Re: [H] Where's My Spam???
I used to get a bunch of spam...in the 50 to 60 range per day. Then I read that night on osnews.com that a spam guy got arrested. Next day I got nothing. This was last year but you never know. Rob Julian Zottl wrote: Might be because Alan 'spam king' Ralsky has been arrested by the Feds. Then again, it's probably b/c Cox installed a better filter ;) _ Julian Zottl CTO, Radiant Network Technology, LLC Getting ahead in the tech sector isn't about kissing butt ... you gotta sniff the right packets -- Original Message -- From: Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 02:41:17 -0700 Interesting observation.. I normally get 50-100 spam emails delivered to my account every day.. Number varies of course, but that's a good average.. It's been like this for as long as I can recall. Oddly, the last 7 days or so, the amount of spam I get has dropped dramatically. In the last 24 hours I've received only 6 junk messages. Anyone else notice this? Cox is my ISP.. Less than 10 spammed messages per day. To whom do we give the credit? Or have the spammers moved off towards other pursuits?? Or are they merely adjusting their techniques to mount another assault and beat the existing filters? Bill
Re: [H] No Longer a Dell Fan
Exactly, puffed caps and the computer usually will not boot. Sorry Chris we order them with enough ram and I don't work on the help desk anymore so I don't really touch the desktops. Ben contact me off the list and we can work out getting those cd's to you. Rob Christopher Klein wrote: Trust me...if anyone can do it, Rob Finger can! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thane Sherrington (S) Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 7:26 AM To: The Hardware List Subject: RE: [H] No Longer a Dell Fan At 06:58 PM 10/04/2006, Christopher Klein wrote: LOL, that's because you're retarded and you keep shorting the board out when you upgrade the ram! Actually, the GX270s and 280s are blowing caps like crazy after 14 to 16 months. So far as I know, one can't short out a motherboard a blow a cap. T
Re: [H] No Longer a Dell Fan
We buy Optiplexes. I don't know why we don't look at other vendors but the GX280's have some serious cap issues. There has been a Dell guy here everyday for the past 2 months switching out MB's. Rob Ben Ruset wrote: Are you buying Optiplexes or Dimensions? Rob Finger wrote: Ben, We have been with Dell for a long time at the company I work for. They do indeed send the cd's you speak of with every system. Roxio or Sonic they are all in there. However, if this guy is not willing to help you then there is nothing more you can do. Rob Ben Ruset wrote: Right. I've actually been been building barebones servers at work for a while now. The thing that was nice about buying the Dell boxes was the warranty. With a barebones you have to track warranties on a bunch of components, vs. a Dell which has 2 years on everything W. D. wrote: At 15:29 4/7/2006, Ben Ruset, wrote: It's a shame that in the quest to bump Mike Dell's share prices up a point or two, customer support nosedives. I've always thought it better to buy the best clone components, and build it myself. Now MWave builds most of it for you: http://www.mwave.com/mwave/Barebones.hmx? Start Here to Find It Fast!™ - http://www.US-Webmasters.com/best-start-page/ $8.77 Domain Names - http://domains.us-webmasters.com/
Re: [H] No Longer a Dell Fan
Ben, We have been with Dell for a long time at the company I work for. They do indeed send the cd's you speak of with every system. Roxio or Sonic they are all in there. However, if this guy is not willing to help you then there is nothing more you can do. Rob Ben Ruset wrote: Right. I've actually been been building barebones servers at work for a while now. The thing that was nice about buying the Dell boxes was the warranty. With a barebones you have to track warranties on a bunch of components, vs. a Dell which has 2 years on everything W. D. wrote: At 15:29 4/7/2006, Ben Ruset, wrote: It's a shame that in the quest to bump Mike Dell's share prices up a point or two, customer support nosedives. I've always thought it better to buy the best clone components, and build it myself. Now MWave builds most of it for you: http://www.mwave.com/mwave/Barebones.hmx? Start Here to Find It Fast!™ - http://www.US-Webmasters.com/best-start-page/ $8.77 Domain Names - http://domains.us-webmasters.com/
[H] Strange Problem...rootkits?
