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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?

« Last post by wraith808 on June 06, 2017, 01:27 PM »

Taking a break from some of the books I'm plodding through on my Kindle (Columbine by Dave Cullen, Steve Jobs by
Walter Isaacson), A book I'm currently reading is:

Persuader by Lee Child (A Jack Reacher novel) 

I haven't seen any of the Tom Cruise movies, but the description of Jack Reacher has him at six foot five or so - and I keep on thinking how much bigger taller and tougher the guy in the novel is in comparison to the actor.

-exjoburger (June 06, 2017, 01:05 PM)

I don't view the actors in the movies as anything according to the descriptions in the novels.  Lestat is also not described in a way that would make one think "Tom Cruise", but he was excellent in the role.  I find that those who look at the novels in the same manner as the movie/TV series end up being disappointed by what is truthfully in my opinion the most superficial thing about the descriptions.

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Living Room / Re: Password Managers ... vs. Not

« Last post by wraith808 on June 06, 2017, 11:54 AM »

Password hygiene has nothing to do with "customer serving the service", but you're right that there's a balance - that balance is between how much effort you put into securing credentials for Site X vs. how much it would hurt if that set of credentials are breached.

-f0dder (June 06, 2017, 10:21 AM)

I disagree.  By insisting on funky characters that make you shift mode on touch keyboards they can always say you made a typo when entering.  Even if they are the ones who changed what you typed.  It amounts to asking the service provider for permission to use your own account.  Just like you have to ask the bank for permission to access your own money.  It is kind of like the rulers calling themselves "public servants."  Talk about cynicism.  Oh yeah, billionaires just shell out millions of their own $$ to "serve" others.  Right!

-MilesAhead (June 06, 2017, 11:39 AM)

You do have to follow rules to access your own money at banks.  And though it is inconvenient, one would find it more inconvenient if their credentials are breached, and want to hold the institution liable.  This has been a slow progression as more and more sites are breached.  And what is this changed what you typed bit?  I've never had that happen.

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General Software Discussion / Re: High Contrast setting & programs

« Last post by wraith808 on June 05, 2017, 12:54 PM »

Hm, that's a rather disappointing response

-Ath (June 05, 2017, 10:53 AM)

I thought it was a rather expected response.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Still using Chrome? Enjoy being watched.

« Last post by wraith808 on June 04, 2017, 01:00 PM »

I'm usually wearing pants at work, though...

-f0dder (June 04, 2017, 09:56 AM)

Usually? 

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Living Room / Re: Password Managers ... vs. Not

« Last post by wraith808 on June 03, 2017, 09:46 PM »

The thing that makes me shudder is that online password managers are such a juicy target. In just the past few days one succumbed to an attack and was plundered.
 

-cranioscopical (June 03, 2017, 07:37 PM)

 

It happens.  Just because it's not perfect doesn't mean that they are not better than the alternative.

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Living Room / Password Managers ... vs. Not

« Last post by wraith808 on June 02, 2017, 04:46 PM »

An Interesting Article for discussion.

Password managers don't have to be perfect, they just have to be better than not having one (via Troy Hunt)

I never could figure out how to argue why I have a password manager, and why I stay with Lastpass.  He argues it very well, I think.  The best password is one that you can't remember.  And if you can't remember, there are several ways to augment your memory.  And all of those ways are going to have security problems if attacked consistently.

So what do you do?

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Living Room / Re: PSA: OneLogin Breached.

« Last post by wraith808 on June 02, 2017, 04:40 PM »

So... I don't use OneLogin, as far as I'm aware. I never even heard of it before this. But maybe some sites I use use it?

Is there a list of affected sites I need to check?

-Deozaan (June 02, 2017, 02:21 PM)

That's a good question.  OneLogin is an SSO provider that bridges the logins between multiple sites- usually businesses and such.  Like, I know my company uses it to bridge between a lot of different disparate services, so we don't have to continue to login.  But I don't know what SSO provider they use.

For personal use not in a corporate environment, I don't know of anything that I use that uses SSO.  But it's hard to tell, for example my bank interfaces with turbotax and quicken and another bank.  I presume that's done through SSO, as I had to set up the link.  But what do they use?  Beats the hell out of me.

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Living Room / Re: PSA: OneLogin Breached.

