VaKo
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Its not a case of not knowing what is going on and defaulting to a "you crazy!" stance, its a case of understanding how computers work, how botnets work and how physics works. This isn't a virus or bot that will affect Windows, your phone, old PDA's without wifi, printers etc. There is no way that a MITM attack 2 years ago will stop your phone or an old PDA from working.
As for your PC, are you sure some of the hardware isn't FUBAR or that the copy of Windows your using is legit? (if you keep installing a compromised OS or your RAM is fraked, a reinstall will not fix anything).
However, if you happen to live near an electronic warfare testing facility or naval base, then this can cause problems (example: Israeli Navy had to turn off its EW systems when bringing ships in closer to the coast to provide missile defence as it messed up everything electronic nearby), but then everyone would have them.
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Unless the pentagon is hacking your router (I take it you've not noticed a EA-6B Prowler parked across the street recently?), if the wireless is off and your not connected to the internet your on an isolated network that cannot be hacked without some form of physical access.
I'm going to call paranoid on this one. If you have moved, several times, switched between cable and dsl (which will require changes in hardware) and built a new computer then this hacker would have to be on par with Jesus to keep fucking with you. What I do see is someone who doesn't fully understand how his system works and after being hacked once has attributed a literney of random, minor computer issues that have afflicted him over the years to a malevolent super hacker hell bent on inconveniencing him from afar.
As for your network traffic, that will also be normal, a combination of Vista searching the local network for other systems, windows trying to figure out why there is no internet, DNS requests, applications requesting files or data from remote servers, IPv6 shenanigans. But for shits and giggles, crank up Wireshark on that interface and see what is happening.
However, if you do feel that somehow this is real, you can try the following:
Re-flash router firmware, then change your routers MAC address.
Use DBAN on all your hard drives to wipe them.
Reinstall Windows from a store bought copy, not some dodgy hacked copy that fell off the back of bittorrent.
Ensure *all* updates are applied, and that you have a working, legitimate AV client installed.
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Its a router, it sits there and routes traffic, other than that it doesn't really need to do much else. And once you set a router up, how often do you touch it? I would suggest that you at least try it, its a quality product.
Having said that, Vyatta is something I will have to try.
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Nvidia disables CUDA if you have an AMD GPU installed on the same system.
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It is a real shame that you don't want to look into PFsense, out of all the router distros I've come across it just seems to work for me, very stable and quite powerful.
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Your funeral lol, the board I linked to has 3 NICs and a miniPCI slot. As for the kit you highlighted, no idea. You should probably find a embedded systems specialist to buy from, as they will have more of an idea what works with what (via kit can be a bit odd sometimes).
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1: Your security sucks. Why can anyone with an account log on to a Level 4 system if its important that access is controlled?
2: Why it is possible for an employee to copy confidential material onto a flash drive from a Level 4 system?
3: Why can an employee get on to the internet and send emails?
As for firing her, IT doesn't do this, HR does. You pass the information you have to HR and the users manager, and they decide on the firing.
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You don't even need your domain account password reset, if you can still connect to the domain with a valid account then you may need the machine re-added to the domain, but otherwise, once its connected it should just accept whatever password your using now and you'll be in.
If you can't do this, then either your a former employee or someone with a less than legitimate access to the system. Either way, you need to establish how the disk/data is encrypted and if you can retrieve the cached credentials for the target domain account by cracking/changing/enable the local admin account and running Cain&Able. Then you might be able to login as that user.
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You should just be able to do the following:
*Crack* local admin password
Login as said user
re-join the domain
Login with current password.
You IT dept should take about 5 mins to do this.
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Yeah, its actually quite easy. You simply install an ESXi server with at least 2 interfaces, the create 2 vSwitches, each with 1 NIC assigned (vSwitch2 can nay should have multiple physical NICs). Create your VM, then assign 1 vNIC to vSwitch1 and the 2nd to vSwitch2. Then plug in a cable/DSL modem into the NIC assigned to vSwitch1 and setup your virtual router, then you can plug a switch into the NICs assigned to vSwitch2.
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Check out this (1, 2) if you want to do a physical system. Cheaper, cooler, quieter, smaller.
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UK Based info, adjust as required:
A: Make sure your DSL modem is plugged into your BT master socket, which is where your phone line enters your house. This is the location that BT Wholesale support up to, anything beyond this is CPE and basically, your problem.
B: Make sure everything is filtered on your phone circuit.
C: Test and see if you get any improvement.
D: If not, remove everything else from your phone circuit, then unscrew the face plate on the BT socket and connect modem alone to the internal socket.
E: Try calling BT, complain about crackling on the line during voice calls and ask for the gain to be increased. Also ask for a SNR check for your DSL connection from your ISP.
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Question: When you say "P4 3GHz", are we actually talking about the old netburst Intel chips? On standard desktop kit? (I've only used ESXi on server hardware and 1 dell optiplex, which worked as expected) Have you tried the VMX net adaptors or are your VM's using E1000 adaptors? If you look at the resource usage, do the VM's show any spikes on any of the metrics?
