You could fix the fading problem if you new juuuuust where to hit the thing. If I recall... there were 2 slightly different monitor problems. One was fixed by firmly taping the machine on the top, dead centre about 2" back from the front of the screen. The other was fixed by smacking it really hard on the right side (hand moving left).
Ok, say Im looking to recable my studio (and I am:), what *should* I be using ?
More important than the cables, I'd be worried about the AC wiring. You should have at least a couple of circuits that are "audio only". This will help reduce AC line noise caused by things like fridges and whatnot switching on and off. Don't run your audio cable parallel to power cables wherever you can help it. Make sure all power outlets are properly grounded, a $5 tester from the local hardware store will help with this. Ground loops and improper grounding will cause a lot of hum. Don't use flourescent lights, they put out a lot of 60 cycle hum. You might want to build yourself a little cage out of chicken wire big enough for a person to play a guitar/bass in... it'll make a pretty decent faraday cage in case you can't get single coil pickups to stop humming.
That's about it off the top of my head... in my experience once you've taken care of the power issues haevy gauge cable with good connectors will do just fine.
First of all, companies spend too much on supporting the least profitable customers. There are, unfortunately, some people who are just too stupid to use certain technologies
The main problem for companies is that these people are also the ones who scream the loudest and write letters to the editor about how while their new Viper is a damn fast car it's lacking cupholders, a back seat, and it's damn hard to drive in a Buffalo blizzard.
Most of the least profitable customers don't realize that they're wrong/inept, just like the 90% of us that thing we're above average drivers. The best way for the company to avoid bad publicity is to pacify these customers with support.
If you don't need to stay local, or even in the country you might want to try University of Waterloo
There's a math faculty (you get a BMath) which includes a Pure Math department. It's a pretty nice place, and you get to drink real (Canadian) beer when you're only 19. Plus almost all of the math faculty is in co-op, which means that you also do work terms where you get paid... very handy.
Say we all started doing this, would it have any effect? Probably not.
Your average Outlook user is the same person who just accepts that they have to reboot their computer 3 times/day and has never quite figured out that that "Windows Update" link on their start menu does. Basically, I see 2 scenarios:
1. User tries to open email, it doesn't work. User thinks "oh well, maybe outlook's not feeling well, I'll try again later" and keeps going... probably forgetting about the email altogether
2. User tries email, it doesn't work. User tries again later, still doesn't work. User contacts sender and gets pissed off when sender says "yeah, I rigged it so you couldn't open my message with that crappy mail program. I'm so 1337."
I mean sure it's fun to screw with exclusive MS users every once in a while but this just makes the sender look like a little brat...
If you really want to gain weight, a diet with lots of beer, pasta, and fried foods will certainly do the trick.
I used to be in pretty much the same height/weight situation. Now I'm 6'2", 190lbs and I'm trying to take about 15 of that off. Bah, you can never win...
I forgot a little something very important in my previous post...
You don't have to go to Universal to complain. You sue Best Buy. I can't remember the legalese, but basically, they agree that the merchandise is fit for a given use. It wasn't. They misrepresented the product. You win.
I'm certainly no legal expert, but you might actually be able to take this to Universal based on a variation of Donoghue v. Stevenson. The House of Lords ruled that manufacturers are liable in tort for damages caused by their products when the products will likely be used without intermediate examination. The only trick is that the CD has to be a gift to you, otherwise you're stuck with a breach of contract suit with Best Buy. If a friend gives you the CD, then you have no implied contract with Best Buy, and you get to sue Universal:o)
Now, these CDs aren't going to cause any damage, but if they display the CD Audio label they are defective, since they don't adhere to the standard. Also, it's completely unreasonable to expect the merchant to test every single copy of every cd that they sell in a variety of different players. Thus, the product is likely to be used without intermediate examination.
Like I said, I'm no legal expert... just my $0.01 USD (I'm Canadian, gotta take the exchange rate into account)
You don't have to go to Universal to complain. You sue Best Buy. I can't remember the legalese, but basically, they agree that the merchandise is fit for a given use. It wasn't. They misrepresented the product. You win.
