside down or tail first from a tape that was not rewound.
A quick google search turned up a confirmation. The clock row was called the S row for Sprocket.
When characters were written there was great care in selecting the placement of bits to insure accuracy of numeric computations. Character skewing was less a problem the nearer the Read/Write Head was to the timing sprocket pulse. The sprocket pulse (position S) was in the center or near center as there were 8 bits in total with the sprocket pulse. The check pulse to insure the bit count was odd (position 1) and the 4 lower bits (positions 4,5,6,7), which included the vital numeric characters, were crowded next to the sprocket pulse. The remaining 2 bits (positions 2,3) were for the alphabetic and special characters and were located on the outer edges of the tape. The bit numbering positions on tape were 3,5,1,S,6,7,4,2.
Several modes of failure are possible with the same outcome if a generator becomes disconnected to the load at high loading. AC generators run locked to the line frequency regardless of the load. 5% or 100% load the RPM is the same. The power generated is directly controlled by the throttle of the prime mover.
When the load is disconnected from either a transformer fault or relay, the input power continues to provide power until it is throttled or shut off. 3 things can happen. Two can cause catastrophic failure.
1, The system holds. The RPM picks up, the gates close and peak pressure of the slowing flow are within system safety limits, then everything dissipates energy and comes to a safe stop.
2. The surge in pressure from closing the control valve too fast causes a valve failure and valve parts get blown into the turbine and the wreckage causes a volute failure under the generator rupturing the generator room floor and blowing debris into the spinning generator. Kinetic energy shreds the shell of the generator.
3. The surge in pressure from closing the control valve is contained, but the slow operation permits the generator to over speed to destruction. A thrown winding quickly binds and starts tearing pieces from the armature and stator, This high energy wreck inside the generator rips it loose from the mounting and the armature pulls the turbine out of the floor damaging the control valve in the process.
It is possible the generator had a mechanical failure without the stress of an emergency shutdown with the same results. I find this unlikely due to the nature of the failure. The damage looks like it happened while in an over speed condition, but that is just speculation. The Grand Coulee dam construction photos has a great photo of the volute during construction. They call it a scroll cage. My best guess at this time is the generator relayed out under heavy load and went over speed with the resulting mechanical failure.
In AC generation the speed of a syncronous generator or motor is related to the number of poles and the frequency. I don't know if Russia is 50 or 60 HZ. In the USA a 60 HZ single phase 2 pole motor runs 3600 RPM. A 3 phase 3 pole also runs 3600 RPM. 6 pole runs 1800, 12 pole 1200, 24 pole 600, 48 at 300, 92 at 150. Figures can be adjusted for 50 HZ. To get an idea of the possible speed involved there, I can only compare to one of the larger US dams, the Grand Coulee Dam. http://users.owt.com/chubbard/gcdam/html/photos/construction.html
The Grand Coulee dam has generators rotating at 120 RPM This is only 2 revolutions/second. This would indicate a 120 pole 3 phase generator for 60 cycle power.
The long pipes feeding the powerhouse make the two failure modes very possible. This is the reason most US powerhouses are fed from as short a path as possible. The shorter path is safer to shut down faster as inertia is much less with a shorter path.
I mentioned in another post that Ice Harbor dam on the Snake River while testing shutdown did close too fast on one generator. Peak pressure was well within limits. That dam only has a 100 foot drop. The problem they had was on the other side where water leaves. A vacuum was drawn as the inertia of the water leaving continued, stopped and returned. This water hammer did not break the volute, but it did damage the turbine blades. This was detected when returning to operation after the test. The turbine efficiency was very low. The generator was pulled, then the turbine was pulled for inspection of the turbine and volute. The turbine and vanes leading to the turbine were both damaged.
Most of the damage to the powerhouse is not from the transformer. A transformer may have had and electrical fault that put a sudden overload on the generator. One of the generators has froceably removed itself from the generator deck and totaly destroyed another one next to it.
The cause of the generator failure (explosion) is not sure. Either torque from a short tore it loose, or the sudden shutdown may have cause emergency shutdown of the water. This can cause cavitation. Cavation is vacuum. Water has inertia. Water has been known to return to the vacuum space with force and damage turbins.
