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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft Software => Topic started by: Aloone_Jonez on 21 February 2011, 22:06

Title: I didn't know you could use a VB GUI to track an IP address.
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 21 February 2011, 22:06: GUI interface using visual basic to track the killers IP address CSI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU#ws)

Seriously what morons write this shit?

Yea right I wrote a batch file using notepad to hack into a governments computer to steal secrets which I sold to the Taliban for £10000000.
Title: Re: I didn't know you could use a VB GUI to track an IP address.
Post by: Refalm on 21 February 2011, 22:58: The line in CSI actually goes to show how some IT people in companies can get away with anything, if their bosses don't know shit about computers.

In most series or films, lines are usually like this:
"All right, I'm going to uplink the LDAP server to the GPU mainframe, so we can get those automated database reports."
"God's speed young man."

To the average Pete, that likes series like CSI where complex know-how is converted into utter simplicity, those kind of lines sound pretty impressive.

The only film where there was something realistic in terms of IT, was in The Matrix, where an old ssh flaw was used by Carrie-Anne Moss' character to bring down the electricity grid.
Well, outside of films like Antitrust and Pirates of Silicon Valley, which were about computers.

Here's the scene:
matrix nmap (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TJuipCrjZQ#ws)
Title: Re: I didn't know you could use a VB GUI to track an IP address.
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 22 February 2011, 00:00: Yes, total bollocks. I should've gone into IT not engineering!

I would love it if MS could sue them for saying that but they can't. :(

Oh by the way my edted to your post was to fix my retarded spelling/grammar in the subject.
Title: Re: I didn't know you could use a VB GUI to track an IP address.
Post by: Lead Head on 22 February 2011, 07:42: You know what they say, "If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit." Average TV viewer has no idea what they said, so it must mean they're smart, right?

Another movie where this is bad is the latest Die Hard. Push a button, divert an entire city's natural gas flow to one location. Yup, that is definitely how it works.
Title: Re: I didn't know you could use a VB GUI to track an IP address.
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 22 February 2011, 21:01: I had to listen to it five times before I understood it. The combination of the heavy American accent and speed made it unintelligible to me, goodness knows how someone who's first language isn't English could understand it.
Title: Re: I didn't know you could use a VB GUI to track an IP address.
Post by: Refalm on 22 February 2011, 21:55: Finished.
Title: Re: I didn't know you could use a VB GUI to track an IP address.
Post by: Lead Head on 23 February 2011, 05:29: Brilliant!

Quote from: Aloone_Jonez on 22 February 2011, 21:01
I had to listen to it five times before I understood it. The combination of the heavy American accent and speed made it unintelligible to me, goodness knows how someone who's first language isn't English could understand it.
Odly enough, I feel the exact same way (except English accent, instead of American), when I am watching TopGearUK. ;)
Title: Re: I didn't know you could use a VB GUI to track an IP address.
Post by: Refalm on 23 February 2011, 15:27: I can understand both just fine.
There's a good mix of British and American programmes here, subtitled in Dutch.
Title: Re: I didn't know you could use a VB GUI to track an IP address.
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 25 February 2011, 22:37: Quote from: Lead Head on 23 February 2011, 05:29
Odly enough, I feel the exact same way (except English accent, instead of American), when I am watching TopGearUK. ;)
I don't see why anyone would find the TopGear presenters difficult to understand as they speak very slowly, especially Jeremy Clarkson. If you were talking about only fools and horses or Billy Connelly, of course I'd understand.

Come on admit it, you just said that because you took offence to my remark.

I don't normally have any problems with understanding US or Austrailin accents, it's just when they speak too quickly.
Title: Re: I didn't know you could use a VB GUI to track an IP address.
Post by: reactosguy on 25 February 2011, 23:05: Quote from: Refalm on 21 February 2011, 22:58
The only film where there was something realistic in terms of IT, was in The Matrix, where an old ssh flaw was used by Carrie-Anne Moss' character to bring down the electricity grid.

Now which oddball uses Secure Shell* to maintain a power grid? You know that nothing is ever immune to the threat of people breaking through your computers' bricks, and SSH* is no exception.

*Is this a mistake? Did you mean a flaw in C or something like that?
Title: Re: I didn't know you could use a VB GUI to track an IP address.
Post by: piratePenguin on 26 February 2011, 02:58: By the time I'm finished my placement it seems like I'll be a pro in Excel and Access and especially VB, and then I can build a VB GUI to hunt down killers IP addresses.
Title: Re: I didn't know you could use a VB GUI to track an IP address.
Post by: Lead Head on 1 March 2011, 05:40: Quote from: Aloone_Jonez on 25 February 2011, 22:37
Quote from: Lead Head on 23 February 2011, 05:29
Odly enough, I feel the exact same way (except English accent, instead of American), when I am watching TopGearUK. ;)
I don't see why anyone would find the TopGear presenters difficult to understand as they speak very slowly, especially Jeremy Clarkson. If you were talking about only fools and horses or Billy Connelly, of course I'd understand.

Come on admit it, you just said that because you took offence to my remark.

I don't normally have any problems with understanding US or Austrailin accents, it's just when they speak too quickly.
There are times where I have to rewind parts of TopGear 2 or 3 times to get what one of them said. I don't have that problem watching American shows.