« Last post by wraith808 on June 02, 2017, 07:53 AM »

O_o ...Why would they even have the ability to decrypt someone's data on the server side in the first place ... Isn't that supposed to be a no-no?

-Stoic Joker (June 02, 2017, 06:44 AM)

It seems like it would be, especially for a SSO service.  I'm sure if queried, they would have some sort of BS answer.

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Living Room / PSA: OneLogin Breached.

« Last post by wraith808 on June 01, 2017, 04:07 PM »

Single sign-on provider OneLogin has experienced a breach. If you or your company uses OneLogin to sign in to applications, or if you use any of their other services, you need to be aware of this and may need to take several actions immediately.

In the past 24 hours, OneLogin sent out the following notice about a security incident:

“On Wednesday, May 31, 2017, we detected that there was unauthorized access to OneLogin data in our US data region. All customers served by our US data center are affected; customer data was compromised, including the ability to decrypt encrypted data. We have since blocked this unauthorized access, reported the matter to law enforcement, and are working with an independent security firm to assess how the unauthorized access happened and to verify the extent of the impact. We want our customers to know that the trust they have placed in us is paramount, and we have therefore created a set of required actions.”

(More at link on Wordfence)

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by wraith808 on May 31, 2017, 06:18 PM »

Poor women.  I was wondering how they practice and what happens if they drop... oops.

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Living Room / Re: Jailed 180 days for "refusing" to disclose iPhone password to police

« Last post by wraith808 on May 31, 2017, 06:17 PM »

While the headline does sound scary, maybe it's a technicality. Maybe the case is that since he provided a password that didn't work, the judge thinks he's lying and holds him in contempt. Perhaps if he had simply refused to provide any password at all, citing the 5th amendment^w, the judge would not have held him in contempt of court.

-Deozaan (May 31, 2017, 04:36 PM)

I've found that contempt of court is a catch all to get around the law or the need for the law, so I doubt that would have flown either.

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Coding Snacks / Re: Batch file,Use a special command to stop the application?

« Last post by wraith808 on May 31, 2017, 02:13 PM »

And you are asking here, instead of at the Core Technologies support-site, because....?
Seems like a decent feature request to me.

-Ath (May 31, 2017, 01:46 PM)

It seems pretty straightforward that he's asking for a coding snack to remove it because at the site, they might not make it a priority, unless I'm missing something?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Still using Chrome? Enjoy being watched.

« Last post by wraith808 on May 31, 2017, 02:07 PM »

My point above being: A security flaw opening a webcam while I am sitting in a cubicle is way different than if I am sitting at home (may be that's just me though)

-rgdot (May 31, 2017, 01:37 PM)

Nah, I think they're the same.  Nowhere else do we limit our conversations to just home use, so I don't think that's valid.  And it really only comes into mind when someone blindly and unilaterally makes statements.  If one presents information, that's one thing.  And in all honesty, it doesn't affect me at all at home.  I have neither a camera nor an audio input device on my computers at home.

* wraith808 shrugs

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General Software Discussion / Re: Still using Chrome? Enjoy being watched.

« Last post by wraith808 on May 31, 2017, 01:20 PM »

Nothing's wrong with the browser engine. Did you even read the link? 

-Tuxman (May 31, 2017, 10:28 AM)

Let me be more explicit.  If you work for a company, and they make proprietary software based on certain BROWSERS being used, not the engine, and limit what you can INSTALL based on that requirement, then the rest should be a foregone conclusion.  You assume that YOUR use case is the ONLY use case.

Sheesh.

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ProcessTamer / Re: when Explicit Rule set to Force Low, application still running at 90% cpu...

« Last post by wraith808 on May 31, 2017, 01:19 PM »

Hello,

I appreciate your prompt response.

Yes, your explanation does make sense.

I was looking for a utility that would not allow any specific cpu process over a maximum percentage, say 60%.

Might you have a suggestion ??

Thank you.

Richard

-mathisonrichard (May 28, 2017, 12:58 PM)

Your best bet for this is BES

-antekgla (May 31, 2017, 12:09 PM)

That is cool!  Thanks for sharing!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Still using Chrome? Enjoy being watched.

« Last post by wraith808 on May 31, 2017, 10:27 AM »

You make it sound like installing a different browser than Chrome would be an unbearable task. Maybe I am smart enough to miss the point here. Care to elaborate?

