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Oh and yes, we need to make the messages mandatory to read, so use UAC prompts (why don't more antivirus apps do this when they detect problems!?).-JavaJones (October 21, 2015, 01:56 PM)
That's actually simpler than my method. I didn't even realize that worked! Seems like quite a hole... and quite obvious once you think about it. And not much different than my method.(As an aside, there's a cheat for logging in as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM. Let me know if you're interested).A new one, or the usual of running cmd.exe as a scheduled job?-wraith808 (October 21, 2015, 01:23 PM)-f0dder (October 21, 2015, 01:49 PM)
And when you do it, you turn it completely off until you reboot again and turn it on. It's hard enough to get people not to run as admin when they don't have to- rebooting? Not going to happen.Well, while I'm not fond of the way Apple is doing this, you don't really need SYSTEM/root privileges often, neither on OSX nor Windows. And normal admin privileges don't (yet...) require this switcharoo, so it's not too bad in and by itself. It's the reason behind it that's worrying-wraith808 (October 21, 2015, 01:23 PM)-f0dder (October 21, 2015, 01:49 PM)
It's not just Apple. Microsoft has a built in account that's a level above Administrator now. If it creates a file or folder, you can't delete or modify it even if you are the admin (i.e. root) on your system.Hasn't NT always had the SYSTEM AUTHORITY?-40hz (October 21, 2015, 11:17 AM)-f0dder (October 21, 2015, 11:40 AM)
IMHO it's a very good idea to not let your OS admin account run as root/SYSTEM (just like it's a good idea to user a less-privileged account for your daily work!). But of course it should still be possible to elevate to root/SYSTEM rights, and I believe having to reboot to do this is a bit overkill...-f0dder (October 21, 2015, 11:40 AM)
Most importantly, force people to get in the habit of actually reading the messages that are presented to them. I've been informally training both our in-house staff, and the staff at our clients for years, and it's been quite successful. I do frequently get calls from client locations asking about strange messages/behavior from time to time ... But it's at the 'Just click no!' stage that I can get them out of on the phone now about 95% of the time.-Stoic Joker (October 21, 2015, 05:56 AM)
It's not just Apple. Microsoft has a built in account that's a level above Administrator now. If it creates a file or folder, you can't delete or modify it even if you are the admin (i.e. root) on your system.-40hz (October 21, 2015, 11:17 AM)
All 3 films have their own peculiar qualities, but as regards SEPTEMBER CLUES 9/11 - YouTube, I would have to say that amateur films such as that give testament to the fact that Americans are not all a gullible lot and they don't tend to swallow the PC line wholesale without raising some thorny questions, and long may they stay so. That amateur film forms a legitimate part of the nation's cultural history, and to object to it or try suppress it in this forum because it doesn't pass the arbitrary wraith808-Tomas rule or requires the Witchfinder-General to be summoned, or something, would seem to be blunt censorship. However, if @Tomos feels that he has squatter's rights on this thread, or something, and can (say) dictate its contents, then why not get out of his face and start up another thread entitled (say), "Movies you've seen lately (amateur and professional) and why you would recommend them". Not sure whether that would fit in the title line (probably too long) but you get the idea. You could then (say) ask the Admins to move your posts from this thread into that, and thus start it off. I'd be a contributor! I'm all for freedom of speech and no censorship, and love films that discuss what might have been, or currently are, difficult or contentious issues, or which force one to think beyond the narrow confines of one's preconceptions. My first post would probably be about "The Boy With Green Hair" and "My Left Foot", the second "Lady Chatterly's Lover" and "Straw Dogs", as I have been watching these with my 14 y/o daughter (she's studying social justice issues and films/books that have been censored/banned due to not meeting the shifting/arbitrary PC standards of the day).-IainB (October 20, 2015, 10:04 PM)
^ hi Panzer, I started the thread and I meant it to be for movies. Yes, you quote me -- and you would win on a technicality in a court of lawbut hey, we're just in dc forums. Posting them is fair enough, but this does not seem to me to be the right thread for them...
-tomos (October 20, 2015, 05:46 AM)
It seems that you are too paranoid. But that's your problem, not mine ...-panzer (October 20, 2015, 03:18 AM)
But I'm sure that the PC market is salivating over the lock-in and how to apply it to Windows...-wraith808 (October 20, 2015, 09:29 AM)
That saliva has a name: UEFI-eleman (October 20, 2015, 09:33 AM)
System Integrity Protection
A new security policy that applies to every running process, including privileged code and code that runs out of the sandbox. The policy extends additional protections to components on disk and at run-time, only allowing system binaries to be modified by the system installer and software updates. Code injection and runtime attachments to system binaries are no longer permitted.
Just do not go throwing up a siren telling the user that malware was found in some program if you aren't damn sure it has been.-mouser (October 19, 2015, 03:15 PM)
Battle Royale
12 Angry Men (1957)-panzer (October 19, 2015, 04:37 AM)
People get upset when their government wants ISPs to save a history of every URL visited by each of their customers, to be made available to them upon request, calling that an invasion of their privacy. How would this kind of data about 1Password users, made available to the public in plain text (depending on where you store your keychain file) be any less of a privacy risk?-app103 (October 19, 2015, 08:59 AM)
That Issue is from 4 years ago. (Chrome version 13! 13! Wow. Remember when version numbers meant something?) Printing to PDF has been a feature in Chrome for years. Why even bother using a 3rd party plugin to print to PDFs anymore?
