I've seen the counterfeit hardware first hand. Modules for 2600 and 3600 series routers, mostly. That was a few years ago. It was cheap, and nobody at the *cisco partnered CCIE training company* which I will not mention cared. They worked, thats all that mattered.
Its like spam. If people continue to buy from spam adverts, we'll continue to see more spam. If people quit buying, the spammers will eventually move to something else.
Was about 5 or 6 years ago. I put it in the floppy drive of a horribly annoying coworker and made sure it was set to boot from the 3.5" first. I was getting payback for some crap he had pulled on me. After an hour of him cussing and not being able to figure out why his computer wouldn't boot, I walked up, ejected the disk, and walked away. Damn, that was satisfying.
Revenge is a dish best served cold, and with a side of twisted satisfaction.
If you're not sure how to do this, I suggest renting and watching "Firewall" with Harrison Ford. You just need an iPod and a fax machine to tear into. There's a full tutorial in the movie. Works like a charm every time! Oh, and you'll need some tape.
MSSE or any other antivirus should be complimented by Malwarebytes.org Anti-malware program. For $25 (not per year, its a one time fee) it will run in the background and keep malware from getting into the PC. Its an excellent product.
Virus = common cold Antivirus = daily vitamins
Malware = 9mm FMJ to the gut malwarebytes registered = Bullet proof vest
I beg to differ. I have used ninite on both my own and my customers computers for a few months now. It is very good, keeps the useless "yes I want to add the Yahoo! Toolbar (tm) to my browser!" unchecked (and not installed) and will do it all without a complaint. When I built my new Windows 7 box I used it to install everything from MSSE as discussed to OpenOffice, Gimp, and various others. My high speed isn't that fast, so I came back about half an hour later and it did about 25 software installs. Did I mention that I just checked the boxes, ran the downloaded installer, and walked away? Oh, I guess I just did.
Don't knock what you haven't tried. And to reply to mprinkey: Yes, you can download the installer and use it on multiple computers. I have a couple of them on my USB flash drive that I use daily in my work, which is, getting rid of viruses that everything else misses.
Additionally, MSSE has proven to be an excellent AV software. Not only does it work very well, but I've installed it on Pentium 4 2.4's with 512mb ram after uninstalling [norton,mcafee,avg,avast,nod32,eset et al] and the machine is *always* faster with MSSE. Remember, they know Windows API's better than anybody (including those that are undocumented) and even though I love linux (I type this from my ubuntu machine) I have to say that Microsoft knows how to make Microsoft software work with Microsoft OS's.
If you don't believe me, look at the installation file size of MSSE for XP vs AVG 9.0 Free for XP. Lastly, I've seen MSSE install in under 20 seconds on many computers and be done with its first big update in just a couple of more minutes. AVG takes longer than that just to install, then half the time you have to reboot the system.
MSSE FTW.
PS- look at mprinkey's uid. 1434. I think you can trust him. He's been around a while. Wouldn't surprise me if he introduced/. to cmdrtaco.
Apple producing another generation of their overpriced gadgets that soccer moms and execs alike *MUST HAVE* for christmas, right before christmas, making older generations obsolete and the last version passé, right before christmas?
Will this one come with an ear wax proof screen that you won't have to clean after every skin oil soaking usage? Will it alert the authorities if you try to break out of jail?
I worked at a small web hosting firm for 9 years. I started out doing part time tech support. When I had been there 9 years, 2 new owners later, and my colleagues had been fired, and I was the only guy handling 150 web/dns/db/mail servers, and the bulk of tech support, being on call 24/7/365 for 2+ years, and dealing with rude customers I had enough. I hung in there for a while though, but then the new jackass owners messed with my pay and started micromanaging me. *THAT* was the last straw.
I now work as a mobile computer tech helping grandmas and business owners who don't know anything about computers. Guess what? I'm on the road all the time, seeing the world from a windshield instead of a webcam. People are happy to see me (I'm fixing their broken bookmarks, and their printer/scanner/fax, they need me!) and I rarely am the same place twice in a week.
How did I handle the change? Well, I admit, I was forced into it a bit. I quit the server admin job rather abruptly and hadn't planned things out. The mobile tech job was a compromise between getting to work in the field I love and making enough money to pay rent.
I had to move to a much, much smaller home. I went from a 3bdr 2ba condo with a 2 car garage to a 3bdr 2ba apartment with no storage at all. I had to find a new home for my dog. I had to get rid of 2/3 of my belongings. I had to downsize and simplify in ways I never imagined.
