Machstorm
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Hell yah. I have their first generation ATCS 220B:
http://www.techaddicts.net/reviews/atc220b/atc220b.html
There is no ventialion in the front to help cool it down with my new hardware so I had to upgrade.
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I almost had a nerd-gasm when I saw the inside of this case. The features are awesome too.
I can't wait for it to get here
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OK, to be straight when I say rich, I am talking about people who can measure there discretionary spending in millions or tens of millions. I don't think this applies to you, and if anything what I'm saying should help you but if I'm wrong I stand corrected.
Higher taxes for people at this end of the scale mean the government has more money to invest in things like health care, infrastructure like fiber optic networks, roads, bridges, new airports, new power stations etc. The money used to pay for the raw materials and workers to build these projects mean that more people are gainfully employed and can afford to buy more things, meaning that still more people are employed to develop and make these things. These people will then also pay their fair share of taxes and contribute as well. And further to that more money can be invested in things like research which leads to advances in technology and medicine.
Health care is a perfect example, if you have invested in providing health care for your society that is accessible and cheap then illness will be less of an issue and will cause less problems for employers. People will get sick, but they will be able to access treatment if things like hospitals, procurement, treatment professionals and research have been invested in by the public. If you only seek private investment then the gains are likely to be privatized as well.
I don't think you have a problem with the people towards the Warren Buffet and Bill Gates end of the spectrum paying more taxes if it means there is more money spent on improving things like schools, giving more people in life better opportunity for advancement, or health care or the infrastructure that allows you to sell your hard earned skills. I don't think you would have a problem with the taxes you pay today if you could see you were getting more for it.
What you have a problem with is being asked to pay more and more taxes to support the problems produced by lack of investment in your society's basic needs. Its not a case of jealous people out to strip mine you because you worked hard and got a decent job, its about investing in your society to provide more people with the same, if not better opportunity than you had. After all, would you not like it if your kids had more chance of doing better than you did? If they got a better education, and if they had a better quality of life?
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.
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"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.
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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?"
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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
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ClamAV is basically the only open source anti virus program available, and the Windows version doesn't offer real time scanning. Besides having no real time scanner, it's definitions are often not as up to date as corporately funded anti virus products.
It's not a good solution. The best solution is to not be stupid on the Internet. I don't have any anti virus installed, as far as I can tell I've never had a problem.
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.
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It wasn't a software issue, I was calling for a new wireless antenna. My spiel was "I've tried this with Vista, XP and Ubuntu, all of them exhibit the same exact problem (not connecting to our corp AP's). I've tried the same OS's on 3 other box-fresh machines of the same spec we got in this batch and none of them have the same issue. I've replaced the wifi card with a known good and the problem stays. Can I get the on-site guy out as I don't have time to strip the machine down myself". It was a difficult call anyway, guy kept putting me on hold and refused to believe the shipping address was a real place, being told that the hard disk needed to be replaced in order for them to support me was the last straw. I hung up on him after a few choice words about his career prospects and the next day a senior guy called up, apologized and told me the on-site guy would be there later that day. One new wifi-card & antenna later and it was working fine.
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.
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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
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Whats layer 0 then?
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 .
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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.
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Ok, how many layers are there in the TCP model?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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LOL man, nah, That is what we refered to the underground scene back then. HPAV. Hacking/Phreaking/Anarchy/Virii/Cracking(or)Carding
Holy crap, Maybe I am old. :o
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.
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Maybe I am showing my age here, but I have been involved in the underground since before the internet. Does anyone else remember when hacking was still exploration and cracking was just breaking copy protection on software? Does anyone here remember h/p/a/v/c? Ah, the good old days of txt files and three letter affiliations. lol
Are you referring to file attributes and/or switches?
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w00t! yah they were some tough ass cards. Way ahead of their time. I rememeber they were $200 a pop... thats pretty cheap compaired to now for the top of the line card, and that's putting inflation in with it.
Here's another tough ass card: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.
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My family's first computer was a Commodore 64. We had the tape drive (w00t!), and centipede. It used a generic atari 2600 joystick (well serial connection).
MY First computer was.... A Packard Bell 386sx 8 and 16mhz turbo. If memory serves me correctly, it had 4mb of memory,512kb video memory (cirrus logic), and a whopping 120mb hard drive. Rollin' w/ Windows 3.1, no sound card.
One night it was storming outside and I opened it to try to overclock the cpu (intel) via the jumpers on the mb for the multiplier and speed. I was going for 32mhz and ~66mhz bus.... Then something shorted....
The second computer I had was an ole' famouse IBM 8088 w/dual 5"1/4 floppies, and a decked out like 20mb hard drive (seagate.. yah i remember.) That did'nt last too long...
Next was when I was in high school (around 1997 to 2000) A 5 finger special computer! At the height of it's existence, it was an AMD k6-2 333mhz, 32mb ram, A DIAMOND video card w/16mb mem, a Diamond Monster 3DFX Voodoo 2 running in series w/ 12mb onboard, a 500mb hard drive and a sound blaster 16 pci. AHHH yeah.. themz wuz teh dayz. oh yah and a US Robotics 56k modem. Oh yah and w/ Windows 98se (Of course!)
See kids! SLI and Crossfire is nothing new:
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.
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Gcninja you might be able to find it here:
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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.
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The Wal-Marts in my area no longer have demo machines.
In many retail stores you aren't supposed to actually be able to use the demo machines on your own. They play a demo video about the machine and if you're so inclined to deal with a store associate they'll probably let you on while they try to sell you it.
If your local Wal-Mart has demo machines chances are they don't really intend for you to use them.
More importantly, they are probably setup by vendors and the store associates don't know anything about them past where the power cord is.
This is how Wal-Mart NORMALLY sets things like this up.
Oh and btw moonlit, Wally World doesn't have commissions ;)
-gonffen
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
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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:
Check out my next case for my gaming rig
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LOL, the case I have now weighs 13 Lbs with everything in it
I am going to need an ice pack after I get this case.