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ANON Got Raided

Posted on2011/07/20AuthorTruXter

35 search warrants issued. 16 arrests.
There is a large amount of blame on ANON for a lot of things.
I will not state the blame, because I do not know their level of guilt and will not accuse them.

I do know that back in the day, there was what we called a “script kiddy”. and the script kiddies fell pray to real hackers.
So just as easily, one of these people arrested, could have been using a script they got from the internet somewhere, and did not know that someone was either spoofing their I.P. address while doing something worse, or using their computer remotely for attacks. There is no telling what all is bundled in that dang script. This leaves the script kiddy with hacking software on his computer and no chance to pass a lie detector if asked if he committed a crime. This leaves the Script kiddy guilty of a crime and no proof that he didn’t commit the crime he is accused of. It would take a more thorough investigation than what I think our government is willing to perform. It would be up to the script kiddy to fund that investigation. If he can not afford it, tough luck.

This is one of the issues I try to point out all of the time. Don’t mess with it until you have thought it all the way through.
Now there will be no Anon. and who knows, we might really need these guys some day. I think we will but they won’t be anywhere to be found.

There’s no saying if the whole Rupert Murdoch is just a scrambled master Plan(t) and eventual frame up, because what he is accused of, and what ANON claims they busted him of, is exactly what they do. It’s like a crack head pointing at a guy laying knocked out and telling the cops “look he has crack” who says the crack head didn’t chunk the crack there when he saw the police???? on another note Rupert Murdoch’s wife got attacked and it looks like all of the guys near her just stood there with a look like a grumpy old lady scowling over a cup of tea. No one helped Wendy Murdoch . She took care of it all, all by herself. Most of the news out is exaggerating the moment, but she did take care of it.

Well people. Turn your computers off at night (can’t hack or zombie what’s not there), and run an up to date virus scan often.It’s all you can do.
Well, that’s the Tech news today with lots of opinion.

Custom Computer Cases Have Begun

Posted on2011/07/192011/07/20AuthorTruXter

I have forever loved to see the handy craftsmanship of custom computer cases. all of the creativity that goes into the building of a computer case, the way the craftsman found most desirable and rational. The additional modifications and personal gems of utilities that should be on all computer cases, and other modifications that you just can’t get unless you build the whole thing yourself. That stuff has me dazzled. To know that a real person with their own two hands built something that will last and be useful for many years. i have been telling myself for the past i don’t know how many years. but it was back when I first saw the custom jewelry case computer. and that was quite a while back. The person built a computer case to be in the same design as any typical jewelry case, but was one of the first people to use clear plastic for the sides and top, and to then punch holes for air flow, the motherboard was positioned just right so the air flowing in will cross the cpu, hit the video card and shoot straight out, while more air blew in over the hard drive and i think the north bridge and straight out. The computer was a work of art. but I can no longer find it in Google. He must have dropped his website.

But it’s that design that motivated me and gave me ideas. but I couldn’t ever follow through with them. I never had anywhere to build custom computer cases.Couldn’t see myself standing on the balcony of my second story apartment out in a little town known as a very bad side of town, just drilling and gluing and sawing away, like there isn’t some druggy around the corner mad at you because ” you have things” like a hand saw and a Black and Decker AAA battery screw driver you call a drill, and don’t think he wont shoot you for it and not feel bad about killing you over a worthless item so much as feeling bad that he walked all the way up to the pawnshop with a screw driver you paid $4 at the dollar general for. I do have a knack for making worthless items look a little better than they are worth so, I can see it happening.

Now that I have my own house now, I have my own garage and I have my own tools. I have about 6 spare computer cases, (getting paint) and like 8 spare motherboards.

Motherboards

It is time for me to start my dream of custom computer cases.
Not my biggest dream just a flash in the pan wish that won’t go away.

What i am Starting With

Yes, the picture is that way for a reason. So you don’t get to much of my idea. and the boxes are hiding my Big rabbit in the hat part of my magic act ;)

I do not have a table to work on just yet. I am thinking of watching Craig’s list for a scratched up raggity dinner table for cheap. To start with. I mostly want a dinner table because that means a low chair (preferably a computer chair) can sit at the table as I build the custom computer cases and I will have a large area to work with.

