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Living Room / Re: TrueCrypt is Now Abandonware?!

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 30, 2014, 03:32 PM »

The only problem with the warrant canary angle is we don't really know what the correct displayed state was...or if it truly existed.

This could just be a dev's hand was forced to participate in a false flag style maneuver aimed at destabilizing TC's reputation.


I really hate having to think like this.

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Living Room / Re: TrueCrypt is Now Abandonware?!

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 30, 2014, 06:50 AM »

Another problem with that scenario is that while Vista and later support BitLocker, not all editions of Windows support it. You need to have Ultimate or Enterprise (or Pro on Win8). Home, Home Premium, or Pro (on Vista or Win7)  won't cut it.  And that's putting aside the trust issues that people might have with BitLocker.

-mwb1100 (May 30, 2014, 04:02 AM)

That's a really big (like $200) sticking point to contend with. Especially when coupled with the fact that BitLocker requires the existence of a system partition and a TPM chip or thumb drive "key" to implement, so it's really - a bit of a PITA - not a 2 click fix.

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Non-Windows Software / Re: Linux Glass

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 29, 2014, 02:41 PM »

Sorry, I wasn't trying to be a harbinger of ill man, it's genuine concern. I worked in optical for 5 years with my wife and saw how things played out first hand then. If someone's vision started changing a bit to frequently, the doctors recommended people get their sugar checked. Some chose to have theirs checked, and some died. Now I'm out of that and into IT but the wife is a Medical Assistant for a large group of doctors, and has been for a decade or so. She sees this type of thing constantly ... If caught early it's no big deal to treat, but...

An eyeglass prescription is considered to be expired after 2 years. So in that period of time a change is highly expected. But if one's vision is changing in the 6 month or less range..(see above).

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Non-Windows Software / Re: Linux Glass

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 29, 2014, 01:51 PM »

Boy, and here I was all ready to be jealous that you'd gotten a pair of the good old fashion lined bifocals. I always thought the round reading segment lenses looked cool as hell back when I was in an optical surfacing lab. But I didn't need a multifocal lens back then so I couldn't try them properly.

With progressives as the curves change you end up with a trifocal like effect regardless of what was being shot for to start with. The cheaper progressives tend to have narrower channels and more distortion of peripheral vision when you try to look to the side without moving your head. This is a bit dangerous for driving me thinks as having to wag your head back and forth constantly becomes painful rather quickly. And of course the higher my add power goes the worse the peripheral distortion gets.

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@MilesAhead - Are you diabetic by chance? Frequent changes in vision is an indicator of diabetes.

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Living Room / Re: Knight to queen's bishop 3 - Snowden charged with espionage.

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 29, 2014, 11:59 AM »

"...faith in the US justice system..."

Really? Seriously? Is he:

• High
• Mentally challenged
• Drinking WAAAAY too much kool-aid

Or perhaps all 3?

-Renegade (May 28, 2014, 09:32 PM)

My money is on all 3 ... Definitely all 3:
High = Shitfaced drunk on power.
Mentally challenged = The dizzying height of the ivory tower makes it impossible to see anything clearly, and the air is so thin up there he's got to be a total turnip.
Kool-Aid = Shit man I think he's bathing in it by now ... That and the blood of virgins (blood of virgins is really just an old world way of conveying innocence).

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Non-Windows Software / Re: Linux Glass

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 29, 2014, 11:36 AM »

Wow! That is cool, but can the taskbar be kept at the bottom instead of (the Mac-ish) at the top of the screen?

I can't look at it for more than 20 minutes without starting to feel some eye strain.

-40hz (May 29, 2014, 10:37 AM)

That's because cool new things aren't designed for old blind people. How the hell did you get bifocals? I keep getting talked into these %#$! "Progressive" lenses that just drive me nutz. I have to take them off while at the computer or I'm afraid my neck will snap while I bobble my head trying to hunt for the right spot in the channel where the screen will supposedly "clear".