I'm certainly no legal expert, but you might actually be able to take this to Universal based on a variation of Donoghue v. Stevenson. The House of Lords ruled that manufacturers are liable in tort for damages caused by their products when the products will likely be used without intermediate examination.
Now, these CDs aren't going to cause any damage, but if they display the CD Audio label they are defective, since they don't adhere to the standard. Also, it's completely unreasonable to expect the merchant to test every single copy of every cd that they sell in a variety of different players. Thus, the product is likely to be used without intermediate examination.
Like I said, I'm no legal expert... just my $0.01 USD (I'm Canadian, gotta take the exchange rate into account)
and anyway, unless you have a T1, 10mbps is plenty fast
A T1 runs, maxed out, at 1.54 Mb/s. Note: this is much less than 10. A T3 is ~ 45 Mb/s.
Not trying (too much) to nitpick, just pointing out that even old coax ethernet is fast enough to carry a T1. Expensive connections demand slightly more than bodged-together solutions... if you have the money for an internet feed > 10Mb/s surely you have the money to implement something other than phone line networking, or (in this case) power line networking.
Not much info in your story... but here's the first thought off the top of my head (and consider that I've been up for 30+ hours). Keep track of your pesky guy's MAC address, then block the connection if it matches. No, it's not perfect since it can be changed... but assuming you're dealing with a lame-o script kiddie they might not know better, and you have less of a chance of blocking users who are legit as compared to just blocking a whole chunk of ip addresses.
Here's what I'd do: Check the MAC when you get a request (probably only for certain key pages, but you could do it for all I guess) and if the address matches your banned list, automatically ban that ip address for say... 24 hours. This way you don't accidentally lock out real users for any length of time, and it should at least slow down your pest. Granted this falls apart if your intruder knows how to change the address on your card, but you didn't say how sophisticated this all is and it's better than nothing.
True... but I've known PhDs who shouldn't cross the street by themselves, and people with college certificates who are absolutely brilliant. Education is a useful tool, but not an indicator... to use it as a judge of a person's abilities (especially outside their field) is a big mistake
I'm not sure of the costs in your area, but if I recall correctly a voice T1 will cost you close to $1000/month in southern ontario. Providers like to charge waaay more for data, even though it's basically the same line. A T1 is essentially 24 voice channels at (I think) 64k/sec, but you *must* lose at least one channel for data control per set of T1s, and it's better to have one channel per T1 (much safer). A T3 is like 30x the bandwidth of a T1, so it's kind of like saying "I'd like either plain rice, or filet mignon for dinner". Costs rise accordingly.
While I'm not sure about the effect the lights would have... I do know that adding a bunch of yellow stickers is good for a 50mhz boost, and adding a Folgers coffee can or similarily sized "exhaust tip" to the rear of your computer is easily good for another 100mhz+ with the added benefit of making your computer sound real deep and manly.
First of all make sure you set up all your computers to have static ip addresses, dynamic won't work. You'll need to set the gateway and DNS on each computer yourself since DHCP won't be doing it for you anymore but it's not that hard.
Now, say you've given your computers the ip addresses: 192.168.0.10 -> 192.186.0.13 (keep the gateway computer on 192.168.0.1)
In your firewall settings simply tell it that any traffic coming in on ports say, 30000-30019 gets automatically sent to 192.168.0.10, 30020-30039 goes to 192.168.0.11 and so on.
Now in icq in the connection settings tell it you're not using a proxy, but you are using a firewall and it should use ports 300xx-300yy for incoming events.
That fix file transfers and allow people to read your away/dnd/etc messages again
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You could fix the fading problem if you new juuuuust where to hit the thing. If I recall... there were 2 slightly different monitor problems. One was fixed by firmly taping the machine on the top, dead centre about 2" back from the front of the screen. The other was fixed by smacking it really hard on the right side (hand moving left).
"The red thing's connected to my wrist watch. Uh-oh" - Dr Nick
Ok, say Im looking to recable my studio (and I am :), what *should* I be using ?
