I am helping a friend out who has made quite a mess of his windows PC. Problem is that thar are lots of viruses, maybe rootkits and the like, I'm not a specialist.
A google redirect among other things, and It's almost impossible to get the whole disk clean... (antivirus and antispyware are int...
If it's as bad as he says, you're right, it's probably just best to nuke it. But if it's a mild infection, I'd be inclined to go the "Pull the drive out and scan from a different computer" route.
On the other hand; if it is a girl's PC, maybe he should just clean it up a bit and send it back.... She'll be reinfected in a month -> another visit =]
@Holocryptic I'm always hesitant to do that; unless you're absolutely sure you got everything and prevented it from coming back, they'll inevitably get Zeus and visit their banking website first thing...
I'm curious why there isn't a bigger push from geeks to have hot astronauts in space. Gives them something to focus their telescopes on during space missions.
If I were an astronaut, I'd take that scream ghost costume with me and wait for an astronaut to talk to mission control before hurling myself from the background with a curved blade towards the camera behind the other astronaut and screaming bloody murder.
Meh; as long as the MS CSP works with them; that's about all the more I'd use them for. We've been kicking around the idea for accessing our terminal server. Most vendors want to sell a bloated "solution" with their own auth software (including GINA replacement), management interfaces, and maintenance costs.
I hated their interface for gmail. Why would I think it would make reading websites as easy as reading your email after seeing their idea of easy to use email interfaces?
I got scolded by a diamond for a one word answer. They're no fun. If they didn't want one word answers, why does <!--------------------- filler-----------> work?
I've learned that a TCP connection is identified by the tuple (source IP, source port, destination ip, destination port). Theoretically, it should thus be possible to have a client from host1:port1 connect to server1:port1 and at the same time another client (running on host1) from host1:port1 to...
@KennyRasschaert Yeah, I saw some stuff on it. I didn't know what they were talking about because mine was still showing the old interface. Then I did a hard refresh. And it sucked.
please could someone help me to correct below scripts that can automatically reboot Centos 5 server once the memory less than 85 and server load over 3. I found this script via Google,I checked it and found there are syntax errors,but I know nothing on bash script programming,so I need your help ...
Heh. I think I narked off my nearest Best Buy store last night. Went in after a bit of networking kit, saw they had a price match promise against Amazon.co.uk and any high street store. Whipped out RedLaser (on my Android, price comparison app), found the same thing on Amazon for £95 (down from £119 in best buy) and got the thing £25 +10% difference off. The guy serving me didn't look too impressed.
They were cheaper than most of the high-street stores in the UK and beat my normal online retailers by £20 as well. Although Best Buy do go in my "Despised High Street Store" list, along with PC World, Dixons, Comet and Currys.
On a route to Philly in my area, there is a crappy furniture store called "Best Buy Furniture" with the 'Furniture' in really small text, the store is yellow and blue in color and it is hilarious to drive by every single time.
@Shads0 "There's a store called Breast Buy - FALSE. ADVERTISING. They only let you rent them for a few hours and you have to bring them back in the same condition you got them!" - Standard Comedy Skit #427
I'm ok with it for some things, but the part that annoys me the most is the cashiers that will NEVER stop trying to sell you their stupid plan crap or geek squad.
it's like the card-reading tech support weenies - If they don't follow the script they're taken out to the stockroom and beaten with overpriced HDMI cables
I worked at Sears for a bit and there's a big wall in the back of each employee's monthly Credit Card signups and Warranties sold.. They pushed that stuff very heavily.
One day getting a basic wireless router and USB receiver for my GF's house, the cashier saw the dongle and was constantly telling me the device will break and I should spend the extra $20 for the replacement plan on a $15 dongle. I told her no politely at first, then she kept going on saying they're crap and should always have a warranty.
@Shads0 That's the main thing about my "High Street Store list". DO you want cover against accidental damage. - NO. I'm not a monkey. Do you want geek squad to charge you £40 to install office? No. Do you want - NO. GO AND DIE IN A FIRE.
I firmly told her no and then she rang up the router and went on the same tangent about how fragile they are and that her last one "literally exploded, and it apparently happens all the time". I lost it at this point and said something like "I think working with this shit would entitle me to more knowledge about them than you do selling it" but laden with a lot more profanity and shouting.
I still get that from people all the time. I'll pull out a $1.25 HDMI cable I got from eBay and they'll say something stupid like "That cable doesn't support digital TV though; you need to get one of the Monster 24K solid cables"
Nothing but the best for my digital signal that either gets there or doesn't and wouldn't know the difference between .1% attenuation and 1% attenuation!