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General Software Discussion / Re: Capslock

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 29, 2014, 11:26 AM »

Obviously the deactivating itself would not be ideal... possibly for that reason, it does have a setting: press numlock key for 5 seconds to activate.

-tomos (May 29, 2014, 05:31 AM)

I never did figure out what was deactivating it or why, it was just constantly, suddenly not there. But hay WTH, I just enabled it now to see what'll happen this time. Perhaps it will stay on.

-Stoic Joker (May 29, 2014, 06:56 AM)

I was trying to remember all along what it reminds me of - do you remember that real basic tennis video game - the sounds were almost the same for hit and miss :-)

-tomos (May 29, 2014, 07:45 AM)

Ah, yes ... I remember Pong well. And after sitting here watching the video and playing with the keyboard for the last 5 minutes, I do believe you're right. They do indeed seem to match perfectly.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 29, 2014, 11:19 AM »

I'm really starting to like Mark Twain ^

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Living Room / Re: TrueCrypt is Now Abandonware?!

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 29, 2014, 07:13 AM »

^ So bizarre I keep thinking it's a prank.  

-40hz (May 29, 2014, 06:07 AM)

Either that, or the real reason Vista took so long to release was due to protracted negotiations on how big of a back door to put where.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Capslock

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 29, 2014, 06:56 AM »

Actually ToggleKeys has been around since Windows 2000. But unfortunately it makes the same noise for both enable and disable

-Stoic Joker (May 28, 2014, 10:33 PM)

not here - on Windows 7 -
as said, it makes a "high pitch for on, lower pitch for off"

-tomos (May 29, 2014, 05:31 AM)

Yeah, I caught that bit, and back to back it is noticeable. Problem is 5-10 minutes apart I got no idea which beep I'm hearing ...(I should probably mention my hearing sucks)... So I just kind of (mentally) tuned out that part of the feature years ago.

Obviously the deactivating itself would not be ideal... possibly for that reason, it does have a setting: press numlock key for 5 seconds to activate.

-tomos (May 29, 2014, 05:31 AM)

I never did figure out what was deactivating it or why, it was just constantly, suddenly not there. But hay WTH, I just enabled it now to see what'll happen this time. Perhaps it will stay on.

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T-Clock / Re: T-Clock 2010 (download)

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 28, 2014, 10:41 PM »

If you have been trying multiple versions to get something working there could be a configuration conflict in the registry (things have gotten moved from time to time). Try deleting the T-Clock info from the registry to get it to start clean and see if that makes a difference.

Also assuming you do have show the default windows clock enabled (it is a requirement), does the clock window totally disappear, or change size when you run T-Clock?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Capslock

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 28, 2014, 10:33 PM »

Telephonics,
on Windows 7, you can set the Capslock and Numberlock to make a sound when changed (high pitch for on, lower pitch for off).

Could that be a solution?

Or could disabling both completely be a solution?

-tomos (May 28, 2014, 09:39 AM)

Actually ToggleKeys has been around since Windows 2000. But unfortunately it makes the same noise for both enable and disable, and it has a very bad habit of deactivating itself for some odd reason ... Which is why - having a habit of missing shifts and hitting capslock myself - I gave up on using it a few years back.

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Living Room / Re: Knight to queen's bishop 3 - Snowden charged with espionage.

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 26, 2014, 09:10 AM »

Elsewhere in the leaks department:

USA Today’s William Cummings: “White House blows cover of CIA chief in Afghanistan” The White House accidentally blew the cover of the top CIA officer in Afghanistan Saturday, when his name and title were released in an e-mail sent to reporters who traveled with President Obama on his surprise visit to Bagram Air Field. The CIA officer’s identity was released as part of a list of U.S. officials who were attending a military briefing with Obama at Bagram, the Washington Post reported. The individual was identified as “Chief of Station,” a term used for the top spy in a country, according to the Post

-ABC News

http://www.usatoday....s-cia-chief/9586633/

I wonder if they'll be honest enough to prosecute themselves..

