My guess, encryption will probably attract attention (you must be a terrrorist since you have somthing to hide, yea right). And I'd guess they can probabaly crack it as long as encrypted messages remain a minority of internet traffic. No I don't have a tinfoil hat.
You can get the same useful info out of 2K & XP if you turn off the automagically reboot feature (my computer->properties->advanced->Startup and Recovery Settings->uncheck automatically restart. That'll show you the BSOD with the driver and system file diagnostic, ala NT BSOD.
My Dell that I'm running Redhat 9 on cannot boot from any HD but the primary master. I expect better from Dell (everyone else can do it) too, but what can you do? I don't need windows XP (even though I have a license for it anyway)
If I'd sold this machine to an End User (EU) I'd just say, "fucking Dell". But I say that anyways.
I'd guess the VPN (or there may even be a firewalling of the VPN) is not functioning properly as you wouldn't want to have NFS directly accessible on the Internet.
It is probably outlook.pst but... depending on what version it originally had and then upgraded to, etc. I always do a search for *.pst myself (look at the file dates, etc). And don't forget archive.pst
Back in '97 when I was working phone support, a user call to say that they had just bought their new computer, initially configured it, backed it up (to floppies) but during the verify floppy number 157 (or something like that) had failed to read (bad disk).
I told him to only backup data (such as my documents, etc.)
A number of times clueless owners or CEO have totally ignored everything I've advised them on and bought shit which it is then my job to implement and support.
Example: replace a SQL based financial database with an Access Database for many times more than the cost to upgrade to the latest version of the SQL one. Not to mention waste several thousand dollars for tech support from the SQL provider to help the porting to access (which was by itself more then the upgrade cost).
I worked lapdance (laptop) tech support for a major PC maker back in '97. There was a specific product that every time (99%) a call came in it was because the hard drive had failed (OS not found).
Well, virtually the only call I ever got for that product model that wasn't a failed hard drive was some guy working on his PhD thesis (I forget what his issue was). I solved his problem and was bullshitting with him when he mentioned that he had his thesis on the PC.
If I'd have to told him anything about this issue with this model (and some one heard it) I'd have been fired before I could hang up. So I told him, "You know sir, anything of significant importance should be periodically backed-up".
I remember meeting some asshat many years ago who had a PhD and a JD.
Turns out he basically got it off the back of a match book cover. start to completion for both was like 18 months. He didn't know basic stuff that I did (I have a BS).
Bottom line: There are stupid people everywhere, some with acronyms at the end of their names and it is not just limited to MCSE, CCNA.
The key is to be able to recognize these people for what they are in 5 minutes or less.
In my opinion, in most shops (not all) sound and speakers have no business purpose. I only allow them to be deployed if a true reason exsists (or the big bosses ask for them). For the most part, it would just encourage users to waste company resources (bandwidth, storage, etc) downloading and listening to musak.
I became a SA because it is easy for me (many things are). I like challenges and I don't even look at it like work. I probably spend more time bullshitting with users than I do actually working which makes it more enjoyable.
I also try to explain issues to people in terms they can understand (like IP address like a phone number, port number like a phone extention, etc). But the true id10Ts are easy to spot and I don't bother with them. I've seen somewhere that 10% of users consume 50% of support time. I'd say it's true, but it all pays the same.
Notes that people may take are useless (for them). I use screen shots. You know the old a picture is worth a thousand words. Anyone competent can then follow instructions. The people who can't.... well.
I often go out riding my motorcycle long after dark. Sometimes (well most of the time) I have no idea where I am, where I am going, or how I got there.
I know, most people would say I have my head up my ass, but for me it's a way of life.
And just the other day my motorcycle just burst into flames while I wasn't even riding it. So I stood 50 yards away from it, in the event it blew-up like the cars do in the movies.
If I remember right, I can't find the newspaper article.
