[F@H SPAM 11/1/09]New month . . . new thread . . . new change-up!

[batmeat]

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Originally Posted by Nude_Lewd_Man

Just a thought/idea I'm curious about, but does anyone know much about the card/tag type sucurity passes that control door access schtuffs...?

I've been discussing it with the guy I report to, and he's interested in getting it for the two doors for the server room.... If anyone knows what I'm talking about and/or where to get the systems from, and/or how much it would cost.........well you know where to get hold of me....

Only thing that comes to mind is that it works off of magnetics

[Nude_Lewd_Man]

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Originally Posted by Flying JJ

Yes, a little bit, as it is a bank, they already have access to the technology. Exact same as a MAC/ATM/Cash Point machine for the cards and readers. When I worked with induction furnaces, I kept wiping out my cards. I got tired of paying the replacement fees, so I made a dummy card with the programming machine, if I wiped the card, I reloaded it with the data from the dummy. I used the machine for programming the door cards.
Where to get them in the UK, no clue. You may want to see if the place that does you cash machines can help or see where a local hotel with the door systems gets theirs. A better idea is biometrics, no need to have the card all the time. I'll chat with you on IM's later.

They're part of an American bank, but they're a corporate financing type - rather than a 'high street' one - so (AFAIK) they don't have any 'branches' or ATMs to deal with...

At the moment, the two doors are protected by a 14-button (0-9, X, Y, Z and C) punch-code type lock both doors have the same code and as such they have a latch on the inside that you can use if you're going to be popping in and out, or otherwise inside or just outside of it - but there have been numerous times (not by me ) that the door has been on the latch and then forgotten about and left unsecured..... The guy I report to said that he asked for a quote a while ago, and was given a quote of £6,500 (plus fitting etc) for the two pads that would be required... :O:O:O:O

And as such, there isn't likely to be much in the way of extreme heat to deal with, so there shouldn't be too much of a need to replace cards - there would prolly only need to be about 4 cards anyway: one for the IT Manager, two (one each) for the staff techs and a spare, and maybe one additional one that could be given to security - I'm sure that'd be a good idea in case of a fire........

Anyway, I'm on Skype, where's the JJ..?

[nunyadam]

Don't know who makes the system, but we have a lot of doors at work I use my ID badge to open. I'll have a look and see if I can find any Info.

[nunyadam]

Can't find anything that looks like what we have at work, but i would imagine what you are looking for is an RFID access system. I know the setup at work tracks what doors I Access/Try to access, as well as what doors I am allowed to open.

we also use a lot of keypad locks like similar to this. Electronic Code Lock RDV-8 - Hotel Door Lock - Electronic Strike - Electromagnetic Lock - Electric Bolt Lock - Electronic Code Lock - IC Card - Electric Building Lock - Access Control - Access Control Anywhere - Power Supply - Exit Button And Switch

Punch in a code for access, no option to leave open.

[nemowolf]

I have a few companies i deal with that could work out something but they are all in califronia. You might want to do a lil googling to see about local security install companies and have them get you information on what they install, might get lucky and find a smaller company willing to do the work for cheap.

ohhh and as for all the printer jokes ... Thats our norm for printer issues, make sure its turned on, has paper and that its not screaming out of toner. Im surprised how easily printers manage to have these issues without the tards that use them notice...

Luckily im in seattle for the rest of the week and dont have to deal with those folks till monday!

[ShyguyXPC]

quick network question for some of you (minus the quote, it provides background for what i'm dealing with), have a friend who is thinking its wise not to invest in a router do to some issues they have had in the past.

they've been putting together a new gaming system for the past 6 months LOL, and nearing completion (yeah, don't even waste your breath, several of us have told him to buy everything at once, but insistent on this course of action, same dude that refuses to go with a Better performing Geforce card at the time because of what they heard about them running hotter than ATI's and has always had ATI cards, etc etc etc )

anyways, here's a snippet of his last email reply:

Quote:

Let me explain a bit....

What I want is a wired router without hassle meaning no mater which game I will host
to play with my brother (Guy)online, I will not have the same problem then my other brother
( Yvon) had with his fucken router.

Yvon made me buy a game "SubHunter" he told me that we would have a ball playing online
so I bought the darn game.

We found out after, that he couldn't not configure his router for the game so he couldn't
host.(he couldn't find the answer on the net).