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Malwarebytes FREE and PRO - Mini-Review.

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 24, 2014, 03:17 PM »

But hackers increasingly use novel bugs. Symantec's senior vice president for information security estimates antivirus now catches just 45% of cyberattacks.

-tl;dr version

-Stoic Joker (May 24, 2014, 11:44 AM)

Fine...

But even if true, l'd still prefer to take that 45% level of protection they do provide in the absence of anything better.

-40hz (May 24, 2014, 01:27 PM)

Sure, I still run AV software too (MSE to be specific). I just don't depend on it to do anything beyond acting as the canary in a coal mine. Given my frequent use of management/diagnostic/recovery software, there are a lot of FP's. So the icon can turn any color it wants to...but if it disappears... Then! ...I know there is a problem.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Malwarebytes FREE and PRO - Mini-Review.

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 24, 2014, 11:44 AM »

Antivirus software is dead, says security expert at Symantec:
http://www.theguardi...rity-expert-symantec
http://www.pcworld.c...orton-antivirus.html
http://www.slate.com...at_antivirus_is.html
http://news.sky.com/...norton-software-boss
http://online.wsj.co...04579542140235850578

But hackers increasingly use novel bugs. Symantec's senior vice president for information security estimates antivirus now catches just 45% of cyberattacks.

-tl;dr version

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Living Room / Re: Everything Is Broken

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 24, 2014, 12:01 AM »

Just remember they're humans too.

-Edvard (May 23, 2014, 05:15 PM)

I fail to see why I should bother focusing on something that they themselves have obviously forgotten. They have positioned themselves as grand and glorious superhero inquisitors. With massively invasive machines that catalog everyone's waking moments. These systems just beg to be abused ... And they are already. They just had some shit on the news about the fuzz abusing the in car background checking systems in a recreationally frequent fashion. These new and incredibly sophisticated systems will pull up everything including your credit/employment history, tax records, and etc. on anyone with just a tag number. Like the tag numbers that they have a dedicated camera to automatically scan for ... At All Times ... Trolling for PC excuses..

Now at what point exactly during a routine traffic stop does a police officer have any rational need for somebody's ****ing Credit Report?? ...Or employment history for that matter.

I can't find a link to the current news report, but I did find this on google http://www.copwatch....g/databaseabuse.html ...So it's apparently not just a singular isolated incident.

And that of course is just the local yokels that haven't quite been mitliterized to the point of completely forgetting their - To Protect and Serve - purpose for employment.

I have trouble calling anybody 'vermin' until culpability is proven.

-Edvard (May 23, 2014, 05:15 PM)

By the time we're all running around with chips in our heads that tell us when to report to the rehabilitation center for having "improper" thoughts ... I'm pretty sure it'll be too late.

And the poster child?  I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy.

-Edvard (May 23, 2014, 05:15 PM)

It ain't like we haven't had enough warning shots. Yet people still sit there like they thing it'll just all work out.


These people have had our trust for the last decade and look where that has gotten us ... Very far out into a deep lake of shit.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Malwarebytes FREE and PRO - Mini-Review.

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 23, 2014, 02:31 PM »

[/b] There is a plant, indigenous to New Zealand, which trampers (people who like roughing it, walking over the mountains) call a "Bush Lawyer", because it has hooks on it so that it clings to your legs/clothes - anything it touches - and is well-nigh impossible to shake off. You learned to avoid the thing like the plague. Norton virus software is like that - only worse. Hooks all over the place. As it was being uninstalled, it kept saying things like "Are you sure?", "Tell us why you are uninstalling this software", and so forth, all the while desperately trying to phone home (in anticipation of which, I had already disconnected the laptop from the Internet).

-IainB (May 23, 2014, 10:35 AM)

The Norton Removal Tool (by Symantec) is the best fix for this that I've found. Their "uninstaller" is only a quickie dust-off that assumes you will reinstall. The Removal Tool OTOH is what's called a scrubber that eradicates every last visage of the software to make sure the system is pristine enough to get a newer version installed - which of course nobody in their right mind is ever foolish enough to do once they finally escape.

