The West Australian baffled by new technology...
Mar 2nd 2009, 1:10 am
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The West Australian baffled by new technology...
So I settle down with Saturday's West Australian (the only day we buy the thing, just for the jobs and What's On listings), and there's an article about a guy who bought a load of second hand PCs at auction and found they held a lot of information about a company that crashed in 2007. Anyway, in amongst the general shock-horror-company-may-have-done-bad-things is a short half-column piece about the guy who picked up the second hand PCs. Pity it's not online or I'd link to it, but here, for those who are IT literate, is the West Australian's attempt to explain how the evidence was found:
"The hard drive was gone so when I booted it up I didn't expect much to happen" [said Henk Beugelaar, the Internet Cafe owner who bought the PCs] "But suddenly there was all this noise and that's when I realized the scuzzies were still inside and that this had been the Internet server"
So far so amusing... but then the crack journalistic team attempt to explain the complex terminology for their readers.
Scuzzies are small interface storage devices found in computer towers. They had captured thousands of emails and other documents beng sent to and from the computer of Firepower founder Tim Johnson.
From now on, I shall be sure to warn people to wipe down their computers, in case the scuzzies capture their emails.
Cheers
b
"The hard drive was gone so when I booted it up I didn't expect much to happen" [said Henk Beugelaar, the Internet Cafe owner who bought the PCs] "But suddenly there was all this noise and that's when I realized the scuzzies were still inside and that this had been the Internet server"
So far so amusing... but then the crack journalistic team attempt to explain the complex terminology for their readers.
Scuzzies are small interface storage devices found in computer towers. They had captured thousands of emails and other documents beng sent to and from the computer of Firepower founder Tim Johnson.
From now on, I shall be sure to warn people to wipe down their computers, in case the scuzzies capture their emails.
Cheers
b
Mar 2nd 2009, 2:19 am
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Re: The West Australian baffled by new technology...
I wonder how he knew they were scuzzies and not IDE ?
Mar 2nd 2009, 2:28 am
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Re: The West Australian baffled by new technology...
So I settle down with Saturday's West Australian (the only day we buy the thing, just for the jobs and What's On listings), and there's an article about a guy who bought a load of second hand PCs at auction and found they held a lot of information about a company that crashed in 2007. Anyway, in amongst the general shock-horror-company-may-have-done-bad-things is a short half-column piece about the guy who picked up the second hand PCs. Pity it's not online or I'd link to it, but here, for those who are IT literate, is the West Australian's attempt to explain how the evidence was found:
"The hard drive was gone so when I booted it up I didn't expect much to happen" [said Henk Beugelaar, the Internet Cafe owner who bought the PCs] "But suddenly there was all this noise and that's when I realized the scuzzies were still inside and that this had been the Internet server"
So far so amusing... but then the crack journalistic team attempt to explain the complex terminology for their readers.
Scuzzies are small interface storage devices found in computer towers. They had captured thousands of emails and other documents beng sent to and from the computer of Firepower founder Tim Johnson.
From now on, I shall be sure to warn people to wipe down their computers, in case the scuzzies capture their emails.
Cheers
b
"The hard drive was gone so when I booted it up I didn't expect much to happen" [said Henk Beugelaar, the Internet Cafe owner who bought the PCs] "But suddenly there was all this noise and that's when I realized the scuzzies were still inside and that this had been the Internet server"
So far so amusing... but then the crack journalistic team attempt to explain the complex terminology for their readers.
Scuzzies are small interface storage devices found in computer towers. They had captured thousands of emails and other documents beng sent to and from the computer of Firepower founder Tim Johnson.
From now on, I shall be sure to warn people to wipe down their computers, in case the scuzzies capture their emails.
Cheers
b
Mar 2nd 2009, 2:33 am
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Mar 2nd 2009, 3:22 am
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Re: The West Australian baffled by new technology...
A financial guru on the ABC at lunchtime:
No no no, the inflation genie is definitely not out of the bottle, we're just having trouble getting him back in.
No no no, the inflation genie is definitely not out of the bottle, we're just having trouble getting him back in.
Mar 2nd 2009, 3:29 am
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Re: The West Australian baffled by new technology...
If I here one more politician use the term 'I'm afraid there's no silver bullet for ...' I shall . . . crush a grape.
Mar 2nd 2009, 3:31 am
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Re: The West Australian baffled by new technology...
The Atherton Sexual Abuse Service
I keep wanting to phone them up and ask how much their rapes are.
Mar 2nd 2009, 3:34 am
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Re: The West Australian baffled by new technology...
So I settle down with Saturday's West Australian (the only day we buy the thing, just for the jobs and What's On listings), and there's an article about a guy who bought a load of second hand PCs at auction and found they held a lot of information about a company that crashed in 2007. Anyway, in amongst the general shock-horror-company-may-have-done-bad-things is a short half-column piece about the guy who picked up the second hand PCs. Pity it's not online or I'd link to it, but here, for those who are IT literate, is the West Australian's attempt to explain how the evidence was found:
"The hard drive was gone so when I booted it up I didn't expect much to happen" [said Henk Beugelaar, the Internet Cafe owner who bought the PCs] "But suddenly there was all this noise and that's when I realized the scuzzies were still inside and that this had been the Internet server"
So far so amusing... but then the crack journalistic team attempt to explain the complex terminology for their readers.
Scuzzies are small interface storage devices found in computer towers. They had captured thousands of emails and other documents beng sent to and from the computer of Firepower founder Tim Johnson.
From now on, I shall be sure to warn people to wipe down their computers, in case the scuzzies capture their emails.
Cheers
b
"The hard drive was gone so when I booted it up I didn't expect much to happen" [said Henk Beugelaar, the Internet Cafe owner who bought the PCs] "But suddenly there was all this noise and that's when I realized the scuzzies were still inside and that this had been the Internet server"
So far so amusing... but then the crack journalistic team attempt to explain the complex terminology for their readers.
Scuzzies are small interface storage devices found in computer towers. They had captured thousands of emails and other documents beng sent to and from the computer of Firepower founder Tim Johnson.
From now on, I shall be sure to warn people to wipe down their computers, in case the scuzzies capture their emails.
Cheers
b
Why didn't he just say 'hard drive ? Yet another stunning example of the quality journalism at the West.
Another important point - don't unplug your network cable as the bits will fall out onto the floor.
Mar 2nd 2009, 6:52 am
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Actually... it's worse: there are two reporters' names on the byeline. How many West Australian reporters does it take to <insert your own joke here>?
Cheers
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Nov 23rd 2009, 4:16 am
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Re: The West Australian baffled by new technology...
Hia Guys, this is Henk Beugelaar - the guy who found the Firepower Server Computer (Tim Johnston)
The facts are that they had taken out the hard drives but forgot to take out the SCSI drives, there was 3 in a small black box.
I investigated this company for 3 months and did a hard copy print for the Australian Government, about 2500 pages I think. This is only a small portion of what is on there.
If you want to have a copy of this I have posted it on the net at;
http://www.mininova.org/tor/3158221
and
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5166471
These are complete copies of 6 years history of the Firepower Company and Tim Johnston from the server.
PLEASE SEED!
Henk
The facts are that they had taken out the hard drives but forgot to take out the SCSI drives, there was 3 in a small black box.
I investigated this company for 3 months and did a hard copy print for the Australian Government, about 2500 pages I think. This is only a small portion of what is on there.
If you want to have a copy of this I have posted it on the net at;
http://www.mininova.org/tor/3158221
and
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5166471
These are complete copies of 6 years history of the Firepower Company and Tim Johnston from the server.
PLEASE SEED!
Henk
