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Another hectic day at work, involving three different people trying to get my help at the same time, followed by the entire internet going down. (Or the router, which is almost the same thing). After a frenzied phone call to Telewest, it all miraculously started working again. Typical.
After that episode, I decided to plug in a lovely little machine I'd seen in a back room — one with a transparent-sided case and pointless tricoloured lighting (what is this, a computer or a christmas tree?). This turned out to have a total of six user accounts. All of them 'administrator' accounts. One of which included the word 'Celtic' in the user name, and another included the word 'Hibees'. I did not have high hopes for the health of this machine.
Running a virus scanner on it revealed no less than 24 different types of virus, trojan, worm and malware. You could do virus research on this computer. Most of these viruses I'd never even heard of — w32.rameh? w32.breatel?
Then I wound up the day up to my waist in disassembled computers, trying to put together a working one of acceptable speed. Which involved trying to match different RAM. Let me say now that Hyundai is The Enemy of All Mankind. Their memory doesn't show the capacity, it doesn't show clock speed; it doesn't show anything except a set of serial numbers that make sense only to them. Absolute bastrads, the lot of them.
On the subject of memory, I have a question for fellow geeks. Say I've got a peice of SDRAM that has "pc100-322-620" on it. I know that the first number is the memory clock speed, but what do the other numbers mean? And how much of it has to be matched when mixing different memory in the same computer?
And that's quite enough of that. How are you today?
After that episode, I decided to plug in a lovely little machine I'd seen in a back room — one with a transparent-sided case and pointless tricoloured lighting (what is this, a computer or a christmas tree?). This turned out to have a total of six user accounts. All of them 'administrator' accounts. One of which included the word 'Celtic' in the user name, and another included the word 'Hibees'. I did not have high hopes for the health of this machine.
Running a virus scanner on it revealed no less than 24 different types of virus, trojan, worm and malware. You could do virus research on this computer. Most of these viruses I'd never even heard of — w32.rameh? w32.breatel?
Then I wound up the day up to my waist in disassembled computers, trying to put together a working one of acceptable speed. Which involved trying to match different RAM. Let me say now that Hyundai is The Enemy of All Mankind. Their memory doesn't show the capacity, it doesn't show clock speed; it doesn't show anything except a set of serial numbers that make sense only to them. Absolute bastrads, the lot of them.
On the subject of memory, I have a question for fellow geeks. Say I've got a peice of SDRAM that has "pc100-322-620" on it. I know that the first number is the memory clock speed, but what do the other numbers mean? And how much of it has to be matched when mixing different memory in the same computer?
And that's quite enough of that. How are you today?
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