Slashdot Mirror


User: MichaelMarch

MichaelMarch's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
31
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 31

  1. Re:Ban BitTorrent = problem solved on How Do Businesses Scale Their Bandwidth Needs? · · Score: 1

    We only have 10 people working at a time and not all of them use the internet all the time. But recently the internet connection started to jump up and down.. Sometimes causing the linksys router to stall all together. Found out that one of the employee's discovered bit torrents and was downloading tv shows during work hours. Since this discovery, I've blocked the range of 6881-6999 and now he can't connect to BitTorrent files... Now the internet has stopped bouncing so damn much!

  2. If the issue is "Mature" on No Same Sex Marriage In World of Warcraft? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Then perhaps a Mature server should be setup to set these kind of topic to rest, not sure how they could regulate that kind of scenario but then again.. that's not my job! And please give me a break, don't tell me there is a single teen out there that doesn't know about same sex couples.

  3. I do this right now.. on Group Video Conferencing? · · Score: 1

    We're using a pollycom system VSX7000s and a bridge and do weekly team meetings. The idea works like this. The last person to speak get's the camra thier face on everyone elses projector. You can share data with these, power point presentations, phones, etc.. VSX7000 kick ass.

  4. Re:Eh? Copy, paste, print. on A Simple Tool for Tracking Switch Ports? · · Score: 1

    He's using 3Com switchs. And with Cisco, using "cisco works" does what he is looking for automatically.

  5. Rebel .Com on Low-Powered Personal Servers? · · Score: 1

    There was a company out here in Ottawa Rebel, they used a MIPS process that was an extremly lower power consumption processor (same one used in a Compaq/HP Ipaq) and that company died a horrible death. No one CARES about power consumption! They care about is the power of the processor only.

  6. Self booting PC stand out the most! on What Are Your Favorite Computing Memories? · · Score: 1

    Not my earliest by far, but the largest event that effected me was when I saw my friends computer boot up with out using a boot disk. I was totally floored at the idea a computer didn't need a boot disk to load. The machine was a luggable 286 that was Orange and Black monitor. At the time I had a Tandy 1000, with a total of 256k of memory. I kept that machine until I made my first PC. 486 DLC 40...

  7. First Post! on Interex Closes Its Doors · · Score: -1, Troll

    I just had too...

  8. Let's face it... It's poor software on Death Penalty For Hackers? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The problem is not with the hackers. The problem is with poorly written software that allows this kind of attack/hack happen. If it wasen't for hackers our software would be very insecure and would be leeking holes everywhere. You can't say software companies/hardware companies fix security holes just becuase they might find a security risk. They are all re-active to security issues and NOT pro-active. You ask me, the death sentance should be given to anyone who releases a Operating system that requires 6a service packs just to make the software fuctional. A software company needs to take more responsablity for the software they release. Perhaps they should stop trying to push "new" releases all the time and just focus on one "good" product.

  9. Hope that study didn't cost much on Pocket PC vs. Palm Showdown · · Score: 1

    If anyone would of asked me, that would of been my exact responce in a casual conversation.

  10. Exam Cram Books or Why MCSE is a good thing. on Microsoft Books and Certifications? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    These little red books ar the best books out there. As for reading the Braindumps, I myself have read those over from time to time. Here's the math on the exams, from what I've noticed and been told. The number might not be correct but they are close as each exam is a little unique in there numbers. There is a total of 600 questions they can ask you for the exams, so say there is only six topics that divides up into 100 selectable questions for each topic. Now in each topic there is 10 questions. So each time you do the exam you get a 1/10 chances of seeing the same question. The point is, if you can read and remember 600 questions and assume that braindump has all those questions and all the questions are correct.. Then all the power to you. The real reason any MCP exam is worth anything, is to get your foot into the job interview. Seeing a MCSE 2000 or even a MCSE 2003 certification means they are serious about working in the IT field and they are not just some joe who likes computers and spends all his spare time talking on IM with people he will never meet and thinks he knows it all about computers. Any REAL computer/network experince comes from doing it and not READing about it.+

  11. Star Craft on Game To Play During Lunch? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In 20 - 30 minutes you can play a round or two either in single player mode, multi-player mode or even online. It's a quick game and every time you play it's different. I have a 3Ghz machine with a gig of ram, and I still play StarCraft from time to time. A game I use to play on my 133Mhz!

  12. That's why Kirk and Spock knew it.. on Morse Coders Beat SMSers · · Score: 1


    It was used in future IM devices! I always wondered why the heck Spock knew how to interpet and kirk knew how to do it.

    My faith in StarTrek has been re-knewed! Now if they can explain why Spock said "There is the old Vulcan proverb: only Nixon could go to China." Now all I need to know if Nixon is a embassador on Vulcan and China is the name of a Woman.

  13. Big pile of Who gives a fudge? on Engineers Have More Sons, Nurses More Daughters · · Score: 1

    And the point of this crappy article is? Sounds like a pile of hog wash that is a bad excuse for a survey.