@ChrisS Oh I know they push it, working Electronics at Target showed that to me very quickly, but I always yelled at the management saying 'why should i sell shit to people that don't need it" and bein 6' 4" (193cm for our EU folk) helped keep them off my back >:)
@Shads0 In that case I'll sell them to you for $4.75 =]
Might not be delivered quite as quick as NewEgg however...
I've bought plenty of HDMI, HDMI-DVI, DP-HDMI, etc cables off eBay. I don't think I've paid more than $2 for a 6' cable (except the HDMI-DP adapters, can't get cables, have to get adapters, licensing or something like that)
@Holocryptic Yeah, but GS would charge you £20 for it.
GAAAAH. How do you explain to people that there is an issue with the network that they don't have the technical capability to understand? Mention anything even vaugely technical and they derp out.
I just need to say "the intertubes got tangled" and I'll be fine.
The perfect vision of a Geek Squad Agent is 51% personality, and 49% technical. Calm the client down, assure them you are there to help, and then save their technical day, week, month or even life! I could not wait to get into the field, and start protecting the world!
@MarkM it'd pay off my apartment, car, buy me a nice plane & leave me around $1.5M after taxes finish raping me - I'd be able to work because I want to, not because I have to :-)
I am building a custom Debian CD to install a Debian web server with our software, and it have to handle a printer, which can be any existing printer. How can I add all printers drivers, and how CUPS will install it the right way? The server will not be connected to Internet.
I think about a dir...
From the spec -- "Along with Critical Stable Geometry for high-quality audio and video signal transfer." What does that even MEAN? Did you have to find some way to dress up "We put the required polymer filler in the cable to keep the individual wires separated/immobilized per the HDMI spec"??
It's also really long, I can put my DVD player upstairs and plug it into my downstairs TV. Also, it's gold plated, so when it breaks (it won't) or gets old you can sell it at a local CASH 4 GOLD.
From a review: On the other hand, one thing that IS good about it. I left the packaging lying on the kitchen table and my neighbor's hot college student daughter came over to borrow some sugar. She saw it and since she's a bit of a gold digger, immediately asked me out. We had a date on Friday night, starting with some shopping for her, followed by a really expensive, lavish dinner at a restaurant I can't pronounce. She liked it. I still slept alone. We're doing it again tomorrow night too. Maybe she'll hug me goodnight this time.
I figured that "the more you spend the better the product is", and boy was I right! Downing a grand on a cable that reaches from my living room to my bed room was the best decision I've ever made, i'll never have to move my playstation again! I could have bought a small car for this price, but come on you don't have to pay insurance for this!
best review on the site.
wait, no. this one is better: I bought this HDMI cable, and the quality was so good that I bought another. I soon discovered that it was impossible to hook two of them up at once without extra hardware, so I went on Monoprice and bought a coupler for $0.79. I found that with two of these bad boys hooked up at once, the quality improved even more. I went ahead and refinanced my trailer and bought 6 more of these along with 6 more couplers and all I can say is WOW. These make my SDTV look even BETTER than any HDTV I've ever seen.
For those of you who don't know, this is God's second novel after the Old Testament. It's a marked improvement, in my opinion. He got rid of a lot of his previous angst and scorn, and has really begun to show some of the maturity present in his later works. He's become a much more loving and kind God, and, noticeably, he doesn't throw nearly as many tantrums as he did in the first book.
Cuz I was so looking forward to what SU had to say. Unless they're talking shit about us, in which case I say we go over there and exchange harsh words with them.
So i try to save that image (I had already pulled it up) but Chrome saved the 404 page instead of the image. First fail. Then I went into the cache to dig it out of there, but it turns out Chrome cached the 404 result. Double fail.
Posted by Kyle Brandt (@kylembrandt) on November 2nd, 2011
At Stack Exchange our use case for virtualization is growing. We are not going to run our core QA web servers and database servers using virtualization for performance reasons, but we do host things such as our monitoring system, blogs, domain controllers, and VPN servers.
Our collection of assorted services continues to grow, and with it so does our need to expand our virtualization setup. Currently in our main data center we have 3 VMWare ESX servers. But as we expand, how are we going to handle this growth? …
I am helping a friend out who has made quite a mess of his windows PC. Problem is that thar are lots of viruses, maybe rootkits and the like, I'm not a specialist.
A google redirect among other things, and It's almost impossible to get the whole disk clean... (antivirus and antispyware are int...
