I do consulting and had a hole in my schedule. A local realty company called and said a machine was being attacked with pop ups after the girl tried to install a free screen saver program. I've been to this site only twice before in the last 3 years and I remember them rushing me out after 1 hr. They wanted the minimum and wanted me out. I see it right away, this machine is infested so bad with spyware that it really needs to be formatted and reinstalled.
I know they won't want to pay for the time to back it up, setup the os, programs, etc, and restore the data and get everything working the way the user was familiar with. So I ran all the latest tools and after a reboot, it was done. It would lock up prior to the login screen but after the gui had been initialized.
It was 5pm and the end of the day, so I took it back to my shop with already an 1hr and half in just from running Adaware, spybot, and the MS Antispyware. Regardless of what I do from here, they are still expected to pay me by the hour.
I tell them about reinstalling and it's definetaly out of the picture. So I run a repair and get it back up. I run all the tools again, throwing in a couple more for safe measure. After the repair, a lot of programs are missing from the registry and need to be reinstalled. They have most of the cd's back at their office.
So I deliver it. No user, no manager, just an owner who has no idea what's going on. I get it up and running and go to him to collect a check.
His first comment was, "So you charge $75 an hour?"
I didn't like his tone, so I corrected him, "No, it's $79 an hour."
He then says, "Isn't PC Tech work like $10 to $20 an hour?" And he says it like a complete a$$h0le. I mean, I wanted to hit him.
So I replied, "No, I make more than that an hour" with an attitude.
He replys with "If I'd have known it would cost this much to repair a computer, I'd just call Dell and get another one for a nickel."
I just shrugged at him and asked him for a check again.
I could care less if this prick ever calls my work to schedule another appointment. His total bill came out to around $200. Here's a guy that's selling million dollar homes and walking off with a commission and gives me crap about a $200 computer repair bill.
I've got other customers that are more than willing to pay me upwards of $99 an hour without any crap. I told my scheduler not to bother sending me out there again.
On Tuesday/Wednesday I retired a NT4 Server and installed a handfull of new workstations. Total bill with parts and labor was like $15,000 and they were offering to buy me lunch etc. I don't demand respect, but I do expect to be treated like a human being.
What a great place to work. It's been 2.5 years since I was laid off and I still miss working there.
When Akamai streams video and audio, they actually transmit it 3 times and at the local server of the user, the packets are reassembled on a first come basis and transmitted to the user.
Websites requested in local areas get cached locally, no matter where you are in the world. They mostly have linux boxes with a few wintels.
Akamai definetly hires top notch people and knows how to take care of them. Morale was always high (until the layoffs haha). If I had the chance to work for them again, I'd sell my house and move to where ever they needed me.
Fact is, when you are the strongest country in the world, people are going to take ignorant pop shots at you.
None of you other sissy countries stand up for what's right, except the UK.
My job was in transportation of passengers and cargo. I've been to every major base, loaded every type of aircraft, and have not seen or heard of anything as stupid as this story while in the Air Force.
I sure don't! BTW: Have you seen the latest Starwars Trailer on the apple.com website? OH WAIT! You have to BUY QT Pro to view it! All the hype and you have to pay! I just downloaded it off Kazaa.
How about the QTTASK listed in your processes? I couldn't find any way to disable it within the program. Had to remove it from the registry.
F*** QT.
I downloaded Kazaa during this whole fiasco. It feels the same as Morpheus, but doesn't seem to run as well. Searches take FOREVER and the results were pathetic. All this while it was reporting on average of 200k more users being connected to the network. I launched it 3 times and not once was I happy with it. Morpheus just seemed more polished than the Kazaa client.
As for everyone crying about the pop up ads, stop crying because I have the solution!
Simply load up IE, goto TOOLS -> INTERNET OPTIONS -> SECURITY -> RESTRICTED SITES and add http://ads.musiccity.com as a restricted site. You will no longer see ads or get pop ups in Morpheus.
I'm not sure if I want to try the latest incarnation of Morpheus, it doesn't sound very appealing. I guess it's time to uninstall Morpheus and Kazaa and give WinMX or Audio Galaxy another shot:(
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I do consulting and had a hole in my schedule. A local realty company called and said a machine was being attacked with pop ups after the girl tried to install a free screen saver program. I've been to this site only twice before in the last 3 years and I remember them rushing me out after 1 hr. They wanted the minimum and wanted me out. I see it right away, this machine is infested so bad with spyware that it really needs to be formatted and reinstalled.
