alright Tommy... I'll break it down for you

[retro]

As far as spelling and constructing a grammatically correct sentence goes; it's more than a little difficult to compose anything in the small scrolling window you get for rep. I will say that nothing I said was spelled incorrectly. Well, I did leave the "r" off of "your", which simply made it "you", which was spelled properly. but grammatically incorrect.

On the other hand, your post was full of total and complete nonsense.

the computer is not a windows computer until you load windows on top of whoever's BIOS was provided as embedded (burnt into the motherboard) firmware

Hey genius... you don't load windows on top of a BIOS. Windows is installed onto the hard drive. It is the first bit of code that the computer uses when it boots up, it checks the processor, memory, and disk drives and determines if there is anything wrong with the computer itself. It will search for a boot device based on the priority that is set. Once it finds a bootable device, it will load depending on what is installed; whether it be Windows, Linux, or a bootable disk/CD.

you must REINSTALL WINDOWS often/once a week/once a month/once a year depending on the age and performance ratings of your HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\hardware\msconfig.cfg hahahahahaha file not found. press alt + F4 to CLOSE PROGRAM

I've addressed this already, but I'll do so again.

Telling someone to reinstall Windows once a week or once a month is totally and completely idiotic. It conveys the fact that you have absolutely no clue what you are talking about. Furthermore, there is no such thing as a performance rating for a registry key. Even if there was, there isn't a performance rating for a registry key that doesn't even exist. MSCONFIG controls the boot parameters of windows, the services that startup, and the autoexec.bat (in OS versions that have it). There's no performance ratings associated with it, and anyone with a clue would be aware of this fact.

without going too overboard with that little ad-libbed messy dos HELP F1+MANUAL COMPOSEdddd!!00+~$billgatesisnotgod parody, welcome to linux land.

Gibberish

i just finally took the plunge and loaded ubuntu 10.10 without windows after the last catastrophic failure.

this one was finally my own fault.

i was getting too happy and i brought my fist down hard on the keyboard, wasting the hdd and cdrw. if you've never done it, bust that puppy open and give it a good blow job. all you'll need is a can or two of air, a small phillips screwdriver and a sable brush. dirt buildup is a major contributor to failures.

Good for you, Ubuntu is a fairly decent Linux distribution. The good part about it is that it's fairly easy to use, which is a great thing for obviously novice computer users such as yourself.

Guess what genius, smashing your keyboard isn't going to cause damage to your hard drive or optical drive directly. Only if those were propping up your keyboard could I see this causing an issue. As far as using compressed air goes, it's a great thing for fans, keyboards, and even optical drives in some cases. However, it's not going to do a damn thing to help revive a dead hard drive. the components within the hard drive are sealed, and there is no way for dust to enter the inner components of the drive. Unless of course you've unscrewed the thing, in which case whoever did that is a complete idiot with no knowledge of computers at all.

my actual opinion is that her disk was blown and needed to be replaced. if it can run ubuntu, then the windows was blown and indeed needed to be re-installed. i've never been able to bring the windows system back from a boot error like that. i just reformat the drive and reload it, instead of wasting a lot of time and bandwidth commiserating with people about what to do next. [/url]

She said that she was running Ubuntu on a live CD, she tried to install Ubuntu but it didn't work. At least that's what I gathered from the situation. There are a few likely possibilities

1) The hard drive is toast, replace it
2) The boot loader is corrupted (either Windows or something like GRUB)
3) The cables are loose and/or bad

If 1, replace the drive. If 2, FDisk, or merely reinstall Windows or your favorite flavor of Linux and let it format the drive for you. If 3, reseat the cables or replace them if needed.

There are also other potential problems. The BIOS could be set incorrectly, and could have the IDE or SATA channels disabled for some unknown reason. If that's the problem, then you reset the BIOS or simply enable them.

there are a number of different variations, but those three are the ones I have most commonly seen in the last 15+ years.

i also recommend that people who have older machines, bust them open and get the built up crud out of them because it leads to corrosion that will eventually destroy the main board.

