r.e. the routers, we had a handful of customers with Cisco IOS 12.x series IOS have their router turn its heels up with a bus error randomly between every 20 and 50 minutes and reset, all due to the bombardment of their networks with thousands of those itty bitty packets.
Oh yeah, they also had dodgy^H^H^H^H^HMS SQL Servers & client's on their Lan too..
Also the incident made for *very* interesting reactions from customers come Monday.... *Tee Hee Hee*
There's one i used to use at my old work, i cant remember what it was called. but it uses a PHP interface to a mySQL database, very nifty little bit of business that one. But a good starting point i can recomment is Sourceforge. Have a hunt about, you'd be amazed at what's there.
A big hint is organisation, the other guys are right, there has to be a intemediary between the "developers" that seem to know what the hell is happening, and the help(less) desk that you are running. At my current job we have a huge inventory of customised information on our clients as a.hlp file for windows, and has links to external documents (i.e..doc.xls and.vis), it's saved my ass many a time, and it's very useful too. That may be a bit extreme, but it keeps the information sorted.
When i worked in the Australian Govt in the IT sector, one of the lead admin's had a silvery lump on his desk he used as a paperweight.
When asked about it, he told me that it used to be the hard disk in the laptop of one of the heads of the Dept of Foreign Affairs, and security policy for the computer hardware of someone of that rank meant that the dead hard disk was required to be melted.
I wish i was there, honestly. feels a bit shyte living there 16 yrs and then knowing it's burning so close to your family home when you are 300km away (Sydney).
about 2 isp's ago (as a user) i had run into some arrogant little bastard on irc (as typical, undernet) that didn't like me or my friends cause we refused to give him oper status. He DOS'sed my ISP with a pingflood, and the same with a friend, all in retaliation to being banned.
He took out the entire ISP for the better part fo 2-3 hours. Once the attack stopped, I reported it to any and all ISP's along the path, Worldcom, Optus, my ISP.
Funny enough, my isp and Optus were unhelpful, but amazingly Worldcom (the provider of the service to DOSboy) replied back to me a week later & informed me that some $cr!p+ |!DD!3 had used a rootkit and taken over someones solaris boxern on a multi meg link.
It took a freaking age, but i do believe they nailed the little fucker.
So tighten that security, the less opportunity these little assholes have to do this, the freaking better.
Here at work we use Office XP & windows 2000. The biggest shit off i can find with office 2k, both outlook and word is the stupid stupid stupid insistance by these fsckin programs to *INSIST* that they know better than you in regards to capitalising the first letter of a new line. you can disable this, but at that point you loose just about every other funky auto-spellcheck ability that office has
My old Trio32 (yes, the old 32 bit S3 card) had sockets to allow you to upgrade from 1mb of video mem to 2 meg of video mem by adding in 2x 512kb chips. I did it simply so i could use 16bit colours at 1024x768.;-)
To be honest, if your floppy drivers aren't working, then really it wouldnt be a issue, as logically its all on the boot floppy. and the borked drivers are on your hdd.
Then again, if your floppy drive is borked, or the controller chip is, its a whole different enchalada.
Where is George Lucas gonna find a droid factory on Earth, or the giant (unearthly) rock formations on Tatooine or Geonosis, or the countless megaskyscrapers of Coruscant?
He coulda gotten into cahoots with the Redmond giant, or worked some magic with Scott Sullivan,
They both seem good at making the impossible possible.
Haha, that's very true, i can say yes to all of those too.
But heres the BIG question. Have you tried resolving a fault using remote access, and be on the phone to the tape jockeys, and have your girlfriend silently give you a lapdance at the same time? I HAVE
Same, Sysadminning for 2.5 yrs, got a job at a telco doing phone jockey stuff after being laid off in the.bomb, i'd like to get back in. im gonna wait to the end of the yr after being here a yr, then go overseas methinks:).
in regards to callouts? i've had 20 calls or so when i was at the sysadmin job, but only TWO were for hardware faults that couldn't be fixed remotely. (psu on a dell decided to go to a better place & swapping a tape on a backup of our 180gig server cause we couldn't trust our tape jockeys).
Incidentally i haven't gone to uni, i don't regret my descision, btu i've got skills i know i need to brush up on to keep that magical "valuable" tag on my neck.
I don't believe that they are morally obligated to keep hardware prices up by NOT integrating their fiction into software. They are, after all, a software company
i mean, aside from the whole DMCA can of worms, it may help hackers, but if its "secure" in the first place after these changes are put in place. My understanding is that if the attackers know what the changes are, it ought to be irreivant, as they ought not to be able to gain access. This is more like another "security through obscurity" trick, than anything.
