I say it as a small business owner specifically. I'm just really disappointed that any idiot can spend 2 grand and walk away with any certification without knowing a god damned thing.
Personally, I have my MCSA, and other than the studying and experience required to obtain it, it hasn't helped me score any additional jobs. I have the Linux experience as well and regularly build/service Asterisk within the scope of my business, but the Large business sector is run on Cisco and that's it, and if you want to even be considered for anything there, you gotta have the Cisco training and experience.
As far as software goes, a combination of dd / ddrescue / strings / fdisk / grep / mount / and the r-studio suite from r-tt.com are what I use. Though, most of the time the drive is physically damaged, and it's not always inside.
For example, last week I had a laptop come in with no power to the drive. I examined the board with my eyes and my Fluke Multimeter and discovered that the power +5V on pins 41 and 42 wasn't reaching very far into the board and was basically disconnected at the first component. It looked to be a power-protection diode which had blown due to a surge. I was able to bypass it with a dot of solder, and once reassembled the hard drive powered on, I copied the data off. When the customer decided he didn't want to pay, well, I removed that solder dot before returning his drive to him without his data...
On 3.5" hard drives you'll often see a rectifier diode serving the same purpose, so when you run into a drive that doesn't spin up, check that out first. It's a small black component connecting the power to ground, and it shouldn't be passing electricity (but it will when it fails, so just pop it off to get your drive working again).
Other times a clicking drive can be fixed by just swapping out the board with an identical one from another drive. Sometimes, similar model number boards will work as well, but not often. It's a lot of fun trial and error. On the plus side, if the drive is totally fubar'd but still spins up, you can pop it open and do some hard drive spin art!
If you check out the ChangeLog, in every release since the middle of the.6x series, there have been many many many translation patches for international users. Aside from the normal bugfixes and feature adding, this is a good thing.... you know, in a AYBABTU sort of way.
I really just don't like that it gets installed by default with the new AIM. If you don't have a fast computer it can be a resource hog, and it doesn't come with a good uninstaller yet.
You mean you don't like WeatherBug??? I mean, that's the coolest software ever! Especially when you try to uninstall it and it just opens up a web browser and never actually does anything to uninstall itself!
anyone got a removal tool for this goddamned thing?
This patch was not available via windows update as of yesterday evening. In my computer shop, even computers with automatic updates turned on got hit. This patch has to be downloaded manually on all machines at the moment.
a client that isn't capable of accepting their transfers. I use Gaim on my non-Microsoft boxen and this appears to be the only major feature it's missing.
The routing issue that was causing ASU's connection to the Internet to be unavailable was resolved at approximately 1:15 yesterday afternoon 29 SEP 2002.
The border firewall and associated hardware have been removed from the border routing complex. ASU Information Technology is in contact with the vendors involved. We will continue to work with them to isolate and resolve the issues that were causing the slowness and inaccessibility to/from the Internet through the border firewall complex. Also as a result of this change, ASU's connection from the core network to the Internet border has been increased from 100Mbps to 200Mbps. We anticipate the removal of the suspect hardware, coupled with the increase in bandwidth, will provide a much more stable path to/from the Internet.
ASU Information Technology regrets the negative impacts that were caused by this situation and will provide additional information relative to the strategy for the border VPN and the border firewall as it becomes available.
Thank you very much for your input and patience throughout this ordeal.
Arizona State University also employs the PacketShaper hardware unit. Not only does it slow down KaZaA, but it hits multi-player games as well, such as Quake3 and Counterstrike. Imagine having a 55ms ping for about 3 minutes or so and then skyrocketing to 999+ for 30 seconds, and then back down. That is the kind of prioritizing that PS does. Also, it doesn't do it by port, it actually analizes every packet stream. Port 80 won't cut it. The only chance you have is VPN'ing somewhere else to get your bandwidth through.
I believe he meant that the movie piracy group that ripped Harry Potter from the DVD made it a 2 CD, or a 2 x 700 meg release. You can achieve much higher quality that way, especially for longer movies. I would link directly to the NFO's on isoNEWS, but it is apparently having hardware problems as of now.
It's all about the Pentiums, baby
Uhh, uh-huh, yeah Uhh, uh-huh, yeah
It's all about the Pentiums, baby
It's all about the Pentiums, baby
It's all about the Pentiums!
