Amusingly, it shows up in movies all the goddamn time cause it looks all futuristic or something. In Avatar the guys who drive the remote control bulldozers are using them.
neat, I see it has rudder control, I'm half and half between twisting and foot pedals for that twisting is hard to do when you're doing other joystick motions I've noticed
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System is clean AF. Ran MBAM Chameleon and it did the trick (thanks!). Nice program!
Servers are quote "running better than they have in years!", asked me if I could put together a bit of training for her to get down security basics or if I could recommend a good resource. I did both and put a Security+ study guide link on there for her. I will always help people who want to help themselves.
The lady I've been working with (not the one who put the coupon shit on there) has been really cool about it, extremely empathetic, and very down to earth.
She said today she was probably going to fire the mom and pop company that's been administrating their machines locally because of this mess, and they fired the person who installed the coupon thing. Yeah, she told me (in not so many words).
I'm glad that worked. MBAM Chameleon is my go to for a lot of the nastier stuff, though I haven't needed it recently. Most of what I've been seeing lately has been stuff like DNSUnlocker, which is easily cleared up by running normal MBAM in safe mode.
System is clean AF. Ran MBAM Chameleon and it did the trick (thanks!). Nice program!
Servers are quote "running better than they have in years!", asked me if I could put together a bit of training for her to get down security basics or if I could recommend a good resource. I did both and put a Security+ study guide link on there for her. I will always help people who want to help themselves.
The lady I've been working with (not the one who put the coupon shit on there) has been really cool about it, extremely empathetic, and very down to earth.
She said today she was probably going to fire the mom and pop company that's been administrating their machines locally because of this mess, and they fired the person who installed the coupon thing. Yeah, she told me (in not so many words).
I'm glad that worked. MBAM Chameleon is my go to for a lot of the nastier stuff, though I haven't needed it recently. Most of what I've been seeing lately has been stuff like DNSUnlocker, which is easily cleared up by running normal MBAM in safe mode.
Dude, I worked on an XP SP1 machine on Monday. They just "really want it to last one more year before they spend the money on a new computer".
I'm like.... You realize you just paid for me to work on resuscitating it for 3 hours to get it running again and that would have mostly paid for a brand new computer... right..?
Pfft. Amateurs. I still have to support a Windows 95 box.
I told them once it dies, it's dead and I'm not putting any effort into making it work again.
I'm fairly certain one of my coworkers has a client with an NT 4 box. Whenever it has to be rebooted they don The Robe, burn some sage, recite the unholy incantations and kill a goat.
hell I long into that thing at least once a week to reset passwords by manually copy/pasting hashes in an MS SQL table
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Some archaic DOS-based software for programming 30 year old alarm panels.
I can't even put it on a VM because the required 2400 baud modem won't pass data properly between the host machine and the VM. I also can't emulate it with DOSBox or something similar.
I used to have to power off the machine and whip out the IDE to USB adapter and simply copy the entire contents of the drive (a massive 2GB, I think) to make backups. I've long since stopped doing that and informed my boss it's not possible to get replacement parts and when it dies, we can no longer support our clients who've so far refused to update their hardware.
It took me like 4 conversations with him to make him realize it was time to stop supporting such old systems. If clients refuse to upgrade, that's on them. I think 30+ year old hardware has served its purpose. It's time to upgrade, costs be damned.
It may have worked years ago before telcos started switching everything to digital, but the security industry is so far behind in communications technology, it's staggering.
Modern panels still have 2400 baud phone connections. If you're lucky enough to get a panel with an ethernet connection, it's 10mbit and still only an analog to digital converter so communication is still limited to 2400bps.
The constant conversion between analog and digital and back wreaks havoc for reliable data transfer, both when trying to report an alarm (like a burglary alarm) and when trying to do remote programming to the panel.
Shit, the #1 programming software for Honeywell alarm panels still doesn't support the scrollwheel on mice.
And I would totally tell those clients that I refuse to have anything to do with or in any way be responsible for that pile of shit anymore. As far as I'm concerned there is a void in the universe where that machine sits. Alarm panels? Modem? What the fuck are you talking about?