That's pretty much the only thing that I agree with you on... even though the chances of dust corroding the motherboard are very slim. It's far more likely that dust could cause the processor fan to become ineffective, and lead to the processor overheating and causing serious issues.

 

[Dana]

and this has to do with computers how? well aside from the repping part LOL... I'd just ignore him.

 

[TommyTooter]

and this has to do with computers how? well aside from the repping part LOL... I'd just ignore him.

i had been, dana. this is where it started.

he mistook some gibberish i wrote as parody for serious advice and flipped out. now, instead of just saying, ok, haha, you fooled me, he's trying to say i was serious and tried to switch gears so that he can continue to call me names. the latest was pathetic old man. my father's old. i'm just past my prime and loving almost every minute of it.

i'm hooking back up with people i've known as far back as grade school. the young hippies are sucking up to us greybeards. the squares are giving me real good money for my music and crafts.

some stuck up, aggressive young computer stud misapprehending me and making a fool out of himself in the process is one of the funniest things i've seen online in years. thanks for the advice bro, enjoy the show. he doesn't seem to want to let go yet. like a little Chihuahua gnawing an ankle he is.

 

[TommyTooter]

As far as spelling and constructing a grammatically correct sentence goes; it's more than a little difficult to compose anything in the small scrolling window you get for rep. I will say that nothing I said was spelled incorrectly. Well, I did leave the "r" off of "your", which simply made it "you", which was spelled properly. but grammatically incorrect.

On the other hand, your post was full of total and complete nonsense.



Hey genius... you don't load windows on top of a BIOS. Windows is installed onto the hard drive. It is the first bit of code that the computer uses when it boots up, it checks the processor, memory, and disk drives and determines if there is anything wrong with the computer itself. It will search for a boot device based on the priority that is set. Once it finds a bootable device, it will load depending on what is installed; whether it be Windows, Linux, or a bootable disk/CD.



I've addressed this already, but I'll do so again.

Telling someone to reinstall Windows once a week or once a month is totally and completely idiotic. It conveys the fact that you have absolutely no clue what you are talking about. Furthermore, there is no such thing as a performance rating for a registry key. Even if there was, there isn't a performance rating for a registry key that doesn't even exist. MSCONFIG controls the boot parameters of windows, the services that startup, and the autoexec.bat (in OS versions that have it). There's no performance ratings associated with it, and anyone with a clue would be aware of this fact.



Gibberish



Good for you, Ubuntu is a fairly decent Linux distribution. The good part about it is that it's fairly easy to use, which is a great thing for obviously novice computer users such as yourself.

Guess what genius, smashing your keyboard isn't going to cause damage to your hard drive or optical drive directly. Only if those were propping up your keyboard could I see this causing an issue. As far as using compressed air goes, it's a great thing for fans, keyboards, and even optical drives in some cases. However, it's not going to do a damn thing to help revive a dead hard drive. the components within the hard drive are sealed, and there is no way for dust to enter the inner components of the drive. Unless of course you've unscrewed the thing, in which case whoever did that is a complete idiot with no knowledge of computers at all.

my actual opinion is that her disk was blown and needed to be replaced. if it can run ubuntu, then the windows was blown and indeed needed to be re-installed. i've never been able to bring the windows system back from a boot error like that. i just reformat the drive and reload it, instead of wasting a lot of time and bandwidth commiserating with people about what to do next. [/url]

She said that she was running Ubuntu on a live CD, she tried to install Ubuntu but it didn't work. At least that's what I gathered from the situation. There are a few likely possibilities

1) The hard drive is toast, replace it
2) The boot loader is corrupted (either Windows or something like GRUB)
3) The cables are loose and/or bad

If 1, replace the drive. If 2, FDisk, or merely reinstall Windows or your favorite flavor of Linux and let it format the drive for you. If 3, reseat the cables or replace them if needed.

There are also other potential problems. The BIOS could be set incorrectly, and could have the IDE or SATA channels disabled for some unknown reason. If that's the problem, then you reset the BIOS or simply enable them.

there are a number of different variations, but those three are the ones I have most commonly seen in the last 15+ years.