Hello all, I was at a friends house last night working on their computer. They had a virus on the computer that I knew of and because of AOL and a Norton Def update on March 15th the Internet stopped working. After calling a special Symantec hot line for this fix I was able to get back on and download the removal tool for the virus. I ran Spybot in Safe Mode and cleaned up a bunch of spy ware along with the system startup listing. After the reboot the computer still runs very slow. Login from the XP screen takes about 5 to 7 min. After you let it sit for a while then things seem to speed up a little but this is a 3.0 ghz machine. Ram is not a problem but when I watch Task Manager the processor usage runs no lower then 50% and usually peaks about 90% but never drops below that. When looking at the process list the CPU usage does not seem to add up to 100% but I am assuming that it should. In fact the System Idle Process runs anywhere from 50 to 90%. There is nothing I can see that is taking up all this processor time. I have been reading about these rootkit viruses and the thread about malware. Could this be what I am experiencing??? TIA, Rob
Re: [H] Strange Problem...rootkits?
Norton Antivirus 2005 Thane Sherrington (S) wrote: At 10:03 AM 07/04/2006, Rob Finger wrote: After the reboot the computer still runs very slow. Login from the XP screen takes about 5 to 7 min. After you let it sit for a while then things seem to speed up a little but this is a 3.0 ghz machine. Ram is not a problem but when I watch Task Manager the processor usage runs no lower then 50% and usually peaks about 90% but never drops below that. When looking at the process list the CPU usage does not seem to add up to 100% but I am assuming that it should. In fact the System Idle Process runs anywhere from 50 to 90%. There is nothing I can see that is taking up all this processor time. I have been reading about these rootkit viruses and the thread about malware. Could this be what I am experiencing??? Which Norton are they running? If it's 2005 or 06, then it's (at least partly) the dreaded Norton Slowdown. T
Re: [H] Hardrive failure..
I had this article sent to me today. I thought it was very good. *Where Hard Drives Go When They Die* As faithful readers know, the hard drive in my 18-month-old Dell died last fall. Nothing could revive it, and it was only partially backed up. I wound up sending the drive to Drive Savers, a California company who, for a lot of money (often over $2,000), will take the drive into a clean room and use sophisticated physical and software techniques to rescue your files. I found the whole process so intriguing that I did a story on it for CBS News Sunday Morning, focusing on Drive Savers and its major rival, Kroll OnTrack. (Due to what I have to assume must be an accident, CBS has actually made my segment available to watch online. Click here, scroll down to CPR For Your Computer's Hard Drive, and click the Watch button.) Anyway, as usual, the segment wound up with only tiny snippets of the interviews I conducted for the story. One of my favorites was with Scott Gaidano, president of DriveSavers. I thought you might like a look at the more complete transcript. We begin in an area of the company's offices filled with run-over computers, burned-out hard drives, molten laptops and the like. DP: What's all this stuff? SG: We call it the museum of bizarre discasters. DP: Disc-asters. Very funny. SG: These are mainly famous people who didn't back up. So there's no reason to be ashamed if you lost your data; it happens to the best of us, from presidents to paupers. Keith Richards lost a bunch of his booking information, and we recovered that for him for one of his tours. President Ford lost his data, and of course we recovered it. What can I say about that? Nothing. This one here is a 40-megabyte drive. Remember what megabytes were? Forty megabytes and it cost $40,000. But it was well built. DP: I think this explains why my laptop is so heavy. SG: This is our most famous computer: it's a laptop that was rescued from the bottom of the Amazon River. A cruise ship hit an underwater barge, and sank down to the bottom. And the woman, an amateur diver, several days later, against all international law, broke in with a Maglight flashlight. Went down two flights of stairs underwater. Green, dark water. Found her stateroom. Remembered to bring her key, and rescued her laptop, and got it to Drive Savers. And we recovered all the data for her. DP: She must have had some REALLY important emails. SG: This one was run over by a truck. This one was blown about 70 feet from the guy's house in Hurricane Ivan. These are other famous people that we've recovered-- DP: Adam Sandler, Isaac Hayes, Sting, the Rugrats...You recovered the Rugrats' data? SG: Yeah. DP: That's funny, 'cause I always thought they were fictional. SG: In the early days, Ben and Jerry lost some of their ice cream recipes. And we were able to get them back. DP: Ooh. That would have been a tragic loss to society. SG: Totally. DP: You know, I saw some of these drives in the