There was an incident when Ice Harbor dam was built in the Columbia River basin. Part of the testing was to test emergency shutdown. One of the gates closed too fast and cavitation occured as the water continued flowing out of the turbin due to inertia when the valve closed. The water returned back up and damaged the impeller. This was in the early days when the facility was built in the late 1950's. My dad was a power house operator there at the time. Fortunetly, this did not rupture the turbin or damage the generator.
After this many years, I don't think there is any data online of the incident. http://www.cbr.washington.edu/crisp/hydro/ihr.html Ice Harbor dam was dedicated in 1962 by Vice President Lyndon J. Johnson.
Compare this page to the video of the other powerhouse in the video. Several generators are completely missing and one big hole in the floor is where the turbin under the generator was.
What was not reported but is shown in the videos is what happend when the transformer faulted and suddenly threw a short on a turbin. The torque on the generator tore it loose from the generator deck and the kinetic energy shreded the shell of the generator. The armature ripped the water turbine out as this mass flew about. This let the water into the generator deck and hydrostatic pressure blew out the generator deck wall. The transformer that shorted is outside. The light from the arc can be seen to the left of the rupture. The petcocks feeding the turbine deck were closed which shut down the fountain of water.
The water fountain is because the turbine core was ripped out by the disentigrating generator above it. This was not reported.
My father was a powerhouse operator on 2 of the hydro plant on the Columbia River Basin. As such, I have had the cooks tour of hydro operations.
The high voltage transformers to convert the generator output to the high tension line voltage are outside the powerhouse. A turbine deck in the powerhouse looks like this.
Now watch the videos again of the powerhouse damage. Several of the generators are simply shrededed and not present. The water turbine is pulled out of the deck on one. This is where the fountain of water entered the powerhouse. Note, there are no large transformers in the powerhouse.
They try to make you license all your pc's even those not running Windows so anything that Could run Windows has a license.
It is the Ernie Ball story that convinced me to get legal and move off Windows entirely. Some license terms define piracy and software theft in a strange way.
I get evaluation copies (engineering samples) of CPU's. Some software manufactures that are members of BSA consider transplanting an OS from one retired machine to a new box as theft.
Having one license for a copy of an office suite and having it installed on several boxes where I am the sole user is also considered theft.
Due to the license for this type of software and the BSA, I have ceased these practices and am using a competing product that doesn't frown on the way I use software. Due to the EULA, I still am running one box that is a PIII to run some Windows only software. Upgrading to a new motherboard, memory, hard drive, box, and the latest 6 core CPU is considered software theft.
Maybe someday the software manufactures will learn to listen to their consumers.
Ubuntu Studio Edition comes with the real time kernel and most editing and sound applications installed. Add the MP3 driver and you are ready to go to work. I use it. http://ubuntustudio.org/ Get it here.
I had an employer interview me and then set me down in front of a piece of equipment with a problem and checked how long it took me to fix it. I got the job.
How I worked, how I solved problems, and how well worked with others that I didn't know all counted. Finding a problem they didn't know existed was gravy. I had to show that one to them. They didn't believe me at first.
The dihydrogen monoxide/hydric acid/hydrane stunt was just *brilliant* !
And the press and some governments fell for it hook line and sinker.
In March 2004, Aliso Viejo, California almost considered banning the use of foam containers at city-sponsored events because dihydrogen monoxide is part of their production. A paralegal had asked the city council to put it on the agenda; he later attributed it to poor research.[13] The law was pulled from the agenda before it could come to a vote, but not before the city received a raft of bad publicity.[4]
For those who don't get the joke the punchline is here;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihydrogen_monoxide_hoax n 1989, Eric Lechner, Lars Norpchen and Matthew Kaufman circulated a Dihydrogen Monoxide contamination warning on the UC Santa Cruz Campus via photocopied fliers.[8] The concept originated one afternoon when Kaufman recalled a similar warning about "Hydrogen Hydroxide" that had been published in his mother's hometown paper, the Durand (Michigan) Express, and the three then worked to coin a term that "sounded more dangerous". Lechner typed up the original warning flier on Kaufman's computer, and a trip to the local photocopying center followed that night.
How people shop makes a difference. On Google, I search for a manufacture, product, or service I am looking for and find the manufacture's site. I don't arrive by an advertisement.
