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Upating this old thread as I just finally got around to replacing the battery. And the same thing happens on a new battery.

Hello Forum, After many moons in IT, I can honestly say this is the first time I have seen this. I thought I would bounce it around the forums before ordering a new battery which may or may not be the issue. I am working with a Toshiba Satellite p875-s7310. Fairly new, nice laptop. Since the community here is pretty technical, I'll just get to the point without a lot of background and fluff. 1. The laptop will NOT boot on battery power only, the AC adapter must be plugged in. I press the power button, power button light comes on for half a second, clicks off. No Toshiba splashscreen, nothing. Press, click/flash, black. 2. Once booted on AC power, the battery shows in Windows or Ubuntu as being fully charged. 3. Here is the part that makes this not an insta-solve. Once the laptop is powered on, I can remove the AC power and everything works fine for as many hours as the battery indicated, usually up to 5. Also I can reboot just fine, just not cold boot. I have never seen this before. The laptop runs fine ON battery power. It just will not start on battery power. Its like a car that won't start without a jump and that jump is AC. Ideas? Thanks, A.

Today a buddy of mine asked me if I knew any way to quickly purchase items from a site as soon as the item was posted. Specifically limited run posters from www.mondotees.com which come out in batches of 350 or less and are sold out in under 10 seconds. Today was a record with the new Tarantino posters gone in 5 seconds. I went google hunting and could only find programs designed to specifically work with eBay. I am wondering if anyone has seen a app or a application framework that could allow quick monitoring and automatic purchasing of specific items from standard commercial sites. Could be an interesting project.

So I bought a 3ish year old Mac Pro tower on Craigslist. Decent machine with 9 gigs of RAM, 3 hard drives, 2x Xeon quad cores, but the previous owner wiped the hard drive and no longer had the original install disks. Probably one reason why is was such a good deal. So working in IT for many years but just more recently needed to get good with Mac, I thought to myself, hey no problem. I'll just go buy a copy of the OS and away we go... wrong. Apparently to combat the hackintosh "problem", you can no longer just go buy a copy of OSX. They have stopped selling the Lion USB install drives and Snow Leopard DVDs. Direct words from the genius bar. What they want you to do is, bring the machine to the Apple Store and let them install it for you. I kindly explained that working in IT, I would likely want to mess with the machine and have the ability to re-install if I chose so that was really not my preferred option. The reply to this was, once they install it for you, you can make a time machine backup to use if you ever want to re-install. Maybe I'm just being a fist shaking old man here, but this is horse shit to me. The newest generation of hardware has the ability to re-install over the internet from an options key bootup, which is nice, I admit, but it does not help with older hardware such as this. So I have a nice, slightly used mac with good hardware, and no real way to install the OS unless I lug this chrome steel tower into an apple store and then use a time machine file as my only re-install method. Or I could also go on ebay and try to purchase retail snow leopard disks or a Lion USB key for 2-3x the original retail value. Apple, this is BS. People are still going to be able to make a hackintosh if they want, you are just annoying people. Put the damn DVDs and USBs back on the shelf already. ./rant off

I have been working as a systems/network administrator since 2003. I have always been a fan of the Mozilla family of products and it's Netscape predecessors. Currently my goto browser is Firefox and I use Chrome as my secondary. I typically have Firefox on my main screen and Chrome open on my second screen for a few sites I have always open; GMail, Facebook, Guild Forums, etc. Those pages just feel faster and more responsive on chrome and tend to crash or temporarily freeze less. I tend to like the flexibility of Firefox with its huge plugin library and the ability of open a permanent bookmarks tab in the browser window. Chrome's lack of that particular feature is one of the main reasons I have never fully switched. Even on hak5 it always seems to be a Chrome window now. However, at least in the geek community I follow I seem to a a holdout among IT professionals and geeks alike. I would say well over 90% of my co workers, friends, online contacts, and bloggers I follow have gone exclusively to Chrome. This seems to be closer to 100% when it comes to contacts in the information security field. While some of them have some specific reasons, such as the ability to view and manipulate page source better as one infosec friend commented; most people have just expressed more generic likes such as speed, simplicity, clean layout. Except for a bit of speed, I don't tend to agree with those because you can make Firefox look and feel like Chrome fairly easily using plugins and themes. I have yet to find true replacements in Chrome for several features I enjoy in Firefox. Automatically removing torrent files after completion as opposed to just relocating them, ability to download photo archive pages whether the graphics are images, hyperlinks, or some odd embedded mix of both. As I've already beaten to death, bookmarks management. So I thought I would ask the Hak5 community across all fields. Developer, network admin, server admin, security pro, or just professional home geek. What is your preference and why? In your own community of contacts, co workers, and friends, what have you seen? Not trying to start a browser holy war here, just curious based on the trend in my own social and media circles. A.