Just posting this in case anyone else runs afoul of it. And hoping that someone else might have a workaround.-wraith808 (October 16, 2015, 10:48 AM)
The Issue also tells you the workaround: Use Chrome's Print to PDF feature instead of the 3rd party plugin.-Deozaan (October 17, 2015, 12:48 AM)
- Combine multiple documents into one PDF: Even from multiple sources.
- Rearrange pages using thumbnail view
- Instant preview: Without having to save and open in Acrobat.
- Security: Encrypt and control access to PDF files:
- Font embedding: All original fonts are displayed, even if the reader does not have them.
- Page insertion and deletion: Delete unwanted content before the PDF is created.
- Send via email: eMail PDFs with one click. Copy PDF to clipboard for pasting into an existing email.
- Drag & Drop: Easy integration with Evernote, Gmail and other cloud based facilities.
- Create PDFs on letterhead.
- Add page numbering, headers, footers, watermarks.
- Bookmark each job automatically.
- Create table of contents automatically.
- Convert to grayscale.
- PDF/A archiving.
- Add text notes.
- Fill in forms.
- Crop pages.
- Edit text.
- Add multiple signatures and initials with Notes function
- Combine documents into a single PDF and rearrange them.
- Custom Drivers for specific tasks.
- Text highlight, copy and redact.
- Graphic copy, delete, save.
- Convert text to links.
Skarp Laser Razor Has Raised $4M on Kickstarter-Arizona Hot (October 14, 2015, 09:50 PM)
*Deletes long post about the roles of MinGW and MSYS, the position of Python, what constitutes emulation layers, how Git has pretty much caught up with Mercurial on Windows support*
Damn you, f0dder, beat me to it-Jibz (October 14, 2015, 04:02 AM)
New elements to the VW story shed interesting light (ideas.4brad.com
Makes some interesting points:
more on the initial topic i.e. the POV of the employee: the pressure from the top to succeed (or be fired) -- what do you do in this situation, what does a group (e.g. of engineers) do in this situation?
Which initially seems to be blaming the engineers as the source of the idea, but says this could have been at any level.-tomos (October 13, 2015, 08:09 AM)
The ingredients, in this model are:
- A hard driving culture of expected high performance, and doing what others thought was difficult or impossible.
- Promising the company you will deliver a hotly needed product in that culture.
- Realizing too late that you can’t deliver it.
- Panic, leading to cheating as the only solution in which you survive (at least for a while.)
Eventually, even when a project isn't going off the rails, you always start tuning for the benchmarks whether they are Spec, or 3DMark, or Common Core, whatever. That's fine, necessary even.
Eventually, you almost always wind up with cases of "this makes the benchmark better" and either "doesn't do squat in real life" (benign), or "and does something really sucky in real life" (malicious) and everything in between.
Almost never will your entire management chain appear in your cube (Ha! Fooled you, no one gets cubes anymore) in capes, top hats, and twisting their mustaches and go "BwaHaHa, we are Evil(tm), pursue plan Maximum-Deception!!!". Except maybe 3DMark, no really, look into that shit; people literally looked at the name of the binary running and did lo-res/fast rendering for that binary only; amazing.
No, what will happen is your manager will stare glassy eyed at a point 3 feet behind your head and state the the #1 priority is to get the very best performance on FooMark2000, get the best performance for all customer cases foreseen and unforeseen, shave 4 weeks off the promised schedule, and follow the 27 point Corporate Responsibility Achievement Partnership we were told about at onboarding and forced to recertify every 89 days.
If you inform your management chain that some of the above items are in conflict, they will blink rapidly to indicate duress, mutter something about the 27 points of CRAP, how Black Duck will catch it if it is a problem, and then scurry away and never make eye contact with you again.
Two young ladies playing a matched set of those godawful all-in-one built-in amplifier and rhythm box guitars Vox built way back when.-40hz (October 11, 2015, 11:40 AM)
They probably didn't get them from older models:Vox again revived these body styles in 2013 with their Apache Series Travel Basses.-wraith808 (October 11, 2015, 01:12 PM)
I'm aware.I just didn't feel like getting too pedantic about these things like I usually do in this thread.
FWIW you can still find a limited number of them in various places including Amazon. But they are starting to get hard to find again, so if you have $350-$400 (average) burning a hole in your pocket, you'd better act fairly quickly if your GAS is acting up for one.-40hz (October 11, 2015, 01:28 PM)
Two young ladies playing a matched set of those godawful all-in-one built-in amplifier and rhythm box guitars Vox built way back when.-40hz (October 11, 2015, 11:40 AM)
Vox again revived these body styles in 2013 with their Apache Series Travel Basses.
| Application Name | TextOverlayTool |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Short Description | Display transparent overlay of a Text file (plain text or markdown) |
| Supported OSes/Requirements | Any OS that supports .NET 4.5 |
| Download Link | http://bit.ly/TextOverlayTool |
I have created a number of checklists for flight simulator. But, having another Notepad window open to read the text line (checklist item) is quite distracting and the white background of the window makes things difficult to see for night flights.
Okay, so this isn't a perfect world, so I will settle for a menu-less, border-less text editor with the capability to make the background black and the text white or green (sort of like Q10). It would have the ability to shrink it vertically to only see one line at a time.
| Application Name | WakaDash |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Short Description | A dashboard for WakaTime |
