I have this story I don't like to tell non-technical people because it makes me look like a fool but I think you might understand.
Once upon a time I was working for a retail company with stores all over the country. We decided to put a new concept into a store in Edmonton, network POS system with an encrypted tunnel to the head office in Calgary. We got Telus Not-So-Static-IP DSL installed in the store and it was good.
3 months later it was bad, DSL would work for 15 minutes afeter IP lease and then die. The store manager tried to talk to Telus and got no where. I talked to them, they sent out a tech. 3 times this happened. They started telling me there was a bridge tap on the line so it might not ever work. It _had_ worked for months of course. I demanded a manager, got him to send out a tech, nothing. They replaced some piece of equipment in the COLEC that cost upteen thousand dollars. I go out and replace the computer in the store, still doesn't work.
By now a month have gone by, we got no DSL, everything is crap. I have spent about 10 hours on the phone with these guys. My boss (the company prez) is breathing down my neck, he doesn't understand why I can't get this going. Neither do I, all I can do is point a finger. I look like an idiot here but it gets worse. One day the store manager gets fed up and calls Telus support, whoever she talks to somehow fixes the problem in five minutes. Bang, it's back. it works everybody is happy. Except me. Talk about embarassed, I looked like a complete asshole. Nothing I could have done differently either. Telus set me up and made me thier bitch.
It sounds like an ok idea doesn't it? They actually even go farther than the other poster explained, when you recive a DHCP lease it actually builds your route at the same time. Makes for a very interesting and tough to fool network structure.
Problem is, it doesn't work. They use these stupid non-rfc compliant Nortel boxes to run it all and it fucks up all the time. Their support people don't understand how it works, all they know is release and renew your IP, etc.
I thought it was neat at first but let me tell you it's a nightmare. Complete garbage. I consult for small companies and I absolutely refuse to set them up on Telus. I acutally fired a client over it once, he inisted on Telus so I told him I wouldn't do it. Guess who was back in 3 months?
It vey much depends on how coarse your facial hair is. I can use a Mach 3 blade for about 10 days if I shave in the shower. I have a friend who can only use one twice before it is useless. Poor bastard spends a fortune. Problem is, they work the best.
For awhile it looked like MS would do the samething with USB2 to force people to upgrade from Win2K to XP. But yesterday they released Win2K SP4 to include a USB2.0 driver.
SP4 includes that driver yes but the driver has been available for download for two years. See this KB article.
Note that the date on the driver release is 2001-06-01.
Mod me troll, but I'm tired of the polluted job market, and absolutely sick to death of cleaning up the puke left behind at countless small companies by these nimrods.
Part of me agrees with you, hell I mostly agree with you but the other part makes a lot of money doing just that.
It is out of hand though. I have a cousin and 2 friends who have come out of school looking for work right now. They are all completely useless.
You can downgrade on OEM or bluk license products. If you have a retail or retail license pack product you have to enrol in software assurance before you can downgrade.
You guys need to look again. I don't have a link handy but I do have two Word docs that explain it.
Oracle is a considerably larger company than Microsoft. Ms really isn't that big, they just have tons of market cap and a lot of cash laying around. Given the history between Gates and Ellison I'm sure Bill would have taken out Oracle by now if he could.
I was walking through a department store on my way out of the mall a little while ago and set off thier little alarm thing. It was something I had purchased in another store and was in my bag. My friend and I stood there inside the store doors with stupid looks on our faces for a minute untill one of the cashiers just told us to go. She had aparently decided that if we were stealing something we wouldn't just stand there after setting off the alarm. Resonable no?
Half way across the parking lot some idiot plain clothes security guard comes running after us screaming "stop right there you cocksuckers." Seriously. I look at the guy and say "excuse me?" I can't remember what he said exactly but it involved me handing over my bag and was laced with many unkind adjectives aplied to my person. I said "no", I probably would have let him if he asked nicely. He didn't like that much so he squared up his shoulders and tried the tough guy look on us. "You'll have to come with me" he says. This guy was about eighteen years old, covered in acne and weighed about 130 pounds if he was wearing heavy shoes that day. I tell you I hadn't lauged that hard in years, I was afraid I was going to piss my pants. We just walked away while he yelled "I'm calling the cops" over and over.
For every bug it strips out it will strip out a legitmite file as well.
That's bullshit. You'll notice these things don't just use any old extension, they use executable extensions. If you setup your mailserver to strip.pif,.scr,.vbs etc you'll be in a much better world.
