Posts by psychonaut

please verify this! not because i am a pedant, but because i use teamviewer! (and a lot of my clients use talk talk because its cheap....nothing to do with me, i would never recomend it)

Re: VPN?

i would think so.

however, imagine trying to get doris the 80 year old to install it over the phone on her pc

or gina the 40 year old for that matter. or bill the fuckwit , or john the "im not very computer illiterate" (yes, they say "not illiterate" because they once heard someone say "im not computer literate" and didnt know what the work literate meant, in the same way the same people say "pacific" when they mean "specific"

Re: Sledgehammer meet nut

yeash, i looked at screen connect about 4 years ago - at the time of the great logmein debacle when logmein revoked free access completely with about 5 days notice, and hiked prices for paying customers by ludicrous amounts (mine went from £200 per year to £1500), and also took those inflated amounts from peoples accounts without telling them that the amount had gone through the roof.

i hate logmein now. its a great product, but they are bastards, and i will never ever go back to them

i evaluated loads of different options, and screen connect came second. it was a great price but it just wasnt ready at the time i felt, and i went with teamviewer.

i get decent prices on teamviewer because i jumped on board a while ago - its £200 or so a year for unlimited on 1 channel. if i was to sign up now though i suspect it would be a shed load more

Re: Fuckers

bt / open reach. i always tell my customers - if we give them the opportunity to fuck up, they will grasp it with both feet.

true to form, they managed to bork an office's internet connection for a whole day this week when they downgraded us from 5 static ip's to 1.

0 connection. did a trace route, the whole internet dissapears after 2 hops

their "technician" was adamant ...but we can see the router.

of course you can you stupid fuck its within your core network. i cant get to it from somewhere else and we cant get anywhere (useful) from here. i can see your gateway but nothing else

then it was - oh, we will send an engineer out to site to check - if its your fault, we will charge you.

i said, so, whats the likeliehood of it being a coincidental line fault ? last night, you changed the ip of the router. from 6 am this morning, we dont have internet. cant ping anything, cant ping our own ip from external. for fucks sake, what is wrong with your stupid brain you dick?

it will take us up to 48 hours to send an engineer.

DONT send a fucking engineer. the problem lies in the configuration of whatever you fucked up yesterday.

MANAGER PLEASE! MANAGER!

but we can see the router.....

aaaaarghjh....murder death kill

eventually got hold of a manager who flipped us back to dhcp in about 2 minutes. not before a whole day near enough of no network and running off of phone hotspot

Re: Differentiation

i couldnt agree more.

removable battery , sd slot, 5.5" ish screen, waterproof, very good camera, vanilla android, keep it updated.

thats it. basically its a waterproof note 4 with a better camera (particularly in low light). ive been due an upgrade for a while but i cant find anything to fit the bill (suggestions appreciated)

stop putting fucking leds on the back and just learn the lessons of shit that doesnt work and fix it. this applies to tv manufacturers as well. stop making it shiny. make it boring, but make it work.

Re: Not work but...

image takes 7 minutes via a usb 3 caddy, netowrk a little longer . nuke it from orbit. quicker and safer

Re: Whats the strangest thing you have used to measure something?

1 thumb down...well, you did ask

Re: Whats the strangest thing you have used to measure something?

soemtimes we go double avian and use a cock or two. SQQUAAAWK!

Re: Whats the strangest thing you have used to measure something?

i measure the internal length of my girlfriends reproductive organs with a cock.

Re: @MyBackDoor

use carbonite.

they have point in time restore. if you get hit, you get in touch and they can roll your backup back to before it happened. then you rebuild the machine, and press "get my files back" and thats it, job done. it can take a while to get all your data if you have a lot of it but you do get it back. you might lose some changes - they have to roll back to before anything was encrypted, but you wont lose much.

ive seen it work in anger. i sell lots of it, you can make reasonable money out of it.

unlimited storage is £69 dollars a year per device (for non server OS)

its more expensive for servers of course but they have products that do all of that too.

it really is very good indeed for the money.

this is for non server/domain setups - not many small offices i deal with can afford a server, but you can also set up a spare pc (say dual core intel, 4gb ram, ssd if needed - hp elte 8000 for instance, say £50 for the box, £40 quid for the backup disk, same for [primary unless you want ssd) as a data server, then have network shares to it under a standard account. put a big backup disk in it and have macrium or windows backup run to that, remove permissions for standard users to access the backup disk. i prefer macrium because it can email if it is successfull or failed.

then you have a box that cryptolocker can get at through the network shares, but it cant get at the backup disk.

if you back that pc up with carbonite (69 dollars a year), you have belt and braces. (in case of fire, theft, stupidity)

you can then run openvpn if you want remote access to the files, put prooper security on it etc etc....miles better than a nas.

Re: News? Or "olds"?

its not a sammy battery....its a sammy ssd