Please stick by as I go into this hobby and watch for pictures to be posted as I work through building these custom cases.
So far I have gathered quite a bit of supplies for this. Some was given to me, others purchased with a goal.

The cases will of course have bondo and or fiberglass in their build. Everything I can mod will be modded. I will be using what I know of computer cooling and automotive cooling, and ALL knowledge I have about design for anything. Not to look cheesy, but to look cool, while actually cooling the computer and deadening sound. Count on Retro fitting lots of stuff. Two of my cases are at least ten years old with rust on them and probably weigh about 15 lbs each. These will be fun to work with. Backs will be punched out, screw holes will be obsoleted and new holes will be drilled.

I may even slip a bit of lumber and lots of plastic into the mix. (I already have a design so go ahead and count on it).
I might even do a retro budget gaming computer, and try and do a bit of overclocking to make it that much more brag worthy.
As always, everything will come from ads in the paper, Craig’s List, Fry’s or Compusa. Any place I can get a good deal or at least the part I need.

Come back once a month, and look for the Custom Cases tab to appear at the top of the page.
Not quite sure how i want the “Custom Computer Cases” page to work out, I may just make it a page to link the different cases and their progress and process. So I can show others how I did the designs and to help motivate people to try the same thing. Or I could just plop all of the computer cases in the same page. That could get messy though. Ehh i will wing it like I do everything else. Wild a slight idea of what I want to do.

If you have any tips or suggestions or requests on custom computer cases, please post below, These ideas or questions may come in handy.

See you all in this adventure.

TruXter

Cricket’s Free Sanyo Zio Phone Android

Posted on2011/07/182011/07/26AuthorTruXter2 Comments

I left T-Mobile.
Yep, I jumped ship. I went back to Cricket.
The phone that I traded my blackberry 8100 in for is a Sanyo/Kyocera zio. AKA KYOCERA M6000.
Since Cricket was giving away the Sanyo Zio if you trade in your working cell phone from your current carrier, I assumed I should.
This phone is not a brand new technology, at all. This phone was originally with Sprint back in early 2010 brought to Cricket in late 2010.
I was on a plan that gave me 300 minutes of talk time at a cost of $49 a month and I still had fave fives. To now, an unlimited everything for $55 a month.
The first thing was to call T-mobile and request my account number. The guy who answered the phone put on a sincere voice and Acknowledge that he knows that typically when people ask for their account number, they are about to leave the company. The guy asked me if there was anything i was in need of, to keep me from leaving. i let the guy know that I was not happy with how I have been treated so i am looking around, and my first step is to get my account number and that I may or may not leave T-mobile. Really, that was exactly true. I could have backed out of getting my phone number ported over to Cricket, at any time. The guy kept asking questions and hesitating, So i had to get stern with him ‘ look, I am considering leaving and you holding out like this is making me want to leave even more, i just need my number and will consider all option”. He said just about everything he could think of just short of “please don’t talk to other people, you will see how good things could be”, what ever he said. I just hung up because I got my account number. and that’s all I needed.

I gave the teller my account number, in less than 3 minutes the phone was in my hand with a temporary number on it. I got a text message and it said for me to text back with a code and my old number will be moved to cricket. I tried and it did not work. After I called the help line, I realized i wasn’t pressing they ‘*’ key first. My bad. Phone number was switched over to T-mobile just like that. Whole deal took less than 20 minutes to complete.

Cricket Splash Screen on The Zio

Ok. Time to grade the phone.
The Sanyo Kyocera ZIO from Cricket, by feel, is a lot like my blackberry, smooth.

Menu on The Sanyo Kyocera Zio Phone

Nice and thin, slick,no buttons to interface, touch Screen, except volume and camera. I have few complaints about
the camera button. Sensitive when I am not trying to touch the camera button, but doesn’t do squat when I hit that button on purpose. Volume buttons are excellent.