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E1000 nic? VMFS block size? Have you installed the VMware tools? I run multiple, enterprise level, file-servers on ESXi machines and we never have these issues.
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Copy data to something else, wipe, reinstall the OS, set everything up and copy data back over. If you can't even get safe mode out of this heap 'o shit, then its not worth trying to fix.
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Perfect Mobo here
Now I just need to find a decent 2 or 4 bay NAS case.
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Yeah, Server 2008 R2 or Server 2008 Storage Server.
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N900's (as with previous models) are perfect linux hacker pocket computers, but if your not a linux hacker you may as well just go buy a $30 candybar phone and hot glue it to a boat anchor.
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Linux is Linux is Linux, and aside from things like apt vs rpm, the attitudes of the developer and community its all pretty much the same. Ubuntu has a tendency towards just working, without fuss, and having a friendly community, but the documentation is crap and people in the community are more about quick hacks than long-term viable solutions. I've not used Fedora for some time, but I found the community there to be just as helpful, but with more professionalism and less of a tendency to suggest that the answer to your question is to do something else entirely, but using software with a far more silly name or a poorly documented script.
They are both Linux however, and anyone can burn an ISO these days so just try them out.
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The question is, for a cheap 2-6 disk NAS, based around a dual core Atom, would a proper RAID card (with cache) actually be worth it?
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Everyone does the porn check when they get someone else's machine. Its even better when you find the home made stuff.
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Meh, OpenWRT is harder to use and lacks of decent gui. DD-WRT takes the important bits of OpenWRT does, and makes it easy to use.
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MS Security Essentials is actually pretty nice. I don't want to pay for av, and its less intrusive that anything else I've used, yet it picks up more than AntiVir did. I like it. And tbh, if people are saying its shit I want to see evidence to say why.
As for best hacking thing I've done, figuring out how ticket inspectors work. If you show a season ticket, on a busy train, they don't read them, so I've managed to do London to Manchester, return, using an expire season ticket from Farnborough to Reading, saving over £140. I've also managed to commute to work for just under 2 weeks on a ticket that just had the word "VOID" printed on it, which is 19 instances of ticket inspectors reading the word VOID and treating it as a valid ticket, which if you factor in the £20 fine, saved me about £40 in transport costs.
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How do you like the X6? Was thinking of picking up this kit: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/se...C7BBTkwCjCECjCE
Its not an i7, and if your a gamer then i5 is probably a better bet although generally they are on par (i5 has the edge on speed per core, 1055T has the edge on number of cores). But for the price, and the fact that my new mobo has USB3 and SATA3 its a nice buy. Only issue is that atm more apps are single threaded, so its very hard to find anything other than content creation apps or virtualization that really takes advantage of the cores. For a general purpose, cheap computer the 1055T is a nice CPU, gets 7.4 on the W7 test, hasn't stalled on the tasks I've given it and fits my style of "everything running all at once, 300+ firefox tabs, last rebooted a month ago" computing.
As for that machine, I got an Antec 300 case, a GA-890GPA-UD3H motherboard (2x USB 3, 6x SATA III, 2x SATAII), 8GB of PC10666 own-brand RAM and I got a free 9800GTX card to go with it.
If you having issues with ESXi you can try MS Hyper-V Server which is also free and supports far more hardware configurations.
h3%5kr3w: Update your ESXi box to the latest version, using the update manager tool, remove the client, reinstall the latest version from the ESXi box itself, no problems at my end of W7 x64.
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My basic issue is that a decent 4-8 port SATA II RAID card with cache costs £300+, which for a 2-4TB home server, built around mini-ITX board and WD Green HDD's is simply far to high (if I was going to get hardware RAID, it would be a LSI MegaRAID coupled with WD RE4 GP disks). So this leaves me with either built in motherboard RAID (which is fake RAID) which is tied to the motherboard, or going with Windows built in software RAID, which for RAID1 at least, seems to do the job, and will be portable between other Windows systems. All I want is 2-4 sets of 2TB drives in RAID1 run as a NAS, to store media files.
Network Topology Modification Question?
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Basically, your CPE (customer premises equipment) is usually assigned 1 public IP, so if you were to plug a cable/dsl modem into a switch and then connect 2 routers, only one would get an IP. If you have multiple public IP's, you could connect 2 routers to a switch with a modem attached, and both could connect to the net.
If your case, if you created 2 VLANs on the switch, and plugged the modem into VLAN1, your LAN into VLAN2, and used PFsense to route traffic between the VLANs, you would be unable to connect additional machines into VLAN1 without an ISP that assigned you multiple public IP's.
What you need to do is add a 3rd NIC to the Optiplex, then connect your modem to NIC1, create 2 VLANs on your switch and then connect NIC2 and NIC3 to these VLANs. VLAN1 could be your internal LAN while VLAN2 could be your DMZ/server interface.