that's not the point. *you* are earthed. any stray high voltage you touch inside the case (which is not likely, but *is* possible, whether it's due to a fault or not) will flow across you to earth. bang. it's not a shock hazard from the case, it's a shock hazard from a stray live that earths through you and/or the case.
so carry on, it's darwinism in action.
if you have a faulty PSU, where, say, the live rail shorts to the case, and you're touching that case, you're in for a world of pain. it's not common, but it does happen and i prefer not to trust my health to some cheapo taiwanese PSU made by convicts. cheers.
you fail it for this one, i'm afraid.
LCDs have a tighter range of refresh rates they'll deal with. i discovered this when I used to build nforce2-based systems. during install of the graphics driver, they default to a refresh rate my philips 150P can't display. during original boot, they default to a refresh rate my crappy test monitor can't display. result? every build, I had to swap the monitor post driver install! it took me some time to work out the black screen post install wasn't actually a driver fault...
moral? if you go LCD, get one that supports as wide a range of refresh rates/resolutions as possible as otherwise you'll be lugging the CRT in regularly.
for antistatic, get a benchtop grounding mat and permanently ground the whole shebang. it's cheap to do and *will* eventually save an expensive mishap.
"I hate starting on a case that's covered in tar because their owner smokes. That's bare min an additional $25 fee if I have to wipe the computer down to work on it."
Amen. What I do these days is clean a stripe of crap off the case, leaving a clean patch to show just how fricking dirty his box was when i worked on it...
very smart. kills the static, also may kill you if you touch a hot rail in the PSU, or the PSU's faulty and shorting to ground. an ESD will ground you, but more importantly it WON'T PUT YOU IN THE GROUND if you get mains voltage between you and the earth due to the high resistance in the ESD lead.
when i used to to this for a living i used a ground strap when working on laptops. prior to that, maybe 1 in 15 i opened had some possible ESD damage. afterwards, none. it certainly doesn't happen everytime but sod's law says when you don't do it, if you work with enough sensitive components, something will die/degrade when you're working on it due to ESD.
back to your parent's basement, child.
the whole point is lifecycle management. why would we put ourselves through the pain of two platform changes (2000->XP, XP->longhorn) when 2000's on support until longhorn emerges.
you should be asking "why move to XP? what does that offer that's significantly different from 2000?"
you cannot stay on an unsupported platform, hence lifecycle management.
researching, designing and implementing (smoothly, including migrating your data to your new environment with no impact to the business) a change to a new operating system *always* takes a long time. here, we're not moving to XP from 2000 as it's not worth it: we're moving to longhorn as and when it emerges. it'd take just as much planning (probably more, in fact) to shift to linux. think upgrade cycles. think win2k going off support as a driver to change. 5 years doesn't seem all that long to me...
We had a year of 99.9% average uptime (8.5 hrs down per year per server) while migrating servers from Windows 2000 to Windows 2003... Hell, we even moved branch offices and their servers to new locations and still got numbers that high. This was done without one bit of redundancy"
How? Did you use the world's longest patch and power cables?
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" I have alot of friends struggling with properly secureing their pirated version of XP."
Why? Because they're too fucking stupid to realise that whilst Windows update won't let them in with a pirate key, that the individual patches are still available for them to download and apply?
"If you've seen that recently, it won't last. Disney did it on the initial print runs of Tarzan and got so many complaints that they vowed never to do it again. That pretty much set the precedent for "make sure they can skip the ads". Now sometimes you'll get a DVD for free (like when Pizza Hut was offering movies with a pizza) and you can't always skip the commercials on those (depends on the player I found). In that case you get what you pay for."
Crap. Certainly in the UK just about every one of my commercial DVDs have these restrictions. Kids want to watch their cartoons? No chance until you sit through 10 minutes of ads for other DVDs - this is a long time for a small child.
Solution? Don't buy them, or rip and burn them with DVDshrink and remove the access restrictions.
no, you misread me. someone steals a card *and then physically goes into the bank and withdraws the money* by forging a signature: this way they don't have a limit, and don't have to find out the PIN.
speaking as someone who's SO has just lost 4,000 UKP through a compromised work PC via a keylogger and natwest online banking, you're not as safe as you think you are.
the latest PW_Glieder trojans will keylog and report back over a period of time: if you access your online banking a few times and are asked for characters X and Y from your password, chances are quite high that after a few logged sessions, the hacker will have enough info to build your complete password.
this is very common indeed: current SOP is for them to move your money to another account at the same bank to which they've already stolen a matching debit card. move cash, then confederate will go into a branch and withdraw the money in cash and vanish...
look at the 2000 min requirements. 64mb ram, and around a p120. it'll run on this but be slow as hell. up it to 256MB of ram and it'll be quite usable.
xp, similarly, will run just fine on a 266MHz machine if you up the ram to 192/256MB. turn off the eye candy and it'll do web/office etc perfectly well. a PIII 700MHz laptop? XP runs ok? no shit...
you don't need more than around 2.5-3GB to get 2000 or XP to run. you won't have a lot of space free, but it works fine.