Most AV suites have a (scrubber level) removal tool, so they are (for me) the automatic goto for getting things cleaned up fast.

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@MilesAhead - That is interesting, as I've never seen the NRT fail. Some of the older ones were a bit finicky about exactly which version of which suite was being removed ... But orphaning a driver? Damn! That's a new one on me. any chance it could have been a bugg masquerading as an AV component?

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 23, 2014, 07:49 AM »

Just got off the phone with a client that was looking for information on how to do something. While walking them through the task they stated that "they didn't want training...they just wanted to know how to do it".

O_o

...You just can't make this shit up.

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Living Room / Re: Everything Is Broken

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 22, 2014, 11:21 PM »

Also, this:

The IC [Intelligence Community] are some of the most surveilled humans in history. They know everything they do is gone over with a fine-toothed comb — by their peers, their bosses, their lawyers, other agencies, the president, and sometimes Congress. They live watched, and they don’t complain about it.

In all the calls for increased oversight, the basics of human nature gets neglected. You’re not going to teach the spooks this is wrong by doing it to them more.

Touché. 

-Edvard (May 22, 2014, 10:16 PM)

Perhaps, but if the clowns in congress start getting fried by restaurant heat lamp level spotlights for some of their "perfectly innocent", "private" conversations ... The funding for the spook programs should start drying up rather quickly.

Internal oversight for the IC is less about toeing the line and more about pushing the envelop to see who find or create the stretchiest loophole without getting hung by it. It's nothing more than an orgy level CYA gangbang. Whose the pivot for this free-for-all..? We are!

We really just need a don't be that guy poster child to rally a grass roots movement behind to push these vermin out of their holes and into the sunlight where they can bloody well fry to death for all I care.

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Living Room / Re: Looking for a 6U rackmount atx chassis.

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 22, 2014, 02:22 PM »

@SJ - a gigging computer is a PC that usually packs into a 4U fiberglass flight case and is trucked around to music gigs by a musician. Most are built in a ruggedized rack mount form factor which slots very nicely into these cases.

-40hz (May 16, 2014, 07:24 PM)

I did start by saying I had no idea WTF I was talking about for a reason...

Okay but seriously... I just got back from a client that has a 6U Dell PowerEdge 6800 server that they were thinking about putting on Ebay ...(we're about to refresh all their hardware)... Would that be good/work for the task at hand?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Problem:1 cable modem 150/20 mbps & 1 fiber line 5/5mbps how to distribute best

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 22, 2014, 02:17 PM »

they decided to jump on that Godaddy /Microsoft combo hosted 365 exchange  !!:(
I can say this .  IF???>>> they ever get ther bugs worked out,  This is one amazing commo package.  I am not a "frills tech".  I only care a bout reliability and speed.

-questorfla (May 22, 2014, 02:29 AM)

Can't speak for GoDaddy's offering, but I have clients that subscribed directly to the full MS Office365 package which they're accessing through a "business grade" AT&T DSL connection, and the results are exceptionally impressive. At least to my eyes.

-40hz (May 22, 2014, 01:08 PM)

Being that we're an MS Cloud services partner, I had to hang back and let you take point on this one. But yes, even with my unbridled hatred for all things ~Cloud~ I really like the Office365 hosted exchange ...(which is why we're an MS Cloud Partner)... And have a few quite happy clients on it as well.

In some respects. it's potentially more confusing for people who have been handling this stuff for years. Because the usual tools used to do it don't apply to Office365. You have learn (and use) the O365 admin interface. Microsoft has made it as simple as possible for a non-IT person to use. So much so that we "pros" sometimes get a little tripped up and confused because...well...it really can't be that easy, right?

Well guess what? It is.