He bought another router that one was working fine but his wife couldn't play online
at counter strike while me and Yvon were playing the sub game online.

As he didn't want to get in a fight with his wife, he decided to go back to the old router and
since then, the game plus the add-on that I payed $65.00 is on the shelving accumulating dust.

Now I am playing with my other brother (Guy) for now, we play Age of Empire 3 in coop we
don't have no problem what so ever.

I keep reading about routers, not being able to connect or host with certain games.
I'm reluctant to set up a network if the hassle of gaming outweighs the benefits of a network.

Betty will surf the net while me and Guy will play online and I don't want that kind of problem
no mater which game me or Guy will buy in the futur.

In conclusion, if you say with only a router, me and Betty will be able to go surfing on the net together
that is fine, but her surfing while I am hosting a game for Guy and I ...hmmm a bit scary after what I
read on the net.

So now you know WHY

I read stuff about switch and what you said is true, it is for 4 or more computers to be connect to the
internet so it's not what I want.

But, as I said previously, no mater which game we will buy in the futur to play online I don't want
problems (hassle), so if you can help me with this everything will be awesome.

If you are not absolutly sure that I will not have problems with a router then the hell with the router
and Betty will have to wait till I am done gaming to go surf on the net lol.

sounds to me like he was having port forwarding or assigning issues, or possible the games were using the same router port settings, but I don't see how that would conflict with each other.

I know I have had issues with routers not opening ports, or following guides to open ports, assign things etc, only to find out the router used for the guide was completely different from what I have, and thus options and settings are in different places, referred to differently or simply don't exist.

he's not very technically adept, has been relying on links for hardware reviews and other info from me and one other clanmate, he's 59 years old, and sometimes slow to learn things, so as you can see how problems can arise.

downside is he believes too much of what he hears on the web about things.

the last email he sent, he had heard that Windows 7 was to come out on floppy disks, and worried he'd need to install a floppy drive on his PC.

I told him he was nuts if he believed that LOL, in not so few words.

I explained to him that first, for those of us running Core i7 systems, then we're shit out of luck, because we don't have floppy ports, so whats the point of running Windows 7 with newest hardware then?

2nd I told him if that was true, since Win7 comes on a DVD, figuring a basic single layer disc weighs in at 4.7GB in size, that you'd need 3200+ 1.44MB Floppy Disks to store that on, given how long it takes to read a disk in a floppy drive, it could take the better part or a week or two to install Windows 7... now imagine if thats a Dual layer disc, your looking at almost twice that and twice as long, hell the floppy drive might end up dead after installing LOL.


so yeah, need some help and suggestions on this, how to go about explaining and pointing him to something that would work. I already explained to him in a Draft email (haven't sent it yet, waiting on what I read here), about setting up an Adhoc connection. but aside from that, not sure hooking up a switch directly to the modem for the 2 PC's is so wise.

[Sky King]

Another "Sky King seal of approval" tech endorsement.

I have carried a Sprint USB air card (EVDO cellular modem) for years now so I can get near-broadband internet access while traveling. The problem is that the Sprint device drivers for them are huge, flakey software, and it has to be installed in order to use the device.

So about a month and a half ago I picked up one of those little "MiFi" devices that Sprint and Verizon sell. Technically, it is the Novatel MiFi 2200. It combines the cell modem with a 5-port WiFi access point all in one tiny little battery operated device, the size of about 4 credit cards stacked on top of each other. You never plug into it, nor do you recognize it as a modem or NIC. Rather, you just connect to it like ANY wifi access point, it sends you DHCP, and you are on the net. It manages the cellular-side EVDO connection with no user intervention.

All I can say after a few months of using it is "flawless". Another device that finally does exactly what they say it will do, exactly the way they say it will do it. It's never hung, never failed to connect, never needed to be reset. It has one button, you turn it on and it works.

[Aaron_8015]

Well borderlands is pretty awesome.... (I would post some screen shots but at 800x600 with all settings on low, its not pretty ).

Im a lvl 20 hunter (sniper) there are thousands of weapons you can pick up and use.... very large open world with loads of quests.... The multiplayer is a bit weird, only experience I have had of it is joining a higher lvl's game (which you shouldn't do as this messes up your quest list)... and they all rush in and grab all the good stuff.

Still waiting for someone I know to get it... *hint *hint

[Nude_Lewd_Man]

Sorry Aaron, not gonna get into gaming.....

[Aaron_8015]