-Tuxman (May 31, 2017, 08:26 AM)

I'm not saying installing, I'm saying considerations of the browsing engine and what it supports.  If you have an internal applications that doesn't support other engines.  Seriously?  I had to elucidate that to you?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Still using Chrome? Enjoy being watched.

« Last post by wraith808 on May 31, 2017, 08:14 AM »

It kind of is. 

-Tuxman (May 31, 2017, 08:11 AM)

It kind of isn't.  You're smart enough that your response was disingenuous, so I'm not going to bother continuing the argument with you.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Still using Chrome? Enjoy being watched.

« Last post by wraith808 on May 31, 2017, 08:09 AM »

You make it sound so simple.  I wish my life was as simple as yours.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Android Question on app purchases

« Last post by wraith808 on May 30, 2017, 09:10 PM »

As I understand it, you'll have to re-purchase the apps again. Or else maybe you can still access them if you add the App Domains account to your device.

I only have experience with multiple regular accounts on a single device. I've been able to access everything having both accounts on the device, but I'm not sure if App Domain accounts would behave any differently.

I've actually wanted to migrate myself to another Google account for a few years but the fact that all my purchases are tied to the old account is the primary thing holding me back.

-Deozaan (May 30, 2017, 06:17 PM)

There really needs to be an easy way to do this.  Maybe not from iOS to Android, but between android accounts /devices.  Then again, iOS is no better

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General Software Discussion / Re: Problem Solved. (batch change of jpg 'created time')

« Last post by wraith808 on May 30, 2017, 04:51 PM »

^ @Curt, why the snarkiness
I'm not going to 'defend' the software -- and dont think anyone else needs to either -- suffice to say it's damn good. And this *is* a software forum - why shouldn't a software author post about their software :-/

-tomos (May 30, 2017, 04:48 PM)

Agreed.  Especially since he was posting it as a solution to the thread, and it's a viable solution.

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General Software Discussion / Android Question on app purchases

« Last post by wraith808 on May 30, 2017, 04:50 PM »

When I first started with Android, I set up my Play store account using my Google for App Domains account, finding out later that they changed their policies for non-paid vs. paid, and just app domain accounts from accessing Google services.

I'm fed up with the limitations, so created a plain google account, and am in the process of trying to migrate.  In the end, however, I'll have purchased apps on my old google for app domains account, but be using my new account for everything else.  Does anyone know if this works?  Or do I have to repurchase the apps in order to get things to work seamlessly.  (some of these it would be my third purchase, as before I had an android device, I purchased some things under my old, old account).

Any thoughts?

(And as an aside, it's crazy that google doesn't support it's own infrastructure that it was trying to get people to use...)

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General Software Discussion / Re: win32pad (editor) windows are suddenly all set to "always on top"! How to fix?

« Last post by wraith808 on May 30, 2017, 04:34 PM »

Aaaaand the problem has returned. 

-brotherS (May 30, 2017, 12:17 PM)

I don't see that you've uninstalled and reinstalled the application?  Or tried it in a different directory?

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Living Room / Re: How can I identify a flashing DOS window?

« Last post by wraith808 on May 30, 2017, 08:11 AM »

Nice.  Thanks!  It has a couple of solutions also.

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General Software Discussion / Re: win32pad (editor) windows are suddenly all set to "always on top"! How to fix?

« Last post by wraith808 on May 30, 2017, 08:09 AM »

I like to use win32pad (http://www.gena01.com/win32pad/). It's fast, lightweight, has all the basic features I need (and hasn't been updated in 10 years... Sad!)

Since a few days ago, *all* win32pad windows are suddenly set to "always on top" when I open them! Even after rebooting Windows. I have no idea how that happened. How can I fix that? Currently, I'm using AutoHotkey (WinSet) to manually (temporarily) fix it, but that is quite annoying.

-brotherS (May 30, 2017, 06:41 AM)

Is it only for Win32Pad?

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Living Room / Re: How can I identify a flashing DOS window?

« Last post by wraith808 on May 29, 2017, 05:40 PM »

officebackgroundtaskhandler.exe

-kalos (May 29, 2017, 04:41 PM)

This does create a command window when it's updating.