It's all about the Pentiums!
(Yeah!!)
Is MultiWave in southern California. Their prices are lower than any "local" computer store, and often, mwave is a supplier for local computer stores. If you live in the area, you can make an order online and go pick it up immediately.
Also, they won't rape you on shipping. Typically, shipping is cheaper than California tax (8%) so it really it a great buy no matter where you are. Only once in my five years of working with them has a part arrived bad, and they immediately shipped me out a replacement and paid for the return shipping of the bad item.
If an item is out of stock, the website says so in real time, and usually says when they are expecting them in. The format is very similar to www.newegg.com, though MWave came first. (sorry folks, looks like the egg was second!)
Just head over and build yourself an example system. You will not be disappointed!
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I say it as a small business owner specifically. I'm just really disappointed that any idiot can spend 2 grand and walk away with any certification without knowing a god damned thing.
Personally, I have my MCSA, and other than the studying and experience required to obtain it, it hasn't helped me score any additional jobs. I have the Linux experience as well and regularly build/service Asterisk within the scope of my business, but the Large business sector is run on Cisco and that's it, and if you want to even be considered for anything there, you gotta have the Cisco training and experience.
That's all I'm saying..
Get a CCNA if you want to make money. MCSE is a total joke nowadays.
I swear I've been doing this with linux for years, routing this and routing that...
It's just two interfaces, an echo "1" to the ip_forward, and a little masquerading and we're good to go.
Windows 7 is cool though. Wish they kept the "E" edition.
~@~
As far as software goes, a combination of dd / ddrescue / strings / fdisk / grep / mount / and the r-studio suite from r-tt.com are what I use. Though, most of the time the drive is physically damaged, and it's not always inside.
For example, last week I had a laptop come in with no power to the drive. I examined the board with my eyes and my Fluke Multimeter and discovered that the power +5V on pins 41 and 42 wasn't reaching very far into the board and was basically disconnected at the first component. It looked to be a power-protection diode which had blown due to a surge. I was able to bypass it with a dot of solder, and once reassembled the hard drive powered on, I copied the data off. When the customer decided he didn't want to pay, well, I removed that solder dot before returning his drive to him without his data...
On 3.5" hard drives you'll often see a rectifier diode serving the same purpose, so when you run into a drive that doesn't spin up, check that out first. It's a small black component connecting the power to ground, and it shouldn't be passing electricity (but it will when it fails, so just pop it off to get your drive working again).
Other times a clicking drive can be fixed by just swapping out the board with an identical one from another drive. Sometimes, similar model number boards will work as well, but not often. It's a lot of fun trial and error. On the plus side, if the drive is totally fubar'd but still spins up, you can pop it open and do some hard drive spin art!
If you check out the ChangeLog, in every release since the middle of the .6x series, there have been many many many translation patches for international users. Aside from the normal bugfixes and feature adding, this is a good thing.... you know, in a AYBABTU sort of way.
I really just don't like that it gets installed by default with the new AIM. If you don't have a fast computer it can be a resource hog, and it doesn't come with a good uninstaller yet.
but even I can't stand AOL's installers and apps
You mean you don't like WeatherBug??? I mean, that's the coolest software ever! Especially when you try to uninstall it and it just opens up a web browser and never actually does anything to uninstall itself!
anyone got a removal tool for this goddamned thing?
No, Gaim is almost always on top. They're pretty good about having a two-week release schedule.
You can check out #gaim on freenode and actually see how active it really is. Most of the developers are there on a daily basis working on stuff.
That's nice.
One neat thing about gaim is that you can use it on Windows if you want to. One crappy thing about Trillian is that you can't use it on Linux.
unfortunately that wouldn't work. iso9660 is write-once. cd-rw's use the udf filesystem.
you need the mozilla-nss or the gnutls package for it to work properly.
you can ask questions in #gaim on irc.freenode.net if you still have problems.
That's because you're using 0.66. Why don't you try upgrading?
The gaim folks added the new MSN protocol in 0.69 and currently 0.71 is the latest release.
It connects to MSN now assuming you have the mozilla-nss or the gnutls package installed.