Studying traffic based only on clickthrough rate is pretty narrow minded in where to make you online presense.
In reading the flaw, it seems to require the browser send info to the router to change a configuration from inside the network, and item that is password protected in the router. Honestly, who has a auto login to their router stored in their PC. Sheesh. People using the firmware should have enough network security sense to never permit the browser to store the router password.
I have to type in my password anytime I log into my router which is rarely.
Some simple security is in order here. The the web page can try to send configuration info to the router to make a change, but it doesn't get auto login unless you have it enabled.
Just for grins, maybe the stations will raise fees to promote bands and labels to offset the new cost of doing business. This may be a good thing to raise costs to promote the bland bands. If you think payola to promote bands was bad before, wait until this bill passes an only payola of the highest budget plays on the radio.
One of the radio stations I depend on for traffic reports is already fighting this. They run several advertisements predicting the free music you listen to is at risk of being eliminated by congress with new fees on the music they play. Call your congressman right away to stop this legislation that will end free music on radio.
How long were you a tech. I generally have a postion for over a decade. In that time I get a new manager every year on average. Are you looking for stability or adventure?
No way on Earth I would work hard writing or creating something to have it passed around the Internet for free. I create for my own profit, not your entertainment.
Common error. To sell any copies, you need discovered and promoted. Reasonable prices sell. Overvalued stuff is interesting, but not enough to fork out money for it. DRM and a special piece of hardware to use it lowers the value to your customers. If this DRM worked, all my software would require a dongle and my PC would have at least 75 dongle keys plugged in. I have zero dongles protecting software on my PC. Most of my software I purchased must run without a dongle.
In the end, common ground is required to sell software. A limited base of installed kimbles is a limited field to sell into. Your fees to even publish to it pretty much ensures a negative bottom line unless you have a secret to get promoted with enough hype to get people to buy.
As noted in the article. The platform isn't really that wildely popular compared to say a netbook.
How are you expected to pay a judgment of nearly two million dollars? Thats more than you'd make in several lifetimes.
I would guess that a trust account is set up with $1,000 in it and let the interest pay them until paid off at which time you get the principal back. Depending on interest, it could take a while.
My bigges problem with my Wife's Vista laptop is the changes to login authentication on a network. It took 6 hours and a Google search to solve the problem of why Vista can't log into a SimpleShare fileserver. The task was simple. Back up the old laptop to the server. Connect the new laptop to the wireless network. Login and transfer the user documents to the new laptop.
I was not an all day project to connect to a server and network printer for any of the rest of the machines from Windows 95 - Ubuntu. I want my day back.
Does anyone know if the users browser times out if the router blocks the.ru domain? It may be worth monitoring your router logs for sudden excessive.ru domain requests.
Slashdot Mirror
I find the use of a good filtered DNS service that blacklists malware URL's upon discovery goes a long way towards limiting my exposure to this.
Open DNS or Scrub IT works well. The only down side is they are often the target of DOS attacks, so their uptimes are limited. Be prepared to switch DNS settings when the "Internet" goes down. Most of my frequent sites, I keep in my local hosts file, so even if DNS goes down or DNS is hijacked, the link to my banking is still valid.
Ruining as a normal user I can't be tricked into editing my hosts file. I don't have the privileges.
Links;
Open DNS http://www.opendns.com/
ScrubIT http://www.scrubit.com/
For those who don't remember this technology, mylar tape is punched tape like ticker tape. Ticker tape is the paper version. If the machinery is no longer around to read it, it can be read by hand. Most Mylar tape has 9 rows of holes. The small holes near the center are the clock. The other 8 bits were ASCII. If memory serves me, there were 3 bits, clock, then 5 bits. The clock was off center so the tape could not be threaded in upside down or tail first from a tape that was not rewound.
A quick google search turned up a confirmation. The clock row was called the S row for Sprocket.