The result? I have far more free time to do things that are more important to me than working. I am able to work on my own personality instead of web servers. I actually started writing (fiction) again. I even *gasp* learned to cross stitch (its fun, like making a picture one pixel at a time.)
I went from making $55k/yr to $30k/yr, and it has not been easy. But, its been worth it.
In forwarding a trouble ticket to another department, and being fairly new at a tech company, I made a note for whoever picked up the ticket.
It read "Can somebody in sales either take this, or show me how to do it? I have NO idea what the customer is asking."
For this, I got put on 30 days probation (I was only there 4 months at this point). My manager said that the owner reported that I had yelled at other employees over email. 30 days later I was gone after being shuffled around, having my job changed 3 times in one week, and getting effectively written up for being late. "Oh, we didn't tell you your schedule changed? Your schedule changed. Ta da!"
I'm assuming this is either an 8088 or 8086 chip. Many people learned embedded programming on these chips, and there are probably millions of them in use in embedded systems around the world.
This sounds like a great opportunity to program your own embedded OS for the machine. Get a PROM burner and your favorite compatible compiler and have some fun! You're a programmer, and you cut your teeth on this PC. Learn another aspect of programming with it.
Do absolutely nothing to it. Leave it as-is. When you accidentally swim with your celphone, drop it in the toilet, leave it at the mall, or otherwise obliterate it, you'll need a land line.
Are you comfortable giving your SSN and credit card number out over a celphone? I'm not. When you need to call 911 do you want to take the time to give the address? I don't. If you need to get DSL when your cable/wireless/satellite whatever fails, do you want to have to undo everything you did? I wouldn't.
There IS such a thing as leaving well enough alone. Messing with things that don't need to be messed with don't make you a "hacker geek" or a "tinkerer" but rather they turn you into "That guy I know" who wastes time trying to make something amazing out of a couple of hundred feet of copper wire that an electrician wired in 30 years ago.
Slashdot just lost a reader for life. I don't need this kind of garbage when I go to a place for TECH NEWS. The editor who posted this should be fired!
I don't know if I trust what you say. I mean, half the time I look at a topic I see "tripmaster monkey" has first post. Looks like 70% of your time is spent on Slashdot!
It seems to me that you'd need to build a VERY directional antenna, and then you could triangulate the position fairly easily, and it could get you in the right area. Hopefully on the right floor;)
You want to use the frontpage extensions, OUTSIDE OF FRONTPAGE? Tell you what, go get a.22, and shoot yourself in the foot. It'll be more productive.
I have the unfortunate "pleasure" of supporting the Frontpage extensions on about 40 production web hosting servers. They are *horrible*. I mean *HORRIBLE*. When they work, they work fine, but then they quit working, it sometimes takes wiping out a clients site, reinstalling the extensions, and then having them re-publish from *scratch*. Oh yeah, great stuff there.
Do yourself a favor and use a few PHP or Perl scripts do do what you need to do. There's nothing in Frontpage that can't be done in PHP or Perl. Its NOT that great. Heck I've done prettier, more functional sites using shtml and php.
Just reading this post makes me feel like I'm watching a bad horror movie and the main character is about to enter the room where the axe murderer is waiting, and everybody in the audience KNOWS there's an axe murderer. "DONT GO IN THERE!" somebody shouts.
Remember, Friends don't let friends use Frontpage.
Yep. We use a model E4 (http://www.sensatronics.com/products_temperaturem onitor.php) and it works really well. One of the admins here wrote a program so we could monitor it via MRTG, and also set boundaries so it'll page us if it goes out of bounds. Works very well, we've never even had to reboot the little thing. Not expensive, either.
Yep. I don't have cable. Nor do I want it. But if something big happens, I want to see it on TV for sure. If there's a good show going to be on, well, I want to see it. But wait. I haven't watched broadcast television in over 2 months. We use our playstation 2 for entertainment, and listen to the radio and use the internet for news. So, As one of the 12%, I guess I DONT care if it goes away. It serves no purpose that can't be picked up by a good AM News Radio station.
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I've seen the counterfeit hardware first hand. Modules for 2600 and 3600 series routers, mostly. That was a few years ago. It was cheap, and nobody at the *cisco partnered CCIE training company* which I will not mention cared. They worked, thats all that mattered.
Its like spam. If people continue to buy from spam adverts, we'll continue to see more spam. If people quit buying, the spammers will eventually move to something else.
They keep selling because it keeps on working.
