trader_4
Tue, 09
May 2017 14:55:39 GMT in alt.home.repair, wrote:

[snip]

I see you've made another friend in the newsgroup.

I'm not here to make friends, Trader.



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philo news May 2017 16:07:32 GMT in alt.home.repair, wrote:

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Diesel is the most insecure people I've seen posting on Usenet.

I find your psy assumption concerning me to be very amusing. I've seen
much worse things written about me, or, some of the things I've done
though. So, if you actually want to insult me, you'd have to make a
real effort.

If he is capable of repairing computers I don't see why my ability
to do so should be a threat to him. Perhaps he's more proficient
, who cares?

You're absolutely, no threat, to me. Don't kid yourself.

BD seems to be the only one who actually cares one way or the other, as
I've told you, several times, now. You aren't the first one he's tried
to compare me to, and, I'm certain, you won't be the last.


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"David B."
Tue, 09 May 2017 23:06:56 GMT
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On 09/05/2017 23:15, philo wrote:
On 05/09/2017 05:12 PM, David B. wrote:

What is a "homie", Philo?




Who knows what he's talking about. The more clever he tries to
be, the worse it gets

I'll send you a link to view his 'ripping' 'Lab' and confirmation
of his address too.

ROFL. You have no confirmation of my address, despite attempting to
link me to several previously. The first time you did that is what
led to your initial doxing, two years after the fact. I wrote when
you did it initially you had nefarious reasons for having done so.

Even though you completely spoke bull**** to another usenet person
you met irl concerning it. I also wrote that your 'apology' for
having done what you did was not only a hollow one, it was a ****
poor attempt to blow smoke up peoples asses. You knew what you were
doing, the first time you tried doing it.

And, You did it because I refused to hack into any webforums for you.
I offered to analyze any malicious links you were willing to share,
but, you didn't provide any.

Instead, you expected me to gain unauthorized access to the user
database files and share the contents with you. You had some sort of
ongoing personal issue with the administrators of those sites, and
you wanted to know more about them.

You attempted to mislead me into helping you by pretending to have
legitimate questions concerning an antimalware utility I wrote and
supported for three years. You thought you could gain my trust, and,
thus, trick me into providing you information that you're unable to
get on your own concerning those site administrators you feel wronged
you by banning you from their forums and deleting your posts.

I refused to do so. For that, you've tried to stalk me for several
years now. You've even gone so far as to try and recruit others into
helping you stalk me and/or learn my actual physical location, all to
no avail. Philo is your latest effort, but, I've little doubt, he
won't be your last.

You've gone so far as to try and recruit others into restoring the
video file you intend/already have shared with philo. Failing that
(because you removed the audio track while editing the video?!?-
WTF?), you've tried for over a year now to crack the cypher I used on
the .zip which does contain the original video with working audio
track, that you previously asked for.

Amusingly, the cypher responsible for keeping you out of the contents
of that .zip file is also older than Philos IT experience, by a wide
margin. I created it, originally on a coco3, and later ported it to
the PC platform. It's not a simple substitution cypher as the
remailing coward would like others to believe, obviously.

You've been a shady rat ******* since the first time you reached out
and emailed me. Even though Philo thinks you're a stand up guy,
others who actually know you and/or our background, disagree with his
opinion of you.

Finally, I don't think Philo will be able to acquire access to the
contents of that .zip file either, he doesn't have the experience you
tried to mislead me into thinking he did. It's painfully obvious,
especially after these discussions. he's not 'teasing' me as you put
it recently. He's not even in the same ballpark. Rather, he's another
sucker (who doesn't even realize he's a sucker) you've tried to con
into helping you try to get back at me for what I've done to you, in
response to YOUR actions. You brought everything I've done to you,
entirely on yourself. I didn't single you out. I responded, in kind,
to your bad acts towards myself.

You should try being honest with the readers of this newsgroup,
David.



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philo news May 2017 16:03:33 GMT in alt.home.repair, wrote:

On 05/09/2017 05:46 AM, Diesel wrote:
philo news May 2017 01:30:27 GMT in alt.home.repair, wrote:

On 05/08/2017 07:43 PM, Diesel wrote:
ph
Agreed. They want to hold your hand far too much for my
tastes. I really can't stand something that wants to do
everything for me, and won't let me explore the control
systems because it thinks I might do something wrong.

Someone gave an an ancient macbook. It was not working and
they just wanted me to recover their data.

Normally removing a HD from a laptop is a two minute job. In
this case I basically had to destroy it to take it apart. Had
I wanted to re-assemble it I would have had to have been
painstakingly careful and it would have taken an hour or more.

I suspect your hands on experience with laptops is that of a
hobbyist or end user as well, then. It's not uncommon these
days to find the laptop requires a teardown to gain access to
the hard drive. It's a shame. I suspect it's because they
don't want you repairing it, they want you to replace it; the
laptop, not the HD.



