ispgeek

He did have any problems till he did some updates. As of right now He's going to go back to XP Pro 32bit. From day one, and its a brand new custom build machine hes had nothin problems with the 64Bit

I don't blame him....I did the same thing.

HEY EVERYONE!!!!...I recently did the ComTIA Seccurity + exam and FAILED,not becuz of lack of preparation but becuz ComPTIA is "SlipStreaming" aka changing the objectives of the exam ,so what you studied so hard for isnt what your gonna get tested on.So people BEWARE dont waste your money.Wait for furture notice.

Thank you!!

This is actually very common with COMPTIA....Although the certifications are nice to have do not put all your job eggs in the certification basket.  Most employers know the difference between booksmart and experienced candidates the guy/gal with the experience nowadays is going to get the job over the guy with a ton of certs.  Now for a while that was different...but employer experiences with the heavily certified and non experienced person is that they are totally useless in a crisis because they can't think outside the book.  Your best bet is to get as much experience as you can...starting from the ground and working up....you will be far better prepared and qualified than your cert smart equiv.

And for all you Christmas shoppers, here is a "list" that will have you fuming for years to come.  Many merchants now subscribe to a Chexsystems like database that is essentially a blacklist of consumers that have been reported for "returns" abuses.  Once on the list you remain there for 5 or more years and will find it next to impossible to return things to participating merchants.  What's worse is if you do end up on the list wrongfully there is almost no way to get removed from it.  I witnessed a lady at Target (who uses the system) being casually being blacklisted on the spot.  RULE #1. IF THEY ASK FOR YOUR DRIVERS LIC TELL THEM YOU DON'T HAVE IT WITH YOU...because that is how they got her....the clerk casually asked for her DL and then placed her on the list because this woman had brought back a ton of returns (as the clerk put it).  Then the clerk bragged openly after the lady left that she won't be making any returns for a very long time.....this happened less than a month ago at a Target here in FL.

http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/return_policies.html

http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20041228/news_1b28returns.html

Here is another example of information mining that has an effect on you every day since insurance companies, employers and private investigators all have access and disputing this information on behalf of the consumer is next to impossible.

It's commonly called your MIB and here is some information about it...

http://www.privacyrights.org/ar/speech2.htm

http://www.yourcredit.com/disclosure/MIBprivacy.jsp

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y113/paulbubel/tinfoil-hat.jpg

I like it....I wonder if they come in different sizes...but if they are mass marketed will they too come with RFID's?

well now that you brought up this topic ...and wally world.....

this may be a BS thing i heard ,,,but i have heard about their tracking not only in the cameras...digital info...etc...but also some sort of chip in some or all of the clothing items they sell.......was this as i stated b4 just a line of BS       or have you guys heard of this??

cheers

and remember....

sam walton is watching you....lmao

Here is some more information on RFID's that you might want to read....this is good stuff actually and it really should be watched closely.

http://www.uwrfidlab.org/news/docs/LabpressCNN_RFID.pdf

http://rfidlawblog.mckennalong.com/archives/100-print.html

http://www.epic.org/privacy/rfid/

Ah yes....a forceful press.....even more encouraging....thank you all the mods for contributing your "opinions"...nice to see we have a nice open forum of communication here.....that open forum is what has made TMN such a special place......

well now that you brought up this topic ...and wally world.....

this may be a BS thing i heard ,,,but i have heard about their tracking not only in the cameras...digital info...etc...but also some sort of chip in some or all of the clothing items they sell.......was this as i stated b4 just a line of BS    or have you guys heard of this??

cheers

and remember....

sam walton is watching you....lmao

Yes you are correct....it's called an RFID and very soon they will probably be in everything regardless what store you go to.  Now walmart says they are just for inventory control and tracking but the real story is......With RFID technology a merchant could literally do an inventory of your body as you come into their store or department and within seconds target YOU specific advertising based on it.  But it goes much deeper than that...the technology would allow them to scan for ANY RFID embedded device on your person and this includes drivers licenses....and to the extreme some form of implantable body chip (guess the noids weren't so crazy after all).....Now what could possibly go wrong? 

Here is some references to gobble up...