Was about 5 or 6 years ago. I put it in the floppy drive of a horribly annoying coworker and made sure it was set to boot from the 3.5" first. I was getting payback for some crap he had pulled on me. After an hour of him cussing and not being able to figure out why his computer wouldn't boot, I walked up, ejected the disk, and walked away. Damn, that was satisfying.
Revenge is a dish best served cold, and with a side of twisted satisfaction.
Can you imagine a *Beowulf cluster* of these things!? Think about the possibilities!
Gosh, you are right! I knew I was missing something.
g=c800:5
Its been probably 1991 or 1992 for me.
c:\>debug
g=c:800
"Those were the daaaaaaays"
If you're not sure how to do this, I suggest renting and watching "Firewall" with Harrison Ford. You just need an iPod and a fax machine to tear into. There's a full tutorial in the movie. Works like a charm every time! Oh, and you'll need some tape.
MSSE or any other antivirus should be complimented by Malwarebytes.org Anti-malware program. For $25 (not per year, its a one time fee) it will run in the background and keep malware from getting into the PC. Its an excellent product.
Virus = common cold
Antivirus = daily vitamins
Malware = 9mm FMJ to the gut
malwarebytes registered = Bullet proof vest
I beg to differ. I have used ninite on both my own and my customers computers for a few months now. It is very good, keeps the useless "yes I want to add the Yahoo! Toolbar (tm) to my browser!" unchecked (and not installed) and will do it all without a complaint. When I built my new Windows 7 box I used it to install everything from MSSE as discussed to OpenOffice, Gimp, and various others. My high speed isn't that fast, so I came back about half an hour later and it did about 25 software installs. Did I mention that I just checked the boxes, ran the downloaded installer, and walked away? Oh, I guess I just did.
Don't knock what you haven't tried. And to reply to mprinkey: Yes, you can download the installer and use it on multiple computers. I have a couple of them on my USB flash drive that I use daily in my work, which is, getting rid of viruses that everything else misses.
Additionally, MSSE has proven to be an excellent AV software. Not only does it work very well, but I've installed it on Pentium 4 2.4's with 512mb ram after uninstalling [norton,mcafee,avg,avast,nod32,eset et al] and the machine is *always* faster with MSSE. Remember, they know Windows API's better than anybody (including those that are undocumented) and even though I love linux (I type this from my ubuntu machine) I have to say that Microsoft knows how to make Microsoft software work with Microsoft OS's.
If you don't believe me, look at the installation file size of MSSE for XP vs AVG 9.0 Free for XP. Lastly, I've seen MSSE install in under 20 seconds on many computers and be done with its first big update in just a couple of more minutes. AVG takes longer than that just to install, then half the time you have to reboot the system.
MSSE FTW.
PS- look at mprinkey's uid. 1434. I think you can trust him. He's been around a while. Wouldn't surprise me if he introduced /. to cmdrtaco.
Apple producing another generation of their overpriced gadgets that soccer moms and execs alike *MUST HAVE* for christmas, right before christmas, making older generations obsolete and the last version passé, right before christmas?
Will this one come with an ear wax proof screen that you won't have to clean after every skin oil soaking usage? Will it alert the authorities if you try to break out of jail?
I worked at a small web hosting firm for 9 years. I started out doing part time tech support. When I had been there 9 years, 2 new owners later, and my colleagues had been fired, and I was the only guy handling 150 web/dns/db/mail servers, and the bulk of tech support, being on call 24/7/365 for 2+ years, and dealing with rude customers I had enough. I hung in there for a while though, but then the new jackass owners messed with my pay and started micromanaging me. *THAT* was the last straw.
I now work as a mobile computer tech helping grandmas and business owners who don't know anything about computers. Guess what? I'm on the road all the time, seeing the world from a windshield instead of a webcam. People are happy to see me (I'm fixing their broken bookmarks, and their printer/scanner/fax, they need me!) and I rarely am the same place twice in a week.
How did I handle the change? Well, I admit, I was forced into it a bit. I quit the server admin job rather abruptly and hadn't planned things out. The mobile tech job was a compromise between getting to work in the field I love and making enough money to pay rent.
I had to move to a much, much smaller home. I went from a 3bdr 2ba condo with a 2 car garage to a 3bdr 2ba apartment with no storage at all. I had to find a new home for my dog. I had to get rid of 2/3 of my belongings. I had to downsize and simplify in ways I never imagined.
The result? I have far more free time to do things that are more important to me than working. I am able to work on my own personality instead of web servers. I actually started writing (fiction) again. I even *gasp* learned to cross stitch (its fun, like making a picture one pixel at a time.)