When was the last time you got a legitimate email with a.pif attachment? Never, that's when. I setup this on all of my clients networks and have yet to have grabbed a single legit email.
I think what he was trying to say is that Telus sucks. They _really_ suck. Thier network is setup stupid (DSL especially), their QOS is is the toliet and the support is actually scary it is so useless.
Public, private, doesn't matter they will find a way to screw it up. Frankly I have so many stupid Telus stories I can't figure out what to say next.
George Harrison, a vice president at Nintendo of America, noted that much of the competition's success has been built on socially questionable games such as the street-crime romp "Grand Theft Auto 3." He promised Nintendo wouldn't go down that alley. "Mario will never start shooting hookers," he vowed.
Kind of reaching there huh guys? Rockstar told you to go piss up a rope didn't they? Lets face it, with games like GTA and Metal Gear as exclusive titles you guys didn't stand a chance. Zelda isn't _that_ good.
I had to deal with this yesterday. I went and bought a new system, put it all together and discovered a memory problem. Further inspection showed it to be a motherboard issue.
In order to get my CPU out so I could exchange the board I had to remove the heatsink. In order to put the CPU / heatsink in my new board I had to use thermal grease as you are not supposed to use the pads twice.
Ive read that the patch before this thing went big was a bitch. Basically it was a lot of manual this and that updating and rebooting. Basically this meant a lot of people couldnt get aproval from management to patch the server.
It's not that bad really, I think later versions of the patch even included a batch file to copy stuff around for you. Even without it, it only took 10 minutes... I mean really, if somebody can't handle this kind of stuff should they really be an admin?
Some have said they applied the patch and still were vunerable.
Yeah you have to be careful with this stuff, if you apply patches in the wrong order you can sometimesend up with the vulnerable code still there. I know a _really_ good admin that got hit with Code Red because of that. The correct order can sometimes be a bit of a mystery.
Some have said the patch fucked their server.
That's the big problem with this situation. I can understand why people don't have this patch or SP3 installed. You really never know what one of these things is going to do. It is common for amins to schedule a 3 hour downtime to roll something like this in, even if they have tested the hell out of it. You need time to get the damn thing back out if it screws stuff up. I deployed W2K SP3 onto my terminal servers a few months ago and it broke Office on every one of them. It didn't do that when I tested it, took me hours to clean it up.
Most of them, however, seem to think I'm out to shoot someone that sends an ICMP Echo Request in my general direction.:)
I don't think you would do that but I have met some people that would.
About a year ago I got an email from some guy telling me I had I virus on one of my company's computers and it was trying to hack into his system. He was rather upset. When I investigated I found that it was actually just an SQL replication agent that I had put the wrong IP address into. I guess he had one of those personal firewall programs that pops up a dialog any time somebody tries to connect to your computer so it looks like it is actually doing something. I sent him a message saying I was sorry for the mistake, it won't happen again etc. He wrote back that saying I was obviously an idiot, I tried to hack him and if it happened again he would call the cops.
A week later I am starting a replication manually and I enter the IP wrong again, same one, it was very similar. Buddy flies off the handle, emails me 6 times, emails abuse@myisp 10 times, calls my office etc. I spent a week explaining this to people.
Now you know, and I know that a couple connection attempts to your machine on a port that is not open is no big deal. It is almost always a mistake. Your average user does not know this. I don't even want to think about what would have gone on if this guy had access to "Evil Hacker EZ Revenge Kit" or something like it.
I agree with this idea in a theoretical sense but I think it is too dangerous to become a common practice.
When I got laid off one time, I knew 2 hours before it happened.
My genius manager invited all the development team but 2 of us to an off site lunch meeting. When they got back not one of them could make eye contact with us.
I then get asked to meet my manager and the CTO in his office...
Naw those tills are dirt simple, they connect through the printers.
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Here in Canada, I get the "internet" service and the DSL line all from the phone company, there are a few other "competing" phone companies I could look at, but I stick with the "monopoly" one (Telus) as it is most prominent. I pay $80 (CDN) a month for my service (about 53 USD/Euro) and for that I get:
Radio Shack's CEO was on CNBC this morning and he mentioned this in the interview. The Squawk Box guy (can't remeber his name) asked him a pretty good question. (paraphrasing)
I imagine you have a lot of fake information collected, I never give my correct information when I go to RS.