Obviously you have never worked on the old PPC macbooks.

You really should have learned by now to quit making assumptions
about what I have/haven't worked on. I find your erroneous
comments to be very amusing, but, alas, this seems to be rather
typical of you. You've repaired machines as a hobby for the most
part,



You are the one making assumptions here.

I've made no assumptions concerning you.

I told you I had my own business repairing computers .
Because it was my secondary occupation does not mean I did it as a
hobby.

Did you run it out of your house? Did you have the proper business
license, insurance, etc? You already stated that you had on occasion
three machines on your work bench. That's NOTHING by comparison to
myself.

I stand by what I said, on any PC laptop or any Intel Mac laptop
removing a hard drive is a two minute job.

I disagree. A Dell Inspiron N4010 laptop is not a two minute job to
get access to the hard disk, let alone replace it. It requires a
teardown as well as the careful removal of the mainboard to access
the SATA interface hard disk. As the hard disk is located on the
bottom of the mainboard. You'll also have to tear it down to locate
the CMOS battery. Looking at the top of the laptop, it's to the upper
right about an inch behind the card reader interface.

You can't access it by removing the keyboard. You will have to
seperate the chassis. Which also if memory serves (it's in pieces now
and I took it apart a year or two ago) also requires seperating the
flatpanel from the base.

OTH, you can access the ram modules by removing a small cover on the
bottom of the system, without having to tear it down. But, you won't
be removing the hard disk via a small cover.

Go ahead, google the make/model. I've got one sitting beside me
that I tore down to recover the hard disk for another machine, as the
mainboard itself is bad.

Stand tall, Philo, be proud in knowing you're WRONG.

And, that's just ONE make/model PC based laptop that requires a
teardown and mainboard removal to gain access to the hard disk. You
won't be doing it in two minutes. There's a lot more than this
particular model that require a tear down and mainboard removal to
gain access to the hard disk. You won't be doing this in two minutes.
It's not a two minute job. I just happened to have this one handy, in
my parts bin. ROFL. The panel is good, the keyboard is good, the
touchpad is good, the hd is good (it's running fine in another brand
laptop), the ram modules are good. It still has the cmos battery on
the board, though. I just can't be arsed to remove it, as I don't
presently need it for anything.

On those old macbooks the entire dang thing has to be
dis-assembled.

See above. They are NOT the only ones that require a full disassembly
to gain access to the hard disk. Not even close.

Another one is a tower type G5. Takes all day to replace a mobo
on one of those. On a PC it's a 15 minute job.

That depends on the PC, too. If you swap out boards using a different
chipset, you will have to manually edit a specific registry hive file
to ensure a BSOD doesn't occur when you try to start the machine on
the new board. That's one of the joys of PnP based operating systems.

OTH, if you have an identical board (or very close match component
wise, same chipset, atleast) depending on the case and additional
cards, sure, it's possible to pull the old board and drop a new one
in in fifteen minutes or so. Getting the OS back up and going might
take longer though, since you most likely didn't put the cards back
into the same PCI/PCIe slots as you found them. And, that is
important. They are numbered for a reason, after all.

I stand by what I wrote, initially and have since repeated several
times. You do NOT have anywhere near the IT experience as myself.


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Andy
Wed, 10
May 2017 03:47:21 GMT in alt.home.repair, wrote:

On Wednesday, May 3, 2017 at 10:54:11 PM UTC-5, Diesel wrote:
http://www.computerworld.com/article...ft-windows/dev
eloper-lifts-windows-7s-update-blockade-with-unsanctioned-patch.ht
ml

Just another way MS is ****ing you over. For those of you
drinking the Windows 10 koolaid... What flavor is it supposed to
be? And, does it taste like it?

Do be careful what you run on Windows 10, as, Edge isn't really
'disabled' as some of you previously thought. I'd hate to see
some new malware take advantage of the POS and cause you unwanted
grief.



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Go with Linux.

er... I run linux too, thanks.

It's free and never gets malware.

Well, that's not exactly true, either:

https://www.sans.org/reading-room/wh...-malware-36097

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_malware


And they do not sneak around your back installing so called fixes.

I'm not sure what you mean...



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philo news May 2017 22:15:33 GMT in alt.home.repair, wrote:

What is a "homie", Philo?




Who knows what he's talking about. The more clever he tries to be,
the worse it gets

A search engine is a useful tool...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=what+is+a+homie&t=h_&ia=web

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/homie


noun, Slang.
1.
a homeboy or homegirl.

Contemporary Examples

Because I kinda look at him as my friend, or at least my homie.

http://onlineslangdictionary.com/mea...ition-of/homie

Definition of homie
homie
noun

a friend.

He is my precious homie.

Me and my homie taking a trip this summer.

That took all of two seconds. Clearly, you missed the sarcasm
implied. And you want to question my cleverness?