And I would totally tell those clients that I refuse to have anything to do with or in any way be responsible for that pile of shit anymore. As far as I'm concerned there is a void in the universe where that machine sits. Alarm panels? Modem? What the fuck are you talking about?
One should be able to create the VM, pass serial back out at 2400, that's unusually slow, a VM should have 0 problems keeping up with it. Assuming the software that needs it can be run in the VM. Hell worst case run Windows 9x in a VM at that point.
That's the sort of challenge I 100% would love to do at a job.
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
It would be fun enough if that sort of challenge was your only job and you had reasonable time and resource expectations for completion and no other pressing duties.
Unfortunately you know that if you had that sort of challenge it would be on top of 20 other looming deadlines with a shoestring budget and someone asking you every other day why you haven't fixed it yet.
Companies with the luxury of letting you fuck around with that sort of pet project have the resources to not be relying on decrepit shitty old hardware in the first place.
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basically yeah.
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not useful in an fps that way though.
As a bonus the Panther XL fits perfectly in your lap and is super comfortable to use.
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Holy hell is that phallic.
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Joystick. I mean.
JOY STICK.
I have a Saitek x52 HOTAS and it's super sweet.
Amusingly, it shows up in movies all the goddamn time cause it looks all futuristic or something. In Avatar the guys who drive the remote control bulldozers are using them.
I'm glad that worked. MBAM Chameleon is my go to for a lot of the nastier stuff, though I haven't needed it recently. Most of what I've been seeing lately has been stuff like DNSUnlocker, which is easily cleared up by running normal MBAM in safe mode.
I miss safe mode.
Lies
You're just one of the unbelievers. I'm sorry you never understood it's glory.
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That controller is bad and you should feel bad.
Your loss. I am just sad they don't make one compatible with anything modern.
I happened to enjoy it quite a bit.
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The conversation may or may not have ended with my suggestion to take the box out back and shoot it. I need a shower.
I'm like.... You realize you just paid for me to work on resuscitating it for 3 hours to get it running again and that would have mostly paid for a brand new computer... right..?
I told them once it dies, it's dead and I'm not putting any effort into making it work again.
why
Couldn't find the WinME disks.
I'm fairly certain one of my coworkers has a client with an NT 4 box. Whenever it has to be rebooted they don The Robe, burn some sage, recite the unholy incantations and kill a goat.
hell I long into that thing at least once a week to reset passwords by manually copy/pasting hashes in an MS SQL table
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Some archaic DOS-based software for programming 30 year old alarm panels.
I can't even put it on a VM because the required 2400 baud modem won't pass data properly between the host machine and the VM. I also can't emulate it with DOSBox or something similar.
I used to have to power off the machine and whip out the IDE to USB adapter and simply copy the entire contents of the drive (a massive 2GB, I think) to make backups. I've long since stopped doing that and informed my boss it's not possible to get replacement parts and when it dies, we can no longer support our clients who've so far refused to update their hardware.
It took me like 4 conversations with him to make him realize it was time to stop supporting such old systems. If clients refuse to upgrade, that's on them. I think 30+ year old hardware has served its purpose. It's time to upgrade, costs be damned.
I'd love to try and get that working with a VM.
Modern panels still have 2400 baud phone connections. If you're lucky enough to get a panel with an ethernet connection, it's 10mbit and still only an analog to digital converter so communication is still limited to 2400bps.
The constant conversion between analog and digital and back wreaks havoc for reliable data transfer, both when trying to report an alarm (like a burglary alarm) and when trying to do remote programming to the panel.
Shit, the #1 programming software for Honeywell alarm panels still doesn't support the scrollwheel on mice.
One should be able to create the VM, pass serial back out at 2400, that's unusually slow, a VM should have 0 problems keeping up with it. Assuming the software that needs it can be run in the VM. Hell worst case run Windows 9x in a VM at that point.
That's the sort of challenge I 100% would love to do at a job.
Unfortunately you know that if you had that sort of challenge it would be on top of 20 other looming deadlines with a shoestring budget and someone asking you every other day why you haven't fixed it yet.
USB 3.0.
Edit:
Firewire (sounds better)
It was fun getting that to work in Windows 95, let me tell you.