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Jan 182012
Pocket Tazer Stun Gun, a great gift for the wife.
A guy who purchased his lovely wife a pocket Tazer for their anniversary submitted this:
Last weekend I saw something at Larry’s Pistol & Pawn Shop that sparked my interest.. The occasion was our 15th anniversary and I was looking for a little something extra for my wife Julie. What I came across was a 100,000-volt, pocket/purse-sized Tazer.
The effects of the Tazer were supposed to be short lived, with no long term adverse affect on your assailant, allowing her adequate time to retreat to safety…??
WAY TOO COOL! Long story short, I bought the device and brought it home… I loaded two AAA batteries in the darn thing and pushed the button.. Nothing! I was disappointed. I learned, however, that if I pushed the button and pressed it against a metal surface at the same time, I’d get the blue arc of electricity darting back and forth between the prongs.
AWESOME!!! Unfortunately, I have yet to explain to Julie what that burn spot is on the face of her microwave.
Okay, so I was home alone with this new toy, thinking to myself that it couldn’t be all that bad with only two AAA batteries, right?
There I sat in my recliner, my cat Gracie looking on intently (trusting little soul) while I was reading the directions and thinking that I really needed to try this thing out on a flesh & blood moving target.
I must admit I thought about zapping Gracie (for a fraction of a second) and then thought better of it. She is such a sweet cat. But, if I was going to give this thing to my wife to protect herself against a mugger, I did want some assurance that it would work as advertised.
Am I wrong?
So, there I sat in a pair of shorts and a tank top with my reading glasses perched delicately on the bridge of my nose, directions in one hand, and Tazer in another.
The directions said that:
a one-second burst would shock and disorient your assailant;
a two-second burst was supposed to cause muscle spasms and a major loss of bodily control; and
a three-second burst would purportedly make your assailant flop on the ground like a fish out of water.
Any burst longer than three seconds would be wasting the batteries.
All the while I’m looking at this little device measuring about 5″ long, less than 3/4 inch in circumference (loaded with two itsy, bitsy AAA batteries); pretty cute really, and thinking to myself, ‘no possible way!’
What happened next is almost beyond description, but I’ll do my best.
I’m sitting there alone, Gracie looking on with her head cocked to one side so as to say, ‘Don’t do it stupid,’ reasoning that a one second burst from such a tiny lil ole thing couldn’t hurt all that bad.. I decided to give myself a one second burst just for heck of it.
I touched the prongs to my naked thigh, pushed the button, and…
HOLY MOTHER OF GOD. WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION. WHAT THE… !!!
I’m pretty sure Hulk Hogan ran in through the side door, picked me up in the recliner, then body slammed us both on the carpet, over and over and over again. I vaguely recall waking up on my side in the fetal position, with tears in my eyes, body soaking wet, both nipples on fire, testicles nowhere to be found, with my left arm tucked under my body in the oddest position, and tingling in my legs! The cat was making meowing sounds I had never heard before, clinging to a picture frame hanging above the fireplace, obviously in an attempt to avoid getting slammed by my body flopping all over the living room.
Note:
If you ever feel compelled to ‘mug’ yourself with a Tazer,
one note of caution:
There is NO such thing as a one second burst when you zap yourself! You will not let go of that thing until it is dislodged from your hand by a violent thrashing about on the floor!
A three second burst would be considered conservative!
A minute or so later (I can’t be sure, as time was a relative thing at that point), I collected my wits (what little I had left), sat up and surveyed the landscape.
- My bent reading glasses were on the mantel of the fireplace.
- The recliner was upside down and about 8 feet or so from where it originally was.
- My triceps, right thigh and both nipples were still twitching.
- My face felt like it had been shot up with Novocain, and my bottom lip weighed 88 lbs.
- I had no control over the drooling.
- Apparently I had crapped in my shorts, but was too numb to know for sure, and my sense of smell was gone.
- I saw a faint smoke cloud above my head, which I believe came from my hair.
I’m still looking for my testicles and I’m offering a significant reward for their safe return!
PS: My wife can’t stop laughing about my experience, loved the gift and now regularly threatens me with it!
If you think education is difficult, try being stupid!!!!
Most of the negative health effects of smoking are well-known so instead of listing all of the reasons that smoking is bad for you, this is a different perspective. When you DO stop smoking, here is a list of all of the good things that will happen to you, and when the bad – the cravings, cough, etc. – should stop.
• In just 20 minutes, your blood pressure and pulse rate will return to normal.
• In 12 hours, your blood oxygen level will have increased to normal and the carbon monoxide levels in your body will have dropped to normal.
• In 24 hours, your anxieties and aggression peak in intensity and within two weeks they should return to near pre-cessation levels.
• In just 48 hours, damaged nerve endings have started to regrow and your sense of smell and taste are beginning to return to normal.
• In just 72 hours, your entire body will test 100% nicotine-free.
• In 5 – 8 days, the “average” ex-smoker (one pack a day) will probably have 3 cravings a day, each lasting up to 3 minutes
• In 10 days, the “average” ex-smoker will have less than two cravings a day, each lasting less than 3 minutes.
• In 10 days to 2 weeks, recovery has likely progressed to the point where your addiction is no longer doing the talking. Blood circulation in your gums and teeth are now similar to that of a non-user.
