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

« Last post by wraith808 on April 30, 2013, 08:15 AM »

^ Heh.  Good one.  And good comic too!

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: BestCrypt Container Encryption - 50% OFF at BDJ

« Last post by wraith808 on April 27, 2013, 02:57 PM »

Just an FYI - Basically, it appears that you're paying for BCWipe- the vendor himself couldn't give a usecase where it would be better than truecrypt other than "it includes BCWipe". 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Problems after you install Microsoft's security update 2823324

« Last post by wraith808 on April 26, 2013, 07:22 PM »

That's a presumptive statement. Most AV's default to automatically "cleaning" high risk files... which means deleting them. "New users" wouldn’t yet know to configure it any differently.

-J-Mac (April 26, 2013, 03:25 PM)

+1.

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Living Room / Re: If you have a Wordpress blog and are using a caching pluging, please update NOW!

« Last post by wraith808 on April 26, 2013, 07:43 AM »

Why do people use these plugins, anyway?  I haven't really seen a need (which is why none of my client sites nor my sites have the problem).

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

« Last post by wraith808 on April 23, 2013, 01:22 PM »

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Community Giveaways / Re: Crusader Kings II DLCs giveaway (Open for 2 days)

« Last post by wraith808 on April 23, 2013, 10:17 AM »

That's a pretty impressive list!  Thanks for the giveaways... I didn't win the CK2, so I won't enter... but this exposure is making me think about getting the base game...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Problems after you install Microsoft's security update 2823324

« Last post by wraith808 on April 22, 2013, 12:27 PM »

I didn't know Malwarebytes issues updates so frequently.

-Giampy (April 22, 2013, 09:20 AM)

In the quoted page that you linked to (in the second paragraph), it states:

On April 15 at approximately 3 P.M. (PDT) Malwarebytes was updated, this update disabled thousands of computers within just a few minutes. Though the issue was caught in the initial few minutes of the release the damage had already been done.

...

Malwarebytes acted swiftly in working to disable the update and removing it from their servers. Unfortunately the damage had already been done. And they have apologised for their mistake, taking the blame.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Problems after you install Microsoft's security update 2823324

« Last post by wraith808 on April 22, 2013, 09:13 AM »

^    Exactly.  Thanks for posting this clarification.  A bad situation, but only if you got caught immediately.  The information is good to have, as it includes a link to a fix, however.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Problems after you install Microsoft's security update 2823324

« Last post by wraith808 on April 21, 2013, 10:46 AM »

^ I did appreciate the outtakes from The Fifth Element, however.  Very nicely staged

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Community Giveaways / Re: SteamGifts Giveaway: THQ Pack

« Last post by wraith808 on April 19, 2013, 05:32 PM »

No problem.   Who is attronach?  Just curious

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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?

« Last post by wraith808 on April 19, 2013, 07:45 AM »

And a good snippet from that article that mirrors a lot of the reasons behind BitCoins...

The Gold Reserve Act had economic ramifications far beyond national finance. At that time many contracts stipulated that their monetary terms could be demanded in gold. Such gold clauses were intended to protect against the United States devaluing the dollar.

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Living Room / Re: What are your favorite movies?

« Last post by wraith808 on April 18, 2013, 05:15 PM »

That's one of those movies that I just assume that people in technical fields have seen, along with Sneakers and Office Space.

EDIT: No, it's not what I thought it was... I'm going to have to take a look at that one!

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Community Giveaways / Re: SteamGifts Giveaway: THQ Pack

« Last post by wraith808 on April 17, 2013, 09:51 AM »

Open for one more week!

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Community Giveaways / Re: SteamGifts Giveaway: Saint's Row The Third

« Last post by wraith808 on April 17, 2013, 09:51 AM »

Open for one more week!

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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?

« Last post by wraith808 on April 16, 2013, 11:03 AM »

Bitcoin drops below $70 on April 15th 2013. Chart here.

Gold is not doing much better as a "safe haven." Story here.

What a surprise!