Sydney Morning Herald online www.smh.com.au had plenty of images of the wtc, including the accident itself, the rescue effort, international reactions, etc..
slightly offtopic, but about a fortnight ago I had a PSU decide to detonate after being a bit twitchy. it was very frustrating. now im wonder/worrying about the extent that things got nuked.
I read that washington post artice, and i find that a truely arrogant and closeminded opinion. Not that i am fantastic at remembering this stuff, or highly religeous, but didnt it get said somewhere (i dont know where), but god loved all his children.
Sure there was the town that he blasted into oblivion by destroying it with flames from the heaven or whatever (he turned that woman into a pillar of salt in that bit), but that was a 'old testament', and religeous groups lead by people being scared shitless of being toasted for anything they did wrong.
Anyway, im rambling a bit, but my point is, how on earth could you blame the 'pro choice' and the gays, lesbians, or whoever for this, they are people trying to live a good life, sure its not one that some may approve of, but who cares, its their life, and for the vast majority, they are trying to live a GOOD life.
It's the people that have the arrogance and want to change others opinions, or use their views as a excuse to start something that help cause all this shit anyway. Any 'normal' terrorist, if there is such a thing, causes distruction to bring attention to their cause, if life must be lost, then so be it, but they would do the minimum needed to do so, maybe bomb somewhere, take out a few people, not the utter distruction and total blatant disregard for human life that the people that did this showed. This was brought about by people showing arrogance and a closed mind to everything else outside their view. and they fucked up a whole heap of innocent people in the process.
*note* i am not implying i support terorism, im just quoting from a article i read recently behind the tactics shown in this act.
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r.e. the routers, we had a handful of customers with Cisco IOS 12.x series IOS have their router turn its heels up with a bus error randomly between every 20 and 50 minutes and reset, all due to the bombardment of their networks with thousands of those itty bitty packets.
Oh yeah, they also had dodgy^H^H^H^H^HMS SQL Servers & client's on their Lan too..
Also the incident made for *very* interesting reactions from customers come Monday.... *Tee Hee Hee*
There's one i used to use at my old work, i cant remember what it was called. but it uses a PHP interface to a mySQL database, very nifty little bit of business that one. But a good starting point i can recomment is Sourceforge. Have a hunt about, you'd be amazed at what's there.
.hlp file for windows, and has links to external documents (i.e. .doc .xls and .vis), it's saved my ass many a time, and it's very useful too. That may be a bit extreme, but it keeps the information sorted.
A big hint is organisation, the other guys are right, there has to be a intemediary between the "developers" that seem to know what the hell is happening, and the help(less) desk that you are running. At my current job we have a huge inventory of customised information on our clients as a
When i worked in the Australian Govt in the IT sector, one of the lead admin's had a silvery lump on his desk he used as a paperweight.
When asked about it, he told me that it used to be the hard disk in the laptop of one of the heads of the Dept of Foreign Affairs, and security policy for the computer hardware of someone of that rank meant that the dead hard disk was required to be melted.
Man, i salute you....
I wish i was there, honestly. feels a bit shyte living there 16 yrs and then knowing it's burning so close to your family home when you are 300km away (Sydney).
about 2 isp's ago (as a user) i had run into some arrogant little bastard on irc (as typical, undernet) that didn't like me or my friends cause we refused to give him oper status. He DOS'sed my ISP with a pingflood, and the same with a friend, all in retaliation to being banned.
He took out the entire ISP for the better part fo 2-3 hours. Once the attack stopped, I reported it to any and all ISP's along the path, Worldcom, Optus, my ISP.
Funny enough, my isp and Optus were unhelpful, but amazingly Worldcom (the provider of the service to DOSboy) replied back to me a week later & informed me that some $cr!p+ |!DD!3 had used a rootkit and taken over someones solaris boxern on a multi meg link.
It took a freaking age, but i do believe they nailed the little fucker.
So tighten that security, the less opportunity these little assholes have to do this, the freaking better.
Ah i've got an old ISA ET4000 video card thats just sitting here. reply to this and maybe i can figure a way out of getting this card to ya.
.au b.t.w. :-)
im in
Hmm, and reading this subject i saw "More proof this guy is a Mormon...."
Man is it time for bed already?
once again commercialism (excuse the pun) wins out over public safety.
damn you, i had a go at 1st post :P, stupid mofo made me wait 20 seconds. now time to read the article
"Also sin isn't even for x86"
Freudian slip?
Here at work we use Office XP & windows 2000.