The CEO looked kinda stunned at first, like he got belted in the head with a brick, then rather annoyed. He didn't say anything about it but I got the impression he was rather surprised to hear that this was common pratice. Or maybe surprised it was being discussed on TV while a bunch of his investors watched.
Judging by the comments here me and the Squawk Box guy weren't the only ones doing it. What's next, Radio Shack management discovers that pushing extended warranties on 50 cent batteries is considered somewhat amusing?
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Once upon a time I was working for a retail company with stores all over the country. We decided to put a new concept into a store in Edmonton, network POS system with an encrypted tunnel to the head office in Calgary. We got Telus Not-So-Static-IP DSL installed in the store and it was good.
3 months later it was bad, DSL would work for 15 minutes afeter IP lease and then die. The store manager tried to talk to Telus and got no where. I talked to them, they sent out a tech. 3 times this happened. They started telling me there was a bridge tap on the line so it might not ever work. It _had_ worked for months of course. I demanded a manager, got him to send out a tech, nothing. They replaced some piece of equipment in the COLEC that cost upteen thousand dollars. I go out and replace the computer in the store, still doesn't work.
By now a month have gone by, we got no DSL, everything is crap. I have spent about 10 hours on the phone with these guys. My boss (the company prez) is breathing down my neck, he doesn't understand why I can't get this going. Neither do I, all I can do is point a finger. I look like an idiot here but it gets worse. One day the store manager gets fed up and calls Telus support, whoever she talks to somehow fixes the problem in five minutes. Bang, it's back. it works everybody is happy. Except me. Talk about embarassed, I looked like a complete asshole. Nothing I could have done differently either. Telus set me up and made me thier bitch.
Problem is, it doesn't work. They use these stupid non-rfc compliant Nortel boxes to run it all and it fucks up all the time. Their support people don't understand how it works, all they know is release and renew your IP, etc.
I thought it was neat at first but let me tell you it's a nightmare. Complete garbage. I consult for small companies and I absolutely refuse to set them up on Telus. I acutally fired a client over it once, he inisted on Telus so I told him I wouldn't do it. Guess who was back in 3 months?
It vey much depends on how coarse your facial hair is. I can use a Mach 3 blade for about 10 days if I shave in the shower. I have a friend who can only use one twice before it is useless. Poor bastard spends a fortune. Problem is, they work the best.
SP4 includes that driver yes but the driver has been available for download for two years. See this KB article.
Note that the date on the driver release is 2001-06-01.
Part of me agrees with you, hell I mostly agree with you but the other part makes a lot of money doing just that.
It is out of hand though. I have a cousin and 2 friends who have come out of school looking for work right now. They are all completely useless.
IBM stopped making these though. They really, really sucked.
You guys need to look again. I don't have a link handy but I do have two Word docs that explain it.
Oracle is a considerably larger company than Microsoft. Ms really isn't that big, they just have tons of market cap and a lot of cash laying around. Given the history between Gates and Ellison I'm sure Bill would have taken out Oracle by now if he could.
I was walking through a department store on my way out of the mall a little while ago and set off thier little alarm thing. It was something I had purchased in another store and was in my bag. My friend and I stood there inside the store doors with stupid looks on our faces for a minute untill one of the cashiers just told us to go. She had aparently decided that if we were stealing something we wouldn't just stand there after setting off the alarm. Resonable no?
Half way across the parking lot some idiot plain clothes security guard comes running after us screaming "stop right there you cocksuckers." Seriously. I look at the guy and say "excuse me?" I can't remember what he said exactly but it involved me handing over my bag and was laced with many unkind adjectives aplied to my person. I said "no", I probably would have let him if he asked nicely. He didn't like that much so he squared up his shoulders and tried the tough guy look on us. "You'll have to come with me" he says. This guy was about eighteen years old, covered in acne and weighed about 130 pounds if he was wearing heavy shoes that day. I tell you I hadn't lauged that hard in years, I was afraid I was going to piss my pants. We just walked away while he yelled "I'm calling the cops" over and over.
That's bullshit. You'll notice these things don't just use any old extension, they use executable extensions. If you setup your mailserver to strip .pif, .scr, .vbs etc you'll be in a much better world.
When was the last time you got a legitimate email with a .pif attachment? Never, that's when. I setup this on all of my clients networks and have yet to have grabbed a single legit email.
