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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 - The gloves come off!

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 05, 2016, 09:55 AM »

Oh Yeah... After going through the usual turn-off-the-nosey-bits part of the install. Cortana seems just as off as it has always been in previous versions ... So I really don't quite get what all the hub-bub is about.

Cortana is removed (e.g. is removable) from the TaskBar - I hit the Windows key, type what want, get what I want, and go on with my day.

*Shrug*

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 - The gloves come off!

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 05, 2016, 09:40 AM »

So, on he plus side...the anniversary edition upgrade is blazingly fast. And I say this because it only took 30 minutes to do on the - i5-4440 with a mech drive - test machine I've been fighting with.

Originally it had decided to auto load the 'Home" edition of 10 (instead of asking me...), which forced me to do an internal (enter new key...) upgrade of it to the proper Pro edition I needed to get it on a domain. And this is the part that apparently previously went horribly - Horribly... - wrong. Because while it said it had completed successfully...it hadn't...not even close ... Which appears in retrospect to be why it was being such a - completely impossible - pain in the ass to log into.

Everything is back where it belongs after the 1511 pro to Anniversary Pro upgrade.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 - The gloves come off!

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 05, 2016, 06:27 AM »

Backdoors are one (separate issue) thing, nailing my (Admin) side door shut OTOH is flat-out infuriating beyond words.

I flattened it, and went with the older 1511 build to get it to act right. Now I gotta "upgrade" it back to the WTF (Adversary) build and see what happens. Jesus Christ, I ain't got time for this silly shit.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 - The gloves come off!

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 04, 2016, 03:39 PM »

There does not appear to be a proper way of adding the Anniversary - or should I say adversary - edition to a domain. Damn thing said it was on the domain, but it keeps telling me the password is wrong (it ain't) WTF!?!

No local users option listed in Computer Management anymore?!?

Gaaaaa!!! Pissing off the Admin is not a good introduction to an "Update" MS!

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by Stoic Joker on July 29, 2016, 03:37 PM »

Dear Hustler, I never thought it would happen to me...but one day in the park while borrowing a cellphone...

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

« Last post by Stoic Joker on July 10, 2016, 09:38 AM »

So... Just when you thought it was safe to go on the internet, this plops into my inbox:

Attn:Stoic Joker's Network

Dear Sir,

After going through your company profile online, it is my wish to inform you that a Governmental Organization in Nigeria urgently needs your products and services in quantum and wants to award a direct contract to your company for a huge supply in executing a governmental project.

Please confirm if your company is interested to participate in this tender and also send your detailed quotation/specification immediately so that I will forward it to the Organization for approval.

The payment term is 100% advance payment by T/T upon sealing of the contract.

I am waiting for your quick response.

Best regards,

Albert Bruce

...You just gotta love the classics.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Utility to track boots and uptime.

« Last post by Stoic Joker on July 06, 2016, 06:14 AM »

Give this a shot: http://techibee.com/...-for-uptime-exe/1728

It's an updated version of the original MS uptime (command line) utility that will quickly list out all of the boot and shutdown events.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Win+4 (numerical keyboard) and others don't go the same under windows 8.1

« Last post by Stoic Joker on July 03, 2016, 10:46 AM »

Win + Number key is a default system hotkey for the items in Quick Launch.

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 28, 2016, 06:05 AM »

In the more interesting than practical category:

https://imgur.com/a/icKnR

Fully Programmable Binary Keyboard.  Supports Dvorak too.

[ Invalid Attachment ]

-wraith808 (June 27, 2016, 02:52 PM)

With that keyboard you really don't want to get distracted...

-Shades (June 27, 2016, 08:17 PM)

01011001 01100101 01100001 01101000 00101100 00100000 01001110 01101111 00100000 01010011 01101000 01101001 01101011 00100001

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General Software Discussion / Re: Help! WINDOWS 10 ----> WINDOWS 7

« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 24, 2016, 07:04 AM »

Start > Settings > Update & Security > Recovery > Go Back to Windows 7

That option should be available for 30 days after upgrade

-Carol Haynes (June 24, 2016, 06:14 AM)

Agreed, I've never seen an unwind that required a disk. And I've installed 10 on a bunch of different machines from a single downloaded image. There's even a utility available to expand and convert the MS auto delivered esd package to an .iso.


