Machstorm

Oh, so what you are saying is lets tax the wealthy because we can with no reason other than they can afford it. taxing people just because they can afford it is wrong. You are also forgetting the fact that people can have a lot of income and very little wealth and vice versa. Besides when you borrow money from someone you don't tell them to lend you more money because they can afford it. About the better education. Yes, there are schools in America that are terrible, however that's the local governments fault not a problem due to financial constraints. For example, I grew up in a town called Bridge Creek. This school did not get much in the way of money, but we had some of the best teachers around. It's not about how much money it's about how it is spent. We give millions and millions to schools every year so the notion of the schools needing more money is a red herring. Also quality of life is up to the individual not the government. If someone is have an issue with quality of life then that is there problem to deal with because there is all sorts of ways of helping yourself. I don't want the government to help me every step of the way . I mad it to where I am because I got fed up being paid $6 an hour so I paid my way through school (Effort) and worked my ass off doing it. Now I am still in college (Time) and started a career to support it even more (Money). Which goes to show that when you put your mind to it you don't a whole lot of help from the government. As far as kids having a better chance at life than I did is entirely up to them. You could have them go to the best schools and to the best colleges all you want. However, if they are happy working as a garbage collector (for example) and they can pay for all their needs then who am I to judge their quality of life.

"Time and time again it has been shown that when taxes are higher for the rich the overall quality of life improves for everyone." -Vako I have to stop you there Vako it does not work like that because you are wrong. Increasing the taxes for the rich equals less jobs. Have you even looked at the taxes the rich have to pay? Why should I be taxed more when I have worked my fingers to the bones to get a decent career that pays really well and now because people are jealous of my wealth I get taxed more. BS, if people are so jealous of the few that have worked hard to make the big bucks maybe they should make more of an effort. Anything worth doing takes Time, Effort, and Money if any of those three are missing you are not doing it right. If you are so sure that higher taxes on the rich are justified for a better quality of life you are sorely mistaken. Give me an example of when higher taxes made the quality of life better. To me it never has. Give the rich a break they have worked hard to get where they are.

Now is time to find out the age old question "How many hard drives does it take to stop a .50 Browning Machine Gun round?" http://www.viddler.com/explore/HardOCP/videos/32/

It's a start. A good base to learn from. Also I forgot to mention because I forgot I had it. I have a virtual boy from back in the day. Yes, I know I am going to get flamed about it, but who else has one? :P

There's your Denial Of Service, HHAHAHAHAHAHA! A rule of thumb to remember (When you're thinking about Cracking) if you have to ask; the answer is usually no.

I always have customers tell me that and then there is that one day a logic bomb goes off and trashes their system OMG, Decepticon I hope you are joking I had a hell of a time removing that piece of malware off of office systems. Hell, I had one of the users pay for it, lol.

I used to be the Senior guy and have made plenty of those calls before. It's like calling Microsoft it depends on the tech you get. I have had to fight them tooth and nail because they told the customer I was working with that the company I worked for made and had the product key.

Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L 2 Gigs OCZ PC6400 Platinum Revision (Soon to be upgraded to PC2 8500) Core 2 Due E4400 (Conroe) (Soon to be Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield 2.4GHz LGA 775 Quad-Core) Gigabyte GV-NX88S512H-B 8800 GTS 512 (G92): http://www.gigabyte-usa.com/Products/VGA/P...?ProductID=2726 Creative X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatal1ty Pro Series: http://www.techwarelabs.com/reviews/audio/...1TY_sound_card/ Enermax NoiseTaker II 485 Watts

PEBKAC I like to remember the original layers like this All People Seem To Need Data Processing Now with out looking it up What are the component's of the TCP header? J/K but you can answer if you want to. To answer your question Vako the only thing that is covered under warranty when you call in for support is the hardware. Tech are only allowed to troubleshoot the hardware and if it's a problem with software we generally don't help with those issues. Some of the 3 tier support that used to work with did, but it was very limited like if someones CD ROM was not working. I would Remove the upper and lower filters in the registry. If and only if I could do it in a timely manner. Anything else is an OSRI (Operating System Reinstall). Also to get more help for software issues I recommend the Dell forums they are a lot more flexible .

Nah, it wasn't anything like that. It's amazing how much you forget when your in the field and not have to use all that A+ knowledge. Especially in the security field you forget a lot.

Ok, how many layers are there in the TCP model?

I am studying CCNA for my Bachelors. Yah, nondisclosure kinda sucks, I can't talk about new systems before their release. I can't go around telling people that I can work on there systems because I am a Dell tech. Anything that I invent as result of working with their technology will be owned by them. I can't complain, it's a career in a field that is difficult to find/land. Answer is Application, if you are going from the top down.