clean room. And I just could not believe how fragile and fast moving and filled with moving parts they are. This is good for your business, but is it good for society to entrust so much data to something so delicate? SG: No. It's not! It is very delicate. And, frankly, I'm surprised we're still in business. I'm surprised that there are still hard drives in computers. Aren't you? DP: Yeah. They seem like a really bad idea. SG: Yeah. They look to me like a 1932 distributor for a Ford truck. I mean, it's the only moving thing in a computer. DP: I know. So what's the alternative? SG: Well, I assume someday flash memory will take over. But drives get so big, and they're so inexpensive, and so fast that memory hasn't been able to catch up. You know, 200 gigs of flash memory would cost quite a bit. DP: Yeah. That's right. SG: Maybe when you can buy it for $200 at Costco. DP: Let me ask you a related question. Everything is going digital. Digital music, digital photos, digital movies. Is that a dangerous trend? My mother once bemoaned the fact that rough drafts of famous novelists don't exist anymore, 'cause it's all word processed, and no one will ever know the composing process. SG: Yeah. One of our recovery guys said something one time, that in 100 years, anything we put on electronic media will not exist. Yet anything published will still be around. And I think he's right. DP: So things on paper-- SG: So your books will be here. DP: Thank you so much. Now, what have you learned about America in your front-row seat, seeing the stuff that's on these disks? SG: Well, actually, from the very beginning, drives had strange stuff on them. In those days, we would be more curious, but nowadays, nobody cares. I mean, we've seen it all. Now, if I find out something about Area 51, or the Kennedy assassination, you know, I'd be very interested. But nobody's sent us that yet--and we're not looking for
Re: [H] VMware Server...
So let me get this straight. VMWare is offering Server for free for the Beta test or will it be free after that also? Meaning you would have to pay for GSX and ESX products. We are looking into getting GSX for testing and some small production machines at work but Server might be fine for us also. Thanks, Rob Wayne Johnson wrote: At 03:54 PM 2/6/2006, Ben Ruset typed: Right off the top of my head, you can't auto start VM's with Workstation. To start a virtual machine from the command line it's vmrun start c:\[path]\virtual_machine_name.vmx but you must either change your working directory to the VMware Workstation directory or add the VMware Workstation directory to the system path first. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] Web authoring question - protecting email addresses
What about saving the addresses and such as a .jpg ??? I know that would probably not be the best practice but there would be no text for the search engines to pick up. Just taking a wild guess at this as I know nothing about search engines. Rob Julian Hale wrote: At 07:48 AM 12/17/2005, you wrote: This weekend I am building a website to help with planning my wedding. How careful do I have to be about putting phone numbers, addresses, and email addresses on it? I am assuming that nefarious people with spiders can crawl it or add them to spam lists. Any ways of preventing this? -- Brian To be absolutely sure, I think the best thing to do would be to password protect the area that has personal information, so only people you give a password to can get in. Julian
[H] Dumb PCI-X Question
Hello All, I have not built a pc in a while so please be kind. I purchased a TV Tuner card at Comp-USA real cheap. It is PCI and I have an older Dell I was going to put it in. I probably would just be watching TV on this from time to time while working at my desk. However, thinking long term is PCI-X backwards compatible with PCI? I am thinking no but I don't want to use this for a year and then find out it will not fit in a new computer I purchase/build. TIA, Rob
Re: [H] Replacing Ghost
Can you boot off a usb drive with this product. I have looked at this for Ghost but can't seen to do this (Corp Version). It would be handy for our techs this way. I have them using BartPE for now because it offers Ghost plus other things as you all know. I am assuming that can boot of a USB Drive am I correct? Rob CW wrote: The ability to make a complete image while not mirroring the temporary swap files into your image is a giant space/time saver. -Original message- From: Bobby Heid [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 11:57:36 -0500 To: 'The Hardware List' hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: RE: [H] Replacing Ghost I guess you'd have to look at the features in ghost 10 and ATI 9 and see if there is something there that you'd like to have. Bobby -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Winterlight Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 1:53 PM To: The Hardware List Subject: RE: [H] Replacing Ghost I still use the last version of Drive Image and it works great. Why would I need to switch?