When characters were written there was great care in selecting the placement of bits to insure accuracy of numeric computations. Character skewing was less a problem the nearer the Read/Write Head was to the timing sprocket pulse. The sprocket pulse (position S) was in the center or near center as there were 8 bits in total with the sprocket pulse. The check pulse to insure the bit count was odd (position 1) and the 4 lower bits (positions 4,5,6,7), which included the vital numeric characters, were crowded next to the sprocket pulse. The remaining 2 bits (positions 2,3) were for the alphabetic and special characters and were located on the outer edges of the tape. The bit numbering positions on tape were 3,5,1,S,6,7,4,2.
http://univac1.0catch.com/index.htm
Several modes of failure are possible with the same outcome if a generator becomes disconnected to the load at high loading. AC generators run locked to the line frequency regardless of the load. 5% or 100% load the RPM is the same. The power generated is directly controlled by the throttle of the prime mover.
When the load is disconnected from either a transformer fault or relay, the input power continues to provide power until it is throttled or shut off. 3 things can happen. Two can cause catastrophic failure.
1, The system holds. The RPM picks up, the gates close and peak pressure of the slowing flow are within system safety limits, then everything dissipates energy and comes to a safe stop.
2. The surge in pressure from closing the control valve too fast causes a valve failure and valve parts get blown into the turbine and the wreckage causes a volute failure under the generator rupturing the generator room floor and blowing debris into the spinning generator. Kinetic energy shreds the shell of the generator.
3. The surge in pressure from closing the control valve is contained, but the slow operation permits the generator to over speed to destruction. A thrown winding quickly binds and starts tearing pieces from the armature and stator, This high energy wreck inside the generator rips it loose from the mounting and the armature pulls the turbine out of the floor damaging the control valve in the process.
It is possible the generator had a mechanical failure without the stress of an emergency shutdown with the same results. I find this unlikely due to the nature of the failure. The damage looks like it happened while in an over speed condition, but that is just speculation. The Grand Coulee dam construction photos has a great photo of the volute during construction. They call it a scroll cage. My best guess at this time is the generator relayed out under heavy load and went over speed with the resulting mechanical failure.
http://users.owt.com/chubbard/gcdam/highres/build11.jpg
In AC generation the speed of a syncronous generator or motor is related to the number of poles and the frequency. I don't know if Russia is 50 or 60 HZ. In the USA a 60 HZ single phase 2 pole motor runs 3600 RPM. A 3 phase 3 pole also runs 3600 RPM. 6 pole runs 1800, 12 pole 1200, 24 pole 600, 48 at 300, 92 at 150. Figures can be adjusted for 50 HZ. To get an idea of the possible speed involved there, I can only compare to one of the larger US dams, the Grand Coulee Dam.
http://users.owt.com/chubbard/gcdam/html/photos/construction.html
The Grand Coulee dam has generators rotating at 120 RPM This is only 2 revolutions/second. This would indicate a 120 pole 3 phase generator for 60 cycle power.
The long pipes feeding the powerhouse make the two failure modes very possible. This is the reason most US powerhouses are fed from as short a path as possible. The shorter path is safer to shut down faster as inertia is much less with a shorter path.
I mentioned in another post that Ice Harbor dam on the Snake River while testing shutdown did close too fast on one generator. Peak pressure was well within limits. That dam only has a 100 foot drop. The problem they had was on the other side where water leaves. A vacuum was drawn as the inertia of the water leaving continued, stopped and returned. This water hammer did not break the volute, but it did damage the turbine blades. This was detected when returning to operation after the test. The turbine efficiency was very low. The generator was pulled, then the turbine was pulled for inspection of the turbine and volute. The turbine and vanes leading to the turbine were both damaged.
Most of the damage to the powerhouse is not from the transformer. A transformer may have had and electrical fault that put a sudden overload on the generator. One of the generators has froceably removed itself from the generator deck and totaly destroyed another one next to it.
The cause of the generator failure (explosion) is not sure. Either torque from a short tore it loose, or the sudden shutdown may have cause emergency shutdown of the water. This can cause cavitation. Cavation is vacuum. Water has inertia. Water has been known to return to the vacuum space with force and damage turbins.
There was an incident when Ice Harbor dam was built in the Columbia River basin. Part of the testing was to test emergency shutdown. One of the gates closed too fast and cavitation occured as the water continued flowing out of the turbin due to inertia when the valve closed. The water returned back up and damaged the impeller. This was in the early days when the facility was built in the late 1950's. My dad was a power house operator there at the time. Fortunetly, this did not rupture the turbin or damage the generator.