A free MSDN subscription, 2 week paid vacation, and a benefits package. Also there are vendor discounts, but I am not sure how much else I could tell since I am still under a nondisclosure agreement from the first time I worked for them.

I landed a job at Dell. I worked for them before, but had to leave to go to College. I have had a bitch of a time finding a job with the way the economy has been lately. It took me nearly a month to find a job after I left college for a semester. I am going to love those big pay checks again. Any of you trying to find a tech job too. I am still looking even though having this one is enough, but I like the hands on experience of internal tech support. I can't wait to upgrade my rig and buy a new car.

Oh, I was thinking tech instead of acronym's. You would happen to have a Capitan Crunch Whistle would you? I lost mine a long time ago.

Are you referring to file attributes and/or switches?

Here's another tough ass card:Fahrenheit 1280 Orchid: Fahrenheit 1280 Orchid They ran the S3 GPU I bought an Diamond Stealth S4 Savage and had it from 98 until I bought a Geforce 2 from Babbages when they sold video cards.

I know where I can still buy one of those new at a repair shop just down the street from me. Also, in case some did not know Nvidia bought out 3DFX and that's how they got the technology.

Gcninja you might be able to find it here: http://www.old-computers.com/museum/company.asp?st=1&l=A

I had a 386 after that TI 99 but, sold it after my parent divorced and I had to wait until 98 when I built my first real PC which if memory serves was an AMD K6-2 333 with a 100MHZ FSB and an FIC mobo with 2MB cache, 128MB of memory and an 8 gig HDD.

Ahem, I used to work for Wal-Mart while I went to college to study for IT. Don't be to critical about others unless you have been in their position. After all you don't see me going to where you work and throw rocks at you while you mow the lawn. j/k

My fist PC was a TI 99 /4A beige. My uncle worked for Texas Instruments a long time ago and bought me one. 256 bytes of memory with up to 4 or 32k with a memory expansion card (OMG) Tech specs are here: http://www.old-computers.com/museum/comput...?st=1&c=929

Yah, try an older version of linux if you can, because before long you will get the infamous "Out of memory" error that happens on all 95 machines due to the limits of FAT 16. Although, keep in mind I am glossing over a lot of information, but that is basically whats going to happen. Linux distros that come to mind (for 128MB RAM) RedHat 7 Damn Small Linux Mandrake

I read through some of the articles and some of them I felt the author lacked knowledge about Windows. For the most part it looks like he tried to do research, but missed the mark. He could have used a better example than this. Only 32 kilobytes of RAM in the Apollo capsules' computers was enough to put men on the moon and safely get them back to Earth. The Voyager deep space probes that sent us a wealth of images and scientific data from the outer reaches of the solar system (and still continue to do so from interstellar space) have on-board computers based on a 4-bit CPU. An 80C85 CPU with 176 kilobytes of ROM and 576 kilobytes of RAM was all that controlled the Sojourner robot that drove across the surface of Mars and delivered geological data data and high-resolution images in full-color stereo. But when I have an 800MHz Pentium III with 256 Megabytes of RAM and 40 Gigabytes of disk space, and I try to type a letter to my grandmother using Windows XP and Office XP, the job will take me forever because my computer is underpowered! And of course Windows Vista won't even run on such a machine... He's talking about technology that's 30 years apart. If the Apollo capsules or Voyager had Windows installed he would have a point, but seeing as how Microsoft did not exist until 11 years after the fact so he has no point. From experience when a client gets this angry about Windows; it's usually something they did and they are shifting the blame to Microsoft. The author makes himself look like he did half of his homework and just paraphrased works from magazine and tech articles. Thankfully, the only time I had a problem with Windows XP is when I unistalled Norton GoBack which writes itself into the MBR and that is the only time (knock on wood) I have ever ran into with Windows XP and it was a Norton problem.

Agreed, I had to write a paper on the difference between a Hacker and a Cracker for my IT major. Below is what I can recall, however I can post the whole paper if anyone wants to see it Well, hacking is a misnomer. hacking in general is modifying say a piece of hardware to do something it was not designed to do. For example (as stated in another post) flashing the fon and putting it into a pineapple that is hacking. An astronomer the modifies his telescope could be called an astronomy hacker. At the other end is Cracking. This is when you crack someones WIFI connection or crack a password on a system. Also, the mainstream media has a lot to do with the abuse of the term hacker probably because of their ignorance. Because let's face it some of the are not credible for example fox broadcast about Mass Effect goes to show you how much research they actually do. That's it for me before I get into rant mode.