Re: [H] Firefox 1.0.7 questions
I listen to TWIT (This Week In Tech) with the old Screen Savers crew from TechTV. They were saying that every time someone searches Google with the built in search box in MozillaGoogle pays Mozilla. I think the number was about 14 million last year. So keep on using it I say!!! Rob Brian Weeden wrote: On 10/14/05, Winterlight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In Opera every tab has a X, so to close it I only have to click the X, just like a window. But in Firefox I have to use the right click context menu to close a tab... is there a faster way? Try tabbrowser preferences extension. In Opera I can just drag tabs to the position I want them, but in Firefox the tabs are fixed? The version of Firefox in beta has this feature (Deer Park Beta 2). In Opera, I really miss this, I can right click on a page and using the context menu set a reload time period...defaults start at 15 seconds up to 30 minutes but I can also setup whatever time I want ... or even tell it to reload if the server requests it. Is there a way to do this with Firefox? I don't know if you can set a specific time to refresh but I think the Live Bookmarks feature might work. Any special extensions I should consider installing? What I have currently installed: ForecastFox Adblock Adblock Filterset Updater Flashblock Flashgot NoScript Googlebar gTranslate MediaPlayerConnectivity Tabbrowser Preferences Download Statusbar Dictionary Tooltip All-In-One Sidebar -- Brian
Re: [H] Voice over IP
As a side question is there any QoS problems with anyone using this? Do you have to set this up on your network to get the best quality possible? Rob 007 wrote: The only drawback to VoIP phone is reception of faxes. One solution would be to use efax.com or the local Kinkos. Thanks to unmentionable technology we can track (including Echelon) VoIP calls just like POTS lines. 007. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Christopher Fisk Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 4:24 PM To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] Voice over IP On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Gary Udstrand wrote: Anyone here using VOIP? I am thinking about signing up with Vonage, are there other providers I should consider? I use Vonage and have been happy with them, recently I think they've been going through growing pains as there has been notices on thier webpages saying outgoing calls may not be completing, but I havn't encountered the outgoing call issue. If you end up doing a vonage account you should have someone refer you, they have a pretty good referal program (2 months free for referer, and 1 month free for referee if I remember correctly. I'm not familiar with any other VoIP provider's service though. I've been really happy with Vonage. Christopher Fisk
[H] Hardware based remote control???
I have 2 laptops at home right now. One is work and one is personal. I also have a desktop that runs headless with XP Pro on it. This used to be my server but I have decided to just store everything on the personal laptop and back that up for simplicity sake. I would like to put linux on the desktop but I want to keep running it headless. I have have a Sparc workstation that I have run with Teraterm and SSH from the command line but what if I would like to see everything from Bios to X Windows on the desktop from one of the laptops? Basically I want the screen to show up on one of the laptop screens and control the desktop using the mouse and keyboard on the laptop. Is there something that will allow me to do this?? Thanks, Rob
Re: [H] Disposable computers
I agree. He is a moron. It is time to change the oil in my car and I hate waiting an hour so I think I shall just get another one. You also have to wonder how he has been getting all this spyware. I am on the Internet a lot and I hardly ever have more then a tracking cookie. Nothing that will take me 2 hours to clean up that's for sure. I can't believe they even put crap like this in the paper. Rob Thane Sherrington wrote: At 12:43 PM 17/07/2005, Robert Turnbull wrote: Mr. Tucker, an Internet industry executive who holds a Ph.D. in computer science, decided that rather than take the time to remove the offending software, he would spend $400 on a new machine. He's a moron. It would take a couple of hours to clean this up. Heck, even backing up data and reinstalling Windows wouldn't take any real time compared to getting a new machine. It'll take the same amount of time to install, configure and transfer data to a new machine as it would to the old one, so the only extra time is the Windows install. What's that? An hour? So his time is worth more than $400 an hour? I doubt it. If he lived near me, I could have cleaned it up, most likely, for $32. I'm guessing he wanted a new computer and is using spyware as an excuse to get it. And next week, when he's infected the new computer, is he going to throw that one out too? T
Re: [H] Upgrade :)