Just out of curiosity, couldn't you scare up an external USB NIC to get the thing online just long enough to get what you need? Hell even if you return it to the store when you get done for some contrived reason it's a Quick-N-Dirty way out of your current Catch-22...

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Living Room / Re: Re: Autobackup with OneDrive

« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 24, 2016, 06:54 AM »

While historically adverse to all things cloud...I have been experimenting with the Azure online backup as of late. And while it's not a free service, if you go with blob only cold storage (which compressed backups like Windows backup are) it is surprisingly economical.

I did bare metal backups on two servers to a staging area which resulted in ~364GB of data. The Azure backup software then compressed it down to ~150GB for upload to the cloud. This leaves plenty of space for versioning (which is totally automated) in the 1TB of (cold blob) storage you can get for $25 a month. There is also no fixed "package" rates so if you use less space - say 500GB for a given month - then it's only $12 for that month.

They do have a "premium" charge for downloads, but it's pennies per Gig, and uploads are free.


Just a thought.

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Living Room / Re: New Member

« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 22, 2016, 11:17 AM »

Perhaps they were presenting themselves for our review...?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Facebook Page Image Downloader And Sharing Utility

« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 17, 2016, 06:46 AM »

I also have the program sending out SMS text messages, however I need a new modem, which I ordered, to handle sending out MMS text messages.

-Asudem (February 11, 2016, 01:31 PM)

A modem?? You should be able to just Email those to the provider in question's message server: [email protected]. They usually have two different target addresses, one for plain text, and one for media stuff.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 16, 2016, 05:12 PM »

I got it just from context.  It just seemed cool

-wraith808 (June 16, 2016, 11:56 AM)

I tried looking it up in the Urban Dictionary. There are some alternative definitions there that may generate a laugh or two.  One in particular I don't even want to paraphrase here.  Let's just say I laughed out loud even though I am sitting in a library(shhhh!) 

-MilesAhead (June 16, 2016, 12:44 PM)

I'm personally afraid of the urban dictionary after a few encounters.  Things I never wanted to know, and hope were jokes.

-wraith808 (June 16, 2016, 01:23 PM)

Amen to that!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 16, 2016, 11:23 AM »

burnt cornflake

-Stoic Joker (June 16, 2016, 06:41 AM)

   Is that your term?  Or an actual term?

-wraith808 (June 16, 2016, 10:19 AM)

It's from the old expression: I feel like the one burnt cornflake on the bottom of the cereal box of life.

So it's me euphemistically trying to imply something without actually saying it. What's that Irish phrase they're currently in hot water for at the UN - Surely you know for yourself! - It's kinda like that.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 16, 2016, 06:41 AM »

Because they're one of the more reputable groups (quality product...) on the darker side

-Stoic Joker (June 15, 2016, 11:11 AM)

Who are they? Never heard of them before.

-f0dder (June 15, 2016, 01:07 PM)

I never dealt with them directly, but they've been online for over a decade. And back when, if you needed an "Extended Demo" of something they were guaranteed to have a quality, fast downloading, EvilWare free copy of it. I never got a burnt cornflake from them once...and I used to "trial" a lot of software back when ... To further my (self) education..

They always had a very short list of 6-10 items ephemerally available, but it was always top shelf best-of-the-best kind of stuff.

As of late (last few years) I think they've basically gone legit...or at least are sticking to the upper end of the gray area.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 15, 2016, 11:11 AM »

An anti spying program with source code from WZor ... Now that is interesting.

-Stoic Joker (June 15, 2016, 07:55 AM)

Why is that so interesting?  Just curious.

-wraith808 (June 15, 2016, 09:25 AM)

Because they're one of the more reputable groups (quality product...) on the darker side, so they are trust worthy and they have the impetus to be through in their analysis and handling of getting the OS hushed up properly. And with the source code provided there is also great learning opportunity about what all needs to be done.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 15, 2016, 07:55 AM »

An anti spying program with source code from WZor ... Now that is interesting.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: DiskSavvy Pro - Disk Space Analyzer - 24-Hours Giveaway

« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 15, 2016, 06:31 AM »

Clean, simple, straightforward self explanatory interface ... I like it!

