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I did all that when we got the machine, but as I said, you just can't beat the user

This was reasonably serious as she's done pretty much everything she was warned against (many times), including handing over the guest & admin passwords and personal info on the basis of a popup <sigh...>

As a rule I run light on security but heavy on common sense, and now I need to go the other way

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looking for some advice on how best to secure my mother in laws laptop, and I know a lot of others here are well versed so I'm hoping someone can come up with a relatively simple solution (I'll have to maintain it, and most likely over the phone - meh...). 

I already use a firewall (comodo) and AV (AVG free) but she got hit with an apparent ransomware attack sometime last week (she didn't tell us till sometime after, and we still don't know exactly what happened).  She doesn't have a network of any sort, so that's not a consideration.

I'm looking for some sort of proxy/hosts solution that will hopefully block a lot of the dodgy domains, and maybe a better AV (payware if necessary).  I know there are plenty of options available, but given that securities never been a strong point for me being able to pick a good solution is difficult

Of course I can't beat the user (hopefully this has frightened her enough to be a bit more circumspect), but if I can cover off at least some of the other vectors it's got to be an improvement

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Found Deals and Discounts / 10" tablet @ $189...
« on: April 21, 2016, 06:44 PM »
dunno if this is any good or not but the price isn't bad...

http://www.gearbest....t-pcs/pp_350211.html

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Living Room / Re: Android - Observations from Long Term Use
« on: April 20, 2016, 08:08 PM »
Same as cranioscopical, root the device as soon as you get it and remove everything that's not required, (or flash a ROM that does what you want, not what the manufacturer thinks you want) - makes for a much more pleasant experience.

this assumes that you can >:(

I had a Galaxy S2 but upgraded to a winphone.  There was nothing wrong with the S2 per se, but there was something about it that never quite sat with me. 

The S2 sold by my carrier also had slightly different hardware to that sold overseas so finding an alternative ROM proved to be too hard.  Could be that I wasn't interested enough to chase it (I have no real interest in tweaking my phone, it's just a phone for god sake!!), but I still have the handset and would love to do something useful with it, but the lack of ROMS is significant hurdle (FWIW I thinking seriously about a 1sheeld...). 

The android platform also seems to be highly fragmented, such that the hardware lifetime is extremely short (in the manufacturers opinion).  Upgrades are spotty, often months late, and the hardware probably won't get much, if any, support past about 6 -12 mths (MAX!!) from date of release. 

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Large Hadron Collider?

No, LBC!!

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you don't mention the OS or the applications affected so you're probably always going to get a third party solution

Frankly I'd be surprised if there wasn't a reset hotkey built in to whatever you're using to zoom (eg CTRL+0).  Alternatively CTRL&+ or CTRL&- seem to be pretty standard zoom keys...

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Living Room / Re: Twist Tie alternative?
« on: April 12, 2016, 04:50 PM »
I've also seen cardboard tubes (like toilet roll centres) used to store cables - just bundle the cables and push em through the tube.  Stops anything else getting caught up, but probably takes up a bit more space. 

You would probably need to experiment a bit to find a size that suits (and it doesn't have to be cardboard)

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Living Room / Re: Twist Tie alternative?
« on: April 06, 2016, 09:55 PM »
I just thought someone may have invented a home made thing like a rubber lined alligator clip.

this reminds me, I saw someone recommending hair clips for bundling cords (though IIRC they were talking about power cords, but the principle applies  ;))

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Living Room / Re: Twist Tie alternative?
« on: April 06, 2016, 07:58 PM »
a piece of cardboard (or equivalent) with some slots will do the trick, at least for the fine stuff like earphones.  Possibly bulky, but all in one solution

Or velcro, though you would still have discrete bundles

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General Software Discussion / Re: bookmark management tool
« on: March 09, 2016, 11:08 PM »
Xenu, am deadlink, url gather, linkman, link checker...

there's probably more, but they're the ones that come to mind right now...

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General Software Discussion / bookmark management tool
« on: March 09, 2016, 10:04 PM »
anyone got a recommendation for a good bookmark manager?