Is this a hardware raid on the external housing or does it work off your SATA connectors on the PC??? Just wondering as it does not give a lot of info. Thanks, Rob Chris Reeves wrote: I've seen those, we have some in at this office.. but since I want to boot a different drive each time (and all my SATA connectors on the board are taken) I need a removable type.. I think the Kingwin posted before maybe right.. but I'm not sure about the safety of putting a 74G Raptor in one.. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wayne Johnson Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 6:35 AM To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] Upgrade :) At 03:07 AM 6/23/2005, tived typed: Hi Chris how about this one here, I know it is from and Australian web site but, I am sure you can pick this up cheap in the US http://www.auspcmarket.com.au/index.php?redir=http://www.auspcmarket.com.a u/show_product_info.php?input[product_code]=CA-SN3141SATAinput[category_id] =1020http://www.auspcmarket.com.au/index.php?redir=http://www.auspcmarket.c om.au/show_product_info.php?input[product_code]=CA-SN3141SATAinput[category _id]=1020 sorry about the long URL Kindest regards Henrik You can get one of those backplanes at Mwave http://www.mwave.com/mwave/viewspec.hmx?scriteria=BA20690 --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
[H] NAS Questions
Hello all, I have been researching a NAS setup for home. I have about 5 GB of pictures from my digital camera, 20 GB of MP3's and other misc word docs, spreadsheets and such. Right now I have them on a desktop and I access them from the other two laptops in the house. The server really does not do much besides store files and I use it to burn a DVD now and then. My goal is to get rid of the desktop if I can. I saw this on techbargains http://www.dealsonic.com/arhd3idetorj.html which might not be the best but I was thinking about giving it a try. I see that it has to be FAT32 and it says Max transfer per file: Up to 4GB now does this mean no file can be more then 4GB or am I limited to 4GB copied at a time? Do you think I would be able to back this up to a DVD over the network?? Would it be better to house all files on a laptop and then back up to this hard drive every week or so? INPUT INPUT Thanks, Rob
Re: [H] Error while opening key
I have seen this before and if I remember correctly it is because you probably don't have permission to it. You must make yourself the owner first and then wack it. Rob Thane Sherrington wrote: I have a piece of spyware that won't allow me to delete the registry key (in safemode or not)
Re: [H] RIP, DVD-Decrypter
What I don't understand (I am not very knowledgeable on this subject) is the law says you can make a legal copy of a DVD you own but there is no way to actually make a copy legally. Am I right in saying that? FORC5 wrote: that said guess I better have a copy for my archives :{) even though I haven't used it fp :'( At 09:26 AM 6/6/2005, Chris Reeves Poked the stick with: http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/11914 CW -- Tallyho ! ]:8) -- If it wasn't for our lungs there wouldn't room for smog.
[H] Network Attached Storage
I am looking into one of these. I have a bunch of options but I was also thinking about an appliance of some sort. Cost is a factor but I have 2 120GB drive right now that I could use. Rob
Re: [H] Moving data to a Virtual Server
Well we need more of a File copy utility that is reliable. Something that will copy over all the data at the end of each day. Ben Ruset wrote: Ghost? Rob Finger HWG wrote: Long story so I won't get into to much detail. We have a machine at work that analyzes slides and produces a large amount of data on the local disk. This computer is behind a firewall (that is the long story). We are looking to move this data to our virtual server so others can look at the output. I have been suggested Datakeeper which I thought was included in Partition Magic 8.0 but some to find out it is part of Pro. Anyone else have recommendations on a program that will move data and keep it in it's native format. Price is not really an issue. Rob
Re: [H] stumped
Ryan seems to be correct. This is straight from the Office 2003 Help file Turn off reading layout view Do one of the following: Return to print layout or normal view: On the Reading Layout toolbar, click Close . Note You can also press ESC or ALT+C to exit reading layout view. Prevent reading layout view from opening automatically when you receive a Word document in e-mail: On the Tools menu, click Options, click the General tab, and then clear the Allow starting in Reading Layout check box. Rob Christopher Klein wrote: I have a client who is looking to change this. If you receive a word document as an attachment in Outlook, and double click on it, it opens it word automatically in the book view(pages are side by side). However, if you save the document to the hard drive first then open it...it opens normally. It's not set to this format at all before being saved. Any ideas, options to set, etc. to keep this from happening? It has happened on every machine I've tested it on so far.