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"David B."
Tue, 09 May 2017 23:06:56 GMT
in alt.home.repair, wrote:

On 09/05/2017 23:15, philo wrote:
On 05/09/2017 05:12 PM, David B. wrote:

What is a "homie", Philo?




Who knows what he's talking about. The more clever he tries to
be, the worse it gets

I'll send you a link to view his 'ripping' 'Lab' and confirmation
of his address too.

First, that post wasn't in this newsgroup. You lifted it from
alt.2600 or alt.computer.workshop. That's bad form. Likely because
you're getting no assistance from those newsgroups...

It would appear that an IP address from Devon UK was found in one of
those bittorrent swarms. Was that you, David? I told you the
picture would be included with them, depending on your response to
this post:

MID:
http://al.howardknight.net/msgid.cgi?ID=149439474100
We might make some additional changes, but, this is the new pic so
far:

http://picpaste.com/ildIlvfq.jpg

You don't have to waste your time to report the pic, it'll self
delete in 7 days, or, when you've made your decision known to us.

If you continue trying to be an obnoxious prick towards myself OR
HHI, It *WILL* be released with several new rips. Twenty are already
setup for post processing at this time. You are expected to respond
to this thread with your decision. No response indicates you want to
continue with this. Consider this your last chance to stop your
stalking efforts, etc towards myself or HHI. You'll get no more
chances.

Nothing prevents others from copying the pic at the url above, but
you'll have my word it will not be distributed with upcoming HHI
releases, depending on the decision you make, of course.

So, true to my word, the pic was issued with the new releases, as I
told you it would be. Once again, you only have yourself to blame for
that. Also true to my word, the pic available via picpaste was
deleted once your response was read:

MID:
http://al.howardknight.net/msgid.cgi?ID=149422832100
I really had hoped that you would stop such activity, Dustin. :-(
Nobody is FORCING you to break the law ...... or ARE they?!!

Clearly, your response indicated you wanted to continue.
So, true to my word, the pic was issued with the new releases, as I
told you it would be. Once again, you only have yourself to blame for
that. Since you still want to play games with me, ALL future releases
by HHI for the time being will include the pic and your open letter
against the RIAA. Clearly visible in the descriptions at the links
you provided. The letter has been revised to include the previous
information provided in other releases for you. A text based copy of
the address, phone numbers, and email addresses already visible in
the included picture. For search engine indexing purposes. And this
will continue for quite sometime. We have no planned end date on this
one.

Second, The video doesn't show a 'ripping' lab per say. And, i'm not
the only member of the group who has a 'lab'. We're all professional
technicians by trade with the certifications to back it up, So we all
have what you call 'Labs'

Third, You have no confirmation of my address, despite attempting to
link me to several previously. The first time you did that is what
led to your initial doxing, two years after the fact. I wrote when
you did it initially you had nefarious reasons for having done so.

Even though you completely spoke bull**** to another usenet person
you met irl concerning it. I also wrote that your 'apology' for
having done what you did was not only a hollow one, it was a ****
poor attempt to blow smoke up peoples asses. You knew what you were
doing, the first time you tried doing it.

And, You did it because I refused to hack into any webforums for you.
I offered to analyze any malicious links you were willing to share,
but, you didn't provide any.

Instead, you expected me to gain unauthorized access to the user
database files and share the contents with you. You had some sort of
ongoing personal issue with the administrators of those sites, and
you wanted to know more about them.

You attempted to mislead me into helping you by pretending to have
legitimate questions concerning an antimalware utility I wrote and
supported for three years. You thought you could gain my trust, and,
thus, trick me into providing you information that you're unable to
get on your own concerning those site administrators you feel wronged
you by banning you from their forums and deleting your posts.

I refused to do so. For that, you've tried to stalk me for several
years now. You've even gone so far as to try and recruit others into
helping you stalk me and/or learn my actual physical location, all to
no avail. Philo is your latest effort, but, I've little doubt, he
won't be your last.

You've gone so far as to try and recruit others into restoring the
video file you intend/already have shared with philo. Failing that
(because you removed the audio track while editing the video?!?-
WTF?), you've tried for over a year now to crack the cypher I used on
the .zip which does contain the original video with working audio
track, that you previously asked for.

The cypher responsible for keeping you out of the contents of that
..zip file is also older than Philos IT experience, by a wide margin.
I created it, originally on a coco3, and later ported it to the PC
platform. It's not a simple substitution cypher as the remailing
coward would like others to believe, obviously. Had it been, one or
more individuals you've shared the .zip file with would have broken
it by now.

You've been a shady rat ******* since the first time you reached out
and emailed me. Even though Philo thinks you're a stand up guy,
others who actually know you and/or our background, disagree with his
opinion of you.