I've finally gotten to the point where I can't stand it any longer - after many years and movement between multiple machines and browsers it's time for a cleanup.  I've tried a few but they are not generally very friendly or effective - duplicate and/or link checkers that don't tell you where the urls are, or that highlight duplicates that aren't, arent really helping

I'm looking for something that will show me a tree view, AND show the locations of duplicates within said tree (last one said it was doing this, but didn't - thank heavens for backups).  Identifying duplicates is most important, and link checking/validation would be nice. 

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 :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup:

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Something new for the IoT crowd among you: Mixtile GENA

did you just get the littlebird email too?

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Living Room / Re: Why GOD has not updated the world ?
« on: February 04, 2016, 06:51 PM »
Not Glorious Lifeform and Deity Operating System? I hear it's a piece of cake to keep running.

no, it's a bear!! (it doesn't have bugs, it has DEMONS!!!!)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Assemble PDF documents
« on: February 02, 2016, 04:15 PM »
I don't know much about authoring PDF's (I have tolerate/hate relationship with the format) so others might be able to comment, but logically I would assume that you would have to rebuild any/all links when your combining content like this.  Clearly there is going to be new content, and existing content is going to move around, so any pre-existing indexing will almost certainly be redundant.

Indexing aside, can I assume that the script is working as advertised as far as the splitting and merging part goes?

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Developer's Corner / Re: Dice analyzer machine project
« on: January 21, 2016, 11:01 PM »
be interested to hear what constitutes a fair toss - several ideas come to mind, but this being 'controlled' I'm guessing there are some sort of expected 'standards'

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Living Room / Re: Why GOD has not updated the world ?
« on: January 21, 2016, 06:52 PM »
Oh! About leaving. If God could change the laws of the universe so that all paths are mobius strips, that'd be just awesome! ;D We're talking major version upgrade here!  :-*

how do you know they're not already?

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Living Room / Re: Why GOD has not updated the world ?
« on: January 20, 2016, 10:55 PM »
You go your way and I'll mine yours.
-cranioscopical (January 20, 2016, 09:44 PM)

clearly you're out of your mine :o

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Living Room / Re: Why GOD has not updated the world ?
« on: January 19, 2016, 09:26 PM »
Thank you so much for not flaming me.  That's one of the things I like about this forum.  Most of the time, things are pretty calm.  But one thing is for sure, the help I have received over the years has been great!

thanks for not flaming us :Thmbsup: and glad to hear that you can take it in the spirit it was intended  :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup:

safe to say that this is one of those subjects that is potentially sensitive no matter where it turns up >:(

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Living Room / Re: Why GOD has not updated the world ?
« on: January 19, 2016, 08:08 PM »
the platform seems to be pretty good, it's the feature set he/she's struggling with.  He/She is adding and removing people features all the time

granted they seem to be pretty much all alpha versions, and written in basic, but still...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Assemble PDF documents
« on: January 16, 2016, 03:32 AM »
glad to hear you're feeling better

FWIW you probably need to remember that this isn't a pdf authoring tool in the style of acrobat, so bookmarks are likely to be a challenge (by doing this you're effectively building a completley new document)

I'd need to read up on pdftk to be sure but I suspect this might be beyond PDFTK's capabilities (as others have said, PDF's are a bear to deal with)

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Living Room / Re: sort and filter
« on: January 14, 2016, 04:31 PM »
split it into 2 columns, ie DATE | SONG, then your pivot should be able to show the dates across the top, and songs down the left (use a count function)

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Family uses Airbnb, accidentally rents marijuana grow house

that's what happens when you book via silk road...


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General Software Discussion / address lookup tools
« on: January 07, 2016, 06:21 PM »
As part of a larger data cleansing exercise I'm looking for suggestions for an address lookup tool - I have about 2K (Australian) addresses where I need to lookup the corresponding suburb.  The tough part is these are all intersections (eg smith and george st's) so tools that look for specific addresses (eg 10 smith street) probably won't cut it


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