  14. Re:Let me see if I understand this... on MPAA Targets TV Download Sites · · Score: 1

    Product placement has gone a little rampent with shows like "Survivor". Jeff- "If your team wins, the prize will be flavored cans of pringles, domino pizza's and bud light beer!" Oh.. awe.. goes the contestants and then they start to foam at the mouth. This is real commercial for the products. Not two people having a very unreal conversation and then bust into some techno dance with flying colors everywhere. I really can't stand the idea of paying for a service to have commercials brought into your home. Crap. Crap. Crap. If I pay for a service, let me use the service I want.

  15. Re:TV shows on MPAA Targets TV Download Sites · · Score: 1

    Ok, so this comes up to the question I've made a few times and never get a vaild answer. I live out in the country and can't get cable. But after I purchased some powered bunny ears I was able to get 15 channels. I have high-speed dsl, so I can watch the shows with some fuzz on the bunny ears OR I can just download the show online and watch it when I feel like it. So if show is broadcasted over the air? Is it still illegal to download?

  16. Re:Best ideas come to me just before going to bed on You're Smarter When You're Horizontal · · Score: 1

    Yup.. really don't care about spelling or grammer. I speak in 1's and 0's. English is my second language.

  17. Best ideas come to me just before going to bed on You're Smarter When You're Horizontal · · Score: 4, Interesting

    When I have a challange that I've been working on for a while. And being the obsessive person I am. I will think about it until the moment I passout. With that said, I lost track of how many times I've come up with the solution to one an issue I've been working on.. just as I'm about to pass out. And my wife thought I was weird. Ha! In her face!!

  18. Do you really want to find out? on Bluetooth on an Airplane? · · Score: 1

    So you're in the air. The pilot comes on and tells everyone to put the air mask on and brace for impact. Do you really want to find out at that point that, YES this crash was your fault, or Possibly that this crash was your fault. When I'm in the air I read a news paper.

  19. Bit Torrent TV Site - Legal or not? on United Kingdom Leads the World in TV Downloads · · Score: 1

    First I live in Canada.. No such thing as a digital copy right act here! So I don't Download movies, or atleast not anymore. I never downloaded a song I never owned in the past.. but recently I've been getting into downloading TV shows. Shows I can get on the old fashion method of an Antenna. When I miss those shows I just goto a bit torrent site and get the one I missed. Is this illegal in the USA? I mean, you get the show anyways, what wrong with getting it in a digal format?

  20. K.I.S.S on How Do You Keep Up with Enterprise-level Tech? · · Score: 1

    Where I'm at we have a very simple rule. Many people don't like it, but it's the way things are. Since I rule, it's all good.

    1) Switchs and Routers are all Cisco devices. Using Cisco NNM to monitor, configure and control them.
    2) All servers, printers, Pc's and laptops are all HP. All controlled by Insight Manager.
    3) All UPS are from APC and we use InfrastrXure manager (everything has a SNMP card) to make sure 1 & 2 are powered on. Keep it simple, don't mismatch products.

  21. Working Mirror! on Animated Short - This Wonderful Life · · Score: 2, Informative

    Here we go laides! A working download link.

  22. Re:My "ToDo" list on Workplace Monotony? · · Score: 1

    Or just get a Pocket PC and get a Gameboy Advanced emulator. They they think your checking e-mail, writing notes, etc. But really, your just playing Zelda.

  23. D&D cartoon? on Net Sticky Notes All Over London · · Score: 1

    Is this life imitating art again? Wasn't this the idea behind the chest in that old DnD cartoon.. where they placed it they would get a different message or portal to another world?

  24. Smart Phone.. to the rescue! on A Handheld for a Primary Computer? · · Score: 1

    These are phones that are kinda like a blackberry, it can retrive it's own e-mails, and you can reply to a e-mail via the voice record button. They can run both Palm OS and Windows CE. Which ofcourse has a web browser. SO!

    - Surf
    - Shop
    - E-mail
    - Talk
    - No PC, No hardline, No worries.

  25. Personally in the same boat! on To Recertify, or Not Recertify? · · Score: 1

    I'm a hardcore Geek, and proud of it. Now that said. I have become very touched by this whole tech crash. I was a technical leader for a large company that host over 10,000 desktop PC and most were shared profiles, 50 servers, etc. Large scale stuff.

    I am currently working for a company that is paying me on a per diem basis that is less then minimum wage.. if you count all the after hours work that has to be done. But made a deal with them that they pay for any certiifications that I write. Which is a total tax write off to them.

    Now the POINT!
    I have attained atleast 15 certs.. some big some small. MCSE 2k, 2003k, MCSA 2k, 2003k, N+, Server+, Security+, Novell 5.1, CCNA, etc.. you get the idea. Now I've been doing this so when the tech sector comes back again, I will be sharp on my knowlege and ready for anything.

    I hope to be one of the first to be picked up as I didn't leave the tech sector to become a truck driver, stock clerk, like so many other colleagues became.

    And we all know the tech sector is starting to come around again, and in the last two weeks I have gone to 4 interviews... where in the last year I've only been able to get one interview. So ya! It get's you into the interview process as when someone who is looking over the resume's, all they have to do is judge you by your papers... after that it's all up to you to score the job.

    P.S. I've been turing down jobs as of late! Go figure!