More important than the cables, I'd be worried about the AC wiring. You should have at least a couple of circuits that are "audio only". This will help reduce AC line noise caused by things like fridges and whatnot switching on and off. Don't run your audio cable parallel to power cables wherever you can help it. Make sure all power outlets are properly grounded, a $5 tester from the local hardware store will help with this. Ground loops and improper grounding will cause a lot of hum. Don't use flourescent lights, they put out a lot of 60 cycle hum. You might want to build yourself a little cage out of chicken wire big enough for a person to play a guitar/bass in... it'll make a pretty decent faraday cage in case you can't get single coil pickups to stop humming.
That's about it off the top of my head... in my experience once you've taken care of the power issues haevy gauge cable with good connectors will do just fine.
Good luck
First of all, companies spend too much on supporting the least profitable customers. There are, unfortunately, some people who are just too stupid to use certain technologies
The main problem for companies is that these people are also the ones who scream the loudest and write letters to the editor about how while their new Viper is a damn fast car it's lacking cupholders, a back seat, and it's damn hard to drive in a Buffalo blizzard.
Most of the least profitable customers don't realize that they're wrong/inept, just like the 90% of us that thing we're above average drivers. The best way for the company to avoid bad publicity is to pacify these customers with support.
If you don't need to stay local, or even in the country you might want to try University of Waterloo
There's a math faculty (you get a BMath) which includes a Pure Math department. It's a pretty nice place, and you get to drink real (Canadian) beer when you're only 19. Plus almost all of the math faculty is in co-op, which means that you also do work terms where you get paid... very handy.
Cool, my new root password will now be up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right-B-A-start.
s tart if you wanna be in multi-user mode
Better make that up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right-B-A-select-
MS doesn't need a big hole. SOAP would do fine
I hear that's how it works in prison...
Because you could get the Brave New World of media coporation evil in a familiar form factor?
I swear... the number of references to BNW that I see that have absolutely nothing to do with the book!
Seriously, if you want to throw around "brave new world" at least don't capitalize it.
Yeah, but the French are saying their Maginot Firewall is completely impregnable! ;-)
Installed as a result of the e-Schliffen plan no doubt
Say we all started doing this, would it have any effect? Probably not.
Your average Outlook user is the same person who just accepts that they have to reboot their computer 3 times/day and has never quite figured out that that "Windows Update" link on their start menu does. Basically, I see 2 scenarios:
1. User tries to open email, it doesn't work. User thinks "oh well, maybe outlook's not feeling well, I'll try again later" and keeps going... probably forgetting about the email altogether
2. User tries email, it doesn't work. User tries again later, still doesn't work. User contacts sender and gets pissed off when sender says "yeah, I rigged it so you couldn't open my message with that crappy mail program. I'm so 1337."
I mean sure it's fun to screw with exclusive MS users every once in a while but this just makes the sender look like a little brat...
Okay, I'm game... wonder how much karma I'll lose.
Is this comment on topic yet?
If you really want to gain weight, a diet with lots of beer, pasta, and fried foods will certainly do the trick.
I used to be in pretty much the same height/weight situation. Now I'm 6'2", 190lbs and I'm trying to take about 15 of that off. Bah, you can never win...
here in the Netherlands we've done the gifts already on the 5th
A belated happy Sinterklaas to you then!
I forgot a little something very important in my previous post...
:o)
You don't have to go to Universal to complain. You sue Best Buy. I can't remember the legalese, but basically, they agree that the merchandise is fit for a given use. It wasn't. They misrepresented the product. You win.
I'm certainly no legal expert, but you might actually be able to take this to Universal based on a variation of Donoghue v. Stevenson. The House of Lords ruled that manufacturers are liable in tort for damages caused by their products when the products will likely be used without intermediate examination. The only trick is that the CD has to be a gift to you, otherwise you're stuck with a breach of contract suit with Best Buy. If a friend gives you the CD, then you have no implied contract with Best Buy, and you get to sue Universal
Now, these CDs aren't going to cause any damage, but if they display the CD Audio label they are defective, since they don't adhere to the standard. Also, it's completely unreasonable to expect the merchant to test every single copy of every cd that they sell in a variety of different players. Thus, the product is likely to be used without intermediate examination.
Like I said, I'm no legal expert... just my $0.01 USD (I'm Canadian, gotta take the exchange rate into account)
You don't have to go to Universal to complain. You sue Best Buy. I can't remember the legalese, but basically, they agree that the merchandise is fit for a given use. It wasn't. They misrepresented the product. You win.