This patch was not available via windows update as of yesterday evening. In my computer shop, even computers with automatic updates turned on got hit. This patch has to be downloaded manually on all machines at the moment.
nice, and I was third...
second post, bitch!
Apparently the phone number has been slashdotted as well. When I call, I get "This number has been disconnected, or is no longer in service." !!!
link:/home/raybass# hunt /*
* hunt 1.5
* multipurpose connection intruder / sniffer for Linux
* (c) 1998-2000 by kra
*/
starting hunt
--- Main Menu --- rcvpkt 2, free/alloc 63/64 ------
l/w/r) list/watch/reset connections
u) host up tests
a) arp/simple hijack (avoids ack storm if arp used)
s) simple hijack
d) daemons rst/arp/sniff/mac
o) options
x) exit
-> u
start ip addr [0.0.0.0]> 68.68.10.1
end ip addr [0.0.0.0]> 68.68.10.254
host up test (arp method) y/n [y]>
arp...
host up test (ping method) y/n [y]>
mac discovery
ping...
and nothing! Unless I'm the only person on this subnet, well, Adelphia has no problem here. Darn, I was really hoping to do some dsniffin'
and that's why 0.59.5 came out two weeks ago, along with all the fixes in the past two months beforehard....
a client that isn't capable of accepting their transfers. I use Gaim on my non-Microsoft boxen and this appears to be the only major feature it's missing.
In case you haven't noticed, gaim supports file transfer now...
raybass@raybass:~$ telnet a.root-servers.net 53
Trying 198.41.0.4...
Connected to a.root-servers.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
doesn't have to ping, just like microsoft.com
The routing issue that was causing ASU's connection to the Internet to be unavailable was resolved at approximately 1:15 yesterday afternoon 29 SEP 2002.
The border firewall and associated hardware have been removed from the border routing complex. ASU Information Technology is in contact with the vendors involved. We will continue to work with them to isolate and resolve the issues that were causing the slowness and inaccessibility to/from the Internet through the border firewall complex.
Also as a result of this change, ASU's connection from the core network to the Internet border has been increased from 100Mbps to 200Mbps. We anticipate the removal of the suspect hardware, coupled with the increase in bandwidth, will provide a much more stable path to/from the Internet.
ASU Information Technology regrets the negative impacts that were caused by this situation and will provide additional information relative to the strategy for the border VPN and the border firewall as it becomes available.
Thank you very much for your input and patience throughout this ordeal.
E Dave McKee
Manager, Data Communications Operations
Arizona State University
480.965.4016
Dave.McKee@asu.edu
Arizona State University also employs the PacketShaper hardware unit. Not only does it slow down KaZaA, but it hits multi-player games as well, such as Quake3 and Counterstrike. Imagine having a 55ms ping for about 3 minutes or so and then skyrocketing to 999+ for 30 seconds, and then back down. That is the kind of prioritizing that PS does. Also, it doesn't do it by port, it actually analizes every packet stream. Port 80 won't cut it. The only chance you have is VPN'ing somewhere else to get your bandwidth through.
I believe he meant that the movie piracy group that ripped Harry Potter from the DVD made it a 2 CD, or a 2 x 700 meg release. You can achieve much higher quality that way, especially for longer movies. I would link directly to the NFO's on isoNEWS, but it is apparently having hardware problems as of now.
It's all about the Pentiums, baby
Uhh, uh-huh, yeah Uhh, uh-huh, yeah
It's all about the Pentiums, baby
It's all about the Pentiums, baby
It's all about the Pentiums!
It's all about the Pentiums!
(Yeah!!)
Is MultiWave in southern California. Their prices are lower than any "local" computer store, and often, mwave is a supplier for local computer stores. If you live in the area, you can make an order online and go pick it up immediately.
Also, they won't rape you on shipping. Typically, shipping is cheaper than California tax (8%) so it really it a great buy no matter where you are. Only once in my five years of working with them has a part arrived bad, and they immediately shipped me out a replacement and paid for the return shipping of the bad item.
If an item is out of stock, the website says so in real time, and usually says when they are expecting them in. The format is very similar to www.newegg.com, though MWave came first. (sorry folks, looks like the egg was second!)
Just head over and build yourself an example system. You will not be disappointed!