I don't think Philo will be able to acquire access to the contents of
that .zip file either, he doesn't have the experience you tried to
mislead me into thinking he did. It's painfully obvious, especially
after these discussions. he's not 'teasing' me as you put it
recently. He's not even in the same ballpark. Rather, he's another
sucker (who doesn't even realize he's a sucker) you've tried to con
into helping you try to get back at me for what I've done to you, in
response to YOUR actions. You brought everything I've done to you,
entirely on yourself. I didn't single you out. I responded, in kind,
to your bad acts towards myself.

You should try being honest with the readers of this newsgroup,
David. And, as You've been told numerous times before, you don't have
my permission as the copyright owner of the video to keep copies or
distribute them. Yet, you seem to think it's perfectly okay for you
to do as you please, so long as nobody else does.


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"David B."
Tue, 09 May 2017 23:06:56 GMT
in alt.home.repair, wrote:

On 09/05/2017 23:15, philo wrote:
On 05/09/2017 05:12 PM, David B. wrote:

What is a "homie", Philo?




Who knows what he's talking about. The more clever he tries to
be, the worse it gets

I'll send you a link to view his 'ripping' 'Lab' and confirmation
of his address too.

http://picpaste.com/S6gLQXfQ.jpg


Apologies for the lengthly double post disputing your claims.


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"David B."
Tue, 09 May 2017 22:12:50 GMT
in alt.home.repair, wrote:

May I refer you to his recent post, here?

Ah yes, warning you that the following pic would be included with
future releases if you didn't, basically, leave me and HHI alone..

Let's put it in proper perspective then:

http://picpaste.com/uSwEbXOQ.jpg

[snip]

What is a "homie", Philo?

A search engine is a useful tool...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=what+is+a+homie&t=h_&ia=web

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/homie


noun, Slang.
1.
a homeboy or homegirl.

Contemporary Examples

Because I kinda look at him as my friend, or at least my homie.

http://onlineslangdictionary.com/mea...ition-of/homie

Definition of homie
homie
noun

a friend.

He is my precious homie.

Me and my homie taking a trip this summer.

That took all of two seconds. Clearly, you missed the sarcasm
implied...


I think we should let others see the pic in question. To put the post
you lifted from two other newsgroups (It was crossposted to them) in
proper perspective...

http://picpaste.com/MHqtJ2bf.jpg


Hmm. I wonder how many urls of that pic I have... *grin*

Doesn't much matter, it's really out there now. You didn't mention
whether or not you appreciated the work that went into it's creation.
So.. what do you think of it?





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On 10/05/2017 07:17, Diesel wrote:
Doesn't much matter, it's really out there now. You didn't mention
whether or not you appreciated the work that went into it's creation.
So.. what do you think of it?

I think you've been wasting a great deal of your time, Dustin!

Folk are entitled to know what YOU look like too, don't you think?

Here's that piccie you proudly presented to us some years ago - it's no
longer in my Dropbox folder! (September 2012)

http://picpaste.com/932cb6950f3540ff...d8b3b1f101.jpg

Who took the photograph by the way - it's certainly not a 'selfie'?

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"David B."
Wed, 10 May 2017 07:34:23 GMT
in alt.home.repair, wrote:

Here's that piccie you proudly presented to us some years ago -
it's no longer in my Dropbox folder! (September 2012)

Part of the dossier you have on me, right? All because I wouldn't
help you do anything nefarious to a couple of site administrators who
decided they didn't want you on their forums anymore. Is it because
you stalked the users of those places too, David? Or, were you just
an obnoxious prick asking the same questions over and over? You're
well known for doing both, so that's why I'm asking.

I find it a bit of a double standard that you think it's perfectly
okay to violate my copyrights as you see fit, but, you cry foul when
others do it? Why is that, David?

Why do you have to keep trying to get others to help you fight your
battles, David? You start the fights, You should deal with the
repercussions, on your own. Why continue trying to involve others?
Nobodies going to be banging on my door for your benefit.

It's no wonder the people you know (that thanks entirely to you I'm
getting to know) in real life are so willing to provide me useful
information about you. You've evidently, **** on them for years too.
All the while thinking you're untouchable. Well, David, that's just
not the case. Maybe you'd like to tell the group about your drinking
problem? How it cost you a friendship in real life? How you've tried
(and failed I might add) to mend said friendship, but, because of
excessive drinking on more than one occasion and being an obnoxious
arse going back years, they won't have anything to do with you...

Maybe you should tell this group why you reached out to various
people you know in real life concerning me in the first place. If you
won't, I certainly will. I think this group should get to know the
real you. The stalking asshole you're WELL KNOWN as.

You must have figured out I was onto you, because you kept badgering
me via email for awhile before you resorted to trying to 'dox' me the
first time, several years ago. And for what? Because I wouldn't help
you **** with somebody elses equipment, software, or obtain the user
records for you...That's not a nice way to be, David. I did respond
to your initial gsv posts by doxing you, over two years later, when
you absolutely wouldn't stop trying to cause problems for me. I let
you slide on that for over two ****ing years, hoping it wouldn't come
down to what it has. And what did you do those two years? You
continued trying to cause me problems.