I'm certainly no legal expert, but you might actually be able to take this to Universal based on a variation of Donoghue v. Stevenson. The House of Lords ruled that manufacturers are liable in tort for damages caused by their products when the products will likely be used without intermediate examination.
Now, these CDs aren't going to cause any damage, but if they display the CD Audio label they are defective, since they don't adhere to the standard. Also, it's completely unreasonable to expect the merchant to test every single copy of every cd that they sell in a variety of different players. Thus, the product is likely to be used without intermediate examination.
Like I said, I'm no legal expert... just my $0.01 USD (I'm Canadian, gotta take the exchange rate into account)
and anyway, unless you have a T1, 10mbps is plenty fast
A T1 runs, maxed out, at 1.54 Mb/s. Note: this is much less than 10. A T3 is ~ 45 Mb/s.
Not trying (too much) to nitpick, just pointing out that even old coax ethernet is fast enough to carry a T1. Expensive connections demand slightly more than bodged-together solutions... if you have the money for an internet feed > 10Mb/s surely you have the money to implement something other than phone line networking, or (in this case) power line networking.
Not much info in your story... but here's the first thought off the top of my head (and consider that I've been up for 30+ hours). Keep track of your pesky guy's MAC address, then block the connection if it matches. No, it's not perfect since it can be changed... but assuming you're dealing with a lame-o script kiddie they might not know better, and you have less of a chance of blocking users who are legit as compared to just blocking a whole chunk of ip addresses.
Here's what I'd do: Check the MAC when you get a request (probably only for certain key pages, but you could do it for all I guess) and if the address matches your banned list, automatically ban that ip address for say... 24 hours. This way you don't accidentally lock out real users for any length of time, and it should at least slow down your pest. Granted this falls apart if your intruder knows how to change the address on your card, but you didn't say how sophisticated this all is and it's better than nothing.
Cheers
wow... thanks. 95%+ of my experience with T1s is voice-based so it was a very informative read
True... but I've known PhDs who shouldn't cross the street by themselves, and people with college certificates who are absolutely brilliant. Education is a useful tool, but not an indicator... to use it as a judge of a person's abilities (especially outside their field) is a big mistake
I'm not sure of the costs in your area, but if I recall correctly a voice T1 will cost you close to $1000/month in southern ontario. Providers like to charge waaay more for data, even though it's basically the same line. A T1 is essentially 24 voice channels at (I think) 64k/sec, but you *must* lose at least one channel for data control per set of T1s, and it's better to have one channel per T1 (much safer). A T3 is like 30x the bandwidth of a T1, so it's kind of like saying "I'd like either plain rice, or filet mignon for dinner". Costs rise accordingly.
I mean sure, 100" sounds impressive... but really, it can't compete with Frank's 2000" TV!
"I play games with them...They must wonder what the hell is going on."
Good for you, your doing business the way everyone should.
You should be proud.
Good for you, you're abusing homonyms the way everyone should.
You should be proud.
So, theoretically pr0n would be accessable right? Could this give new meaning to the lyrics of Aqualung?
While I'm not sure about the effect the lights would have... I do know that adding a bunch of yellow stickers is good for a 50mhz boost, and adding a Folgers coffee can or similarily sized "exhaust tip" to the rear of your computer is easily good for another 100mhz+ with the added benefit of making your computer sound real deep and manly.
Okay, here's how I did it:
First of all make sure you set up all your computers to have static ip addresses, dynamic won't work. You'll need to set the gateway and DNS on each computer yourself since DHCP won't be doing it for you anymore but it's not that hard.
Now, say you've given your computers the ip addresses: 192.168.0.10 -> 192.186.0.13 (keep the gateway computer on 192.168.0.1)
In your firewall settings simply tell it that any traffic coming in on ports say, 30000-30019 gets automatically sent to 192.168.0.10, 30020-30039 goes to 192.168.0.11 and so on.
Now in icq in the connection settings tell it you're not using a proxy, but you are using a firewall and it should use ports 300xx-300yy for incoming events.
That fix file transfers and allow people to read your away/dnd/etc messages again
Hope this helps!