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.07/shoppers.html

http://www.spychips.com/

http://www.silicon.com/software/applications/0,39024653,10005771,00.htm

I am not surprised....thats okay....you are entitled to your opinion...thanks for voiciing it...

who wants to think about something like this.......its pointless.......as long as we are living a life in a community of people our information is exploited one way or another....being paranoid is useless

the only way to save yourself is to limit yourself to your own private island or never get out of the room :0)

Thank you for your fine contribution.....ah yes....freedom of the press.....gotta love it....

Here's another...(back to the topic)....

There are now cameras at virtually every major intersection in our town...and a whole bunch not so major. Now the obvious use is for traffic control (we all know that)....but very same cameras that give us traffic control capabilities also give people the capability to scan license plates in real time (not to mention snap that digital photo of you hookin that ever so bothersome boogie at 4th and 21st streets).  What could possibly go wrong?  :2funny:

edit: to paraphrase what he really meant

I prefer Walmart. And so far safe. [i think] Or is it? 

Oh h^ll no....Wallmart is one of the biggest data mining companies out there.  Their database of your purchase habits even dwarfs Sears who for many years held the title there.  Any time you purchase anything at Walmart your entire purchase record along with your id (cc, atm, check info) goes into their database.  What's really scary is all those cameras above the registers....well they arent just to keep safe watch over the checkers...they are there to snap digital images of you if the checker scans items that meet certain watchlist criteria....example you buy more than one package of pseudoephedrine (pardon the spelling) or combine that purchase with with octane boost (common ingredients of mfr of meth).  Your picture, your purchase history along with all the credit cards you have ever used may then be shipped to authorities or other agencies wanting such data.  Same thing goes for cell phones or more than one high dollar ticket item.  Walmart is no different than any other company in its class....they make money on you any way they can...if selling your buying habit data will make them money...be sure its being done...because it is....

List all the ways that data is collected about you on a daily basis including but not limited to video, credit card, employment, any form of internet, you name it....anything that you can think of that actually contributes to your cyber entity on a daily basis....and please give specific examples that you know of that might be limited to your area.  Once we get the list compiled then we will have some fun as to how it is currently abused or could be abused by anyone wanting to gather information on you.

Here goes....

Any time you take your car to one of those places like Jiffy Lube etc...they do a car health report....and from your perspective they try to get you to buy this, that or the other additional service in addition to that like el cheapo oil change.  Well that aint all they do....the data they collect about your car, including VIN and condition, diagnosis info, car computer data, over all wear and tear and maint and what you actually had serviced, your name, your drivers lic, your credit card info...all goes into a database they sell to companies like carfax, insurance companies, investigation companies, anyone who might want information about how you take care of your car.  Now what could go wrong?

Ok my friend at work is having some problems with IE in XP Pro 64. This is what he has told me "basically my 32bit version of IE hangs as if it is loading a page while my 64bit doesn't". To what he also told me. He cant ping or even access the router? It does this in IE6 & 7. So far this is all i know, and if you have any suggestions shoot them my way. Cause right now he whats to

I had some very (I mean very!) strange things happen with XP64 while I had it loaded.  When certain pc's would connect to my network the XP64 box network adapter took on a mind of its own....almost looked like a broadcast storm (or depending on where ya come from...a packet flood).  I had to go into tcpip settings and disable some things that normally one would not mess with to get it to go away and even then I suspect that there was still some driver issues even though I had the current ASUS networking drivers.  The alternative was to not allow the box that seem trigger XP64's reponse to stay on the network very long or do any major data transfers from it and to be honest...I had so many compatiblity issues with XP64 and usb devices etc...that I went back to 32 bit pro.

I have set up a removable drive with Windows Vista (32-bit Build 5600) and Fedora 6 Core on it. I can dual boot them, but it uses the GRUB loader to boot into Vista. When I had a dual boot set up with XP and Red Hat, I could edit the boot.ini file to make it boot from Windows by copying the first 512 bytes of the Linux bootsect. But now I have discovered that Vista no longer uses boot.ini and instead uses Boot Configuration Data (BCD). Anyone have any clues/suggestions as to how to fix this??

What you are trying to do sounds wonderful.....great concept....but knowing as little as I do about Vista and only going by what I've heard it also scares me to death....I guess if I had nothing to lose with my data and alot of time to mess with it this might be a cool idea (or if I knew more about how Vista will work).

...I have decided to take a dive after having discussions with my buddies that are studying medicine and all....