That's pretty much the only thing that I agree with you on... even though the chances of dust corroding the motherboard are very slim. It's far more likely that dust could cause the processor fan to become ineffective, and lead to the processor overheating and causing serious issues.

little moisture, a rat hair, bye-bye mother board. seen it often in the 30+ years i've been doing it.

lay off turkey. i really was just kidding. i loathe microsoft as a company and have had nothing but problems with their garbage since i first saw it in 1985. how old were you then? since 1999 and having it on my own computer, i estimate microsoft software failures have cost me over 30,000 hours of my time and i'm self employed so that really hurts.

 

[retro]

past my prime

That says it all. I'm not stuck up, I just simply know when I'm right. This is my area of expertise, and what I do for a living. The only person here making a fool out of themselves is you, and you're the only one that believes otherwise. I simply call things that way that I see them, and I don't back down from anyone, regardless of their age, or obvious deficient mental capacity. Or the fact that they have an incredibly high, yet misplaced sense of self-worth and importance in the world.

 

[retro]

little moisture, a rat hair, bye-bye mother board. seen it often in the 30+ years i've been doing it.

Blown capacitors? Yes, blown motherboard? No.

lay off turkey. i really was just kidding. i loathe microsoft as a company and have had nothing but problems with their garbage since i first saw it in 1985. how old were you then? since 1999 and having it on my own computer, i estimate microsoft software failures have cost me over 30,000 hours of my time and i'm self employed so that really hurts.

If it's cost you 30,000 hours of work, then you quite obviously have no damn clue what you're doing. I don't mean that as an insult, but it seems pretty obvious. That's what backups and redundancy are for. Additionally, hardware failures can't be blamed on Microsoft, only on the hardware manufacturer or the user. I've been at this for a living for 10 years now, and been working on computers running Windows for 15+, so that puts me at 1996 as compared to your 1999.

I can get a failed server back online and operational within hours, including PDCs where I have to rebuild Active Directory along with complicated Group Policies from scratch. I had to rebuild a DNS server from scratch about a year ago because my predecessor didn't have a backup in place. I had to rebuild another DNS server from scratch about 5 years ago because my co-worker fucked up big time. I've rebuilt Exchange servers, and plenty of other shit that you've probably never touched in your entire life.

This is my area of expertise, and something that I've earned the right to be arrogant about.

 

[TommyTooter]

That says it all. I'm not stuck up, I just simply know when I'm right. This is my area of expertise, and what I do for a living. The only person here making a fool out of themselves is you, and you're the only one that believes otherwise. I simply call things that way that I see them, and I don't back down from anyone, regardless of their age, or obvious deficient mental capacity. Or the fact that they have an incredibly high, yet misplaced sense of self-worth and importance in the world.

were you looking in the mirror while you composed that? you're supposed to watch the screen, don't you know?

we'll see who laughs last. keep it up. i'm amused.

 

[retro]

I was looking in the mirror when I said that this is my area of expertise and what I do for a living. The rest was directed towards a specific type of person, of which I'm not. Of course, I was speaking metaphorically. Though, since I have the capability to touch type, I could actually look at the mirror and post at the same time. Can't you do that? Touch type that is.

 

[TommyTooter]

Blown capacitors? Yes, blown motherboard? No.



If it's cost you 30,000 hours of work, then you quite obviously have no damn clue what you're doing. I don't mean that as an insult, but it seems pretty obvious. That's what backups and redundancy are for. Additionally, hardware failures can't be blamed on Microsoft, only on the hardware manufacturer or the user. I've been at this for a living for 10 years now, and been working on computers running Windows for 15+, so that puts me at 1996 as compared to your 1999.

I can get a failed server back online and operational within hours, including PDCs where I have to rebuild Active Directory along with complicated Group Policies from scratch. I had to rebuild a DNS server from scratch about a year ago because my predecessor didn't have a backup in place. I had to rebuild another DNS server from scratch about 5 years ago because my co-worker fucked up big time. I've rebuilt Exchange servers, and plenty of other shit that you've probably never touched in your entire life.

