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About me: +20 years of been-there, done that.

I've used about every flavor of UNIX, six or seven Linux distros, Windows since the old win286 days, and others such as OS/2, CP/M, MVS, Z/OS, VMS, OS/400, Mac OS, QNX, VxWorks, TRS-DOS, Xenix, and probably a few I've forgotten about.

I've done everything from reverse engineering code to launching computer monitors from rooftops (into dumpsters below).

I've seen cases where mice were living inside a PC, users have driven their cars over their laptop computers, and toddlers have shutdown entire data centers (gotta love that big red EPO button!). I've seen viruses and worms cripple entire company networks, as well as stupid-user-tricks like users plugging in their router (with DHCP server) into the corporate lan.

Never stop learning.....if you think you know everything, that's the one thing you missed.

hello,
I am from atlanta Georgia also. That is acually where 2 of the servers are located.

krod wrote:hello,
I am from atlanta Georgia also. That is acually where 2 of the servers are located.

Yeah, that's part of the reason I signed up.....I would guess that network latency and server response time would be in the sub-30ms range for something here in town.

Hi, hello. You are one really interesant person Welcome to the comunitty

Where abouts around Atlanta?

Used to live there myself.

nighthawk wrote:Where abouts around Atlanta?

Used to live there myself.

Work in midtown, live up 'nawth' north fulton

Interesting story. Once I've brought the internet connection of a whole internet cafe down, because of a stupid typo.

I tried to combine Ethereal with arp-sk (a small command-line ARP tool). I was going to sniff the whole internet traffic (just for fun), so I wanted to redirect all traffic to the router through my host. But because in Windows typing in MAC addresses manually is easier than copy/paste, I made a typo in the MAC address of the router. Didn't notice that, so I went to complain about the connection being down. Got an extra hour for free, and then I noticed it was my fault. =)

Welcome to the forums. =)

mm_freak wrote:Interesting story. Once I've brought the internet connection of a whole internet cafe down, because of a stupid typo.

I tried to combine Ethereal with arp-sk (a small command-line ARP tool). I was going to sniff the whole internet traffic (just for fun), so I wanted to redirect all traffic to the router through my host. But because in Windows typing in MAC addresses manually is easier than copy/paste, I made a typo in the MAC address of the router. Didn't notice that, so I went to complain about the connection being down. Got an extra hour for free, and then I noticed it was my fault. =)

Welcome to the forums. =)

That is extremely funny.

Ethereal is a great tool...I really like some of the recent improvements they have made to the code.

I've also got an ancient DOS Network General sniffer that runs on an ancient 486 IBM laptop (with both Ethernet and Token Ring cards). It's not Y2K compliant, so the file dates are the year 105, but it still works.