I have decided to start taking hydroxy to prove that it actually does help when loosing weight....

I have taken hydroxycut before, only doing the minimum doseage, even after the 1st week...I have never exceeded more than 2 pills per day with regular exercise, even after a month of doing it - most of the days, I used one pill and it did work just as well....

Now...all bodies react differently - so crap, you cant expect it to work wonders on anyones body - but it indeed does work....I noticed, before when I was taking it for few months, it helps stabilize my apetite and there is no way I could lose as much weight as I did without it...not without starving myself for days and days...

Anyway....I ordered my months supply of hydroxycut today, and I should get it by the end of the week...which means by next Monday I shall start my little experiment....

I will weigh myself before and after and post results at the end of the each week....I will go on a moderate diet as well as try and get 1 hour of exercise (45 minutes of running and 15 minutes of whatever else) 4-5 days a week....

Ill report back here.....it shall be a good experiment that I think people would like to know what happens....

Now...is there anyone here who would like to join me in on this....start the 'experiment', if you wanna call it that, together and end it together....anyone that has ever wanted to try something like this...bring it on...we can do this !

Please be careful....none of these things are very safe.....in fact they aren't safe at all and depending on your health and body chemistry they can do some really nasty things....

I have two of these...bought at different times and not a single bad pixel in the bunch....overall very nice and very inexpensive....I highly recommend them.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16824160147R

I should clarify...that is the monitor....the listing above is for open box items of it....I would suggest their next available new item which is below....any monitor from this company is going to be good based on my personal experience with them.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16824160149

I could make a list that people have forgotten about Little Billy. But that is not necessary. I am sure it already got covered in the "Worst Presidents thread ".

He was a very busy little boy. 

Evidently so was Monica...  :2funny:

Okay.....I have something even better than that then.....so simple even you can do it Tommie.....

http://www.beyondconnectedhome.com/products/icebox/icebox_ct.html

Here is another el cheapo solution for ya Tommie....this one even you can't break....

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1243214&CatId=115

:2funny: :2funny: :2funny: :2funny:

i just wish everyone could be free and be civil to other people... like.. when clinton was pres... everything seemed better to me *although i was young, i didnt really care*

9/11 was just horrible.. people can be retards

That's because slick willy was too busy getting his rocks off with Monica to do anything constructive or destructive for that matter....

up there where it shows the laptops.. they are old.. buy a new, cheaper, faster one

ispgeek, i agree with the mac hating.. I HATE EM

Actually....its more the mac users that I hate than the devices themselves.  The users tend to be elitest wacko liberal types that just oooze with sarcasim.....I have been known to leave a coffee shop or two when groups of two or more come in...because they disgust me....

OK, so I am going to notlike myself for doing  this. But windows would be nice. I know no one that can teach her about MAC OS operations. If she had trouble on vacation, no one could help her. I know I could not teach... never mind.

Windows needed, please. I don't hate Mac, I just don't wish to learn a whole new language.

Was a real nice effort ISP.

Okay.....I have something even better than that then.....so simple even you can do it Tommie.....

http://www.beyondconnectedhome.com/products/icebox/icebox_ct.html

Do me a favor and copy and paste my entire post and run it through your spell checker ISPgeek, and show me where your dime store made in Taiwan spell checker found any mistakes. 

Buy made in Japan next time. 

Doh!

I knew your reply was gonna sting a bit.....

Just imagine tiny Mercury feels about it....not to mention hot......yikes....

Good question.

The ethernet port and the USB port each have their own MAC address, so you would think you can use them both separately.

You could try 2 separate computers and see if the modem will assign two separate IP addresses at the same time.

This may be what is stopping you, your ISP may not allow it.

Actually the answer to that question is no.  There are only a couple of modems out there that actually allow you to use both the USB and Ethernet port at the same time.  Arris is not one of the mfrs.  Now if you have a Toshiba modem you can and your isp probably won't mind adding the extra IP.  Thing is to get someone that actually knows about the Toshibas features....many reps will have no idea what you are talking about.

I dont usually watch the news so i wouldnt know unless they did something like make a law against riding a bike. 

Oh man.....you didn't get the news?!!!!!!!!  Bikes are banned forever in your county.  Too many bicyclists were run over by motorcyclists.....sorry man....i thought you knew.....