Thank you!

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Living Room / Re: Goodbye to my father

« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 14, 2016, 06:32 AM »

I do not want in anyway for this to side track the thread, but just wanted to mention that my wife lost her father last week. He fought in WWII, was gay before it was cool, and was one of the finest men I have ever known...he will be truly missed.

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Living Room / Re: Show us a picture of your.. CAR!!!

« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 13, 2016, 11:23 AM »

Taking this long I hope they have quality dialed in nice and tight or it could be a really short dance.

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Living Room / Re: problem with skype

« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 11, 2016, 07:48 AM »

He can hear any youtube video without any problem. Yet when we connect via skype, he can barely hear me, even if he has his speakers at maximum.

-kalos (June 10, 2016, 01:56 PM)

Just for clarity, can you confirm that he can Skype call other people with/without any sound issues?

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General Software Discussion / Re: TeamViewer hacked?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 07, 2016, 05:58 AM »

Hm... the SRP protocol ... Isn't that the one that's supposed to be Dictionary Attack resistant, and perfectly secure even when weak passwords are used because the PW is never actually exchanged with the server?

-Stoic Joker (June 06, 2016, 08:20 AM)

Isn't the main point of SRP that you're authenticated through establishing proof of you knowing the password, without actually sending the password? There's nothing about that which prevents dictionary attacks or (other forms of) brute-forcing.

-f0dder (June 06, 2016, 02:47 PM)

I was just having a bit of fun with the bullet point level description of what the protocol does vs. TV description of what was likely to have - couldn't be their fault happened. So preventing it no - I'd already questioned the apparent lack of lockouts earlier. It just strikes me that the way the protocol is designed it inherently mitigates BFing by eating up time with procedural shenanigans, thereby reducing the rate that guesses can be made at.

Requring a new session per login attempt isn't a bad idea, but it's more important to pad out the first couple of login attempts to several-hundred milliseconds and then do exponential backoff (with some upper limit to avoid people locking you out of your account by sending bad guesses), and perhaps some temporary IP ban after a number of failed attempts. You need to balance user friendliness (and aforementioned malicious lockout) against mitigating brute-force attacks.

-f0dder (June 06, 2016, 02:47 PM)

Totally agree ... I wonder if that type of system could be packaged into a drop-in/plug-in type module for some of the existing web systems currently available?

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General Software Discussion / Re: TeamViewer hacked?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 06, 2016, 01:55 PM »

So it would be entirely plausible that a brute force attack would be able to guess passwords.

-mouser (June 06, 2016, 12:52 PM)

I'm not entirely sure it is at this point. At least not at a really high rate of speed. Because that's one of the issues that the SRP protocol -(which they say they're use)- was designed to protect against, by only allowing one login attempt per session. So if the BF attempt has to keep creating a new session, that - I would hope - would/should serve to slow down the attack quite a bit.

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General Software Discussion / Re: TeamViewer hacked?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 06, 2016, 08:20 AM »

This Just In from the piss yourself laughing department.

Well, we are not testing any email/password combinations if you think that and we also can't see your passwords, since we use the Secure Remote Password (SRP) protocol and therefore do not store your passwords. What we do is check, if the email addresses used for TeamViewer, have been part of a leak. You can do so yourself using www.haveibeenpwned.com.

-TeamViewerOfficial on Reddit

Hm... the SRP protocol ... Isn't that the one that's supposed to be Dictionary Attack resistant, and perfectly secure even when weak passwords are used because the PW is never actually exchanged with the server?

Yet TV's primary defense is silly users using easy to guess - er... with a dictionary - passwords.

So they intentionally used a protocol that is designed to compensate for bad user behavior, because it compensates for bad user behavior, and then deflect blame because of bad user behavior ... Really? Is Jack Sparrow writing their PR material?


Above Quote is from here: https://www.reddit.c..._teamviewer_see_our/

Yes it's a Wikipedia link (sue me): SRP Protocol