-40hz (April 15, 2013, 11:37 PM)

I'm pretty sure it will start trending up again... at a more reasonable pace this time.  These kind of adjustments happen... which is a big reason why investing is such a crap shoot over the short term.

(oh... and something I always forget; remove the tracking crap from the urls if you remember... )

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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?

« Last post by wraith808 on April 16, 2013, 08:56 AM »

I wouldn't say it's more of an "environmental disaster" than the combo of Flash and Facebook games.

-app103 (April 15, 2013, 04:20 PM)

This.  I'd say its more of a sensationalist headline than anything else. 

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

« Last post by wraith808 on April 15, 2013, 01:50 PM »

Wraith808: I wonder what the people at Reddit would think of this picture. Seems to be rather suggestive(if tame for Reddit).

-Arizona Hot (April 15, 2013, 12:56 PM)

Reddit is a news site.. people just post pictures sometimes on threads to get across points in a visual manner.

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Living Room / Re: Adam Orth leaves Microsoft

« Last post by wraith808 on April 15, 2013, 12:38 PM »

Your tweets are always on: Adam Orth leaving Microsoft proves personal twitter accounts are dead

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

« Last post by wraith808 on April 13, 2013, 09:57 PM »

I could do this all day; I have an extensive collection.  One of the perils of being on reddit.  One of my faves...

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Starbound (Pre-Order) 4-Pack

« Last post by wraith808 on April 13, 2013, 12:19 PM »

I'll go in.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Problems after you install Microsoft's security update 2823324

« Last post by wraith808 on April 13, 2013, 12:04 PM »

I wish I knew or had the time to create a script for the computers on my network to automagically do it a week after the update notification.  I know its possible... but I just haven't had the time to look into how to do it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Problems after you install Microsoft's security update 2823324

« Last post by wraith808 on April 13, 2013, 11:58 AM »

Oh no... I totally agree.  I was onboard with Sony until their complications started making my life complicated.  They were trying to be Apple for a while... with much worse results.  I think they're better now.  But I'm not taking any more chances, and have been slowly migrating them out the door in regards to computers.

^ Yes but then you are weighing the 'pros and cons' of being affected by something like a 0 day exploit vs BSOD from bad updates.

EDIT: Vaio laptops ... have been disappointing in my limited experience

-rgdot (April 13, 2013, 11:57 AM)

And pros and cons considering that I've been hit once in over 25 years by exploits, vs being hit 3 times by automatic patching (and missing being hit a few other times from the articles I've seen).

It might not work for others, but a week is acceptable risk for me.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Problems after you install Microsoft's security update 2823324

« Last post by wraith808 on April 13, 2013, 11:53 AM »

I think you have to take a more measured approach.  What I usually do is disable *automatic* updates.  Then, a week (or more) after update Tuesday and all of the furor has died down, I download and install the updates manually.  I just don't want to trust anyone to automatically do anything to my computer.  Because if it borks up, are they going to take responsibility for it?

I'll evaluate and decide whether to take the risks, and take the responsibility for my choices.  I've been bitten once about 15 years ago... and to a large extent, that was my fault, as I was hosting my own web site when code red came out and wasn't keeping up to date.  It hurt, but at least it was my fault.

In this case, it hurts... but it's nothing that I did.  And that's a hard pill to swallow, especially since it seems I'm now looking at several hours to restore his computer.  Thankfully, nothing is lost, but it's still a pain, and a drain.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Problems after you install Microsoft's security update 2823324

« Last post by wraith808 on April 13, 2013, 11:42 AM »

It seems that we are more forgiving until its us.   I just reinstalled on my son's laptop... and decided to enable automatic updates.  He came to me this morning saying that his computer kept going to this 'black screen'.  And yeah... since it's an old Sony that they only include "Recovery DVDs" instead of the OS, it's been a pain.  And all of their recovery steps have... you guessed it... not included Windows XP.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Problems after you install Microsoft's security update 2823324

« Last post by wraith808 on April 12, 2013, 03:56 PM »

So it goes. (And it's all billable time!)

-40hz (April 12, 2013, 03:05 PM)

Gettin' paid by the hour and older by the minute...