• In 2-4 weeks, cessation-related anger, anxiety, difficulty concentrating, impatience, insomnia, restlessness and depression have ended.
• In just 2 weeks to 3 months, your heart attack risk has started to drop and your lung function is beginning to improve.
• In 3 weeks to 3 months, your circulation has substantially improved. Walking has become easier. Your chronic cough, if any, has likely disappeared.
• In 1-9 months, any smoking-related sinus congestion, fatigue or shortness of breath has decreased. Cilia have regrown in your lungs which help them to handle mucus, keep your lungs clean, and reduce infections. Your body’s overall energy has increased.
• In 1 year, your excess risk of coronary heart disease has dropped to less than half that of a smoker.
• In 5-15 years, your risk of stroke has declined to that of a non-smoker.
•In 10-15 years, your risk of death from lung cancer has declined by almost half if you were an average smoker. Your risk of cancer of the mouth, throat and esophagus has decreased.
•In 13 years, your risk of smoking-induced tooth loss has declined to that of someone who never smoked.
•In 15 years, your risk of coronary heart disease is that of someone who has never smoked.
And also by quitting smoking, you regain control of your life, you save a whole lot of money, and you become a better example to your family, co-workers, and community. Your smile won’t be yellow, and your body and your clothes will no longer smell like cigarettes.
We have a single Trend Micro InterScan Web Security Virtual Appliance 5.5 running on VMWARE 4.1
I wanted to monitor real-time connections and bandwidth being used.
Easiest is to install TCPTrack, the below is the process that i followed:
1)Make sure what OS type you running:
# uname -i
Should get a respond with x86_64
2) Get tmp
# cd /tmp/
3) Get the following packages
# wget http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/tcptrack/tcptrack-1.1.5-1.2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm
# wget ftp://ftp.muug.mb.ca/mirror/centos/5.6/os/x86_64/CentOS/libpcap-0.9.4-15.el5.x86_64.rpm
4) Install Packages
# rpm -ivh libpcap-0.9.4-15.el5.x86_64.rpm
# rpm -ivh tcptrack-1.1.5-1.2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm
5) Done!
You can now use TCPTrack – #
tcptrack -i eth0 port 8080
Below is the command usage:
| Command line options |
|---|
| -d | Only track connections that were started after tcptrack was started. Do not try to detect existing connections. |
| -f | Enable fast average recalculation. TCPTrack will calculate the average speeds of connections by using a running average. TCPTrack will use more memory and CPU time, but averages will seem closer to real time and will be updated more than once per second and may be more accurate under heavy load. The number of times per second that averages will be recalculated in fast mode is a compile-time setting that defaults to 10 times per second. |
| -i [eth0] | Sniff packets from the specified network interface. |
| -P | Do not put the interface being sniffed into promiscuous mode. |
| -r [seconds] | Wait this many seconds before removing a closed connection from the display. Defaults to 2 seconds. See also the pause interactive command (below). |
| -v | Display tcptrack version |
| -h | Display command line help |
| Interactive options |
|
EXAMPLES
tcptrack requires only one parameter to run: the -i flag followed by an
interface name that you want tcptrack to monitor. This is the most
basic way to run tcptrack:
# tcptrack -i eth0
tcptrack can also take a pcap filter expression as an argument. The
format of this filter expression is the same as that of tcpdump(8) and
other libpcap-based sniffers. The following example will only show con-
nections from host 10.45.165.2:
# tcptrack -i eth0 src or dst 10.47.23.4
The next example will only show web traffic (ie, traffic on port 80):
# tcptrack -i eth0 port 80
See ALSO http://www.rhythm.cx/~steve/devel/tcptrack
After a install Service Pack 1 on a Microsoft SQL 2008 R2 server, I received the following error when trying to Connect to the Server with Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio. Login failed for user ….. Reason: Server is in a script upgrade mode
Looking at the Application Event View, the following error was found:
Source: MSSQLSERVER
Event ID: 912
Script level upgrade for database ‘master’ failed because upgrade step ‘sqlagent100_msdb_upgrade.sql’ encountered error 598, state 1, severity 25. This is a serious error condition which might interfere with regular operation and the database will be taken offline. If the error happened during upgrade of the ‘master’ database, it will prevent the entire SQL Server instance from starting. Examine the previous errorlog entries for errors, take the appropriate corrective actions and re-start the database so that the script upgrade steps run to completion.
SOLUTION:
Before the installation:
Ensure the Database default locations point to the folder where your system databases reside.
After the installation:
Shutdown all SQL services
Started Registry Editor
Navigate to: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10_50.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQLSERVER
Ensure DefaultData and Default Log point to the directories that the System databases reside:
Start the SQL Services that you shutdown, you’ll have to wait a few minutes for all the scripts to run to complete the upgrade [If you go into the Management Studio, you'll receive the same error you received, no fret, just wait some more, I'd say around 15min.]
Script level upgrade for database ‘master’ failed because upgrade step ‘sqlagent100_msdb_upgrade.sql’ encountered error 598, state 1, severity 25. This is a serious error condition which might interfere with regular operation and the database will be taken offline. If the error happened during upgrade of the ‘master’ database, it will prevent the entire SQL Server instance from starting. Examine the previous errorlog entries for errors, take the appropriate corrective actions and re-start the database so that the script upgrade steps run to completion.