I went from making $55k/yr to $30k/yr, and it has not been easy. But, its been worth it.
YMMV, standard disclaimers apply.
That's just preposterous! I can tell you for sure that over 5 trillion servers run sharepoint, and not one of them has ever crashed.
In forwarding a trouble ticket to another department, and being fairly new at a tech company, I made a note for whoever picked up the ticket.
It read "Can somebody in sales either take this, or show me how to do it? I have NO idea what the customer is asking."
For this, I got put on 30 days probation (I was only there 4 months at this point). My manager said that the owner reported that I had yelled at other employees over email. 30 days later I was gone after being shuffled around, having my job changed 3 times in one week, and getting effectively written up for being late. "Oh, we didn't tell you your schedule changed? Your schedule changed. Ta da!"
That would be even better. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEC_V20 it looks like a good chip to learn on!
Linux requires a 386 or greater for the kernel. Back to square one.
I'm assuming this is either an 8088 or 8086 chip. Many people learned embedded programming on these chips, and there are probably millions of them in use in embedded systems around the world.
This sounds like a great opportunity to program your own embedded OS for the machine. Get a PROM burner and your favorite compatible compiler and have some fun! You're a programmer, and you cut your teeth on this PC. Learn another aspect of programming with it.
I'll bet THAT isn't in the autopsy report.
Do absolutely nothing to it. Leave it as-is. When you accidentally swim with your celphone, drop it in the toilet, leave it at the mall, or otherwise obliterate it, you'll need a land line.
Are you comfortable giving your SSN and credit card number out over a celphone? I'm not.
When you need to call 911 do you want to take the time to give the address? I don't.
If you need to get DSL when your cable/wireless/satellite whatever fails, do you want to have to undo everything you did? I wouldn't.
There IS such a thing as leaving well enough alone. Messing with things that don't need to be messed with don't make you a "hacker geek" or a "tinkerer" but rather they turn you into "That guy I know" who wastes time trying to make something amazing out of a couple of hundred feet of copper wire that an electrician wired in 30 years ago.
Yes. You WILL be "That Guy"
Slashdot just lost a reader for life. I don't need this kind of garbage when I go to a place for TECH NEWS. The editor who posted this should be fired!
Does it run Li... oh...wait... it IS linux. Gotcha.
I don't know if I trust what you say. I mean, half the time I look at a topic I see "tripmaster monkey" has first post. Looks like 70% of your time is spent on Slashdot!
Ah yes, I remember those days. Run debug and type
g=c800:5
or something really glose to that. Those were the days! I was doing great getting 65MB out of my 40MB drive too.
It seems to me that you'd need to build a VERY directional antenna, and then you could triangulate the position fairly easily, and it could get you in the right area. Hopefully on the right floor ;)
You want to use the frontpage extensions, OUTSIDE OF FRONTPAGE? Tell you what, go get a .22, and shoot yourself in the foot. It'll be more productive.
I have the unfortunate "pleasure" of supporting the Frontpage extensions on about 40 production web hosting servers. They are *horrible*. I mean *HORRIBLE*. When they work, they work fine, but then they quit working, it sometimes takes wiping out a clients site, reinstalling the extensions, and then having them re-publish from *scratch*. Oh yeah, great stuff there.
Do yourself a favor and use a few PHP or Perl scripts do do what you need to do. There's nothing in Frontpage that can't be done in PHP or Perl. Its NOT that great. Heck I've done prettier, more functional sites using shtml and php.
Just reading this post makes me feel like I'm watching a bad horror movie and the main character is about to enter the room where the axe murderer is waiting, and everybody in the audience KNOWS there's an axe murderer. "DONT GO IN THERE!" somebody shouts.
Remember, Friends don't let friends use Frontpage.
Yep. We use a model E4 (http://www.sensatronics.com/products_temperaturem onitor.php) and it works really well. One of the admins here wrote a program so we could monitor it via MRTG, and also set boundaries so it'll page us if it goes out of bounds. Works very well, we've never even had to reboot the little thing. Not expensive, either.
Yep. I don't have cable. Nor do I want it. But if something big happens, I want to see it on TV for sure. If there's a good show going to be on, well, I want to see it. But wait. I haven't watched broadcast television in over 2 months. We use our playstation 2 for entertainment, and listen to the radio and use the internet for news. So, As one of the 12%, I guess I DONT care if it goes away. It serves no purpose that can't be picked up by a good AM News Radio station.