After this many years, I don't think there is any data online of the incident.
http://www.cbr.washington.edu/crisp/hydro/ihr.html
Ice Harbor dam was dedicated in 1962 by Vice President Lyndon J. Johnson.
A typical powerhouse looks like this.
http://www.cbr.washington.edu/crisp/hydro/hydrobon2.html This powerhouse is the second powerhouse on Bonniville Dam on the lower Columbia River.
Compare this page to the video of the other powerhouse in the video. Several generators are completely missing and one big hole in the floor is where the turbin under the generator was.
http://www.eng.rushydro.ru/press/news/7550.html
More current reports is correctly listing this as a hydrostatic shock explosion that destroyed a generator and damaged another.
The early report of a transformer explosion is incorrect.
What was not reported but is shown in the videos is what happend when the transformer faulted and suddenly threw a short on a turbin. The torque on the generator tore it loose from the generator deck and the kinetic energy shreded the shell of the generator. The armature ripped the water turbine out as this mass flew about. This let the water into the generator deck and hydrostatic pressure blew out the generator deck wall. The transformer that shorted is outside. The light from the arc can be seen to the left of the rupture. The petcocks feeding the turbine deck were closed which shut down the fountain of water.
The water fountain is because the turbine core was ripped out by the disentigrating generator above it. This was not reported.
My father was a powerhouse operator on 2 of the hydro plant on the Columbia River Basin. As such, I have had the cooks tour of hydro operations.
The high voltage transformers to convert the generator output to the high tension line voltage are outside the powerhouse. A turbine deck in the powerhouse looks like this.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7rnI15qf-JM/SE9LY0Qe_gI/AAAAAAAAGWw/IQ_c0S2khmY/s1600-h/DSCN3116.JPG
Now watch the videos again of the powerhouse damage. Several of the generators are simply shrededed and not present. The water turbine is pulled out of the deck on one. This is where the fountain of water entered the powerhouse. Note, there are no large transformers in the powerhouse.
They try to make you license all your pc's even those not running Windows so anything that Could run Windows has a license.
It is the Ernie Ball story that convinced me to get legal and move off Windows entirely. Some license terms define piracy and software theft in a strange way.
I get evaluation copies (engineering samples) of CPU's. Some software manufactures that are members of BSA consider transplanting an OS from one retired machine to a new box as theft.
Having one license for a copy of an office suite and having it installed on several boxes where I am the sole user is also considered theft.
Due to the license for this type of software and the BSA, I have ceased these practices and am using a competing product that doesn't frown on the way I use software. Due to the EULA, I still am running one box that is a PIII to run some Windows only software. Upgrading to a new motherboard, memory, hard drive, box, and the latest 6 core CPU is considered software theft.
Maybe someday the software manufactures will learn to listen to their consumers.
In the meantime, there are alternatives.
Please don't confuse marketing and OEM site licencing deals with failure of Linux on technical merits.
Ubuntu on the Aspire One is great. Marketing played the major role in getting XP on all netbooks. Info on this work in progress is here.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne/
The other attack was the campaign against vendors selling naked PC's.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/0,1000000091,39286228,00.htm/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/11/23/ms_how_pcs_shipped_without/
http://www.linfo.org/naked_pc.html/
Ubuntu Studio Edition comes with the real time kernel and most editing and sound applications installed. Add the MP3 driver and you are ready to go to work. I use it.
http://ubuntustudio.org/ Get it here.
I had an employer interview me and then set me down in front of a piece of equipment with a problem and checked how long it took me to fix it. I got the job.
How I worked, how I solved problems, and how well worked with others that I didn't know all counted. Finding a problem they didn't know existed was gravy. I had to show that one to them. They didn't believe me at first.
Awww.. come on !
The dihydrogen monoxide/hydric acid/hydrane stunt was just *brilliant* !
And the press and some governments fell for it hook line and sinker.
In March 2004, Aliso Viejo, California almost considered banning the use of foam containers at city-sponsored events because dihydrogen monoxide is part of their production. A paralegal had asked the city council to put it on the agenda; he later attributed it to poor research.[13] The law was pulled from the agenda before it could come to a vote, but not before the city received a raft of bad publicity.[4]
Quote from the wikipedia linked above.
The ban Dihydrogenmonoxide stunt also got the media messed up in a comical frenzy over bad science.