Prior to that, I'd done nothing nefarious to you, nothing at all. I
simply refused to help you do anything bad to others you thought you
knew on a couple of web forums. You had no right to the information
you were requesting, and, I had no right in an ethical/moral sense to
go and get it for you. I didn't know the system administrators you
had an issue with, they'd done nothing to me. I continued to tell you
I'd be more than happy to research ANY malware samples and/or urls
pointing to malware that you provided. You never provided a single
one. Not a single one. You mistakenly assumed I was the old 'raid'
you'd already read about prior to contacting me the first time.

As a result of that, you mistakenly thought i'd be willing to help
you hack a couple of websites. What ****es you off the most? Knowing
I could do everything you asked of me via email, or that I won't do a
damn thing to help you out in those ways?

In the event anyone else reading this post thinks I'm pulling ANY of
this out of my arsehole to attack you, the emails are available in
chronological order from your first contact to your last, with
replies from me in the order they were sent. It's a simple ASCII text
file inside the .zip, too. No tricks, no deception.

http://bughunter.it-mate.co.uk/bdemail1.zip

They can review the material for themselves and see what sort of
individual you actually are. They do NOT have to take my word for any
of it.

Maybe you'd like to tell the group about your accusation that I
hacked your personal computers in some way to learn of your drinking
problem and the relationship you lost as a result of it?

As if I'd ever do something so snarky, despite the contempt I have
for you. I told you then, I'm telling you now, I'm *not* the same
individual I was when I wrote the code I'm not proud of having
written. I wouldn't accept payment from you to get you the user
database records of two seperate web forums, I will NOT 'hack' your
boxes, or that of your friend, Mr Eagle. Or anyone elses for that
matter, without their express permission to try! and do so. Hacking
is not like it's portrayed in the movies, anyhow. If it was as easy
as the movies make it out to be, you! could be a hacker, David. ROFL.

I learned about your drinking problem and the flushed relationship
thanks to person(s) you provided my email address to. One or more
reached out to me with questions concerning what you told person(s)
about me, and, I answered them, candidly and honestly. As a result,
they offered up background real life details on you, that I didn't
ask for. Not that I'm complaining mind you, it's come in quite handy,
but I didn't request a damn thing from person(s). Person(s) freely
offered it up, once they realized I wasn't what you portrayed me as
being, behind my back.

You've asked and demanded I give up the name(s) of the person(s)
responsible for providing me background rl information on you. Why
give up reliable source(s) of information on you concerning your real
life? You're a stalker, and, the more I know about you, the better it
is for me. It's on me to keep myself safe from people like you, and,
I can do a better job of that by knowing ALOT about you that I
haven't shared here or elsewhere.

I don't trust anything you say, so, I don't believe you when you
state you removed it from your dropbox account. I'm sure you've kept
copies elsewhere, for continued attempts at stalking. It's what you
do. It's all you do. When someone refuses to help you do shady
things, or, won't provide you extremely detailed information about
themselves, you're quick to turn on them and expose your true nature.

I know the postcard has gotten under your skin too. You raised quite
a bit of a stink about the edited pic with you standing beside your
wife, and, went ape**** when I provided the unedited version, the
first time. What really irked you was that the person who shared the
edited version didn't provide me a copy of the original. I found it,
on my own. And you don't know how. You don't know many things about
me, but for some reason, you think you have a snowballs chance in
hell of causing me any real strife. It's you who will always lose at
this in the end, David. You don't know what you're doing, you have to
rely on others for help. OTH, I do know what I'm doing, and I require
no hand holding by others to do it.

Btw, the url you provided still has three comments visible...Any
particular reason your comment hasn't been approved and made visible
yet? Perhaps he's done a little research on you and figured out
you're upto no good and trying to use him, too?

MID:
http://al.howardknight.net/msgid.cgi?ID=149386344400
NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 02 May 2017 10:15:25 UTC
My new post - in the "comments' section at the original link:
[SNIP rest of post, one need only click the link above to see it]

Your comment is atleast eight days old now. I don't think cluley is
that slow with regard to approving them. Are approvals even required?
I've never posted on his forum...I was looking forward to seeing
discussion between you and cluley. You gave me the impression that
the two of you were buddies. Is that not really the case?

Shadow has been asking you to provide MIDs of you providing help to
others of a technical nature. You've been on usenet for years. I've
known you since August 12th, 2007 and have yet to see you provide
helpful/useful information of a technical nature to anyone the entire
time. I've seen you copy/paste material you used a search engine to
find and/or asked someone about, multiple times. But, nothing from
you, yourself.