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not to mention plug it into a phone line. kind of a clue, don't you think?
that's not the point. *you* are earthed. any stray high voltage you touch inside the case (which is not likely, but *is* possible, whether it's due to a fault or not) will flow across you to earth. bang. it's not a shock hazard from the case, it's a shock hazard from a stray live that earths through you and/or the case.
so carry on, it's darwinism in action. if you have a faulty PSU, where, say, the live rail shorts to the case, and you're touching that case, you're in for a world of pain. it's not common, but it does happen and i prefer not to trust my health to some cheapo taiwanese PSU made by convicts. cheers.
you fail it for this one, i'm afraid.
if you ever run out, i can help you out restocking...
LCDs have a tighter range of refresh rates they'll deal with. i discovered this when I used to build nforce2-based systems. during install of the graphics driver, they default to a refresh rate my philips 150P can't display. during original boot, they default to a refresh rate my crappy test monitor can't display. result? every build, I had to swap the monitor post driver install! it took me some time to work out the black screen post install wasn't actually a driver fault...
moral? if you go LCD, get one that supports as wide a range of refresh rates/resolutions as possible as otherwise you'll be lugging the CRT in regularly. for antistatic, get a benchtop grounding mat and permanently ground the whole shebang. it's cheap to do and *will* eventually save an expensive mishap.
"I hate starting on a case that's covered in tar because their owner smokes. That's bare min an additional $25 fee if I have to wipe the computer down to work on it."
Amen. What I do these days is clean a stripe of crap off the case, leaving a clean patch to show just how fricking dirty his box was when i worked on it...
very smart. kills the static, also may kill you if you touch a hot rail in the PSU, or the PSU's faulty and shorting to ground. an ESD will ground you, but more importantly it WON'T PUT YOU IN THE GROUND if you get mains voltage between you and the earth due to the high resistance in the ESD lead.
when i used to to this for a living i used a ground strap when working on laptops. prior to that, maybe 1 in 15 i opened had some possible ESD damage. afterwards, none. it certainly doesn't happen everytime but sod's law says when you don't do it, if you work with enough sensitive components, something will die/degrade when you're working on it due to ESD.
back to your parent's basement, child.
the whole point is lifecycle management. why would we put ourselves through the pain of two platform changes (2000->XP, XP->longhorn) when 2000's on support until longhorn emerges.
you should be asking "why move to XP? what does that offer that's significantly different from 2000?"
you cannot stay on an unsupported platform, hence lifecycle management.
researching, designing and implementing (smoothly, including migrating your data to your new environment with no impact to the business) a change to a new operating system *always* takes a long time. here, we're not moving to XP from 2000 as it's not worth it: we're moving to longhorn as and when it emerges. it'd take just as much planning (probably more, in fact) to shift to linux. think upgrade cycles. think win2k going off support as a driver to change. 5 years doesn't seem all that long to me...
We had a year of 99.9% average uptime (8.5 hrs down per year per server) while migrating servers from Windows 2000 to Windows 2003... Hell, we even moved branch offices and their servers to new locations and still got numbers that high. This was done without one bit of redundancy"
How? Did you use the world's longest patch and power cables?
...like the UD one did?
on any modern car with any form of immobiliser, which is *all* modern ones.
realise your insurance company is eventually going to require a DC built to whatever standards they force through....
So 3 1/2 hours later, you'll have a 1TB device that your mother could use? I doubt it somehow.
" I have alot of friends struggling with properly secureing their pirated version of XP."
Why? Because they're too fucking stupid to realise that whilst Windows update won't let them in with a pirate key, that the individual patches are still available for them to download and apply?
Crap. Certainly in the UK just about every one of my commercial DVDs have these restrictions. Kids want to watch their cartoons? No chance until you sit through 10 minutes of ads for other DVDs - this is a long time for a small child.
Solution? Don't buy them, or rip and burn them with DVDshrink and remove the access restrictions.
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but if your trojan is taking screenshots, it doesn't make much difference...
i'm talking in my case about a trojaned machine, not a social engineering/phishing scam. hence "hacked", not "phished".
http://www.computeractive.co.uk/vnunet/news/212615 1/trojan-mugs-uk-web-banking-customers - this doesn't matter: trojans can take screenshots now.
no, you misread me. someone steals a card *and then physically goes into the bank and withdraws the money* by forging a signature: this way they don't have a limit, and don't have to find out the PIN.
it does help with phishing, but if you have a compromised machine with a keylogger and screenshotting, you're hosed. SSL won't help in this case.
speaking as someone who's SO has just lost 4,000 UKP through a compromised work PC via a keylogger and natwest online banking, you're not as safe as you think you are.
the latest PW_Glieder trojans will keylog and report back over a period of time: if you access your online banking a few times and are asked for characters X and Y from your password, chances are quite high that after a few logged sessions, the hacker will have enough info to build your complete password.
this is very common indeed: current SOP is for them to move your money to another account at the same bank to which they've already stolen a matching debit card. move cash, then confederate will go into a branch and withdraw the money in cash and vanish...
xp, similarly, will run just fine on a 266MHz machine if you up the ram to 192/256MB. turn off the eye candy and it'll do web/office etc perfectly well. a PIII 700MHz laptop? XP runs ok? no shit...
you don't need more than around 2.5-3GB to get 2000 or XP to run. you won't have a lot of space free, but it works fine.
move along people, nothing to see here.