This site is still up for your reading pleasure.
http://www.dhmo.org/
The environmental impact of the stuff is huge. It's found most everywhere.
http://www.dhmo.org/environment.html
For those who don't get the joke the punchline is here;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihydrogen_monoxide_hoax
n 1989, Eric Lechner, Lars Norpchen and Matthew Kaufman circulated a Dihydrogen Monoxide contamination warning on the UC Santa Cruz Campus via photocopied fliers.[8] The concept originated one afternoon when Kaufman recalled a similar warning about "Hydrogen Hydroxide" that had been published in his mother's hometown paper, the Durand (Michigan) Express, and the three then worked to coin a term that "sounded more dangerous". Lechner typed up the original warning flier on Kaufman's computer, and a trip to the local photocopying center followed that night.
AS a proud owner of a Linux Box and DRM free MP3 player, I have no reason to ever support DRM media.
Market forces can kill it.
How people shop makes a difference. On Google, I search for a manufacture, product, or service I am looking for and find the manufacture's site. I don't arrive by an advertisement.
Studying traffic based only on clickthrough rate is pretty narrow minded in where to make you online presense.
In reading the flaw, it seems to require the browser send info to the router to change a configuration from inside the network, and item that is password protected in the router. Honestly, who has a auto login to their router stored in their PC. Sheesh. People using the firmware should have enough network security sense to never permit the browser to store the router password.
I have to type in my password anytime I log into my router which is rarely.
Some simple security is in order here. The the web page can try to send configuration info to the router to make a change, but it doesn't get auto login unless you have it enabled.
Just for grins, maybe the stations will raise fees to promote bands and labels to offset the new cost of doing business. This may be a good thing to raise costs to promote the bland bands. If you think payola to promote bands was bad before, wait until this bill passes an only payola of the highest budget plays on the radio.
One of the radio stations I depend on for traffic reports is already fighting this. They run several advertisements predicting the free music you listen to is at risk of being eliminated by congress with new fees on the music they play. Call your congressman right away to stop this legislation that will end free music on radio.
The NAB, National Association of Broadcasters is leading the charge to oppose the bill.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ct-radio3-2009jul03,0,6937549.story/
Should make short work of an RIAA case. My IP address is 192.168.1.30 at home and 10.136.XX I don't remember at work.
How long were you a tech. I generally have a postion for over a decade. In that time I get a new manager every year on average. Are you looking for stability or adventure?
Also, be aware of anything free or too good to be true on the inernet. Buy an Ipod and get an account with Itunes babe.
What are you thinking.. She has no money for an Ipod or Itunes account. Maybe later, but at the moment, see seems to have a negative net worth.
No way on Earth I would work hard writing or creating something to have it passed around the Internet for free. I create for my own profit, not your entertainment.
Common error. To sell any copies, you need discovered and promoted. Reasonable prices sell. Overvalued stuff is interesting, but not enough to fork out money for it. DRM and a special piece of hardware to use it lowers the value to your customers. If this DRM worked, all my software would require a dongle and my PC would have at least 75 dongle keys plugged in. I have zero dongles protecting software on my PC. Most of my software I purchased must run without a dongle.
In the end, common ground is required to sell software. A limited base of installed kimbles is a limited field to sell into. Your fees to even publish to it pretty much ensures a negative bottom line unless you have a secret to get promoted with enough hype to get people to buy.
As noted in the article. The platform isn't really that wildely popular compared to say a netbook.
How are you expected to pay a judgment of nearly two million dollars? Thats more than you'd make in several lifetimes.
I would guess that a trust account is set up with $1,000 in it and let the interest pay them until paid off at which time you get the principal back. Depending on interest, it could take a while.
My bigges problem with my Wife's Vista laptop is the changes to login authentication on a network. It took 6 hours and a Google search to solve the problem of why Vista can't log into a SimpleShare fileserver. The task was simple. Back up the old laptop to the server. Connect the new laptop to the wireless network. Login and transfer the user documents to the new laptop.
I was not an all day project to connect to a server and network printer for any of the rest of the machines from Windows 95 - Ubuntu.
I want my day back.
Does anyone know if the users browser times out if the router blocks the .ru domain? It may be worth monitoring your router logs for sudden excessive .ru domain requests.