Back when Clinton was visiting Brazil (?) many plots (3 or 4 different cells of terrorists) to kill him were foiled by authorities. It turns out that the intelligence agencies (US) just snooped the cell (and maybe landlines too) traffic for the "entire country". Turns out the scum bags were using pre paid cellular phone bought with cash.
If I remember right, the technology was "invented" to track down and capture Kevin Mitnick. Trangulation of cell towers signaling to/from your cell phone.
I believe the movie or was it a book about this was called Operation Takedown.
Now the ability to do it on a large scale is what was implemented recently. If I'm not mistaken.
Maybe there are a shitload of terrorists that need to be tracked.
If everyone did, there would be no RIAA and no music labels. There would only be artists free to profit from their works as they see fit rather than enslaved by big business.
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My guess, encryption will probably attract attention (you must be a terrrorist since you have somthing to hide, yea right). And I'd guess they can probabaly crack it as long as encrypted messages remain a minority of internet traffic. No I don't have a tinfoil hat.
Pry my encryption from my cold dead hand.
everyone should download anything and everything they can think of. Delete it when it is done and then initiate a new down load.
Bottom line: Saturate your download bandwidth.
If Everyone did this, it would likely hamper any monitoring capability.
I hate to advocat this this type of protest, but the bottom line is fuck you, get a warranat if you want to monitor my shit.
From this day forward, my download bandwidth will be saturated.
Like the SBC commercial in CA. "I'm gonna download the whole internet"!
Hopefully this will overload their ability to attempt to monitor anything.
This might be a good time to buy stock in harddrive manufacturers.
You can get the same useful info out of 2K & XP if you turn off the automagically reboot feature (my computer->properties->advanced->Startup and Recovery Settings->uncheck automatically restart. That'll show you the BSOD with the driver and system file diagnostic, ala NT BSOD.
My Dell that I'm running Redhat 9 on cannot boot from any HD but the primary master. I expect better from Dell (everyone else can do it) too, but what can you do? I don't need windows XP (even though I have a license for it anyway)
If I'd sold this machine to an End User (EU) I'd just say, "fucking Dell". But I say that anyways.
I'd guess the VPN (or there may even be a firewalling of the VPN) is not functioning properly as you wouldn't want to have NFS directly accessible on the Internet.
Just my 2 cents.
I think the primary question is what is the stupidist thing anyone would ever try to do with this.
SAs (M$) should know outlook either stores in a *pst or the priv.edb
Believe it or not I have a group of attorney who use M$ Mail. I haven't even seen that since '96 (pre exchange).
You can lead a horse to water, but can't make him drink. And you can lead a human to an idea, but you can't make hime (or her) think.
It is probably outlook.pst but... depending on what version it originally had and then upgraded to, etc. I always do a search for *.pst myself (look at the file dates, etc). And don't forget archive.pst
Back in '97 when I was working phone support, a user call to say that they had just bought their new computer, initially configured it, backed it up (to floppies) but during the verify floppy number 157 (or something like that) had failed to read (bad disk).
I told him to only backup data (such as my documents, etc.)
If you look at some of the posts above, the correct answer to fix a windows BSOD is to reboot (just joking).
A number of times clueless owners or CEO have totally ignored everything I've advised them on and bought shit which it is then my job to implement and support.
Example: replace a SQL based financial database with an Access Database for many times more than the cost to upgrade to the latest version of the SQL one. Not to mention waste several thousand dollars for tech support from the SQL provider to help the porting to access (which was by itself more then the upgrade cost).
I'm at a loss. Oh well, it all pays the same.
If it was bone cancer, I understand that is one of the more painful deaths possible. Sorry to hear that.
I guess the $100K basically boils down to what's a life worth? I'm thinking a little more than that.
As for the HMO and doctor lying and altering records, my experience is that is human nature.
I wish you & your uncle the best.
I worked lapdance (laptop) tech support for a major PC maker back in '97. There was a specific product that every time (99%) a call came in it was because the hard drive had failed (OS not found).