I've seen you instigate problems between myself and other posters, on
numerous occasions though. Most recently, Philo. He thinks i'm
insecure, and you're keeping your mouth shut about the real reason
I've interacted with him in the manner I have. You know it's because
you lied to me concerning his knowledge and skillsets. So when I
began questioning his expertise, I came across as a complete asshole
and he's been in defense mode since then. All because YOU kept him in
the dark. No doubt, hoping i'd slip up and give you some dirt you
could use on me.

You actually tried to use both of us with this instigation tactic.
Only, I see it for what it is, and he doesn't. Because you didn't
speak up and admit what you did, previously. You were hoping i'd slip
up in some way and provide you useful information for your dossier on
me. How's that working out for you so far?

here's a great example of his inexperience:

He wrote:

MID:
http://al.howardknight.net/msgid.cgi?ID=149440838300
I stand by what I said, on any PC laptop or any Intel Mac laptop
removing a hard drive is a two minute job.

And I wrote this in response:

MID: XnsA77113A202401HT1@NfhFCBmZAQ32TyKqn3LqwJ9UtyzP4 .tn
http://al.howardknight.net/msgid.cgi?ID=149440830600

I disagree. A Dell Inspiron N4010 laptop is not a two minute job to
get access to the hard disk, let alone replace it. It requires a
teardown as well as the careful removal of the mainboard to access
the SATA interface hard disk. As the hard disk is located on the
bottom of the mainboard.

You mislead me concerning his abilities and knowledge, and, you
mislead him concerning mine. And the above is the result of your
actions. I provided a specific Dell make/model laptop, disproving his
claim. He doesn't have anywhere near the experience as myself. If he
did, he wouldn't have made the comment or stood by it.
He would have known better. He didn't, now, he does.

Anyone can use a search engine and see for themselves that what I
wrote is 100% true, and, his comment is not. You may even be able
find a youtube video showing you how to replace the hard disk on
that laptop. Which will backup what I wrote, not what he wrote. His
experience is limited compared to mine, by a wide margin.

He doesn't have the certs I have, because, he doesn't have the
experience or knowledge I have doing IT for as long as I have.
There's no real comparison between us as far as IT matters are
concerned. He's in way over his head, David. He's just too proud
and/or stubborn to admit it. You've put him in a terrible spot.

You've tried it with Miekemos too. I don't believe you've had much
interaction with them concerning me, because, they don't know much
about me. We were professional the entire time I worked for the same
company as they do. I didn't 'attack' them. I didn't even know that
was the individual you tricked into examining my encrypted .zip file
until after I commented about their lack of skill in doing so.

I'm sure you didn't send my post verbatim to them, either. Nor did
you provide the thread so they could read it in full context. As,
that's not how you operate. You think being deceptive, rude,
violating various etiquette, and policies is perfectly okay, as long
as your goals are met as a result. Well, your goals will not be met
that way, David.

Why don't you tell the group that the video was provided originally
with a working audio track, and you tried to edit it in some way on
one of your macs and toasted the audio track in the process. Your one
and only ORIGINAL copy of said video. What idiot besides you would
work from the original and risk doing such a stupid thing?

You've had a encrypted .zip file for over a year now? which contains
the original video I uploaded to my personal site some years back and
you haven't found anyone yet who can reverse the crypto and get the
video file for you. You had no right to keep a copy of my video, edit
it, nor store it elsewhere, so this is just karma squaring up with
you for having done that.

In closing, to quote shadow:

You're a STALKING, DRUNKEN, QUEER, INCOMPETENT S.O.B, who NEVER
HELPED anyone in his entire miserable life.


--
I would like to apologize for not having offended you yet.
Please be patient. I will get to you shortly.

On 05/10/2017 12:46 AM, Diesel wrote:
concerning you.

I told you I had my own business repairing computers .
Because it was my secondary occupation does not mean I did it as a
hobby.

Did you run it out of your house? Did you have the proper business
license, insurance, etc? You already stated that you had on occasion
three machines on your work bench. That's NOTHING by comparison to
myself.



I already told you I have a workshop in my house.
My "real" job was repairing industrial equipment...mostly industrial
battery chargers etc. Most microprocessor controlled and difficult to
program . Each design a has a different procedure.

Like I said, been doing that 38 years and was in on the ground floor of
automatic control design. Working on a PC is child's play compared to
these things.

Originally the controls were discrete CMOS logic but later moved to
microprocessor. One of the first of them used a Z-80 and those control
boards stayed in production for over 20 years. Hey they worked, but it
was funny to have to wait 20 seconds for one to turn off, once one hit
the "off" button.


I stand by what I said, on any PC laptop or any Intel Mac laptop
removing a hard drive is a two minute job.

I disagree. A Dell Inspiron N4010 laptop is not a two minute job to
get access to the hard disk, let alone replace it. It requires a
teardown as well as the careful removal of the mainboard to access
the SATA interface hard disk. As the hard disk is located on the
bottom of the mainboard. You'll also have to tear it down to locate
the CMOS battery. Looking at the top of the laptop, it's to the upper
right about an inch behind the card reader interface.