I know they won't want to pay for the time to back it up, setup the os, programs, etc, and restore the data and get everything working the way the user was familiar with. So I ran all the latest tools and after a reboot, it was done. It would lock up prior to the login screen but after the gui had been initialized.
It was 5pm and the end of the day, so I took it back to my shop with already an 1hr and half in just from running Adaware, spybot, and the MS Antispyware. Regardless of what I do from here, they are still expected to pay me by the hour.
I tell them about reinstalling and it's definetaly out of the picture. So I run a repair and get it back up. I run all the tools again, throwing in a couple more for safe measure. After the repair, a lot of programs are missing from the registry and need to be reinstalled. They have most of the cd's back at their office.
So I deliver it. No user, no manager, just an owner who has no idea what's going on. I get it up and running and go to him to collect a check.
His first comment was, "So you charge $75 an hour?"
I didn't like his tone, so I corrected him, "No, it's $79 an hour."
He then says, "Isn't PC Tech work like $10 to $20 an hour?" And he says it like a complete a$$h0le. I mean, I wanted to hit him.
So I replied, "No, I make more than that an hour" with an attitude.
He replys with "If I'd have known it would cost this much to repair a computer, I'd just call Dell and get another one for a nickel."
I just shrugged at him and asked him for a check again.
I could care less if this prick ever calls my work to schedule another appointment. His total bill came out to around $200. Here's a guy that's selling million dollar homes and walking off with a commission and gives me crap about a $200 computer repair bill.
I've got other customers that are more than willing to pay me upwards of $99 an hour without any crap. I told my scheduler not to bother sending me out there again.
On Tuesday/Wednesday I retired a NT4 Server and installed a handfull of new workstations. Total bill with parts and labor was like $15,000 and they were offering to buy me lunch etc. I don't demand respect, but I do expect to be treated like a human being.
What a great place to work. It's been 2.5 years since I was laid off and I still miss working there. When Akamai streams video and audio, they actually transmit it 3 times and at the local server of the user, the packets are reassembled on a first come basis and transmitted to the user. Websites requested in local areas get cached locally, no matter where you are in the world. They mostly have linux boxes with a few wintels. Akamai definetly hires top notch people and knows how to take care of them. Morale was always high (until the layoffs haha). If I had the chance to work for them again, I'd sell my house and move to where ever they needed me.
www.shareaza.com connects to multiple networks at one time and is a bitorrent client.
Takes a little longer to get music files, but for larger downloads, it's worked faster than kazaa.
Fact is, when you are the strongest country in the world, people are going to take ignorant pop shots at you. None of you other sissy countries stand up for what's right, except the UK.
Their benchmarks are already flawed. If you watched the launch, they said it SEVERAL times, RAM is running at 1ghz.
Here's the link, it's a 1.5 hr video with slides, but was worth EVERY minute. Some NICE examples of how powerful the card is.
Click Here to see presentation
Now you've done it. /. is next. Better delete the thread.
My job was in transportation of passengers and cargo. I've been to every major base, loaded every type of aircraft, and have not seen or heard of anything as stupid as this story while in the Air Force.
If the game is optimized for a video card made by ATI, I definetaly won't be buying it.
Lifetime warranty on the Micron memory. Best ram I've ever purchased.
How much is a Firewire Camcorder? Sure wasn't free.
I sure don't! BTW: Have you seen the latest Starwars Trailer on the apple.com website? OH WAIT! You have to BUY QT Pro to view it! All the hype and you have to pay! I just downloaded it off Kazaa. How about the QTTASK listed in your processes? I couldn't find any way to disable it within the program. Had to remove it from the registry. F*** QT.
I downloaded Kazaa during this whole fiasco. It feels the same as Morpheus, but doesn't seem to run as well. Searches take FOREVER and the results were pathetic. All this while it was reporting on average of 200k more users being connected to the network. I launched it 3 times and not once was I happy with it. Morpheus just seemed more polished than the Kazaa client.
:(
As for everyone crying about the pop up ads, stop crying because I have the solution!
Simply load up IE, goto TOOLS -> INTERNET OPTIONS -> SECURITY -> RESTRICTED SITES and add http://ads.musiccity.com as a restricted site. You will no longer see ads or get pop ups in Morpheus.
I'm not sure if I want to try the latest incarnation of Morpheus, it doesn't sound very appealing. I guess it's time to uninstall Morpheus and Kazaa and give WinMX or Audio Galaxy another shot