Well, virtually the only call I ever got for that product model that wasn't a failed hard drive was some guy working on his PhD thesis (I forget what his issue was). I solved his problem and was bullshitting with him when he mentioned that he had his thesis on the PC.
If I'd have to told him anything about this issue with this model (and some one heard it) I'd have been fired before I could hang up. So I told him, "You know sir, anything of significant importance should be periodically backed-up".
I hope he heeded that advise.
I remember meeting some asshat many years ago who had a PhD and a JD.
Turns out he basically got it off the back of a match book cover. start to completion for both was like 18 months. He didn't know basic stuff that I did (I have a BS).
Bottom line: There are stupid people everywhere, some with acronyms at the end of their names and it is not just limited to MCSE, CCNA.
The key is to be able to recognize these people for what they are in 5 minutes or less.
Maybe I'm just an SA Nazi.
In my opinion, in most shops (not all) sound and speakers have no business purpose. I only allow them to be deployed if a true reason exsists (or the big bosses ask for them). For the most part, it would just encourage users to waste company resources (bandwidth, storage, etc) downloading and listening to musak.
I became a SA because it is easy for me (many things are). I like challenges and I don't even look at it like work. I probably spend more time bullshitting with users than I do actually working which makes it more enjoyable.
I also try to explain issues to people in terms they can understand (like IP address like a phone number, port number like a phone extention, etc). But the true id10Ts are easy to spot and I don't bother with them. I've seen somewhere that 10% of users consume 50% of support time. I'd say it's true, but it all pays the same.
Notes that people may take are useless (for them). I use screen shots. You know the old a picture is worth a thousand words. Anyone competent can then follow instructions. The people who can't .... well.
I think it is time to outsource the Bullshitters. The CEOs, CFOs, VPs, and other non-essential non-producing assholes.
Some one in India can sit at a desk and play solitaire just as well all day too for a lot less cost.
It must be some one from Microsoft.
Remember the browser wars (and lawsuits)? Microsoft and Bill Gates claimed they didn't know what a browser is.
Dear AC:
I often go out riding my motorcycle long after dark. Sometimes (well most of the time) I have no idea where I am, where I am going, or how I got there.
I know, most people would say I have my head up my ass, but for me it's a way of life.
And just the other day my motorcycle just burst into flames while I wasn't even riding it. So I stood 50 yards away from it, in the event it blew-up like the cars do in the movies.
If I remember right, I can't find the newspaper article.
Back when Clinton was visiting Brazil (?) many plots (3 or 4 different cells of terrorists) to kill him were foiled by authorities. It turns out that the intelligence agencies (US) just snooped the cell (and maybe landlines too) traffic for the "entire country". Turns out the scum bags were using pre paid cellular phone bought with cash.
If I remember right, the technology was "invented" to track down and capture Kevin Mitnick. Trangulation of cell towers signaling to/from your cell phone.
I believe the movie or was it a book about this was called Operation Takedown.
Now the ability to do it on a large scale is what was implemented recently. If I'm not mistaken.
Maybe there are a shitload of terrorists that need to be tracked.
When there is So Much Free As in Beer around here.
It'll come as a patch from Microsoft.
Stoopid Luser will install it.
Just like one of the virii a while back.
The thing is, I had a few clients (one was a CEO) install that virus. It was out before the virii filters caught it. I wish it was Durl.
Speaking of which this site is funny. I laughed my ass off when I found it from somebody's sig last night.
http://www.scumgroup.com/
I'm not affiliated. Just thought I'd share.
hoping to not get modded off-topic
Ashcroft's Patriot (Act) trumps your Privacy (Act).
Oh and BTW (at the risk of being redundant) Ashcroft's Patriot (Act) trumps our Constitution too.
WTF happened?
I'm tempted to close with an All Your... (comment), but last time I did, I modded a troll (by Ashcroft?).
Protest this robbery like I do.
Don't buy it.
Don't download it.
Vote with your wallet.
If everyone did, there would be no RIAA and no music labels. There would only be artists free to profit from their works as they see fit rather than enslaved by big business.