I was looking at the Security+ to gain educational hours towards the CISSP. Unless they changed it, you needed a certain amount of hours with a direct security title or educational hours in security to even quality to take the exam. Also, I'm getting certs even with a college degree because in DC area, the college graduation is better then 94%, so you still need to stand out. Thanks for the responses.

Below is my current working plan to refocus my career in IT from Windows administration to information security. It’s a 2 fold plan, starting with getting a couple of MS certs based on what I do in my current day to day work to buff my resume and salary a bit; then redirect to security. I realize there is a long running debate about the value of certifications; but just take my word for it that in the DC are job market, the more you have on paper, the better for you. I thought about saving myself a few months and skipping the MS certs, but they are such low hanging fruit for me at this point, why not just get the paper and maybe get a 20% pay bump. I’m looking for any and all advice and feedback from people working in the IT field that work in security, or that have made a similar transition. The general plan. Establishing Credentials to match experience. MCITP: Windows Server 2008 Server Administrator, 3 MCTS Exams Purely Monitary, based on analysis of Washington, DC area job market. MCITP: SharePoint 2010 Administration, 2 Exams (Thought about going Exchange here instead.) Pivoting to Security Security+, 1 exam CEH, 1 exam CISSP The goal here is pretty simple in theory. I have a bachelors in comp sci, and I’ve been a Windows admin for about 10 years. During this time I’ve been the dictionary definition of a generalist; doing everything from Active Directory, Exchange, SharePoint, and of course tech support. I’ve done about 6 months total of VMware and Cisco stuff on the side. I have always have a strong interest in security and have made it my hobby, so at this point in my career, I want to begin focusing in security heavily, while at the same time getting some paperwork to back my experience in the field in order to maximize my income. I won’t get to deep into that part, just general reasons like hitting 30, wanting to buy a place soon, etc, etc. DC is a great job market for IT, but it is expensive. By doing the MCITP, I’m just getting what I’ve been doing day to day on paper. Its only 3 relatively easy exams so why not. By getting one specialist cert, at this point I’m thinking SharePoint, I can go one level deeper into Microsoft and get to the next salary level in DC. I had deliberated between SharePoint or Exchange and ultimately settled on SharePoint. After knocking those out as a resume buff, I want to begin the turn toward security. I know enough Linux to get by with help from Google and pull off most tasks on the desktop or server, so I wasn’t planning to get a Linux cert at this point. Instead I was going to do the Security+, CEH, and by that point I should have the requirements met to sit for the CISSP.

As a consultant, I sometimes have requests for interesting apps. I have seen a couple of apps that do this, mainly for mobile phones, and all specific to Craigslist. The goal of my small business client, that is mostly a reseller, is to have an application that searches open commerce forums such as Craigslist, Backpage.com, eBay, etc. Once a keyword is found, such as "ipad", the application will send a notification with a link. The notification can be email based, txt message, or even a web interface that refreshes frequently and uses some basic popup. Not being a coder (yet), I'm looking for third party apps that can do this. Or, since this is not a rush job, advice on a language and reference material I can use to make this a learning project for myself. Thanks in advance, Alex

I'm looking for alternatives to phproxy. I would like to run something on my home server that would allow some friends in more restricted work environments to surf the web freely..or at least follow the funny links I send then from break.com :) phproxy is good, but it is no longer being developed. Right now I'm letting 2 of them just remote desktop into my home server with very restricted accounts. I've also considered setting up eyeos. But optimally I would like to allow them to simply setup a proxy in their Firefox settings and surf away. They are of course on Windows at work, so ssh tunneling and doing a socks proxy is not really going to work.

http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=80256.0%3Bwap2 The workarounds are primitive or additionally costly. Both are imperfect. But in the DC area, Comcast is so bad that downloading a ISO of Ubuntu in bittorrent will cause at least 3-7 resets of my TCP connection in the 30-40 minutes it takes to download a well seeded torrent of 1gb or less. Each time resulting in firewall and Wireshark logs filled with RST SYN and RST ACK entries.

True. Throttling is not blockable, nor can you do anything about interruptions between yourself and the host you are connecting to. However, specifically the TCP RST commands they somtimes send directly to your router when your connections get to a certain level of excessive can be manipulated by a router capable of running IP tables. Specifically the software package called Sandvine, used by Comcast and Time Warner. I will find the links I was looking at early last week at work for reference.

Myself and 2 others are about to start working on a project to build a linux based router. The specific purpose of this box will be to block the reset packets or commands used by Comcast and other ISPs to throttle specific types of traffic, usually file sharing, and force resets of customer owned commercial routers. Comcast still uses Sandvine I believe. I have read stories on the web of success and failures based on ISP and region. Has anyone had any experience with this? I don't believe its as simple of blocking a specific port. Will update this thread as progress is made.