This is my area of expertise, and something that I've earned the right to be arrogant about.

you're really a funny fellow. do you get out of your cubicle much?

i was in nuclear medicine research at utexas and worked with equipment you've never been anywhere near. office wanker equipment doesn't impress me at all. i've watched the evolution of office equipment as a family-held corporation executive since i graduated high school in 1968. what to you know about big CCM's and automated factories?

quick mr. wizard, what fraction of 12 years is 30,000 hours? most of what i was dealing with was software failures in microsoft's products and malicious media attacks aimed at microsoft that were landing on me because my machines were running their products and they weren't hardened like a server farm or data warehouse. some of that time was spent helping neighbors straighten out problems with their own machines.

 

[TommyTooter]

I was looking in the mirror when I said that this is my area of expertise and what I do for a living. The rest was directed towards a specific type of person, of which I'm not. Of course, I was speaking metaphorically. Though, since I have the capability to touch type, I could actually look at the mirror and post at the same time. Can't you do that? Touch type that is.

not really, it's only in the past few years i've had to do much typing. we had secretaries for that. i'm an equipment operator among other things, not an uppity computer geek all full of his microsoft skills. got any of those super duper certs of theirs? how bout somebody more respected, like CompTIA?

 

[JoeCool10]

Tommy, I thought you said you were out of here? I mean, not to pick a fight, but don't say you're gonna leave and then stick around to fight. That's more childish than what you're accusing Retro of.

 

[retro]

Anyone that thinks that CompTIA certs are more respected than others in the industry is, again, clueless.

 

[retro]

you're really a funny fellow. do you get out of your cubicle much?

i was in nuclear medicine research at utexas and worked with equipment you've never been anywhere near. office wanker equipment doesn't impress me at all. i've watched the evolution of office equipment as a family-held corporation executive since i graduated high school in 1968. what to you know about big CCM's and automated factories?

quick mr. wizard, what fraction of 12 years is 30,000 hours? most of what i was dealing with was software failures in microsoft's products and malicious media attacks aimed at microsoft that were landing on me because my machines were running their products and they weren't hardened like a server farm or data warehouse. some of that time was spent helping neighbors straighten out problems with their own machines.

I've done software maintenance for a linear accelerator... but that's as close to nuclear medicine that I've gotten. But, all of your "experience" has absolutely nothing to do with the matter at hand. While what I said is absolutely relevant to the discussion.

So are you honestly telling me that you've spent 28.5% of your life the last 12 years fixing Microsoft products? Give me a fucking break. If you were being hit by attacks, then you obviously didn't have a particularly secure network, which is again your own damn fault. If it was software failings due to maintenance patches, it's your fault for applying them before learning about how they would affect your other mission critical applications.

So you're basically telling me that you despise Microsoft because you've screwed up on how to use their products. That's fucking hilarious. I'm not a fan of Microsoft as a general rule, but knowing their products work and how to fix them is what I make my living from.

I guarantee you that I haven't spent nearly 30% of my life in the industry fixing Microsoft related problems. Maybe 10% at most, the rest of which has been spent at work doing maintenance, or enjoying my life.

 

[TommyTooter]

Tommy, I thought you said you were out of here? I mean, not to pick a fight, but don't say you're gonna leave and then stick around to fight. That's more childish than what you're accusing Retro of.

i didn't say i was leaving. i said i wasn't going to be able to use this as a home base and wouldn't be around a whole lot. big difference.

this whole thing started because this legend in his own mind misapprehended something i had posted in jest to alexis for serious advice and he flipped out and hasn't calmed down since. now his buddies are starting in on me. instead of just manning up, he's trying to say i'm a liar and just said i was joking later because his superior intellect had proven me so wrong.

it's just this sort of juvenile behavior that makes it impossible for me to do my work here and i'm sorry, but the rest of you aren't enough fun for me to be able to justify the allocation of more than a few hours a week. i have work i have to do when i'm online and i don't get it done hanging out in forum communities of this nature.

i don't mean it in a disparaging way -- it's just not suitable for anything more than me to bop in every now and then with a bunch of stuff to post and hang out for a while chatting with my respondents. i don't get my composition work done in a place that's mostly idle chatter on random topics. again not disparage this place or anybody in it.

any of you who would like to spend more time with me are more than welcome to visit at thoughts.com where my blogs are and facebook where my friends, family and co-workers of the hippie artist armada are. i hope this place will always have plenty of people who recognize me and are happy to see me when i show up. you are definitely one of those people.

happy day

peace

 

[retro]

I have proven you incorrect, I'm so sorry that you refuse to admit it. But hey, that's not my problem.