Volume Button on Kyocera Sanyo Zio

there is a data/charging connection on the lower left edge.
Headphone jack on the upper left edge, and an SD card slot on the mid right. All have caps.
Large speaker at the upper back
Pin hole mic on bottom edge.
Screen feels like plastic over glass. I could be wrong as to whether it actually is, it’s just the way the Zio feels to me.
Software.
Initial Storage space 180MB
Yes this an Android 2.2.1 system on the sanyo ZIO.

zio software display

But
The pinch zoom feature, does not happen with this phone. Tap and zoom, yes.
Scroll ball, is a bit sticky and sluggish.
Huge Screen Perfect fit for downsized (not re-sized) hd movies
Watched Diggnation, Tekzilla and life Hacker from the revision 3 website and was impressed with the resolution and quality of the images and video, Nearly never a buffer time. sometimes The revision 3 server hiccups.
Camera takes a very high resolution video, even in room lighting. (never great to have just room lighting)
Every application I tried, all work fine.
There is some bloat ware that I had to root the phone to remove. Some bowling game demo and an “uno” game.
Many applications load constantly, you can not go into settings and turn them off like you could with the g1 on android 1.6. So battery life isn’t what it could be.
Nice fade when opening and closing apps. but again, sometimes sluggish. Keyboard seems to be miss calibrated, When you press the Letter ‘o’ you get the letter ‘p’ and so on… If you are a fast texting person, you will get frustrated. Just find the letter that the Zio mistakes you typing, and hit the far corner of the button you intend to pres. Works well that way.

Internet speeds for the Zio – using speed test app from android market
upload 700k
download 400k
That is about what I was seeing on T-mobile with their “Edge”.

Reception
At home and at work, my signal fluctuates between no signal, and two bars. but with that said, I received a call from a friend while I had 0 bars and the phone call sounded fine on my end, and the person on the other end never asked me what I was saying. I never heard anything unusual or anything that would hint of a bad signal, other than the caller’s T-mobile lag. Was sad when we both were on T-mobile, neither knew when to talk.
although I find myself back in 2003, holding the sanyo Zio up in the air to get a signal enough to send a text message. I don’t remember Cricket having this bad of a signal.

Back Of The Zio

internet 10/10
software 8/10
hardware 5/10
reception 5/10 (I gave it a poor score then added some because the phone seemed to work even with no signal)
look 10/10

Full Over all Score is 7/10

And that is enough to make me feel as if I got another great deal.

Another unprofessional review from TruXter Tech Review and the budget Tech review

Recover Deleted Items

Posted on2011/07/102011/08/07AuthorTruXter

Recover Deleted Items

Recover Deleted Files
We have all done this, we have deleted something, and was freaking out the next day because we needed the item we deleted. Well if you are currently one of those people who are in shock because you made a mistake that, well you would be ashamed to tell people. Freak out no more. because Power Undelete has created the software to get that stuff back.
Power Undelete Wizard(Lifetime License)
As stated by Power Undelete makers

Power Undelete Wizard is an easy-to-use, windows based application designed for recovering deleted files from NTFS or FAT32 volumes. It even can recover files from formatted or reformatted disk. It can scan disk and find lost files and data blocks, these lost files may be deleted by mistakes, viruses, trojans, spywares, or other applications running on your PC.
Like no other recovery tool Power Undelete Wizard is easy to use, featuring a step-by-step interface that will guide you through several stages of data recovery. You will get your deleted or lost files back in minutes.

You know you have done it. You know your employees have done it. Delete items that need to be used again. Presentations, diagrams pictures,videos movies, songs. all sorts of stuff that you shouldn’t have deleted, well you can undelete these items.
They even have a version for unlimited licensing. Power Undelete Wizard(Unlimited License)

file recover software

Power Undelete

I have this one installed on the server at work, and every computer on the network. That way when someone deletes something from their computer, or a folder on the network that they use, I can bring it back with in minutes.
A great way to restore deleted files.

As all of the sponsors to my to my site, I recommend Power Undelete. If I didn’t believe in them, I wouldn’t use them. and sure wouldn’t recommend them.