BFD Most new laptops are child's play to work on. Of course there are
bound to be exceptions.
It's poor design if RAM and a HD cannot be replaced easily. PERIOD

You can't access it by removing the keyboard. You will have to
seperate the chassis. Which also if memory serves (it's in pieces now
and I took it apart a year or two ago) also requires seperating the
flatpanel from the base.

OTH, you can access the ram modules by removing a small cover on the
bottom of the system, without having to tear it down. But, you won't
be removing the hard disk via a small cover.

Go ahead, google the make/model. I've got one sitting beside me
that I tore down to recover the hard disk for another machine, as the
mainboard itself is bad.

Stand tall, Philo, be proud in knowing you're WRONG.


I am wrong ten times a day BFD

's a 15 minute job.

That depends on the PC, too. If you swap out boards using a different
chipset, you will have to manually edit a specific registry hive file
to ensure a BSOD doesn't occur when you try to start the machine on
the new board. That's one of the joys of PnP based operating systems.

OTH, if you have an identical board (or very close match component
wise, same chipset, atleast) depending on the case and additional
cards, sure, it's possible to pull the old board and drop a new one
in in fifteen minutes or so. Getting the OS back up and going might
take longer though, since you most likely didn't put the cards back
into the same PCI/PCIe slots as you found them. And, that is
important. They are numbered for a reason, after all.

I stand by what I wrote, initially and have since repeated several
times. You do NOT have anywhere near the IT experience as myself.


That part I agree on. I only did IT work as a volunteer and I was not
certified or anything. I am sure you have way more experience in IT.

BTW: I did often have to correct mistakes the firm the NPO paid to do IT
work,. they were very lax and the origination took my advice to hire
another firm.

When I said I have repaired or built thousands of machines, I did not
anywhere say I did extensive IT work.




That said, you have mention BSOD's a lot and I just plain do not get
them on the equipment I work on.

Not saying I have never see one of XP or Win7 but it's so rare it's less
than once every few years.

As to transplanting a HD into different hardware...I've found that
perhaps 90% of the time Win7 will reconfigure with no problem. Some
drivers might have to be added later.

XP is not so good, Unless the system is properly prepped, a transplant
only works some of the time.

I have seen it work with different chipsets and have seen it fail on
similar chipsets.


Win10 has a several different repair options and I have always managed
to get the HD working on new H/W

The one exception was putting a drive that had been installed on a UEFI
machine into one with a standard BIOS.

Going the other way worked fine though

On 05/10/2017 12:46 AM, Diesel wrote:
trader_4
Tue, 09
May 2017 14:55:39 GMT in alt.home.repair, wrote:

[snip]

I see you've made another friend in the newsgroup.

I'm not here to make friends, Trader.






As they say, you are instead here to make "enemas."

philo news 2017 15:12:31 GMT in alt.home.repair, wrote:

[snip]

As they say, you are instead here to make "enemas."


Who's they? I'm not here to give or get an anal cleansing, either.


--
I would like to apologize for not having offended you yet.
Please be patient. I will get to you shortly.

On 05/11/2017 01:14 AM, Diesel wrote:
philo news May 2017 15:11:11 GMT in alt.home.repair, wrote:

[snip]

I already told you I have a workshop in my house.
My "real" job was repairing industrial equipment...mostly
industrial battery chargers etc. Most microprocessor controlled
and difficult to program . Each design a has a different
procedure.

Yes, you did, but you didn't go into much detail concerning the
workshop in your house. Unless you had a legitimate business license,
proper insurance, etc etc, I'd consider to be more of a hobbyist
thing. Above that of a jake leg, but, I digress.


If you want to call it a hobby fine , but I got a lot of repeat business
from people who had previously taken their machines to the so -called
professionals.

FWIW: During the years I did the volunteer work at the NPO I was an
authorized Microsoft refurbisher...so all the machines I loaded Windows
on were done legally.



I understand your real job was far different than that of a Computer
technician. I don't have as many years on the job as you do in the
industrial equipment repair field, but, I do have some. I'm well
aware of the various differences in processors, programming
interfaces, languages used, etc.

The thing is though, if you're actually a coder, and not just a
script kiddie and/or programmer, it doesn't really matter what you're
writing or debugging code for. You will study the hardware and you'll
adapt to be able to right tight/efficient code for it. As, that's
what coders tend to do. As, a coder knows the hardware itself at an
intimate level to get the most out of it, using as little code as is
possible. Programmers and script kiddies, often, do not understand
how the code they write is turned into something useful for the
hardware that's expected to act on it.