I'm sure we're all so very crushed that you're not going to grace us with your presence any as much any longer... it is truly a tragedy. What "work" do you have to do here? Educating the masses of how awesome a person you are? Or regaleing us with your inane stories about how important you supposedly are, and how the CIA shot you or whatever the fuck else you claim has happened.

For the record, I'm not a legend in my own mind, I just have my own areas of expertise, and this happens to be one of them.

Begone pest... the only juvenile around here is yourself.

 

[TommyTooter]

I've done software maintenance for a linear accelerator... but that's as close to nuclear medicine that I've gotten. But, all of your "experience" has absolutely nothing to do with the matter at hand. While what I said is absolutely relevant to the discussion.

So are you honestly telling me that you've spent 28.5% of your life the last 12 years fixing Microsoft products? Give me a fucking break. If you were being hit by attacks, then you obviously didn't have a particularly secure network, which is again your own damn fault. If it was software failings due to maintenance patches, it's your fault for applying them before learning about how they would affect your other mission critical applications.

So you're basically telling me that you despise Microsoft because you've screwed up on how to use their products. That's fucking hilarious. I'm not a fan of Microsoft as a general rule, but knowing their products work and how to fix them is what I make my living from.

I guarantee you that I haven't spent nearly 30% of my life in the industry fixing Microsoft related problems. Maybe 10% at most, the rest of which has been spent at work doing maintenance, or enjoying my life.

that's nice. i built a geiger counter from scratch when i was about 10 years old and walked away from nuclear physics by the time i was 16 to concentrate on biochemistry, zoology and music. i graduated from college a few years before you were born. we only had a cyclotron in college. i declined an offer from the navy to command an EOD unit after completing OCS and school.

if you'd like to see a resume, maybe i can find an old one somewhere. i've been self employed since 1985 when reagan pulled the plug on the funding for a job i had been hired for working for brown and goldstein in cardiology at dallas. you've heard of those guys, right? paul macdonald or john porter? those guys were the directors of the whole group i was working with between 80 and 82.

i won't even wave my test scores in your nose -- if you're such an important computer guy, you can ring up the feds and find anything you want to know about me. it's all in my 'permanent record'

thomas jay wasserberg 11/03/1954 -- no nci's are given out in public to a jomf sysadmin.

some people wonder about my use of lower case. i'm surprised you don't recognize it for what it is -- i quit writing code and have only been working with the hardware since 1974. programmers are the bane of my existence. i didn't like it and i wasn't very good at it. i made a huge mess of a honeywell time-sharing mainframe with fortran program on cards. they were down for at least a week as a result of the coredump and i never touched another coding sheet except for a few little statistical formulas i encoded at utexas for that work.

thankfully i've never had to deal with anybody having your job title. when i was losing all that software and equipment, i was working alone in my own lab and couldn't afford the 45K it was going to take to buy a firebox that could knock down the shit i was getting hit with.

the machines i was assembling were fast and smart but lacked the throughput capability to manage what was being forced on them from the network. something akin to sticking a garden hose in your mouth and opening it full blast. i was on a standalone personal webserver platform plugged into an old peer network of indie media producers and was getting hammered like nothing you've ever seen.

i'd complain to the owners of the telco servers that i traced attacks to and they'd give me some shit about optimizing their search engines. the fbi would tell me they have a 100,000 minimum loss to open an investigation and wish me luck with my civil complaint.

the exploiter would corrupt the operating systems completely at least once a month. i saw a bunch of illegal code microsoft put in that thing over the x mosaic and unix code it's derived from.

just apologize and forget about it. i don't want to have to look any more infantile than i do already just to put you in your place. the bad press isn't worth it to me. something will come along someday and humble you just fine without any help from me.