-40hz (May 22, 2014, 01:08 PM)

Yepper, it is that. My first trip out was a total baptism by fire because I had to pull 60 calendars from Google, 20 mail boxes from Yahoo, and 1,000+ contacts from all over hell and gone...and get it all stuffed into the remotely hosted Exchanger server straight and under/accessible to the right users. Only took a day or so to get sorted out and it's been smooth sailing from then on.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Problem:1 cable modem 150/20 mbps & 1 fiber line 5/5mbps how to distribute best

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 22, 2014, 07:08 AM »

The COX modem supplies a full duplex signal which cannot be handled by "ANY" modern unmanaged switch.  He said the switch would only allow the single sided connection which would drop the speed to 100Mbit.  Those were HIS terms exactly.

-questorfla (May 22, 2014, 02:29 AM)

  I can't even make words to respond to this with.

Right now, i order to give the office the speed it needs, I have the min office router running direct off the modem
I can then daisy-chain ALL the switches if i want to.  I tried out of modem to #1,oput of #1 to #2, then to #3, then to #4, THGEN finally to a system.,  Speed test:  139down+20 up.  Even with 15 other system plugged into various ports.

-questorfla (May 22, 2014, 02:29 AM)

hub and spoke would probably be safer performance wise than a linear daisy chain to avoid cascading the traffic through a series of choke points across the switches, because the backbone speed of a switch will be faster than going port to port to port..

But - I should mention we also have Cox here (Not. My. Idea...) - my preferred configuration especially with cable companies is to bridge their device to an internal main router that can actually be controlled properly. So if that part of the configuration is working for you I'd stick with it (just make sure their box is bridged).

So our config (with Gb link all the way through) is Web-->Bridged Cox Box-->WatchGuard XTM26-->DMZ with public access servers in a CIDR /16-->WatchGuard XTM26-->LAN with users and stuff


Now if you Cox box isn't bridged...that could easily be half the problem.


Did I mention bridging?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Problem:1 cable modem 150/20 mbps & 1 fiber line 5/5mbps how to distribute best

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 21, 2014, 09:37 PM »

Come to think of it, were those (incorrectly labeled) WAN ports not used to string multiple switches together back in those old days? With cross-cables?

-Shades (May 21, 2014, 09:24 PM)

That's really quite bizarre ... AFAIK those have always been called uplink ports. Translation issue? Admin being funny? *Shrug* If you can post a model number I'll look it up to see what it are.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Problem:1 cable modem 150/20 mbps & 1 fiber line 5/5mbps how to distribute best

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 21, 2014, 11:38 AM »

  ...WAN port on a switch?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Problem:1 cable modem 150/20 mbps & 1 fiber line 5/5mbps how to distribute best

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 21, 2014, 07:53 AM »

However:  the same feed into the same switch ended up at 5gbps on the systems after running through the same switches that had been running fine on the fiber.
Cable tech blames the switch and shows me where it drops off after the first Gigabit switch as though it was only a 100MBIT switch.  He says it is due to it being an "Unmanaged" switch.

-questorfla (May 21, 2014, 02:35 AM)

Thanks for that, I like to start my morning with a good laugh. A switch being managed or unmanaged has absolutely nothing to do with it's backbone speed. Managed switches just offer one the ability to segment traffic to mitigate congestion from spreading so a few bad apples can't take down the entire broadcast zone.

Chances are that the switch is getting feed a network frame type (packet size if you will) that it can't handle causing it to badly fragment the traffic flowing across it.

Even though it worked fine on Fiber,  Wont work right on cable.
However.  If I run the cable into a gigabit Router with combined gigabit switch.  each output feed DOES get full 150.

-questorfla (May 21, 2014, 02:35 AM)

As above theory suggested, this says jumbo packet size definition mismatch to me ... That sound about right to you too 40hz?


On a side note, if you have two ISP's and a DNS preference (I'm an OpenDNS fan too), bring both providers together into a dual WAN router and then configure the router to route all the DNS requests out through the one that isn't being an ass.