Why not fix computers for friends

Posted on2011/07/092011/07/16AuthorTruXter

We have all asked ourselves Why not fix computers for friends. So we do it, and we learn that people treat you different once you have fixed their computers. It gets even worse if they pay you after you fix their computer. They will either accuse you of taking parts off of their computer, or not doing anything and just handing the computer back to them just as much broken as it was to begin with.
You lose friends this way.
What’s even worse, is when you fix a family member’s computer. They get dependent on you. so dependent on you, they practically want to sit behind you and tell you where to surf, so they can see website stuff without breaking their computer.
Now fixing a computer for a friend of a friend. That’s okay. you can charge that person and not care. unless their friend is super hot. Now you can suggest that you come over and “hook it up” for them.
but I myself refuse to work on a family member’s computer, just like I won’t lend them money or borrow money, or live with them in their place or mine.

You can sit there and blast canned air through the machine, spend three hours trying to get some stupid program to work, because well.. there is no install disk anywhere.

Way to much frustration involved.
This is exactly why I have stopped working on computers for friends.

Firefox 5 is a Thud

Posted on2011/07/062011/07/20AuthorTruXter

Firefox 5 while it looks pretty and has some real nice Chrome rip off looks to it. Wait isnt the plug in section for Firefox called “chrome”? hasn’t it been called Chrome for well over a decade now?
Well anyway, Firefox 5 looks like a netscape+chrome merger. Well it kind of is.
The one part about Firefox 5 that I absolutely hate is, the browser shut off my incompatible extensions. Firefox 5 didn’t suspend with the option of updating and using the new ones. I had to uninstall the dang extensions and reinstall them. Of course some stuff will be incompatible right after a recent update, but why can’t we just update the extensions and continue to use them?
Why does firefox 5 lock up on me so much? firefox 5 locks up on my dell computer at work using windows xp and my home made computer at home running windows 7.I have to use chrome now, until the Mozilla team gets their stuff together.
I would love to use my custom toolbar again.
Firefox five locks up when I upload images. If I upload images here on my site, or when I upload a picture to twitpic and firefox 5 locks up when I upload a picture to facebook. It’s not locking up while the file is in transfer, but it locks during the process of looking for the file to upload.
I guess that beats the crashes I was constantly seeing in firefox 3.

Designers You sicken me

Posted on2011/07/062015/04/06AuthorTruXter

I am not talking about interior decorators who call themselves designers when all they do is coordinate color and move chairs around. I am not talking about the clowns who conceptualize stuff and grab an under-paid lackey to “make it happen”. I am talking about the over paid lackeys. The ones with autodesk or autocad and designing buildings for large corporations spitting out a building with perfect dimensions. Your drawings sir look wonderful. Your drawings breath the ever existence of symmetry while coordinating flow of traffic yet still staying well with in codes. but.
It’s the stupid stuff you do to your cad files. Why must you all use some strange blocks and layers with in the blocks. I understand the use of layers, but it only makes sense to use the layers if you do not put walls and furniture on the same layer while putting the doors and plants in the same block. You guys sicken me with your redundant over use of blocks. Okay… we get it. You can make a block. Any idiot that can right click can make a block.
And you no good for nothing designers who like to pull your practical jokes by going into paper space zooming way the heck out, finding some spot far from the display area and dropping a tiny dot …… You sir need to be kicked in the face.
and you Cad file creators who like to put xref within an xref within a dwg, but you only send out your dwg file in emails as if you are supplying the world with your greatness. You know that you are an idiot that likes to use xref files. everyone knows you are an idiot that likes to use xref files. Will you please for everything sane, if you send out that dwg,COPY EVERYTHING THAT YOU SEND, AND YES CREATE THE FOLDER THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE IN BECAUSE WE HAVE TO REBUILD YOUR USELESS LAZY CRAP WHEN WE GET IT.
And you idiotic people who hire them and say that you are happy the other guy is so thorough for going the extra distance in design, STFU, just STFU. Do not speak to someone who can work the damn program and have some authoritative mentality with your bulldog wanna be face, you have no idea what you are talking about. You need to be tripped and stomped for the level of disrespect you just displayed. You sir are an idiot, just give me my money like a good little monkey as I ignore you hoping you make another designer laugh at your arrogant ignorance.
Please. Quit milking the design with your redundancies. Unless you just do not want to share your cad files with others.
Fire sprinkler designers. You clowns have so far over complicated your designs to increase your purpose in the fire safety design business, it takes another add-on software to complete what you need, you can barely work that program and you can do nothing with out it. Stop making it look like it’s more than it is. Crap runs down hill, you get paid on Fridays. That simple.