 

[retro]

:24:

Apologize? Hardly. I think you suffer from paranoid delusions of grandeur. You're so desperate for attention and respect that you make up crazy shit in order for people to "respect" you. Except all you've done is make a complete ass out of yourself. In doing a quick Google search on your name, I've discovered that this isn't the only forum where you spew random bullshit in a pathetic attempt to make yourself "special" in the eyes of everyone around you. Your posts are littered with insane claims that can't possibly be the truth.

You're claiming that you graduated high school in 1968, at the age of most likely 13. Sorry, not buying that one. You want me to believe you, post your diploma.

You claim to be the owner of a company called, "Delta T Creations", and yet there's no record of such a company ever existing as near as I can tell. The same goes for your "Real Things Artists Cooperative Networks" company that you also claim to be an owner of.

That all being said... in 1999 (when you say you first started working with Microsoft products), if my memory serves me correctly, a basic Cisco PIX Firewall ran for about $1,500. That should have provided you all the intrusion prevention that you could have ever needed at that point in time. If, as you claim, you spent so much time on fixing your computers that people supposedly hacked into, it would have been money well spent. I also know for certain that there were other firewall products that were far less advanced than the PIX that were available for less money. So your claim of $45k is grossly exaggerated. Additionally, telcos merely allow data to pass, they don't "optimize search engines", that's handled by the actual search engine companies. If you were on a "standalone personal webserver platform" then it was your own damn fault for not securing it.

Now, let's get back to your timeline here. You claim that you graduated high school at 13, and yet you didn't graduate college until 1978-79 (a few years before I was born). So it took you an additional what, 14-15 years to graduate college? I thought you were a super genius kid that graduated high school 5 years early. Something doesn't quite add up here.

I'm confused as to how the Navy just up and found you and offered you a command as well.

Additionally, I thought that you trained your entire life to be an "aquanaut/astronaut", or at least that's what you said in the Mubarak thread that you completely derailed in the News forum. Where does that fit in with your busy life of building geiger counters, nuclear physics, biochemistry, zoology, and music?

Face it, you probably shouldn't have gone down this road with me. I already proved that what you said, joke or not, to Alexis was wrong, and you even admitted it now. That was the whole purpose of this. So shouldn't you be apologizing to me? After all, you had this to day

i gave her sound advice. show me how it wasn't and i'll reconsider this

I didn't say that you'd apologize, but you said that you'd reconsider calling me an "arrogant little punk".

Honestly, I think you're probably a burnt out hippy that probably did way too many drugs in the 70s, and now you're paying for it later on in life. So you go to different internet forums, claiming to be this super important person that the CIA shot or whatever other crap you spew so that people will think you're something special. But then you run into someone like me, someone that can obviously out you for being a fraud. I don't have any ill will towards you, I just wish you'd either give up this act, or go away. Your blustering bullshit got old a long time ago.

But, 'tis time for me to attempt to go to sleep again. I'm sure I'll have another nonsensical rambling post that I don't know what I'm talking about and how you're this super genius that cured cancer but the government wouldn't let you patent it. Or some other crazy whacked out claim waiting for me when I eventually log back on sometime tomorrow.

 

[TommyTooter]

the only thing i'm going to claim is that your reading comprehension skills suck and it is impossible to communicate with somebody who can't read and keeps seeing things i didn't write.

fuck off. you're a waste of time.

if you get a moderator and three judges, we can debate. otherwise do as you wish.

 

[Zorak]

the only thing i'm going to claim is that your reading comprehension skills suck and it is impossible to communicate with somebody who can't read and keeps seeing things i didn't write.

fuck off. you're a waste of time.

if you get a moderator and three judges, we can debate. otherwise do as you wish.

Don't let it get to you. After all, you invented the internal combustion engine :clap

 

[Guyzerr]

if you get a moderator and three judges, we can debate. otherwise do as you wish.

So far you haven't debated or refuted a damn thing in this thread. Just provided your typical mumbo jumbo. If I were you I'd be very careful asking for three judges because you've hung yourself out to dry. :24: