frozen, again

[Pedro_The_Swift]

My upgrade to Win8 seems to have given me about 4 weeks of restart-free PC use.

I had one(no,, two now) this arvo though,,
The critical one is not the one that stopped it,, the one at the top of the list did it,,
next-
it may be just a coincidence that I started to receive these non-sendable emails at the same time,, and no I haven't opened the attachments, just deleted them,,
(I may fiddle Inc,, but I dont visit bad sites,,;) )

I have/am running the latest McAfee stinger,, malwarebytes found nothing,,

I have been running essentially the same programs for the last 5 years,,

I sometimes wonder if the person that built my D2 also built my PC,,,,

[Eevo]

My upgrade to Win8

i've found the problem.

[incisor]

remove malwarebytes for the 370000th time

you dont need any thing like it in windows 8 as mse is built in..

you dont need a 3rd party antivirus package either for that matter..

:wallbash:

go and do that clean up procedure i put up a while ago

[Pedro_The_Swift]

:Rolling::Rolling:

ok, ok,,
:D

[Pedro_The_Swift]

no comments on the emails?

[OffTrack]

no comments on the emails?

Judging by the message the emails are being sent from Russia, and have used a "forged" sender address.

The emails might be actually sent by evilspammer@spammers.ru via a compromised computer//server, but the sender address is forged so the mail appears to come from a third party. If mail servers blindly bounce failed delivery attempts the third party will get a barrage of email reject messages. It's known as backscatter. Russian servers are chronically bad when it comes to this. Unfortunately there isn't much you can do apart from blacklisting incoming email from the .ru domain.

cheers
Paul

[weeds]

an APPLE a day keeps the.........

[incisor]

an APPLE a day keeps the.........

gives the antifanbois a reason to live...

[d@rk51d3]

an APPLE a day keeps the.........

.......fanboys delusional. :p

[incisor]

.......fanboys delusional. :p

i rest my case :D:D:D:D

[d@rk51d3]

Must admit, without Macs, my paycheck would be smaller. ;)

[incisor]

Must admit, without Macs, my paycheck would be smaller. ;)

if only doing macs i would starve..

so you do what with macs that is such an issue??

[d@rk51d3]

Boss buys a new one every year.

I spend about a day a fortnight sorting something out.
Last week was a crash that wiped out email accounts, printers and network settings.

Before that was an inability to backup photo albums.(simply)

Folders and files disappearing.

PDF files that won't open on a mac,

She'll often run off to the Apple store to get things sorted. They tell her it can't be done. She'll then bring it to me and it gets done.

She currently runs 2 macbook pro's and an air. A new unit will be joining the fold soon.

Then there's her Iphone, and Ipads.......

She gave dad one of her old pro's which seems to be ok.

I inherited a "Big Al", 17" powerbook g4. Just gave it a full wipe and fresh install of Tiger 10.4.11. So far so good, apart from the lack of PowerPc support.


Maybe she's just an IT jinx?

[incisor]

not normal behavior in my experience

she running outlook for mac?

she running a 3rd party antivirus package?

backing up photos depends on the program but usually it is pretty straight forward.

[d@rk51d3]

Standard mail.

No antivirus........ due to the standard rumors/beliefs.:rolleyes:

This particular machine using iphoto. Won't backup photos in their folders, just dumps them all loose into one folder. Had to export into folders I prepared earlier on an external HDD. Not a huge issue, just not as simple as it should be (drag&drop), especially when it's several gigs spread over dozens of folders.

It's all good. Gives a new learning curve, an inside job out of the weather, and helps pay the bills.

I'm finding the Mac OS does have some pretty nifty features though..... but also some completely "left of field" ways of doing things too, that can leave windows users struggling to come to grips with. :)

[OffTrack]

Absolutely not normal. I look after a site that currently runs 3 XServes, 40 iMacs of various ages, 15 MacBooks, 10 iPhones and a couple of iPads. Apart for the on going issues with syncing Portable Home Directories back to the servers - which is mainly down to the inability of users to read and understand simple dialogue boxes - it's pretty much trouble free. Had two hard drives die in 2 Y.O. iMacs and a 4 y.o. server hard drive give up the ghost last year, prior to that it had been 2-3 years since any hardware failures.

Preview should open any PDF except Portfolio's. Acrobat reader is the fall back for that.

Don't use iPhoto much, but had a quick look at the "Browse Backups" in iPhoto. That looks for Time Machine backups, so Apple are obviously working on the assumption you are regularly backing up everything using Time Machine rather than manually backing up. The export functions are designed for saving out to sharing formats rather than backing up hence the "dump", so I'd be looking at either directly copying the Pictures folder, or using Time Machine.

cheers
Paul

[Eevo]

if i brought an apple product to work, i would be shunned by my team.

[incisor]

if i brought an apple product to work, i would be shunned by my team.

and how is the c64 demo team these days?


[bigrolf][bigrolf][bigrolf]



on a serious note, what is it you work with eevo?

[Eevo]

on a serious note, what is it you work with eevo?

generally
severs are running SuSe
our bus servers use weblogic
our enablers use jboss

[Andrew D]

Maybe she's just an IT jinx?

We have a winner. Is she all thumbs?

Regards
Andrew

[incisor]

generally
severs are running SuSe
our bus servers use weblogic
our enablers use jboss

cool

suse always been a nice stable distribution, shame about the package mangement or have they improved it in the last couple of years and moved away from rpms :angel:

sounds like an interesting mix of platforms

hope you get to enjoy working with it.

mate is right into that sort of thing and sits in his wood panelled workroom in the middle of nowhere writing apps for bucket loads of cash, at the end of some huge satellite link to the US.

what part do you play in the grand scheme of things?

sysadmin or programmer or ?

[Eevo]

suse always been a nice stable distribution, shame about the package mangement or have they improved it in the last couple of years and moved away from rpms :angel:still using rpm/yum. cant say i have a problem with it.


sounds like an interesting mix of platforms
that platform is my main concern. got a lot of other strange stuff out there but i mainly focus on 1 platform, 120 servers or so.



hope you get to enjoy working with it.
i love my job. :)



what part do you play in the grand scheme of things?
sysadmin or programmer or ?

hard to define my role. application operations, application administrator
which includes assurance/inc mgt, change mgt, release mgt, problem mgt, integration.

i dont write code. i suck at it and hate it.

in the grand scheme of things, the platform i look after is an enabler with no front end to the internet.

one of the things it does, when you check how much credit you have on your phone, part of that request comes through our platform.
part of that had its read only request speed up from 10s to 2s by adding a data cashe in the middle.

2tb of ram and 4tb of ssd drives. bloody fast.

[incisor]

2tb of ram and 4tb of ssd drives. bloody fast.

what sort of cpu power?

definetly sounds like fun.

[Eevo]

what sort of cpu power?

definetly sounds like fun.

not really sure.
someone else in the team looks after that platform

just asked,
0.5tB RAM, 800GB SSD, 16cpu per blade
4 blades each site
2 sites
unsure of cpu speed, just that they are xeon