Look designers. You just have to come out and say it ” I can do it, you can not, that’s why you pay me”. and raise your fee, no sense in this big dramatic show. You kind of bother other designers with this stuff.

Microsoft to End Pc Gaming

Posted on2011/07/05AuthorTruXter

Microsoft is giving out an xbox 360 to students who purchase a new computer. Article on M$ website. Code name Windows 8, is to be predominantly touch screen, and we all know that the hippy hipsters will jump at the chance to have the fastest reaction touch screen and the most accurate touch screen monitor, and the most touchy video card. This forcing monitor manufacturers to focus more in the direction of interaction, and video card companies to do the same.
When Code name Windows 8 comes out, you will be a cave man if you have a keyboard and a mouse. you will be the dorky kid in the tuff skins pants. And that my friend is how Pc gaming will die.
Code name Windows 8, is not the final hatchet, just the precursor to the inevitable world of not having local storage on your pc. and the biggest seller is there is no maintenance and no hacking and no virus. because your operating system will be on someone’s server somewhere else and completely out of your control.
How fat and lazy and stupid do you have to be to not be able to do three clicks and start and finish a virus scan?

Plenty Of Fish and stolen Identity

Posted on2011/06/292011/07/09AuthorTruXter2 Comments

Plenty of Fish

I made an account for plenty of fish about 2 years ago. Part of the process of creating an account on Plenty of fish is you have to upload a picture of yourself so people have something to look at. So I did that. I uploaded a picture and began my try at the free dating site. I was very pleased at all the features and usage you can get from plenty of Fish all for free. Without needing some “gold plus members special help mode points” to do any of the normal every day stuff.

I ran into a bunch of women who in less than three interactions on the site asked me what my yearly income was. To me that is just messed up and crummy standards. How about talk to me and see if I am interesting first. So I stopped going to Plenty of Fish. A year later I popped back in and found pretty much the same thing.

Here I am again on vacation looking for stuff to do so I go back to Plenty of Fish to poke around the site.

and now my identity has been stolen.

Here I send a message to a lady on Plenty of Fish, and ask her where she took her picture because the scene is just breath taking. Check out the crazy response I got

our first interaction

So I say “Woah Waoh…. What?” and she responds with this

Our second part to the conversation

Then I upload another picture of myself and say “look I am the guy in that picture, can you please give me the link to the guy that is using my picture so I can get him taken care of?” and she responds with this.

Response #3 on Plenty of Fish

Then I tell her ” Hey look I have a myspace profile, and a facebook profile with many more pictures, if you want, we can meet at the police station and I can bring a physical copy of the picture you think I stole and prove that I am me and make you think twice about that guy you call your friend”. and this is the response I get

Response #4 on Plenty of Fish

And then she fricken blocks me. She never gave me the link to the guy that stole picture. I would not doubt she gave him the link to my profile, to prove what ever… and the freak has stolen my latest picture.

She is real. Here is what her profile looked like

Crazy Girl's Profile

So I head to the forums for Plenty of Fish and leave a simple post titled “someone is using my picture” and then one line in the post that says ” someone on here is using my image and I need to prove them fake with more pictures of me. any help?”. that post was up for all of about 30 seconds before moderators deleted it. No contact from the site at all, in my email or on my private messages as to how to resolve the issue. I looked all over their site for help, didn’t find any so I had made that post.

I am left to assume that the lady in question is not who she says she is and is just another fake. Probably a guy trying to play a prank on his friend, and well, getting a message from a guy freaked him out.

Plenty of fish is messed up.