Re: [H] stumped
I must be since you got engaged after me. Way to follow in my foot steps. Christopher Klein wrote: Thanks Ryan...it turns out she was on 2003. I had her turn that option off and it works fine now. Thanks again for the help! Finger...way to chime in after Ryan had already fixed the issue! You're the hero now! :) --- Rob Finger HWG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ryan seems to be correct. This is straight from the Office 2003 Help file Turn off reading layout view Do one of the following: Return to print layout or normal view: On the Reading Layout toolbar, click Close . Note You can also press ESC or ALT+C to exit reading layout view. Prevent reading layout view from opening automatically when you receive a Word document in e-mail: On the Tools menu, click Options, click the General tab, and then clear the Allow starting in Reading Layout check box. Rob Christopher Klein wrote: I have a client who is looking to change this. If you receive a word document as an attachment in Outlook, and double click on it, it opens it word automatically in the book view(pages are side by side). However, if you save the document to the hard drive first then open it...it opens normally. It's not set to this format at all before being saved. Any ideas, options to set, etc. to keep this from happening? It has happened on every machine I've tested it on so far.
Re: [H] NTLDR is missing error will not boot from cdrom-UPDATE#2
Plus you don't have to get a haircut for a while ;) James Maki wrote: I re-assembled the system and let it boot to the SATA RAID. IT WORKED! This comment is perhaps ambiguious. This boot was BEFORE I attempted the repair install of WinXP. In other words, I changed nothing over the weekend other than dismantling the system (pulling my hair out) and then re-assembling. And now it works. Ain't Computers wonderful! Jim Maki [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [H] Looking for DSL Router with super manage firewall internal
I know someone here turned me on to Monowall and I have not looked back. I love it. Does everything I want it to as far as a Router/Firewall. I have it between the Cable Modem and my WRT54G Router. Runs on minimal hardware and you don't even need a hard drive. Just floppy and cdrom. I might invest in the Compact Flash solution some day just to save space. Rob Greg Sevart wrote: On the hardware firewall front... After using my Linksys wrt54gs w/ Sveasoft Satori for a few months now, I enthusiastically recommend it as a firewall/router. It's running IPtables, a compact no-hassle appliance, and highly configurable if you want it to be. So why waste a full blown PC running linux? Because the Sveasoft firmware on Linksys routers, as good and as featureful as it is, does not even come remotely close to offering the same level of protection, configurability, performance, stability, or robustness as a full Linux-based gateway/firewall distribution. At the end of the day, the Linksys, good as it is, is still a home-user grade solution. That being said, if a person is unwilling or unable to dedicate the time/space/hardware to do things right, equipment such as the Linksys WRT54G w/ 3rd-party firmware is an acceptable second alternative. Greg
[H] Windows Media Player and Dual Monitors
Hello all, Just a quick question. When I play a file through WMP it plays on the main screen and then plays full screen on the second display. Any way to stop this? I have been through the Nvidia and WMP settins a few times but nothing has stuck out to fix this. TIA, Rob
[H] Real Player
Anyone using this piece of software. Work kindly bought me a Treo 650. It comes with the Real Player on the handheld and it is very easy to sync music if you use Real Player on the pc side (so it says). I have not loaded this in years because I was under the impression it was crap. Am I still right? This would be a free setup for me so I am seriously considering it. I can load it directly to the SD card but it is a pain to create playlists on the handheld. Thanks, Rob