@allquixotic Never had an Apple device, probably do have an Apple account though. The website looks legit enough when you open it from the SMS where it shows no address bar.
Apart from the short URL in the sms, it's hard to tell its fake.
It's like that wireless hotspot login phish all over again.
So I had one of those scam companies call me up. They were particularly timely because it was just around the time I had some actual problem with my HDD a few years ago. pulled the whole, "yeah my pc is running" joke, pretty sure if the person was in the same room they wouldn't have had the "WHAT?" look on their face. I then proceeded to curse them out for scamming people.
I am also used my VOIP which has caller id blocked to call them hundreds of times :$
I hate scammers
I have sat on the phone with some IRS scammers for an hour
Man. I'm going to stop reading the news. It fucks me up each time.
"We're gonna harass you for getting an abortion, but we will also make sure that schools don't have proper sex ed and make it harder for you to access contraceptives. WHOOOOOOO!"
I am making this post to clear a lot of misconceptions I have on Local DNS. Apologies if I posted on the wrong forum.
I want to perform DNS queries to 30 million domain names, and for that, I thing that my DNS name servers are throttling me. So I have decided to look into alternative solutions a...
@bertieb Try performing a repair-install. You'll need a Windows install disc for the current version of Windows. If Windows 10, make sure it's the same version (e.g. 1709, 1803) you're running. Previous version discs will not work.
If this was a new installation on a system which previously had Windows 10, you only need to tell it that you don't have a key, and it'll fetch the license from Microsoft's servers as long as the hardware hasn't substantially changed.
@bertieb It's since the last time it connected to the activation server. For OEM-preactivated machines, you can change pretty much everything except the motherboard.
@bwDraco Cool; it's a laptop so I assume nothing has changed :D
The other thing I was going to ask about Windows 10, is what the current state of play is wrt to disabling updates? (Assuming this is the main QA for that)
A friend is reticent to install W10 because he doesn't want to faff with things changing his setup (VR/Vive)
But he's finding it harder to get copies of W7
(The answers in that QA are in serious need of a tl;dr)
I can understand where he is coming from; if you don't have much free time you don't want to spend it fixing / tweaking stuff- you want to do things
You can defer the installation of updates up to a week on Home and up to a month on Pro, but updates will be installed on a restart. IIRC Pro lets you reboot without installing updates, but Home does not (last time I installed updates on Astaroth, the only system I currently have with Windows 10 Pro, I didn't use the power menu, but simply hit the "Restart now" button on the update page of the Setting app, so not 100% sure).
also, while I don't do VR, my 8->8.1-> 10 and 7 -> 10 upgrades were mostly painless outside needing to reinstall my serial IO driver on the stream every major windows update
I honestly don't mind because I recognize that each Patch Tuesday brings major security fixes, but remember that you can schedule reboots so that they don't interrupt your work. If there's a pending update, I'll generally try to finish what I'm doing ASAP and reboot the machine at the earliest opportunity.
The longer the system is on without the latest updates installed, the more vulnerable it is to attack.
If you must power down the system without installing updates, use hibernate.
@JourneymanGeek He won't update anything while it works, so unless they remotely disable it that shouldn't be a problem ;-)
@bwDraco Aye I would agree, but he's active on/reads VR forums/reddits and apparently there are a non-trivial number of user that complain that the latest windows update / driver / software upgrade breaks <something>
I can understand his reticence to not mess with a working setup
I suggested he try W10 on a new SSD he is thinking of getting
See how it works for him, and if he can lock it down from updating to his satisfaction
@bertieb A retail Pro license costs an extra $80 over Home, and among other things, lets you pause updates for up to 35 days (see above). It also gives you Remote Desktop server capability, Group Policy, Client Hyper-V, and BitLocker Drive Encryption.
My main desktop (Astaroth) runs Pro because I actually need these features but my other systems run Home and I have not been able to justify the upgrade on them.
:45780532 If you're serious, couple things 1) the code of conduct says nothing about cws/tws. It does say no jokes, but I feel like it isn't talking about the regular small jokes that every room has but more about those that might make people left out. 2) Content Warning is a more preferred term nowadays, as you may wish to not see something even though it's not triggering 3) If your content is likely to contain stuff people may not wish to see, either don't post it (as part of "be nice") or do include a content warning.
@DavidPostill Deleting the $form = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Form line fixes the problem
The line fails because System.Windows.Forms isn't loaded, and the $form variable is never used anyway - probably a relic from the development of the script
It is cumbersome to find the correct icon when the dll consists of hundreds of icons
You can use the following Powershell script .\DisplayIcon.ps1:
<#
.SYNOPSIS
Exports an ico and bmp file from a given source to a given destination
.Description
You need to set the Source and Destination...
It is cumbersome to find the correct icon when the dll consists of hundreds of icons
You can use the following Powershell script .\DisplayIcon.ps1:
<#
.SYNOPSIS
Exports an ico and bmp file from a given source to a given destination
.Description
You need to set the Source and Destination...