Actually Norton does that all on it's own. Seriously.
Public, private, doesn't matter they will find a way to screw it up. Frankly I have so many stupid Telus stories I can't figure out what to say next.
Belive me, huge pile of suck.
Go to the Forums at mozillazine
www.mozillazine.org/forums
There is a sticky thread that talks about tabs, all you have to do is snag the tab extensions and you'll have that and a bunch of other stuff.
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Kind of reaching there huh guys? Rockstar told you to go piss up a rope didn't they? Lets face it, with games like GTA and Metal Gear as exclusive titles you guys didn't stand a chance. Zelda isn't _that_ good.
In order to get my CPU out so I could exchange the board I had to remove the heatsink. In order to put the CPU / heatsink in my new board I had to use thermal grease as you are not supposed to use the pads twice.
It looks like I know have no CPU warranty. Nice.
I knew it would happen. Just as soon as the subscriptions came in this place turned into Salon.
My first thought was to haul the guy out and steal it.
It's not that bad really, I think later versions of the patch even included a batch file to copy stuff around for you. Even without it, it only took 10 minutes... I mean really, if somebody can't handle this kind of stuff should they really be an admin?
Some have said they applied the patch and still were vunerable.
Yeah you have to be careful with this stuff, if you apply patches in the wrong order you can sometimesend up with the vulnerable code still there. I know a _really_ good admin that got hit with Code Red because of that. The correct order can sometimes be a bit of a mystery.
Some have said the patch fucked their server.
That's the big problem with this situation. I can understand why people don't have this patch or SP3 installed. You really never know what one of these things is going to do. It is common for amins to schedule a 3 hour downtime to roll something like this in, even if they have tested the hell out of it. You need time to get the damn thing back out if it screws stuff up. I deployed W2K SP3 onto my terminal servers a few months ago and it broke Office on every one of them. It didn't do that when I tested it, took me hours to clean it up.
I don't think you would do that but I have met some people that would.
About a year ago I got an email from some guy telling me I had I virus on one of my company's computers and it was trying to hack into his system. He was rather upset. When I investigated I found that it was actually just an SQL replication agent that I had put the wrong IP address into. I guess he had one of those personal firewall programs that pops up a dialog any time somebody tries to connect to your computer so it looks like it is actually doing something. I sent him a message saying I was sorry for the mistake, it won't happen again etc. He wrote back that saying I was obviously an idiot, I tried to hack him and if it happened again he would call the cops.
A week later I am starting a replication manually and I enter the IP wrong again, same one, it was very similar. Buddy flies off the handle, emails me 6 times, emails abuse@myisp 10 times, calls my office etc. I spent a week explaining this to people.
Now you know, and I know that a couple connection attempts to your machine on a port that is not open is no big deal. It is almost always a mistake. Your average user does not know this. I don't even want to think about what would have gone on if this guy had access to "Evil Hacker EZ Revenge Kit" or something like it.
I agree with this idea in a theoretical sense but I think it is too dangerous to become a common practice.
My genius manager invited all the development team but 2 of us to an off site lunch meeting. When they got back not one of them could make eye contact with us.
I then get asked to meet my manager and the CTO in his office...
Uhh sure thing boss!
> scp myhouse entire_code_repository
Be right there!
Naw those tills are dirt simple, they connect through the printers.
Here in Canada, I get the "internet" service and the DSL line all from the phone company, there are a few other "competing" phone companies I could look at, but I stick with the "monopoly" one (Telus) as it is most prominent. I pay $80 (CDN) a month for my service (about 53 USD/Euro) and for that I get:
Actually as of this month you pay 85...
He wrote the software in Russia but he also gave a presentation about the software at a con (Defcon I think).
If he din't come to the US to give the presentation this probably wouldn't have happened.
The rat patrol is a good thing. I grew up in Alberta, I'd never even seen a rat until I moved to Montreal when I was 19. Those things are not nice.
I imagine you have a lot of fake information collected, I never give my correct information when I go to RS.
The CEO looked kinda stunned at first, like he got belted in the head with a brick, then rather annoyed. He didn't say anything about it but I got the impression he was rather surprised to hear that this was common pratice. Or maybe surprised it was being discussed on TV while a bunch of his investors watched.
Judging by the comments here me and the Squawk Box guy weren't the only ones doing it. What's next, Radio Shack management discovers that pushing extended warranties on 50 cent batteries is considered somewhat amusing?