The biggest shit off i can find with office 2k, both outlook and word is the stupid stupid stupid insistance by these fsckin programs to *INSIST* that they know better than you in regards to capitalising the first letter of a new line. you can disable this, but at that point you loose just about every other funky auto-spellcheck ability that office has
My old Trio32 (yes, the old 32 bit S3 card) had sockets to allow you to upgrade from 1mb of video mem to 2 meg of video mem by adding in 2x 512kb chips. I did it simply so i could use 16bit colours at 1024x768. ;-)
I had a Muse 3D which had optical out & 4 channels. very tasty bit of hardware. Too bad i nuked it when i upgraded my motherboard.
To be honest, if your floppy drivers aren't working, then really it wouldnt be a issue, as logically its all on the boot floppy. and the borked drivers are on your hdd.
Then again, if your floppy drive is borked, or the controller chip is, its a whole different enchalada.
Where is George Lucas gonna find a droid factory on Earth, or the giant (unearthly) rock formations on Tatooine or Geonosis, or the countless megaskyscrapers of Coruscant?
He coulda gotten into cahoots with the Redmond giant, or worked some magic with Scott Sullivan,
They both seem good at making the impossible possible.
Damn, doesn't anyone use "pkzip204.exe" anymore?
But then again, i've got it on cd someplace, but havent used it for at least three years.
Haha, that's very true, i can say yes to all of those too.
But heres the BIG question. Have you tried resolving a fault using remote access,
and be on the phone to the tape jockeys, and have your girlfriend silently give you a
lapdance at the same time? I HAVE
Same, Sysadminning for 2.5 yrs, got a job at a telco doing phone jockey stuff after being laid off in the .bomb, i'd like to get back in. im gonna wait to the end of the yr after being here a yr, then go overseas methinks :).
in regards to callouts? i've had 20 calls or so when i was at the sysadmin job, but only TWO were for hardware faults that couldn't be fixed remotely. (psu on a dell decided to go to a better place & swapping a tape on a backup of our 180gig server cause we couldn't trust our tape jockeys).
Incidentally i haven't gone to uni, i don't regret my descision, btu i've got skills i know i need to brush up on to keep that magical "valuable" tag on my neck.
I don't believe that they are morally obligated to keep hardware prices up by NOT integrating their fiction into software. They are, after all, a software company
Good on ya guys, slashdotted already!!!
Considering the majority of the crowd in here are in Europe or America, its 11:38pm Friday 7:38am Saturday.
which leads me to my question, WTF are you guys doing at home on a friday night?!?!?!?!?!?!
i mean, aside from the whole DMCA can of worms, it may help hackers, but if its "secure" in the first place after these changes are put in place. My understanding is that if the attackers know what the changes are, it ought to be irreivant, as they ought not to be able to gain access. This is more like another "security through obscurity" trick, than anything.
Well i've got steps 1 & 2 figured out, now the hardest step of all. #3.
considering i just made it on the company to-be-made-redundant-at-the-end-of-this-week list, thats gonna be fun!!
Sydney Morning Herald online www.smh.com.au had plenty of images of the wtc, including the accident itself, the rescue effort, international reactions, etc..
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http://www.smh.com.au/news/0109/28/world/index.ht
these images REALLY bring out the feeling of the whole event.
b.t.w. the photos are in the far right column.
slightly offtopic, but about a fortnight ago I had a PSU decide to detonate after being a bit twitchy. it was very frustrating. now im wonder/worrying about the extent that things got nuked.
I read that washington post artice, and i find that a truely arrogant and closeminded opinion. Not that i am fantastic at remembering this stuff, or highly religeous, but didnt it get said somewhere (i dont know where), but god loved all his children.
Sure there was the town that he blasted into oblivion by destroying it with flames from the heaven or whatever (he turned that woman into a pillar of salt in that bit), but that was a 'old testament', and religeous groups lead by people being scared shitless of being toasted for anything they did wrong.
Anyway, im rambling a bit, but my point is, how on earth could you blame the 'pro choice' and the gays, lesbians, or whoever for this, they are people trying to live a good life, sure its not one that some may approve of, but who cares, its their life, and for the vast majority, they are trying to live a GOOD life.
It's the people that have the arrogance and want to change others opinions, or use their views as a excuse to start something that help cause all this shit anyway. Any 'normal' terrorist, if there is such a thing, causes distruction to bring attention to their cause, if life must be lost, then so be it, but they would do the minimum needed to do so, maybe bomb somewhere, take out a few people, not the utter distruction and total blatant disregard for human life that the people that did this showed. This was brought about by people showing arrogance and a closed mind to everything else outside their view. and they fucked up a whole heap of innocent people in the process.
*note* i am not implying i support terorism, im just quoting from a article i read recently behind the tactics shown in this act.