It's one reason we specifically have many of the software exploit
issues we have today. They write a program, but, don't understand
what the compiler turns it into. Then, someone like myself, with
nefarious intentions, studies the final output of the compiler and
sees the ways in which to exploit it. And they create necessary
exploit code as a result. Test it, ensure it works, and then make
good use of it.

Like I said, been doing that 38 years and was in on the ground
floor of automatic control design. Working on a PC is child's play
compared to these things.

I'd have to disagree with you again. Working on a PC can be
childsplay depending on what you're doing, likewise, it can be a real
bitch depending on what you're doing with the PC. No different really
than custom industrial microprocessor programming. It just depends on
what you're actually doing and how well you understand the underlying
concepts to it all.


I am great on the H?W end but a friend had a serious problem with
Photoshop the other day so I referred him to my wife.

Had I been there in person I probably would have figured it out...as it
ended up being a bad mouse!




I realize you feel the need to downplay PC work vs that of industrial
repair due to our previous discussions, but, it's not realistic of
you to do so. If programming microprocessors via the often ackward
and very proprietary interfaces was difficult for you, or extremely
difficult for you, I'd say it's because you didn't have a firm grasp
on how what you were writing was being translated into useful
instructions for the hardware itself. You never claimed to be a
coder, so, I can't crack on you for that.


I did not mean to downplay computer work and as far as writing code,
truth is , I'm not smart enough for that.




snipped but read

philo news May 2017 02:30:11 GMT in alt.home.repair, wrote:

If you want to call it a hobby fine , but I got a lot of repeat
business from people who had previously taken their machines to
the so -called professionals.

Well, what else would you have called it? It was a side gig for you
right? Your 'real' job was doing something else, entirely. I meant no
disrespect with my comment, btw. I have no personal issues of any
kind with you, so I'm not trying to be disrespectful towards you.
Apologies if I seem to be coming across that way, though.

FWIW: During the years I did the volunteer work at the NPO I was
an authorized Microsoft refurbisher...so all the machines I loaded
Windows on were done legally.

Nice.

I am great on the H?W end but a friend had a serious problem with
Photoshop the other day so I referred him to my wife.

A smart individual knows when to refer things to someone who
specializes in the software that has an issue. There's so much
frakking software 'out there' it's impossible to be a master of it
all. Who has that many lifetimes, right?

Had I been there in person I probably would have figured it
out...as it ended up being a bad mouse!

I have no doubt in your abilities as a hardware person, truth be
told. Many techs I know irl are hardware junkies themselves. They
won't touch the coding aspects with a barge pole, though.

I did not mean to downplay computer work and as far as writing
code, truth is , I'm not smart enough for that.

No worries. And, I think you might not be giving yourself enough
credit. I could be wrong, and, it's just my opinion, but, I believe
almost anyone could turn into a great coder if they wanted to spend
the time and effort learning. If you lack patience, it *will* teach
you patience. [g] And the rewards for it are impossible for me to put
into words that would make sense. I'd also advise those who do learn
to become great coders, not abuse their knowledge as I did at one
point in my life. You will regret it, that I know from personal first
hand experience.

--
I would like to apologize for not having offended you yet.
Please be patient. I will get to you shortly.

On 05/12/2017 05:29 AM, Diesel wrote:
philo news May 2017 02:30:11 GMT in alt.home.repair, wrote:

If you want to call it a hobby fine , but I got a lot of repeat
business from people who had previously taken their machines to
the so -called professionals.

Well, what else would you have called it? It was a side gig for you
right? Your 'real' job was doing something else, entirely. I meant no
disrespect with my comment, btw. I have no personal issues of any
kind with you, so I'm not trying to be disrespectful towards you.
Apologies if I seem to be coming across that way, though.

FWIW: During the years I did the volunteer work at the NPO I was
an authorized Microsoft refurbisher...so all the machines I loaded
Windows on were done legally.

Nice.

I am great on the H?W end but a friend had a serious problem with
Photoshop the other day so I referred him to my wife.

A smart individual knows when to refer things to someone who
specializes in the software that has an issue. There's so much
frakking software 'out there' it's impossible to be a master of it
all. Who has that many lifetimes, right?

Had I been there in person I probably would have figured it
out...as it ended up being a bad mouse!

I have no doubt in your abilities as a hardware person, truth be
told. Many techs I know irl are hardware junkies themselves. They
won't touch the coding aspects with a barge pole, though.

I did not mean to downplay computer work and as far as writing
code, truth is , I'm not smart enough for that.

No worries. And, I think you might not be giving yourself enough
credit. I could be wrong, and, it's just my opinion, but, I believe
almost anyone could turn into a great coder if they wanted to spend
the time and effort learning. If you lack patience, it *will* teach
you patience. [g] And the rewards for it are impossible for me to put
into words that would make sense. I'd also advise those who do learn
to become great coders, not abuse their knowledge as I did at one
point in my life. You will regret it, that I know from personal first
hand experience.




Very good then